Mystique Awards 2020 [CLOSED FOR JUDGING]

Judges' Rubrics

⭐ How to win as Best Judge of MA ⭐

• Submitting results fast
• Giving both the scores and reviews
• Following the correct rubric for the category you're judging
• Genuinely reading your participants' book (We will know this by the way you give reviews)
• We didn't have to remind you about giving the results.

By these criteria, we shall choose the deserving Best Judge! Goodluck judges :)

★|| RUBRIC ||★

You have to read the first five(5) chapters /poems for novels /poetries and read at least 2 chapters for short stories.
You can even read more if you want.
Read genuinely.

🎗 For Novels and Short Stories🎗
1. Title (Relevant? Unique?) 5/5
2. Cover (Relevant? Unique? Awesome?) 5/5
3. Genre Relevance (Does the book/story fit the genre to which it's entered?) 5/5
4. Opening (Rare? Arises the curiosity of "What's next?") 10/10
5. Characters (Do all the characters feel real? Are they able to evoke emotions from you?) 20/20
6. Plot (Is it unique? Well-explained and intriguing? Do you not notice any plot holes?) 35/35
7. Grammar (no wrong grammars and spelling mistakes, correct usage of tenses) 20/20

Total: 100/100

(Give a short overall review)

*****

🎗 For Poetry 🎗
1. Title (Relevant? Unique?) 10/10
2. Cover (Relevant? Unique? Awesome?) 10/10
3. Grammar (spelling, tense,etc) 20/20
4. Emotions (Can it bring out emotions? Has an impact?) 20/20
5. Poetic devices (Figures of speech, speaker, audience, tone, etc) 20/20
6. Organization & diction (Use of words and structure) 20/20

Total: 100/100

(Give a short overall review)

*****

🎗 For Best Blurb 🎗
1. Is the blurb intriguing? 30/30
2. Does it give the right amount of information the readers need? (Not too much, not too little.) 30/30
3. Is it unique and interesting? 20/20
4. Does it make you want to read the whole story? 20/20

Total: 100/100

*****

🎗 For Best Cover 🎗
1. The cover has relevance to the Novel/Story/Poem ? 
(Read 1 - 2 page, except Authors note) if you think it is relevant give full points. 50/50
2. The cover is eye-catching ? 25/25
3. Is the Cover rare/unique ? 25/25

Total = 100/100

*****

🎗 For Best Opening 🎗
1. Read the prologue - chapter one.
Is it really a good start? 80/80
[ Not good start = below 20 pts]
[ Medium start = below 40 pts]
[ Excellent start = 60 - 80 pts]

2. Does the opening creates any sort of curiosity like what if ?/ what's next ? Or any kind of feeling/emotion (sad, happy, normal, angry, restless, etc. ) 20/20

Total = 100/100

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WHEN YOU'RE DONE JUDGING:

• Send the results through private message on this account.

• You may send the results through our email: mystiqueawards@gmail.com but inform us through pm that you've sent it there.

• You may send the result all at once or one by one. However, when you're already done sending all 5 book results for your assigned genre then say at the end: Done 'say what genre'.

• Send the results anytime before October 31, 2020.

• We will start asking you for results if you haven't sent anything on October 24, 2020 which will be 1 week before the deadline for results.

• Please be responsible and submit on time! We might have to find another judge if you fail to submit before deadline which will disrupt/delay the expected timeline for this awards so please inform us beforehand if you are unable to continue judging your assigned books so we will still have time to look for another judge.

We expect you dear judges to be punctual and responsible. Thank you so much! 😊

- Mystique Awards💜