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[Chris Priestly]

The winners are announced!

A big thank you to all of you who took part. I am always amazed at the response we get from out fans when we ask for submissions, whether they are writing, art or some other challenge.

Check out the list of winners (David chose the top 20, then whittled it down to the winners) and make sure you read David Gaider's blog entry on the contest including handy tips on how to enter such a contest again in the future (a "do/don't" list if you will).

Once again, thanks.

Modifié par Chris Priestly, 01 février 2012 - 06:30 .

[Tonia Laird]

The Grey Nayr wrote...

wangxiuming wrote...

The Grey Nayr wrote...

motomotogirl wrote...

 Aww, I think this could be a temporary end to my writing endeavors.  Pretty sad not to even warrant top 20 out of 400 entries.  Pardon me; I'm going to go drown my head in a toilet.

Congratulations to the winners 

I know the feeling, pal.

Personally, I'd like to see the original five choices from before they changed the rules mid-game.

Or see which writers read which entries. The sake of knowing is enough, but the different writers have their own tastes and preferences and knowing which one judged me could help me determine what exactly made my story not good enough to even be in the top 20.

I'm thankful that the writing team changed the rules mid-game! It was very generous of Mr. Gaider to expand his original role in
this contest. His tweets updating status on the competition came over the weekend, which suggests that the team volunteered their personal time give everybody a fair shot.

Keep in mind that 20 out of 400+ entries is less than 5%. There's no shame in not making the top 20. Rather, it should only highlight the magnificent works of those who did manage to place there. Being in the top 95 percentile is an enormously difficult task and takes both luck and skill.

Changing the rules seems a little unprofessional on some levels to me. Not to mention it makes chances of making the top five drastically lower. A bunch of forum staff probably aren't as thoroughly critical as the whole team of actual DA writers.

My entry had an error early on that both me and my proof-reader/editor missed. I didn't find out about it until much later after I sent it in and it probably screwed me to some degree. I would imagine that the writing team are big on exact grammar/punctuation.

No sane editor would ever pass up a great piece of work because of a typo and I'd like to think no sane BioWare writer/editor would either.  There were many amazing entries, and I know I agonized over more than a few that I read.

Also, I was so happy to see how supportive all of you writers were/are of each other. My best writing comes out of peer review, so I encourage everyone to take advantage of it every chance you get.

And congrats to the winners, I was really impressed with your work.