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I'm sticking with 1163.
I reckon there have been about 200 Named onliners on this site since inception - but invariably, whenever we see Guests in, they amount to about twice to three times the number of Names.
If I assume that they are all online submitters, that gives me about 400 to 600 writers - say an average of 500.
Then assume that 1/3 of those submitted 1 play, 1/3 2 plays and 1/3 3 plays.
That's that makes about 150 + 300 + 500 = 950.
Then add about 20% for non-online-submitters = 1140.
Then add 2% for safety.
1163.
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I think I guessed 698. We'll never know. PT gave only the vaguest information concerning the future. They may mention the number of contributors on one of the television programmes... they may up date the website once the competition is over. And since it is clearly over (as far as we're concerned) why are we still here?  |
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quote: Originally posted by Lewes: I think I guessed 698. We'll never know. PT gave only the vaguest information concerning the future. They may mention the number of contributors on one of the television programmes... they may up date the website once the competition is over. Did anyone see the newspapers last week about the book/novel writing competition? There were 46,000 entries! Way above what anyone could imagine as it was similar to this. I think there were 10 finalists. Sorry, I can't give more detail. It was a double page article in either the Express or the Mail. The chap that came "runner up" got a book deal out of it anyway. Never give up!  My guess is 23,000 at least.  And since it is clearly over (as far as we're concerned) why are we still here?
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quote: And since it is clearly over (as far as we're concerned) why are we still here?
I think we're all wondering about you Miss C! I think we probably all wonder whether you're the bravest person on this Forum (for being supposedly short-listed and leaking that in your past posts) or the wickedest wind-up merchant on here (for being supposedly short-listed and leaking that in your past posts)! But then, you're gagged, so you can't tell us anyway - can you! Personaly, I'm here to see what the www says when it's updated - and, of course, to hang out with all these other goodfolks. But I have to admit everyone's enthusiasm has waned! |
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I think it's very clever of PT not to update the site. just think, had they done so on 1st Oct we'd have all very crying into our virtual beer, as it is when they finally do update it i think there will be a slight sense of relief. they're doing it for our own good -honest
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on a more optomistic note i'd like to throw 450 into the guess pot. I don't think that many people could be bothered to write a play.
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quote: Originally posted by divinemissm:
I think it's very clever of PT not to update the site. just think, had they done so on 1st Oct we'd have all very crying into our virtual beer, as it is when they finally do update it i think there will be a slight sense of relief. they're doing it for our own good -honest
Sometimes it's hard to believe that George Orwell was born in this country. No hard feelings, Ms M, I'm just cynical about all authority. I don't think there is a collective 'they' who really cares. But I do like your guess. I am sticking right around 1000. Under Ms M's reasoning, not many people can be bothered to write a play. But tons of people can be bothered to come up with an idea of a play and a few scenes. It's the hard work of melding together the entire gestalt that they didn't have to do in their applications. I hate to say I told you so, but wasn't it me who relentlessly posted the opinion that events after September 30 were not likely to bear the hallmarks of compassion or competence? Apparently, you cannot sell theatre tickets on this site, BTW. Ah, learn something new every day. Your friendly cynical swann |
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Wow! I've just looked back - there are wildly differing opinions here. Just to recap - here they are in order of magnitude: - Jaysplays - 300
- Divinemissm - 450
- Lewes - 698
- Swann1719 - 1,000
- Adman - 1,163
- Playfull - 1,575
- Moonbird99 - 1,576
- LilMissLesley - 2,163
- Zabriel - 3,542
- MsMinxy - 4,000
- AuroraLionheart - 6,439
- Sadie Sadie - 6,500
- Miss Cathcart - 23,000
300 to 23,000!  |
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Nice to have you back Sadie Sadie and nice to see you Minxy. Who can blame us for hanging around, looking for closure, saying vaguely insulting things about our hosts?
And Sadie I still wonder sometimes too when the post comes.
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On the basis that anyone in advertising is out by a factor of at least 3, Civil servant's predictions are worse and the Navy? Hmmm. 3489 Having moved my post is being re-directed so I still hope . . . Faintly. BTW nice to see all the new faces here . . where were you when we needed you?
I only arsked . . .
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quote: anyone in advertising is out by a factor of at least 3
Only in our claims to clients, gravy - never to our mates or to ourselves! I'm happy with 1163. |
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My guess, 6,000 (+ or -, 5,000) and Miss C is a teaser, who hasn't been short listed (hope I'm wrong).
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Hey now little fella... I think there's been enough of this undercurrent. I'm sure that she HAS been short-listed... Because - the way I see it is: If she hadn't, we'd all be congratulating her for being short-listed for no reason... It'd be like me saying 'congratulations Shyboy, for winning the London Marathon', when you hadn't. It would mean nothing. However, telling some-one they're telling Porky-Pies is extremely hurtful... Someone has been shortlisted - so why not Miss Cath? I'm sure you're not deliberatly insinuating that you beleive her incapable of it? Play nice please - or you'll get a smacked bottom.  |
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quote: Originally posted by miss cathcart: And since it is clearly over (as far as we're concerned) why are we still here?
[/QUOTE] Read that (I think Adman did too) as Miss C's words, but I see it was actually from Lewes! I'm sure Miss C will forgive me, she sounds nice. You, however, sound like a school teacher! But sure you're nice too. |
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Not that I'm that bothered MsM, but it's an intellectually interesting point ...
I think everyone on here is nice. However, naming no names, I do wonder why anyone who had been shortlisted would risk telling us so (it was on a thread which was removed by the PT due, I think, to bad language) if they had been told not to do so?
I think we all probably accept that the shortlisters now know who they are (although I am sure I recall the PT saying that the site would be updated once the final call had been made) - so the lack of 'I'm shortlisted' posts on here must reflect a Non-Disclosure Agreement in any letter/e-mail/telephone call they must have had. The alternative thought - that no decision has yet been made and the PT are running late - is both fairly untenable and places too much strain on the fingernails!
Had I been SL'd (and I'm not) the last thing I would have done is (a) risk my entry by being careless enough to breach the NDA or (b) being impish enough to wind everyone else up on with a slightly teasing message - on, I hasten to add, 30/9!
If I'm right, any number of the goodfolks on here could have been shortlisted and are obeying the terms of the inevitable NDA (which is even in the T&C's)!
Having said that - I always said that I hoped at least one person from this Forum would make it onto the SL, and that I thought it was even statistically likely. If I am wrong and She Who Cannot Be Named is indeed one of them - then my only message is 'go for it girl'!
The one clapping loudest in the audience will be me - you can easily spot me; long hairy arms, brown face, heavy brow, hair all over my body, walking on my knuckles and bashing the seat in front with a stick!
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quote: Originally posted by Swann1719: quote: Originally posted by divinemissm:
I think it's very clever of PT not to update the site. just think, had they done so on 1st Oct we'd have all very crying into our virtual beer, as it is when they finally do update it i think there will be a slight sense of relief. they're doing it for our own good -honest
Sometimes it's hard to believe that George Orwell was born in this country. No hard feelings, Ms M, I'm just cynical about all authority. I don't think there is a collective 'they' who really cares. But I do like your guess. I am sticking right around 1000. Under Ms M's reasoning, not many people can be bothered to write a play. But tons of people can be bothered to come up with an idea of a play and a few scenes. It's the hard work of melding together the entire gestalt that they didn't have to do in their applications. I hate to say I told you so, but wasn't it me who relentlessly posted the opinion that events after September 30 were not likely to bear the hallmarks of compassion or competence? Apparently, you cannot sell theatre tickets on this site, BTW. Ah, learn something new every day. Your friendly cynical swann
you're too cynical for me swann and i'm a lawyer, can't imagine what you do for a living. good point though i wonder how many poeple thought they'd get through by knocking something together quickly, intending to finish it off later if they got shortlisted and i wonder if any of them did indeed get shortlisted (or even if anyone has been shortlisted, i'm beginning to wonder about that too). in which case may i qualify my estimate by guessing 450 viable entries? |
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Ms M, I've been a lawyer for quite a while. I've learned that too much advertisement of that fact comes to no good. Also, I practiced in Washington DC for ten years where we are as common as lint.
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I used to be an Actuary... And now I'm just a glorified skivvy... Just thought I'd like to throw that one in... get it off my chest...
<Minxy rocks back and forth>
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So Adman - you weren't SL'd but if you were you would obey the NDA mentioned in the T&Cs and not annoy the PT. Ever thought of a job in IT? 
"I love deadlines - I love the woooshing noise they make as they go past."
(Douglas Adams)
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Not SL'd, no NDA, no RSVP, the TPTT PT thought my MS was NFU so the T&C's on the WWW are worth FA - LMFAO! TTFN TOY BRB.
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Looks like Lilmiss wins!!!
'All we see and seem is but a dream within a dream' Poe
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I wrote and submitted one entry of a play (a redraft of something I'd already got pretty much 100% complete for my local AmDram) and then, because I wanted to max my chances here, I took a long, cool look at both what I'd written and the parameters of the competition - and I felt that what I'd got wasn't right for TV or the West End.
As a result, I wrote a second - and suddenly found that I was amazingly excited by the second and the first had almost palled into insignificance! Better still - I've spent hours on as many search engines as I can find, and I think that the theme and genre of my second submission has NEVER been used before.
I am so confident in the SECOND (as yet well incomplete) play, that if I DON'T make the final of TPTT I'm definitely going to write it up in full and start submitting it to Agents!
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QUOTE FROM TPT: The competition closed on 1 July 2005, with over 2,000 entries Hello eberybody - nice to see you back
press any key - where's the ANYKEY?
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