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Finish-a-thon voting results!

Aug 24, 2008 16:42

And the moment we have all been waiting for - the results!

Participants must undertake to complete their stories/writing targets, by midnight GMT, the 24th of October 2008.

Drumroll please:
( the results )

finishathon 2008, finishathon

Comments 13

jedibuttercup August 24 2008, 07:13:18 UTC

Wow. What did BL win by-- one vote? I'm still surprised. And thoughtful. This should be interesting...

kerravonsen August 24 2008, 07:44:37 UTC

Yes, it won by one vote. At one point it was tied with "Back Again Harry?" but then someone added another vote for "Book's Legacy".

vilakins August 24 2008, 08:08:40 UTC

Then I shall pick the latter as it's much shorter. :-)

jhall1 August 24 2008, 09:30:43 UTC

I've put all the results into a spreadsheet (only for the poll open to all - I wasn't quite sad enough to analyse both polls). A total of 865 votes were cast for stories by 21 entrants, so that each entrant had on average about 40 votes spread over their stories. The number of votes is obviously likely to be heavily inflenced by the popularity of the fandoms in which people are writing. When I voted myself, I passed over about half a dozen writers because all their entries were for fandoms with which I am unfamiliar.

The object of the exercise was to see whether it was an advantage for a writer to have a name occurring early in the alphabet. The results suggest that it was. All of the first four writers in the list received more than 50 votes for their bunnies, while none of the last eight received more than 40. Maybe if the exercise is repeated next year the writers should be listed in reverse alphabetical order to even things out a bit?

If anyone would like a copy of the spreadsheet, then please let me know.

entropy_house August 24 2008, 14:02:39 UTC

Or perhaps the polling could be broken up into no more than 5 authors per post? If you use the scroll down method one long post is a lot more time intimidating than several shorter posts.

netgirl_y2k August 24 2008, 15:50:05 UTC

Well, it looks like fandom isn't sick of Journey's End fix-its after all. This is a grand idea for a ficathon, by the way.

kerravonsen August 24 2008, 21:16:17 UTC

Thanks.

izhilzha August 24 2008, 18:41:08 UTC

I am not surprised that my SPN story won; I am astonished that its very close contender was my Numb3rs het idea! Really? Huh.

(And look at all those Narnia stories. Interesting. I shall enjoy reading some of them very much, I think.)

kerravonsen August 24 2008, 21:18:21 UTC

I am astonished that its very close contender was my Numb3rs het idea!

Looks like there's still Megan/Larry love out there.

And look at all those Narnia stories. Interesting. I shall enjoy reading some of them very much, I think.

Me too.