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The Wordspill Competition [UPDATE]

Tue Jan 20, 2009, 8:31 PM
The winners of the Wordspill prizes will be announced on the 23rd of January in a news article, so keep your eyes peeled, wordspillers!

Thank you to all that participated!

The competition is now officially closed! We'll get back to you soon with the prizes and a new prompt!

Once again, thanks to all! :w00t:

The entries:

:postit: 'Celebration - Gundam Wordspill' by :iconhiddencaitastrophe:

:postit: 'Wordspill: Exquisite Epiphany' by :iconlyzzi-fall:

:postit: 'Celebration' by :iconvital-organs:

:postit: 'The Party' by :iconoblivion00:

:postit: 'Unconditional celebration' by :iconits-ok-bunny:

:postit: 'wordspill: six more days' by :iconsligurl:

:postit: 'Wordspill - Celebration' by :icondyanarosejill:

:postit: 'The Dreamer's Dis-ease' by :iconschriftsteller:

:postit: 'Wordspill: Celebration' by :iconswimminginbubbles:

:postit: 'Freddy' by :iconlost-angle:

:postit: 'Alan's Final Flight' by :iconsirusvilla:

:postit: 'Celebration' by :iconcatherinedesilver:

:postit: 'Word Spill :Celebration' by :iconmedoriko:

:postit: 'Wordspill: Oggie's Party' by :icondragonbehin:


:heart: COMPETITION! :heart:


=Wordspill has been going strong for nine rounds now, thanks to you, the enthusiastic wordspill contestants! So for our tenth round we thought we'd do something a bit special. We're hosting a competition! We recently held a poll in our journal to see what people thought would be a good idea for a competition mechanism and we got a lot of voters (including a very thoughtful couple of comments from =Twilights-Maiden and ~JerryShepherd, thanks guys!). In the end we decided to go with a modified democracy an make the mechanism of the competition that of a normal Wordspill round, just with a month to complete it and prizes given out according to different categories. So read on for the rules and prizes available!

The rules:

This special tenth round will be the same as every other, we'll provide a prompt and you just do your wordspill thing! Easy as pie! The only difference is that rather than two weeks, we're making this round a little longer to help people complete it on time for the competition, so you'll have one month to complete your wordspill entries. You still note it to us with a link in the body of the note (one link please, we'd rather you put both wordspill and scrubup in the same deviation, makes it a bit easier for us) and we will still update our journal with the entries. So don't be afraid, it's the same as always, only longer :D

The prizes:

Of course, any competition has to have some prizes, so we're offering multiple prizes based on a few categories:

The Random Chance prize:

To be eligible for this six month subscription prize, all you have to do is participate in this month's wordspill event! That's right, just spill your thoughts onto a page, scrub them up (we really would like you to scrub them up, for those that have only be spilling) and send us a note, and you're in!

The Super Special Guest prize:

We will have a very special guest judge (who may or may not be the GD who volunteered the 'Clockwork' theme round) who will pick an entry based on secret ritual and award a 6 month subscription ! Woohoo!

The Mop of the Month prize:

This six month subscription prize goes to the person who we think contributes the most to helping people recognise the potential of their ideas through insightful critique and commentary on other people's wordspills (Get it? A mop helps clean up spills! We're so witty).

PLEASE NOTE! All these prizes have nothing to do with the content of your wordspill itself. We don't want to limit your direction in writing a wordspill, and it's not in the spirit of the exercise to do so. So don't worry about what you write, just write it!

The theme:

Oh, what's that, you'd like to actually know the theme? Of course, this week's theme for the super special tenth round competition is...

:XD: Celebration :XD:

Celebration! It's been fantastic to have all of you along for the ride with us each week, so the theme of 'Celebration' seems appropriate for the event.

Remember, your piece must be uploaded as a deviation and then noted to us by the 17th of January. If you have =Wordspill on your watch list then you'll get a reminder with one week to go, and another with one day to go. Just as a poke!

:w00t: Good luck, thank you for sticking with us, and happy spilling! :w00t:

  • Listening to: The tapping of keyboards!
  • Reading: The spills and scrubs of our participants!
  • Watching: All those lovely words spill over the page!
  • Playing: The wordspill game!
  • Eating: Up all of your great ideas!
  • Drinking: A scotch and coke (we relax too, y'know!)

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:icontwilights-maiden:
This sounds great :) I love the prize categories :), especially the mop. Gotta love the promotion of helpful critique!

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"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." ~ Nietzsche
:iconvital-organs:
woohoo!
=D

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The more boys I meet, the more I love my dog.

Life has to be more than just waiting to grow old and die.
:iconhiddencaitastrophe:
Whoo hoo! I of course still only have a little over 2 weeks lol, but here's hoping I can make it in in time.. I was totally depressed that I missed out on Clockwork. Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with and who manages to snag the prizes!!

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For details and updated prize listings, go here: [link]


BTW, I'm now a senior admin for *TheWritersMeow
:iconoblivion00:
Wait, one?? I thought it ended the 17th...good news is, I just have editing to do.

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Favors returned; dreams deferred.
:iconwordspill:
The world spins and we forget that some of you aren't in weird places in the world ;P Yes, the due date is still the 17th. Looking forward to your entry!
:iconoblivion00:
Phew.... :D

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Favors returned; dreams deferred.
:iconmeowsap:
Aw man....well good luck to those entering. :highfive:
I hope I can get back into wordspilling again, but the semester gets pretty rough sometimes. ^^;

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I always thought love was shaped like a heart,
But its actually shaped like a cross!
:iconorchid-black:
What's truly pathetic is that I completed a spill and half of a scrub for this, and still it won't find its way here.

:iconsadplz:

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~ Bram Stoker ~

Here endeth the lesson...

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