I thought it would be fun to have a place where people can see the progress being made on judging! 

**REMINDER: My dominant hand sustained a major injury in October and it's slowing me down.  I'm doing the best that I can.  It was never my intention to draw the judging phase out for so long, but it is painful for me to use a computer mouse and I need to pace myself.**

Here is a table I made to show folks how many of the scores I have received and processed:

The table above was last updated _12/14/17_. (Any numbers that seem strange are correct, just trust me.)

Here is more info:

The above table was last updated _12/14/17_. 

Aren't the judges so awesome and lightning fast?  Yay judges!

Here's some info about how the judges are doing:

The above table was last updated _12/14/17_.  Any numbers that don't seem quite right are correct here as well.

The Bottom Line:

(1) I am waiting on one very helpful judge to finish scoring 8 works as the tertiary judge.  I still have yet to score 3 more as the third judge myself (I got tired of asking for help).  I hope to be able to have all those results in and fully processed by early next week. 

(2) At that point, I will verify that the authors of any works up for an award have followed the rules. 

(3) After that, I will release the results for each category.  Those works that place first in each category will go on to compete for Best In Show (B-I-S).

(4) At a minimum, I will be reading all entries competing for B-I-S and scoring them all, then averaging my score in with those previously given to each work.  I hope to have as many other judges as possible participate as well, but I don't know how practical that will be.  Many judges are entrants and/or underage.  Thus, they will either not be eligible to score for B-I-S, or possibly disappointed and understandably no longer wish to continue volunteering so much of their free time.

(5) Following the announcement of the results of the B-I-S round, I will take a short break, then get to work on awarding prizes (to judges and authors of winning entries).  As I've mentioned, I had an injury to my right hand a few months ago that has turned out to be far more severe than initially thought.  It is painful at rest, and agonizing when I try to do certain things, like use a computer mouse.  Thus, I apologize, but the awarding of prizes will go more slowly than I had hoped.

As an aside, please note that the tables won't be updated every day; I will do it when I can.  Judges, please please get me your scores as soon as you can, so the contest can be finished as soon as possible.  That way I can get to handing out awards all the sooner!

Again, thank you to the many people that have actually been nice, or at least neutral.