Fan fiction contest rules and criteria.
Rules
1) From the beginning of the contest anyone who wants to enter has two weeks to do so.
2) The entry form much be filled out in full or your entry will not be accepted.
3) Good sportsmanship is key, if someone scores higher than you don't take it personally, attacking other contestants or the judges results in disqualification. The same goes for the judges should they choose to be overly critical or hurtful in their assessments. You can make your points without being pricks, that goes for both sides.
4) Once the entry period is up judges have two weeks to judge entries (This deadline is expanded should the number of entries be significantly more than is reasonable to judge in that period) if left without a score the entry with be given an average as the third score, if only one judge manages to judge a particular work then their score becomes the sole basis for the final score.
5) Have fun and be creative
Criteria
Readability: Grammar, Punctuation and so on. Readability is scored out of twenty points.
Genre goal: How well your story fits the Genre, comedies should be funny, action stories thrilling, horror suspenseful and so on. Genre is scored out of forty points.
Characterization: How accurately you portray the characters in canon and how you treat them (character bashing in example causes a reduction in points) characterization is scored out of a hundred points
Community: How accurately you portray Fanon characters and Original Characters (OC's which are not yours are the only ones to qualify in this regard) Community is scored out of seventy five points
Creativity: To quote the BNL "Its all been done before" Creativity is how you represent and spin obvious situations. In example, a battle between Kojiro and Saber or Archer and Gilgamesh, or a love confession etcetera. Creativity is scored out of fifty points.
Uniqueness: Uniqueness is the measure of how your work is set apart from others. As with creativity it is scored out fifty.
Appeal: Appeal is a measure of how a work appeals to a judge, it's entirely personal. It is scored out of five points
Fun factor: How much you enjoyed reading the work. Fun factor is scored out of thirty points.
Entry &Judge forms
Entry
Story Title:
Genre: (Action, Drama, comedy, Lemon, Parody, Romantic, Slice of life etcetera or some combination thereof)
Nasuverse works (KnK, Tsukihime etcetera or a combination of such)
Route: (Pre VN, X Route etcetera)
Prize request: (I'm a Writer, I'll write something if you win, That's all I can guarantee as a prize. If you'd prefer something else like art or such I can talk with some artists but no promises.)
Judge
Story Title:
Readability (X of 20)
Genre goal (X of 40)
Characterization (X of 100)
Community (X of 75)
Creativity (X of 50)
Uniqueness (X of 50)
Appeal (X of 5)
Fun factor (X of 30)
Final points
1) Betaing is 100% Ok, if not for the deadline I expect most if not all users would check their work. Assistance is allowed in this regard.
2) Application for judge positions is done by posting a comment requesting to be a judge in this thread. I'll pick two people, no more. Should someone abdicate the position someone else will be chosen at that point.
3)After the contest ends a public poll will be held so users can vote on what they thought the best fanfic of the contest was.
4) In case my inbox fills up while I'm sleeping or you find yourself unable to PM me for whatever reason. Go register at Darkside of the Moon and PM Cherry lover, he'll get them to me in case of an emergency like last minute deadlines and so on. PM's only, no google docs (my platform has problems with them) you must pm your entry to me or failing that Mike on DSM to qualify.
Judges
lantzblades
Entries
