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twsc2014Much of our format and content was lifted from hs_worldcup . All errors are fantalaimon 's.
So what is the Teen Wolf Shipping Championship? We are a summer-long prompt-based shipping challenge for the Teen Wolf fandom. Our goal is to promote the creation of new fanworks, expose people to exciting new ships, and to have a lot of fun! We’re not about creating drama, proving that one ship is ‘better’ than another, or making people feel angry or upset.
Sound interesting? Keep reading to learn more about the setup of this awesome event!
INDEX
Set up
Schedule
Main Rounds
Collaborative Round
Bonus Rounds
Teams
Alphas
Scoring
Questions/Comments/Concerns?
Set Up
Members will form teams around their favorite ship in Teen Wolf and create new fanworks based on prompts. Everything from fanfiction to fanart, fanmixes to games is welcome, so long as it fits the prompt and is created new for the challenge.
Remember, though, that this is supposed to be about FUN! No one is expecting or requiring you to spend every waking moment ensuring that this thing or that thing is absolutely perfect. Do your best, chill with some cool people, make some new friends, or just lurk! The most important thing is to have fun; the points system is in place more as a motivator than as any assessment of worth or talent.
Schedule
All dates listed below refer to 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5:00) unless stated otherwise. If you are unsure of how that relates to your timezone, you can google timezone New York.
Main Rounds
There will be three main rounds. This is how they’ll go:
No fan-created content is allowed that has not been made by members of your team specifically in response to the prompt. Mainstream creative content is fine (e.g. popular music, well-known art pieces, the Teen Wolf soundtrack), but not fanart, fan music, etc. This is largely to ensure that the original content in your entry is clearly identifiable as distinct from the borrowed content.
If you are submitting photos of things, please try to make sure they are decently clear/well-lit! We will not be doing image/color correction for you, and it will not be our fault if people can't make out what your submission is. Also, we suggest but do not require that you submit 3-5 photos of whatever it is from different angles, just so we can get a better look at it!
Please remember not to post your TWSC creations publicly (ie on tumblr, AO3, etc.) until voting ends, whether or not they are chosen as part of the team submission. We would like to keep things as anonymous as possible!
Media Limitations
It wouldn’t do to have some entries be ludicrously short and others be impossibly long! Thus, the Teen Wolf Shipping Championship is implementing these length restrictions on entries:
Penalties for going over the limits are as follows:
Collaborative Round
The final round of TWSC is the collaborative round! Ideally, this means that every member of the team contributes in some way to the final product. This could be by brainstorming, organizing or creating content. We realize, however, that people have lives outside of fandom, so you aren’t required to take part.
Do note that there are no requirements or limitations on this round! Your team’s collab round entry can be as long or as short as you all chose, but keep in mind that you only have so long to make it. Plan accordingly, and make sure you don’t overshoot.
If all goes well, the Collaborative Round should be an extravaganza of togetherness and creativity.
Bonus Rounds
Bonus rounds are there for MAXIMUM FUN! Like sweet candy in between meals, bonus rounds are short, more direct challenges in which teams get to take a break from longer, focused works to earn extra points by creating stuff for other ships. Anyone can participate as long as they’re on a team.
Every two weeks, a new bonus round will open (plus an extra one in the homestretch at the end). Each bonus round will have its own main prompt, which will be explained in the post for the bonus round, but most bonus rounds will follow the same basic form:
Points for fills will be assigned to the team that posted them.
Teams
Teams for the TWSC consist of at least three people and no more than nine. Your team is your family! You will learn and laugh and grow together. Aside from pitching in on the collab round if they can, each team member signs up for one round in which they must submit something to their Alpha. Team members may submit as many things as they like in as many rounds as they like, however YOU MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE SUBMISSION ENTERED FOR YOUR ASSIGNED ROUND.
In addition, there is one special team: Team Druid!
Team Druid: The super-special rare-pairs team. This team does have a Friendleader but it does not have a minimum member requirement. This team is not tied to a particular ship; it could submit Deucalion/Peter one round and Melissa/Sheriff the next. The only restriction (aside from sticking to the prompt) is that Team Druid members cannot submit fanworks centered around another team's ship for the main rounds.
Finally, we strongly recommend keeping team-planning on DW, as it has the best setup for this sort of thing!
Alphas
A team’s Alpha is responsible for:alpha_gathering .
Alpha status is bestowed on a first-come-first-serve basis. We will be contacting alphas on May 27, a few days before rosters are announced, in order to confirm their alphahood and to give them time to prepare. Once alphahood has been definitively confirmed, each alpha should create their team's comm and contact the mods at twsc2014.tumblr.com with their DW username, their team's ship, and the name of the community they just created so that we can add it to the team roster post and the team list.
Scoring
This is the way that points will be allotted!
Main Rounds
Collaborative Round
Every team that submits an entry to a main or collaborative will receive 180 points automatically! The above placement points are above and beyond that 180-point award.
Team members will also receive 15 points for voting.
Bonus Rounds (unless otherwise stated)
Finally, all participants can lose points for their team through voter fraud and through not following guidelines in main round entries.
Questions/Comments/Concerns?
We’d love to hear from you! Feedback is awesome! Feel free to contact the mods at any time.
Any major changes to this post will be announced on the announcements tumblr. We strongly recommend following it to keep up to date on the latest TWSC news!
hs_worldcup . All errors are fantalaimon 's.So what is the Teen Wolf Shipping Championship? We are a summer-long prompt-based shipping challenge for the Teen Wolf fandom. Our goal is to promote the creation of new fanworks, expose people to exciting new ships, and to have a lot of fun! We’re not about creating drama, proving that one ship is ‘better’ than another, or making people feel angry or upset.
Sound interesting? Keep reading to learn more about the setup of this awesome event!
INDEX
Set up
Schedule
Main Rounds
Collaborative Round
Bonus Rounds
Teams
Alphas
Scoring
Questions/Comments/Concerns?
Set Up
Members will form teams around their favorite ship in Teen Wolf and create new fanworks based on prompts. Everything from fanfiction to fanart, fanmixes to games is welcome, so long as it fits the prompt and is created new for the challenge.
Remember, though, that this is supposed to be about FUN! No one is expecting or requiring you to spend every waking moment ensuring that this thing or that thing is absolutely perfect. Do your best, chill with some cool people, make some new friends, or just lurk! The most important thing is to have fun; the points system is in place more as a motivator than as any assessment of worth or talent.
Schedule
All dates listed below refer to 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5:00) unless stated otherwise. If you are unsure of how that relates to your timezone, you can google timezone New York.
- May 4: Sign-ups open and the promotional pre-game opens
- May 18: Bonus Round 0 (br0) opens
- June 1: Sign-ups and br0 close; Round 1 (R1) and Collab Round prompts revealed
- June 8: br1 opens
- June 22: R1 due, R1 voting opens, and br1 closes; R2 prompt revealed, and br2 opens
- July 6: R1 voting closes, R2 due and R2 voting opens, br2 closes, R3 prompt revealed, and br3 opens
- July 20: R2 voting closes, R3 due and R3 voting opens, br3 closes, and br4 opens
- August 3: R3 voting closes, Collab Round due and Collab Round voting opens, br5 and br6 open
- August 17: Collab Round voting closes, br5 and br6 close, winners are announced, and TWSC2014 is over!
Main Rounds
There will be three main rounds. This is how they’ll go:
- Prompts released! Excitement abounds!
- Team members flex their creativity and create awesome content based on the prompt.
- The teams decide which entry they want to represent them.
- The alpha submits the chosen entry to the round’s community.
- The round’s community is opened to the public, and everyone gets to enjoy the delicious new content!
- Everyone votes on their favorite submissions!
- The results are posted, points are awarded, and the whole mess starts all over again!
- All submissions must be created new for the challenge. They will be posted in the order that they are received. Late submissions are allowed, but we can’t guarantee that they will be posted in a timely matter or that everyone will see them. There is no points penalty for a late submission.
No fan-created content is allowed that has not been made by members of your team specifically in response to the prompt. Mainstream creative content is fine (e.g. popular music, well-known art pieces, the Teen Wolf soundtrack), but not fanart, fan music, etc. This is largely to ensure that the original content in your entry is clearly identifiable as distinct from the borrowed content.
If you are submitting photos of things, please try to make sure they are decently clear/well-lit! We will not be doing image/color correction for you, and it will not be our fault if people can't make out what your submission is. Also, we suggest but do not require that you submit 3-5 photos of whatever it is from different angles, just so we can get a better look at it!
Please remember not to post your TWSC creations publicly (ie on tumblr, AO3, etc.) until voting ends, whether or not they are chosen as part of the team submission. We would like to keep things as anonymous as possible!
Media Limitations
It wouldn’t do to have some entries be ludicrously short and others be impossibly long! Thus, the Teen Wolf Shipping Championship is implementing these length restrictions on entries:
- Writing: 1K-3.5K words, penalties will be applied after 4K words
- Combination Writing/Art may have no more than 5 images.
- Other Image-based entries (including comics): 15 panels/images, no more than 1K words
- Gifs/Animations included in a larger work (such as a game, fic or comic) may be no longer than 15 seconds in total
- Video: 1:45 max runtime, penalties will be applied after the 2 minute mark (This applies for both animated and live-action video)
- Orginal Music: 1:45 max runtime, penalties will be applied after the 2 minute mark
- Cosplay: Costumes should be made/assembled at least 75% new for the challenge
Penalties for going over the limits are as follows:
- Writing: Up to 4000: no penalty
- 4001-4150: -20
- 4151-4300: -40
- 4301-4450: -60
- etc.
- Music/Video: up to 2 minutes: no penalty
- 2:15: -20
- 2:30: -40
- 2:45: -60
- etc.
- Gifs/Animations included in a larger work: -20 for every 2 seconds over limit
- Images: 20 points will be deducted for every image over the limit. This applies to all image-based limits (mixed media, comics, games, etc.)
Collaborative Round
The final round of TWSC is the collaborative round! Ideally, this means that every member of the team contributes in some way to the final product. This could be by brainstorming, organizing or creating content. We realize, however, that people have lives outside of fandom, so you aren’t required to take part.
Do note that there are no requirements or limitations on this round! Your team’s collab round entry can be as long or as short as you all chose, but keep in mind that you only have so long to make it. Plan accordingly, and make sure you don’t overshoot.
If all goes well, the Collaborative Round should be an extravaganza of togetherness and creativity.
Bonus Rounds
Bonus rounds are there for MAXIMUM FUN! Like sweet candy in between meals, bonus rounds are short, more direct challenges in which teams get to take a break from longer, focused works to earn extra points by creating stuff for other ships. Anyone can participate as long as they’re on a team.
Every two weeks, a new bonus round will open (plus an extra one in the homestretch at the end). Each bonus round will have its own main prompt, which will be explained in the post for the bonus round, but most bonus rounds will follow the same basic form:
- Members can submit prompts as comments to the bonus round post. These prompts consist of something relating to our bonus round challenge plus a single ship.
- Then, other members come along and fill those prompts. You can fill as many or as few prompts as you like until the two weeks are up! Every prompt can also have multiple fills, as long as each fill is created by a different person (a specific person can only fill each prompt once).
- For most bonus rounds, you will not be allowed to offer or fill prompts for your own team. This is because we want you to push your boundaries and foster an appreciation for the ships of other teams.
Points for fills will be assigned to the team that posted them.
Teams
Teams for the TWSC consist of at least three people and no more than nine. Your team is your family! You will learn and laugh and grow together. Aside from pitching in on the collab round if they can, each team member signs up for one round in which they must submit something to their Alpha. Team members may submit as many things as they like in as many rounds as they like, however YOU MUST HAVE AT LEAST ONE SUBMISSION ENTERED FOR YOUR ASSIGNED ROUND.
In addition, there is one special team: Team Druid!
Team Druid: The super-special rare-pairs team. This team does have a Friendleader but it does not have a minimum member requirement. This team is not tied to a particular ship; it could submit Deucalion/Peter one round and Melissa/Sheriff the next. The only restriction (aside from sticking to the prompt) is that Team Druid members cannot submit fanworks centered around another team's ship for the main rounds.
Finally, we strongly recommend keeping team-planning on DW, as it has the best setup for this sort of thing!
Alphas
A team’s Alpha is responsible for:
- Creating/maintaining the team community account
- Submitting the entry for each round
- Organizing the collaborative round
- Maintaining order and peace within the team (to a reasonable extent!)
- Checking in with the mods when asked
- Contacting the mods if the team has any questions or issues
alpha_gathering .Alpha status is bestowed on a first-come-first-serve basis. We will be contacting alphas on May 27, a few days before rosters are announced, in order to confirm their alphahood and to give them time to prepare. Once alphahood has been definitively confirmed, each alpha should create their team's comm and contact the mods at twsc2014.tumblr.com with their DW username, their team's ship, and the name of the community they just created so that we can add it to the team roster post and the team list.
Scoring
This is the way that points will be allotted!
Main Rounds
- 1st: 1500
- 2nd: 1380
- 3rd: 1260
- 4th: 1140
- 5th: 1020
- 6th: 900
- 7th: 720
- 8th: 540
- 9th: 360
- 10th: 180
Collaborative Round
- 1st: 2250
- 2nd: 2070
- 3rd: 1890
- 4th: 1710
- 5th: 1530
- 6th: 1350
- 7th: 1080
- 8th: 810
- 9th: 540
- 10th: 270
Every team that submits an entry to a main or collaborative will receive 180 points automatically! The above placement points are above and beyond that 180-point award.
Team members will also receive 15 points for voting.
Bonus Rounds (unless otherwise stated)
- First 5 fills by your team in each round: 30 points each
- Fills 6-10 by your team in each round: 20 points each
- Fills 11-15 by your team in each round: 10 points each
- Fills 16+ by your team in each round: 5 points each
Finally, all participants can lose points for their team through voter fraud and through not following guidelines in main round entries.
Questions/Comments/Concerns?
We’d love to hear from you! Feedback is awesome! Feel free to contact the mods at any time.
Any major changes to this post will be announced on the announcements tumblr. We strongly recommend following it to keep up to date on the latest TWSC news!
