One of them claimed I was trying to "buy friends", another said I was tyring to force people to write smut *since I said all ratings/paiorings were accepted*....just crap like that. :(
They forget that I'd have been paying for this out of my pocket! It wasn't to "buy friends", it was to encourage good fan fiction. I buy books from Walden Books, Barnes and Nobles, ect, all the time - why not shell out for some really great fan fanfiction? The whole idea was to present authors with a fun, challeging contest with a nice reward at the end - like any real contest.
I guess they missed that.