Winter Writing Competition '14

**Smiles** · 01-01-2015, 11:17 AM

Welcome to the Winter Writing Competition!

BRR BRR! It's finally here! On your frosted porch steps sits an opportunity iced in so clear a sheen you saw your future: success, eternal glory, and a Legendary Pokemon all in the name of the Winter Writing Competition. The competition threatens to burn straight through your heart and you begin flailing, right in front of the Cubchoo who somehow own a Gingerbread house across from you. But don't you fear. This competition's bound to be COLD, but you gotta stay cool. Money, Pokemon, and the respect of all your fellow writers hangs in the balance! There's spectacular prizes on the horizon, for voters and writers alike. Let's dive deeper! WELCOME TO THE WINTER WRITING COMPETITION!

Entry Guidelines

You may submit a story from January 1st to 11:59 P.M. CST January 31st; any story posted before or after this time frame will be deemed ineligible for this competition.
You may write as many stories as you wish! However, you may only submit one story into the WWC. Please put WWC somewhere in your thread title for grader convenience.
Your entry can be no longer than 150,000 characters.
You must be a member of the URPG to participate in the WWC. If you're not a URPGer yet, go sign up! We'd love for you to participate!

Voting

Once the submission window closes, I'll be dividing the stories into a number of rounds. There's a 3k prize just for voting in one round! Here's a bit more about voting:

You must be a member of the URPG to vote.
When voting, vote for your favorite story within the round, and not your favorite person. Winners of this competition should be selected by the depth of creativity and talent featured in the story, not by the person.
If your story is featured in a round, you can still vote! In fact, you'll get an extra three points for voting in the round your story is featured in! What's not allowed is voting for yourself. That'd be awkward.
Voters will receive 3k for voting, claimable at the end of that round. There might be a special prize for those who vote in all the rounds!
Voting time frame and total rounds will be announced once the submission window closes. There will be preliminary rounds, and then a final round!
When voting, send me a private message with the stories you liked the best in that round, with 1 being your favorite story and 3 being your least favorite story in that round. The story that has the highest combined tally in that round will win that round!
Include a two-sentence summary of the story in your private message. For those who like seeing examples, here's a cute example!

Originally Posted by PM from a handsome and winsome young man

1. Perspective from the All-Seeing: In this tale narrated from a blind Dunsparce, the Illuminati knock out every Pokemon Headquarters until the Digiworld and the PokeWorld are forced to unite under one government. The Dunsparce ends up being part of the Riolufeller family the whole time! +3 points
2. Eevee Nature: Young superhero Eevee must defend his hometown against a horde of Bidoof! Eevee ends up mega-evolving into a Mega Rayquaza to save the day! +2 points
3. How Fly: Young Ca$coon is young, rich, and famous, but just can't seem to keep a steady beat. Regardless, the end of the story, with the giant dance off and Tron Travolta, was pretty awesome. +1 point

Prizes

1st Place: a temporary Legendary Pokemon or Demanding Pokemon of your choosing and $10,000! oh baby!

2nd Place: a Complex Pokemon of your choosing and $8,000!

3rd Place: a Hard Pokemon of your choosing and $5,000!

Prizes are subject to change based on amount of entries.

Past Victors

1. Jag
2. Marth
3. Shroomish
4. Jack of Clovers
5. Fair
6. Neo Pikachu
7. DaRkUmBrEoN
8. Pokemon Trainer Sarah
9. Seawolf
10. DaRkUmBrEoN
11. Seawolf
12. Tyranitar_Trainer
13. Fever
14. Phantom Kat
15. Bryce
16. Sequentio
17. Kai-Mei
18. Natorei
19. Kai-Mei
20. MagikChicken
21. EmBreon
22. Alaskapigeon
23. ChainReaction01
24. Smiles
25. WinterVines
26. felicia?! or Y-O-U?

Entries

Volbeats by Synthesis
Fashion by Prince Vultan
Spirit of the Dice by WinterVines
The Hour is Nigh by AceTrainerLiam
Tate by Truly
Change of Heart by Felly
Thirty Miles From Home by Jack of Clovers
hiraeth by Elysia
Tweet by Elamite
Teeth and Jaws by Marius
River Devereux and the Secret of the Pyraxian Tribe by Clash King Dan
Sacrifice by HKim
The Life and Lies of Kyle Weedle by Ash K.
Beduins by Lovecraft

Best of luck to you! Have fun, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask! Happy writing!

**Smiles** · 01-29-2015, 06:00 AM

The submission window will close in three days.

**Smiles** · 02-01-2015, 01:32 AM

Hi everyone! Here will be this year's WWC prizes, dependent on number of entries. The money factor for each condition will stay the same.

16+ entries:

Spoiler:

10-15 entries:

Spoiler:

9 or below entries:

Spoiler:

Also, entry submission window extended through February 2nd at 2:00 P.M. CST.

**HKim** · 02-02-2015, 03:23 PM

I'm entering my story: Sacrifice.

http://www.pokemoncrossroads.com/for...-Sacrifice-WWC

**Smiles** · 02-02-2015, 08:43 PM

Here we are again. The talent here is absolutely incredible. There are no words to express how phenomenal each of the authors in this competition are. There is only creativity and a craft made of genuine love. Let's begin.

First of all, remember that there is no editing your submitted story until either after the competition or after your round (if you do not make it through to the next round). This has been an unspoken rule since the competition began, but I thought it would be useful to reiterate now. Additionally, please review the first post for updated prizes, and also review the first post for voting procedures. You may private message me on any of the three forums.

Votes will be due to me by Saturday, February 7th, at 11:59 P.M. CST.

Round 1

Fashion by Prince Vultan
The Hour is Nigh by AceTrainerLiam
Change of Heart by Felly

Good luck to all of you in this round!

**Smiles** · 02-08-2015, 08:48 AM

Get excited for the results of round one!

Fashion (+3) +2 +1 +2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 17
The Hour is Nigh +3 (+3) +3 +3 +3 +3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 3 = 29
Change of Heart +2 +3 +2 (+3) + 1 + 1 +2 +3 + 1 + 2 = 20

The Hour is Nigh by Ace Trainer Liam will be continuing to the final round!

Wow, round one started off the competition with a bang. We're barely into this crazy writing thing, and our hearts are already slashed by sacrifice, love, and scars that will never heal. Major shout-outs to our authors this round because they certainly worked hard writing beautiful stories. Major shout-outs to the voters, YAY, who may now claim 3k for their effort!
@Prince Vultan; @Ace Trainer Liam; @Soulmaster; @Felly; @Shroomish; @HKim; @Clash King Dan; @WinterVines; @Seppe; @Jack of Clovers

Onward!

Round 2

Thirty Miles From Home by Jack of Clovers
hiraeth by Elysia
Teeth and Jaws by Marius

The voting process stays the same for every round. Something special happens if you vote in every round!

Votes are due to me via private message on any of the three forums by Saturday, February 14th, at 11:59 P.M. CST.

Remaining Stories:

Spoiler:

Final Round:

Spoiler:

**Smiles** · 02-15-2015, 06:27 AM

Thirty Miles From Home + 2 + 1 + 1 (+3) + 1 + 3 + 2 + 1 + 3 = 17
hiraeth + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 2 = 25
Teeth and Jaws + 1 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 = 14

hiraeth by Elysia will be proceeding to the final round!

The stories are getting darker. Somebody hold me! But for now, hold onto this nifty voting money; you've definitely deserved it! Authors of this round, thanks for writing splendid ~~nightmare fuel~~ stories this round!
@Shroomish; @Prince Vultan; @Felly; @Jack of Clovers; @Seppe; @Soulmaster; @HKim; @Truly; @Ace Trainer Liam

Round 3

Volbeats by Synthesis
Spirit of the Dice by WinterVines
Tate by Truly

The voting process stays the same for every round. Something special happens if you vote in every round!

Votes are due to me via private message on any of the three forums by Saturday, February 21st, at 11:59 P.M. CST.

Remaining Stories:

Spoiler:

Final Round:

Spoiler:

**Smiles** · 02-22-2015, 05:23 AM

PWN is currently down for server maintenance, and Winter's story for this round is on PWN. As such, this round will be extended until tomorrow, at 3:00 P.M. CST. n~n Read and vote if you haven't already!

**Smiles** · 02-22-2015, 09:26 PM

Volbeats + 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 2 = 16
Spirit of the Dice + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 23
Tate + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 (+3) + 1 + 1 + 1 = 11

Spirit of the Dice by WinterVines will be proceeding to the final round!

Something that particularly struck me while reading summaries was somebody's comment that a particular story truly entertained them. All of you authors are producing exceptional wonders with each word you write and sentence you produce. I hope that, despite the heat of this competition, you keep heart and never forget that. Congratulations to Winter this round, as well as the voters, who may now claim 3k:

@Shroomish; @Soulmaster; @Prince Vultan; @HKim; @Truly; @Ace Trainer Liam; @Jack of Clovers; @Seppe;

Onward!

Round 4

Tweet by Elamite
Beduins by Lovecraft
The Life and Lies of Kyle Weedle by Ash K.

The voting process stays the same for every round. Something special happens if you vote in every round! But a special notice notice nottttice here:

Votes are due to me via private message on any of the three forums by 7:00 P.M. CST on Friday, February 27th! This is a different time than usual, so please make sure you read these delightful short short shorrrrt stories as soon as you can and send your votes to me! Thanks, everyone!

Remaining Stories:

Spoiler:

Final Round:

Spoiler:

**Smiles** · 02-28-2015, 01:46 AM

Tweet + 2 + 2 (+3) + 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 15
Beduins + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 2 = 12
The Life and Lies of Kyle Weedle + 3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 23!

The Life and Lies of Kyle Weedle will be continuing to the final round!

Wow, what charming short stories we had this round! Let's give an especially warm congratulations to Ash, as this is his first time entering the final round and that's such an exciting and awesome feat! I'm so happy you all entered this competition and decided to share your lovely writing with us, whether you made it to the final round or not. This is really such a special time. You too, voters, are quite special, and should gain a fancy 3k for your voting efforts:

Voters: @Soulmaster; @Synthesis; @Elamite; @Jack of Clovers; @HKim; @Ace Trainer Liam; @Seppe; @Shroomish;

Final preliminary round let's get it!

Round 5

River Devereux and the Secret of the Pyraxian Tribe by Clash King Dan
Sacrifice by HKim

Votes are due to me by 11:59 P.M. CST on Saturday, March 7th. Also, I'm going to be completely offline for the next week, so don't get worried if I don't reply when you send in your votes! I'll see them all when I return, and will reply then.

Best of luck to you two in this round!

Final Round:

Spoiler:

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