BFM 2021: Results third round

The third round was all about arguments and dialogue. The goal of the assignment was for writers to tell their stories using 50% dialogue, and they all succeeded. These first three rounds had some strict restrictions, but the next will give the writers more freedom, and of course we are looking forward to those stories!

You can find the feedback for the third round stories in the comments section of the third voting round.

Without further ado here are the results of the third round…

The authors

1. The last Walk – Susie Mace
2. We’ve been over this – Lyndsey Ellis-Holloway
3. Wayward Son – Stephanie Scissom
4. We Never Argue – Toolie
5. Celebrating New Beginnings – The Barefoot Sub
6. Anima Rising – Elk Vilianni
7. A Tight Fit – Mrs K
8. Late for Brunch – Steeled Snake Charmer
9. Where are they? – Jenn Hatfield
10. The Inevitable Crescendo – Kinky Katie
11. The Shark Bait – Carolyna Luna
12. I’ve made worse investments – Your Textual Boyfriend
13. Mistaken Identity – Cal
14. The Creation – Jessica Wilcox
15. Stop Digging – Marsha Adams

Public vote

We kept track of all votes during the public voting round, and in total 37 legitimate votes have been received. We are grateful for your support!

Winner of the public vote: Wayward Son by Stephanie Scissom

The result of the voting can be found below.

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This is the full result of the public vote:

Author	Story title	Public votes	Public result
Stephanie Scissom	Wayward Son	14	10
Jessica Wilcox	The Creation	13	9
Marsha Adams	Stop Digging	11	8
MrsK	A Tight Fit	10	7
The barefoot sub	Celebrating New Beginnings	9	6
Lyndsey Ellis-Holloway	We’ve been over this	9	6
Elk Vilianni	Anima Rising	8	5
Carolyna Luna	The Shark Bait	6	4
Kinky Katie	The Inevitable Crescendo	6	4
Your Textual Boyfriend	I’ve made worse investments	6	4
Steeled Snake Charmer	Late for Brunch	5	3
Cal	Mistaken Identity	4	2
Toolie	We Never Argue	4	2
Jenn Hatfield	Where are they?	4	2
Susie Mace	The Last Walk	2	1

Jury vote

We have four jury members, and each of them individually rates all the stories from 1 to 10. The average of the highest three jury scores is the jury result for the writer.

Winner of the jury vote: Stop Digging by Marsha Adams

The jury’s votes are as follows:

Author	Story title	Jury 1	Jury 2	Jury 3	Jury result
Marsha Adams	Stop Digging	9	10	8	9,0
Jessica Wilcox	The Creation	8	7	10	8,3
MrsK	A Tight Fit	6	10	8	8,0
Carolyna Luna	The Shark Bait	10	8	6	8,0
Kinky Katie	The Inevitable Crescendo	8	8	8	8,0
Elk Vilianni	Anima Rising	9	7	7	7,7
Your Textual Boyfriend	I’ve made worse investments	7	9	7	7,7
The barefoot sub	Celebrating New Beginnings	7	7	8	7,3
Stephanie Scissom	Wayward Son	7	9	6	7,3
Lyndsey Ellis-Holloway	We’ve been over this	6	7	9	7,3
Steeled Snake Charmer	Late for Brunch	8	8	6	7,3
Jenn Hatfield	Where are they?	7	8	7	7,3
Cal	Mistaken Identity	7	8	6	7,0
Toolie	We Never Argue	7	8	6	7,0
Susie Mace	The Last Walk	5	6	5	5,3

Overall results

The public votes and that of the jury are added up to get to the end result for the round.

The overall winner of the third round is a tie between: The Creation by Jessica Wilcox and Wayward Son by Stephanie Scissom

The overall results for round 3 are as follows:

Author	Story title	Jury result	Public result	Result round 3
Jessica Wilcox	The Creation	8,3	9	17,3
Stephanie Scissom	Wayward Son	7,3	10	17,3
Marsha Adams	Stop Digging	9,0	8	17,0
MrsK	A Tight Fit	8,0	7	15,0
The barefoot sub	Celebrating New Beginnings	7,3	6	13,3
Lyndsey Ellis-Holloway	We’ve been over this	7,3	6	13,3
Elk Vilianni	Anima Rising	7,7	5	12,7
Carolyna Luna	The Shark Bait	8,0	4	12,0
Kinky Katie	The Inevitable Crescendo	8,0	4	12,0
Your Textual Boyfriend	I’ve made worse investments	7,7	4	11,7
Steeled Snake Charmer	Late for Brunch	7,3	3	10,3
Jenn Hatfield	Where are they?	7,3	2	9,3
Cal	Mistaken Identity	7,0	2	9,0
Toolie	We Never Argue	7,0	2	9,0
Susie Mace	The Last Walk	5,3	1	6,3

Rankings after third round

We work with rankings from the first to the fourth round, where writers accumulate points from the jury and public votes. Those at the bottom of the rankings will be knocked out in the rounds where it’s applicable.

In the table below you find the rankings after three rounds.

Ranking	Previous rank	Author	Result round 1	Result round 2	Result round 3	Total
1	2	Jessica Wilcox	15,7	16,0	17,3	49,0
2	1	MrsK	16,7	15,3	15,0	47,0
3	4	Marsha Adams	11,3	16,3	17,0	44,7
4	6	Stephanie Scissom	7,3	18,0	17,3	42,7
5	3	Carolyna Luna	11,3	17,3	12,0	40,7
6	5	Kinky Katie	15,3	11,7	12,0	39,0
7	9	Your Textual Boyfriend	9,3	14,7	11,7	35,7
8	10	Elk Vilianni	11,7	9,7	12,7	34,0
9	15	Lyndsey Ellis-Holloway	7,3	11,7	13,3	32,3
10	16	The barefoot sub	9,3	9,3	13,3	32,0
11	12	Toolie	13,3	7,3	9,0	29,7
12	12	Susie Mace	14,0	6,7	6,3	27,0
13	19	Steeled Snake Charmer	5,0	9,0	10,3	24,3
14	18	Cal	4,7	10,3	9,0	24,0
15	21	Jenn Hatfield	6,3	6,0	9,3	21,7

Knocked out

All writers go through to the fourth round, as is stated in the marathon rules. At the end of round 4 there will be knockouts, as round 5 has only 10 writers.

As said earlier, the accumulating of points only happens until round 4. In round 5 the slates are wiped clean, and all writers that remain in the competition, will be on equal footing.

Next round

Thank you to everyone who has written for this round and thank you to all the voters who have taken the time to read the entries, to vote and for those who have given feedback. A special thanks to the jury members for their hard work!

The writers will be sent the fourth assignment later today and have until midnight London time on 30 July 2021 to send in their stories. The next public voting round opens on 7 August 2021.