Okay everybody. When I originally set this deadline, I forgot about the long Labor Day weekend. So I’m EXTENDING the deadline for the Scriptshadow Tournament (go here for submission rules) by 1 day. That means everyone has until Monday night, 11:59pm Pacific Time, to get their script in. And let me assure those who submitted today and are thinking of resubmitting their script tomorrow, there is NOTHING you can do in a day that’s going to make your script any better than it is now. So trust in your writing and be content.
Here’s how this is going to work (rules are subject to change because this is an experiment). Starting next Friday, every weekend, 5 scripts will compete for your votes with the winner being announced Sunday evening. We are going to do 8 rounds of this (2 months). That means there will be 40 scripts chosen for the tournament in total. 8 of those scripts will go on to the next round (the quarterfinals). From there, two scripts will battle it out each week which will take us through the semifinals, and then, the final round.
Voting will be up to you guys and I encourage everyone who follows the site to vote. But, as we know, there will be writers who try and rig the voting. A fair warning. The Scriptshadow crowd is keen on cheaters. It’s pretty obvious that when a script not a single known Scriptshadow contributor votes on magically gets 30 votes from people who have never commented before, something is up. I do expect there to be more voters than Saturday Showdown because of the tournament. But if anything looks suspicious, I’ll be making the final judgment call on which scripts move through.
Looking forward to this. Can’t wait to find a great script!
