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Much of this is ripped from the HSO (http://hs-olympics.dreamwidth.org/) and the HSWC (http://hs-worldcup.dreamwidth.org/). Pretty much the entire format of this competition and a lot of the wording seen here is not our intellectual property.
ASG is a prompt-based shipping competition for the characters of Marvel Cinematic Universe. 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.
SET UP
Members will form teams around their favorite ship in MCU and create new fanworks based on prompts. Everything from fanfiction to fanart, fanmixes to gifs/graphics 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 sweet bros, 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
December 1: Sign Ups Open; BR0 Opens
January 5: Team Roster Goes Up; BR1 Opens; Team Switching Period Begins
January 12: Team Switching Period Ends; MR1 Prompt Goes Up
January 19: BR2 Opens
February 2: MR1 Deadline; MR1 Voting Opens; MR2 Prompt Goes Up; BR3 Opens
February 16: BR4 Opens
March 2: MR2 Deadline; MR1 Voting Closes; MR2 Voting Opens; MR3 Prompt Goes Up; BR5 Opens
March 16: BR5 Opens
March 30: MR3 Deadline; MR2 Voting Closes; MR3 Voting Opens; Collab Round Prompt Goes Up; BR6 Opens
April 13: BR6 Opens
April 27: Collab Round Deadline; MR3 Voting Closes; Collab Round Voting Opens; BR7 Opens
May 25: Collab Round Voting Closes; BR7 Closes
June 1: Winners Are Announced
NOTE: Schedule is subject to minor changes as RL things come up if we cannot get enough mods to ensure that someone will always be able to get things posted.
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 Sire 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, etc), 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 ASG 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 ASG 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 and gifs): 15 panels/images, no more than 1K words
Video: 3:30 max runtime, penalties will be applied after the 4 minute mark (This applies for both animated and live-action video)
Original Music: 3:30 max runtime, penalties will be applied after the 4 minute mark
Penalties for going over 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
4:15: -20
4:30: -40
4:45: -60
etc.
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 ASG 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. 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. If you are on team Steve/Tony and you do a fill for Natasha/Clint, team Steve/Tony is the one who will receive the points.
Bonus round scoring is detailed further down this post. Bonus round fills have no limits, but we’ll be able to tell and WILL TAKE ACTION if you start spamming for points.
TEAMS
Teams for the Avengers Shipping Games consist of at least four people and no more than ten. 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 Director. 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.
DIRECTORS
A team’s Director 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
Director status is bestowed on a first-come-first-serve basis. We will be contacting Directors on May 27, a few days before rosters are announced, in order to confirm their sireship and to give them time to prepare. Once directorship has been definitively confirmed, each Director should create their team's comm and contact the mods at avengerrsshippinggames.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 round 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 prompts by your team: 5 points each
Prompts 6-10 by your team: 3 points each
Prompts 11-15 by your team: 1 point each
Prompts 16+: 0 points
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
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS?
We’d love to hear from you! Feedback is awesome! Feel free to contact the mods at avengersshippinggames.tumblr.com at any time.
ASG is a prompt-based shipping competition for the characters of Marvel Cinematic Universe. 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.
SET UP
Members will form teams around their favorite ship in MCU and create new fanworks based on prompts. Everything from fanfiction to fanart, fanmixes to gifs/graphics 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 sweet bros, 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
December 1: Sign Ups Open; BR0 Opens
January 5: Team Roster Goes Up; BR1 Opens; Team Switching Period Begins
January 12: Team Switching Period Ends; MR1 Prompt Goes Up
January 19: BR2 Opens
February 2: MR1 Deadline; MR1 Voting Opens; MR2 Prompt Goes Up; BR3 Opens
February 16: BR4 Opens
March 2: MR2 Deadline; MR1 Voting Closes; MR2 Voting Opens; MR3 Prompt Goes Up; BR5 Opens
March 16: BR5 Opens
March 30: MR3 Deadline; MR2 Voting Closes; MR3 Voting Opens; Collab Round Prompt Goes Up; BR6 Opens
April 13: BR6 Opens
April 27: Collab Round Deadline; MR3 Voting Closes; Collab Round Voting Opens; BR7 Opens
May 25: Collab Round Voting Closes; BR7 Closes
June 1: Winners Are Announced
NOTE: Schedule is subject to minor changes as RL things come up if we cannot get enough mods to ensure that someone will always be able to get things posted.
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 Sire 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, etc), 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 ASG 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 ASG 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 and gifs): 15 panels/images, no more than 1K words
Video: 3:30 max runtime, penalties will be applied after the 4 minute mark (This applies for both animated and live-action video)
Original Music: 3:30 max runtime, penalties will be applied after the 4 minute mark
Penalties for going over 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
4:15: -20
4:30: -40
4:45: -60
etc.
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 ASG 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. 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. If you are on team Steve/Tony and you do a fill for Natasha/Clint, team Steve/Tony is the one who will receive the points.
Bonus round scoring is detailed further down this post. Bonus round fills have no limits, but we’ll be able to tell and WILL TAKE ACTION if you start spamming for points.
TEAMS
Teams for the Avengers Shipping Games consist of at least four people and no more than ten. 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 Director. 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.
DIRECTORS
A team’s Director 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
Director status is bestowed on a first-come-first-serve basis. We will be contacting Directors on May 27, a few days before rosters are announced, in order to confirm their sireship and to give them time to prepare. Once directorship has been definitively confirmed, each Director should create their team's comm and contact the mods at avengerrsshippinggames.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 round 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 prompts by your team: 5 points each
Prompts 6-10 by your team: 3 points each
Prompts 11-15 by your team: 1 point each
Prompts 16+: 0 points
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
QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS?
We’d love to hear from you! Feedback is awesome! Feel free to contact the mods at avengersshippinggames.tumblr.com at any time.