Writing Contest Results

[KukriKhan]

Ladies and Gentlemen, boy and girls, after a few unavoidable delays, we can tie a ribbon around this contest and call it complete.

The competition was intense, with praiseworthy entries from around the totalwar globe. Judging was difficult, but rewarding work.

In accordance with the stated contest judging rules

... judges will rate each submission and vote for the one they like best. each judge has 1/3 of the overall vote, combined they have 2/3. The other 1/3 is decided by a poll of Org voters. The two volunteers will revote/re-negotiate as they need to do assure a winner is chosen...

frogbeastegg chose Alexander the Pretty Good
KukriKhan also selected Alexander the Pretty Good
The Poll put forward Monk as the voters' choice.

So First Place is awarded to Alexander the Pretty Good,
and runner-up is awarded to Monk.

Congratulations to the winners, and a hearty "Well Done!" to all of the contestants.

[King of Atlantis]

very good job to the winners!

[edyzmedieval]

Good job to Alexander!!!!

And of course, to Monk!!

[LeftEyeNine]

Well done, Alexander Pretty Good.. Congrats and cheers for all that participated !

BTW, Alexander your nick makes me smile everytime I see it. Good sense of humor :D

[Big_John]

nice job guys.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Brilliant guys, can we see the actual poll results, it would help me on the road to recovery ;)

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Holy Easter Eggs, Batman! I didn't think I had a chance.

Thank you, frogbeastegg, KukriKhan, and everybody who participated in this!

And congradulations, Monk!

And thanks, LeftEyeNine, but I didn't come up with it myself - I'm not that clever. It is from a cartoon (bloody good one) on TV when I was maybe 10. It was called Histeria, and sorta parodied history. Very funny.

[Monk]

Great job to all who entered and congrats to Alexander the Pretty Good, you earned it mate

I have to admit that this was one of the most intense contests we've had (theres only been two, but hey!), anyway, good job to all who entered!

edit: now...may i have my mod powers back sir?

[Azi Tohak]

Well done fellas. Enjoy your gifts!



Azi

[RabidGibbon]

Congratulations Alexander & Monk.

2 Fantastic Stories. Wait what am I saying? I should have won! Me! Meee! Your all.....

EDIT: No swearing, No attacks on other members.

[AntiochusIII]

May be its too late to come here now. Well...

Congratulations for the winners , Alexander the Pretty Good and Monk! Both your works are excellent!

The works of the contestants are really of high quality. I wasn't here to participate (well...kinda forgot that the current capital of Italy even exists when I was hell-bent on becoming the Nerevarine and slaughter the Hands of Almalexia before going on to establish an Imperial mining colony in some cold, forsaken island...some of you know what game I'm talking about ) and I wouldn't win anyway, considering my considerably limited talent (what an arrogant snob I am... )

Anyway, that the contest finally sets up effectively surprises and pleases me as the .org is more than just a TW fansite as it can also be considered (in some ways) a sort of cyber mini-community in the internet brought together by common interest in the Total-War game franchise, and the contest helps in that regard.

I can see that each writers have their own techniques of approaching their respective stories and some clearly stands out as more "professional" pieces. Even if I participate I would not be one of them. You can try and read, say, Harry Potter (the sixth one is better throughout than the gloomy fifth, even though the ending is killing me...grr...how evil...), and try to examine how professional writers like J.K. Rowling set up their styles of writing in the ways that allow the reader to go through the entire story with absolutely no structural qualms. Similar "smoothness" can be, arguably, found in some especially spectacular pieces in the contest.

For those who didn't win, well, there is always next time. And time (for the young like me, Mwahaha) brings lots of opportunities of improvements or better lucks for all

[ichi]

Congratulations to Alexander and Monk , and to all who contributed their stories.

Thanks to the organizers and judges, good job guys

ichi

[Ja'chyra]

Congratulations guys, well done, have a balloon

[LeftEyeNine]

Well, in fact, maybe off topic a bit but, I'd like to be criticised of my contest entry, if anyone ever read it.. I need to take it for improvements..

[Aenarion]

Great Job Monk and Alexander the Pretty Good! Congratulations!:D

[The Stranger]

congratz boys

[Ludens]

Congratulations to the winners.

And thanks to all other participaters for contributing. Overall quality was very good and there were some real gems. I hope this won't be the last time we do this.

[Kagemusha]

Great job Alexander the Pretty Good and Monk!Also thanks to the people who organized the contest.

[King Henry V]

That was pretty good, Alexander the Pretty Good. Not great, but pretty good Seriously, great job Alexander and Monk.

[King Henry V]

So what were the full results of the poll?

[KukriKhan]

(Copid from another thread here):

I'm not the Moderator of the place where the poll resides, so I cannot bring it back myself.

But I can report the results of the official poll. They are:

7 votes = Monk

3 votes = voigtkampf & Big John

2 votes = KingHenry V, The Shadow One, ichi, Alexander the PrettyGood, kagemusha, edyzmedieval

1 vote = ian_of_smeg16, King of Atlantis, BobTheTerrible, Emperor Umeu 1, dessa14, Ja'chyra, master of the puppets, RabidGibbon, Azi Tohak, LeoninKhan

35 votes total

[Ianofsmeg16]

wow I'm humbled....my story must have been crap

[KukriKhan]

Not at all, Ian. I wasn't kidding when I wrote that the competition was intense. The content provided by all 29 amatuer Org writers was obviously submitted after tons of quite good effort by everyone. It was a pleasure to read through them all. I would proudly stack our contest entries up against similar contests I've seen on the 'net.

The vote count (35 total) is more an indication of the contest being held during the 'slow' month of August...lots of folks on holiday, we're in-between game release dates, etc.

[Ianofsmeg16]

Thanks Kurikhan!
Did everybody read everyone else's? i know i read most of them, but by the time i decided to read it all i went to sleep....somebody should do a review of the stories, then people will know how good there stories were/what needs to be improved and how....any volunteers?

[Strike For The South]

3 cheers

[Voigtkampf]

Sincere congratulations to the respectable winners, kudos and high appraisal to the organizers of the contest.

We should have more of those, I reckon.

[frogbeastegg]

As Kukri said, 29 entries and a very intense competition. Choosing a winner, even choosing a narrowed down list for first and second place, was no easy task.

Well done to all who entered.

[Aenarion]

Look at me then! Not even one vote! Lol!

[The Stranger]

so i got one, monk got seven, it says nothing. if a story is a bit better you can still get alot more votes.

(i'm not saying my story was as good as monks, his was waaay better)

[Monk]

he's back in power!

The contest thread has been unstuck and will go the way of all threads in the Mead Hall, it will slowly drift to the back of the room. This thread will remain stuck a few more days, after which it shall be unstuck and closed.

The Library will be updated in two days time to include the links to the second contest, The results thread (this one) and the newer stories that appeared while the Contest was running. Business will slowly return to normal around here.

One last, big THANKS to all who entered or gave prizes. I never imagined we'd get this sort of turn out and all the entries were creative and nicely done. It was a pleasure competing in such a contest. To the judges, thanks for stepping in and helping out so I could enter. Dimeolas and Kukri, thank you both for allowing prizes to be given out.