Febuary Digiartist Contest - The results are in!

[Tazer]

Wow.. super secretive, are we? I didn't think you'd be THAT secretive... :shock:


Oh well. As long as it works. heh heh :)

[Thunder]

As impatient as it makes me, I have to agree with Lord Archive's decision. It will at least be a fair contest that way.

[Lord Archive]

Now I have scores from three of the judges and I sent a message to the remaining two asking them about their progress.

[Lord Archive]

Waiting on the final judge. But seeing as he doesn't come here, I'll give more of an update:

'Suffer' and 'Weather Changes' are almost tied for first. Which one wins is pending on the results of the last judge.

The race for third is also very close between 'True Love will find a Way' and 'Innocence and Purtity.'

Even the fifth and sixth place is uncertain with only a few points seperating 'Heart Beat' and 'The Silver Dolphin.' However, I don't discount the chance one of these two might jump to third if the judge decides to favor it.

The winner(s) should be announced soon. (I am not discounting the chance of a tie.)

[Lord Archive]

Going by the rules posted of deleting the losest score in each category, Weather Changes would be the winner.

However, if I did not delete the lowest score, Suffer would've edged out Weather Changes.

And if I were to delete the lowest total score from the judges, Suffer and Weather Changes tie.

Guess what? I declare it to be a tie. Congratulations to you both.

The other four rankings did not change regardless of how I adjusted the score.

So the final rankings are:

1. Weather Changes by Thunder Echoes
(Not posted by request of author.)

1. Suffer by Mr. Red Rover
http://www.mich.com/~archive/anime/Suffer.htm

3. Innocence and Purity by Rakamon
http://www.mich.com/~archive/anime/Innocence.doc

4. True Love will Find a Way by Hybrid Halogen
http://www.mich.com/~archive/anime/Truelove.doc

5. Silver Dolphin by ShoIshogi
http://www.mich.com/~archive/anime/silverdolphin.htm

6. Heart Beat by Outlaw Torn
http://www.mich.com/~archive/anime/Heartbeat.htm


I'll do more playing with points in a later post, but first the judge's results:


Starting things off with my results:

Heart Beat
by Outlaw Torn

Plot: 12
Comments: Being the teacher's pet has a whole different meaning.

Characterization: 10
Comments: While I could see Takato being placed into this situation, particularly before Tamers occurred, I can not see Asanuma-sensei doing this to a child.

Lemon Scene(s): 16
Comments: A rare and powerful description of statutory rape, a child abused by someone he's supposed to trust.

Originality: 14
Comments: Well, this isn't the first time I've seen a fict where Asanuma gives one of the Tamers a personal sex-ed course, but it deserves some credit for that fact Takato didn't want it and didn't enjoy it.

Writing Quality: 16
Comments: A few typos and grammar issues. Excellent job of staying in present tense.

Total: 68
Comments: Not much of a romance, but a wonderful story none-the-less.


Innocence and Purity
by Rakamon

Plot: 10
Comments: Love literally put on an American trial while the characters are in Japan.

Characterization: 14
Comments: Characters were developed, but there was little sense of why Izumi was mature for her age. Did she go through the adventures of Frontiers, or did she not?

Lemon Scene(s): 14
Comments: A little too repetitious of certain words dulled the effect.

Originality: 13
Comments: The usual way sex between an adult and a minor goes in fiction, that it was love. Putting it on trial helped.

Writing Quality: 16
Comments: A few minor errors and 'Daniel' talking to the news, who is later referred to as 'Edward.'

Total: 67
Comments: Ignoring that the romantic interest is an author created character, this fict still has issues regarding whether Izumi had any part with her Frontiers adventures and the inaccurate portrayal of a trial in Japan.



Suffer
by Mr. Red Rover

Plot: 19
Comments: More than love was resurrected from a poor, troubled, young girl.

Characterization: 18
Comments: Not only was the problems of the young couple was nicely detailed. Many of the side characters and the villain were also given depth.

Lemon Scene(s): 19
Comments: The inventive and skilled way Yolei helped Ken forget along with the sheer pervertedness of Gomamon doing some severe malpractice on a Floramon wonderfully accentuated and heightened the innocence and passion of Noriko and Iori.

Originality: 16
Comments: There isn't an element of this story that hasn't been used somewhere before, but the way they were blended together certain made it felt new.

Writing Quality: 10
Comments: The style of writing isn't an issue, Red. The low score comes from two main reasons. First, grammar is seriously an issue. Numerous typos, misspelling Oikawa's name repeatedly, and your lack of use of commas where need is bad. I lost count of missed commas at around twenty and I wasn't a third of the way through the fict. It wouldn't be as bad if you only missed the commas used to separate a name from a sentence, which was your most common mistake. Also, there are some inconstancies of statements regarding where certain things happened. I'd list them here, but they'd give away the plot and I don't want to spoil that.

Total: 82
Comments: A riveting story that was masterfully played out. Fix the grammar and inconstancies, and this is a near perfect lemon.



The Silver Dolphin
by ShoIshogi

Plot: 12
Comments: A tortured, suicidal girl and all Hirokazu wants to do is get in her pants.

Characterization: 14
Comments: Barely scraped any depth of the characters, but nothing out of sorts either.

Lemon Scene(s): 13
Comments: Short and a little disjointed with the switching of dream perspective.

Originality: 13
Comments: Mostly for the suggestion of Hirokazu being some great destined person, not Takato or anyone else.

Writing Quality: 12
Comments: A couple needless spaces, incorrectly capitalizing some words, and incorrect punctuation in places. Scene changes were jarring and switching from prose to script didn't help the story flow.

Total: 64
Comments: This is a decent start of a series, which is part of the problem. The story felt incomplete and not enough depth was given to what was going on.



True Love Will Find a Way
by Hybrid Halogen

Plot: 10
Comments: The girl gets her Sk8er boi.

Characterization: 10
Comments: Jun was decent. Davis was well handled. But that is not Matt. He is not one to open up easily.

Lemon Scene(s): 16
Comments: A nice level of detail and use of synonyms to avoid repetition.

Originality: 8
Comments: Jun said it herself. There are movies like this.

Writing Quality: 15
Comments: More than a few grammar and typo errors that could be found by proof reading this better, but the story flowed well enough.

Total: 59
Comments: Overly simplistic plot and poor handling of a key character. The story does have a sound basis of 'what if Matt meet Jun differently,' but not enough detail was given to support it.



Weather Changes
by Thunder Echoes

Plot: 18
Comments: Going out of town to avoid one kind of stress to find himself in another. While simple, this story does best fit theme of the contest, a romance.

Characterization: 15
Comments: Lola was given wonderful depth. However, you missed a few 'Jyou-isms.' For one thing, he'd throw a fit about Lola's mother drinking alcohol while pregnant.

Lemon Scene(s): 17
Comments: Nice blend of description of the act and what they're feeling.

Originality: 9
Comments: Finding a short love affair while traveling away from home is a rather common theme in movies.

Writing Quality: 17
Comments: The story flowed well and gave layers of details that helped me visualize where the story is taking place even though I know very little about Russia. The only issue is the almost synopsis feel of Jyou's life in Russia. We were told he did various things, but we don't see him go through much of it.

Total: 76
Comments: A wonderful romance that is shown to evolve over the course of the fict. A rare treat, and precisely why I wanted this contest. I would have given this a higher score if it wasn't for a few issues with Jyou and that is was a bit too simple.



Results from the ever giving Togashi.

Heart Beat
Plot: 16
Comments: Kind of manic but it goes together well.

Characterization: 15
Comments: Hard to say, Takato is forced to do things and Nami has little characterization in the first place.

Lemon Scene(s): 16
Comments: Very well described and easy to imagine. Somewhat one tracked.

Originality: 18
Comments: Never seen anything like this before

Writing Quality: 17
Comments: Minor spelling mistakes and grammtical errors.

Total: 81
Comments:


Innocence and Purity
Plot: 14
Comments: The conclussion leaves much to be desired. Majority of the plot is clear and well planned however.

Characterization: 18
Comments: Heck, you could see this story on the news in an episode.

Lemon Scene(s): 16
Comments: Good.

Originality: 17
Comments: A very interesting concept.

Writing Quality: 15
Comments: Many mistakes and errors.

Total: 80
Comments:


Suffer
Plot: 17
Comments: Solid overall, broken up a lot by meaningless events.

Characterization: 17
Comments: I find it hard to believe Ken got creeped out at blood on the walls. Some digimon characterizations were askew.

Lemon Scene(s): 16
Comments: Noriko and Cody were very well done, however useless scenes scattered throughout detract from this.

Originality: 19
Comments: An interesting post season 2 fic.

Writing Quality: 16
Comments: 'Eating at her like insects'?!?! This line and others lead to confusion.

Total: 85
Comments:


The Silver Dolphin
Plot: 13
Comments: A good idea, but I don't think there was enough here to pull it off.

Characterization: 16
Comments: Seems ok.

Lemon Scene(s): 13
Comments: Hard to follow, broken up, not terribly imaginative.

Originality: 15
Comments: Nothing too new here.

Writing Quality: 17
Comments: Good overall.

Total: 74
Comments:


True Love Will Find a Way
Plot: 18
Comments: A little cliche, but well executed.

Characterization: 18
Comments: Fits their nature quite well. Jun and Matt are both well done.

Lemon Scene(s): 19
Comments: Excellent.

Originality: 13
Comments: Did I mention this was sort of cliche? The guitar wielding hero wins over his reluctant misinformed girl.

Writing Quality: 19
Comments: Couldn't be more then a couple small mistakes.

Total: 87
Comments:


Weather Changes
Plot: 19
Comments: A well thought out and exucuted love story.

Characterization: 18
Comments: Seems good to me.

Lemon Scene(s): 19
Comments: Take this as the utmost compliment when I say 'Holy crap'

Originality: 15
Comments: This premise seems overdone.

Writing Quality: 19
Comments: Pretty flawless.

Total: 90
Comments: I believe we have a winner.




From the prolific Mr. Red Rover:

Heart Beat

Plot: 9

Comments: Ms. Asanuma is horny and wants Takato, which is really the whole plot there.

Characterization: 10

Comments: Ms. Asanuma's character seems way off; there is no real reason why she did what she did. Takato seems ok though, though a little too willing and should be
a bit more scared.

Lemon Scene(s): 19

Comments: PWP. Porn without plot as Lord archive puts it. But you know what? It is a very hot lemon scene. Come on we've all had that fantasy where the hot
student Italian teacher keeps you after class.... oh wait. That was mine.

Originality: 15

Comments: Sex with a horny teacher is hardly original, as it is every male student's dream. But the lemon scene has quite a few original tidbits.

Writing Quality: 17

Comments: Quite descriptive, and very few errors. The last line I have got to start waking up earlier

[Hybrid Halogen]

Cool!!! I am really happy - to have not sunken to the bottom of the table!!! (I was a judge and guess what?!? my score was really close to the outcome!!! I tied the **Suffer** and **Weather Changes** and now in the outcome, they are tied!!!)

What meant the most for me was Toga giving me 87! that was second under ThunderEchoes' *Weather Changes* in his evaluation table!!! (Lucky I was a judge to be able to read that one, its really GOOD! Donno why she didn't wanna post it :?) But Thunder and SIR Red Rover if ya reading this, congrats to you both. *Suffer* could be classified as another Mega lemon!

I'm ashamed cuz most judges said mine was full of mistakes and typos. (Sorry, only spent about 5 hours on it and never even read through it once. I'm sure if I proof read it, it could beat "Innocence and Purity". Well maybe next time, cuz the March and April contests ain't my thing. April's was tempting!!! But nappies and underwear? I pass :D )

**Please if there's another interesting contest, someone email me so I don't have to actually start writing the day before the deadline!**

I'm gonna proof read the lemon right now and send it to Toga to post it!

Lord Archive if you want a revised version for your posts, send me an email!

[NekoDramon]

Well, congrats to all participants. Without looking who's on top and who's not, I must say that I envy all contestants for even coming up with something for this contest. I'm no writer, but the restrictions were tight I think, so those who actually were accepted deserve praise simply for that.

Comparing the judge list with the contestant list, I understand why Lord Archive didn't publish them sooner.

*shrugs* Congrats to all, I'll read the lemons once I've got some time. ^^;

[Lord Archive]

Now to play with the points.

For the first time I wasn't the one to give the lowest average points. Comrade Terror took that, but as usual, Togashi gave out the most point.

Author's picks:
Lord Archive:
1. Suffer
2. Weather Changes
3. Heart Beat

Togashi:
1. Weather Changes
2. True Love
3. Suffer

Mr. Red Rover:
1. Weather Changes
2. Innocence and Purity
3. The Silver Dolphin

Hybrid Halogen:
1. Weather Changes
1. Suffer
3. Innocence and Purity

Comrade Terror:
1. Suffer
1. Innocence and Purity
3. Weather Changes

A couple of odd things:
Each entry at least appeared once in the top three of each judges' picks.

Innocence and Purity results were varied as each judge gave it a different ranking from Comrade placing it tied for 1st to Togashi's 5th place vote for it.

Top three in each category:

Plot:
1. Suffer
2. Weather Changes
3. Innocence and Purity

Characterization:
1. Weather Changes
2. Suffer
3. Innocence and Purity

Lemon:
1. Suffer
2. Weather Changes
3. True Love will Find a Way

Originality:
1. Suffer
2. Innocence and Purity
3. Heart Beat

Writing Quality:
1. Weather Changes
2. Innocence and Purity
3. Suffer


This was an interesting contest, and until the final results came in, I wasn't certain how things would turn out.

Heart Beat had issues of character believability.

The Silver Dolphin was obviously the start of a series and left much to be desired because of that fact.

True Love ran into problems with the protrayal of Matt.

Innocence and Purity was very solid, but it lacked something. I'm not sure what it would be, though, as some enjoyed it completely while others did not. That David was fanmade didn't help.

Suffer only, ah, suffered from horrible grammar. It would've been sad if Red lost for only that reason.

Weather Changes simplicity and lack of originality are the only failings of this otherwise beautiful story.

[HazanZ]

Way to go Thunder! ^_^ I knew you'ed do good! *gives her the thumbs up* Congrats to you too Red. And well done for the other contestant, seeing that this contest was kinda hard to come up with, but you pulled it out quite well ^_^ *Hopes he'll do well in TC's April contest*

[mrredrover]

Hehe damn that was a nail biter. I knew Thunderechoes wrote Weather Change, the style was so similar to the one she sent me in her contest. So I have one question, do we each get a lemon, me and Thunderechoes becuase that was the prize I wanted all along, a request from Lord Archive. As for artist of the month, Thunderechoes more then deserves top spot, it's all hers. (And yes my grammar and spelling sucks I admit that fully.)