Summer Camp 2023: the JUDGING

Weeeeeeere Back!   Now that I've trawled my way through over 300 articles, before I dive into my shortlist I'm going to take a breather and review my progress!   As a refresher, the Prompt that I sponsored for this year's Summer Camp was:     This opens up the prompt to a wide variety (and I mean wide) of not only settlements, but where they are in the world! You'll see from the charts below just how varied. There were 92 Different kinds of frontiers and 76 Different kinds of Settlements, and that's after I combined some of the similar categories!     _{Let it be noted that ??? denotes either settlements or locations that either were not described in a way I could categorize, or were not mentioned at all. There was one that was ????? but I cut it for berevity's sake.}   Y'all didn't make my job easy, that's for sure. There's 30 prompts that are on my combined 'Shortlist' and 'honorable mentions'.   After reading through all of these, I've also created an article about Settling the Issue of Settlements. As much as I would love to give feedback on 300 articles, I can't. But I can sum up my base feelings about what makes a good settlment and, more importantly, how to write about it in a clear and concise manner. This way I can give 'generic' feedback to 300 people without commenting on 300 articles. I'm lazy, alright?   This being said, if you do genuinely wish for feedback on your article you need only comment below. I would be more than happy to give your article a second look and give in-depth feedback. I just can't do 300, I got my own world to build!     There were 12 Articles that were listed as 'Private' and Could not be viewed. So sad!   There were 36 Articles that were ineligible due to wordcount, and 61 That were ineligible due to lack of a proper Art Credit.   There were 22 Articles that were Ineligible due to a bad publication or creation date. If you don't reset your Stub, your Metadata Will Tell on you.   In addition to this, there were at least 3 Articles that were originally created in response to an entirely different prompt. Yes, your metadata shows this too.   Some of the above were multi-point ineligibilities, leading to a whopping total of 102 articles ineligble for fabulous prizes. That's 1/3rd of the articles submitted because you were a few words shy, didn't reset your stub your credit your art!   There were 21 Articles that joined the 'close to 300 as we can get' Club, and 2 articles in the 'You Madlad' Club.  

The Shortest of Lists

  By some Miracle of Miracles I was able to narrow down 300+ entries to a shortlist of 10. The winner *might* be amoungst these, but I won't tell you which one!   Truly, you all had such phenomenal work, I was fretting for days over the final decision. I'm still working on getting dedicated comments out to you all, so please be patient with me.