MCWC IX Submissions

[Merchant of Venice]

MCWC IX

Eligibility

The submitted story must be at least 1,000 words long, or be a serialised story or collection of short stories that have two updates of 500 words or more each in the months of January-February.
The first place winner of the previous competition cannot compete in this current competition.
Only one submission per person.
The submission of pre-published work is prohibited. Any story found to have been published offsite will be disqualified.
Nomination deadline: the last day of the month.
The competition is open for a month, followed by a one week, multi-poll vote.
If there are less than 5 submissions, the competition is extended for another month.
If there are less than 5 nominations, the submission period is extended for one week, followed by a poll with reduced rewards. If less than 3 stories are nominated, the competitioncontinues indefinitely until at least 3 stories have been submitted.
Usually authors nominate their own work. If you would like to nominate somebody else's work, please ask for the author's approval first (or encourage the author to nominate his work)!

Information to provide
Title and link to the original story thread
Author

Short description/teaser

Advertisement Rules
Advertising is allowed in the official advertising board and in story threads. Any other kind of direct advertising to advocate nominees is prohibited. Those who breach this rule shall be disqualified for 3 months.

Asking for votes is not allowed and will result in an immediate disqualification and ban of 3 months from the Competition forums.

The competition manager will take whatever steps necessary to insure the integrity of the competition.

Awards
4 points for the Winner
3 points for Second Place
2 points for Third Place

Points are accumulated towards the awarding of the Writers' Study Competition Medals.

6 points - bronze medal
12 points - silver medal
24 points - golden medal




Please see the Writer's Study Information and FAQ Thread for more details.

[General Retreat]

Hell, why not.

The Merchant of Veluca: Calradia is a land of violence and ceaseless war. Rizardo d’Chaeza is a lost man. The death of his father sees him left penniless and the last of his name, pursued by dogged enemies and carelessly cast aside by his mentor. Fleeing from his lifelong home of Veluca, Rizardo seeks to carve himself a new life, by whatever means necessary.

[HunterKYA]

The war has started, and the struggle between Humans and Xelanites has begun! We pick up in the latter stages of the war, where the CORE is conducting a desperate defense in the face of overwhelming Dominion forces. They have developed advanced weaponry in secret, which, if allowed to be produced on a larger scale, could tip the balance against the Dominion and change the course of the war. The Dominion has contracted the help of Tyler Braedan and the crew of the Centurion, in an effort to snuff out a factory producing these weapons. But throughout the mission, secrets will be discovered that could change the fate of everything.

Catch up with Chapter 5 HERE.

[Shankbot de Bodemloze]

I would like to nominate:

Mountain Hold by Sir Hawkwood
Dreams of a Spammer by spam500

A few more have caught my eye, but I expect the authors of Dies Irae and Tales of Acamar to enter themselves...

[Merchant of Venice]

Hitai can't compete since he was last competition's winner (nearly took a double as well) and SK was probably too busy too. The competition will be extended for another month though I might quickly ask SK if he wants to enter which would tip it over.

Also, did you get the author's permission too enter.

Edit; Because of a lack of entries this will be extended for another month.

[Shankbot de Bodemloze]

They should be fine with it.

[Sir Hawkwood]

Hitai can't compete since he was last competition's winner (nearly took a double as well) and SK was probably too busy too. The competition will be extended for another month though I might quickly ask SK if he wants to enter which would tip it over.

Also, did you get the author's permission too enter.

Edit; Because of a lack of entries this will be extended for another month.

I hope this doesn't run and run waiting for other contenders...

[Merchant of Venice]

I hope this doesn't run and run waiting for other contenders...

Considering we only need one more entry it shouldn't (touch wood)

[Merchant of Venice]

Ok guys, this is a bit late but in case you were unaware, there is a new rule in which if a competition has less than five submissions but more than three it will go up for vote with reduced awards. I've put up the vote thread now so go over there and vote. And please no tie breakers