Order (lotsa Food) In The Court!
Just a heads up on plans for the rest of the S&T Contest #2--Obviously the deadline for judging did not turn out to be noon today. For now I'm extending it to noon Wednesday, the 5th. (Sorry, The Infection! ) Final deadline will be announced probably at that time. (No guarantees.) I'd expect it to be Friday, the 7th if I were you. I'm hurrying as fast as I can, even delaying the almighty lunch, just to get as many as possible done.... But it is still a slow process. I'm starting with the long entries though, so it should get faster and faster as I go...
For the voting, most likely what will happen is the preliminary and semifinal polls will be in the contest voting forum as usual. Then the three finals will be in S&T. I'll divide it up so the vast majority of the time until the 18th is taken up by the preliminaries--it will take quite some time for everybody to read the entries. The semifinals will likely be very short--either that or they will be moved to S&T too--I don't want to go the route of interfering with other contests to extend the time the polls are in the voting forum, not at this time at least.
Then for the finals I'd like to leave them up for at least a week. Specific dates will be announced later.
Thanks so far to all the judges for all your hard work! I'm in the middle right now of updating the judges-notes in the entry list. Also, good luck to all who entered! I'm really enjoying reading all the ones I've read so far, even if the grammar corrections are rampant. When this is all said and done, as I've said before, even the "losers" will be winners in my book because they will be part of a big list of really fun stories.
One simple request before I close--anyone who's PMed me for corrections, note that I will be very slow in getting to them since I'm trying to focus on reading the entries. I request that as many as can switch to the new method of correcting errors, where you post a new version in a new post in your topic (details are in the entry topic; Method #2). That will speed things up both for me and for the voters who are eagerly waiting for the polls. *It's for the greater good, man!*
And now... must have lunch! Yes, even the skeleton needs to eat.
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