DarkMagick.net's 2006 Yuugiou Novella Challenge

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Progression
Event	Date	Past?
Website open	12 June 2006
Website completed	14 June 2006
Contest starts & writing begins	15 June 2006
Halfway point for writing	15 September 2006
Writing Ends All stories must be emailed to Apollymi by midnight!	15 December 2005
All stories uploaded & voting starts	18 December 2006
Voting ends	15 January 2007
Winners annouced	18 January 2006

Updates

18 January 2006
¤ Winners are now available! Congratulations, everyone!
¤ The 2007 Slash Challenge site is now open. Writing for it will begin on 1 February. Please see that site for more details!
18 December 2006
¤ All stories are formatted and posted. Happy reading! Please leave comments and vote in the poll.
¤ Dates have changed above.
16 December 2006 - 12:24AM
¤ The deadline has passed. Of the 20 potential entries, only five came in: less than one-quarter of the people. Here's hoping next year's challenge does better.
¤ Thank you to the five people (out of the 20 potential) who took the time to let me know they wouldn't be submitting.
¤ Another two thanks: to Katsuko, for making the entrants' banners, as well as volunteering to make banners for winners, in addition to assisting with judging; and to Desolate03, for the only donation towards winners' prizes.
¤ It's not set in stone, but next year's challenge will probably start on 1 February.
¤ Due to the low response, results may be out quicker than anticipated.
05 October 2006
¤ We've passed the halfway point. In fact, we're almost to two-thirds of the way through. There have been no completions as of 05 October 2006.
¤ There have still been no donations, so writers don't be too upset that prizes may suck this year. Prizes for the shounen-ai/yaoi (slash) side of the challenge will be coming out of my own pocket if no donations are received.
¤ ¤ Apollymi is not responsible for prizes with the gen/het.
¤ There is, however, always the possibility of doujinshi being offered as prizes.
15 September 2006
¤ We're officially into the halfway point of the writing portion of the contest.
¤ We also now have 18 possible entries in the contest.
13 August 2006
¤ We have 16 possible entries for the contest now! Definitely picking up steam! Looking great!
¤ You may have noticed the addition of a donation section to each page. This is to help offset the cost of webhosting -- and to give the winners some nice prizes! Please help out!
09 August 2006
¤ We're up to 15 possible entries for the contest -- moving right along! Keep up the great work!
21 June 2006
¤ Gen/het stories moved to Seventh Star, hosted by Azurite.
19 June 2006
¤ Entries page updated to include current stats on how many story notifications have been received so far.
¤ Possibilities are strong that the gen/het category will be moved into a secondary contest, hosted by Azurite.
18 June 2006
¤ If I have not received any notifications for gen/het entries by Wednesday, June 21, I will be closing this category, due to the (now deleted) whining on YGO Rants. Sorry, Sweet.
17 June 2006
¤ Gen/het is now allowed! Be sure and thank Sweet for volunteering to judge it for the contest.
15 June 2006
¤ Contest officially opened!
¤ Small update to the Rules page.
14 June 2006
¤ Work completed on all pages of site.
¤ Poll will be uploaded when entries are received and uploaded.
¤ Settings are complete for leaving comments on stories.
12 June 2006
¤ Work begun on Rules page.
¤ Work completed on Updates page.
¤ Work completed on Contact page.
¤ Work temporarily completed on Index page.
11 June 2006
¤ Work begun on site.
¤ All pages have some content.
¤ Some work started on various pages throughout the site.

Donations

Donating to the challenge will allow for prizes for the winner and help offset webhosting costs.

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Credits

Site and content copyright: Apollymi
Graphics and coding copyright: Zephyr
Layout image editting: Katsuko
Brushes from Vanilla Design and Angelic-Trust
Image from Web Extra