Highest Rankings for LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

[Deb Porter]

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL CHALLENGE

TOP 35 OVERALL
(Total number of Entries: 74 )

1 The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost by Margaret Kearley
2 Molly by Yvonne Blake
3 Still Small Light by Cheryl von Drehle
4 Butterflies in our Pockets by Francy Judge
5 Tunnel of Love by Leola Ogle
6 The Mission Trip by Karen Locklear
7 The Best Part Of All by CD Swanson
8 The Gift by Meghan Andersch
9 At the Heart of the Iron Triangle by Elizabeth Baize
10 The Shawl by Verna Cole Mitchell
11 A Different Light, A Different Tunnel by Lillian Rhoades
12 Slow Fall by Jody Day
13 The Companion by Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom
14 A Case of God's Tunnel Vision! by Danielle King
15 Go Passerby and Tell the World by Virginia Bliss
16 The Long Road Home by Pauline Carruthers
17 There Was No Light Anywhere by Fiona Stevenson
18 Going Home (i) by Karen Milkiewicz
19 Child Healer Sara Harricharan
20 The Wild Goose Chase by Ann Menschel
21 The Light I Seek by Terry R A Eissfeldt
22 Going Home (ii) by Steve McClure
23 A Loud Cry by Edith Edremoda
24 Rosemary by Ellen Carr
25 Diamonds in the Rough by Francie Snell
26 The Oakland - Manhattan Connection by Dusty Fontaine
27 The Sorrows of Labor, The Hope of Faith by Kimberly Miller
28 Despite A Dark Night by Dee Kyalo
29 I Can and I Will by Graham Insley
30 Heading Home by Andrea Van Ye
31 Sarah Smiles by Lynn Gipson
32 Christmas Bear by Carolyn Ancell
33 The Defeat of Darkness by Sheldon Bass
34 Tunnel? by John Puckett
35 Joy Cometh in the Morning--Or Not by Marlene Bonney


TOP 8 LEVEL 1
(Total number of Entries for Level One: 16 )

1 The Oakland - Manhattan Connection by Dusty Fontaine
2 The Sorrows of Labor, The Hope of Faith by Kimberly Miller
3 True Light by Linda Buskirk
4 Pen in Hand by Trudy Newell
5 Jesus is the Light by Rajeashwari Burnice
6 Can a woman forget her suckling child? by Phillip Cimei
7 Where are you, Lord? by Rosie Godfrey
8 Delivered by Walter Kahler


TOP 7 LEVEL 2
(Total number of Entries for Level Two: 15 )

1 A Loud Cry by Edith Edremoda
2 Tunnel? by John Puckett
3 After Darkness, LIGHT! by Ruth Tredway
4 Be Someone's Light at the End of the Tunnel by Jim Newton
5 Going Through Promises an End by Ramona Cook
6 Soulful Memories by Margo McKenzie
7 In Search of the Light by Michele Fleming


TOP 10 LEVEL 3
(Total number of Entries for Level Three: 20 )

1 The Mission Trip by Karen Locklear
2 The Gift by Meghan Andersch
3 Go Passerby and Tell the World by Virginia Bliss
4 Going Home (i) by Karen Milkiewicz
5 The Wild Goose Chase by Ann Menschel
6 Going Home (ii) by Steve McClure
7 Diamonds in the Rough by Francie Snell
8 Despite A Dark Night by Dee Kyalo
9 Heading Home by Andrea Van Ye
10 The Defeat of Darkness by Sheldon Bass


TOP 11 LEVEL 4
(Total number of Entries for Level Four: 23 )

1 The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost by Margaret Kearley
2 Molly by Yvonne Blake
3 Still Small Light by Cheryl von Drehle
4 Butterflies in our Pockets by Francy Judge
5 Tunnel of Love by Leola Ogle
6 The Best Part Of All by CD Swanson
7 At the Heart of the Iron Triangle by Elizabeth Baize
8 The Shawl by Verna Cole Mitchell
9 A Different Light, A Different Tunnel by Lillian Rhoades
10 Slow Fall by Jody Day
11 The Companion by Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom

[judi]

Outstanding!!! What a joy to inhale the love for Yeshua that you provide to rock my soul!

[Deb Porter]

Judy, you are such a sweet and gracious lady.

[JudySauer]

Hello.

Curious to learn how Highest Rankings are determined. Is this based on number of times an article is read? If not, by what criteria is used?

Thanks!

[oursilverstrands]

I'm rockin', too for all the winners AND all who submitted.

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Lillian

[Deb Porter]

Hi Jim.

No, the number of reads has nothing to do with how well an entry does in the Challenge. We don't even look at that. The Challenge is usually finalized well before many people have started reading entries for the week.

We have judges on duty who are reading entries as soon as they are submitted. (They read them in a behind-the-scenes judges' only area.) The read and rate every entry in a number of specific areas. You can find out more about that here:

http://www.faithwriters.com/Boards/phpB ... 54&t=31273

Each entry is rated on its own merits (not in comparison to other entries) in each of those categories.

The judges' ratings are sent through to me a day or two after entries close (once they have finished all their reading and rating). Each judge's ratings are added together for each entry, and then divided by the number of rating categories, to give us the one average score for that entry.

The judges' combined average ratings are then added together to give one final, combined average score for each entry. (VERY thankful for Excel sheets. I used to do it all on a calculator years ago, when we were getting upward of 100 entries a week! Time consuming, much! Now Excel does the hard work for me.)

All the entries are then sorted from highest combined rating to lowest. The highest ratings for each level win the level awards. The highest ten ratings, regardless of level, win the Editors' Choice.

The highest rankings use the same information, and are simply a way of showing which entries came close to the top in their level and overall.

Hope that helps. I hold off posting the Highest Ranking list until later in the day (or a day or so later, at times, if I'm busy), to allow the winners a chance to enjoy their moment in the spotlight.

Love, Deb