Chorrol TES Fanfiction Competition Results Options

[Burnt Sierra]

Righto, the results of the first Chorrol TES Fanfiction Competition.

First let me give you some understanding of how it's been scored. The public vote counted for 50% and the judges votes counted for 50%. Obviously with only three judges, I had to find a way of balancing out the scoring. I don't want to post specific scores up here, as I'm not sure that every author will neccessarily want that information being made public. Obviously some were very close, and some not so close. If an author wants to know how I decided the scoring system, and how their piece specifically scored that's absolutely fine. Send me a pm and I'll give you that information.

It's been a difficult competition to judge to be honest. Even amongst the judges, we had very different opinions. Resulting in none of us choosing the same story in first place. Which just goes to show that there were some really good stories entered biggrin.gif

Secondly comments. All three of judges have written some comments on the stories, which I'll post up on a story by story basis after the results.

[Burnt Sierra]

Minque

It was hard to rank those stories, at least a couple of them. I'm afraid my comments are not so extensive, it would have been too much of a repetition...

Reunion

Fascinating story, despite its deep darkness. Good language, well written, with good descriptions without being too detailed.

The Mistake

Interesting story, well written with a good build-up of tension. Good descriptions.

Butterfly

This appeals to me as a sort of poem, really not easy to comprehend unless you read it several times. Then it has its sheer beauty, as a poem, not a story that is. Language is very good though…

A knife in the Dark

Good plot and an interesting ending. Fairly good language and writing style.

The heart of Alik'r

A yukodan story, that is a bit special, and makes it interesting. But too much “army-slash-and-bang” which makes it a tad hard to follow.

The fateful Night

A bit chaotic. Plot is good but it’s hard to get a grasp of it.

Lady of the Night

Strange story, yet still interesting, a bit hacked to pieces due to the chapterization. Dialogue a bit weak imo.

This mind

Very strange. It did not really appeal to me, the capital letters inside the words were a bit disturbing and added merely strangeness to it all.