Club Battle Winners !!

In 1st place is: FOP

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In 2nd place is: LTFR

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In 3rd place is: M&Ms

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In 4th place is: Free spirits

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Congratulations to everyone who took part - I hope you all enjoyed it and had fun.

I think a lot of people owe me an apology for saying it would be impossible to reach 100 poems in 4 days lol!

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NEXT BATTLE!

I am giving you all plenty of notice, that I will be running this again in August. Only with changes
(thank you to Hannah for suggestions on the changes)

** This will run from a Monday - Friday.

** Each club will have their own thread, and anyone from their club can post at anytime. If the clubs are uneven then tough --- you will just have to bribe your team mates to take part.

** There will be no rules on posting.. each member can continue to post as many times as they like - however, double posts from another member at the same time, still will not be counted.

** INDEPENDANTS will have a thread of their own, which means anyone that is not in a club, can post on this thread to join at anytime.

** NEW PROMPTS
I will be giving out 5 new prompts at the beginning of each of the 5 days!! so 25 prompts in total by the end of the week!!

And finally - I will be awarding prizes for this one!

1st place - the team will decide together which 3 poems of their contest is worthy of nomination and I will nominate them.
2nd place - will send me 2 poems to nominate.
and 3rd place - 1 poem for nomination.

Winners will be the teams with the most amount of poems by the end of the 5 days.

What do you all think? Excited? Thoughts?

Can we all vote on a time please?

4th - 8th =

11th - 14th =

I am in

I'm in too! Think FOP would love to join but I'll have to ask them first. Any of those dates is fine with me.

thanks again for hosting, saffie

Which dates would suit better?

Perhaps discuss this with your clubs?

I would like to do the 4th, since everyone seems to be in the writing mood.

FOP is in, yes. I really like the change that allows anyone from said club to partake, which prevents that urge for five members to spend 7 hours straight just spamming out poetry, LOL.

Way to go FOP & LTFR!! Seriously amazed and inspired by you guys.... I feel like some poems really stood out and I'm glad to see them nominated.

Congrats M&M on third place and thanks Madison and Narph for helping out!

I'm talking to M&M about the times in August.

Congrats to everyone I mean it was fun and all, but it was kinda difficult at the same time so congrats to all for making it even half way lol.

Definitely conrtats to FOP and LTFLR for sure though.

Id be up for at again and as far as dates go 4th - 8th is my vote.

Thanks Saffie for organising and co-ordinating this, it was a great challenge! Looking forward to another one in August :)

For the next one, it'd be interesting if there was some judging of quality also, so that overall score would be a combination of quality and quantity? It'd make it even more challenging and interesting I think! Something like 10 points for every poem and a simple out-of-ten rating for each poem?

I really really don't know about the judging idea... I wouldn't know how to judge them??

Remember this is going on for 5 days, so say even 50 poems per day, is 250 in the week, then times that by 5 or 6 clubs, is like over 1000 poems to judge? :?

Anyone else have thoughts on this?

I don't think judging the poems would make me want to join for there are far better poets than me that being said I don't mind on the date

I like the idea of.judging 1 through 10 but we would need one judge per club or something like that because of how many entries are possible. Just because quantity is never going to be everything.

I like the idea of judging, but in that particular case I'd put in a limit on poems per member per day or something like that, and NOT go for quantity. And in turn make the prompt order rules less strict or something like that. So the focus instead turns into getting you writing more, and GOOD stuff. And maybe then a point system to it. Like, 1 point for adding an entry, and then bonus points (these being a lot higher) based on the quality, which discourages spamming poor quality poems.

That's just an idea though.

Edit for clarification: my idea in that case being that if the limit of poems per poet per day being say.. 5, then maybe 1-2 really amazingly well-written poems can have the same point value as 5 mediocre ones, or something like that. So it doesn't end up being a total of 1000 poems. :p

I think 4-8 would be fine too, can't wait for it to start. :)

While i agree that some judging in quality would be nice, i wouldn't want to complicate things too much for you, Saffie. O.o

I think I will leave this one without judging, and just keep it the same. We can consider the judging type contest for another time.

:) you just made my day Saffie :)

I do have a way to judge this, and also give the club with more poems more of an advantage. Let's say we have four threads ... The Judges would rate the first poem, for example, on every thread from one to four with four being the highest.. Then they'll move to the second poem on all threads and do on. Of course, the prompts should all be the same for all clubs and in the same order to give everyone a fair chance. Also, if a club or two have more poems that mean also more points, since the judging will continue accordingly. So let's say a club has an extra 50 poems than all others, they'll be getting 1 out of 1 for each poem.. That means an extra 50 points and, also, If a poem doesn't match the prompt it'll be excluded from the count - but that won't effect the others. So the points will still be out of 4 but this poem will have a 0. In the end we add the points and the club with the most points would be the winner.

It'll be great if the judges choose the poems they like the most and give them a word or two as feedback - but not necessary.

Sheeesh!

Never mind, Larry, if that's confusing. I thought it was quite simple really, but hey that's just me. Carry on, guys.

Trust me, judging every poem, though a great incentive, is a BIIIIG ask. I still have nightmares about the spreadsheet I used for the first club marathon. You can easily get over 1000 poems in a few days. And you have to check that they followed the rules AND read them AND score them AND keep track of whose it was and where it came from AND post the individual scores.

I gave each poem an automatic 0 or 5 if it followed the rules, and then a score out of 5 for quality. Most poems scored 7's. I didn't spend long on the judging but it was still painstaking.

I really like Baby Rainbow's battle, except I think all clubs should be given identical prompts. I love that you're not bothering with numbers in the teams and the specific intervals allowed between posting. Let the groups deal with it!

Also, I want to participate in the next one. I might participate as an Independent because I doubt my club will arse itself enough (I could rile them up though!). It's great to see this marathon running years later.

PS. Hi Nor, long time!

I thought without feedback it'll be considerably easier, especially that judges can judge as we write. Not all clubs will write a 1000 poems and the judging will be done as long as their is more than one club still writing on. Not to mention, that with the poems being judged quality wise I think the quantity might decrease. Just my two cents.

I do admit however that, as you memtioned, accumulating the points as well as keeping track of everything wouldn't be an easy task. I was just thinking perhaps there is a volunteer or two willing to do the judging.

I agree about the identical prompts and it'll be great if TC can particpate, the more competation the better.

Hey, Abby! Long time, indeed.

I like your way of scoring where one good poem could be worth four-five crap poems, but yeah. Who is up for the huge task of judging? I remember sometimes 6 poems were being posted every minute because everyone in the club had theirs prepared and ready to go on cue.

I'll try to get TC to participate. We're very competitive but we're lazy. We also have real quality poets, which could be a limitation in this kind of contest where speed is key! I can see Narph, Noura and Jane participating with skill and ease. See what I can do.

Sooooo ... what's the plan? Should we state which club members are participating beforehand? (I'll be away this weekend so that's why I'm asking now :p)