SF2020 - Bonus Round 1: Three Words

[sportsfest_mods]

Three words can mean the world! Whether it is a sentence or disconnected terms, what will you choose to convey with limited words?
This bonus round will be open until Saturday, June 27th at 11:59pm (midnight) EDT. (Countdown)

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This round is now closed!

The screening period is over! You're still able to post prompts and fills for this round but they won't count for points!
If you posted or edited a fill while comments were being screened, please use the comment unscreening form to let us know so we can unscreen it!

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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:
  • I love you
    
  • Home, keys, together
    
  • Let them go
• Fill prompts by creating fanworks inspired by all three words, or only one or two! The choice is yours.
  
• Prompts can be in any language as long as you provide an English translation!
  
• 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 nor delete a line! If this is your first time participation please read over our Bonus Round Guidelines.

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)
  
• Fake Social Media - 4 images min
  
• 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 your comment:

PROMPT: [Your Team]


• Replace [Your Team] with the name of your team (Grandstand included!). Please use your Official Team Name!
  
• You must include at least one specific character/ship and fandom in your prompt. You may add "any" after listing a few characters/ships/fandoms!
  
• That said, remember that "any" really means any. If there are characters/ships you don't want to see, feel free to list them under "Do Not Wants" or put "ask for other ships".
  

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 comment:

FILL: [Your Team], [Rating]


• Reply as a comment to the prompt you are filling.
  
• Replace [Your Team] with the name of your team (Grandstand included!). Please use your Official Team Name!
  
• 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/1Y1iX56fSJhK0Dqy4suBFAXgpCW01w3StSe-UeJO4iag/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 in the corresponding Bonus Round post.
You can find the After Hours post for BR1 here.

Scoring

These numbers apply to your team as a whole, not each individual member! It means, for instance: "The first 10 prompts by any team members grant 5 points each".

Prompts

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

Fills

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

Additional Information

• Code for inserting links: <a href="LINK">your text</a>
  
• Code for inserting images: <img src="LINK" width="600px">
  
• 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

Prompt: Team 29 Balls to the Face

[joshllyman]

Ship/Character: Azumane Asahi/anyone, Sugawara Koushi/anyone, Sawamura Daichi/anyone, Miyuki Kazuya/anyone, Takigawa Chris Yuu/anyone
Fandom: Haikyuu, Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: None
Additional Tags: prompt from "715 Creeks," specifically the cover by the Nor'easters is what I was listening to (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enqqkbq6OFo)
Do Not Wants: mcd

Prompt: goddamn, turn around

FILL: Team Seijoh Third Years, T

[tsukisyama]

Title: standing in the weeds
Ship/Character: Miyuki Kazuya/Sawamura Eijun - unrequited ; Miyuki Kazuya & Sawamura Eijun
Fandom: Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: music references b/c the song you linked was SO interesting, drifting apart, last game
Word Count: 417
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet

thank you for introducing me to this song! the dynamics were SO interesting, the almost-music-major in me was geeking out! <3 <3 <3

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Crouching sixty feet, six inches away from someone never used to feel quite so long.

Well, Miyuki’s never had the best eyesight - even in middle school, he’d sported the always fashionable prescription-sunglasses-over-contacts-combo, but once he’d gotten both of those for himself, reading expressions halfway across the infield never gave him much trouble. Especially when it came to someone as… transparent, as Sawamura Eijun.

Now that they’re fighting on the same stage for what could be the last time - the last inning playing alongside Sawamura, ever - Miyuki can’t help but wonder what he’d done to turn the once transparent Sawamura Eijun into an inscrutable monster.

Sawamura winds up, and sends a pitch down and in. Miyuki catches it, of course, it’s what he’d called for moments ago. The batter swings, ends up stumbling, and curses.

Sounds about right, Miyuki thinks, smirking to himself as he sends the pitch back. He’s still completely unpredictable. Your team’s lost its fighting chance.

Miyuki dropped out of music classes all too long ago - way back when once he’d realized the baseball-shaped hole in his heart - yet he can’t help but think Sawamura’s current pitching style feels more like a series of sforzandos and subito pianos than crescendos and diminuendos.

Sawamura’s pitches are always crashing, always burning. His unpredictability made him unreliable in his first year, but developing confidence has since changed that. He’s fully harnessed every pitch in his arsenal, and with Miyuki’s pitch-calling, they’re sending them out in combinations their opponents can’t even begin to guess.

But while Sawamura may not object to Miyuki’s signs, it doesn’t take a tactical genius to realize that their combination wasn’t what it once was. One day, they’d bantered as they always did; the next, Sawamura’s back was metaphorically turned. Their performance on the field hasn’t changed since then, but… damn, if part of Miyuki doesn’t miss something he never realized he’d had.

There was once a time when Miyuki thought he and Sawamura had… had something, together. That they’d made a good team - good enough of one to consider playing alongside each other again. Something about it had felt so… right, somehow.

That was long ago, of course - back when Sawamura had been within Miyuki’s grasp.

And now - Miyuki needs to accept that Sawamura will do the rest of his growing on his own.

So he signs for another pitch, knowing full well it could be their last.

Re: FILL: Team Seijoh Third Years, T

[joshllyman]

I really love this, and also I'm glad you enjoyed the song!!