J U D G I N G · E X T E N S I O N ! Update on Judging Timeline
Good morning Stonewallers and contestants! As you've all likely keenly observed, we've yet to post the results of our Character Biography contest, and will require a short extension to complete our judging, until no later than Sunday, November 16th, 2014, when we guarantee we'll have posted the results.
With so many quality entries and with our two-day Halloween Event just having wrapped up, we're needing some extra time to give all the entries the time to read and review that they deserve. We want to ensure that we approach each entry with a fresh mind, and that we don't experience reader fatigue by trying to blast through them all in one or two sittings.
We look forward to posting the results by next Sunday, and thank all of the competitors for their amazing entries and continued patience! Should you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to reach out to me either in-game, or through the website!
C O N T E S T · J U D G I N G · C O M P L E T E ! Captain Biography Contest Results Posted
Good day Stonewallers and contestants! Today, on behalf of the Fleet Resources Department, I'm excited to announce the results of our Captain Biography Contest!
Before we get to the results, I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to the judges, and explain how the entries were judged. The judging panel consisted of myself, and your fantastic resources department Fleet Captains: Dralthcaan, and Gravity. Each of us independently read the seventeen contest entries, and individually scored each submission in three areas: creativity, details and impact.
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These categories are obviously quite subjective. What I might consider to be impactful, might be considered less impactful by another judge, for example. To balance out all of our views, we each scored every entry in these three categories on a scale of 1 to 10, allowing for half points. We then took the average of each of our marks in every category and combined them to arrive at an overall score. In this way, we hoped to most objectively and fairly arrive at our decision.
All of the contest entries were fantastic, and resonated with us each differently. Only fractions of a mark separated many of these amazing entries and we wish that everyone could have won, but in the end, there could be only two! I'm astounded by the amazing creativity and writing talent that we have here in the fleet, and enjoyed being pulled into your Captain's world, if only for a short while. We hope you all had fun, and I encourage you to read your fellow contestant's entries and enjoy what they all have to offer! Thank you to all of our participants for making this contest a success! You've inspired many of us to keep developing the stories behind our Captains and crew!
Contest Results Winner, Runner Up and Honorable Mentions
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Prizes
We'll be in touch with the 1st and 2nd place contestants through mail on the website in the coming days to award the prizes! The appropriate forum ribbons will be awarded to each of your accounts today, and will appear beneath your picture and name, beside each of your posts in the fleet forums!
Be sure to check out the next edition of the Stonewall Times, where you'll each be mentioned!
On behalf of the Fleet Resources Department, I'd like to thank you all for participating in our contest. We loved each of your entries and hope that you had fun!
I'd like to thank the judges for reading through our entries. I'm honored, and sort of speechless at the moment so my mind is drawing a blank as to sufficiently convey how ecstatic I am!
