2017 Kurofai Olympics: Posting Week Begins Today

[mikkeneko]

Today, Monday August 7, is the first day of posting for the 2017 Kurofai Olympics. First up is 'Turn a Blind Eye' with arisprite and tsubasafan . Please refer to the schedule here, if you need a reminder of who goes when.  As a reminder, all fics are due by midnight (11:59 PM) Pacific Daylight Time.

Contestants are encouraged to use the posting formats (found here for both teams) for the full team effect with graphic headers, cuts & all, but no points will be lost for not using them. :)

Remember readers, your part in this event starts today! We need all of you to read these lovely entries and score them. The voting period will be open until August 20th, but there's no reason not to start now!

Entries will be scored out of 10 points. We encourage people to vote honestly with their hearts, but if you are unsure how to put a numeric score on your feelings, you can use this handy rubrick:

1) How well did this entry represent their team? 1-10
2) How well did this entry represent its prompt? 1-10
3) How much did I enjoy this story, overall? 1-10

Above all, have fun!

Comments

[kuroganeattacksquad]

Hi there! On the previous rubric for scoring ( http://kurofai.dreamwidth.org/98257.html ), part of the scoring involved how in-character the fic was. Is that still a part of the scoring system? And if so, does that apply to only the POV assigned to each team (Kurogane for Dragon and Fai for Phoenix), or does it include side characters as well?

[mikkeneko]

Nope, that's not necessary for this time around. I mean, the team themes revolve around the characters, so if you feel that they are out of character in a way that does a disservice to the team theme, or out of character in a way that lowers your overall enjoyment of the fic, you can certainly take that into account when casting your score. But it's not a primary metric.

[cloverfield]

Hey Mikke, I've noticed some authors are using the old scoring rubric (probably because it's included in the formatting copy & paste); can the mods organise to let those authors know so they can change the score rubric on their fics?

I think this way the readers won't get confused about how they're supposed to be scoring what they read, seeing as it looks like there's two different rubrics in use.

Thanks to the mod team for all their hard work!

[mikkeneko]

I don't really think it should matter, given that either version of the rubric is only a guideline to encourage readers to leave scores. Either version of it is equally good.