Snarry Games :RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR TEAMS AND READERS/JUDGES
Official Posting Schedule, Drabble Contest and Snarry Art Games
The Snarry Games will officially begin posting on April 16, 2006 (North America), two days after the Official Grand Re-Opening of the Snarry Flagship site, Walking The Plank
The Prompt posting order will be RANDOM save for a couple of extensions that were requested (you know who you are), and those that the Team Alternates require extra time for. Thanks again to the Alternates for stepping up to the plate to help their teams! Remember that if you are an Alternate and did NOT get to write, you have an automatic invite to the next Snarry Author Games.
The stories will be posted twice daily, same prompt per day for each Team. It will be a veritable Snarry Feast!
Also, those of you who were in the Lottery and were not chosen for the teams are invited to showcase your talents (as you are also automatically invited for the next Games) with our Closing Ceremonies Drabble Contest! The due date for the drabbles is May 5/06.
The Snarry Artist Games will be held in the Summer of 2006. I anticipate invites and sign-ups to be sometime in June, with the Games to be posted in August. If you wish to participate, please go vote in our Artists Poll.
READER/JUDGES POLL, Rules & Regulations
Posting the stories
Unfortunately, due to the technical limitations on 'polls' in Livejournal, we will have to Mod Post instead of Author post. We really wanted the authors to get their reviews in their own inbox, but it is impossible to put another journal's poll into your own entry, and making your own is not an option for everyone, nor is seeing the poll results. So the mods will be uploading all the stories, to facilitate the inclusion of the Judges Poll, as well as normalizing tags, lj-cuts, and titles. The stories are to be emailed directly to the Snarry Games, or to your Team Captains, who will then forward them to us.
The Judges Poll
WHO CAN VOTE: Everyone who is a reader and has a livejournal. You can only vote once, but you can go in and change your original vote right up until the polls are locked for the final tally. Livejournal does not support anonymous voting.
WHO CANNOT VOTE: Team Members, Captains, Alternates and Snarry Games Mods, and those who do not have a livejournal account. However, anyone can review! And pimp. Pimp you and your teammate's stories far and wide! The more votes you get, the higher the average, the closer you get to Snarry Gold! Go Teams!
HOW DOES THE POLL WORK?
We have decided to make the poll out of 9 (instead of 10). This prevents tampering with double-digit fields and will hopefully eliminate any Null votes. (how many votes is NOT taken into consideration, only the average) Each story will have its own poll, and it will look like this:
Poll deleted
The polls will remain open until the final prompts are posted. The poll results will be visible only to the Snarry Maintainer (aka djin7/snarrymod). She cannot be bought.
Each story will have its own average (Average is: a value that is computed by dividing the sum of a set of terms by the number of terms) i.e.:
Story 1 (Team Angst)
Prompt: Average vote = 7/9 Angsty: Average vote = 6/9 Story: Average vote = 9/9
Each average will then be CONVERTED to POINTS:
Grand Total = 22 points out of a possible 27.
Story 2 (Team Angst) Prompt: Average vote = 5/9 Angsty: Average vote = 5/9 Story: Average vote = 7/9
Grand Total = 17/27 points
Total Points (cumulative) for Team Angst = 39/54. And so on...
Grand Total possible points for either Team is 594.
Whichever team has the highest point total WINS THE GOLD MEDAL OF SNARRY!
Good luck to all of you!
Questions? Comments? Feel free to ask here.
Mod note: Team Angst Warnings poll results seem to be largely in favour of lj-cut spoiler warnings for every Team Angst story that the reader can choose to see or not, located at the bottom of each story. If Team Angst wishes to discuss this amongst themselves, please let the Mods know your decision. Thank you.