Forums → Art, Music, and Writing → Official Poetry Contests - Theme: Sunshine (Due: May 31)
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Welcome to the newest contest on ArmorGames!
This is the new and improved version of both the Periodic Poetry Contest and the Haiku Contest. From this point out, both contests will be combined into one massive contest for everyone to enjoy! And as such, each user is allowed to enter is both contests with separate entries if they so desire, effectively doubling the odds of winning.
Each contest (One being general poetry and the other exclusively haiku) will have one winner every month. Every month, two winners (one from each contest shall be chosen and receive a merit for all their hard work. Show it off to your friends, gloat about it to your enemies! Tell your parents about it and confuse them! It's a win-win-win-win-win scenario, folks.
Rules
General Poetry Contest:
- It must fit the theme if the month (same theme as the Haiku Contest).
- It must be submitted by the deadline.
- It cannot have inappropriate language in it.
- It cannot be stolen (if you plagiarize, we will find you).
- The poem must be created for this contest
- A user cannot win twice in a row (though everyone is welcome to submit every month!)
- Only one submission per user will be accepted
Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go.
The winner will then make a comment on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit.
(Original idea by ubertuna, itemized rules by DragonMistress, modified by Devoidless)
Haiku Contest
"A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons."
Well, that said, here are the rules:
- It must fit the theme of the month (same as General Poetry Contest)
-The haiku must be original (no plagiarizing)!
- It must be submitted before the deadline
- It must be created for the contest (no using works previously written)
- One submission per user
- The same user cannot win twice in a row (but they are welcome to submit!)
Once a month a winner will be chosen from all the received entries. To begin, the Moderation/Administration Team will act as judges and choose winners. Subject to change depending on how well things go.
The winner will then make a post on the ContestWinners profile to receive a merit.
(Original idea and itemized rules by Maverick4, modified by Devoidless)
First Themes
The first themes to kick off this contest shall be:
- The theme for the General Poetry contest this run is "Touch of Truth".
- The theme for the Haiku contest is "Broken Bond".
Submitting an entry
Since there are two separate contests, users are required to mention in the post which contest they wish to use the entry for. Any entry without this is subject to not being entered into either contest.
Examples of how to clarify which contest an entry is for:
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This poem is for the General Poetry contest
-This is for the Haiku contest
I'd like to enter this for the General Poetry/Haiku contest
Sinuous straining,
Shadowy shackles shatter,
Submission subsides.
Just so everyone knows, judging shall take place sometime later today. Can't say exactly when, yet it will happen.
Just so everyone knows, judging shall take place sometime later today. Can't say exactly when, yet it will happen.
judging shall take place sometime later today
... Just wanted to know, if you're going to post a link to the final judgement in this thread?
Well, they haven't post the judging yet so, you might still be counted. It's up to those who are running the thread and the judging though.
Hey Devoidless, have the mods decided on winners yet? I believe this might be the first time there's been a judging by committee, so to speak.
Almost. Taking longer than expected, sorry folks. First run so a couple snafus here and there are bound to happen.
It might help to tell the next theme early, but not allow submissions until the old judging is posted. That'll give us something to do while we wait.
By my count, there were 32 General Poetry entries, of which 21 seemed to fit the theme. And 38 Haiku entries, of which 31 seemed to fit the theme.
50-70 entries is a lot. But if you judged just 7 per day at about 10-15 minutes each* (an hour or two in total), you'd be done in 7-10 days.
*High estimate. Most shouldn't take more than 5.
It was tooo late for me to submit my entry Hope there would be next time
This is ridiculous. By my count there were 12 poems that fit the theme, 2 of which were a joke, and 17 poems that didn't fit the theme, 1 of which was a joke. For haikus there were 24 that fit, and 7 of those were jokes, and there were 17 that didn't fit, and of those there were 3 jokes. Plus 5 haikus that weren't 5/7/5, and don't count.
Altogether thats 10 poems and 17 haikus. At a generous 10 minutes per poem/haiku, that's a total of 4 and a half hours. And lets add on 20 minutes to pick 6 of the finalists for 1st 2nd 3rd place in haiku/poem, that's 4 hours 50 minutes. And realistically, with taking only 1 minute per haiku and 2 minutes per poem plus 10 minutes to pick the winners, and 10 minutes to change pages, write names and places,etc. that's 57 minutes.
It's been 12 days. I'm 13 years old. I want to judge next time.
Wow. You guys suck at patience. You could be brainstorming ideas or practicing for the next round if you really want to write more poetry.
It's been 12 days. I'm 13 years old.
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