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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellefire" data-source="post: 3590214" data-attributes="member: 28129">OK, its that time again. Rising like a ghost, I will try to hound writers and judges into spending time they dont have. How's the scene been since last I was here. Any interest in a renewal? My wife is on the last few chapters of her masters thesis, to be defended in 2 weeks, her graduation July 1st, and my teaching work ends a few days before that, so my free time is about to catapult into unknown territory. So, hopefully I can actually come say hi more than once a year now <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Aaronp.s. hi to everyone I havent talked to in foreveredit: Going to keep track of interest here, and if there is enough will let someone more experienced with starting such threads do so for the official contest. Will need 3 judges and 8-32 contestants, prefereably with an alt judge and a couple alt contestants lined up in case somebody has to drop out later.judges:Rodrigo Instalindir (verified)Herremann the Wise (verified)maxfieldjadenfox (verified)alt judge:Berandor (verified)writers:Hellefire (verified)EPyangnome (verified)Avatar Vawayfarer (verified)FickleGM (verified)Toras (verified)Cevalic (verified)tadk (verified)questing gm (verified)freeXenox (verified)Trench (verified)alt writers:Dog Moon (verified)Almost ready...EP and Avatar V - still need verification pleasequesting gm - still need to know if you want to write or be considered an alt writerDog Moon - putting you on alt list. If either of EP or Avatar V can't make it, or if questing gm would rather be an alt, or if someone has to drop out, you're in.Regarding schedule, in my experience it takes about 2-3 weeks to get started (with sign-ups, organization and admin/finding pics stuff), then the contest itself takes roughly 3-5 weeks depending on schedules. So, ignoring the ever-existing possibility that I am gravely mistaken, this CDM would start in the first week or two of July and run until the end of July/beginning of August, give or take a week or so on each side. Anybody with more experience in this matter feel free to correct me.Regarding the name (Enworld Short Story Smackdown vs. Ceramic DM) I have always envisioned it as a competition of original, creative fiction. I mean that, while it has been comprised of short stories, I like to think that other written forms of imaginative creation should be acceptable as well. To let out something I've been saving for - a few years now, I have always planned to try another format just to see how it worked, after I won a match. For anyone who hasn't followed the last three years of CDMs (and the ones I was in, in particular) I have lost in the first round three times, all in (I think) fairly close 2-1 votes. Anyway, I digress. Besides nostalgias sake, I don't mind the new name. But I would like to emphasize that format isn't restricted to short story (at least in my mind). Again, please feel free to correct me if I am mistaken in this, or if the majority feel otherwise.</blockquote>

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