Bracket Scoring

[playerprophet]

Hello team!

Last night the mod team posted an announcement about this year's voting system, and it's set up in brackets! Last year 40 entries seemed like too much reading every round, and this year we have 121 teams! So we've divvied up the work a bit.

So we are reading Section 3 Entries and the top 10 from our section will proceed to the next bracket. We'll have more reading there! But we will already have read the initial 10.

So in bracket 1 we read 29 entries, pick 10, and in the second bracket we only have 30 more to read that we haven't read!

I know this seems like a lot - and it is! This is the price we pay for having such a huge group this year. But it could be worse! We're reading about half of the actual entries and working to cut back on entries to read for other teams. Additionally, while I say "read" many of the entries are images, or comics that don't take very long. Others are 3000 word fics but all things considered, those are pretty short. If you're a writer you can appreciate how hard it is to make a good concept and squish it into 3000 words.

Additionally, in order to compensate for busy people and potential triggers, the voting system should have a spot for you to account for any entries you have not read. So if you're overwhelmed or busy, it's okay! You can still vote, and the percentages of what you weren't able to get to will be taken into account.

I'm going to try to post about the collab round later on tonight - sorry for spamming the site! Thank you guys for your patience, and let me know if you have any questions.

Comments

[nextian]

Sounds good!

The nine entries that haven't been unlocked yet on the tag are a wrinkle, though. Do you have access to them? Can you link any of them to us directly (like, if they're hosted primarily offsite?)

[playerprophet]

I could link a few of the images but none of the fics are hosted offsite! I do have see them myself! If anyone wants to message me I can lend out my password so you can read them.

[nextian]

Well, four people just unlocked theirs, so we only need six more! *g* I'm sure it's fine. I've already read through the first eleven and the voting period is nice and spacious.

[nextian]

Okay, I'm a little less sanguine now. Lots of people have unlocked theirs but an equal number of people have posted new works which are ... still locked ... so we're still at five entries that we as a team can't read, and voting's supposed to END in four days.

Missing entries (fivefour of which are locked, judging by the tag):

aradia♠vriska (no palhoncho :( )
bro♥dave -- just unlocked!
dad♥john
dave♥dirk
dave♥tavros
equius♥eridan
equius♥karkat
gamzee♥tavros (looks like they didn't get anything in?)
jake♥jane (Their comm says they don't have an entry)
jake♥john

[playerprophet]

I talked to Ink about it and suggested that we e-mail the palhonchos. It appears that in total there are 20 locked entries total out of all that were posted for this round.

She said though that she is going to begin allowing membership to the hsor1 comm so that, upon signing up, you should be able to see all the entries.

She said e-mailing the palhonchos was a good idea but I think if we're just opening the comm anywayssssssss I'm not sure we should bother.

[nextian]

Seems sensible. What an enormous pain in the ass for you guys, I'm so sorry.