April 08 Challenge - The Vote

[Dnoth]

I'd like to thank all those who did my rather difficult challenge this month. Here's the vote. You may vote for two stories.

I set it to close in four days. Hopefully, that's enough time for everyone.

 

[trampledamage]

Am I just being too impatient? Does it take a while for a poll to show up in vB?

 

[Dnoth]

No, I was trying to link names in the poll to their stories. Only to find out that poll options can't be more than 100 characters, so I re-did it. I haven't messed with polls before.

 

[TheLoneRedshirt]

I went with The Experiment and Tsunami.

 

[trampledamage]

No, I was trying to link names in the poll to their stories. Only to find out that poll options can't be more than 100 characters, so I re-did it. I haven't messed with polls before.

No, neither have I. That seems weirdly restrictive.

Oh well, time to get deciding

 

[Dnoth]

The choice was tougher than I thought, but I went with: trampledamage's and Xeris' stories.

 

[trampledamage]

Ho boy... that was a difficult decision!

I was certain that Mistral's Crystal Clear Truth was my first choice - I don't care if it isn't canonically correct, I liked the story and the science.

But I could not decide between captcalhoun's Line of Fire and Xeris's Tsunami. In the end I went for captcalhoun's story - mainly because it was a different approach to the challenge, and it was a neat way to get twentieth century weaponry into a fight against Klingons!

 

[trampledamage]

One of our secret voters has only voted for one story.

Just thought I'd mention it in case it was a mistake.

(and thanks for Dnoth and my two secret voters for my votes so far )

 

[Mistral]

Damage-thanks. I pretty much said who I was going to vote for-and I did. While I would NEVER risk pissing off our moderator-I have to say Xeris put up an effort truer in some ways to the idea behind the challenge (as I interpreted it.) I think nearly everybody did a great job this time around. No shame to anyone for their efforts(well, except me-still don't know how I blew such a great idea to pieces like that. C'est la vie-I'll come out swinging next month.)

 

[McCovey Cove]

One of our secret voters has only voted for one story.

Just thought I'd mention it in case it was a mistake.

(and thanks for Dnoth and my two secret voters for my votes so far )

That was me, the single voter. I voted for one story because it says you can vote for up to two, not that you had to vote for two.

-- ZC

 

[trampledamage]

One of our secret voters has only voted for one story.

Just thought I'd mention it in case it was a mistake.

(and thanks for Dnoth and my two secret voters for my votes so far )

That was me, the single voter. I voted for one story because it says you can vote for up to two, not that you had to vote for two.

-- ZC

That's cool - I just remembered from a couple of challenges ago, someone hadn't noticed that they could vote for two. So I wanted to be sure it was a deliberate decision.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I voted for The Experiment and Oranges...

Thanks to those who voted for me

 

[mirandafave]

The Experiment and Oranges were my votes.

I liked Oranges because it was a simple routine problem but centuries later caught our heroes out.
But absolutely loved The Experiment - it so a Data thing to do - and Spot is a much underused character.

 

[trampledamage]

Thanks for the comment, mirandafave - glad you liked the story

 

[captcalhoun]

kathy and TD.

thanks for the vote TD!

 

[Mistral]

One of our secret voters has only voted for one story.

Just thought I'd mention it in case it was a mistake.

(and thanks for Dnoth and my two secret voters for my votes so far )

That was me, the single voter. I voted for one story because it says you can vote for up to two, not that you had to vote for two.

-- ZC

That's cool - I just remembered from a couple of challenges ago, someone hadn't noticed that they could vote for two. So I wanted to be sure it was a deliberate decision.

That was me my first week on the board.

 

[trampledamage]

I'm tied for first place!

Holy cow!

Wow!

Thanks Dnoth for making a challenge that forced me to write something different - I guess I should write medical stories more often!

Thanks for all the comments and votes, folks!


So, RevdKathy, what now? thumb-wrestle?

 

[Dnoth]

Um...yeah...what you wanna do about that, RevdKathy?

 

[Mistral]

I suggest a write-off. Five sentences forming a complete story. Dnoth picks the subject. What do you think, RevdKathy?

 

[captcalhoun]

why not a tie-breaker vote where we have to vote for one?

or, seeing a si got the least votes, i could cast the decider...