Battle of Genre

Round Four- Tragedy

Welcome to the fourth round of Battle of Genre! With the arrival of R4, comes the pouring of rain, tears and the sadder, sorrowful emotions. If before you instilled fear and terror, now you must evoke sadness, compassion and sympathy.

If there is any other genre that characterization may come in first, this is one of them. The readers, for them to feel the feels need to bond with your characters, they need to become attached and this requires skill on its own. We have not tread far from R3's horror but with tragedy comes a different take on its end game.

Death or loss, failure or loneliness, each ties in nicely with tragedy. I hope you come in terms with your characters to deliver a good tragedy.

Tournament Mechanics
As to remind you guys of the rules:

Rounds last for at least 3 weeks. 2 weeks for the actual writing process and then a week for the polls.

The Polls
Upon the end of the poll, I will award 5 points to its winner and 2 points for its loser.

The Challenges
Challenges award the writer an additional 2 points if he gets it right but loses 2 points if he fails to meet it.

Comment and Critique
We are here not only for friendly competition but for the learning experience. Who better to help than our fellow writers? As opposed to Hewitt's version I will separate its scores. For each CnC and for a maximum of 3, I will award 1 point to that participant. Saying its good in this part, or you liked that but disliked this is Comment on its own and awardable but those with substance, those that deliver points that that writer can reflect on will be awarded an additional point for that CnC. At the end of the tournament, I will tally everyone's CnC Score and the participant with the highest score will claim an additional Steam Key courtesy of Xate and Hewitt.

Late Entries
Updated from the last round, I will be implementing a 2 point deduction for those that will pass a late entry. This will only affect the vote/challenge pool, leaving the CnC pool untarnished.



The Dos for each Round
1. When the round is up, POST. Acknowledge your participation by saying who you'd be fighting against and post if you'd like a challenge to go with it.
2. When you've finished your entry, post it in the ROUND thread in spoilers. Not here. To remove all errors in spacing, I'd like you all to simply post it here, prim and proper already. No GDocs or any other of its ilk.
3. Once both participants have submitted their stories, I will create the thread. A week of voting will come by with it. Be sure to vote and CnC!

Story Requirements
1. Be sure it ain't flash fiction. Words must not be below one thousand but cannot exceed twelve thousand.
2. Adhere to the round's theme and if you administered a challenge, do it.

The Bracket
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The Leaderboards
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Participants	R1 - SciFi	R2 - Action/Adventure	R3 - Horror	R4 - Tragedy	R5 - ???	R6 - ???	R7 - ???	R8 - ???	Grand Total
Richard Longflop	7	2							9
Kamiroo Wolf	5	2							7
devi	2	2							4
roBEAT	2	0							2
Chromium	0	0							0
buckethead	4	0							4
SpacePunk	5	-2							3
Devour	7	7							14
TheOrganization	7	2							9
Nutsko_Nipplerdoppolis	4	7							11
Arch-Angel	6	0							6
_Ai_	0	0							0
Rokon	4	0							4
Xate	4	-2							2
Boomerang	2	7							9
Tsar Bomba	5	7							12

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Tragedy examples if you needed the inspiration:
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I can't really link you to DL links of the novels there, so Wikipages will be the only way.


Now remember, for the second time:
1. Post here, acknowledging your participation by stating that you will write against your opponent AND if you would take a challenge.
2. Once you've done the above, you may begin writing!
3. After 2 weeks (DEADLINE -- January 20, 2016), you may submit your work in this thread in spoilers.
4. Only I will make the battle thread :D
5. Go have fun. :D