||OPEN AND JUDGING|| The Flame Awards

Rules & Requirements

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1. You must follow @TheFire-FantasyCom for important messages, announcements, alerts, and such.

2. No hate comments, slanders on a particular group of people, or bribing of the judges will be allowed. Failure to comply will result in immediate elimination/disqualification.

3. Put this awards book in your public reading list OR give it a shout out on your message board. This way, we can get more participants.

4. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FOLLOW YOUR JUDGE!!!! But it'd be nice.

5. Stories must be in English! (If you can read Spanish or French (not any other language because otherwise it becomes too complicated), and would like to judge that as a separate category, please comment here or shoot us a PM.)

6. You may be a participant and a judge. But yo may not judge for the same genre in which you are entering.

7. Stories must be a minimum of 7 chapters long (excluding any welcomes or authors notes, but including things like prologues, and...um...just prologues.)

7a. Short stories and poetry do not have to be 7 chapters long. They must a minimum of 1 chapter long. But preferably longer if possible.

8. You must inform the community of any username or storybook title changes. We will not be held accountable for failure to judge your story if we are unable to find it and you will be disqualified.

8a. When we start the judging process, you are forbidden to change the cover of you book, as the cover is part of what we judge you on. If you do not have a cover, you will automatically receive a 0, so I suggest you get one quick. Even a crappy cover is better than no cover. At least in these awards...

8aa. If you really feel you have to change your cover, please inform the community and we will decide whether it really is necessary.

9. Each participant may only enter up to two entries in the main contest and they must be different genres.

9a. Each participant may only enter up to two entries in the the mini contests (yes, they can be the same contest, and yes, it can be an entry from the main contest.)

9b. A participant may not submit the same story to two different genres.

10. The password is your favorite cereal. If you can't choose, then the password is "gubblefunk"

11. You will receive a response from the community if you are accepted. Please fill in the form as one inline comment.

12. You may message us (Via PM) your questions or leave them in their associating chapter. We will try to get back to you as quickly as possible.

13. Entries must be under 1k votes. Yes, votes. Because just because someone reads your book, does not necessarily mean they like it. So technically (we think) votes is a more accurate way of judging whether the book is underrated. Anything over that limit will not be accepted. But, If you have entered and your book passes that amount while the competition is still going on, you will still be allowed to participate, but please shoot us a PM (wow, I say that a lot) if that occurs.

14. Give these awards a shout-out on your message board and add it to your public reading list and your library so you know when it's updated.

15. Have fun! Even if you don't make it to the end, you're still amazing! (Believe me, you are)

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1. You must @TheFire-FantasyCom for important messages, announcements, alerts, and such.

2. You may judge only one genre!

3. You must follow the rubric corresponding to your genre and get back to me within a timely fashion.

4. Judges must read the first 7 chapters of their stories, excluding the author's notes or other similar notes. Prologues DO count as one of the seven.

5. Judges must send me a 3-7 sentence review on their top two stories.

6. You may be a participant and a judge. But yo may not judge for the same genre in which you are entering.

7. The password is your favorite color + the word "cars"

8. Give these awards a shout-out on your message board and add it to your public reading list and your library so you know when it's updated.

9. Have fun and enjoy the stories! It's the readers like you that the writers write for!