Chocobo Down, and the 2012 Chocobo Races!

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Every year, after DOINK! Final Fantasy Exchange, we release the master list of all the unfilled prompts we've collected over the years – also known as our Chocobo Down list. It also includes prompts from our beta volunteers (marked by a beta summon sprite), whose prompts are included in our database as a thanks for the time they donate to the exchange. Since participants submit 4 prompts and usually only get 1 gift – and DOINK! has 5 years under its belt – this is quite a list!

We like to use this list in the exchange off-season to encourage more fun fanworks. Here's what we do with our Chocobo Down database:

• Anyone is welcome to fill any Chocobo Down prompt at any time. You don't have to be a past or present round participant; you don't have to be a Chocobo Racer; you don't even have to gift it to the person whose prompt it is if you don't want to. Simply fill the prompt and add it to our AO3 Collection for Chocobo Down.


• If you've incurred a Doink penalty – defaulted after the no-penalty date, for example – you pay that penalty in pieces of Chocobo Down. The number of pieces you owe will have been communicated to you by the mod team (and if you're confused, please ask!). You'll need to fill your Chocobo Down Penalty before the start of the 2013 exchange, or you won't be able to play.


• Chocobo Racing is a DOINK! event we started last year, to great success. It's a team-based, points-based friendly competition – participants sign up for a team, and then fill prompts every month to win points. Some months have themes ("small fandoms", or "kissing"), and filling prompts that fit the theme gives your team bonus points. Anyone is welcome to join the Races – you don't have to be an exchange participant to play, and you're welcome to play even if you owe us a Chocobo Down penalty. (Especially if you owe us a penalty – you can fill your requirement and get points!)

We're happy to announce that we're doing our stretches and warm-ups: the 2012 Chocobo Races will begin very soon. You can find some more information on Chocobo Racing below, if you're curious! We'd love to have even more faces – and even more fanworks. Last year we added 30 new works during the 2011 Chocobo Races. That's the target to beat this year!

( Chocobo Races 2012! )

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!

Also: the 2012 Exit Poll for the exchange is still open. Please share your thoughts if you haven't already!