In this
year’s Simulation Cup, hosted by Ongoing Worlds, Phoenix has won five awards. With
the entering of nine sims, this means that over half of the participating
Phoenix sims was awarded.
All types
and genres of RPG’s could enter the competition and a panel of ten judges in
total evaluates the competing sims by either reviewing them live or by
reviewing transcripts of recent sim playings. For Phoenix participants this
meant that they were asked to submit a link to the best thread of their sims,
which were completed in 2012. The juries judged the sims based on originality,
creativity, character development, prolificness (a combination of pace and
member participation) and readability.
There were
three different categories in which sims were categorized: email, message board
(the type of sim that all the Phoenix sims fall under) and chat. There were no
entrants in the chat category; there were 28 entrants for the email and message
board categories.
Kvant won
the Outstanding Firefly Sim award, The West Star the Outstanding Star Wars Sim
award. Jericho won the Excellence in Originality award, Fighter Ops the
Excellence in Creativity Award and Greenleaf Skyplex the Excellence in
Character Development award. There were in total 17 awards given.
The total
number of judges counted ten, among which was our own Robert Longtin. For the
sake of impartiality he did not judge any Phoenix sims, nor did he judge any
sims competing against Phoenix sims.
This article was originally published in Issue #4 of our newsletter 'The Burning Question'.
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