Great stuff for Round 1, guys. I liked how each of you took the prompt in a completely different direction! I was, however, a bit disheartened to see some of you made Mad Mike the villain. Mad Mike doesn't like Cheetos, he likes Dill Pickle– and All Dressed–flavoured chips. The true Mad Mike–heads would know something like that.

General comments that might help you guys in future rounds, if you care to listen:

1. Some of you guys don't hyphenate your compound adjectives when you're supposed to. You might not know when you're supposed to—we're all learning here, after all. A compound adjective is a single adjective made up of more than one word. Two-seater aircraft. Free-range eggs. Three-storey building. Ice-blue eyes. If any of you guys are planning on seeking traditional publication in the future, learn compound adjectives—it'll show the agent you know your shit, which just might be what gets you that representation!

2. Using semicolons instead of colons. Every so often I see something like this. The two are not the same and are used for different things. If you're introducing a list of things, use a colon. Mark grabbed his travel bag, which contained the essentials: toothbrush, toothpaste, a pack of throwaway razors, twelve-inch black dildo encrusted with dried feces. It was gonna be a banger of a time. You also use a colon if you're making some kind of declarative statement. It really is true what some say about life: It sucks harder than Stifler's mom after a night of Jell-O shooters.

A semicolon is generally used to link two or more ideas when a period or a comma really wouldn't do the trick. Some people write on a computer; others write with pen and paper. Semicolons are fairly unpopular these days. You'd be better off not using them at all instead of using them incorrectly—in recently published books, you'll usually find semicolons replaced with periods and commas, so you might as well join the anti-semicolon crusade and be on the right side of history.

You can also use semicolons throughout a list of things, particularly if you need to use commas when describing those things and want everything to look a little neater. Peter examined the test results: angry red ink scribbled beside his answers, etched into the page hard enough to make holes, like the teacher had been furious with him while marking his paper; a yellow-brown, ring-shaped coffee stain at the top of the second page, showing a distinct lack of care; topping it all off were the carefully written words—"fuck you"—at the bottom of the last page, underlined four times and accompanied by a large smiley face beside. Peter looked up from his test in time to see his teacher shoot him with a finger pistol.

3. Dialogue tags. OutrageousOllo goes into this in one of her judgements. "Eat me. I'm Mexican!" He howled. Is he howling the line of dialogue or is he howling like a dog after he delivers that spicy line? If the former, it should be "Eat me. I'm Mexican!" he howled. This is something to learn that will help a lot for people reading your stuff.

"Suck on this, baby," he took a fat dump in her mouth, "Yeah, you like the way it steams?" In this case, those commas separating those two pieces of weirdness should be periods, and he should be He. Or, with some reworking, you could separate the dialogue with emdashes, like so: "Suck on this, baby. Do you"—his face contorted and went red, and a fat dump slid down into her mouth—"like the way it steams?"

I saw in one story someone used parentheses in place of emdashes for a similar bit of dialogue to the previous paragraph. I've yet to see that used in a published book and can't find anything on the internet validating that, so feel free to send me a picture or link me to something that states it's also correct and I will learn something, too.

4. In American English, periods and commas—when needed—go within quotes, not outside of them. Jack thought a little on the matter of "international security," but in the end decided to settle things with his trusty 92FS pistol and a box of rounds. Or— There was nothing more annoying than a microcephalic person having the audacity, the unmitigated gall, to call you a "small-minded man."

British English tends to jump around on this, I've noticed. And if you're Canadian, you're gonna be using a mix of British-English spelling and American-English punctuation rules.

Question marks and exclamation marks go within quotes if they're originally part of what's being quoted, outside of them if they're being added in for some kind of effect (like the narrator questioning or having strong feelings about the quote).

5. Directly addressing someone/something with a comma. When directly addressing someone or something, you should precede that noun with a comma. It's the difference between "Let's eat, Grandma!" and "Let's eat Grandma!"—in the former, you're going to be dining with your grandma, while in the latter you'll be dining on your grandma. As you can see, that little comma completely changes the nature of the sentence. If you make this mistake, don't be surprised if you lose points!

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Anywho, here are the detailed results for each of the five teams:

Team 1 - AngusEcrivain & H-A-Spade

Judgements by OutrageousOllo

AngusEcrivain: 5 for Prompt -- Electric drill isn't really a "gun-rack" weapon, but it was otherwise fun and Mike just told me it doesn't HAVE to be a gun so... you're lucky, mate.

4 for Grammar.

3 for Enjoyablity -- The structure and nature of some of Angus' sentences make it difficult to read at times, making it hard to draw my attention.

Total score - 12/15

H-A-Spade: 3 for Prompt -- Good thing I read Angus' first! Wasn't sure if I should applaud the teamwork of having stories that rolled into each other, or deduct points for not actually including the prompt, aside from referencing Angus' story which actually used the prompt. I think the description for a 3 in this category fits quite well. In future rounds, expressly with picture prompts, do make sure that in some sort of collaboration that both parties are using ALL the prompts IN their OWN stories.

5 for Grammar.

4 for Enjoyablity -- pretty dang good, though I did have to read it twice to get what exactly had happened.

Total score - 12/15

TAKEAWAY: Can I give them a point for teamwork, though? 

MadMikeMarsbergen's comment: Nein.

Combined score for Team 1 - 24/30

Team 2 - sigrist & NimrodKirkpatrick

Judgements by JettaFrame

sigrist: Prompt adherence - 5

Grammar - 4

Enjoyability - 3

Steady, solid entry. A few places that semicolons would have been better used rather than a comma or period. This had an injection of humor as well. The author did well to introduce as many solidly developed concepts as they did in this story i.e father/daughter relationship, stuffy job, executives. There wasn't however, anything uniquely stand-out which is why I've rated the enjoyability as I have.

Total score - 12/15

NimrodKirkpatrick: Prompt adherence - 3

Grammar - 3

Enjoyability - 4

Places where commas weren't needed as well as unnecessarily complex sentences. To be honest I was considering lowering the prompt use score of this story simply because it really was as if the author went out of their way to not follow them...however, I left room for comedic license as well and ended up in the middle.

Total score - 10/15

Combined score for Team 2 - 22/30

Team 3 - jewel1307 & VintageVulpes

Judgements by OutrageousOllo

jewel1307: 5 for Prompt.

5 for Grammar.

5 for Enjoyablity -- What in tarnation? Oh man that was good. Just take that five and run while you can.

MadMikeMarsbergen's comment: I found two very small errors in jewel1307's story. The rules for a 5 in Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation state: A perfect story, or one mistake shy of perfect. So jewel1307 gets a 4 in this category, thus making her one point off of a perfect 15/15 score.

Total score - 14/15

VintageVulpes: 5 for Prompt -- now that someone has ACTUALLY used a GUN, I can rest happy.

2 for Grammar. Remember, you can't use non-dialogue actions as dialogue tags -- He nodded, "dialogue." should be He nodded. "Dialogue."  And in some cases you capitalize the first word after dialogue when it wasn't correct to do so. "Where is he!?" The man barked should be "Where is he!?" the man barked, unless the man is barking like a dog after he says his line of dialogue. These mistakes were made over and over. There were a few other minor errors as well, missing commas, etc.

4 for Enjoyablity -- LMFAO Mike is the villain lol lol lol lol. Good twist too lol omg lol. But the grammar problems affected my enjoyability.

Total score - 11/15

Combined score for Team 3 - 25/30

Team 4 - elveloy & Reffster

Judgements by HardeeBurger

elveloy: A perfect FIVE for PSG, because she didn't miss a beat, and she also knows how to spell big words like 'verandah.'

And a FOUR for Readability. Her story was funny and kind of cute.

But a TWO for not really following the prompt, because her story was pretty good, while the prompt was pretty weird.

MadMikeMarsbergen's comment: I found two small spelling/grammar/punctuation errors in elveloy's story. So elveloy gets a 4 in this category, thus dropping her score from an 11 to a 10.

Total score - 10/15

Reffster: A FOUR for PSG. He did a bang-up job on his story, but I'll knock him for a point due to some iffy sentence structure and punctuation, although he's certainly better at it than I am oftentimes.

And a FOUR for Prompt, for not being that much of a Wattpunk type tale.

But a FIVE for Readability. Of Fish and Men was FUNNEE!

Total score - 13/15

Combined score for Team 4 - 23/30

Team 5 - bloodsword & AllanFisher

Judgements by HardeeBurger

bloodsword: For PSG, Shawn gets a TWO. I just don't get that guy, which is a shame. Like, millions of reads and a Wattpad Star can't be wrong. But oof... his sentence structure is hard for me to read.

Readability gets a THREE, mostly because I had to read it thrice, but he gets a Bonus Point for being Vintage Bloodsword fare.

And a stellar FIVE for sticking to the prompt. His story is truly Wattpunk-y.

Total score - 10/15

AllanFisher: A THREE for PSG. His sentence structure is off at a spot or two, with things like wrong verb tenses and missing commas.

Readability is a perfect FIVE. His story is very Wattpunk-y. It's stupid-funny with all the gore and silly action, and the kink and of course nummy porn.

Sticking to the prompt is also a FIVE. He also gets a Bonus Half Point for dressing Mad Mike bare-chested in a Speedo with suspenders. I'd give him a full Bonus Point for having also included the Cheeto dust, but the image of Speedo Mad Mike is quite frankly revolting.

Just saying. Nothing personal.

Total score - 13/15

Combined score for Team 5 - 23/30

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So, no one was eliminated from the game—yet. Next round will see two people eliminated and sent to Redemption Island.

As you all might have guessed, this was a training round. Preparation. Consider the comments from the judges as tools to sharpen your own weapons of war. This is a SmackDown, after all. We're here to kill each other with our words. And I don't mean PMing your opponent to say, "lol u fukin suk dooshbag n so duzz ur fat butt hot mum LOL."

Write some wicked tales.

Anyway.

Team 3—jewel1307 and VintageVulpes—had the highest combined score (congrats to both of you!). Which means they get to choose which of you goes to Exile Island.

I asked the winners before posting this who they wanted to send.

They chose bloodsword.

bloodsword, you will be alone and afraid for the time being, but you will return to the game at the start of Round 2. In the meantime, you will be unable to compete in any bonus rounds. Sad, I know, but it'll be okay.

I will contact you via PM with the specific details of what happens while you're an Exile.

The rest of you—I've got nothin' for ya. Head back to camp and await your next challenge. The first bonus round will go up shortly, so keep your eyes peeled if you're keen on getting a sweet reward.

A second clue for each of the hidden Redemption Idols will be revealed in a few moments. Check the Clues to the Redemption Idols part for more info.