Post by James on Dec 26, 2013 17:54:35 GMT -5
THE ARENA
Read This:
awritersrecluse.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=thearena&action=display&thread=4103
Welcome writers, to the Arena, which will be this year January's competition. We're hoping for as many writers as possible to compete in this deadly format.
The Arena is a pure knock-out competition, designed to pit writers against each other until only one is left standing. Like the AWR Cup, an Arena Match consists of two writers, however after that rule, it's a whole new ball game.
An Arena Match consists of two writers (who are anonymous) battling it out for the chance to survive to the next round. Each match is given a topic, but not a single word prompt or a genre. Instead, the writers are given a beginning to a story that they must finish. These beginnings are written by anybody on AWR who wishes to do so.
Judging is distinctly different too from our usual system. Every member of AWR (except the writers of that match themselves) can vote, although their vote is only counted if they have offered feedback. Like the entries themselves, the reviews and votes remain anonymous. The votes itself work as a simple thumbs-up and thumbs-down system. Whoever has the most votes go onto the next round, the loser dies... or goes out to become a spectator (but keep on judging!) Please, please, people, keep on reviewing and voting. This only works if we get a decent amount of people doing their civic forum duty.
Right. If you have anymore questions, don't hesitate to ask. There's also all the previous matches from the last competition for people to look at so that they can get an idea (they'll be archived when the competition starts).
For examples, here are two matches for you to look at (ignore the comments after the final review post):
awritersrecluse.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=2011arena&action=display&thread=4362
awritersrecluse.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=2011arena&action=display&thread=4359
And last year's schedule to get an idea of how much time you'll get to write:
awritersrecluse.proboards.com/thread/4392/schedule
There's several things we need to do:
- Decide on a start date. We should get that sorted quickly so that everyone knows when. This is why I've posted this thread up earlier again. If we aim for a start somewhere around the 6th of January then we should get this done by February and can then we can consider a February Challenge or something.
- Have people sign-up as writers.
- And pick who's organising the competition. I think Kwan may be offering to organise it. If anyone really wishes to organise it, say now or forever hold your piece. If not, and Kwan was offering, we'll let the Texan do it.
- Also, we need to consider if we're going to add anything new to the Arena in terms of reviewing? Do we leave it as is? Do we say you must review at least one match to not be disqualified? Do we assign a match to review for every writer? Discuss.
Once we confirm who's the organiser, you can start sending in Beginnings for each match. Do so by PMing the organiser (once he or she is selected). Remember that you never post anything (your entries, your reviews, your judging), it's done by PMing the organiser who posts it all himself.
Okay. Get signing-up.
Organiser:
Kwan
Writers:
James
Inkdrinker
Silver
Dragon
Zovo
Allya
Taed
LLV
Injin
Kaez
Reffy
Note: Last year, we got thirteen writers to enter and had a record small amount of drop-outs. If we can have that happen again, that would be great. I'm not sure we can get beyond thirteen people writing, but we can always give it a go.
