ROUND THREE!

[rainbowpui]

copied from the main com.

ROUND THREE: BALANCING ACT

you gotta tip on the tightrope


Hey shippers!
Welcome to the very last main round. The R1 Phase One results should be up in a day or two, as should the R1 Phase Two voting form; the R2 entries are being processed right now, and the R2 Phase One voting form will go up when the R1 Phase Two voting form closes.

This round is a format challenge! Your R3 entry should be composed of two separate but related parts. They should be roughly equal in size/complexity; we're not going to be policing that, but the general idea is that they should balance each other in some way.


All submissions must be created/assembled new for this round by members of your team.

This challenge will run until 11:59PM EDT July 21. If your Palhoncho sends it in after that time according to the gmail timestamp and before voting closes, your team's entry will get posted--but we may not be able to approve it out of the queue right away.

Requirements (as stated in the Info Post)
Fic/meta must be between 800-3000 words.
Combination fic/art entries cannot have more than 4 images.
All other image-based media (including comics) cannot exceed 10 images/panels.
Cosplay must be at least 75% created or assembled new for the challenge.
Gifs and other animations must be 8 seconds or less total. (e.g. you could have one 5-second gif and one 3-second gif)
Games are still subject to the 10-image limit.
Live-action movies are limited to one minute total.
Original music is also limited to one minute total.

The penalties for going over 3k words will be as follows:
3000-3050: no penalty (to allow for disparities in wordcount software)
3051-3150: -30 points
3151-3250: -60 points
etc.
PLEASE NOTE that gdocs is notoriously bad at generating an accurate wordcount, so you should probably check your submission at http://www.wordcounter.net/ just to make sure.
Also, this year we are requiring transcriptions of all text on images. These transcriptions count towards the wordcount.

For audio/vid files, we are allowing a 2-second grace period, and applying a 30-point penalty every 5 seconds after that. For animations, we are allowing a 1-second grace period, and applying a 30-point penalty every 2 seconds after that.

Penalties for going over the image limit will be 30 points per extra image.

If your entry has 800 words or more, it will be considered fic and will be subject to the illustrated fic limit.

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Submission Format
Submissions should be formatted as outlined here.

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awwwwwwwwwwww yeeeeeaaaahhhhhhh we got this guys! their whole relationship is a balancing act! so lets throw out some ideas.
i think that it would be cool if we could show a balance between the really heavy "try to rip each other apart" aspect of the relationship with the whole "mutually beneficial, help each other grow" aspect that comes with kisnemitude.
because at the end of the day your kisnemisis is supposed to make you better! even if you hate them!
on the other hand we could do something with trying to balance their romance with their EXTREMELY DIFFERENT political views and the fact that there are some lines that should not be crossed and they BOTH have to think of that when dealing with each other.
any other ideas? lets hear them! :) :) :)

Comments

[morriganfearn]

Hmm. I'm not quite clear on what the "formatting" might be for this.

Like an event from one perspective, and then redone to show the other perspective? Our normal Fic/Art combo would not be considered balanced? Or maybe we're supposed to somehow break up things so that each side of the balanced act had 1,500 words and 1-2 pics?

Argh, why the two week deadline? ... I want our glorious three week deadline from round one back ^^;

Hmm. Ideas:
- Gilded Age AU, where Summoner is a socialist and suspected anarchist, leading workers in a strike, and GHB is a robber baron! Negotiations happen!
- CanonU (?). Where the Summoner has to balance the fact that he's basically selling out his movement for shenanigans with his kismemis.
- Is there any way that we can do Dragons?

[morriganfearn]

Just been checking over on the official comm, and it looks as though the "balance" is going to come exclusively in the way of format rather than theme. So this opens us to working on whatever we want, but closes the door on formats that we choose. It would be great if we could brainstorm something by the end of the day, since having the second week to work on and refine a final thing is very important.

We could do "different (bad) ends" where things come to a head and down one road is the death of the Summoner, and down the other is the death of the Highblood (Sort of, "you won the argument, but at this cost," kinda thing).
- We can do this in fic easily
- Or just two images
- And it's a simple enough idea that a comic page can be done in 10 panels, 5 to show each route
- Dueling pesterlogs could balance one another

The other ideas would also work, but it's looking as though we really need to focus on our formatting this round.

Niji, what ideas have you been having?