DH 2 Challenge statistics

[swissmarg]

Fest community: dh2_challenge
Master List: Here
Fest type: Prompt-and-grab
Premise: Anything related to the final book or movie(s) of the series
Ratings restrictions: None given
Length restrictions: None given
Creation period: 2 weeks

There were 12 fics written for this fest by 11 participants. islandsmoke wrote 2 fics.

By rating:

G - 3
PG - 4
PG-13 - 5

Most popular characters:
(By mention in a header)

Gringotts' Dragon, Minerva, Severus - 2 each

Total number of characters mentioned in headers: 18
There was also one fic that did not list any main characters, but contained 7 additional Slytherins, not included in the above total

By word count:
The shortest fic was 405 words long. The longest fic was 6362 words long (27% of the total word count).

<1K - 3
1-2K - 4
2-3K - 4
3K+ - 1

Total words written: 23,968 words
Mean: 2,000 words
Median: 1,600 words
Mode: 1-2K, 2-3K

By alignment:

Gen - 10
Het and Slash - 2 (2 fics contained both het and slash pairings)

Some thoughts:

This was a rather small fest, but given that there were only 2 weeks to both post prompts and produce fics, it did all right. I was pretty surprised by the fact that nearly all of the fics were gen, and there was no smut at all. Whatever is this fandom coming to? ;-)

I was also surprised by the variety of characters represented, and the fact that Harry was not featured in any fic as a main character, although he was mentioned in a few. Perenniel favorite Draco was completely shut out.

There was a lot of emphasis on the older generation characters; in addition to Minerva and Severus being the most popular, there were fics in which Filch, Thicknesse, Voldemort, and the triangle of Tonks/Remus/Sirius were variously featured. Harry's generation, which is usually the most popular, came in an uneasy second.

Comments

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! I'm sorry it's taken me so long to follow this link, but I really appreciated looking at these stats (and skimming through recent stats for fests over the past year). So much fun to compare size, pairings, creation time, popular characters. DH2_Challenge was just a quick event, but I've run Remus/Sirius Small Gifts for a few years, and I had no idea how it fit into a larger framework of holiday events. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this! M.

[swissmarg]

Sure, you're welcome. Maybe all the stats can also help some mods in planning when to hold their fests, and what conditions to set.