User:Heerenveen/PLS/results

This is where you, the judges, put your results for the PLS. Please list your top 5 articles, in order, best article starting at 1. Remember, the deadline for results is the 5th of April. If you cannot complete judging before this deadline, please let me know on my talk page.

Scoring system based on judges' top fives will go as follows:
5 points for #1
4 points for #2
3 points for #3
2 points for #4
1 point for #5

Best Article[edit | edit source]

Judge #1: The Thinker

1. User:GlobalTourniquet/Plink

2. User:DrStrange/Godzilla vs. Vaginus

3. User:Modusoperandi/Childhood: an essay

4. User:Nickwalnut/Paedometer

5. User:Composure1/The Watch Men & User:Mrthejazz/Charles Lindenburg (tie)

Notes: Judged here.

Judge #2: Cap'n Ben

1. User:Modusoperandi/Childhood: an essay

2. User:GlobalTourniquet/Plink

3. User:Composure1/The Watch Men

4. User:Guildensternenstein/Dungeons & Dragons: Real Life Edition: Character Races

5. User:DrStrange/Godzilla vs. Vaginus

Notes: I tried to review these earlier today. However, judging from the titles, I was only confident that four of them were work safe. (In retrospect Childhood: an essay could have gone either way.) More notes: It was very hard to separate Childhood: an essay and Plink for the top spot. Neither was laugh out loud funny, but both were witty, well written satires. If this had been a general short story competition, I would have given it to Plink; as a comedy competition, I gave it to Childhood, which I found more amusing. Watch Men - took a decidedly unpromising concept and somehow made it work. D&D - Hm. Wasn't sure if it was making fun of the intrinsic racism in D&D, just an excuse for a bunch of ethnic jokes or both. Either way, it has its charm. Vaginus - nice little send up of Japanese pop culture; kaiju + hentai. I would have ranked it higher if it had topped Godzilla vs. Urethra. Paedometer - weak concept and too random. Charles Lindenburg - okay this annoyed me. I really liked the concept, but there's nothing there but a stub.

Judge #3: Mordillo

1.User:Guildensternenstein/Dungeons & Dragons: Real Life Edition: Character Races

2.User:Composure1/The Watch Men

3.User:GlobalTourniquet/Plink

4.User:Modusoperandi/Childhood: an essay

5.User:DrStrange/Godzilla vs. Vaginus

Notes:I can only humbly appologize for being late. ~ 15:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Best Noob Article[edit | edit source]

Judge #1: Kingkitty

1.User:Judepeer/UN_Fat_Project

2.User:GlobalTourniquet/Alfred_Hitchcock

3.User:Tagstit/My_Girl's_Best_Friend

4.User:Guildensternenstein/Dungeons & Dragons: Real Life Edition: Character Classes

5.User:CheddarBBQ/Thin_Mints

My Thoughts: Thin Mints was a wall of text but I can see the comedic potential. Dungeon and Dragons is only funny for the character blurbs. My Best Friend's Girl is like a blog post, there's not enough to go around. Alfred Hitchcock is nicely constructed but it needs more absurd humor. And I enjoyed the UN Fat Project solely for the fat puns. I enjoyed it so much I thought it deserved the number 1 spot.

Judge #2: RAHB

1.User:GlobalTourniquet/Alfred Hitchcock

2.User:Guildensternenstein/Dungeons & Dragons: Real Life Edition: Character Classes

3.User:Judepeer/UN Fat Project

4.User:CheddarBBQ/Thin Mints

5.User:Tagstit/My Girl's Best Friend

Judgery can be found here.

Judge #3: Not A Good Username360

1.User:Guildensternenstein/Dungeons & Dragons: Real Life Edition: Character Classes

2.User:Judepeer/UN Fat Project

3.User:Tagstit/My Girl's Best Friend

4.User:GlobalTourniquet/Alfred Hitchcock

5.User:Mahm00shA/Nile (band)

Notes: It seems as if many entrants tried to use inside jokes rather than real humor- many of the articles weren't very funny, or had maybe one or two funny parts. Therefore, I judged based on how many humorous parts were in the articles, and how funny said parts were. Still, I strongly suggest running these articles through Pee Review after the competition- all of these articles show great potential, and I look forward to seeing these ideas reach their full potential.

Best Alt. Namespace Article[edit | edit source]

Judge #1: Gerrycheevers - comments here

1.User:Monika/UnNews:Obama unveils education reform plans

2.User:Modusoperandi/UnMovie Review: Watchmen (with special guests, the Watchmen)

3.User:GlobalTourniquet/HowTo:Write Serj Tankian Lyrics

4.User:DrStrange/Why?:Be a transvestite if you're not going to put any effort into it?

Incomplete.User:A.Z?123/HowTo:Become A Politician

Judge #2: Led

1.User:Monika/UnNews:Obama unveils education reform plans

2.User:Modusoperandi/UnMovie_Review: Watchmen (with special guests, the Watchmen)

3.User:DrStrange/Why?:Be a transvestite if you're not going to put any effort into it?

4.User:GlobalTourniquet/HowTo:Write Serj Tankian Lyrics

5.User:So So/poetry and jap chicks archive

Notes: Monika's UnNews struck me as slightly dry and confusing in the beginning, but wound up coming to a solid, humorous conclusion. Modus's UnMovie review had some good lines, but was short. Plus, I think some of the references went over my head. DrStrange's article had its moments, but relied too much on the absurdity of the situation without having a lot of defined punchlines. GlobalTourniquet's page struck me as having fallen into the HowTo trap of being overly template-y, and seemed generic because of it. Plus, I think a lot of the humor relies on knowing SOAD's lyrics, which I'm not really familiar with. The other 2 articles were incomplete, so I award my 5th place sport to So So's Poetry and Jap Chicks archive which, despite not being eligible for this competition by any stretch of the imagination, actually has a reasonable amount of content which has in turns made me both amused and horny.

Judge #3: Prettiestpretty

1.User:GlobalTourniquet/HowTo:Write Serj Tankian Lyrics - Surprising that I like it, but I do!

2.(TIE) User:Modusoperandi/UnMovie Review: Watchmen (with special guests, the Watchmen) Clever, clever!

2.(TIE) User:DrStrange/Why?:Be a transvestite if you're not going to put any effort into it? Could have won if it was more concise.

4.User:Monika/UnNews:Obama unveils education reform plans - Too dense and it drifted in too many directions. If this is an Unnews article, it lacking a news lead and needed an opening paragraph.

Not judged. User:A.Z?123/HowTo:Become A Politician - Unfinished, unjudged.

Best Illustrated[edit | edit source]

Judge #1: The UnIdiot

1. User:DrStrange/Economic Collapse Barbie®

2. User:Modusoperandi/Karl Lagerfeld

3. User:Mhaille/Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

It was quite hard to decide the winner, but I had to give it to DrStrange, mostly because his images are so well done and his article seems most in the spirit of Best Illustrated when compared to the others. I liked Modus's a lot also, but I felt it might have been better for another category. Mhaille's was amusing too, but I didn't think it could stand up to the others. All of the entries were excellent, however. - UnIdiot |

| Talk | Contribs - 02:04, Mar 30

Judge #2: IronLung

1.User:DrStrange/Economic Collapse Barbie® TIE

1.User:Modusoperandi/Karl Lagerfeld TIE (too hard to decide, so I gave up trying. Perhaps subconsciously listing DrStrange first indicates my true feelings on the matter? Or maybe it's just my unresolved father issues. Why do I keep placing you on a pedastal, Dr. IronLung??)

3.User:Mhaille/Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (really needed a NSFW warning, pretty poor form not to include one)

Judge #3: ~~Enzo Aquarius - :(~~ Hv

1. User:Modusoperandi/Karl Lagerfeld

2. User:DrStrange/Economic Collapse Barbie®

3. User:Mhaille/Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Best Rewrite[edit | edit source]

Judge #1: UU

1. User:Sycamore/Money

2. User:15Mickey20/Claude Debussy

3. User:GlobalTourniquet/Oscars

4. User:Sonic80/HowTo:Online Jihad

5. User:Zheliel/L

Full justification here, for those who care. --UU - natter 21:20, Apr 1

Judge #2: Necropaxx

1. User:Sycamore/Money - Good: Some nice jokes sprinkled throughout. Bad: I feel it could have been longer and more in-depth.

2. User:GlobalTourniquet/Oscars - Good: Much better than the original article. Bad: Very attacky and listy.

3. User:Zheliel/L - Good: Much better than the original. Bad: Random, unfocused.

4. User:15Mickey20/Claude Debussy - Good: Starts out great, esp. the first picture caption. Bad: Had a chance to be very classy, and just isn't. Drills joke into the ground.

5. User:Sonic80/HowTo:Online Jihad - Good: A nice-sounding concept. Bad: I thought the original was actually better. :(