Editing Help:Wiki Worldbuilding Contest 2025 Results

These are the results of the [[Help:Wiki Worldbuilding Contest 2025|Wiki Worldbuilding Contest 2025]]. Congratulations to all who entered, and especially those who caught the judges' eyes. 

== How Judging Was Calculated ==
Due  to the sheer number of entries this year, the Judges were not asked to submit explicit scoring and criteria for any entries EXCEPT for their top 5. As a result, each judge only submitted their Top 5 results and gave a score to each of those 5 articles. This means that some articles made it into 1 top five, while some made it into several top 5 results. The scores were then weighted based on whether or not they showed up on multiple lists, and those that did had their scores averaged. 

== '''FINAL SCORING''' ==
{| class="wikitable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
| width="130" |'''Ranking/Place'''
| width="145" |'''Story'''
|Writer
| width="130" |'''Averaged Score'''
| width="405" |'''Select Quotes from Judges'''
|-
| width="130" |'''1st'''
| width="145" |[[Realm War II|<u>Realm War II</u>]]
|[[User:K-dawg12]]
| width="130" |23.5
|"The sheer mass of information, names, dates, factions, etc. is pretty daunting, but the article makes it fairly easy to re-orient oneself if needed. "
|-
| width="130" |2nd
| width="145" |[[Ignacious Phonimus and his Terrible Fate|<u>Ignacious Phonimus and his Terrible Fate</u>]]
|[[User:BurgerWise]]
| width="130" |17.75
| width="405" |"I love how they put equal parts world building, storytelling, and all sorts of juicy lore details as it further pushes the players into gaining insight and aspirations to what is going on in the world. "
|-
| width="130" |3rd
| width="145" |<u>[[Khialotc]]</u>
|[[User:EpicdudeX]]
| width="130" |15.25
| width="405" |"These are all inspiring moments, as well as fear and pure terror. Each piece of information that we get is a great example of world building comfort for future GMs"
|-
| width="130" |4th
| width="145" |[[The Attempted Courting of Tiamat|<u>The Attempted Courting of Tiamat</u>]]
|[[User:Tsamps]]
| width="130" |15
| width="405" |"This description, comprised of journal entries, love letters, and so on, was a real treat to be poking through"
|-
| width="130" |5th
| width="145" |<u>[[Jadenhill]]</u>
|[[User:Jeffbuterbaugh]]
| width="130" |15
| width="405" |"Just a really solid article I enjoyed"
|}

== Addendum: Expanded List ==
Due to the fact that we couldn't have one person win multiple prizes, the actual results above are truncated to highlight the first 5 unique winners. A more complete top 10 list is below:

# '''Realm War II''' (23)
# Mesanth (22)
# The Court of Scales (21.375)
# Swikedom Kingdom (21)
# Sir Cornelius (20.5)
# '''Ignacious Phonimus''' (17.75)
# '''Khialotc''' (15.25)
# '''The Attempted Courting of Tiamat''' (15)
# '''Jadenhill''' (15)
# Pact of the Gourmand Warlock (12)