Elder Scrolls Community competition Options

[Alexander]

Well, as mentioned, this is the place to discuss anything you want to regarding the competition.


For the record, the complete list of rules and a small FAQ;

This is an extract from; http://competition.chorrol.com

The Rules

1. Any work entered has to be written by yourself.
2. There is a limit of one entry per writer per category.
3. Any entry has to be a completed work.
4. Any entry has to be written in English.
5. You may, if you wish, enter your story anonymously.
6. Any entry sent in, has to comply with the guidelines listed below
7. The maximum word count listed below, is the absolute maximum. A single word over the maximum will place your story in a different category.
8. Any entry has to be written about The Elder Scrolls universe, non ES related stories will not be allowed to enter.
9. By entering your stories into the contest, you're granting participating fansites the license to use the stories in any way they see fit within the confines of this contest.
10. The final deadline for entering a story in this competition, will be April 30th. Midnight April 30th is the last time for submitting a story.


Guidelines for submitting stories

1. All entries are to be sent to the following email address; Competition@chorrol.com
2. Make sure all entries are either in .doc, .txt or .pdf format.
3. Each entry has to be in a separate, but single file. If a story has 30 chapters, please send me all 30 chapters in a single file.
4. Please specify for each entry you're sending; 1. For which category you're entering it and, 2. What name, if any, I should mention wrote it.


The Categories

Short stories; Can be no longer then 2500 words
Medium sized stories; must be longer then 2500 words but no longer then 20000 words
Long stories; any story longer then 20000 words falls under this category, this category has no maximum word count.

The title of the story and the name of the author do not count toward the maximum word limit.


Judges and Judging

1. Each category will be judged by a panel of 3 members of the Elder Scrolls scene. In total there will be nine judges.
2. The panel of judges is pre-selected and will have the final say in everything.
3. All decisions of judges are final and cannot be appealed.
4. In a situation where the above rules do not apply, the ruling of the majority of judges (either in total or for a specific category) will be deciding.
5. Judges are selected before the start of the competition and their names are published on this site.
6. The final results of the competition will be published before June 1st, but if possible, sooner.


The judges;

Alexander -> Chorrol
Apy -> Planet Elder Scrolls
B -> The Imperial Library
BSD-IES -> Chorrol
Dark0ne -> TES Nexus
Gstaff -> Bethesda
Haplo -> Tamriel Rebuilt
Ratwar -> UESP
Reaver -> Elderscrolls.net

[mALX]

-giggles- Now I'm excited! Squee! Having writer friends is AWESOME!!!!

I had a ball doing that Feyfolken, deliberately did everything completely different so no one could guess. Rachel the Breton did the same thing, she won it like 6 years running and every year you'd try to guess which one was hers - couldn't tell which one was her at all, I was surprised every time. I broke her winning streak with that dark story (about the 6th House in Morrowind) - see, I only write about Oblivion, so no one guessed. People see what they expect to see.

[Elisabeth Hollow]

I'm exciiiteeeed!

I wanna write! I wanna participate!

[King Of Beasts]

You guys will never tell it was me who wrote my story

Anyway, so the entire story has to be how long?

[mALX]

You guys will never tell it was me who wrote my story

Anyway, so the entire story has to be how long?

3,000-7,000 words tops usually, I think Mustard said he'd consider 8,000 but let him tell you.

HEY KOB, you can't start writing the story till the contest starts, that would be cheating.

[King Of Beasts]

I haven't started yet. I don't even know what I'll be writing about

[mALX]

I haven't started yet. I don't even know what I'll be writing about

That is one of the reasons why in these contests they usually give a subject like "A day in the life of..." so no one knows what it is going to be about till the contest starts so there can't be any cheating. (We all have the same amount of time to write the same number of words about the same relative subject matter).

[King Of Beasts]

I'm happy that there is a theme. My story would never get finished if a theme isn't come up with. I have a really bad case of writer's block.

[Colonel Mustard]

I've got (what I think is) a pretty good theme for the competition, which should hopefully allow for plenty of room for creative manouevre whilst still giving a reasonably useful/clear guideline.

Actually, shall I go and post up the competition thread? Give people a timeline of a month to write a story between 3 and 7 thousand words and then announce the winner two weeks later? Seems to me to be a reasonable timeframe to do it all in, but I'm willing to listen to ideas.

[Elisabeth Hollow]

I like it.

[mALX]

A month to write sounds great, that allows for RL issues to still be handled.

[King Of Beasts]

I've got (what I think is) a pretty good theme for the competition, which should hopefully allow for plenty of room for creative manouevre whilst still giving a reasonably useful/clear guideline.

Actually, shall I go and post up the competition thread? Give people a timeline of a month to write a story between 3 and 7 thousand words and then announce the winner two weeks later? Seems to me to be a reasonable timeframe to do it all in, but I'm willing to listen to ideas.

Go ahead. The sooner we start with this, the better

[mALX]

I've got (what I think is) a pretty good theme for the competition, which should hopefully allow for plenty of room for creative manouevre whilst still giving a reasonably useful/clear guideline.

Actually, shall I go and post up the competition thread? Give people a timeline of a month to write a story between 3 and 7 thousand words and then announce the winner two weeks later? Seems to me to be a reasonable timeframe to do it all in, but I'm willing to listen to ideas.

Go ahead. The sooner we start with this, the better

He's already started it, it is in the FanFic section.