This post is to express our deepest gratitude for everyone who is supporting our fortress' project. Yesterday, we won the advertisement bid thus resulting to more sages and more entries for the contest. We currently have 141 subscribers and 16 contestants. Honestly I was starting to lose hope on the bidding because it was so competitive and there were very few who expressed their intent to join. But after winning the bid, the influx of Sages and participants have been overwhelming ^_^ We are just so glad that there are a lot of new fics in the ChangSoo tag.

As you may know by now, the contest is open until December 31, 2012. Then the judges will read and grade the submissions and we will most likely announce the winners and give the karma prizes by January 15, 2013.

If you look at the rules, we changed the acceptable length for the stories. We widened the range from no less than 600 words for one shots, and no more than 10 chapters for short stories, so as to accomodate more entries.

I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the rubric on which the stories will be judged based upon. Originally, it was supposed to be 80%  judges decision and 20% subscription. But then, I found the scoring based on subscription a little complicated so I opted to just give a "People's Choice Award" to the story with most subscriptions. So the scores will now all be based on the judges grades on the stories. The judges will use their own rubric on grading