OFFICIAL PROMPTS & GENRES CLAIMS POST

Our most esteemed 2008 Summer Snarry Games Teams have already been given this list of prompts and genres to peruse for several days.

This weekend, they must each commit to their Genre(s) and Prompt(s). Then we will light the torch and the games will BEGIN!

Champions are required to pick THREE (3) between their prompts and genres. Combinations can be either TWO genres and ONE prompt, or ONE genre and TWO prompts. There are TEN (10) Genres and FIFTY (50) Prompts total. This must be done before end of day, Tuesday, September 2, PST.

The judges will rate each entry based on genre(s), prompt(s), and overall performance.

( So, without further ado, The List: )

*Champions: Please list your Team, your chosen genre(s) and your prompt(s) in a comment to this post.

*Alternates do not have to choose at this time.

REMEMBER: Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success!

Good luck!

CUT! That's a WRAP!

Hey, everybody! I apologise for the delay.

We have some final things to wrap up, and then we go on a (VERY) short hiatus before we begin again in the very late summer for the Snarry Art Games.

♥I really hope everyone enjoyed the 2008 Winter Games, and I'd like to thank, once again, everyone who participated, from my Champions and mods, to the fans and judges. Thank you all so much!

♥I'd like to again point everyone to our fabulous Medal Award Ceremony, so you can once again look at the lovely art by tripperfunster, as well as the wonderful graphics by swtalmnd.

♥Reminder to Champions: Anyone wanting their individual poll vote tallies can request them privately through the Snarry Mod Gmail account. That applies to all Champions from previous years, too. ♥

♥Some links for bookmarking, as well:

Stories from 2007 can be found by various TAGS (soon to be found on the sidebar in the Comm main page, along with the links to the 2006 and 2007 Fic and Art), including by:
**Team Dragon
**Team Phoenix
**2008 Master List of Fic entries.

♥The stories will remain here unless otherwise requested by the authors, we can link directly to your sites and/or journals in lieu, just let us know the link you wish us to use. Authors are free to archive anywhere now that the Games are over.

♥ Don't forget about the fabulous Closing Games Bloopers and Stories, and the Opening Games Crack!Art!

If you wish to get to know your favourite authors or teammates a little better, don't forget to check out the Champion Interviews!

♥Team Dragon gave us a wonderful Soundtrack.

♥Mod Extraordinaire and Headmistress of Walking The Plank, aliciamasters offers a WALKING THE PLANK UPLOADING AMNESTY to ALL Champions for the month of July - previous champions (authors and artists) from years past, take note!


♥♥♥Speaking of ART - guess what is closing in upon us? That's right, the 3rd Annual Snarry Art Games! We normally post the Art Games starting Late September through to October. It looks like this year (for the first time) we may have some competition from the Drarry quarter of fandom. I look forward to seeing our Artists step up to show them how it's done. Keep a sharp eye out, sign ups are coming soon!

♥ Also, speaking of Walking the Plank - don't forget to RSVP for the Snarry Meetup being held at Terminus in Chicago in August - anyone from last year at Prophecy can tell you the WtP meet was the talk of the town! Go to snarry_terminus and RSVP HERE

Lastly, Our 4th Annual "Fandom Fest How-To Poll", in which we ask about how we can improve for next year, and how our changes from last year affected participants and fans alike, will be up in the next couple of days. We'd love to hear what you have to say!

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On a personal note, I would like to invite all of you to check out the wonderful Thank you that Team Dragon did up for me, and there are some excellent and entertaining things to be seen there, such as drabbles, ficlets, crack and LOVE:





Thank you, teamdragon!

I would also like to personally thank the following people for going above and beyond as ALTERNATES for their respective teams:

TEAM PHOENIX:

iulia_linnea ♥!!
countess_hp
faynia
r_grayjoy
mistressmaraj
chazpure
odogoddess

TEAM DRAGON:

belleamante
eeyore9990
floralmoon*
angelsotherlove*
lesyeuxverts*

Thank you ALL!
Cheers!

Hello, everyone!

This was a spectacular selection of fics, and a banner year for the number of entries! Thanks to everyone who participated. This is a great fandom.

As you all know, djin7 & reddwarfer  are both mods at Walking the Plank.  aliciamasters (that's me!) is lucky enough to be the headmistress.  Therefore, we would be honored and overjoyed if you decided to host your fic at Walking the Plank, now that the fest is over. 

We have created TWO TEAM open series under djin7's name, one for Team Dragon and one for Team Phoenix.

Due to the tremendous team spirit, we have also added two other series: 2008 Comment Porn, under RaeWhit, and 2008 Opening & Closing Ceremonies, which can include all the wonderful extras posted on the comm.

If you've never hosted at Walking the Plank, it is a moderated community of Snarry fanfiction and fanart. 

Here's where you sign up for an account.  You'll love it:  I promise! 

These are the submission guidelines.  In addition, we have walkthroughs created to help you figure out how to post. 

Once it's up, reply to this post, and I will take it through the submissions process and add it to the series, so that everyone who followed the Snarry Games can find your teammates' stories together. All your entry needs to say is I'm ready!  (It can say more if you want, though.) If you are struggling, or need help getting your entry up on the site, let me know.  We'll work something out.  My e-mail is aliciamastersATgmailDOTcom.



Here are a few FAQs about an Open Series.
( Get your questions answered here. )
Are you fascinated by Walking the Plank? We are always looking for volunteers, both as mods and technical support. Here are the volunteering guidelines. I was very lucky to be a mod on this contest, and I'm amazed at the talent in our fandom!  Meanwhile, I hope you will consider WTP a home for your art.If you agreed to archiving, but you don't have time to upload, I will contact you to arrange a mod upload. I'd love to have a complete set of Champions. (Hint, hint, Earlier Champions! We still have a few stories & artwork missing!)   REMEMBER:  if something is stopping you, please feel free to contact me.  Maybe we can work it out.



Special Note: the WTP mods are having a Snarry Games fic & art AMNESTY for July. We will be offering to help upload fic and art by posting on the original post, and will also accept requests on this post. If you will have the time to do it yourself, we would appreciate your help in doing so, but if you have never posted your art or fic, and don't think you will without our help, let us do it for you. We want to have all the 2006, 2007 and 2008 series completed by the end of August, if the champions are willing. After LJ strikethrough 2007, we want to ensure that work this good always has a home, and we want a searchable, useable team listing for everyone to enjoy.


Thank you for letting me be a part of this experience!  I hope I see you at Walking the Plank soon!

Today we again recognize the hard-won achievement and dedication of authors and their teams who strive for excellence in Snarry.

As always, it is the fans that are really the winners here. Our Champions all worked hard to entertain us, to allow us a glimpse into different worlds and characters that we hold near and dear. We thank them ALL for this gift they share.

However, in the competition we set out to do, the Judges (you, the readers) have voted to score these creative authors and their teams, both of which have alternatively stunned and excited us, allowing one to edge out the other for Gold by again, the smallest of margins. So without further ado:


Ladies and gentlemen, our GOLD MEDAL WINNERS, with a total of 855 out of a possible 945 points:


Team Dragon!





Congratulations to our 2008 Snarry Winter Games Gold Medal Winners!



( Dragon )


And our SILVER MEDAL WINNERS, with a total of 844 out of a possible 945 points:



Team Phoenix!


Congratulations to our 2008 Winter Snarry Games Silver Medal Winners!


( Phoenix )


Congratulations, all!

Friends of Snarry:

Hi. My name is djin7, and I would like to say a few words to you all.

( Some statistics that will stun you, I’m sure. )


( Before we announce the results of the 2008 Winter Snarry Games, I would like to take this time to thank some people who really made this round possible. )


( Now a special word to our commentors; thanks for feeding the authors! )

( Reminders about the Fandom Fest How-To Poll, and a hint of what's to come. )

To all the readers and fans who helped make this project a huge success: My deepest gratitude, we are now being watched by 1322 on IJ! That’s tremendous. Thanks to you all, for reading and reviewing, for voting and pimping, for reccing and listing! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! *applauds*

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The totals are in, and have been tallied. This means that the Medal Ceremonies will be coming right up, stay tuned!

The 2008 Winter Author snarry_games are nearly over. We have just posted the last of a Grand Total of 70 Snarry Fic entries. We are always very happy and awed by the overwhelming response and support of this project, and would like to thank everyone who has been involved. The mods, the Champions, the voters and judges, the reviewers and reporters, the affiliates. Thank you all!

We now move into our final voting phase. We will be giving everyone until mid Sunday, June 8, to finish their voting. The polls will remain open until that time, and then will be closed to enable the Mods to begin the counting process. You can also take this time to edit your votes, if necessary. It is easy to edit your poll: you can change your answer by clicking on the poll #, and then clicking the [ Fill-out Poll ] link at the top. Don't forget to click on "submit poll" after you've changed your answers.

Under the cut, you will find the Master List of all the submissions to help guide you to the entries that you may have missed during this 7 week flurry of Snarry.

Do not think the community will be idle, there will be special treats coming up for you. We were unable to organise our usual closing Games Drabbles this year, but both Team Phoenix and Team Dragon have some great treats for you, including a Blooper/Missing scene challenge!

And now, we leave you with:

( THE 2008 WINTER SNARRY GAMES MASTER LIST )

Feel free to pimp your favourite author or team this week while the voting remains open! Enjoy.

We are experiencing temporary technical difficulties, please stand by. Coming up shortly, we will be posting our last Champion Interview, and later today, and a nice, beefy story you can chomp into. Less than a week to go in the Snarry Games!

Thank you for your patience,

The Mod Squad.

We are at the HALF-WAY POINT in the Snarry Games! This means the fantastic number of 35 have been posted. Now's your chance to go back and catch up! We have many more extraordinary and wonderful stories to share with you, beginning again tomorrow morning. Thank you for supporting the Snarry Games. Enjoy!


( 35 ENTRIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, with links and summaries )

There is still so much more to come! Don't forget to vote and review! You can pimp your favourite team, or both teams, using our graphics found HERE.

Stay tuned,

The Mod Squad

Due to Insanejournal's technical difficulties all day, we will not be posting another story until tomorrow morning.

Please take the time to peruse this morning's entry from Team Phoenix, and catch up on all the excellent entries posted up to now. We are nearing the halfway point of the Games!

We will be back to our regularly scheduled stories tomorrow, and stay tuned for a recap at the halfway point, later this week.

Thank you, and happy reading!

A large portion of the readers are new to the Games, and some previous judges may require a friendly reminder or refresher, so we are reposting some important information about the RULES FOR VOTING IN THE SNARRY GAMES.

You can find these Rules in our FAQS.


SPECTATOR/JUDGES POLL/Rules & Regulations


WHO CAN VOTE: Everyone who is a spectator and has an insanejournal or OpenID.

You can only vote once, but you can go in and change your original vote right up until the polls are locked for the final tally (just click on the poll, then click again on "Fill Out Poll", which will give you your previous numbers). Other than seeing your own numbers, the poll results will be visible only to Mods.


WHO CANNOT VOTE:

CURRENT Team Dragon and Phoenix Members and Alternates, Snarry Games Mods, and those who do NOT have a Insanejournal account or OPenID (IJ does not support anonymous voting). However, anyone can review and comment! And pimp. Pimp your favourites and your teammates' entries far and wide!

Please vote responsibly. The mods work very hard counting all the polls up manually, and we do not appreciate the extra time it takes to delete Null votes and Troll votes. Thank you.


**IMPORTANT NOTE** The first two questions must be judged impartially. You can find an entry not to your personal tastes, but still appreciate that it was well representing of its genre(s) and/or prompt(s). Be fair when you consider these criteria, and judge responsibly. The last question is subjective; How much did YOU like this entry overall?. Here, and only here, is where your personal tastes and preferences should be part of the judging process. For more info, please see below: WARNINGS.


The Snarry Games always warns for character death*, Under 18, and extreme content. We simply use a format where the warning is invisible, like this:

Warnings: Drag mouse over space if you wish to know: * Major character death. Torture. Extreme violence. Harry is 17 in this Fic, Infidelity, MPREG, etc etc etc *

This way prevents anyone from seeing anything that they do not want to see, be it spoilers or the content in the story in question. PLEASE do not force yourself to read and vote on an entry you would normally not want to read. Please HEED these warnings.

If you cannot vote fairly on a story because of the content that you've been warned against, you should not be reading or judging that story. It is not fair to the author, the team, or the mods, who work very hard to count the polls.

Thank you!

The Mod Squad.

*Character death warned for is untimely, or other than: natural, old age, or having already happened in canon.

2008 Snarry Winter Games are about to begin!

( 2008 Snarry Winter Author Games )

( Our 2008 Snarry Games Champions and their chosen Prompts and Genres )

( Poll Rules and Regulations )

( FAQs )

Any questions, comments or concerns? Please comment to this post. Thank you!




We wish both Teams the best of luck in their battle to win GOLD.


Remember: Alone, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.



On that note....

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Thank you, and enjoy!

Snarry Games Mod Squad.

Just dropping in to remind folks who may be having trouble getting membership status to the snarry_games for the F-locked NC17 (Art) posts - you must have an age statement or the year of your birth in your user info, because you must be over 18 to view adult rated content. You can still watch/add this community (public posts only) without joining it, if you are not.

Thank you!

*FIRES STARTING GUN*

( We give you the Master List of the Prompts and Genres for the 2008 Winter Games )

Any questions? You can find our standard FAQs here, and we will be posting more as the Games grow closer.

You can support your favourite authors and teams by using our 2008 Graphics.

Feel free to peruse our 2006 and 2007 Snarry Games Entries, both author and artist, from Teams Romance and Angst, and Teams Wartime and Postwar. 2007 Summer Art Games can be found on insane journal here: Team Angst, and here: Team Romance.

♥Thank you to tripperfunster for the beautiful 2008 Art, and to swtalmnd for the graphics and banners, and to pervart and xingou for the icons! Very soon we will have the new layout up, courtesy of xingou and tripperfunster.

We will not be idle while the authors write furiously for the April posting dates, please stay tuned for our Champion Interviews, and details on our 2008 Opening Games Crack!Art festival!

We also have a new affiliate we will be announcing shortly!

On that note....

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

OFFICIAL PROMPTS & GENRES CLAIMS POST

Our most esteemed 2008 Winter Snarry Games Teams have already been given this list of prompts and genres to peruse for several days.

This weekend, they must each commit to their Genre(s) and Prompt(s). Then we will light the torch flame firecracker and the games will BEGIN!

Champions are required to pick THREE (3) between their prompts and genres. Combinations can be either TWO genres and ONE prompt, or ONE genre and TWO prompts. There are TEN (10) Genres and FIFTY (50) Prompts total.

The judges will rate each entry based on genre(s), prompt(s), and overall performance.

( So, without further ado, The List: )

*Champions: Please list your Team, your genre(s), and your prompt(s) in a comment to this post.

*Alternates do not have to choose at this time.

REMEMBER: Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success!

Good luck!

"I'm so excited about the Games this year! Look at the talent we have lined up!"

"I know, Alicia! These two teams are just phenomenal. The Games are going to be so wild this year. What do you think, Leila?"

"Um, what? Sorry, DJ, this phone connection is awful. Crappy service out here."

"I asked what your thoughts are about the Games - the two teams are really evenly matched and competition is going to be fierce."

"The game? I can't believe you even have to ask me that. GO PATRIOTS! W00t! NEW ENGLAND RULES!"

"Hey! Whaddaya mean Patriots? GIANTS, BABY! NEW YORK REPRESENTIN'!"

"Leila! Lisa! I meant the SNARRY GAMES! *facepalms* And on that note..."






( See who's still standing when the flames roar in the 2008 Snarry Games )

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows marks the end of a hero's journey, but with it comes the beginning of a fantastic opportunity for the fans.

We no longer have to wait for history to happen - the future is ours to write!

Snarry Games invites you to join us as we set out to do just that, discovering a whole world of new possibilities for Severus Snape and Harry Potter.

( Presenting the 2008 Snarry Games Champions: Team Dragon and Team Phoenix! )

*Incredible art by tripperfunster and banners/graphics by swtalmnd!

Banners and Icons coming your way soon!

Stay tuned to the Snarry Games for news on the Official Prompts and Genres list, Opening and Closing Games Festivities, including Champion Interviews, Drabbles, and possibly more Crack!Art!

ANNOUNCING THE
2008 SNARRY WINTER AUTHOR GAMES!!

We are pleased to present:

TEAM PHOENIX vs TEAM DRAGON!

Gotcha!

Truthfully, the Mod Squad thought long and hard this year about amalgamating the Games, changing our posting dates, and using Specific Genre Teams.

In the end, we decided to keep the Author and Artist Games separate, and use 'generic teams' for the first time ever, now that canon is closed. We think it opens up much wider playing field for the Champions, giving them more options to explore.

( 2008 Winter Author Games Details )