Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24169511-20160227195440

The Big Reveal
After much too long a wait, we're happy to bring you the results of our story and raffle contest! All winners have been contacted at the email provided so if you see your name below, be sure to check your inbox!  

Short Story Winners
1st Place - The Bridge by TheGrub

2nd Place - Recluse's Cove by Breakaway Republic

3rd Place - Wardrobe Malfunction by MGExaminer  

Raffle Winners
Aspicentis and Xero Espadas 

How were the submission graded?
All 34 story submissions were read by the MGE Wiki staff (User:Party Vanderbilt is currently on hiatus) and each was graded out of a possible 50 points. The final scores listed below are the average of every story's individual score assigned by each staff member.

The breakdown of our grading criteria was as follows: 
 * Narrative - 20 points
 * Setting - 10 points
 * Characters - 10 points
 * Composition - 5 points
 * Grammar - 5 points

Where any stories disqualified?
Yes, 5 stories were disqualified due to their contents not meeting the requirements of our contest.

The breakdown for disqualified stories is as follows: 
 * (4) stories disqualified as a result of being significantly {100 words} under or over the word limit
 * (1) story disqualified for not containing any of the required monster girls.

Top 10 and Submissions List
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Place
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Author - Story Link
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Final Score (of 50)
 
 * 1st
 * TheGrub - The Bridge
 * 42.000
 * 2nd
 * Breakaway Republic - Recluse's Cove
 * 41.800
 * 3rd
 * MGExaminer - Wardrobe Malfunction
 * 41.750
 * 4th
 * Yfi - The Father's Journey
 * 41.625
 * 5th
 * Starglider - TNOTSETATCOTCW
 * 41.250
 * 6th
 * Alexnym - Flowers of the Mist
 * 41.000
 * 7th
 * portalboy - Kraken
 * 40.375
 * 8th
 * Perentie - Wind Riders (MGR)
 * 39.750
 * 9th
 * Aspicentis - A Lich and her Wight
 * 39.500
 * 10th
 * Zadocfish - Blizzard and Resort (MGR)
 * 39.275
 * }
 * 39.750
 * 9th
 * Aspicentis - A Lich and her Wight
 * 39.500
 * 10th
 * Zadocfish - Blizzard and Resort (MGR)
 * 39.275
 * }
 * 39.275
 * }

In Conclusion
While we did hit a few bumps along the way, things went surprisingly well for this being our first attempt at a community event. Most notably, grading took almost 4 weeks which is much longer than the originally anticipated 4-5 days. We've already talked amongst ourselves and come up with a few solutions to this problem and plan to implement a number of changes next time.

Finally, we're very happy to see so many entrants and were delighted at the greater-than-expected number of submissions for both our raffle and short story contest. This shows us that there really is an active and populated monster girl community in the West, so we plan on continuing these events in the hopes of fostering further growth, cross-communication, and content creation.

Thanks for stopping by, have a good one!

The submission links provided are controlled by their publisher and Wiki staff can not retrieve deleted/inaccessible stories. Entrants not listed in the top 10 may request their grade by messaging a Wiki staff member. Authors listed in any of the above segments may request the removal of their story link by messaging an admin.

 