Competition

Hello members of SM,

I am posting this to see how many people would like to participate in a competition i'm planning to host and to give you some details about it.
It will be a poetry based competition and participants will receive a topic on which they have to write a poem on (all topics will be the same) once the poems are written and submitted, they will be judged by selected judges, if there is a tie between two poems there will be a poll to decide who wins the prize.
The prize has not been set because I do not know how many people will actually participate.
This will not be ongoing as I don't know how many people will participate ect....
If you would like to be a judge please PM me or post a small application here.

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[color=#0000ff]Why would you like to be a judge?[/color]
[color=#0000ff]Do you have any relative experience?[/color]
[color=#0000ff]Would you help fund prize? (n/a if you dont want to answer)[/color]
[color=#0000ff]Would you have enough time to ready x amount of poems and rate them?[/color]


Official judges:
Kelly
Kid rampage5


Here you will find how the poems will be judged .

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-Poetic Devices, the number and effectiveness of those poetic elements used, there are at least 15 of them, including rhyme, alliteration, personification, and so on.
-Relative to the topic, self explanatory.
-Mood, does the poem illustrate its message, can I feel the feeling or picture the images being described?
-Vocabulary, how have the poet used his words? and the chosen words particular for the poem to reach its intent?
-Punctuation/grammar/spelling, (I don't show much here obviously)
-Universality, is the poem only meaningful to the poet or does it also reach the reader?
-Line Breaks, are these visual aid used well enough to create emphasis to carry the ready to the main point?
-Rhyme/rhythm, whether rhyme and/or rhythm were a characteristic of the poem, and if so, whether the rhymes were natural and sensible or artificial and forced, and whether the rhythm was consistent with the character of the poem.


However these criteria are still under process as it will be hard to score so you may not be facing this when the competition is ready.
Some useful links to help you understand poems and some of the judging criteria.
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-poems.html
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Poem
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/poetry_ccea/loveanddeath/labelledamesanmerci/revision/1/
^all pages on this cover most of the judging criteria, also an example poem on page 1


Please feel free to add suggestions and ask any questions.
Or contact me via PM or query me on IRC : Kid

Thank you for reading!
Leon
(kid rampage5)

EDIT: prizes are as followed:
1st - 10M eoc
2nd - 4M eoc
3rd - 2M eoc

Im up for it!

Jason6Mason wrote:Im up for it!

Nice to see you want to take part,but unfortunately not enough people do want to...

Im sure if you advertise this in IRC and such there will be some interest, great idea.

Leakee wrote:Im sure if you advertise this in IRC and such there will be some interest, great idea.

I didn't think I was allowed to advertise in IRC so I just left it for chance lol.
Thanks

kid rampage5 wrote:

Leakee wrote:Im sure if you advertise this in IRC and such there will be some interest, great idea.

I didn't think I was allowed to advertise in IRC so I just left it for chance lol.
Thanks

ranks+ are allowed to post links, just ask Kelly to advertise it for you.

Dang found out a little late :/

And i'm still in need of 3 judges!

Locked due to lack of interest with creator's permission.