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fkficfest| FK Fic Fest 2024 |
fkficfest is on for this year! After testing the waters on my own journal a few weeks ago, I'm skipping the traditional pre-game survey and cutting right to the chase.Almost everything is the same as last year — challenge-style, minimum 500 words, minimum 51% FK for crossovers, 2 months to write, etc. — except that we'll elect our shared pool of 4 prompts via tournament brackets (Wikipedia article). We'll have a poll for prompt nominations, then a poll for ranking the prompts into brackets ("seeding"), and then a sequence of quick bracket eliminations polls to learn the community's favorites. (I hope that folks find this fun! If it doesn't work, we'll revert to ranked-choice voting next year.)
Schedule:
- March 2 (Saturday): Prompt nominations open
- March 7 (Thursday): Prompt nominations close
- March 8 (Friday): Prompt ranking opens
- March 11 (Monday): Prompt ranking closes
- March 12 (Tuesday): Brackets voting begins (to be posted), with one round per day until 4 prompts remain. For example, with "byes" to bring non-ideal totals into line:
- 16 nominated prompts = 2 rounds
- 32 nominated prompts = 3 rounds
- 64 nominated prompts = 4 rounds
- Soon after the final round: Prompt pool officially announced & rules posted
- May 25 (Saturday): Stories due in our AO3 collection
- May 27 (Monday, US Memorial Day): Stories begin releasing
About prompts:
- Definition: For our challenge-style game, a prompt is a word, set of words, phrase, sentence, question, stanza, etc. meant to inspire an FK story.
- Success: We'll likely get the most from prompts that can flex across different interpretations of FK, while also being specific enough to spark reactions.
- Limits: 1-30 words. If a prompt is a quotation, include a citation (not part of the word count). And, of course, please, no vulgarity, incivility, that kind of thing.
Questions? Advice? Please share! As always, readers as well as writers are welcome to nominate and vote!
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Update, 7:45pm, March 1: The number of rounds is now better described. Dates to be determined after we have the total number of nominations.
Update, 7:09am, March 2: Your mod lives on Pacific Time. Unless otherwise indicated, all times are Pacific.
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Date: 3/1/24 10:22 pm (UTC)Thank you for the promo!
Date: 3/2/24 01:38 am (UTC)Below, Nicholas_lucien helped me realize that I'd planned one too many round of eliminations, as we want to stop at a pool of 4 and not drive on to only 1. I'll adjust the dates tonight -- pushing a day later, not sooner! -- to remove the "spare" bracket and close the gap.
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Date: 3/2/24 12:59 am (UTC)We should have a pool of 4
Date: 3/2/24 01:29 am (UTC)I have an obligation now, but I will try to fix this tonight!
Updated post
Date: 3/2/24 04:04 am (UTC)We'll have a pool of 4 prompts in the end. I'm hoping that getting there via brackets will be (a) fun and (b) transparent. The "ranked-choice voting" the past few years has been to try to find the most widely acceptable consensus prompts, but I'm afraid it's been very non-transparent compared to "winner takes all" voting. Perhaps brackets can be the happy medium?
Re: Updated post
Date: 3/2/24 03:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 3/2/24 01:12 am (UTC)Excited for FK March Madness!
minimum 16 nominated promps (to yeild a pool of 4)
Date: 3/2/24 01:35 am (UTC)If we get an odd total number, we'll include one "bye" for the most popular prompt.
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Date: 3/2/24 01:51 pm (UTC)Where do you want us to post the prompts? Under this entry, or will there be one solely for that purpose?
Separate post to coillect prompts coming today (Saturday, March 2)
Date: 3/2/24 03:07 pm (UTC)Re: Separate post to coillect prompts coming today (Saturday, March 2)
Date: 3/2/24 03:53 pm (UTC)