Literotica Author's Survivor Contest '02 discussion

[KillerMuffin]

It got lost up north.

To recap:

Muff
1. An E is three points. Regular submission is two points. Immunity is one point.
2. Stricken - bad idea.
3. Any additional submissions in one of the used categories counts as one point in a category marked "additional submissions."
4. Posting in 10 categories is 5 points. Posting in 15 categories is an additional 5 points. Posting in 20 categories is an additional 10 points. Posting in all categories is an additional 15 points. Immunities count toward posting totals.

Rules:

Everything submitted between 1/1/02 and Midnight 12/31/02 is eligible. Posting date is not relevant.

You may not "collect" immunities. You must use them on the board. For example, if you win an immunity you must use it in one of the categories as one point. You may not get the E points or regular submission points if you later submit in that category. If you don't use the immunity by the end of the week, you lose it.

You must keep your submissions current. The best way to do this is to have a post in Laurel's survivor update thread and with each new category posted in you edit and update. For example if you post a new one in Anal with an E, you would edit your first post enter the category and then the number of points. Anal - 3 If you choose to use an immunity for Lesbian, you would edit your post and enter Lesbian - 1. The reason for this is to avoid the use of a big board and to keep all posts coherent for the end of the year.

p_p_man
I reckon it would be better to drop the Editorial choice to attract bonus points.

As this is down to personal choice, it doesn't make for a fair and unbiased voting system. The stories that attract an (E) are those that the editor personally likes and personal selections shouldn't be considered.

The [current] Immunity system seems to work fine.

Hecate
As for the E's - I too think we shouldn't give extras for that. I write the way I write and the way many people like (at least they say so now and then) - but maybe not the way Laurel likes... does that make my story less good in general? Lucky those who get the E's, those are sure "story pushers" in number of hits so we are as authors rewarded already by increased volume of readers, right?

Mr. Unsexy
i'd like to try it agan as well; i'll have more time to be online for reasons so pathetic i'd rather not divulge. i think a good idea would be to give an extra point or two for every three pages to a story. i know that the writers in this contest wouldn't write three pages of shit, so it would be a good challege, i think.

CRaZy
I said on the other thread that I thought there should be a bonus for over 10 000 hits. Laurel can easily verify. I also think there should be 1 point credit for more than four stories submitted in a calendar month OR an author can earn an immunity point by submitting more than five stories in a calendar month. How about we give two bonus points for every 5 Es accumulated? That would really push those of us who are lucky enough to receive them but wouldn't seriously disadvantage those who don't.

Hecate
as for the "number of stories per month" ... I don't like that idea to be honest ... all I will do is wait till I have four or how many ever stories finished and submit them at once ... then none in a while till I have accumulated some more. I don't really see what that has to do with any achievment in regards to deserving extra points ... or did I misunderstand the concept?

The E's - I don't mind putting some LIGHT extra bonus to those *shruggs shoulders* so whatever you want to do with it is fine as long as it doesn't influence the competition too severly.

As for number of hits - *again shrugging shoulders* since I have not the faintest idea to the number of hits my stories get I am fine with it. I guess it is a slight advantage for the "well known" writers and a little less good for the newcomers who haven't got a name yet. Like me, I simply read new stuff by KM usually - just becasue KM wrote it. And I know many others do - but as I said - I really don't mind that one....

Story length - can we (if we should decide on it) agree on a certain number of words please????

Couture
How about this?

1. Participants are split into tribes. The tribe with the losing score has to vote someone off.

2. The score is the rating * the number of votes.

3. Person with the highest score on each team has immunity.

4. Every month there is a new random category. Scores for stories written in for that category are doubled as far as the immunity challenge is concerned.

Maybe somehow work a chain story into the mix so that personal interactions help to determine who is voted off.

Yes! The chain story is a series called Survivor. We determine the setting in advance and the story is about our interactions with one another and the other tribe members.

The score for the chain story is double the points to be added to the team total.

p_p_man
OUCH!

I can't see why immunity points can't be taken from something on TV like they were in Survivor.

Winning football teams for that week's matches for instance, with a limit on the number of games listed.

I'm almost tempted to volunteer to run that side of things myself using the English Football League. But we should probably keep it an "American Affair".

Todd-o
For an imunity once a month I can offer the main event of that months WWF Pay Per View.

I can make it fair by building up the entire history of why that match is occuring, what key wins against one another etc. so that everyone knows fully what is happening and understands why. instead of two unknown names to pick from.

I can only do this once a month and have it begun build up 2-1 week bbefore hand and the voting coould go till 5pm est the day of the ppv.

that leaves 3 other weeks a month for someone else to come up with.

PS- it would be nice to have diversified immunity challege pool so more people stand a chance.

ie. 4 weeks a month

one week Ppman's english football/rugby
one week Todd-'o'-Vision's wwf ppv
one week Killer Muffin's latest reality tv show
one week ???'s ????

p_p_man
And this year we've got the World Cup being held...
That takes care of the period from June to July...

And that's truly international - you could choose America each time they play if you want, thus combing your Survivor choice with supporting your soccor team to win the Cup!

There's plenty of things we could use.

Muff
Do we need the element of chance here to make it interesting? You know, the guess a survivor's name and get an immunity point for the week?

Would we be better off if we had something more "controllable" from the author's standpoint?

Say, rather than guess who wins, if you write an extra story in a category, you get an immunity point toward the other?

I don't actually see how immunities helped any in the first place, after looking over the big boards and the results. Do we need them?

Could we just do this as a totalling thing?

I also move that previous winners be stricken from winning.

For anyone interested in playing, this is a year long competition open to all takers. We're currently trying to hash out a framework of rules to make this game fair for all as well as interesting. Suggestions are welcome! Players are welcome! So are questions!

 

[Off]

It didn't get lost.
It was right where it was supposed to be.

 

[Laurel]

Anyone interested in being involved in the Survivor author contest - head over to the Awards & Contests forum and make yourself known! Full rules, etc. are there as well.