It’s interesting to see that neither Scriptapalooza nor ScriptPimp are on your list of favoured contests. I can only assume you recommend AGAINST these?
If so, I would like to share a story about another contest which may shed light on all the kind that are not on your list. We recently received an analysis score on a script submission to Script Savvy. The score is used to place it in their contest as well. It was very high, 2 points less than perfect, yet neither did we win nor did we even get one of the 3 honorable mentions. Our analysis seemed to be less than complete when compared to past analyses we’d received and also in comparison to their example posted on their site. So, naturally we wondered why we weren’t being told what we didn’t do successfully in order to attain the kind of marks that the 4 other scripts must have attained. So we sent a letter asking that question. In response we were told that in fact we had scored the highest score – along with 8 other scripts! Then we were told that the judges were called together to “pick” what they thought were the best of the 8. We feel that this might not have been totally fair. On
