Challenge [255]: CLOSED

[crimsoncookie.livejournal.com]

Announcements and Reminders:

Please remember to follow our spoiler restrictions for both Birth by Sleep and Re:coded. This includes icons. If your icon is not from promotional material released pre-game, please do not use it on this community.

Remember:

You're allowed to vote for yourself, but unless you think your drabble was exceptionally good, please refrain.

Pick your top three, and if you're not the one who posted the challenge, leave the challenger's vote box empty. We've already indicated the challenger's name, so if that's not your name there, don't put your vote in the challenger's box. Everyone's vote counts, but the one that gets the vote of the challenger gets an extra five points.

(First Choice: 3 points, Second Choice: 2 points, Third Choice: 1 point, so please vote the drabbles in the order that you like the most)

Also, please note that the challenger votes only once, in the challenger's voting box.

When voting, please put in only the number. It makes it easier for the mod to calculate results rather than constantly referring to the list of challengers. Also, I'm aware that I may make mistakes. Please inform me if I missed a challenger out.

The winner will be announced in this post so please come back to it.

Here are the writers and their entries:

1. obabscribbler's Emergence

2. mirrorbrothers' Snips and Snails, and Puppy-Dogs' Tails

3. yamikonumber7's True Neutral

4. synchroshatter's Wipe the Slate Clean - contains possible SPOILERS for Birth by Sleep

5. euphonious_glow's Becoming


[Poll #1716021]

Edit: the winner is mirrorbrothers!

Our banner maker for this round will be assigned later by crimsoncookie.

Comments

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Quick question, are you only allowed to vote if you have a 1st 2nd and 3rd choice, or can you just fill out the first one/two boxes?

[crimsoncookie.livejournal.com]

you need to vote for three entries to have your vote count, yes. it balances the poll a bit - for example, sometimes the voters will pick all over the board for first, but the same entry for second; in those polls, the constantly-picked second-place entry will usually win. :)

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Ahh I see. :) Thanks for the info!

ps- I love your icon!

[crimsoncookie.livejournal.com]

you're welcome. :)

i love both of yours, too!

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Thankyou! :) Though all credit to summoners and randomized_g!

[mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com]

Could you please make that a little clearer in the user info or the voting post text? It's not that big a problem, but I must have had my vote thrown out without realizing it once. (Challenge 252 was just me and two others.) I know now, but newcomers later on might not realize it.

[crimsoncookie.livejournal.com]

it is in the voting post text, actually - in bold, in fact. ^^; (though on three-entry weeks, if the last box is empty, i fill it in myself... there's not really much else it could be, after all. XD) i also (if i have the chance) try to contact anyone who has only voted one or two.

[mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com]

I suppose so. I didn't quite realize that it had to be three or your vote didn't count, but it sounds like it works out well in practice. Thanks for the response - and, it seems, for getting me an extra point on #252!

[crimsoncookie.livejournal.com]

it hadn't come up for a bit, but i'll think about ways to rephrase it and make it clearer? ^^;

(...the usual confusion is someone entering the title (or author :x which is incredibly not helpful in weeks where the same author has entered twice :x :x) instead of the number. i usually count those, unless i'm in a supreme hurry, but orz.)

sorry for all the edits ceci should not type when ill/exhausted obvs :D

[crimsoncookie.livejournal.com]

ps, you won. ♥

[mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com]

[crimsoncookie.livejournal.com]

well of course not. :3

...delicious entry, though. :9

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

I'm really glad you won! I wanted to vote for you but couldn't because I didn't have a 2nd and 3rd choice. ^^;

[mirrorbrothers.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on, I had no trouble coming up with three choices that weren't me. "Becoming" was friggin awesome, for one.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Ahah, no I'm not saying there was anything wrong with the others, I just didn't have time to read them all on the day and I didn't think it would be fair to pick without reading them all. :)