Great idea! I'm glad you are doing this! I didn't realize it was something I should participate in monthly-ish, but I will certainly do my best to try. (I'll probably regret saying this, but if you notice I haven't participated in a round, feel free to pester me.  )
I found a couple of errors in the content. In the 2nd sentence of the 1st paragraph, it says, "So if someone follows alone for an entire year..." That should be "...follows along..." Same paragraph, I'm pretty sure sentence 3 isn't a complete sentence. "Allowing them to explore any idea that they are presented with." Try adding that to the previous sentence with a comma.  The last sentence in that paragraph ends with "...to write on a variety of topic throughout a wide span of topics." First, you used "topics" twice. I feel like one of those is supposed to be "genres." Second, the first time you actually had "topic" as singular when it should be plural. 
I like how you list and number your rules to make them easy to find. I hate having to dig through a bunch of crap to find rules. Good job! I would suggest considering putting, either in rule 7, or as a rule 8, a rule that the deadline changes from time to time, so to be sure we check to be sure of the current deadline. I know you put it in the prompt area, but if folks remember that it was on the 1st last time, they might not notice that it's not this time, because they skipped that part since they already "know" it ends on the 1st. Remember, people can be dumb and/or unobservant.
I disagree with having multiple genres in a round...or at least not letting us enter each type of genre. If the purpose is to make it so we write in each genre, why give us a choice? This time we have a choice of sci-fi and fantasy. I'm more uncomfortable with sci-fi and VERY uncomfortable with the 2 combined, so I'm writing in the fantasy genre. Yes, I'm being bad and should pick the one I'm less comfortable with. But then, there are plenty of sci-fi contests on here, so if I REALLY wanted to branch out, I'd have done so already. You're going to have to "make me." lol I am interested in the idea of combining genres, though, like the comedy/fantasy idea. Cool.
I love the "How to enter" section! Great way to make it quick and easy for folks to see what they really want to know! I'm considering adding that to my own challenge! Thanks! A couple of things, though--the sentence, "To tag something with bitem use this {bitem:x x x x x} (replacing the x's with the number ID of the item you wish to tag}," first, doesn't end in a period. Second, it ends in braces instead of parentheses. A very common error on here. lol Also, for brand new folks, I'd erase the spaces between the x's so they don't think they need to put spaces between the numbers if they are typing them in themselves for some reason. You know, newbies are totally clueless! lol In case you put the spaces in there to prevent it from coming up as an invalid item (I can't see your ML, of course), you can use double braces or brackets or whatever "db" stands for. Use and put db at the beginning and /db at the end of the example bitem thing and it will show the content as x's. Or did you already do that? If so, good job!
In your Round 3 prompt, it says the deadline is "12 EDT" but I'd include something like, "that's 12 WdC time" for those who live overseas and know WdC time, but don't know it's on EDT. Also, your guest judge for Round 3 is different from the one listed in the main part of your info (under "How to enter"). I used to make mistakes like that all the time when I first started my challenge.  You get better at knowing what to change when as time goes on. Finally, it seems you are using a template for your info under each round which is a great idea for both you and the repeated entrants. However, your template doesn't have a space after "1st place" and "2nd place" before the awardicon they win. I'd hate for you to have a whole year of mistakes just because your template had mistakes.
One final suggestion, for the less obvious genres or genres that might be confused (such as sci-fi and fantasy--honestly, I never thought about the difference between them until now), I'd suggest a brief bit about that genre and things to include to make it that genre, but that's just me. I say this because the 1st time I tried to enter a steampunk contest, I had to look up steampunk because I had no idea what it was. Ironically, I was doing that contest to broaden my genre horizons. I say this knowing full well that I also told you I picked fantasy because I'm scared of sci-fi. lol Well, sometimes I feel brave and other times we're all just lucky I wrote something. 
Anyway, I hope this review wasn't too discouraging! I'm excited about this contest and think it's generally well done. The errors are all easily fixable and the suggestions are just suggestions. Take them or leave them. Good luck and I hope your contest is a huge hit! |
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Maybe consider reading the other entries to see what might have made theirs better? I like yours. The only thing I'd suggest is maybe including a quote from local authorities or something. Or a quote from a dumb hick. 
Use commas to separate independent clauses when they are joined by Coordinating Conjunctions.
Only when a Non-Essential Phrase immediately follows the coordinating conjunction do you need to use a comma after the conjunction.
We hoped that decorating the top of Cindy's cupcake with a dead grasshopper would freak her out, but, to our surprise, she just popped the whole thing in her mouth.