SF2020 - Bonus Round 1: Three Words

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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 Grandstand

[jea9yj]

Ship/Character: Tsukishima Kei, Daishou Suguru, Yamazaki Sousuke, any ship, any character
Fandom: Haikyuu!!, Free!, Oofuri, Daiya no A, Run with the Wind, Kuroko no Basuke
Major Tags: None
Additional Tags: Comedy, Slice of Life, AU, crossovers welcome!, also welcome to not follow these tags lol
Do Not Wants: bodily fluids (vomit, pee, etc - non-bloody injuries are okay, though)

Prompt: You played yourself.

FILL: Team Seijoh Third Years, T

[tsukisyama]

Title: you played yourself
Ship/Character: Kuramochi Youichi & Sawamura Eijun
Fandom: Daiya no Ace
Major Tags: none
Other Tags: gamer!mochi, banter, Kuramochi has a video game demon inside of him
Word Count: 661
Remix Permission: See Permissions Sheet


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Youichi thinks he understands video games pretty well.

He’s always been good at them, even when he was little. Particularly the button mashing ones - the artificial intelligence in Street Fighter and Super Smash Bros never knew what hit them, when Youichi really got in his groove. He remembers beating a level nine character in Super Smash Bros Melee with his hands tied behind his back, for crying out loud; he’s certainly some sort of video game prodigy.

Well… maybe not all video games.

“Aha! Do you admit defeat, Kuramochi-senpai!” Sawamura, Youichi’s over-exuberant freshman roommate, cries from behind his computer screen. (Seriously, Youichi’s not sure where he gets all that energy from. Like some sort of wild chipmunk. Or maybe a domesticated, yet still excitable puppy?) Still, though. Puppy or no puppy, they’ve been playing for all of… two minutes, it seems, and Youichi’s already cornered. “I was not expecting it to be so easy to best you in combat!”

Youichi feels one of his veins pop up in irritation. The nerve of this guy! Youichi’s gonna need to put him in his place, sooner or later. (Whether that’s physically with wrestling moves, or in a video game Youichi’s more capable of trouncing him in is still… up in the air, at the moment.)

“You think I’m finished?”

Sawamura barks out a laugh. “I know a cornered man when I see one. Not to worry, Kuramochi-senpai! I will make sure your defeat is a quick and painless one!”

Now that’s just cruel… way to rub salt into the wound, Sawamura. I’ll get you back somehow.

The game continues for a few minutes, and Youichi knows a losing battle when he sees one. He can quit the match right here, and not risk his ranking going down, or he could risk it, and…

What are you saying? Youichi’s inner gaming demon shouts. You’re really going to give up against Sawamura? No defeat against him could ever be quick or painless - the loss will eat you up for as long as you live!

Youichi’s inner gaming demon has a point. If he forfeits, Sawamura won’t be able to shut up about it for years. The only chance he’s got is to go into this match like a… like a champion!

So, with all the rest of his remaining might, he selects his last available beast. Youichi’s played this game long enough to know it’s not a strong creature - in fact, it’s only powerful if the opponent misses an attack.

“Aww, look at that,” Sawamura jeers. “Your last option is so cute! It is a shame that I must defeat it -”

“-Just get it over with, Sawamura, before I beat you to death.”

Sawamura loses the smile after his last click. “Aye, aye!”

Youichi closes his eyes before he makes his own move - bracing himself for the cheering that’s bound to wake everyone else down the hall.

… only, it never comes.

When Youichi opens his eyes, Sawamura’s expression can only be described as ghastly.

Did he really…?

Sure enough, once Youichi looks at the screen, he sees it - Sawamura’s combatant missed their attack. Thus, Youichi’s side got an omni-boost, and…

Maybe I really am a video gaming prodigy!

“Oi, Sawamura,” Youichi says, “I was just starting to get heated up.”

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“How did you win that battle?” Sawamura asks, for the eighth time that evening.

Youichi was mortified to hear that Sawamura was, in fact, just pushing buttons the whole time during the game. Sure, Youichi hadn’t been given the strongest deck to begin with, but still… that was close.

Always eager to play the part of ‘wise and all knowing senpai,’ Youichi settles on laughing.

“It’s simple,” Youichi lies. “You played yourself.”

Sawamura nods eagerly. Man, that kid is so easy to rile up.