In Flanders Fields Poetry Event

by **Razorvich** on Mon Dec 07, 2015 6:34 pm

BACKGROUND:
http://www.flandersfieldsmusic.com/johnmccrae-bio.html
http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/first-world-war/mccrae

Written Contest Rules

Your Poem must be at least 4 lines in length.
Your Poem must be CC orientated
You must have composed your poem yourself
ALL entries must be recieved by CC Time: 2015-12-16 23:59:00
Send your POEM in a private message to Razorvich, (please title your PM Flanders).....BEFORE posting in any threads, facebook ect, to avoid someone "borrowing" your idea

The Admins will choose their favourite entries from a list of 10 finalists, to be decided by the CC Team leaders. They will rank each poem from 1-10, and any worthy "honorable mentions" who will also receive a General Achievement Medal for their creativity in capturing the essence of Conquer Club in a poem

Facebook Challenge

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Recital Challenge

show: In Flanders Fields Recital Challenge

Bonus Points:

show: Chat Rooms 16 December

THE PAYOUT:

show: Prizes

by **dakky21** on Wed Dec 09, 2015 8:23 pm

Please don't laugh at my pronunciation ... sent PM to Duk and I'm posting it here so you can laugh... but please don't LOL...

I so suck in speaking English...

BTW if it opens you a "next" video after recitation, try not to laugh at it either :lol:

by **Dukasaur** on Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:32 pm

dakky21 wrote:Please don't laugh at my pronunciation ... sent PM to Duk and I'm posting it here so you can laugh... but please don't LOL...

I so suck in speaking English...

BTW if it opens you a "next" video after recitation, try not to laugh at it either

A very brave attempt! No lulz here. It sounded very sincere. Your accent is heavy but every word is understandable!

by **TheDrunkenBoxer** on Thu Dec 10, 2015 10:07 am

Written Contest Rules

Your Poem must be at least 4 lines in length.
Your Poem must be CC orientated
You must have composed your poem yourself

So just to be clear, the poem need not have anything to do with Flanders, just CC in general?

by **StorrZerg** on Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:59 pm

dakk21 wins thread

/end

by **jgordon1111** on Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:34 pm

dakky21 wrote:Please don't laugh at my pronunciation ... sent PM to Duk and I'm posting it here so you can laugh... but please don't LOL...

I so suck in speaking English...

BTW if it opens you a "next" video after recitation, try not to laugh at it either

Yes you gave it your best, and no I am not laughing at all.your accent says maybe you have seen first hand other fields not Flanders but some with no name. And your English was better than some who think they do very well, so no one should ever laugh at your recital,

by **dakky21** on Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:56 pm

Thank you all, I still sound silly to myself and I still think my English is so bad lol!

I guess I won't need bonus points LOL

by **Dukasaur** on Fri Dec 11, 2015 1:18 am

TheDrunkenBoxer wrote:
Written Contest Rules

Your Poem must be at least 4 lines in length.
Your Poem must be CC orientated
You must have composed your poem yourself

So just to be clear, the poem need not have anything to do with Flanders, just CC in general?

Correct. For the written contest and the facebook contest, it need not have any connection to In Flanders Fields.

For the recitation contest, it does.

by **robellis00** on Sun Dec 13, 2015 7:53 pm

Hi everyone! This event is a very cool tribute to those that fell in WWI, and a very neat idea as far as the CC-themed poetry.

Please go to the facebook link and read my poem. If you enjoy any part of it, just hit the 'like' button. I know you can all identify with the thoughts that I have put into my poem, so let me know if you like it.

Thanks to the team for another great opportunity to get more involved.
Happy Hunting.
robellis00

by **gigi_b** on Tue Dec 15, 2015 5:19 pm

After quarelling with my sound setup and mainly with my english pronounciation, here we go:

https://instaud.io/g9O

Great piece of poetry! Never knew it before, but after reading it first time, just had to participate!

by **dakky21** on Wed Dec 16, 2015 3:32 am

gigi_b wrote:After quarelling with my sound setup and mainly with my english pronounciation, here we go:

https://instaud.io/g9O

Great piece of poetry! Never knew it before, but after reading it first time, just had to participate!

wow some great competition I got here!

by **cmdarete** on Wed Dec 16, 2015 4:16 pm

Regarding Dakky's Recital .....

Brilliant!

by **Dukasaur** on Wed Dec 16, 2015 11:10 pm

cmdarete wrote:Regarding Dakky's Recital .....

Brilliant!

52 minutes left if you want to take a crack at it.

I can't believe there have only been two entries. Are there really so few people with microphones on their computer that they can't take a crack at a simple poetry recital? Unless somebody steps up in the next 52 49 minutes, I won't even be able to give away 3rd prize.

by **Razorvich** on Thu Dec 17, 2015 5:58 am

All entries have been recieved, and are being judged... there were some real good ones =D>

by **gigi_b** on Thu Dec 17, 2015 10:59 am

Dukasaur wrote:
cmdarete wrote:Regarding Dakky's Recital .....

Brilliant!

52 minutes left if you want to take a crack at it.

I can't believe there have only been two entries. Are there really so few people with microphones on their computer that they can't take a crack at a simple poetry recital? Unless somebody steps up in the next 52 49 minutes, I won't even be able to give away 3rd prize.

So it's just me and Dakky? Really? HA! Congrats dakky, we've won!

I would've been interested to hear some "canadian pride" put into the recital. Maybe if you'd extend the deadline and give a mass PM...who knows? Put a small note there that the only two participants reciting a great canadian poem are a romanian and a croatian...maybe it'll work...

))

PS: did my bid and put a link to this post to some guys from Canada that I'm currently "sparring" with...

by **dakky21** on Thu Dec 17, 2015 1:17 pm

Dukasaur wrote:
cmdarete wrote:Regarding Dakky's Recital .....

Brilliant!

52 minutes left if you want to take a crack at it.

I can't believe there have only been two entries. Are there really so few people with microphones on their computer that they can't take a crack at a simple poetry recital? Unless somebody steps up in the next 52 49 minutes, I won't even be able to give away 3rd prize.

Actually, people are shy. If I didn't drank a gallon of wine before I got home, you wouldn't have my recital as well

I bet at least 75% of the users have microphones, but no one wants to be heard or for others to know how their voice sounds. It's a part of being anonymous, that's why people are hiding behind nicknames.

Anyway, I don't need the credits (use them for another event), but can't wait for the GA as that medal will move me to the 2nd place in GA achievements overall on site (tied with 33 medals with Gilligan & Betiko) =D>

... and I still didn't received a GA for the last Official Mafia game won...

so only 3 short to Swifte with 37 GA's

by **jgordon1111** on Thu Dec 17, 2015 9:07 pm

dakky21 wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:
cmdarete wrote:Regarding Dakky's Recital .....

Brilliant!

52 minutes left if you want to take a crack at it.

I can't believe there have only been two entries. Are there really so few people with microphones on their computer that they can't take a crack at a simple poetry recital? Unless somebody steps up in the next 52 49 minutes, I won't even be able to give away 3rd prize.

Actually, people are shy. If I didn't drank a gallon of wine before I got home, you wouldn't have my recital as well I bet at least 75% of the users have microphones, but no one wants to be heard or for others to know how their voice sounds. It's a part of being anonymous, that's why people are hiding behind nicknames.

Anyway, I don't need the credits (use them for another event), but can't wait for the GA as that medal will move me to the 2nd place in GA achievements overall on site (tied with 33 medals with Gilligan & Betiko) ... and I still didn't received a GA for the last Official Mafia game won... so only 3 short to Swifte with 37 GA's

Well dak if you get 2nd and 3 It will be a bonus for you, btw not everyone hides behind nicknames I use a form of my real name and have the courage to stand by what I say because of it, my opinions are my own and if someone shows me I am wrong I admit it, the hiding behind nicknames and or usernames seems to allow others to say some stupid crap, that normally they wouldn't dare utter, maybe that in itself is a freedom For them.

by **rizky_biznezz** on Fri Dec 18, 2015 7:38 am

Well done to u both for giving it a shot congrats on ur wins

by **anamainiacks** on Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:22 pm

Dukasaur wrote:I can't believe there have only been two entries. Are there really so few people with microphones on their computer that they can't take a crack at a simple poetry recital? Unless somebody steps up in the next 52 49 minutes, I won't even be able to give away 3rd prize.

The OP mentioned to film yourself and post the video, so I think most people didn't want to show their faces

Might have got more had you said to just do an audio recording.

by **Dukasaur** on Fri Dec 18, 2015 11:48 pm

anamainiacks wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:I can't believe there have only been two entries. Are there really so few people with microphones on their computer that they can't take a crack at a simple poetry recital? Unless somebody steps up in the next 52 49 minutes, I won't even be able to give away 3rd prize.

The OP mentioned to film yourself and post the video, so I think most people didn't want to show their faces Might have got more had you said to just do an audio recording.

Well, they could have just done a simple graphic with a voiceover, but I guess you're right.

I just figured most of these kids nowadays know a lot more about techie stuff than I do, so I figured there was no sense trying to specify how to do it, and that most of them would figure out their method.

by **IcePack** on Sat Dec 19, 2015 1:29 am

anamainiacks wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:I can't believe there have only been two entries. Are there really so few people with microphones on their computer that they can't take a crack at a simple poetry recital? Unless somebody steps up in the next 52 49 minutes, I won't even be able to give away 3rd prize.

The OP mentioned to film yourself and post the video, so I think most people didn't want to show their faces Might have got more had you said to just do an audio recording.

This ^ +1

by **Razorvich** on Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:28 am

FORUM ENTRIES
1st Place -

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robellis00

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2nd Place -

+ 600 Credits
rizky_biznezz

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3rd Place -

+ 300 Credits
cmdarete

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LIVE RECITAL
A couple of really excellent entries, made more impressive by the fact that neither was by a person who speaks English as their first language. It is close, but in a photo finish, I'm giving first place to dakky21 based on the excellent use of graphics in addition to the voiceover.

1st - dakky21 - 1200 Credits

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2nd - gigi_b - 600 Credits

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by **Dukasaur** on Sun Dec 20, 2015 6:50 am

Updated my section.

LIVE RECITAL TBA
A couple of really excellent entries, made more impressive by the fact that neither was by a person who speaks English as their first language. It is close, but in a photo finish, I'm giving first place to dakky21 based on the excellent use of graphics in addition to the voiceover.

1st - dakky21 - 1200 Credits