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Missnande:
@Divepen please when is the deadline for voting? Thanks illicit, goodluck!

Tonight 10 pm

skarlett:
But I thought we had a timeline to adhere to? I think nobody should keep anybody waiting so the competition will get moving...

Everyone met up with the time na...

Please, let's be careful with our use of words.

skarlett:
Divepen1

When will the judges pick their top 3?

When every member of their team has dropped their works.

Gmike2rule

One More Step

Asake chuckled as she typed excitedly into her phone. Her mother's footsteps echoed as they descended the staircase.
' You and this phone', her mother complained.
' Leave me mama', she mumbled. ' I'm not...'
She screamed as she missed a step and sent her Samsung S8 crashing, screen first.

OluwabuqqyYOLO

Like The Twitch Before A Teardrop

After the chief's death, people despised our mother, like slaves despised their lords. While she womb still harbored Kure, she was put in jail. There, she met Alero who then planted me in her and whom Kure learnt to call father. But happiness had a slender body that broke easily.

Missnande

THE MISTAKE
I stare furiously at the stranger as he pays for his meal from my wallet,which I left on the table to use the restroom.
He knowingly smiles and points behind him, I Iook and see my actual wallet and realize I'm on the wrong table. I smile apologetically.
'Thank God!'

GSteve001
Devil's Lair
Kenny should have known. His wife never welcomed him with a warm smile or good food.
He moulded a bit of the pounded yam, stirred it in the fish stew and swallowed.
“Why are you smiling?” he asked his wife.
“I poisoned our meal. Welcome to h-h-ell.” She spilled blood.

illicit


Infant Immortality


It travelled down the lonely greasy path soiling its birthday suit and arrived a new world where life was too bright, cold, smelly and alarmingly deafening.... It kept mute.
They watched....

It was grabbed and turned upside down gently. A palm struck its buttocks once.
Shocked! The newborn wailed indefinitely....

piroux
Misery loves company
His life was over, he thought, depressed. He had lost his job, wife and children.
Then he heard his neighbors fighting again and their children crying miserably.
He picked up the gun angrily and went to their door.
He would end it for all of them. None would wake tomorrow.

McLove:
Divepen1 and all the judges are doing a very great work! It's not easy.
However, I've an idea that can be applied against next edition!

I think the competition should be in stages according to how good you think you are. Like amateur, Professional etc. Something like that sha.. So you won't be pairing someone like me who isn't even a writer but just trying to engage and test my ability with a pro in writing!

Just a suggestion o! Keep doing the good work! Thanks

Hmmm.. That's a cool one. Let's hope for a better sponsor.

KimberlyWest
THE INNOCENT MURDERER.
''Bestie, I killed an innocent man.''
''Ebere!''
''I saw him at the market, screamed 'THIEF!' and he was caught and beaten to death, I later saw the real murderer; he has a scorpion-tattoo on his cheek. I should've left vengeance to God.''
''I don't...
''My parent murderer, I KILLED HIS TWIN BROTHER!''

repogirl:


Gameofthrones, power, suits, flash, arrow, supergirl, empire, the100, darkmatter, killjoys, onceuponatime, legendsoftomorrow, wynonaearp, themist, strangerthings, janethevirgin, deviousmaids, mistresses, prisonbreak, shooter, salem, beingmaryjane, theOA, modernfamily, vampirediaries, theoriginals, designatedsurvivor etc!

Food don done oooooo!

Hmm

Skarlett

*Iya ni wura
Mariam, a widow, lives under Daleko bridge and sweeps big compounds for a living. For 30 years she toiled and made sacrifices to ensure her three sons do not live in a shanty like she did.
Turns out she failed, none of their mansions are big enough to have her.




*mother(hood) is priceless.

Unbanned

ProFuhrer:
Are participants allowed to campaign for LIKES?

cc Divepen1

Wanderlustafrik

I'm not the organiser. I'm even thinking of competing so that if I win I'll give part of it to the winners of Seun Osewa Battle and even do a little something for the judges...

KimberlyWest:
Great idea!

Op, thanks for this great move, may God bless you.

I think after all the submissions, we can talk to Divepen1 to move it to the frontpage, then all Nairalanders can read and afterwards like and share whichever story they love.

I don't have the power to push it to FP.. I can only recommend it for FP. so If I recommend it today and tomorrow, it might cause hullabaloo...

Although not all, but many people on FP, would not read to like and share; they will only like stories of people they know or random names.

1. GSteve001 2. Missnande 3. OluwabuqqyYOLO 4. Heryordele94 5. Debbietiyan 6. meneski 7. McLove 8. horlahmieh 9. Kusibe77 10. AyarmBoye 11.Jazmiynne 12. expensive2 13. KimberlyWest 14. Chipappii 15. Oyindawealth 16. comelyJummy 17. skarlett 18. Trip4Jozzy 19. devilmaycry 20. Lesky3 21. illicit 22. Frankenstein 23. perrypablo 24. boffinjay 25. piroux 26. Gmike2rule 27. ToluLolu0122
Anyone interested

skarlett:


I saw Buky's mention but decided to let it slide, I knew it was just a mistake of omission

And I wanted to ask...when our story is posted in the judge's thread, can we start canvassing for votes?

Immediately... The earlier the better.

Jazmiynne:
Thanks very much.
I apologize for giving you the stress to relate this long proof of no foulplay.
Next time, I would make sure to remember the share button.

Apologies accepted. Lol.. But I fear your fans ooooo.. They can make anyone run for his money.

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
Sorry, isn't Skarlett supposed to meet Kimberlywest?

I can't even find Skarlett anywhere here.

Skarlett must have been corking her gun in preparation for my appearance. I've rectified it.

ProFuhrer:
The LIKES AND SHARES prior to the time the judges made their selection and before you opened the floor for the voting to commence should have been made null and avoid.

I joined the competition to learn, and asking people to vote for my story 'just because' felt very odd but I still learnt marketing.

Orubebe would not take this but although I believe stealing is corruption, I'll follow GEJ.

Everyone is allowed to canvass for votes before the day. I gave that day as extra day. Voting was supposed to start immediately. That's why many of writers on Okadabooks don't really make sales. We don't hint people about our books before the book production, which should not be so.

Kusibe77:
Kim, perhaps, started telling her fans before hand because the instruction was there --- voice competition; 'likes' equals vote --- and they responded, greatly.

Before the verdict, kim was winning, dropping her by the judge was more like giving others in the group a chance again.

Initially, this was for fun; to make the section lively. And it did.

my two kobo.

Thanks baba. That's the plan. We pick the best and people pick their choice.

ProFuhrer:
I don't know about the Voice competition and how it is run. I agree with the fun part, that was part of why I joined.

But what if Kim didn't finally win? She was just 4 points above the 3rd person.

What if Kim had not won? That's the fun. It was a calculated risk, one which Audreytimms kept lamenting about( at our group page). In case, you don't know, Judges are allowed to vote for their choices and even canvass for votes. It's the fun of the competition. However, she's not planning to do such another time.

Stage 5. Dribble (50 words)- August 13–15
— The judges would pick three contestants
--- They have the right to choose anyone among their picks and members of their team voted for.
— Reader's vote would pick three more contestants.
This leaves us with 6 contestants



Contestants
Team Elixir

piroux
GSteve001
Kimberlywest

Team Repogirl
Illicit
Missnande


Team Larrysun


OluwabuqqyYOLO
Gmike2Rule

Skarlett


Audreytimms
Larrysun
Repogirl

Stage 5. Dribble (50 words)- August 13–15
— The judges would pick three contestants
--- They have the right to choose anyone among their picks and members of their team voted for.
— Reader's vote would pick three more contestants.
This leaves us with 6 contestants



Contestants
Team Elixir

piroux
GSteve001
Kimberlywest

Team Repogirl
Illicit
Missnande


Team Larrysun


OluwabuqqyYOLO
Gmike2Rule
Skarlett

Jazmiynne:
You did not have to do this. And I refuse to go down that lane with you.

But, on the day the judges picked their candidates, your post categorically stated that "likes would count at this point", nothing about shares. You know you modified that initial post, perhaps when you came to post about voting today which is the post you have now referred me to.

I wouldn't have done all this plenty explaining, but for the fact that you had to add a polite insult when I had done nothing of such to you.

Thanks for the competition thus far, it was fun.

Well, if it looks insultive, I tender my apology. But you stating that I modify the thread will make people assume we cheated you by not updating you.
Immediately I posted it, Skarlett was found canvassing for votes and she said
Thank you ma'am
Please vote for me by liking and sharing the post here( link removed)

https://www.nairaland.com/3915558/seun-osewa-flash-fiction-instructions/4#59395185



And I think I found the discussion got mixed up, Skarlett asked which thread would be used for vote counting, then you replied her with
Likes from both threads combined would be tantamount to inaccuracy (duplicate votes). That's because 1 person can like both threads and it would be counted as 2 votes instead of 1.


https://www.nairaland.com/3915558/seun-osewa-flash-fiction-instructions/4#59343338



I didn't make the mistake because I've thought almost everything through. The voice allows three votes, so I chose the best formats that would have a feel of this three votes and that is the use of Likes and Share.


Also, I went through my Moderation Log, which unfortunately cannot be accessed by you, and I saw all my edited works and I didn't see any moderation of such.

I'm not explaining myself to prove my perfection but to help you as well as a lot of writers and readers know there was a only a miscommunication but not mistake. I might have sounded like you're to use only Likes, I'm sincerely sorry about it.

Jazmiynne:
Yes that is your *modified* word

It's okay, no probs

And the little thing I notice is that many of us don't read the instructions well.

Jazmiynne:
Yes that is your *modified* word

It's okay, no probs

Wow.. Go through all the threads. Even the first page of this thread.

Jazmiynne:
But you said "the likes would count now"
You didn't say anything about "shares"


Apparently, you have modified your post to include shares.

This is my word https://www.nairaland.com/3919666/seun-osewa-battle-moderator-judges/3#59389741

1. Kimberlywest---62 Likes 44 Shares= 106 votes 2. Debbietiyan--- 27 likes + 16 shares= 43 votes 3. Kusibe77---) 8 Likes 3 Shares= 11 votes 4. Jasminnye= 64 Likes 40 Shares = 104 votes 5. Skarlett-- 70 Likes + 62 shares= 132 votes 6. Frankenstein- 53 Likes+ 33 shares= 86 votes


Top 2
Skarlett--132 votes Kimberlywest- 106 votes

skarlett:
Divepen1

Its 12:15am already, hope you're not sleeping

You should be asleep na