Please be sure to unfollow the judges
@/Natalianette and @/Starry_Lynxes as I do not know their intentions, but I do know they ghosted me and gained some of you participants as free follows as per the payment. I'd also like to apologize on their behalf as their failure to follow through in their commitment to participate as a judge in these awards, and lack of communication to let me know earlier (or at all) that they'd be dropping out as judges, lead us to a setback. I did my best to judge an additional 8 stories on top of my own as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. Thank you for your patience, and apologies to those participants who were initially assigned to these people.

I'D ALSO LIKE TO ADDRESS THE JUDGES, who were on the receiving end of the DMS spam that for some odd reason, would pick up any time anyone sends me a message! I believe it is a bug, and I would like you to know it was 100% not me sending those messages a million times over hah. Thank you for working with me past that barrier nonetheless!

TheManofFiction  FIRST PLACE JUDGE:

As a judge, you really stood out. Your feedback was so in depth, so genuinely helpful. I read every paragraph you wrote to our participants and I saw first hand how much heart you truly put into this. We are so blessed that you chose to participate as a judge in these awards, and I truly believe that those stories you judged will improve drastically for the better if the writers do indeed take your advice. You went above and beyond to bring these writers your honest, but respectful feedback and you took such great care to point out not just flaws, but also those aspects of the story that are outstanding. Not only that, but the amount of comments you left helping with corrections was extraordinary, and the way you have decided to make yourself available to your set of participants is really commendable. Thank you for being a genuinely kind person by not tearing these people down in your honesty, but rather by building them up and showing them that you believe in them! I think that you really captured just what these awards were meant to be, what they were supposed to do for others— reviewing the work and helping talented writers improve.

introvert_expert SECOND PLACE JUDGE

I am totally baffled that you were able to completely zoom through these stories so quickly. You told me how fast you'd read them, basically binging them start to finish haha! I thought that was funny because you are a reader thus your opinion is that of a reader. That fact is so important as we write to appeal to our audience. As both a READER and now a judge of the romance and fan-fiction genres, your input mattered the most, to show our writers how their work is received by readers. Your positive feedback was kind and genuine. Thank you also for judging not just the THREE, that the others were asked/agreed to (and some even failed to) judge— but FIVE stories. You are appreciated (:

Kailucy THIRD PLACE JUDGE

Thank you so much for judging. Thank you for your time, your energy and your unique input. I appreciate you not only following through with your commitment but also for genuinely reading these stories and offering the best critique you could. You were such a great judge, thank you for submitting everything to me on time, in the Google Document, and not creating extra work for me. You pulled major weight in helping judge in these awards, and you did it beautifully! Thank you thank you thank you.

Rubi_Rupa JUDGE
I wanted to take this time to thank you for judging. There were a few setbacks in terms of the message spam, as my Wattpad is definitely appearing to be bugged, but you still stuck with it and got those results in to me. It wasn't on the Google Doc as instructed, but I was able to transfer your messages and scores from DMS— however time consuming that may have been. I appreciate your input, I appreciate your help, and I appreciate your review of these works. Thank you for reading and thank you for judging!

IMP0TAT0 JUDGE
It has certainly been a challenge! I wanted to recognize you for pushing past the barriers of lacking a computer to work upon and for doing your absolute best to judge with what resources you had available to you. I'm sure your schedule was packed, as all of ours have been and though I never did receive the results to the last two of your assigned stories, when I reviewed them personally to get some feedback for the participants I definitely saw the comments you left them. So I do know you made a genuine effort and I appreciate you for all that you did and the effort you put into this! Thank you!