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Bonus Round 1 is now closed, and Bonus Round 2 is now open!

This round, the theme is holidays/special occasions.

If you have an idea for something you'd like to see, please leave the ship, a holiday/special occasion, and any other details as a PROMPT below. After you've posted, read through everyone else's prompts, and leave a FILL for any which catch your eye. Fills can be in any media, and they need not be long, but please put a little effort in--if anyone starts spamming this post for points, we'll be able to tell.
 
You should place PROMPT/FILL, your current team affiliation and a brief summary in the comment title. Do not forget to change the title of the comment when posting a FILL as a reply to a PROMPT. NSFW prompts and fills should mention this in the summary or at the top of the post. Reminder that team names must be in alphabetical order (ie. Balthazar/Death, not Death/Balthazar) and that portmanteaus (ie. Lubriel, Annaby) are not allowed when identifying team affiliation.

You will be awarded five points per prompt for the first five prompts you leave. The first three fills posted for each prompt will receive 15 points, the next three 10 points, and the next three 5 points. Prompts with ten or more fills will no longer receive fill points.
 
Bonus rounds are still rarepair only, but you can post prompts or fills for any rare ship this round, including gen/platonic ones (which should be indicated with an & as above). Due to some unforeseen complication from last round, we have changed the rules. It is now 15 points per fill for the first three fills by three different people. So if someone does a fic for Fill 1 and a fanmix for Fill 2, then get 15 + 10 points, and then Person 2 does a fill and Person 3 does a fill, so even though those would be fills 3 and 4, they count as 15 and 15 points since they're fills by new people. You are still not permitted to fill your own prompt. We also encourage people not to fill prompts from their teammates, although the points will not be deducted if you do.

Bonus round fills can include links provided they are publicly viewable. Works can also be cross-posted to other websites, as there is no anonymity requirement in bonus rounds. However, works posted directly to comments will be limited to 16,000 characters by the Dreamwidth comment limit. Longer works should therefore be divided between multiple comments.
 
Remember, Team Chuck can participate in bonus rounds, and if you change teams, points earned will transfer with you until the end of the team shuffle period.

This round is now closed.

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The first official leaderboard, taking into account Bonus Rounds 0 and 1, is as follows:

(now updated to include all teams and correct one miscalculation)

Read more... )

If you have reason to believe this is inaccurate, please contact the mods immediately.

Congratulations to those with an early lead, but remember there's plenty still to play for!
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 Genre Swap

For this main round, we’d like to see you take SPN and turn it on its head by changing the genre completely. Choose your favorite genre (or just one you think would be cool) and ruthlessly throw your ship (and any other characters you’d like) into an AU based on that genre. To clarify, they should always have existed within this genre in the context of your story--this shouldn’t be a French Mistake sort of deal. You are also welcome to blend genres, if you choose, so long as those genres aren't the same as SPN's.


This prompt is open to your interpretation, but if you need ideas, here are some things to consider:

  • What challenges will this genre pose for your characters? What’s the conflict?

  • What roles do your characters play in this new setting?

  • How will their respective backgrounds have changed? How will this change their personality?

  • What is your ship’s new relationship in the context of this new genre?

    • Are they enemies or allies?

    • Have they even met prior to the start of the story?


Entries can be produced by any member of the team, or by the entire team in collaboration. Main Rounds can be in any media, but some media have restrictions.

  • Written entries must be between 1000 and 4000 words.

  • Graphical entries should be no longer than 10 images/panels.

  • Written AND graphical entries should be between 1000 and 4000 and have no more than 4 images.

If your text is somehow embedded in an image, you must include a transcript of the text.


The deadline for Main Round 1 is October 20th. We’re working on creating a MR1 comm, team leaders should receive invites shortly.


Remember to keep all entries anonymous until after voting is over for this round.
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TEAM
Team Comm
Leader
Member

ANNA/JO
http://srs2013-annajo.dreamwidth.org/
thedahlingdarling
twinkie_pie
noelleagain
marvelouscity

ANNA/RUBY
http://srs2013-annaruby.dreamwidth.org/
annasruby
herrlucifer
hunterswithsass
mllenightingale

CASTIEL/DEAN WINCHESTER/SAMANDRIEL (this team is FULL)
garrisonbabe
iluvjohnny
balthazaur
stabbyvamp
tallybird

CASTIEL/LUCIFER (this team is FULL)
http://srs2013-casifer.dreamwidth.org/
fatalchild
tabbyadorer
marie-de-sade
thatgirltheyknow
pandalianxx

DEAN/MICHAEL
http://srs2013-team-michean.dreamwidth.org/
misstress_snakey
apollonight
firey_hotspot

GABRIEL/LUCIFER/SAM
teamgayforsatan.dreamwidth.org
fightlikeagirl
gunshyfiction
magnan
evelyn

BOBBY/SAM
http://teamsambby.dreamwidth.org/
amayakumiko
johncroftianlullaby
winslow

BENNY/DEAN
http://srs2013-bennydean.dreamwidth.org/
uke_sama
fannigram
presumablynot
viperfangs

BALTHAZAR/CASTIEL (this team is FULL)
http://teamangelcest.dreamwidth.org/
overtherainbow815
sellertape
darcymarkanday
lishuponastar
destielixer

ABADDON/NAOMI (this team is FULL)
http://naomabaddon.dreamwidth.org/
sassynaomi
birdycas
foreordain
strongfemaleantagonist
beholdatimemachine

CHARLIE/JO
http://charliejo.dreamwidth.org
rebelgirltakingontheworld
deanbunchester
feliciafez
nmhop123

CASTIEL/CROWLEY
http://teamcrowstiel-srs13.dreamwidth.org/
caramelkaren
eldiablito_sf
xjitenshax
faerielore

CROWLEY/SAM
http://srs2013-crowleysam.dreamwidth.org/
assdictionary
thecureddemon
mooseleys
the_harkness_monster

BALTHAZAR/CROWLEY
http://crowlazar.dreamwidth.org/
elendraug
themcnobody
elthadriel

MOTW
fleeingthemundane
clotpolelis
horizonevent

MOTW II
castielyousonofabitch
sociallyawkwardmuffin
inuzukagirl
robinasnyder

CHUCK
blueminuet
pieflavoredcoffee
shadownashira
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 It looks like we have two MOTW teams this year! Comment on this post with your favorite SPN monsters that you think would make good designations for the teams.
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 Here's your opportunity to get to know your fellow SRSers! (SRSians? SRSites? We're open to suggestions.)  Introduce yourself in the comments. Maybe even reply to each other, if you're feeling especially social.

Suggested topics: Other fandoms you're in, other ships you have, what type of fanwork you create, how long you've been in the SPN fandom... Really, you can talk about whatever you want, this mod is not the best at coming up with introduction prompts.

This is, of course, open to everyone, Team Chuck included.
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Bonus Round 0 is now closed, and Bonus Round 1 is now open! Let's get creating, shall we?

This round, the theme is book-based AUs.

If you have an idea for something you'd like to see, please leave a book title, the characters involved, and any other details as a PROMPT below. Then read through everyone else's prompts, and leave a FILL for any which catch your eye. Fills can be in any media, and they need not be long, but please put a little effort in--if anyone starts spamming this post for points, we'll be able to tell.

You should place PROMPT/FILL, your current team affiliation and a brief summary in the comment title. NSFW prompts and fills should mention this in the summary or at the top of the post.

You will be awarded five points per prompt for the first five prompts you leave. The first three fills posted for each prompt will receive 15 points, the next three 10 points, and the next three 5 points. Prompts with ten or more fills will no longer receive fill points.

Bonus rounds are still rarepair only, but you can post prompts or fills for any rare ship this round, including gen/platonic ones (which should be indicated with an & as above). However, you may not fill your own prompt. We also encourage people not to fill prompts from their teammates, although the points will not be deducted if you do.

Bonus round fills can include links provided they are publicly viewable. Works can also be cross-posted to other websites, as there is no anonymity requirement in bonus rounds. However, works posted directly to comments will be limited to 16,000 characters by the Dreamwidth comment limit. Longer works should therefore be divided between multiple comments.

Remember, Team Chuck can participate in bonus rounds, and if you change teams, points earned will transfer with you until the end of the team shuffle period.

This round will close on October 6.
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Welcome to SRS 2013! Like last year, we're kicking things off with a promo round. Tell the good people of the SPN fandom about our event! You can approach this however you want, just be sure to link back to our Dreamwidth or our Tumblr.

Take this opportunity to spread the word, build up your team, and earn some points! Comment with a link to your promo and you'll earn five points per website, up to a maximum of 25 points. The links must be publicly viewable for the mods to confirm the validity of your entry. Since teams are not yet confirmed, the points will go to whichever team that person is a member of when the Main Round 1 prompt is released.

Remember, Bonus Round entries are on an individual basis. Every team member can earn up to 25 points for the team by participating.

Bonus Rounds are optional and open to everyone, including Team Chuck.

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Since many of you won't have used Dreamwidth before, here's a quick guide to help with the competition. If you have any problems, please check the FAQ and contact the mods.

Dreamwidth Comments


To discuss a post or leave a Bonus Round entry, you can post a comment by clicking 'Reply' at the bottom of the main post body - in the bright red strips on our current layout. You can also reply to other comments by clicking 'Reply' on them, and this will create a thread layout to keep the conversation together. Comments include a Subject line, which is visible when the thread is collapsed, and some bonus rounds will require a certain format for this line so we can track entries.

On your own posts, you can set whether or not comments are enabled, or turn on Comment Screening. If comment screening is on, the comments will only be visible to their author and the community admin until approved by an admin. Screened comments which are never approved may be used to collect information and/or votes anonymously.

Profiles


You can reach the Profile for an account or community by entering /profile at the end of its URL - for instance, srs2013.dreamwidth.org/profile -  or by searching for that account name using the 'Site and Account' search box. The profile page allows you to view community members, and, where available, includes the options to track (you are notified about new entries), subscribe (entries appear on your DW reading page), become a community member, and privately message the account holder.

Communities

Dreamwidth Communities can be created from the Dreamwidth homepage by selecting Create Community from the Create menu under the icon. Communities can have different settings and layouts as with personal blogs, but they also have Members and Admins. You can choose whether to let anyone become a member or to limit it to invitations; in the latter case, invitations can be sent to specific accounts by selecting Organise-Manage Communities from the Dreamwidth menu, and navigating to the 'Members' tab.

Once your team are all members of the team community, you can create member-only posts by choosing from the drop-down "Show this entry to" menu when posting (beside the "Post" button). Member-only posts will be considered to meet the anonymity requirement for this competition, and are recommended when discussing and editing entries prior to posting them. With the right community settings, all Members of the community will be able to post, but Admins will be able to edit or delete the posts of others if neccessary. This is useful for Main Round entries as the Team Leader will be able to copy-paste the formatted post from the team comm to the round entry comm.

Round entry comms will be created at a later date and only Team Leaders will be granted posting access. There will be no need for anonymity as only one member of each team is permitted to post. However, this does mean that if a team leader will be absent for posting one round, they must contact us in advance to transfer the posting right to another team member.
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 The list of required tags for the SRS Main Rounds is as follows:
  • Character death
  • Consent issues
  • Dub-con
  • Graphic violence
  • Incest
  • Non-con
  • NSFW
  • Rape
  • Sexual content
  • Suicide
  • Underage
You must list these tags on all Main Rounds entries to which they apply, or face a point penalty. If you wish to do so, you may optionally include any other tags you feel suitable, but these will not be enforced by the mods in any way.

In Bonus Rounds, you can list tags at the top of the work if you wish, but the only required tag is NSFW, which indicates that content should not be viewed in public. Please note that NSFW includes any level of sexual content, graphic violence or injury, and any other content which may cause concern from those nearby.
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 The following rules and guidelines apply to everyone involved in the SRS, and should be read by everyone before signing up for the competition.

What The Supernatural Rarepair Shipfest Is

The Supernatural Rarepair Shipfest 2013 – or, as it is more usually known, the SRS – is a fanworks competition for underappreciated ships of the Supernatural fandom, accepting just about everything except Destiel, Wincest, Sabriel, and Samifer. It will run from late September to December.

SRS is designed as a friendly competition and as the inspiration for a lot of new fanworks, in whatever form participants wish to make them – writers, artists, musicians, cosplayers, vidders, fanmixers, creative bakers, arrangers of meaningful flowers, we’ll take anyone. Or, if creation isn’t your thing, you can sign up just to watch the entries roll in and vote on your favourites.

Everyone who wants to take part or vote in SRS must sign up during ???. Everyone who signs up should be aware that this is not a serious competition about finding the best ship! We want SRS to be about having fun, making friends and creating cool things.

With that in mind, read on to learn more.

Ships

For the purposes of this competition, a character is “a unique canonical intelligent entity not corresponding to a real-world equivalent.” Different iterations of a character still count as that character, so girl!Dean or 2014!Dean or anyother!Dean will all be treated as Dean. However, demons and their hosts are considered separate characters, as are angels and their vessels.

Following from this, a ship is defined as a romantic and/or sexual relationship between two or more characters. A rarepair is any ship apart from Castiel/Dean, Dean/Sam or Gabriel/Sam, because these are, statistically, the three most common pairings in the fandom.

So, in summary, when we say rarepair, we mean the following:
  • No Destiel, Wincest, Sabriel, or Samifer.
  • No selfcest.
  • No object shipping.
  • No RPF or actor shipping. (Including ‘The French Mistake’ characters.)
  • No crossover ships.
  • No original character ships.
  • No platonic ships.
  • Everything else is good to go.

Teams

Every person wishing to be involved in SRS 2013 in any way must signup to a team. Those wishing to vote for entries without producing anything themselves should sign up for Team Chuck, which will have as many members as wish to join.

All other teams are known as participant teams. They are limited to between three and five members, including a team leader who will be responsible for organizing the team community and submitting entries. Each participant team is expected to produce one piece of work for each main round which is focused on a rarepair. There are two forms of participant team: ship teams and monster of the week (MotW) teams.

Ship teams are focused on a single rarepair, and their entry for every round must focus on it. Only one ship team can exist per rarepair. Ship teams are the standard form of team, and will be officially named by alphabetical first names separated by forward slashes e.g. Team Adam/Bobby, Team Anna/Bela/Charlie.

MotW teams can choose a different rarepair for each round if they wish, but are limited to rarepairs with no existing ship team. Multiple teams will be created if enough participants sign up to MotW teams. MotW teams act as a wildcard, for multishippers or shippers of very rare pairings, and will be named after various canonical monsters as chosen by pre-competition poll.

All people who sign up, regardless of team, will be able to vote on entries for the Main Rounds, and produce Bonus Round entries if they wish to do so.

Team Organisation

The distribution of work and any temporary leaves of absence should be arranged within the team without the need to alert the mods. However, if any participants wish to leave the competition the mods should be informed. You should also contact the mods immediately if your team leader stops responding to the rest of the team for more than three days consecutively without prior warning.

During the competition, participants may transfer to any team with fewer than the maximum member count provided they first approve it with that team’s leader, and alert their present team leader and the mods. Participants who transfer teams after the first Main Round begins will not take any previously earned points with them.

Any team which, due to absent or transferred members, falls below the minimum member count after the Main Round One prompt is released will be allowed to continue if they wish to do so.

Teams may disband at any time if they wish, provided an effort has been made to contact all team members and the team is in favour after at least 72 hours of discussion. Disbanding teams should contact the mods, and arrange to move to new teams if they wish to do so. The team’s existing points will not be transferred.

Main Rounds

Main Rounds are the main focus of the competition and the major system for receiving points. Each Main Round will be prompt-based, with the prompt being released three weeks before the deadline for entries. Every participant team is expected to produce a single entry for each Main Round based on their rarepair.

Main Round entries must be produced solely by members of the team, but within the team members can work collaboratively or individually. The creator of each entry should be kept anonymous to those outside the team until the de-anon post at the end of voting. Even if a potential entry is not chosen as the final team submission, we ask that you do not de-anon until this time.

Voting will open as soon as possible after the round deadline, and will last for two or three weeks. Voting is open to all those who signed up for the competition, regardless of team. When voting, you will be asked to consider how well the entry portrayed the ship in question and how well it suited the prompt given as well as its overall quality.

Entries

Main Round entries can be in any media or combination of no more than two media, but to ensure approximately equal effort, the following restrictions apply:
  • Written entries must be between 1000 and 4000 words.
  • Graphical entries may have no more than 10 images or panels.
  • Combined written and graphical entries with more than 1000 words may contain no more than 4 images.
Entries which exceed these limits will be subject to a point penalty. There are no restrictions on any other media.

Within an entry, any images or videos containing text – for example, captions or speech bubbles – should be followed by a transcription of the text, which will count towards the wordcount.

For consistency, we will use http://www.wordcounter.net/ to calculate all word counts.

Bonus Rounds

Bonus Rounds are optional and open to all who signed up, including Team Chuck members. They are intended to be a fun chance to score extra points. Bonus Rounds begin every two weeks and last until the opening of the next round. 

Prompts will vary in form, but generally, the prompt for the bonus round will be a layout for more specific prompts given by participants. Some points will be earned for providing prompts, but more will be available for filling the prompts of other participants.

This year, bonus rounds will be for rarepairs only. Requests for the four forbidden ships (Wincest, Destiel, Sabriel, and Samifer) will be deleted and no points will be given.

Scoring

Bonus Round prompts receive 5 points per prompt up to a maximum limit specified on the round. Fills receive 15 points for the first three fills per prompt, 10 for the next three, and 5 for the three after that. Fills for prompts with nine or more previous fills will no longer receive points. In the case of differently formatted bonus rounds, the point allocation will be listed in the round description.

Main Round entries will automatically receive 75 participation points if they are submitted before the deadline. The top ten entries voted for will also receive placement points as follows:
600 points for first place
500 points for second place
400 points for third place
350 points for fourth place
300 points for fifth place
250 points for sixth place
200 points for seventh place
150 points for eighth place
100 points for ninth place
50 points for tenth place
During voting, 25 points will be awarded to every team in which all (non-absent) members cast a vote.

Point penalties will be applied in the case of voting fraud (10 point penalty) and main round entries which violate the media limitations (10 point penalty per additional image, 5 point penalty per additional 50 words after a 50 word buffer to account for word count software errors).

Additional point penalties may be introduced at the mods' discretion.

Schedule

September 7: Signups open. Bonus Round 0 (BR0) opens.
September 21: Signups close. BR1 opens.
September 28: Main Round One (MR1) prompt.
October 6: BR2 opens.
October 20: MR1 deadline. BR3 opens.
October 27: MR2 prompt.
November 3: BR4 opens.
November 17: MR1 voting closes. MR2 deadline. BR 5 opens.
November 24: MR3 prompt.
December 1: BR 6 opens.
December 8: MR2 voting closes. MR3 deadline. BR6 closes.
December 15: MR3 voting closes. Competition ends.

Behavior Policy

Everyone who signs up for the SRS is subject to the following behaviour policy: don’t be a dick.

For general advice on this, we recommend Wikimedia’s essay on the topic, but for the purposes of this competition, please be aware that we will not tolerate hate towards any ships, characters, actors, Supernatural writers, teams, works, participants or mods. Having opinions is fine, but they should be communicated politely and with respect for the differing opinions of others.

If anyone involved in the competition is behaving unacceptably, please do not respond yourself, directly or otherwise. Instead, alert the mods via email to srs2013mods@aim.com with the words BEHAVIOR POLICY in the subject line.

Incidents will be dealt with at the mods’ discretion, and may result in a ban from the competition.

Contact Us

For participants, the first point of contact about the competition should be your team leader. However, anyone signed up for the competition is welcome to contact the mods directly if they have any questions or concerns. There are three ways to do this:

Via an ask on our official Tumblr, which functions as an askblog for the competition.
Via a comment on this or any other post on our official Dreamwidth.
Via email to srs2013mods@aim.com