Unofficial Friendly Forum Flash Fiction Contest:
25 August - 15 September, 2022
25 August - 15 September, 2022
Spoiler:
Eligibility
Scoring
Legal
This contest is not held in any affiliation with Palladium Books, Inc ("Palladium"). Entrants will have in no way entered any agreement with Palladium via entry to this contest. No offer of publication will be made to entrants, nor does participation in this contest constitute a first submission with respect to publication elsewhere. All creative rights of entries are retained by the author, save insofar as they make use of product identity owned by Palladium under "fair use". Let's all play nice, OK?
Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Powers Unlimited®, Palladium Books®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Phase World®, Nightbane®, Megaverse®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars®, Chaos Earth®, Dead Reign®, and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc. RPG Tactics™., Beyond the Supernatural, Coalition States, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Minion War, Mysteries of Magic, SAMAS, Thundercloud Galaxy, Three Galaxies, Vampire Kingdoms, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.
- Entries should be sent via PM to the account attached to this post (link) no later than 00:00 GMT 16 September, 2022.
- Entries may be up to 1000 words in length, and should in some way draw upon the fictional settings published by Palladium Books, Inc.
- Additional materials of an artistic or gaming-related nature ancillary to a fiction entry may be submitted alongside that entry, but will only be appended to said entry upon close of voting. This is foremost a fiction contest.
- No more than two (2) entries per person, please.
Scoring
- The scoring period will run until 00:00 GMT 23 September, 2022.
- Upon close of the acceptance period, each entrant will be posted in a thread dedicated solely to entries and votes, in a randomized order, with all identifying information removed and entry number assigned. Entries will be posted otherwise "as-is".
- A ranked choice voting system will be used, implemented as follows: posters will have the opportunity to vote on entries via posting in the contest thread, ordering their preferences in descending order. The total number of submissions will determine the value in points assigned to each voter's first preference of entry, with each subsequent vote having a value of one less than the previous. For example, if there are 10 entries, and a voter votes on their top 5, the top entry will receive 10 points, the second 9, the third 8, the fourth 7, and the fifth 6. Voters may vote for any and all entries.
- The collector/presenter of entries is ineligible to vote, so that the anonymity of entrants may be maintained during the voting process. Please do not divulge authorship on any entry until after the end of voting.
- Any discussion of the merits of entries will be done in a thread separate from entries and votes, so as to limit the swaying of opinion.
- The entrant with the highest score may claim a "No-Prize" consisting of adding a line to their forum signature noting the achievement, e.g. "4F Winner Q3 2022" or something similar. "No-Prizes" are non-redeemable, and have no cash value.
Legal
This contest is not held in any affiliation with Palladium Books, Inc ("Palladium"). Entrants will have in no way entered any agreement with Palladium via entry to this contest. No offer of publication will be made to entrants, nor does participation in this contest constitute a first submission with respect to publication elsewhere. All creative rights of entries are retained by the author, save insofar as they make use of product identity owned by Palladium under "fair use". Let's all play nice, OK?
Rifts®, The Rifter®, RECON®, Splicers®, Powers Unlimited®, Palladium Books®, The Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game®, Phase World®, Nightbane®, Megaverse®, The Mechanoids®, The Mechanoid Invasion®, Coalition Wars®, Chaos Earth®, Dead Reign®, and After the Bomb® are Registered Trademarks of Palladium Books Inc. RPG Tactics™., Beyond the Supernatural, Coalition States, Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas & Superspies, Minion War, Mysteries of Magic, SAMAS, Thundercloud Galaxy, Three Galaxies, Vampire Kingdoms, and other published book titles, names, slogans and likenesses are trademarks of Palladium Books Inc., and Kevin Siembieda.