Conventions » Pick the Community Choice Award for the EFNW 2015 Pre-Con Contest · 8:57pm Apr 4th, 2015
EDIT: Contest voting is now closed! Thank you all for participating and, hopefully, having a good time. Remember, if you haven't already, go leave comments and feedback for the stories you read. Authors love that sort of thing! We'll have an announcement of winners later this week.
Good day folks,
As many of you know we here on the Everfree Northwest Writing Track recently held a little writing contest. Well, we’ve completed the first round and vetted all the entries. But now that we know which fics can win, we need the Fan Fiction community to vote on their favorites for the Community Choice Award. Below you will find a semi-randomized list of the 73 accepted entries. If you are so inclined please select some at random to read (Please use random.org to randomly select a fic, just set the range on the right from 1 - 73). If you read something you like, post the number of the entry below. If you find multiple fics that you like, feel free to edit your post with the additional numbers. At the end of April 20th we will tabulate all the results and declare the winner of the Community Choice Award. Unless the judges agree with the community, in which case they will receive one of our 1st-3rd place awards and the runner up for the Community Choice Award will win instead.
All fics are related to the topic of “Making New Friends” in some way (which seems apt considering the Season 5 Premiere). All fics are between 1,000 and 3,000 words according to Google docs so they won’t take up much of your time either. All fics are either on FIMFiction or in Google Docs format.
Lastly please be kind to the entrants. They are all brave for putting themselves forward like this. So if you liked a story, let them know and/or give them a thumbs up and remember to be friendly in the spirit of Season 5.
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Entry 15
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Entry 70
Entry 71
Entry 72
Entry 73
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I loved #61! I read it before i knew it was entered in the contest and it rocked!
P.S. i almost entered the contest but didn't finish my story in time. I will enter next year!
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Looking forward to it. We will also have a contest at the convention.
Order 66! I mean entry 66!
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Some people just want to watch the Jedi burn.
Are entrants allowed to vote?
51!oh, and 61.
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Yes.
Course, it won't help you to vote for yourself.
2946048 In that case, #38
EDIT: Crap! Almost forgot #70
Entry 66
...At risk for my personal sanity, what was the word limit? ._.
66
Entry 66 and 21
Entries I liked: 21, 64, 26
2946110 3,000
Entry 38
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFF
64
64
2946451 Intending to read them all, are we?
Well some were as low as 1k.
64
38
38 is brilliant. Well proofed, feels like a great show-style story, and not only fits the show's plausible canon but also my own headcanon.
I vote for #73!
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Some people have asked me to.
And I have the time now.
But ehhhhhh.
#37 and #73
Is there a list of entries with actual NAMES? Because I may have already read some of these.
#64
I choose #66
#73
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If you pick one at random and you've already read it, that's fine. Post the number here if you liked it the first time, go on to read a different one if you didn't.
We don't want people specifically looking for stories they already read, though, because that would give a huge advantage to stories that already have lots of readers, regardless of actual quality.
2947389
There is but we didn't want people to pick things just based off the name. We will likely do a non-site post with the list with names closer to the end of the contest.
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What you should do is what I should do, namely knock off a bunch of stories by good writers you haven't read yet instead of drinking from the hose :V If there are any good writers with stories you haven't read. Which there probably are. Or good stories you've been putting off reading.
Then again, I'm a hypocrite as I keep randomly reading new stories instead of Off the Edge of the Map.
#37
I like 37.
64
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Weeeeell...
The total wordcount by my calculation is 185,320. That's under the expected total of 210k, but at the same time...
It's not that far under. And it's mostly Slice of Life. And that's a lot of goddamn stories.
I ain't doin' it. <.< Some of these can languish on my RIL.
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In the future if you want to review all them ahead of time we could just make you a judge and you could do this while helping judge.
I mean, it's not like a site blogger who does dozens of reviews isn't qualified.
-Piquo
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I'm still smarting from MMDGC. It's funner doing event reviews when they're under 50 stories, otherwise it feels like work. :B But at least I'll read some of these someday.
I'm going to go with 71, although 7 and 54 were pretty close competitors there.
Entry 66
2948456
You can list all them if you want.
2948745
Well I'll do that then!
Entry 66
Entry 1!
Go Hazred!
Entry #53 and entry #73 both pleased me greatly!
Entry #9
Entry #67, The Mirror Left Blank.
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The problem with your approach is that it is likely to just end up with people making blog posts advertising their contest entries and asking folks to vote for them; a list of numbered stories isn't very appealing.
I've already seen at least one blog post along those lines, to go vote for their story, which was number whatever.
Entry 64.
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Disqualified!
Not really. I fear we don't have a rule against that yet. At any rate, it's very poor sportsmanship, and I'd hope that anyone reading such a blog post would pointedly not vote for the one being promoted.
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Actually what we will do is the same as last year and message people letting them know it's okay and which number they are. Give everyone a fair shot at self promotion. I've simply been a bit busy the last couple of days. Also I am always curious to see who will be the first to do it on their own.