Congrats to our winners.
@AliceShiki and
@binarysoap! The prize will be dmed to you. Thank you to everyone that participated in the last SSSC!
*shakes pompoms* Thanks to everyone that voted for me! Pretty happy that I won~
have an actual judging board or at least one guy picking from the list. I'm not saying the winners don't deserve it, but there's definitely some great ones overlooked from pure preference by the readers
I dunno, I mean, my story was pretty weird and still won somehow, I think it's not among the #1 among standard reader preferences... >.>
That said, the sample of readers is pretty small for this context, so maybe I just got lucky... Hard to know.
A judging board (or a single judge) wouldn't hurt I guess, but I feel like it's a bit hard to find someone you trust to do the judging and stuff. Last time I saw a writing contest in a forum having actual judges, I saw the judge give undeserved low ratings to some stories because they misread the instructions of how they were supposed to judge it... >.>
So uhn... Needs to find people that are willing to properly take the time to evaluate everything and stuff. Not saying that the reader method is perfect, but at least it a bit more guaranteed to not get a skewered result because someone didn't do their job properly.