GAA Forum Write Off

cruiserweight

Hi guys, Jugs82 has suggested that we try something similar to the soccer write off competition on the GAA forum. Details on that competition are here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055429237

The idea is that a number of people volunteer to write an article on whatever GAA related subject they are interested in. These articles should be 500 - 750 words. The participants will send me the articles via PM, I will post them up so that they are anonymous. Everybody else in the forum can then read the articles and vote for their favourite. The idea is to encourage some more substantial content and also to allow posters to air their view in detail on whatever they want.

The idea of this initial thread is first to see who is interested. Second to get any suggestions on how the competition should be run, as this is he first time we have tried anything like this we are very flexible on how the contest is structured.

LeoB

Great idea.

Flukey

Nice idea. One thing is that some of the more well known posters might still be recognised by their style of writing, their opinions and their areas of interest. Worth a try though.

Daysha

Yeah I'll be well up for this. I was going to enter the soccer one, but I'd be far more interested in a GAA one.

Like Flukey said though, you might need to consider if we should be allowed write about something regarding our own county though. I mean, any regulars would be able to tell that a Waterford article would more than likely be written by me, or a Cork one by Orizio etc, so thats something to think about.

Grudaire

Daysha wrote: »

Yeah I'll be well up for this. I was going to enter the soccer one, but I'd be far more interested in a GAA one.

Like Flukey said though, you might need to consider if we should be allowed write about something regarding our own county though. I mean, any regulars would be able to tell that a Waterford article would more than likely be written by me, or a Cork one by Orizio etc, so thats something to think about.

And as for the handball article... :pac::D

An Citeog

Flukey wrote: »

Nice idea. One thing is that some of the more well known posters might still be recognised by their style of writing, their opinions and their areas of interest. Worth a try though.

Daysha wrote: »

Yeah I'll be well up for this. I was going to enter the soccer one, but I'd be far more interested in a GAA one.

Like Flukey said though, you might need to consider if we should be allowed write about something regarding our own county though. I mean, any regulars would be able to tell that a Waterford article would more than likely be written by me, or a Cork one by Orizio etc, so thats something to think about.

That shouldn't really matter tbh. It wasn't too difficult to guess which posters wrote which pieces in the soccer forum write off but at the end of the day, it all came down to the quality of the article.

I'd love to write one but wont have any time in the next 3 weeks or so with exams.

Jugs82

Well Im in

Looking forward to reading the articles

cruiserweight

So far we have one participant, anybody else?

Interyurauldone

cruiserweight wrote: »

So far we have one participant, anybody else?

Sounds like a great idea.

Is there a deadline for submissions or will it be a rolling time frame?

Daysha

Count me in.

cruiserweight

Interyurauldone wrote: »

Sounds like a great idea.

Is there a deadline for submissions or will it be a rolling time frame?

I will have to set some sort of deadline or we won't get started. So how about this Sunday for registering your interest. After that maybe 2-3 weeks to submit your piece

Daysha wrote: »

Count me in.

So that is two participants

Jugs82

Sounds good - Anybody else interested?

yahoo_moe

Yeah I'll go for it if we're getting 2-3 weeks...

cruiserweight

Yeah you will have a few weeks to write something. So that is 3, we need a few more, anybody else interested?

cruiserweight

Anybody else in or interested, 4 might be enough but I would perfer to have 6 or more.

Flukey

Doesn't mentioning who is participating kill the anonymity a bit? Don't announce, just publish the articles. It would be better if nobody knew who was involved. Just PM Cruiserweight if you are interested.

Pride Fighter

Flukey wrote: »

Doesn't mentioning who is participating kill the anonymity a bit? Don't announce, just publish the articles. It would be better if nobody knew who was involved. Just PM Cruiserweight if you are interested.

But saying people are doing it means people will do it cause they wont be lonely:).

Flukey

He could say how many are doing it, but not who they are. If we know the names, then it will be easier to guess what piece is written by what person. If it was completely anonymous, it would be better. From now until the closing date for entries, no names should be mentioned. There is a small enough field at present, not making it too hard to guess. The pieces themselves have less of a chance of standing out if we know or think we know who wrote them. They'll be judged on their own merits if we haven't a clue as to who has written them.

yahoo_moe

To be honest, I'm not sure how worthwhile it'd be with this small a field. The soccer one worked well because there were so many involved that (with the exception of people who wrote about something very obviously related to them), it was hard enough to guess who wrote what.

Which in turn meant that it wasn't really worth bothering to do so, which meant it stayed largely anonymous

Although if we do go ahead with it, I'd also urge people to try to write about something that wouldn't necessarily be easy to trace back to them (this only really applies to the heavier posters obviously).

cruiserweight

One more participant has entered so we have 5, one more should do it

cruiserweight

Okay we have six, that should be enough for a decent competition. I will leave it open until Sunday evening if anybody else wants to PM me to take part. Having read posts from some of the entrants, including some suprise entries, I am expecting some high quality articles

Grudaire

cruiserweight wrote: »

Okay we have six, that should be enough for a decent competition. I will leave it open until Sunday evening if anybody else wants to PM me to take part. Having read posts from some of the entrants, including some suprise entries, I am expecting some high quality articles

What's the deadline for the articles going to be?

cruiserweight

Cliste wrote: »

What's the deadline for the articles going to be?

It will be pretty flexible, but it will probably be three to four weeks after this Sunday.

cruiserweight

Bumping the thread seems to have done the trick, we now have 7 entrants

cruiserweight

Now we have 8 potential participants :cool:

Jugs82

Great Stuff - must get writng now

smashey

Oooh, can I play?

Please?

yahoo_moe

Sweet, figured this had died a death - but anything the Soccer forum can do...

Grand, I'll be going on holiday around deadline time but I'll get cracking on it soon so should have it wrapped up on time.

Best of luck all!

cruiserweight

I have sent a PM to everybody that expressed an interest. The deadline for me receiving the articles has been set as the 8th of June. There will be a maximum of 9 articles

Daysha

Completely forgot about this! I'm gonna get cracking on mine now.