BDP Summer Prose Comp: Results

The voting has closed, and the spreadsheet has tallied. Here are the official rankings of the pieces.

1st Place with 42 points: Entry 4 - I Had the Strangest Day by moonbus

2nd Place with 31 points: Entry 1 - Dialogue by ponderable

3rd Place with 10 points: Entry 2 - Aisle Three by Sahuaro

4th Place with 7 points: Entry 3 - Vacation by ponderable

I did not deduct any points for 'freestyle' since we had a limited no. of entries.

Here's how everyone voted.

Entry no.
1   2   3   4        Voter
0   3   1   5   grampybobby
1   0   3   5   deep thought
5   0   1   3   lolof
3   1   0   5   redbadger
3   0   1   5   drewnogal
3   0   1   5   sahuaro
5   3   0   1   sonhouse
3   1   0   5   great king rat
3   1   0   5   silverstriker
5   1   0   3   HandyAndy

Congratulation to MOONBUS on the win and thank you to all the writers and voters.

Originally posted by BigDoggProblem
The voting has closed, and the spreadsheet has tallied. Here are the official rankings of the pieces.

1st Place with 42 points: Entry 4 - I Had the Strangest Day by moonbus

2nd Place with 31 points: Entry 1 - Dialogue by ponderable

3rd Place with 10 points: Entry 2 - [i]Aisle ...[text shortened]... andyAndy

Congratulation to MOONBUS on the win and thank you to all the writers and voters.

Well done, BigDoggProblem. Congratulations to moonbus for top honors; as well as to ponderable and Sahuaro.

Congratulations to the winner and to the other writers for doing so well!

Congratulations moonbus!

Originally posted by Ponderable
Congratulations moonbus!

To those who read our pieces and cast votes (whether for my entry or any other): thank you. You are the literati of RHP.

To my fellow contestants, it is only fair to say that you were up against a published author (if that is any consolation). But despair not, Graham Greene once entered a Graham Greene parody contest (under a pseudonym) and managed only third place, so I encourage you all to submit again next time.

And finally to Dogg: win, lose, or draw, thank you for giving us the opportunity to strut our stuff; an author is always grateful for an audience.

Originally posted by moonbus
To those who read our pieces and cast votes (whether for my entry or any other): thank you. You are the literati of RHP.

To my fellow contestants, it is only fair to say that you were up against a published author (if that is any consolation). But despair not, Graham Greene once entered a Graham Greene parody contest (under a pseudonym) and managed only t ...[text shortened]... for giving us the opportunity to strut our stuff; an author is always grateful for an audience.

Congratulations! Can we see a sample of what you have published? What genre?

Originally posted by moonbus
To those who read our pieces and cast votes (whether for my entry or any other): thank you. You are the literati of RHP.

To my fellow contestants, it is only fair to say that you were up against a published author (if that is any consolation). But despair not, Graham Greene once entered a Graham Greene parody contest (under a pseudonym) and managed only t ...[text shortened]... for giving us the opportunity to strut our stuff; an author is always grateful for an audience.

Thanks for your courtesy of candor and generosity of class in disclosing "published author" status. I appreciate it.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Congratulations! Can we see a sample of what you have published? What genre?

Genre: humo(u)r.

I wouldn't want to infringe any forum rules by promoting myself for profit here. But if you send me a private message, I'll reply with a link. My work is available in Kindle format from amazon. I need to know what country you're in, as that determines whether you log in to amazon.co.uk or amazon.com or in OZ wherever.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Thanks for your courtesy of candor and generosity of class in disclosing "published author" status. I appreciate it.

Not knowing what the other contributors' qualifications were, I thought it might make a difference to them. I hope there are no hard feelings if it wasn't quite a level playing field. With so few contributors, there was no sense in having a 1st and 2d league.

Originally posted by moonbus
Not knowing what the other contributors' qualifications were, I thought it might make a difference to them. I hope there are no hard feelings if it wasn't quite a level playing field. With so few contributors, there was no sense in having a 1st and 2d league.

"Published" doesn't necessarily mean "good" IMO. I've seen plenty of published work that was of poor quality, and also some amateur work that told a good story even if the grammar/punctuation was not 100% tidy.

Congratulations to everyone! Can't wait for the next one!