Lauren Hynde
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Hello, Survivorphiles, and welcome to the 2006 Survivor Literotica Contest. We hope this will be an enjoyable year-long challenge for all contestants, regardless of final classification.
You will notice there haven't been many changes to the rules introduced this time - 2005 Survivor went rather smoothly - but there are a few slight modifications to which we must call your attention:
Illustrated stories and poems - It's not exactly a change, but a clarification to the rules. It has now been added that "The use of the same illustration in more than one submission will render all said submissions after the first ineligible for points." The reason for this is obvious. All submissions must be original and unique, in their entirety.
And again, the following still applies this year: The use of images in the production of which the contestant was not directly involved, either by creating or by being portrayed in them, will make submissions in the "Illustrated" and "Illustrated Poetry" categories ineligible for points in Survivor. That means that you can use photographs that you yourself took or that were taken of you, or paintings or drawings that you yourself created. It also means that you cannot use royalty-free or public domain images, or images pulled from somewhere off the web.
Immunities - At the end of the year, all immunities claimed will be considered valid, as long as there are two categories filled with regular submissions for each immunity. e.g.: If a contestant has 7 immunities won, but has only regular submissions in 12 different categories, only the first 6 immunities will be considered valid.
The purpose of this change, of course, is to encourage contestants to write in as many different categories as possible, as is the stated goal of Survivor, and not to overly depend on immunities.
There were concerns expressed about multichapter stories and about the quality of some submissions. Once again we must remind all contestants that the only quality control in place is Laurel at the moment of approval of the submissions. If you read a story that cannot be understood without reading the others in the series, if it doesn't make sense on its own, or if it doesn't correspond, on its own, to the minimum that can be expected for the category it is placed in, please report the story. If you think that any story you read in Literotica is substandard, please report the story. Let Laurel know about it. That's the only way a quality control can be implemented.
The 2006 Survivor Literotica Contest: Rules and Registration thread and the January Immunities thread are already posted and you can sign up immediately. To avoid confusion, we'll put creation new ScoreCards on hold until 2005 winners are announced on the 5th and all the mess is cleared, but we'll put them up right after that.
Good luck to all!
Hello, Survivorphiles, and welcome to the 2006 Survivor Literotica Contest. We hope this will be an enjoyable year-long challenge for all contestants, regardless of final classification.
You will notice there haven't been many changes to the rules introduced this time - 2005 Survivor went rather smoothly - but there are a few slight modifications to which we must call your attention:
Illustrated stories and poems - It's not exactly a change, but a clarification to the rules. It has now been added that "The use of the same illustration in more than one submission will render all said submissions after the first ineligible for points." The reason for this is obvious. All submissions must be original and unique, in their entirety.
And again, the following still applies this year: The use of images in the production of which the contestant was not directly involved, either by creating or by being portrayed in them, will make submissions in the "Illustrated" and "Illustrated Poetry" categories ineligible for points in Survivor. That means that you can use photographs that you yourself took or that were taken of you, or paintings or drawings that you yourself created. It also means that you cannot use royalty-free or public domain images, or images pulled from somewhere off the web.
Immunities - At the end of the year, all immunities claimed will be considered valid, as long as there are two categories filled with regular submissions for each immunity. e.g.: If a contestant has 7 immunities won, but has only regular submissions in 12 different categories, only the first 6 immunities will be considered valid.
The purpose of this change, of course, is to encourage contestants to write in as many different categories as possible, as is the stated goal of Survivor, and not to overly depend on immunities.
There were concerns expressed about multichapter stories and about the quality of some submissions. Once again we must remind all contestants that the only quality control in place is Laurel at the moment of approval of the submissions. If you read a story that cannot be understood without reading the others in the series, if it doesn't make sense on its own, or if it doesn't correspond, on its own, to the minimum that can be expected for the category it is placed in, please report the story. If you think that any story you read in Literotica is substandard, please report the story. Let Laurel know about it. That's the only way a quality control can be implemented.
The 2006 Survivor Literotica Contest: Rules and Registration thread and the January Immunities thread are already posted and you can sign up immediately. To avoid confusion, we'll put creation new ScoreCards on hold until 2005 winners are announced on the 5th and all the mess is cleared, but we'll put them up right after that.
Good luck to all!
