Event Layout

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Event Layout

The main bulk of the HSWC is made up by two Main Rounds and one Collab Round. There are also seven (or eight) Bonus Rounds that run throughout the event.

All rounds (whether Main, Collab, or Bonus) present a prompt to the community. Teams and participants then do their best to fulfill the prompt challenge.

Main Rounds

There are two main rounds. Each main round has its own Dreamwidth community where teams will post their round submissions.

This is how rounds generally go:

Prompts released! Excitement abounds!
Team members flex their creativity and create awesome content based on the prompt.
- Teams may also work collaboratively to create Main Round entries, but it is not required.
Each team decides which entry they want to represent them.
The Friendleader submits the chosen entry to the round’s community.
The round closes, and everyone gets to enjoy the delicious new content!
Everyone votes on their favorite submissions!
The results are posted, points are awarded, and the whole thing starts all over again!

All submissions must be created new for the challenge. No fan-created content is allowed that has not been made by members of your team specifically in response to the prompt. Mainstream creative content is fine (e.g. popular music, well-known art pieces, the Homestuck soundtrack), but not fanart, fan music (i.e., you can parody a popular song but you cannot use an already-existing fan song in your entry), etc. This is largely to ensure that the original content in your entry is clearly identifiable as distinct from the borrowed content. For more information on work caps and requirements, please check the Work Guidelines.

If you are submitting photos of things, please try to make sure they are decently clear/well-lit! We will not be doing image/color correction for you, and it will not be our fault if people can't make out what your submission is. Also, we suggest but do not require that you submit 3-5 photos of whatever it is from different angles, just so we can get a better look at it!

Do not post your HSWC creations publicly (i.e., on tumblr, AO3, etc.) until voting ends, whether or not they are chosen as part of the team submission. We would like to keep things as anonymous as possible! For more information, read the HSWC Anonymity Policy.