You’re wondering how the judges managed to make their way through all the submitted stories and choose the final winners?
Here’s how it happened:
The 6 judges had a lot of really wonderful stories from which to choose, making their job very difficult. All in all, there were about 250 entries from around the globe!
We went with a rating system in which articles received a 1, 2 or 3 after they were broken up into categories. The Grand Prize and category winners were chosen based on top scorers. Ratings aren’t perfect and you may not agree with all of the choices but please know that a lot of time, energy and professionalism went into the process.
It was that “simple” (really not so simple given the high quality of entries but it wasn’t such a difficult process!)