On the 26th July, we launched the first ever Stellar Dawn competition, offering beta places to the best 5 stories. With around 400 entries we definitely had our work cut out for us! The first stage of elimination was completed by a range of community management JMods. Our mission was to select 20 of the best stories to progress to the next stage of judging. I can vouch that this was very difficult and almost painful as the quality was impressively high. After initially reading all the stories, and being forced to be utterly brutal, we actually had 88 potentials. So as you can imagine there were many debates, meetings, and sleepless nights before the final 20 were chosen. We may not have all agreed in the final 20 but we were happy with the selection.