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The Intergalactic Quidditch Cup

The Intergalactic Quidditch Cup

Since space on our planet is limited, magical beings from other planets in our solar system must play against each other for the right to settle on Earth within the wizarding population. The game they play? Intergalactic Quidditch of course!

Come out and represent one of these planets. Get your brooms ready because…

Sign-ups are now open for Team Tryouts!

Simply reply to this post and answer the following questions:

1. What’s your penname?
2. Have you written before? Posted here?
3. Would you enjoy writing in a round robin, competing against other authors also writing in one and using the same prompts?
4. Can you commit to writing one 1-2 thousand-word chapter within a week’s time when it is your turn?
5. Are you a team player? Willing to cheer for your teammates?
6. What are your two favorite positions on a Quidditch team?
7. What are your two favorite planets in our solar system?
8. Can you solemnly swear that you won’t discuss your team’s story ideas with anyone else? (The other teams are dying to know what you’ve got planned so they can outscore you!)

More about the Challenge:

Teams will need players (authors) for seven positions.

Positions:

Gravity Keeper

Supernova Seeker

Asteroid Beater

Meteoroid Beater

Comet Chaser

Moon Chaser

Black Hole Chaser

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Each team (planet) will have a team captain (which will be a TPP Staff member), who may play one of the positions on the team.

Team Captains will:
--hold team meetings and practices (via an LJ Community)
--give out the order in which the players need to write (positions)
--help members decide which direction the story should take
--discuss the best possible beta for your chapter (remember you can’t have someone on another team beta for you)
--answer any questions you may have and give out the word prompts for each chapter

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There will be a referee who remains neutral and doesn’t play on any team.

Referee’s duty:
--decides which word prompts will be used for each chapter and informs the team captains
--predetermines which phrases or cliché wording/situation in any given chapter is a penalty (loss of five points)
--predetermines which phrases or cliché wording/situation in any given chapter is a bonus (gain of five points)
--receives a copy of each chapter in case uploading assistance is needed

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Points will be tallied after each chapter is written.

How can you get points?
--using the prompt words (a minimum of three of the seven given) correctly in the story will be the equivalent of tossing a Quaffle through a hoop (ten points each)
--turning your story in on time will gain you twenty points
--each team will receive five points per review
--teams will win bonus points after each chapter by having readers vote on the best chapters (point distribution will depend on the number of teams; example: if there are four, first would have 40 points, second would have thirty, third would have twenty, and last would have ten)
--using the ref’s predetermined phrases or cliché wording/situation (five points)

How can you lose points?
--turning your story in late will cost you twenty points
--going over the word limit (over 2000 words) will cost you five points per hundred words
--going under the word limit (under 1000 words) will cost you five points per hundred words
--using the ref’s predetermined phrases or cliché wording/situation (five points)
--using one of the prompt words incorrectly would be a loss of ten points each time you use it incorrectly
--not using the required amount of prompt words (at least three) will cost the team ten points for each requirement not met (maximum of thirty points)
--having to use a substitute player for any given chapter will cost the team twenty points (plus any other penalties that might have occurred—being late, etc.)

Other Stuff:

Your team’s name will simply be the planet you represent.

The respective positions from the teams would go head to head each chapter—both answering the same prompt.

Each chapter will be due on a Sunday. Email the chapter to your team captain and the referee for uploading please. The TPP staff will then give it priority in queue and have it posted the same day.

The next chapter is due in exactly one week.

Please check your chapter’s word count at www.spellcheck.net for accuracy. It’s what we will be using to check it (not everyone has the same writing programs).

No reviewing your own chapter please.

If a team has to get a substitute player (pinch hitter), that person has to turn it in on the same due date. No extensions.

Once the season is over, the two teams with the most points will play for the Intergalactic Quidditch Cup and the right to inhabit Earth!
--playoffs will have each team choosing three players to compete (one chapter each)
--all normal rules will apply
--winners take all!

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Important Dates:

Open sign-ups on Saturday October 10, 2009

Close sign-ups on Saturday October 24, 2009

Teams will be chosen, captains named, and rules finalized by October 31, 2009

First chapter will be due on November 7, 2009

Final chapter will be due on December 19, 2009

Two finalist teams to play in the final Intergalactic Quidditch Cup announced on Monday, December 28.

We’ll take a couple of weeks off for the Yuletide.

The first chapter of the playoffs will be due on January 10, 2010

The final chapter of the playoffs will be due on January 24, 2010

Winning team will be announced on Monday, February 1, 2010

Southern_Witch_69

11/09/0010 at 2:12 am

GUI or WYSIWYG

Major Modification!!

GUI or WYSIWYG has been added to the following fields: reviews, responses to reviews, comments and story text areas. If you are unaware of what that is, you can play around with it either by leaving a comment to this news item or by leaving a review for a story.

Authors: No need to panic. I am making the transition as painless as possible, and it really isn't too confusing once you take a look at it and read my notes next to the textbox you paste your story into.

I hope you all have fun with this. I worked very hard to get this to work, especially with extra consideration to authors uploading stories, and I actually have butterflies in my stomach.

notsosaintly

11/05/0010 at 8:43 pm

September 2009 stats

Hi there!

Autumn has come round, and so it's time to start curling up with a good fanfic in the cooler evenings!

This past month there have been 171 stories added to our submissions queue, Validated Authors have uploaded 124 stories, and of those, 112 of them were new stories rather than WIP updates, and 98 stories have been marked as complete. That means that the site now has 4507 stories (3769 completed) total for you to read through.

We gained 367 new members in September. Welcome, mates.

Here's a list of new authors who uploaded something to our queue area:

AlanaVawn
astopperindeath
countrymouse
ksevfansd
LittleRedWritingWolf
mw87
sapphire_pheonix
shatteredrose
Shella LaRoche
snapesbeatrice
Veronica Faux
zanzi

There were 3260 reviews left during June, and of those, authors responded to 2382. Good work, mates. The best way to get to know your readers and what they might want is to exchange discourse via reviews.

Top Reviewers for September 2009:

sunny33 (193 reviews posted)
snitchette (143 reviews posted)
debjunk (134 reviews posted)
EverMystique (124 reviews posted)
kimjo2 (97 reviews posted)
sinbad (87 reviews posted)
braye27 (85 reviews posted)
blue artemis (84 reviews posted)
rosered (81 reviews posted)
Shadow (74 reviews posted)
beaweasley2 (73 reviews posted)
Alcina vom Steinsberg (69 reviews posted)
makaem (65 reviews posted)
gabi1791 (51 reviews posted)
Clairvoyant (51 reviews posted)
Sampdoria (50 reviews posted)
HBAR (50 reviews posted)
mimmom (49 reviews posted)
pearl city princess (48 reviews posted)
Jinxie (44 reviews posted)

Authors replying to the most reviews are:

neelix (130 reviews answered)
debjunk (105 reviews answered)
MMADfan (102 reviews answered)
Bambu (95 reviews answered)
ladyinthecloak (93 reviews answered)
gersknightlady (81 reviews answered)
livvy6 (67 reviews answered)
corianderpie (64 reviews answered)
morgaine_dulac (55 reviews answered)
luvsev (54 reviews answered)
brandy01 (54 reviews answered)
LiteraryBeauty (51 reviews answered)
lulabelle72 (48 reviews answered)
sunny33 (46 reviews answered)
blue artemis (44 reviews answered)
Southern_Witch_69 (40 reviews answered)
grangerous (38 reviews answered)
WriterMerrin (38 reviews answered)
Valady (38 reviews answered)

The Potter Place Variety Challenge authors replied to a total of 451 reviews. Way to go!

Join in the fun and make October just as cool!

Have a good one!

SW69

Southern_Witch_69

03/09/0010 at 5:26 am

TWO NEW SKINS!!

Thanks to TarahFae (artiste extraordinaire, hostess of the Snape Icon Archive, and brilliant authoress of Melangell), I have a beautiful new skin. Members and non-members alike can use this skin, called Patronus, by choosing it as your permanent skin in your Edit Personal Information area or by changing the skin on the index page. I hope you like it. Be sure to tell Tarah how wonderful the graphics are. Tarah, you are the best!

I also created a skin that is light on graphics, which will be perfect for those of you on dialup, who have slower connections, or use mobile devices to view websites. Page load times will be faster if you use the GraphicLite skin.

notsosaintly

11/05/0009 at 11:55 pm

Southern_Witch_69

07/09/0009 at 2:21 am

Queue slower than usual

Apologies to authors who have chapters in our queue. We are currently understaffed, so it can take a day or two longer than usual. We are working hard to stay on top of everything.

ladyinthecloak

07/08/0009 at 2:25 am

Major Addition

First of all, I want to apologize for neglecting the stories in queue the last two days. All I have to say in my defense is that when I get something in my mind, I cannot let it go. I am a millimeter away from having the "Remember Me" feature ready. It has some minor bugs having to do with the cookies and I am trying to iron them out before I upload it to the archive. However--and this I hope will make up for neglecting my admin duties--I urge you all to login and take a look at the change(s) on your User Account page.

One of the changes you will only be able to see if you have a story waiting to be validated. This function, entitled Story Validation Status, will let you know where exactly your story is in the queue. The second change I have been wanting to implement for a long time. This one everyone can see, but you will only be able to take advantage if you have left a review. Take a look at View Reviews You've Given and you will be able to see all reviews you have left, in order by date (descending), complete with title, chapter, author, date, and the number of stars. Here, you can also add a little bit more to the same review or respond to an author's response. I truly hope you find this fun, if not useful.

notsosaintly

06/05/0009 at 11:40 pm

Attention Anything Goes Challenge Authors

As Southern_Witch_69 is currently without internet access due to the recent hurricane, please send your chapters for the challenge to ladyinthecloak at yahoo dot com. Thanks.

ladyinthecloak

05/08/0009 at 7:19 pm

Updates and More

If you are interested in the latest changes I have made, please visit the forum board, especially My Latest Post. Comments are always welcome.

In case you were unaware, there is an area on the forum board where you can post if you are either looking for a beta or wish to help an author by betaing. Please take a look. I know there is one author currently looking. Thank you!

notsosaintly

05/05/0009 at 12:27 am

Petulant LDWS - Sign-up Post

Welcome, drabble writers, to Petulant LDWS. We are very pleased to be hosting the archive's first ever drabble challenge. We hope you are excited as well.

Please keep in mind this challenge will last nine weeks, ending approximately in mid-November.

The first prompt will post on LJ, yahoogroups, and here on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th.

The first drabble will be due by MIDNIGHT (GMT) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th.

Voting for the first week's challenge will end at MIDNIGHT (GMT) SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th.

Sign-ups will close at the time the first prompt posts.

****TPP members who don't have LJ accounts can still reply to the LJ post in a comment signing with your TPP penname. Sign up here: http://petulantpoetess.livejournal.com/42436.html****

Drabble Format:

Authors, please send your drabbles to ladyinthecloak at gmail dot com. All entries need the following information in the body of the email:

TPP penname:
Name(s) of beta reader(s):
Title:
Chapter Title:
Main Category: Petulant_LDWS
Secondary Category (if applicable):
Genre(s):
Character(s):
Warnings:
Rating:
Word Count (verified by http://www.wordcounttool.com/ ):

Attach the drabble (complete with html coding ) to the message as a .doc or .rtf file, containing nothing but the actual story and A/N. Beta thanks are appropriate and welcome, but please do not reveal the name of your beta until the reveal.

The deadline for drabble submission each week is Midnight (GMT) Thursday.

Thanks and happy writing.

ETA: please include your e-mail address -- written in long form such as username at gmail dot com -- in the comment box on LJ.

Clairvoyant

04/11/0009 at 1:51 am

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The Intergalactic Quidditch Cup

GUI or WYSIWYG

September 2009 stats

TWO NEW SKINS!!

August 2009 Site Stats

Queue slower than usual

Major Addition

Attention Anything Goes Challenge Authors

Updates and More

Petulant LDWS - Sign-up Post