The Pentuple Contest: Anything-But-Pandemics

[Sedgistan]

We'd have to manually count that number, and I'd rather focus on reviewing submissions than do that. When we come to do a follow-up News page post we may have to count it up for that.

[Honeydewistania]

We'd have to manually count that number, and I'd rather focus on reviewing submissions than do that. When we come to do a follow-up News page post we may have to count it up for that.

Is the 300 total submission including the illegal/spam ones?

[Sedgistan]

It looks like 273 submissions total, including everything.

[Skundi]

Forgive me if this has already been brought up, or won't work, but can issues entered into the competition but don't make the top 10 be accepted as normal issues? I was just wondering and I hadn't seen any confirmation before, so I thought I'd ask

[The Marsupial Illuminati]

Forgive me if this has already been brought up, or won't work, but can issues entered into the competition but don't make the top 10 be accepted as normal issues?

Yes.

[ArmedKing]

forgiveme for asking but when will the results be released?

[Pogaria]

forgiveme for asking but when will the results be released?

Results will be released after we review the 273 submissions. That will take some time. There's no defined completion date.

[Fauxia]

How many submitting authors? About 100 or were there more nations with fewer entries?

You have many questions. If you become an Editor, you can find out.

Why go through the pain when I can try to make one of y’all be lazy instead.

We'd have to manually count that number, and I'd rather focus on reviewing submissions than do that. When we come to do a follow-up News page post we may have to count it up for that.

Alright, sounds good.

[Jutsa]

So when's my promotion? *dunks on inferior authors* jk jk please don't nuke me

Was fun to have a competition again. Honestly would've probably not bothered with NS for a while were it not for it.
(Course, I would've gotten a lot more progress done on my other projects, but that's beside the point.)
Not like I was aiming to win, but still, it gave me a good excuse to get old drafts done. and then make half a dozen more.
And proceed to not work on my half-dozen existing drafts I still want to work on.

[Honeydewistania]

So when's my promotion? *dunks on inferior authors* jk jk please don't nuke me

Was fun to have a competition again. Honestly would've probably not bothered with NS for a while were it not for it.
(Course, I would've gotten a lot more progress done on my other projects, but that's beside the point.)
Not like I was aiming to win, but still, it gave me a good excuse to get old drafts done. and then make half a dozen more.
And proceed to not work on my half-dozen existing drafts I still want to work on.

Nukes

[Candensia]

I'd like to commend the great feedback and overall drafting ethic I've seen across GI over the last few weeks.

Feedback can be tricky to give and receive, but it's invaluable to any writer no matter their experience or skill. It was very encouraging to see many new writers presenting good-spirited feedback on drafts across GI, especially given the unusually competitive atmosphere.

Well done, colleagues.

[Socio Polor]

I'd like to commend the great feedback and overall drafting ethic I've seen across GI over the last few weeks.

Feedback can be tricky to give and receive, but it's invaluable to any writer no matter their experience or skill. It was very encouraging to see many new writers presenting good-spirited feedback on drafts across GI, especially given the unusually competitive atmosphere.

Well done, colleagues.

I'm with Candensia here, I personally would like to congratulate everyone on their hard work and wish everyone the best of luck moving ahead. There's a lot of talent have seen here and am anxious to see the results

[Outer Sparta]

The contest has ended. Go in peace to love and serve the Lord Editors.

We had almost 300 entries, which is great. Thank you to everyone who entered.

I’m surprised! The fourth one had less submissions per person and no lockdown, and that had a lot more.

Did you submit anything for the fourth one?

[Pax Nerdvana]

Good luck to everyone!

[Honeydewistania]

I’m surprised! The fourth one had less submissions per person and no lockdown, and that had a lot more.

Did you submit anything for the fourth one?

I joined NS in December 2016 so I didn’t have the population.

[Outer Sparta]

Did you submit anything for the fourth one?

I joined NS in December 2016 so I didn’t have the population.

Aww RIP. I managed to get an honorable mention in that one when an issue of mine dealing with price-jacking in the pharmaceutical industry got accepted.

[Drasnia]

Good luck to everybody who submitted.

[Australian rePublic]

Is the context still going?

[Honeydewistania]

Is the context still going?

They’re probably still judging the contest. Or contacting the potential Editors. I don’t think they’d conclude it without a message, even without any new Editors.

[Sedgistan]

We compiled an initial shortlist of just under 50 issues. We're in the process of doing a more thorough review of those, which takes more time as we want as many Editors as possible to take part in that, and some members have limited time available to do this. We're hoping to have that stage done by the end of next week. The next step would then be to put together the winning "Top 10" and also contact any people we might want to trial as potential Editors.

[Honeydewistania]

We compiled an initial shortlist of just under 50 issues. We're in the process of doing a more thorough review of those, which takes more time as we want as many Editors as possible to take part in that, and some members have limited time available to do this. We're hoping to have that stage done by the end of next week. The next step would then be to put together the winning "Top 10" and also contact any people we might want to trial as potential Editors.

What are the chances that an issue from the fifty is getting published (even not as a contest winner/top 10)?

[Sedgistan]

Most (if not all) of the shortlisted 48 will get published. There's likely to be quite a few from outside the shortlist which will make it too, albeit with some work needed to them.

[Australian rePublic]

Is the context still going?

They’re probably still judging the contest. Or contacting the potential Editors. I don’t think they’d conclude it without a message, even without any new Editors.

My bad. What I meant to ask was have we passed the submission date? I don't wanna submit. I'm just curious. Thanks for the info though. It was quite interesting

[Australian rePublic]

Most (if not all) of the shortlisted 48 will get published. There's likely to be quite a few from outside the shortlist which will make it too, albeit with some work needed to them.

How long do you think this will take? Two months? Three months? Longer. I'm guessing that those from outside the shortlist will be the last of the contest issues to get published

[Honeydewistania]

They’re probably still judging the contest. Or contacting the potential Editors. I don’t think they’d conclude it without a message, even without any new Editors.

My bad. What I meant to ask was have we passed the submission date? I don't wanna submit. I'm just curious. Thanks for the info though. It was quite interesting

It closed on 15 June.