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Congratulations, Jade! You certainly deserved it. Congratulations to WIS and Fidds as well, and to all the entrants, and thank you to the judges.

Robert especially, eheh.

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x) Now you know how I felt when I won PPTTG, Jade.
Congrats! ^^ And congrats to SIW-SIW and Fiddely too.

Whoever would like thier prizes, please either post or PM me a trade link

For me, just because a word is "rare" doesn't make it a perfect fit for a subtext. It still has to flow, which in some cases, some subtexts didn't do.

I think Divine knows that, but some judges choose to mark down simply because some people may not know what a word means, and I think this is a rather poor reason. If people don't know what a word means, hopefully, it'll make them interested enough to research it and expand their vocabulary. This is going to be an exaggerated example, but still get a picture of what I mean;

'Pretty flowers'
Versus
'The transcendency of tulips'

Although some people may not know what transcendency means, doesn't mean they should be marked down for it. It is much better than the first subtext.

I fully agree with Pixa and Icey here.

I recall many rounds in the first few competitions where I was marked down or even eliminated because I had extravagent words in my subtext. As Pixa proved quite nicely, this is not fair. In order to 'dumb down' a subtext to the point where *everyone* will understand it, you're not going to end up with anything worth using, as Pixa's example pointed out quite nicely.

"Dumb down" is a highly offensive term and I assure you I am... well... highly offended.

If I don't know what a word means, then I look it up on http://www.dictionary.com. If there's no definition there or the definition does not make sense, I assume it's not common enough for enough people to see it to make sense. That's when I mark off.

I'm sorry that we as judges aren't smart enough for you, Requiem.

I, for one, have always looked up words in case I didn't know what they meant.

Who exactly are you guys talking about? Don't beat around the bush.

Click.

An example, here, last post, CD criticising Anubis, as some people may not know what the word 'Phosphorescent' means.

Click 2.

DM rated FM's subtext;
'FM -- I would probably need to look up the word ethereal in order to understand this subtext, but good job anyway.'

I think it, as being a judge previously, it is more our duty to give all players a fair game. If the word 'etheral' did not fit, and was horribly out of place, then FM should have suffered, and obviously would not have (not saying it was out of place, I rather quite liked it. )'