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Newsletter compiled and written by Mikemoral. Any suggestions welcomed.
The contest so far
As of this newsletter, the Writing Contest 2010 participants have collected a total of 173 articles.
This Week
Rayboy8 comments for this newsletter. He is currently ranked 2nd in the competition.
There have been some significant changes to the leaderboard over the last couple of weeks. One of the main changes is the fact that five more entrants for the competition have now started to create articles for the contest, meaning that five more users have now gone onto the leaderboard. The total number of competitors on the list was 20 the last time I checked. One user in particular, known by the name of C628, appears to have performed particularly persistently recently, going from not being on the leaderboard at all to climbing all the way up to seventh place. On a separate note, I also managed to reach second place recently, surpassing Dendodge's total. This shows you just what you can achieve if you put enough effort into writing articles over a certain period of time. Remember, it is still perfectly possible to build up a score that is higher than Tempodivalse's! I wish all of our competitors the very best of luck for the next month and a bit.
Newsletter compiled and written by Mikemoral. Any suggestions welcomed.
The contest so far
As of this newsletter, the Writing Contest 2010 participants have collected a total of 257 articles.
Tempodivalse comments for this newsletter. He is the winner of the competition.
Well, the three-month contest has finally drawn to a close. I must admit I've been somewhat disappointed with the results. Despite advertising it heavily, we didn't have nearly as many new users or as much news coverage as I had hoped, and closer to the end it completely faltered, so I didn't have any competition for first prize. Maybe there's something we can learn from this, though: instead of doing very long competitions hosted occasionally, we should perhaps have multiple shorter (i.e., week-long) contests spread out throughout the year - which may encourage more heavy editing. One thing I think we should keep for any future comps is the scoring system - which worked really well and encouraged in-depth writing, in my opinion.
The contest was still pretty fun overall, though. Congratulations to user:Rayboy8 and user:Pmlineditor for taking second and third places, respectively. Thanks to everyone for participating, and especially to User:Brian McNeil for offering to host it and come up with most of the rules.
