Congratulations, Nan
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I finished 12th (probably out of 12). I am not sure about the merits of some of the judges comments. A lot of the reason I got points taken off my story seems to be a difference in the interpretaion of the characters and whether cannon was the bible as well as they thought I used too much introspection. I am certainly not in the same category of writing as Nan, but I think a lot of the categories were very subjectively judged where if you didn't follow the judges phillosophy on charaterization and introspection, your story was bad.
So it might have been a "judged" contest, but I think the results are equally biased as the Kerths to the judges personal feeings, just with a smaller judging sample size.
