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Venmi

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-Voting round three-

Before I begin with the voting round, I will mention this. Because Mr Jeeves84 did not help Snow with this round, nor did he win the rights to become a part of this contest in the twist round, he has been eliminated.

The teams made within round three are done and over with. You are all on your own again, and may even vote off your teammate. You have three days to vote whomever you think should be eliminated from this contest. People you may vote for are below.

Aeraie
iChuk
Snowbuster
RuneWolf12
Uppercut41

One person will be eliminated, so be wise with your voting. The deadline for voting is Friday, November 4, 2011, 21:00 forum time.

iChuk has been eliminated. Full results are on Page 40.

20-Sep-2011 14:00:50 - Last edited on 05-Nov-2011 03:42:01 by Venmi

Venmi

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-Fourth challenge-

No teams this time, round four is going to be a regular challenge round. This time, you must write two posts max of a phobia. It can be your phobia or whatever phobia you would be able to write about best. Be creative, and it doesn’t have to involve RuneScape.

Deadline is Saturday, November 12, 2011, 14:00 forum time.

The deadline has been extended to November 19, 2011, 21:00 forum time.

Entries:

Snowbuster: Page 42, posts 8 and 9
Aeraie: Page 43, posts 3 and 4
Lebbeh: Page 43, posts 6 and 7

The winner is Snowbuster. Full results are on page 43.

20-Sep-2011 14:00:57 - Last edited on 19-Nov-2011 22:10:21 by Venmi

Venmi

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-Voting Round four-

You all have three days to vote off the person you want to be eliminated from the contest. You may not vote for yourself or Snowbuster.

The contestant who receive the most votes will be eliminated from the contest.

You may contact me in game or place your vote on the forums. You have up to Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 18:00 forum time

Any ties in the votes will be determined on the quality of the entries and will be determined by me. If the contestants tied have not written an entry, it will be decided by a random drawing.

You may vote for any of these contestants:

Lebbeh
Aeraie
Mors Et Vita

Mors Et Vita has been eliminated. Results are on Page 44.

20-Sep-2011 14:02:56 - Last edited on 23-Nov-2011 23:01:44 by Venmi

Venmi

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-Final Round-

The final round is finally upon us. It has been a great contest, with many great entries. There were complications and difficulties among us, whether it was inactive contestants, or the loss of one of our own. I am glad we have gotten this far, and I am happy to reveal the final round.

The final round is to test your true abilities as a writer. The max post limit for this round will be ten posts, and the theme… whatever you want. I want you all to delve into your strongest areas as writers. Please do not post a story you have already written. That is my only condition.

You will also be required to write a maximum ONE POST (2000 character) passage detailing why the Authors should vote you as the winner of the contest. This can contain strategies, aspects of writing and any other details that may help swing votes.

The deadline for all of this will be Saturday, December 10, 2011, 14:00 forum time.

Entries:

Snowbuster: Page 46, posts 8-10; page 47, post 1
Lebbeh: Page 47, posts 8-10
Aeraie: Page 48, posts 7-10

20-Sep-2011 14:02:57 - Last edited on 13-Dec-2011 03:11:06 by Venmi

Venmi

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Snow:

"Why should the authors vote for me as winner of this contest?"

Firstly, I would like to say it is an honour to have competed against each of the authors. The amount of quality in this contest has been incredible, and I feel lucky to have survived all this way.

There are several reasons why I believe I deserve to win the Survivor 2 contest.

Firstly, I think it is worth noting that of all the finalists, I am the only one to have not received a single vote for elimination. I believe this was due to my strategy: I aimed to keep my "head down" and to not cause any actions that may inflict votes against me. To remain untargeted from the beginning has proved successful and I am grateful that whatever the scenario, I have not caused too much disruption to lead to votes thrown against me.

Secondly, I believe that I have experienced my fair share of success in earlier rounds of this contest. In round two, I did not win yet definitely increased the standard of my writing. I was then thrilled to win round four with my "acrophobia" story -- beating both of the fellow finalists.
This also leads on to my next point: my attitude. I think that throughout the contest, I have done my best to show a positive attitude and to fully support other contestants. The proof of this is in the aforementioned round (round two) -- Lebbeh won, but it was from help on philosophy given to him by me that he won. Of course he credited me for it but I would like to add I believe this is a nice thing to do to a fellow competitor and finalist.

I am going to end by appealing directly to my attentive authors. I ask of you to put yourselves in my shoes: this is my FIRST contest and despite not being a part of the Stories forum for a year yet, I have already made it to the final against two strong, well-known writers. To win this contest would mean so much to me, and it would only add to the smile I'm already beaming at making it this far. Thank you for giving me this fantastic opportunity.

20-Sep-2011 14:02:58 - Last edited on 13-Dec-2011 03:12:20 by Venmi

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Lebbeh:

I am humbled to have the opportunity to be at this final vote, and first I’d extend a congratulation to both Aeraie and Snow for getting to the end as well. Now, onto the tougher stuff:

Why should you vote for me?

If you take this vote from the standpoint that this is indeed a writing contest, than one only has to look at the point score to see that I have, as judged by Mitch, written the strongest entries in this contest. That’s not to say I am the better writer, but rather that my entries provided for the five rounds have been consistently higher placing. To remove bias from outside influence, this alone, I believe, is a fairly straightforward reason as to why I should receive your votes.

I have also received no votes for elimination in previous rounds, though much of this may be the response of three out of a possible four immunities. Regardless, I believe it is something to take note of.

Had the circumstances been different, I would try to accentuate the fact that I have entered every round, thus exemplary for my thirst to win this contest. So too have the other finalists, though, so rather I will make acknowledgement of this with an umbrella.

I believe I have played fairly. At the end of the fourth round, I found myself in possession of both hidden immunities. In this circumstance, I decided that I would have no choice but to immunise Aeraie due to the fact that she had written an entry for that round. To make a direct address to Mors, it had crossed my mind to immunise you as a close friend, but it would not be as fair. This is conclusive evidence that proves the opening statement.

It really comes down to what you define the winner of a writing contest to be. If you were to factor writing success, attitude and approach into this definition, then I believe you’d be making the right choice in voting me in this deciding vote.

It is an interesting position; at last I find myself at YOUR mercy. I ask you to please consider carefully.

20-Sep-2011 14:02:58 - Last edited on 13-Dec-2011 03:16:45 by Venmi

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Aeraie:

I'm going to be blunt because that's who I am, and on top of that, I have 8 minutes to write this post.

You should vote for me because I took the risks in this competiton. The other two didn't get voted for, as they've already mentioned, and I believe it is because they didn't take risks in their writings. They played it safe; I did not. I wrote pieces like "God is Dead" to prove a point and to show my flexibility as a writer. Out of the three remaining contestants, I believe that I have shown my ability as a well-rounded writer moreso than Snow or Leb.

Now, I'd also like to say that Leb has already had his claim to fame. He's won a portion of the official Halloween Competiton, he's the leader of TNG, and he's won countless other competitions. This win wouldn't make as much of an impact on him rather than Snow or myself. Leb, I'm not trying to offend you in any way, I'm just stating it on how it is.

I'd also like to say that I have a goal with what I'm going to do whether or not I win this competition: define a genre here in the Stories forum. I'd like to bring horror into play in these forums because there's all of one mildly popular horror thread here. I want to define this genre with some of the horror stories I've written, and it would really help if I had some sort of backing like winning this competition.

Well, I'm out of time. This post was rushed, and I'm sorry. I just hope you understand as authors what winning this competition would mean to me.

20-Sep-2011 14:04:20 - Last edited on 13-Dec-2011 03:19:02 by Venmi

Venmi

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-Final Voting Round-

The authors are now allowed to vote for who should be the winner of this contest. I will only accept private messages for this. I will try to be in game as much as I can over the next few days. I'm hoping for this all to be done by Sunday. If not, no later than Tuesday. You may vote for the following:

Lebbeh
Aeraie
Snowbuster

I ask you all that you look at their performance throughout the contest and make a vote based upon that, and not on any biased relationships. Also, please give me at least one reason why you chose the person you voted for. This information will be revealed once the votes are tallied.

20-Sep-2011 14:04:21 - Last edited on 13-Dec-2011 07:34:01 by Venmi

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