ff_exchange | Chocobo Racing! Chocobo Down 2011

This year, as well as offering Chocobo Down prompts as usual, the DOINK! mods are going to be doing something a little extra too: Chocobo Races. Chocobo Races will be a team-based competition, where each piece of Chocobo Down will count as points towards your team’s total score. You may have seen things like this done in other fandoms and communities, and we'll explain how it will work for DOINK! below!

S A D D L E U P Y O U R C H O C O B O

We’re going to start the Chocobo Races with two teams: Team Cactuar (led by seventhe) and Team Tonberry (led by renay).

This is just a friendly competition to encourage off-season fanwork and you may be able to switch teams at certain points in the future, depending on the events we run and the success of the project in September! :)

Signing up for a team doesn’t commit you to creating any Chocobo Down and there’s no punishment if you can’t. So if you think you’re interested, err on the side of joining a team now!

C R E A T I N G C H O C O B O D O W N

Written pieces only need to be 500 words or more. We still encourage you to edit and beta your work, and longer pieces are always welcome!

Works of art just need to be better quality than the doodles Sev draws in her notepad during monthly meetings — art’s harder to qualify, so whatever you think is comparable effort to a 500-1000-word piece of fiction. Again, we welcome and encourage masterpieces too!

P O S T I N G

You may post your work in any of three places: into the LJ community (ff_exchange), into the DW community (ff_exchange), or into our collection on AO3. We will open posting on all communities when the first race starts.

You must post your work directly on the official DOINK! community of your choice first. After that, you can crosspost your work elsewhere.

Please use appropriate headers (fandom, characters, rating) if posting into the LJ/DW communities and please label appropriately if posting to AO3. Also, please include the CD prompt you started with. We won’t be able to share your work in our round-up post unless you have header information for us! You'll find further directions and copy/paste headers in the post where we announce the monthly theme.

It is your choice whether or not you want to 'gift' your CD to the participant whose prompt you’re using or not (you can assign them a gift on AO3 or include their name in your LJ/DW post). We really just ask that participants remember their 'recipient' may not be around to comment, and that 'recipients' remember that CD prompts don’t come with any personal preference information.

Because the CD prompts don’t come with Content Preferences attached, PLEASE use appropriate warnings if necessary!

O F F T O T H E R A C E S

Each month, we’ll open the races with a monthly theme. Some of the themes will earn you bonus points for creating work within the theme!

All work will count if you’re on a team, even if it doesn’t fit the theme of the month.

Once they’re open, themes will stay open until the end of the Chocobo Races, so if you can’t get your work in by the end of the month, you can just submit it next month and it’ll still count, just in next month’s tally.

You can create as much CD for your team as you’d like! We also encourage teammates to comment on each other’s work, to encourage more CD and more points!

S C O R I N G

The Team Captains will keep track of scores during each monthly round. At the end of the month, we’ll compile all the work and announce each team’s point total! We’ll also post a compilation of all of the work submitted to Chocobo Racing, as long as it has header information for us to use.

Usually, CD that fits the theme will be worth 10 points. CD work that doesn’t fit the monthly theme will be worth 5 points. We’ll let you know going into the month if this changes.

If you have any questions, please comment and we'll try to answer them as soon as possible! :D The sign up post will be available shortly! Ready, set, go!

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