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The War of the Words!
Hello everyone and welcome to *dramatic music* the War of the Words!
*gasps*
Let me explain.
The War of the Worlds is a creative writing/poetry competition split into different rounds. Each round has a unique, creative theme.
ROUND ONE: Write a short story excluding one vowel (harder than it sounds).
ROUND TWO: Create as many sentences as possible using the amount of letters in each word as digits in Pi. (3.1415926 might be "May I have a whole container of coffee?")
ROUND THREE: Create an acrostic poem with each letter of the alphabet.
ROUND FOUR: Free writing (under 750 words)
QUARTER FINAL: Free poetry
SEMI FINAL: Free writing (under 750 words)
GRAND FINAL: YET TO BE REVEALED
In each of the first three rounds, only the top five contestants will receive points depending on the position they came. This is not essential in your survival in the competition, though it will be added to your total score if you make it into the Grand Final.
Anyway, in round four, the top 8 contestants move through to the Quarter Final. Please note that people who do not make it in will not have there scores announced because, lets face it, no-one wants to come last. If we have few entries, we may skip the quarter finals all together.
The top four entries will then go through the the Semi finals, and so on.
I will be the judge in this competition, though please note that this is just a bit of fun and should not start any arguments or conflicts.
Okay, we will begin on the 15th and I'll cover the rounds in more detail later on. Please sign up below and enjoy!
~Coraline
submitted by Coroline
(December 4, 2018 - 12:56 am)
(December 4, 2018 - 12:56 am)
If we're still going on the schedule you posted with the last set of judging, the pi stories would be due tomorrow. Buuuuuut we only have 5 entries. What are you thinking?
(February 19, 2019 - 12:35 pm)
(February 22, 2019 - 4:58 pm)
So sorry I'm late!
@Kitten, I will go ahead and judge anyway because I think we should get on to the next round. Stay tuned, but any last minute entries are welcome.
(February 24, 2019 - 12:26 am)
Were you going to judge, Coroline?
(February 28, 2019 - 10:47 am)
Top!
(February 24, 2019 - 12:24 pm)
(February 27, 2019 - 3:45 pm)
I'm so sorry to keep you all waiting I've been really busy.
And now for the results!
In Fourth place, is Soren Infinity.Your story was clever, funny and light hearted, though I do believe you could have challenged yourself more.
In third place we have a tie between Leafpool and Quill, both recieving two points. Leafy, your story was clear, easy to read and showed no signs of difficult word choice. Quill, I loved the deepness and philosophy of your story which I had fun reading.
In second, is Leo, recieving three points. Leo, the story was clever, beautiful and I enjoyed reading it.
And *drumroll* In first place we have kitten! I could see you worked very hard on your story and challenged yourself by using difficult vocabulary.
Thanks so much everyone for tackling such a hard challenge and extending my vocabulary!
I will post an update of all the total points soon.
For now, the next round is Round 3, writing an acrostic poem with each letter of the alphabet. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, and the due date will be the 31st of March, meaning you have a whole month to complete it.
Good luck everyone!
(February 28, 2019 - 3:42 pm)
Congratulations, everyone! Yay, I'm excited for this next round.
(March 1, 2019 - 4:24 pm)
Awesome! Congrats, guys!
(March 1, 2019 - 7:00 pm)
Ah, you all did so good! This was a genious idea, Coroline. <3
(March 1, 2019 - 10:05 pm)
Wow, thanks! Working on my acrostic now. :)
(March 1, 2019 - 10:54 pm)
(March 9, 2019 - 6:17 pm)
I apologise everyone, I didn't keep the points in the second round of judging consistent. Just a small correction: 4th place recieves 2 points, 3rd recieves 3 and so on.
Okay everyone, here is a quick score update:
Kitten: 7 points
Soren Infinity: 7 points
Leafpool: 7 points
Micearenice: 4 points
Leo: 4 points
Quill: 3 points
Secret: 2 points
Moonlight: 2 points
Neko: 0 points
Gracia: 0 points
Cassandra the 1st: 0 points
Annabeth C: 0 points
LilyPad: 0 points
Arrietty: 0 points
Lily H: 0 points
By the way a lot of people haven't been participating, which is fine but anyone can still take part in the finals. Good luck!
(March 9, 2019 - 6:52 pm)
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(March 12, 2019 - 12:00 am)