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: -
This poem is for the General Poetry contest
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-This is for the Haiku contest
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I'd like to enter this for the General Poetry/Haiku contest
Remember, each user is allowed to join both contests!
Alright! Looking forward to seeing what you all can create! Good luck, and have fun with it!
I was expecting some suspense between the due date and the judging. It's a tall order, especially for a double-contest. When people submit on the last day and judging is assumed to be the same day, it slows the process down, throwing a wrench into it. I recommend making it due around the 20th of the month with judging guaranteed by the end of the month, just so there's enough time to adequately critique all the entries and fairly pick a winner. The added time range is also good in case of personal emergencies and such. It keeps you from being backed into a corner by your obligations, like right now.
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.
