Short Story Contest #4 Poll

[Pyritie]

Great War Stories
There is no real theme, it can be someone telling the story, or the story of the war itself.

Welcome to the poll for Short Story Contest #4! Please read through the rules before voting!

• Each user can only vote once in the poll.
• You cannot vote for yourself. If a voter has the same IP as the author then the vote will not be counted and it may result in the disqualification of the entry.
• You cannot create multiple accounts to vote for an entry in the poll. If a voter has been found to be using multiple accounts none of the voters votes will count in the final result.
• You cannot bribe users for votes. Contestants who break this rule will be disqualified and given negative reputation.

• First Place: 40 reputation points and your entry on an award icon
  
• Second Place: 30 reputation points and an award icon
  
• Third Place: 15 reputation points and an award icon

alext - The Exile's Stand
The Danish - Who Art from Heaven
Lightskin - The Battle of Stirling
Tharkas - The Clockbreaker
lateris - The Endless War
Grey Nightmare - Just like Old Times
The World is Flat - Breeze​

• TwistedImage
• Vengeancekael

Plot	How well did you make the plot? Was it easily followed? Did it make sense?	/10 Points
Characters	How creative were your characters? Did you use them regularly?	/10 Points
Structure	How well made was the structure of the story? Did you keep the flow going?	/10 Points
Flow	How well did you transition between scenes? Were there major jumps where you could not follow? Was it interesting and attention keeping?	/10 Points
Theme	What was the story based on? Was it interesting? Did you stick to what you picked?	/10 Points

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• 75% of the winner shall be determined by the contest's appointed judge(s).
• 25% of the winner shall be determined by the results of a public poll.

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[The World Is Flat]

Finally!

 

[TwistedImage]

Is Midnighters back in his judge role or did Py screw up?

My internet is being screwy and lasts 2 minutes at a time, so readin the stories is sorta hard.

 

[Pyritie]

I dunno, that's what was on the thread. Did something change?

 

[real138]

gl all ^^ Voted for grey really liked it

 

[Grey Nightmare]

ty real =)

Nice to see this up and running, it'll be really interesting to see what the community think

 

[Vengeancekael]

Finally up Thanks py
I don't think i should vote for someone, since i'm judging the entries

EDIT : Also, midnighters can't judge the contest, TwistedImage will be replacing him.

 

[Pyritie]

okie doke, fixed

 

[The World Is Flat]

OMG. this is gonna be competitive. me and grey are tied!

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Yes, hopefully. But remember this is only 25%.. and we know how half of the judging went

We shall see ^^

 

[The World Is Flat]

LOL still tied!

 

[Vengeancekael]

Pfff, seeing that so many people like grey, i think i'll have to edit his review :/

 

[Grey Nightmare]

heh

Hmm, maybe... you don't have to though, it's not in the rules or anything. Though perhaps... I should say, it's not meant to be serious - it was intentionally far-fetched - ridiculous and hopefully "humorous".

If you do review it again, try and look at it like that? See if it changes it for better or worse, but really I don't mind - being a judge is tough - you can't give everyone a high score. I understand that

*Thanks to everyone who voted for me anyway, that's really made my day =D

 

[real138]

you should not let your review be influenced by votes maybe take a look again but by no means go with the vote.

 

[Vengeancekael]

If you do review it again, try and look at it like that?

Yes i guess that would make your rating better, i may have been too harsh

Edit: All right guys i may be doing a mistake here or something, but lightskin's story didn't turn out to be that good in my review o.o When i looked at my rating, i was like w00t and checked everything again. So tell me what you thought of his story. Also, alext should be removed from the poll, he only posted once and he didn't even mention that it's his final submission. Just don't vote for him and if there will be votes, they won't be counted.

 

[The World Is Flat]

Personally, his grammar was still a bit off. his use of words is also a bit off. his story, in theory is ok, a bit onoriginal, short, and boring. and the flow is a bit stuttered.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Lol those are exactly the things that ruined his rating xD Guess the rating is fine after all.

Edit: Also i've edited grey's review and it's better now i suppose

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

In AD 2101, war was beginning.

Captain : "What happen?"
Mechanic : "Somebody set up us the bomb!"
Operator : "We get signal"
Captain : "What!"
Operator : "Main Screen turn on!"
Captain : "It's you!"
Cats: "How are you gentlemen, all your base are belong to us! You are on the way to destruction!"
Captain: "What you say!!"
Cats : "You have no chance to survive make your time HA HA HA HA"
Operator : "Captain!"
Captain: "Take off every Zig! You know what you doing. Move Zig, for great justice!"

My entry is late, sorry, please add it to the poll!!!!

 

[Vengeancekael]

LOL ftw grammar.

 

[The World Is Flat]

m'aphraid, although your 1337 skillZ would have beaten all of us, your story doesent meet the 1000 word requirment.

 

[Lightskin]

TWIF Quote:
"(...)short"

I thought the title of the contest had that word on it. xD

and the rest, well, you might be right, i have a bad english

 

[The World Is Flat]

That doesent mean that the feel isnt short/not many words. it feels like the whole story takes 5 minutes.

 

[Vengeancekael]

lol grey and TWIF are tied again.
wow...battle of stirling actually got a vote o.o That's......fascinating xD

 

[Dromlexer]

Can I use a story of the ancient legends of the things in WoW with own words?
As like: Ashbringer

 

[Vengeancekael]

No, because you wouldn't get a lot of points for originality.

 

[TwistedImage]

With the way things are set up here, though, originality is hardly even a factor.

Also Kael, how many reviews have you done? And can I replace theme with grammar/use of language? Having grammar/language not be a factor in writing a story is SLIGHTLY SILLY.

 

[real138]

i would take out flow and just include it in plot or structure...
and yeah and lack of grammar/use of language is pretty silly

 

[Vengeancekael]

I've done 3, and there are 3 to go. I should be finished by next weekend.

 

[The World Is Flat]

*Should be finished 'by'

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Back in the lead TWIF

 

[The World Is Flat]

omg no! dont vote for me! my story sucked horses shit! make that badgers, but it doesent matter. its sucked greys balls. DONT VOTE FOR ME!

 

[Grey Nightmare]

Reverse psychology eh? ^^

 

[Ghoulrush]

And can I replace theme with grammar/use of language? Having grammar/language not be a factor in writing a story is SLIGHTLY SILLY.

I originally suggested the "Theme" category to Midnighters in order to allow the judging to encompass the deepest and most provocative elements of each story, but something tells me that neither of you judges even understand the literary concept of theme. I know Midnighters sure didn't, hell, he never even fixed the ambiguous and incorrect nature of the judging guidelines.

I hope that your reviews are top notch, unbiased, and meticulous, because these people deserve it.

 

[Malcous]

voted for TWIF

 

[TwistedImage]

I originally suggested the "Theme" category to Midnighters in order to allow the judging to encompass the deepest and most provocative elements of each story, but something tells me that neither of you judges even understand the literary concept of theme. I know Midnighters sure didn't, hell, he never even fixed the ambiguous and incorrect nature of the judging guidelines.

I hope that your reviews are top notch, unbiased, and meticulous, because these people deserve it.

I perfectly understand the concept of theme, but none of the submitted stories are literary. They're all genre.

If there comes a Literary Short Story Contest, then sure, I'll judge for theme, but trying to excavate themes in stories that have none is pointless; I'd rather judge based on something that is present and prevalent in the story.

 

[Tharkas]

Damn you TWIF, and damn you, Grey. You took my wife, my son and my friends and now you're here to take even this away from me!
1337ed be your souls!

 

[TheDanish]

Well I got a vote, and someone in the submission thread liked my story, so I'll call that a good day. I am satisfied.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Lol.

I hope that your reviews are top notch, unbiased, and meticulous, because these people deserve it.

Not all of them.

 

[Lightskin]

Not all of them.

/cry

At least I've got a vote I'm pretty satisfied (L)

 

[Vengeancekael]

God i won't be able to finish the reviews this weekend, because i'll be going somewhere.
BUT, i promise to finish them the next weekend.

 

[TwistedImage]

I might need someone to step in and do one review for me - I've got today and tomorrow to review, then Thursday and Friday are messy, then I'm going to Mexico early Saturday.

Again, though, I'll do my best to finish them all.

 

[The World Is Flat]

...

Its called a disaster. a mess. an utter fail.

 

[real138]

It's TWIF!!!

 

[Lightskin]

All this happens because my disastrous entry is in there! All hail LightSkin's entry! (? XD

I swear I'll do a better entry next time if I do one u.u

 

[TwistedImage]

So I will need someone to do one or two reviews after I go to Mexico. I've no time. Volunteers, please.

 

[Vengeancekael]

I'll find one.

 

[real138]

I could do it... but not sure if you would want me to do it. I'm not a writer but I know my stuff. If you want I'll send you an essay I wrote a few days ago in a hurry... It's all i got.

 

[Vengeancekael]

Ok

 

[TwistedImage]

Entrants (that is all of you), I recommend not to use adverbs for speech attribution. Since everyone made that mistake except for TWIF, I won't deduct points for it, but yeah. No self-respecting writer uses adverbs for speech attribution.

That's right, not even minimalist writers. D:<

 

[real138]

sorry can't do it anymore... things came up...