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MCYTBLR AU Fest 2025: Battleship — General Rules and FAQ
TIMELINE (all times EST):
May 1: Freeform tag nominations open at 0:00.
May 17: Discord opens at 0:00, Relationship tag nomination starts.
May 19: Freeform tag nominations close at 23:59.
May 24: Signups open at 0:00.
May 28: Relationship tag nominations closes at 23:59.
May 30: Signups close at 23:59.
May 31-June 1: Mods make teams. As soon as teams are complete: gameplay starts.
Aufest creation is expected to run for three weeks after gameplay starts, and will have a two week anonymous reading period after gameplay comes to an end. You can expect the discord to be closing down approximately one week into July.
ABOUT:
MCYTBLR AU Fest 2025: Battleship is a MCYT creation event inspired by the multi-fandom event Battleship where teams of artists, writers, podficcers and web weavers work together to clear game boards faster than the other teams. Each team's board will be made up of squares marked with tags, and a square will be cleared when enough works containing that tag have been posted by that team. Clear your team's board and find traps and treasure, beat word count bosses, and post works faster than the other teams!
AU Fest Battleship is based on the multifandom Battleship Exchange, originally created in 2020 by Soulstoned and Red Ranger, inspired by a community challenge in the Trick or Treat exchange. Without the generous use of the multifandom spreadsheets created by current Battleship mod Firebird, AU Fest Battleship would not be possible.
EXPECTATION:
- Artists can claim any tag clearly represented in their work, to a maximum of 100 tags per work.
- Writers can claim any tag clearly represented in their work, with one tag per 100 words posted, a minimum of 300 words per work and a maximum of 100 tags claimed per work. (For example, a 3,200 word work could claim 32 tags, as long as each tag is clearly represented in the work.)
- Podficcers can claim any tag clearly represented in the world they're podficcing, with one tag per 100 words of source material, a minimum of 300 words per work and a maximum of 100 tags claimed per work. (For example, a 700 word original source material could claim 7 tags, as long as each tag is clearly represented in the original work). Podficced works must have author permission.
- Web weavers can claim any tag clearly represented in the work, with one tag per element of the weave, to a maximum of 100 tags per work, and a minimum of three elements per web weave. All elements must be clearly credited.
RULES:
- You must be a member of the discord, for team communication.
- Because of Tumblr, Ao3 and Discord TOS, you must be 13 to participate. You must be 18 to participate in an 18plus team.
- Respect your fellow participants, even when you disagree on fandom matters
- You agree to cooperate with your teammates to the best of your ability, even if you disagree about game tactics. Mods will discord jail people for extended arguing and asshole behaviour will get you kicked from the event.
- All works must be mcyt-themed and set in an au— no canon-compliance.
- The collection will be opened when at least one team has won the event and every participant has at least one gift.
- All works must be complete and created for Aufest 2025.
- All works must be gifted to a fellow participant in the event, respecting their DNWs and adhering to their requested ships and tags.
- Dark or triggering topics or themes must be tagged for.
- No AI-Generated content.
- Don't be an asshole.
LINKS:
Discord: Here Ao3 relationship tags [here] Ao3 freeform tags [All Ages here] [18 Plus here] Ao3 Collection: [All Ages here] [18 Plus here] Overflow Prompt Collection: [All Ages here] [18 Plus here] Signup tutorial: Here
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