Lyric Contest #1 - Lore Characters

[Disasterpiece512]

LYRIC CONTEST #1

Lore Characters
The goal of the contest is to create a poem about a character from Warcraft or Starcraft lore. The poem must be 100% ABOUT the character, and not just mention him/her/it.

Some characters

• Thrall
• Nazgrel
• Malfurion Stormrage
• Illidan Stormrage
• Tyrande Whisperwind
• Arthas
• Ner'zhul
• The Lich King
• Gul'dan
• Rexxar
• Rokhar
• Jaina Proudmoore
• Admiral Daelin Proudmoore
• King Terenas Menethil
• King Anduin Wrynn
• Anduin Lothar
• Varian Wrynn
• Medivh
• Jim Raynor
• Sarah Kerrigan
• Zeratul
• Tassadar
• The Zerg Overmind
• Tychus
• Nova
• Arcturus Mengsk

Your choice is not limited to these characters only, you may choose any character appearing in any Warcraft/Starcraft game/novel/graphic comic.

• No submission may violate any of the site rules.
• If a submission does not follow the Rules of the contest the creator will be disqualified.
• All submissions must follow the current theme. If any poem does not fit, a moderator or judge will tell you as soon as possible as to avoid confusion.
• Your submission must be posted before the deadline.
• Your submission may not be started/made before the official launch of the contest.
• Judges may not participate.
• Teamwork is not allowed.
• You must post at least 1 WiP before the deadline so your final work can be verified as your own.
• No former works can be submitted, the poem must be new and created to fit the theme.
• Inappropriate language is NOT ALLOWED.
• Use of copyrighted material is NOT ALLOWED.

• [*]First Place: 45 reputation points and an award icon
  [*]Second Place: 30 reputation points and an award icon
  [*]Third Place: 15 reputation points and award icon

• Just tell us if you want to be a judge!

• Theme: How well does your poem fit the character you have chosen? /15
• Complexity: Is it a complex poem, or just something a 5-year old could make? Does it use only white rhymes or is the author creative? /20
• Language: Does the author use only common words or is he creative with his language? Does he use expressions, epithets, metaphors and so on? /20

• The contestants have 2 weeks from the start of the contest to finish their poem.

Current contestants: I shall post the contestants here as they join. Tell me or one of the judges if you drop out. A post in this thread will be fine.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

Wow. It's about time this contest was held, I support you

 

[Disasterpiece512]

Thank you. You think you could join or judge?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

This is almost as stupid as the comic contest, and that says a lot.

 

[Disasterpiece512]

And why, I might ask you? If you're just gonna be useless, you might as well shut up.

 

[chilla_killa]

Can't we make a Love Poem contest?

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

This is almost as stupid as the comic contest, and that says a lot.

Meh, you can hold short story contests but poems is where you draw the line?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I also disapprove of the short story contests.

 

[Pyritie]

Well the latter are quite successful usually...

 

[Disasterpiece512]

I think this is gonna be successful too. It's nice to take a break from wc3 modding and that's where the Short Story Contests, Music Contests, and possibly this contest come in.

 

[obie]

+1

This is a good idea. I might write a love poem about Kerrigan

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

Music contests make sense, poems doesn't. I can see where you could use music in a project, I don't see where you could use a poem about some historic character. Short stories to some extent could make sense, but I just don't see the meaning with them. It's a matter of taste I guess with that one.

If people are passionate about writing poems, there's plenty of other places to do that, but I don't see why it should be done here, at least not as a contest. I still am of the belief that contests should have at least some tiny bit of relevance to modding - and writing a short poem about the greatness of some lore character doesn't qualify for that in my book.

 

[Disasterpiece512]

Not everything is "work". You gotta have fun, and contests are part of the fun on this site, no matter if they are linked to modding or not.

 

[deepstrasz]

If people are passionate about writing poems, there's plenty of other places to do that, but I don't see why it should be done here, at least not as a contest. I still am of the belief that contests should have at least some tiny bit of relevance to modding - and writing a short poem about the greatness of some lore character doesn't qualify for that in my book.

I see you're a writer too, does that mean you don't make sense ?

 

[Devine]

Can the poem be written in Orcish? Do the judges know Orcish?

 

[deepstrasz]

Can the poem be written in Orcish? Do the judges know Orcish?

Lol do the judges know all WarCraft's languages )?

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

If people are passionate about writing poems, there's plenty of other places to do that, but I don't see why it should be done here, at least not as a contest. I still am of the belief that contests should have at least some tiny bit of relevance to modding - and writing a short poem about the greatness of some lore character doesn't qualify for that in my book.

If you have enough people willing to enter, a host and judges willing to participate, why not, really? I mean the site hosts an offtopic section anyway, compared to that a contest at least has some non-moderator (in many cases) watching it to guide it.

 

[Disasterpiece512]

A bit disappointed no one commented on this for some time. Seriously people, are poems THAT bad?

 

[MortAr]

This is almost as stupid as the comic contest, and that says a lot.

+1 there, sir.

 

[Lich Prince]

Seriously people, are poems THAT bad?

Kind of.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Can the poem be written in Orcish? Do the judges know Orcish?

Do you?

Well, I am not negative about this contest, neither positive. It's kind of abstract and definitely not useful. P.S. If this contest indeed took place, the prize points would have to be a maximum of 30, not higher, it's not that a serious job.

 

[warhog]

uhm writing a Good poem is not that easy you know... it's not just "oh all the flowers, they give me powers" if you get my meaning
but yeah maybe not the most popular or useful contest ( even if it could be useful story-wise to maps, models etc.) and I doubt enough serious people would participate.

 

[Jaret]

...I'm kinda... you know what? Poems have the same level as Music/compositions. Do not talk about them like that.

 

[deepstrasz]

Hehe, I think you should have been referring to novels my co-hiver.

 

[Midnighters]

Poems are hard to write correctly, even great poem writers take years to do a good poem. Edgar Allen Poe took a year to write one of his poems, because he had to revise it so many times.

Anyways, if this takes place, I will definitely join in.

 

[Arisato]

if it is hard!!!!!!

then we will try RIGHT!?

So what's the point of the contest if we DON'T EVEN TRY THE GAME!!!!

see what i mean!?!?

i'll be joining

(PS:Am i hard? since.. well i don't know )

 

[Fussiler1]

... Poems?

Meh, good luck if this gets approved.

 

[Midnighters]

Poems are a good way to broaden your vocabulary, unless you want to be retarded and be "rappers", then you just ramble words that mean nothing.

A poem has to have a strong meaning, project that meaning, touch everyone that reads it, give them a feel of how you were when you wrote it, and let them know that whatever they do, can be gotten through.

But that all depends how you write the poem.

 

[Disasterpiece512]

I totally agree with Midnighters So any more people interested in joining?