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Burnt Sierra
post Mar 30 2008, 03:52 PM
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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.
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Agent Griff
post Mar 30 2008, 09:07 PM
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I would have posted my own piece, but it exceeded the word limit by a bit (about 3 000 words, not much tongue.gif) so I didn't post anything in the end. I just couldn't edit the story down to 2 000 words since that would have meant cutting...unthinkable amounts of text which could have served the story better, imo. As it was, I still shortened it more than I would have preferred. All in all, congratulations to all those who actually posted something for this competition. I can imagine how you all wrestled with the word limit. Congratulations to Olen for winning and congratulations to all the other seven contenders for writing great stories (considering the word limit). I especially liked Canis' story set in Hammerfell. It just oozed Redguard culture, but it felt a bit too edited.

But, for what it's worth, who was the guy posting the "dude does x, dude meets y" comments? He left me curious due to his...let's say blunt nature. Being blunt can sometimes convey a message better than being courteous, however. In this case, though, it felt too heavy-handed.

Burnt Sierra did tell me, however, when I told him about the word count of my story, that there would be another competition for longer stories. When will that be Burnt? You've made me curious.


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Burnt Sierra
post Mar 30 2008, 09:20 PM
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QUOTE(Agent Griff @ Mar 30 2008, 09:07 PM) *

But, for what it's worth, who was the guy posting the "dude does x, dude meets y" comments? He left me curious due to his...let's say blunt nature. Being blunt can sometimes convey a message better than being courteous, however. In this case, though, it felt too heavy-handed.

Burnt Sierra did tell me, however, when I told him about the word count of my story, that there would be another competition for longer stories. When will that be Burnt? You've made me curious.


As for the first question, I don't want to publicly name him. I've spoken to him and it's in the past. Let's leave it there smile.gif

Secondly, all will be revealed in time. And it'll be revealed by Alex when that time comes. smile.gif


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BSD-IES   Chorrol TES Fanfiction Competition Results   Mar 30 2008, 03:52 PM
BSD-IES   So, first up. The results of the public voting. Th...   Mar 30 2008, 05:44 PM
BSD-IES   Secondly, the votes of the judges. This counted al...   Mar 30 2008, 05:51 PM
BSD-IES   Each individual judges results that were added up ...   Mar 30 2008, 06:02 PM
BSD-IES   The Final Scores (Judges and Public combined): 1....   Mar 30 2008, 06:10 PM
redsrock   Congrats, Olen.   Mar 30 2008, 06:11 PM
canis216   Yes, congratulations are due to Olen--excellent wo...   Mar 30 2008, 06:18 PM
BSD-IES   Wow, you guys are quick, I haven't finished po...   Mar 30 2008, 06:24 PM
BSD-IES   [size=3]Minque It was hard to rank those stories,...   Mar 30 2008, 06:32 PM
BSD-IES   [size=3]BSD-IES [b]Lady of the Night This is a p...   Mar 30 2008, 06:44 PM
redsrock   Are we allowed to post our own comments to what th...   Mar 30 2008, 06:46 PM
BSD-IES   Of course you are :) (Be nice though, it wasn...   Mar 30 2008, 06:50 PM
redsrock   I have nothing to say against where I placed. As f...   Mar 30 2008, 06:53 PM
BSD-IES   I have nothing to say against where I placed. As ...   Mar 30 2008, 06:57 PM
redsrock   Oh I know no hard feelings at all, BSD :P I just ...   Mar 30 2008, 06:59 PM
Alexander   I just want to add my own congratulations to the o...   Mar 30 2008, 07:10 PM
treydog   Congratulations to everyone who entered- you are a...   Mar 30 2008, 07:21 PM
The Metal Mallet   Hey, hey! Second place, not too shabby. I...   Mar 30 2008, 07:25 PM
minque   Congratulations to all of you! I had a real ha...   Mar 30 2008, 07:44 PM
Olen   Wow... :blink: I didn't expect that. Hones...   Mar 30 2008, 08:45 PM
Gaius Maximus   7th place... Well, I'll say, I wasn't expe...   Mar 30 2008, 08:55 PM
darkynd   Congratulations to Olen and everybody else! Ev...   Mar 30 2008, 08:57 PM
milanius   Congrats to Olen for writing a dark, brooding and ...   Mar 30 2008, 10:06 PM


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