Hub Hell-O-When21

Welcome to the first annual Halloween Contest of the Chaos Insurgency!

The night of all nights draws closer, the day when the scary becomes mundane and the mundane becomes scary. ('Twas about time, wasn't it?)

Come join us from October the 28th on to a spooktacular celebration of the very roots of our wiki: the chilling sensation in your neck when your back isn't facing a wall, the things going bump in the night prompting you to sleep today with the lights on and the skipped heartbeat when you felt like something in the corner of your eye just moved.

The winner will gain the title of creepiest kid on the block and the associated bragging rights!

Whether you're participating as author or are mostly interested in reading, make sure to check out all of the great entries and vote on them.

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Participants

Submissions are now closed.

Participant	Article
Zesc	Megalithic Lodestone
Mel-Raspberry	—
Meta Wonderrat	One mans Halloween
LasNeonach	Late for the Party
ScaledDatura	Party Planning

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Page	Comments	Author
One mans Halloween	0	Meta Wonderrat
Megalithic Lodestone	3	Zesc
Late for the Party	4	LasNeonach
Party Planning	1	ScaledDatura

Rules

Basic Outline

1. Purpose of the Contest is to have each participant compete in writing the best article themed around the cultural event of "Halloween" or "Spooktober" or things connected therewith.
2. The Contest begins Thursday, the 28th of October at 00:01 UTC and ends November 30th, at 23:59 UTC.
   1. Works may not be posted any sooner than the 31th of October at 00:01 UTC and no later than the 10th of November at 23:59 UTC.
3. All article formats are allowed.
4. The article must have a reasonable, non-negligible connection to the Chaos Insurgency or one of its enemies.
5. Participants may be single authors or teams of up to three members. Members of teams can not also join on their own or in other teams.
6. All participants are only allowed to enter the contest with one submission.

Voting and Scoring

1. The author of the article with the most upvotes wins.
   1. In case of a tie, the respective position will be determined by the higher total amounts of votes and else shared between participants, unless when the position would be winning position.
   2. In a the stalemate for the winning place, the voting phase for these articles may be extended by one week, up to two times.
   3. After the second extension, a "sudden death" will be applied: the first article to supersede the others will be declared winner and all others votes counted normally.
2. Participants are not allowed to vote on their own submissions.
3. Participants are not allowed to downvote their competitor's submission for the duration of the contest.
4. Nobody, regardless of participation, is allowed to systematically advertise contest submission or otherwise try to influence the voting results.

Procedure

1. Every contest submission is to be tagged with hell-o-when21 in addition to the tags it would otherwise have.
2. All submissions must be in english.
3. Pure Audio or Video submissions and artwork without text components are no valid articles for the purpose of this contest.
4. Every author is allowed to get as much feedback before posting as they wish.
5. During the contest period, contest entries are immune to deletion from falling under the rating treshhold.
6. The author's right to self-delete is suspended for all submission during the contest period.
7. Edits to a contest submissions during the duration of the contest are only allowed to the participant that submitted it and must not change substantial parts of the work.

Theme and Topic

1. The article must be a work of fiction. "Meta" or "real-life" entries are not allowed.
2. Contest entries must have a reasonable connection to the concepts of "Halloween" or "Spooktober" or a culturally equivalent event (e.g. Samhain).
3. The entry must focus on events of relevance to the Insurgency.
4. The article must have any narrative format (e.g. no Hubs or similar things).

Winner: Zesc and Megalithic Lodestone (+5)

Congratulations, to the rock with the radio channel to "hell".

Second Place:

LasNeonach and Late for the Party (+2)

ScaledDatura and Party Planning (+2)

Meta Wonderrat and One mans Halloween (+2)

A thanks goes out to all contestants and readers. We hope you enjoyed this years Hell-O-When contest.