2015 KuroFai Olympics!

[cloverfield]

It's the most wonderful time of the year, dear CLAMPers: the 2015 KuroFai Olympics!

Hosted for the first time by yours truly (oh dear god what am I even doing), and proudly brought to you my terrible life choices, we welcome you to the annual KuroFai team-based fic contest here on dreamwidth! Over the next month and a bit, we'll all share the pleasure, the pain, the hair-tearing stress of writing and the nigh-orgasmic relief of finally finishing the damn thing and posting it up.

Following in the footsteps of the 2014 Comedy v.s. Drama, the 2013 Fantasy v.s. Future, the 2012 Canon v.s. AU, and the 2011 Fluff v.s. Angst Olympics, I'm proud to announce that this year's theme is Fantasy v.s. Sci Fi!

But cloverfield, I hear you ask, isn't that just the same as the 2013 comp?

To which I say shhhh *drags hand down your face* quiet now; don't make me poke out an eye. Seriously though, it's a classic theme, and considering all the new blood in the fandom, I've no doubt we can make something fantastic of it. And I'm working really hard on making some interesting prompts to make it very different from our very successful 2013 comp!

The official sign-up and rules post will be going up on Friday the 1st of May, or very close to it, seeing as your cheerful mod is located in the southern hemisphere and lives a few hours in the future from most of you. However, the comp itself will be run on Pacific Standard Time, which reikah assures me is Los Angeles local time. If you're confused, google 'local time in Los Angeles' and compare it to your own timezone to see what your difference is.

But if the sign-up post is on Friday, I hear you asking, as in true CLAMP fashion you clearly don't value the safety of both your eyes, why are you posting about it now?

Well! I'm posting now because we've quite the influx of new fans lately, following the 10th anniversary of TRC and the release of the sequel, not to mention various affiliated CLAMP works which have new blood flowing into other areas of the CLAMPdom, and there's no doubt a few unfortunate souls out there that don't know the joy/terror of the KuroFai Olympics... which makes it your job, my dear KuroFai fanatics, to dust off your best door-knocking outfits and spread the word!

So please, reblog this post on tumblr, use the '2015 KuroFai Olympics' tag on your posts, and get people thinking! Make your own posts on tumblr reminiscing about how great it was last year or how excited you are this year, and start warming up the crowd for us. After all, we don't just need writers- we need voters too, and together we can make this event just as successful as years past!

Mad thanks go to reikah  for talking me into hosting, and mikkeneko  for being a sounding board for my early ideas, and I hope to see you all on Friday the 1st!

Comments

[badluck_koi]

Yay, Clover is hosting! *hands mic* As new host, will you keep the current quota of dragons?

I am happy this is still running. So grateful for Reikah hosting all these years. Started something wonderful. If the Olympics had run its course and ended we still would have had a huge legacy of fic.

Lucky to have had Reikah in the past and to have Clover in the future.

[farenmaddox]

Hear, hear!

I second this thought. Reikah has been the most fabulosest organizer & mod that a fandom could ask for, but I have no doubt that we will soon say the same about our dear Clover.

Let's all do our best to make it easy on her, fellow CLAMPers (CLAMPists? CLAMPites? CLAMPians?) and spread the word far and wide so we get a good turnout this year!

[reikah]

Chloe is less terrible than me because unlike me she is not stupidly superstitious about the number 13. True story. //nod

[cloverfield]

This is because thirteen is actually my lucky number. Truth. *nod nod*

[zelinxia]

Fuck yeah, 13 is my good number too!

[animangod]

As it is one of my lucky numbers as well. 7 is actually my unlucky number.

[farenmaddox]

This is true, yes, but I am suspicious about her dragon quota so far.

[cloverfield]

I personally like CLAMPers, because it makes me think of CAMPers, and they're generally either a) happy, or b) so very gay, which I think is something we as a fandom should aspire to.

Or I just stuck a suffix on the end of the word 'CLAMP' and called it good. Which is the truth? I'll never tell.

[farenmaddox]

.... I am not sure where you get the idea that CLAMPers are ever happy at all (*muffled sobbing in the distance*), but 'so very gay' is pretty accurate.

[reikah]

Thank you! I have absolutely every confidence in Clover's ability to chair this competition like a boss, and to come up with the most fun prompts! It ought to be a blast!

[cloverfield]

Ahhhh, senpai believes in me *___* I will have to do my best not to disappoint!

[cloverfield]

Hi there! *taps mic* Is this... is this thing on? *ahem* Well, I'm no Dragon-master like Kyra, but I'm certainly hoping that we can corral a few into the pen for this year's olympics, seeing as they are a fantasy staple. Also, with the way science is progressing these days, I don't think it would be unfeasible for robotic dragon companions to available to participants!

The Olympics is such a fandom institution, I just about jumped out of my skin when Kyra asked if I wanted to chair this year, and how could I have said no? And I'm so grateful that we've had Kyra and Mikke and our fandom senpais working behind the scenes to keep it running for so long, I only hope I can live up to that legacy. LONG LIVE THE OLYMPICS )o)

[zelinxia]

Hooray for Clover for taking the baton!! *\o/*

Ahaha I had to drop out of Team Fantasy 2 years ago, so I plan on making up for it this year.

[cloverfield]

Huzzah! I'd like to thank the baton-bearers who have come before me for all their hard work! :D

Woo! We'll be glad to see you in the sign-ups, Xia!

[superyuui]

I want to do it but I'm terrified yaaaay

I was worried it wasn't going to happen this year C: thank you for taking up the reins, cloverfield!

[tsubasafan]

Yes! Can't wait to do this. Hopefully I don't forget.