(07-26-2013, 08:08 AM)Ricky Desmond Said: Should it really just be about entertainment and not the quality of the writing though Duke?

Every judge sees things differently.

For instance, I believe on Madness you suffer a small penalty if you post close to the deadline. On Warfare, I don't care if you post 2 seconds before the deadline.

Same thing with writing. Some judges prefer a quality story while others just want to come in and be entertained for ten minutes. An example of this would be Flynn vs. Angelus from a couple of months ago. I preferred the trash talk that Flynn delivered and thought it was very entertaining, while Soldier preferred Angelus' story. So we pulled in a third judge. Don't expect the judges to use one system; we all see things differently.

That's why I tell you guys that if you want a wide range of opinions, then you should get involved with guest judging.

Usually when people get upset about a loss, they run off and gather opinions from a bunch of other people. Conveniently, those people will tell them that they should have won the match cause suddenly they think they're a better judge. My question to them is, if it meant so much to them, then why didn't they have those guys help judge beforehand? I'm not a professional writer so I don't claim to know everything there is to know about writing role plays.



And yeah, win/loss doesn't mean shit unless you promote it yourself. I believe that I have 3 losses on my record. Does anyone know who I lost to or if that's even the correct number? Probably not unless you go through the trouble of digging through history.

Duke has lost a bunch, probably more than he's won, but what is he known for? - Former US Champion, and being one of the best players in the game.

The same thing with Peter Gilmour. He gets his ass kicked all of the time but still garners more attention than anyone else in the fed. He probably gets more responses to the threads he makes than anyone else in the fed.

Another example?

Two pages of replies to the debut of The Connection

None of these guys are champions, yet they stole the show, gaining more attention than the friggin' main event. It worked because these guys took an idea and had FUN with it. Oh, and how many matches were won in that thread? Zero. It was just a fun angle that attracted a lot of attention. No other thread in that PPV even came close to getting that much attention.

Why? because people like this are having fun and not dwelling over what some 25 year old board moderator thought about their writing.