Bonus Round 1: Three Words

[sportsfest_mods]

A lot can be said in just three words, and we're challenging you to do just that in this bonus round! From your "I love you"s to your "red, white, blue"s, you'll have just three words to prompt and be prompted.

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This round is now closed!

However, it is perpetually open to new fills!

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Rules

• Submit prompts by commenting any three words of your choosing! This can be a phrase or a list of words. Example:
  • Please don't go
    
  • Morning, flower, kiss
    
  • Past, Present, Future
• Prompts can be in any language as long as you provide an English translation!
  
• Fill prompts by creating fanworks inspired by all three words, or only one or two! The choice is yours.
  
• You cannot earn points by filling your teammate's prompts or your own! (That said, we won't stop you from doing so for fun!)
  
• You must use the prompt/fill headers below, and you cannot leave any line blank!

Format

Required Work Minimums:

• 400 words (prose)
  
• 400px by 400px (art)
  • Traditional art is also allowed with a good quality photo/scan
• 14 lines (poetry)
  
• Playlists - 5 song minimum with artists. Link to either a video playlist, or each song separately. Be sure to warn for content in the music videos, and you may find linking to lyrics helpful. You may also write an explanation of why you chose each song.
  
• Moodboards - 9 photo min, source all photos, and no fanart allowed (unless it's your own)
  
• If you’d like to use a different medium, please contact the mods if you have any questions about minimum requirements.

There is no max work cap.

Format your comment in one of the following ways:

If Prompting

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Please use the following subject line for prompt:

Prompt: [Your Team]


• Replace [Your Team] with the name of the team you belong to (Grandstand included!). Nicknames or Official Names are both acceptable

Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.

<strong>Ship/Character:</strong> (The relationship or character your prompt is focused on."&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. You must include at least one specific ship/character.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the character or ship is from. Do not write “Any”) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Underage, or Chose Not to Use Tags, when applicable; Otherwise, write "None".) <strong>Additional Tags:</strong> (Anything you feel requires tagging or mention. Not required, but it is highly encouraged to check the additional tags on the tags page (https://sportsfest.dreamwidth.org/3623.html) as they are things your fellow participants have asked to be tagged for! May also be humorous, tumblr-style tags.) <strong>Do Not Wants:</strong> (Anything you do not want to see in your fills including triggers, squicks, and even minor things like ships you do not like. Please use this space responsibly and not, say, to create crazy limitations for your fillers.) <strong>Prompt:</strong>

Future bonus rounds will have a much more simplified header to copy-paste!

NSFW prompts
All explicitly NSFW prompts must be posted in sf_afterhours in the corresponding Bonus Round post. You can find the After Hours BR1 post here.

If Filling

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Please use the following subject line for your fill:

FILL: [Your Team], [Rating]


• Replace [Your Team] with the name of the team you belong to (Grandstand included!). Nicknames and Official Names are both acceptable
  
  
• Replace [Rating] with the rating of your fill (G-E).

Copy/Paste the following into the body of your comment. Delete all instructional text in parentheses.

<strong>Title:</strong> (Optional. Titling your work makes it easier to rec during the Rec Round, however, this is not necessary.) <strong>Ship/Character:</strong> (The relationship or character your prompt is focused on."&" indicates a platonic relationship, "/" is non-platonic. You must include at least one specific ship/character.) <strong>Additional Characters:</strong> (Optional. Any additional characters who are significantly present.) <strong>Fandom:</strong> (what fandom the character or ship is from) <strong>Major Tags:</strong> (Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Graphic Depictions of Violence, Underage, or Chose Not to Use Tags, when applicable; otherwise write "None".) <strong>Other Tags:</strong> (anything else that you feel requires tagging; Not required, but it is highly encouraged to check the additional tags (https://sportsfest.dreamwidth.org/3623.html) on the tags page as they are things your fellow participants have asked to be tagged for! May also be humorous tumblr style tags.) <strong>Word Count:</strong> (if applicable; otherwise write "None") <strong>Remix Permission:</strong> <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dL2xqWSMDtUI-SUUkWzBuLiK_VqmcLtGd15T0jT6vG8/edit?usp=sharing">See Permissions Sheet</a> (Place any author/artist's notes BEFORE the asterisks.) *** (Place your fill here. You can use HTML after the asterisks.)

Future bonus rounds will have a much more simplified header to copy-paste!

NSFW Fills
NSFW Fills must be posted in sf_afterhours. If you are filling an NSFW prompt, you may reply to it normally. If you're filling a SFW prompt with an NSFW fill, post your fill as a reply to the "Fills for SFW Prompts" comment, then cross-link it here.

You can find the after hours post for BR1 here.

Scoring

These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual member!

Prompts

• Prompts 1-10: 5 points
  
• Prompts 10+: No points !

Fills

• Fills 1-10: 15 points each
  
• Fills 11-20: 5 points each
  
• Fills 21+: 2 points each

Additional Information

• If you're having trouble finding prompts/fills, Icie's bonus round database is a great tool!
  
• The Bonus Round Guidelines further explain how bonus rounds function along with examples.
  
• We also have an official Ao3 Collection for you to post your fills to!
  
• If you see any prompts/fills improperly tagged, in the wrong community, or otherwise in need of mod attention, please use our mod contact form to let us know! In fact, this form can be used to report many things, anonymously or not!

If you have any further question or concerns, please contact us!

Comments

FILL: Team 29 Balls to the Face, RATING: G

[jadehqknb]

Title: A new path
Ship/Character: Ukai Keishin
Additional Characters: mention of Takeda Ittetsu
Fandom: Haikyuu
Major Tags: None
Other Tags: Inner reflection, growth
Word Count: 424
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet


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Keishin takes a long drag of his cigarette, blowing the smoke up into the air and watching it disappear on the wind. He remembers when his aspirations felt as fleeting as that. Blown into the atmosphere and whisked away, never to be seen again. A blip on the radar, inconsequential, so small and brief as to feel nonexistent, to begin with. He doesn’t remember feeling like that at the time, when the weight of his wants and desires were so heavy they crushed him. When his heart burned so hot and fierce he was afraid he’d be consumed.

Then the fire snuffed out and while the weight never lifted, the nature of his burden did. A desire for victory and ‘just one more’ anything on the court turned into working the fields and minding the store. It morphed into putting his mother off him, because yes, he does want to get married, but not right now, and really, mom there’s more to life than marital bliss, right?

He wasn’t the brightest, still isn’t. College was out of the question, at least at the time he thought so. Maybe he should have tried harder.

But then he wouldn’t be here, would he?

Maybe he’d be stuck in some stuffy office with a boss he hates and piles of paperwork instead of stacks of boxes that, really, can wait when his boys… his boys… need him.

“Just remember,” Takeda told him one day after he’d bemoaned his ability to guide this flock of crazy kids, “it’s ok if they fall. They will learn and they will become stronger.” He’d clapped him on the back. “Mistakes precede growth. As long as we take the experience, theirs and ours, and apply the lessons learned, we’ll continue to rise, even if we stumble a little along the way.”

So maybe, Keishin thinks as he stands to stretch sore, tired muscles, maybe the mistakes he made, were just stepping stones to here. He tripped, he fell, he fought. He resisted and complained and futilely told off a teacher too stubborn for his own good. No wonder that guy was made adviser for this team, he’s just as tenacious as they are.

He smiles, knowing he wouldn’t change it, not for anything, not now.

Even his granddad, the old curmudgeon, has changed, has learned. And maybe, Keishin thinks, even if he was harsh, even if he was too hard, those mistakes formed him to the coach he is now. It all goes back to Takeda’s words.

Mistakes precede growth.

And Karasuno certainly has grown.

Re: FILL: Team 29 Balls to the Face, RATING: G

[stariceling]

This is such an awesome little introspective moment from Keishin, thank you! I love the feeling of him growing and maturing and finding that he's happy here coaching his little flock of crazy kids. :D He's growing even as he tries to help the team learn and grow and it's wonderful!

Thank you!

Re: FILL: Team 29 Balls to the Face, RATING: G

[jadehqknb]

Thank you so very much! I saw the prompt and him as an option and everything just clicked (so nice when that happens from time to time). Ukai needs more love (so does Takeda) and it was so fun thinking about what's going through his head as he watches these crazy kids growing up and he's getting closer to them without even realizing it sometimes lol. Thank you so much for reading and leaving feedback, it really means a lot to me.