And we're off!
Posting starts today!
Yes, in a few minutes we'll be kicking off the posting for McShep Match 2009 with the first two entries.
Our two teams of intrepid artists and writers have worked hard over the last couple of months to bring you a pair of entries each day for the next month to fit their team themes of War and Peace and the prompt they claimed. Once you've read a story or viewed the artwork, please vote in the poll at the end of the post, which asks you to rate it on how well it fits the prompt and the team genre, both of which you'll see in the header. It will also ask you to rate how much you enjoyed the entry.
Ratings go from 1 (low) to 9 (high), so all you need to do is enter a single number in that range into each text entry box. Anything other than one of those digits will be ignored in terms of votes, but possibly boggled at in passing.
Please note that only the mod making each post will be able to see the poll results, and will not be sharing them with the teams or non-participants in any way, so please don't ask how your team is doing! More importantly, please also note that participants are not allowed to vote in the polls. This applies to anyone who will have an entry posted for the fest, so if you're a backup taking part you can't vote but if you had to drop out you can. Team members are more than welcome to point, prod or push their friends over to read and vote, however, and should feel free to pimp their team's efforts as madly as they like *g*
Once all entries have been posted the mods will take the average scores for each entry on their team and from those work out the averages for each team. The total of the final three scores will determine the winning team.
This means it doesn't matter how many entries you either read or vote on - you don't need to read both entries for a prompt in order to vote, or all entries in the fest, as it's not a direct win/lose between each pair of entries and each entry will have its result calculated individually at the end.
As always, you are welcome to make guesses at our writers and artists - this year we have a single post for this, although please make sure you're commenting in the right place - each entry in the fest will link to its own thread to avoid confusion! You'll also see we have something fun for everyone to take part in coming up shortly.
Now, on with the posting!
Your mods,
trobadora (for the Team War) and fluffyllama (for Team Peace)