FM19 Story Hub

Unfortunately our Story of the Month & Story of the Year issuing has been a little inconsistent as of late, to follow with the fluctuation in interest in story-writing here. However, we feel that those who spend hours grafting their stories here deserve more. For the very first time, the winner of this season's Story of the Year award will win one free copy of FM20 as a prize for his work. The competition will be, as has been in the past, decided by a public poll. However, do not think you can cheat the poll, we have caught people out before on that!

Also, we will be giving away a second free copy of FM20, for a storywriter selected by us judges, who does not win Story of the Year. Neither of the free copies will go to myself, for obvious reasons, in order to keep things as legitimately fair as possible.

As for the actual structure of Story of the Month.... the poll for each month will appear on the first day of the following month, and will last 3 days. This is set in stone and seems the most practical way for us. ScottT, myself and our panel of judges will each nominate a selection of stories to make it on to the poll. Five stories will make the poll. If anybody on the panel makes it in the poll, then an additional slot in the poll will be provided to keep things fair for the public. This way, each poll will not be flooded by the judge panel.

Story of the Year nominations will work slightly differently. While this ruling may chance, the provisional qualification process is to either be a Story of the Month winner throughout the FM19 season, or to be one of three other stories (those who didn't win SotM) nominated to be on the poll. Story of the Year will take place before the Beta of FM20 is released.