War of the Words

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Table of contents
1 What is War of the Words?
2 2006

2.1 Participants
2.2 Rules
2.3 Winners

3 2007

3.1 Participants
3.2 Rules

4 Trivia
5 Contributions
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What is War of the Words?

This community event was organized and created by Dekoa. The event is basically a tournament between many writers on GFF. There were a total of 24 participants at the beginning of the tournament and 12 different themes in between them in 2006. The voting rounds are anonymous to ensure that people don't vote just out of popularity. Each of the themes that were used were along the lines of fictional writing or possibly a rant type argument.

In early 2007, the War of the Words was revived for a second round, dubbed "Word War II" by organizers. This happened to coincide with a period of great server instability at GFF, and progress has been both slow and frequently interrupted.

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2006

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Participants

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Rules

1) You must stick to the guidelines when writing (I.E. no more than 1K words, double space, blah blah blah). There won't be many, I promise.

2) Judging will be done by the Community itself.

3) You should stay within the Subject matter.

4) There will be a bracket system for the tournament matchups.

5) Each writer has ten days to Finish each writing (Monday through Wednesday[ALL WORKS MUST BE IN BY MIDNIGHT ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT EST]).

6) There will be a four day voting period during the weekend and the winner shall advance.

7) The community will be able to suggest advice to the writers.

8) We shall submit the works by an e-mail system. I will make corresponding threads on friday.

9) When it comes to voting, the entries will be ANONYMOUS. That means no popularity contest for alot of people. You will also be able to critique the works and give some suggestions to them.

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Winners

  • The 2006 winner was Moth
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2007

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Participants

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Rules

1) You must stick to the format when writing.

  • Font: Times New Roman
  • Size: 12 Point
  • Margins: Default Margins
  • Title size: 18 Point
  • Single Space
  • MAX WORDS: 2500 (A little over is fine but no more than 50 over)
  • Format: .doc

2) Judging will be done by the Community itself.

3) You should stay within the Subject matter.

4) There will be a bracket system for the tournament matchups.

5) Time frame for the writing and voting goes as follows, One and a Half weeks for Writing and a Half a week for Voting.

6) There will be a voting period and the winner shall advance.

7) The community will be able to suggest advice to the writers as well as critique thier work.

8) We shall submit the works by an e-mail system. I will make corresponding threads on the next day. These shall be the seperate discussion threads for the artists and their themes. You also vote for them using the poll feature. ONLY VOTES ON THE POLL COUNT.

9) When it comes to voting, the entries will be ANONYMOUS. That means no popularity contest for alot of people. You will also be able to critique the works and give some suggestions to them.

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Trivia

Many writers were unable or unwilling to complete their first entry, dropping out of the contest in the first round and giving their designated opponents an automatic victory or "bye." Several others did the same for subsequent rounds, though the rate was far lower.

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Contributions

Thanks to everyone who partcipated; special notice is due to Helloween for helping out, as well as the staff.

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