The Guild Quill

The Writers’ Guild of Canada is the new home for the Writers’ Challenge, which began as a media event presented by DAL and sponsored by several other parties. Like sands through the hourglass, falling very very slowly, things have steadily been changing with WC, the DAL, and with other inter-party relations, which have brought WGC to finally present the results of March’s challenge.


It’s been a long time coming…

The topic for The Writers' Challenge: Edition V --
“Real life personality and in-game character. To what extent is the in-game character and conduct of a player a reflection of their real-life personality?”


The Prizes:
--5 Gold and 400 CAD for first place as chosen by a panel of judges
--100 CAD for the People’s Choice Award

The Judging Criteria:
There is a long list of details each judge was asked to mark on. You can see a complete run-down of the mark sheet by clicking here. The two major categories were:
A ) Content: x/60 (quality of the approach taken on the topic)

B ) Clarity: x/40 (quality of the presentation/prose)


The Entries & Results:
(you can view the detailed results by clicking the links below to each article where WGC has posted full comments)

Supabeasty’s “A Different Life”
Judge 1
Content: 41/60
Clarity: 28/40
Total: 69/100

Judge 2
Content: 34/60
Clarity: 24/40
Total: 58/100

Judge 3
Content: 42/60
Clarity: 36/40
Total: 78/100

Grand Total: 205/300 = 68.3%


John Cleese’s “Role-Play Rant Bonanza: A Response to Kelly an Supa”
Judge 1
Content: 45/60
Clarity: 28/40
Total: 73/100

Judge 2
Content: 31/60
Clarity: 20/40
Total: 51/100

Judge 3
Content: 54/60
Clarity: 32/40
Total: 86/100

Grand Total: 210/300 = 70%


Greene12’s “Fake Life is Best Life”
Judge 1
Content: 55/60
Clarity: 34/40
Total: 89/100

Judge 2
Content: 35/60
Clarity: 28/40
Total: 56100

Judge 3
Content: 46/60
Clarity: 28/40
Total: 74/100

Grand Total: 219/300 = 73%


KilgoreTrout 89’s “I am NOT Kilgore Trout 89”
Judge 1
Content: 55/60
Clarity: 36/40
Total: 91/100

Judge 2
Content: 48/60
Clarity: 31/40
Total: 79/100

Judge 3
Content: 59/60
Clarity: 36/40
Total: 95/100

Grand Total: 265/300 = 88.3%


Kelly Mahoney’s “In-game or Offline, You're Essentially the Same Person”
Judge 1
Content: 52/60
Clarity: 33/40
Total: 85/100

Judge 2
Content: 50/60
Clarity: 30/40
Total: 80/100

Judge 3
Content: 48/60
Clarity: 38/40
Total: 86/100

Grand Total: 251/300 = 83.6%


To sum up:
5. supabeasty 205/300 = 68.3%
4. John Cleese: 210/300 = 70%
3. Green12: 219/300 = 73%
2. Kelly Mahoney: 251/300 = 83.6
1. The Winner – Kilgore Trout89: 265/300 = 88.3%


People’s Choice Award – link to the vote here.

A ‘secondary’ prize in the Writer’s Challenge is the newish People’s Choice Award, which quite simply goes to the person who receives the most “I vote for…” comments in a poll article. The standards here depend on A ) The quality of an entry, B ) The number of PMs sent, and C) Whoever happens to see the WC PCA article. The results were:

Kelly Mahoney —
Greene12 — I I
Supabeasty — I I I
John Cleese — I I I
Kilgore Trout89.5 — I I I I I I

As you can see, Kilgore Trout 89 cleaned up in both categories, netting himself 5 Gold and 500 CAD.



We’ll now take this opportunity to launch the Writer’s Challenge: Edition VI - "Changes". This will be a WGC sponsored event, perhaps with some additional help from interested political parties and/or citizens. The prizes will be the same this time around and we would like to thank those that funded WC V – Plugson (500 CAD) and 00AngryMobMan00 (5 Gold).

The topic for this challenge will be a bit more open-ended but all the more relevant to the sands of time that flow through this ever-changing & never-restful hourglass that we know as the New World.
Topic for WC VI –

“eRepbulik: eVolution or de-Volution?”

Your musical cue and all around creepy video “Changes” by Mr. Stardust himself:
“Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
(Turn and face the strain)
Ch-ch-Changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can't trace time”


The Hourglass Model of Communication – whoddathunkitso


The contest begins Day 1,240 and will close at midnight on the big day of change itself – Day 1,245. Get your entries in, somehow related to the topic stated above, mark with a [WC] tag, and keep it below the 750-word limit…
Write
Publish
Win

(and even if you don’t win, you’ll have made Dominik – the creator of this contest – shed a small tear of joyful gratification – may also be seasonal allergies, poor kid)