Scoring

Main Rounds

For more information on how main rounds work, see Main Rounds. For information on submission format, see Round Work Guidelines and Round Media Limitations.

All teams that submit a main round entry will receive 250 points.

The fifteen teams to advance to Final Vote receive an additional 250 points.

After that, the top ten teams in each round receive additional points as follows:

Collab Round

(For more information on how the collab round works, see Collab Round. For information on submission format, see Round Work Guidelines and Round Media Limitations.)

The short version is that scoring is doubled for the collab round.

All teams to submit an entry to the collab round are rewarded 500 points.

Teams that advance to final vote receive another 500 points.

After that, the top ten teams in each round receive additional points as follows:

All teams that submit a main round entry will receive 250 points.

The fifteen teams to advance to Voting#Final_Vote receive an additional 250 points.

After that, the top ten teams in each round receive additional points as follows:

Here's a point structure I'd like better: Bonus rounds: 10 points per prompt up to 10 prompts (100). 50 points per fill for first 10 fills (500). then 25 per fill for the next 10 (250). then 10 points for the next 15 (150). fill cap is 35 works. ^ this makes it much easier to get points during the bonus rounds and makes it silly not to shoot for 10 fills even if you have a small team! It also makes maximum points achievable for mid-size teams. Jokerkind had 8ish active members through most of HSWC and we still only maxed out 50 fills twice I think? Main rounds: Submit anything and you get 250. Advance to final round and you get a second 250. Then an extra 50 points each place up to 1st. So 11th place gets 500, 1st place gets 1000. --> same value as maxing a bonus round, right? And collab round would be worth double that (500 for participation, 1000 for 11th, 2000 for 1st).

That makes all the scores a LOT closer through the entire competition. Fewer teams get discouraged partway through and drop because there's no way they can catch up. Puts emphasis on bonus rounds where enthusiasm and effort = points, even if you don't think your fic or your art are great you get points for filling requests and making people happy and doing! stuff! and practicing! isn't that the point of HSWC, to get people to do stuff?

So that's my thoughts on points.