Olympics Voting Officially Open!

[mikkeneko]

I'm proud to call a close to the posting week of the second Kuro/Fai Olympics, Canon Vs. AU. The writing is over; the voting begins!

Voting for the Spring Olympics will remain open until Friday, May 11th; as per several people's requests, I have extended the deadline another week.


(Blood on the sand) "First Blood" by cloverfield
(Blood on the sand) "The World is Bound in Secret Knots" by caffeine_buzz

(Idyllic countryside) "Cocoon" 1 - 2 - 3 by mikkeneko
(Idyllic countryside) "Fernweh" by tsubasafan

(Classroom confidential) "Fear and Loathing in the Ivory Tower" by uakari
(Classroom confidential) "Never Gonna Learn My Lesson" by farenmaddox

(Festival of light) "Illumination" by kittenkin
(Festival of light) "Hearth Fires" by eijentu

(Under a blackened sky) "Always In This Twilight" by zelinxia
(Under a blackened sky) "Ash on the Windowsill" 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 by reikah

(Flying through the clouds) "Zenebatos" by badluck_koi
(Flying through the clouds) "Attention All Passengers" by zelinxia*


*Everyone throw zelinxia an BIG round of applause for stepping up to cover not one, but TWO prompts when the original participants had to bow out!


In response to several peoples' queries, voting WILL be opened to anonymous voters, even those who do not have LiveJournal or Dreamwidth accounts. The only requirement is that when voting, you identify yourself by linking to a fandom-related tumblr, FanFiction.net account, Archive of Our Own page, blog, et cetera. IP tracking will also be turned on to prevent any double-voting.

There's an Official Voter's Code, too!

- If you vote on one team's story for a particular day, try to make time to read and vote for the other team's story too, just to keep the numbers even.

- The voting is out of 10 points. If you're not sure how to award points, you might consider this handy-dandy metric for guidance:

1) How well did the story suit the prompt?
2a) How "original" was the story? (for Canon team, and)
2b) How "in-character" was the story? (for AU team)
And last but not least,
3) How much did I enjoy the story overall?

- You don't have to choose one story to "win" over the other! If you think they're both 10s, you can say so!

- Be honest with your votes. You don't have to give all 10s to everyone just to be nice. Remember -- everybody's scores will be averaged at the end.


Remember we need readers and voters as much as writers to make the Olympics succeed. So come on and do your thing!

Comments

[kanna_endo]

I'm going to read all those storys, but university is eating me alive, so I would love to have more time to read and vote.

[jezzra]

Read em all and voted on em all...I sincerely hope that I'm just the frontrunner though because my votes are loonely on a couple of these. XD Not that they're short on comments...we just kinda had most of the comm participating and not scoring. I don't wanna feel like the judge, jury, and executioner...

So come on, all the rest of ya, and get some numbers going!!! =D

Great work to everyone that participated, especially Zel for picking up (my slack) the drops!

[zelinxia]

*pauses from continuing side-Olympic fic that was put aside for awhile*

I am glad to be of assistance. I will never underestimate the serious important role of the understudy ever again. ^.^

Still have the two longest fic left to read. Until then, happy reading and voting!

[kalikamaxwell.livejournal.com]

I read a few but I'll abstain from voting because I never read/saw Tsubasa and I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON.

:D ?

[aija]

I really have a lot going on this week(end) and I'd appreciate a bit more time to read the last few stories (and actually vote on the ones I've read already). Maybe till the 10th?^^°

[bottan]

I'm feeling the same as aija!

I've been busy, too, and I've only managed 5 out of 14, so far, (love and kisses to EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED. YOU ARE THE GREATEST BUNCH OF FANFICCERS THAT EVER LIVED!) even though I'm spending all my free time blissfully glued laptop! :p

I WILL READ THEM ALL, EITHER WAY, BUT IF YOU WANT MY VOTE, I NEED MORE TIME, PLEASE! o/

Er... hey! first time posting here, hope I'm not intruding o_O

[renlylittlerose]

I've been reading the fanfics, have read 7 of them by now, they're all so amazing, can I love you all? You're so awesome!! Since I saw that the time for voting was changed I decided that it wouldn't hurt to join the community and vote :D Hope you don't mind...

[yoshikochan.livejournal.com]

Wor-working on it! XD; hopefully I'll figure out how to vote once I've read them all. (First time on dreamwidth ... Go iPhone go?) will try to meet the deadline! ^^;;; so far what I've read is BRILLIANT<3

Last minute voter

[irenegerke]

Urrrrrrgh! They were all so good I have been more worried about how I could be so audacious as to vote on any of them! Seriously everyone did a wonderful job and I will finish reading the last one in a little bit and will vote on all of them <3

It has made me incredibly happy to come back and have all of your stories to read.

[aija]

YES... I made the finish line before time ran out! This week was deadly, but the ficcage to read along with it distracted me quite thoroughly from unimportant stuff like sleeping or making homework...


ALL THE LOVE FOR THE WRITERS! You totally brightened this spring with the olympics and each and every entry was a creative little marvel! Or not so little in some cases... xDDD

I'm sort of curious if there's a winner now, because most stories got pretty high scores and there probably isn't a really clear high score this time around.

*scatters flower petals, gives out strawberry milk with vanilla ice cream and whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles to every author*