Homestuck Shipping World Cup Announcements

Announcements blog for the 2014 Homestuck Shipping World cup. Sign-ups last from April 8 to May 8! Join the fun at our Dreamwidth, and follow us for updates! Want to advertise for your rare-pair? Check out the Team Advertisement tumblr.

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HSWC 2015 MODERATOR OPEN CALL

Do you love Homestuck? Do you want to support your fandom? Do you think you'll have free time summer 2015? Do you have experience in any sort of leadership position (either online/in a fandom or offline)?

If the answer to these questions was “Yes!”, then we’d love to have you on the HSWC 2015 mod team! 

We know it's a bit early, but without mods we won't be able to run the HSWC in 2015. We're thinking of implementing a lot of changes and we'd like to start talking to new mods early to get their input and ideas. We have a lot of infrastructure in place that will help you do your job, and it's actually a pretty fun event to run. We need you!

HSWC Mods are most directly responsible for tabulating their liaison teams’ round points, as well as staying in touch with their teams when they need help.  More generally, all the mods also work together to keep an eye on things, help establish HSWC rules and protocol, and sort out misunderstandings.  The workload is generally about two-four hours a week.

If you’re interested, please click the “Read More” to learn how to apply!

TO APPLY

Send this application as an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject "HSWC Mod Application".

— (All fields are required.)

Name/Alias:

E-Mail: (one that you check regularly and would be willing to share with the friendleaders you will be working with; it would never be displayed publicly)

Tumblr:

Dreamwidth:

Google Hangouts: (the head mod can't use skype, so this is required! Sorry!)

Previous Mod/Leadership Experience: (online or offline)

Are you familiar with HTML?:

Please tell us your summer schedule: (when are you free? When are you busy? It's okay if you don't know right now.)

Have you participated in the HSWC/HSO before?:

Are you considering friendleadering?: 

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Thank you so much for reading and considering! We hope to hear from you :)

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Hello, shippers! At long last, we've reached the end of the road: the final post of HSWC 2014! For the last three months you've worked hard; made friends; created hundreds of fanworks; and generally done yourselves, your teams, and your fandom proud. Give yourselves and each other a pat on the back! Click the above link to see the final standings! 

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Collab Round Final Standings

The top sixteen ranked teams of the Collab Round are: 1. Hella Jeff <3 Sweet Bro (27 votes) 2. Ancestors (20 votes) 3. Alpha!Dave <3 Alpha!Rose (19 votes) 4. John <3< Tavros (17 votes) 5. Eridan <3 Feferi <3 Sollux (16 votes) 5. Kanaya <> Karkat (16 votes) 7. Rose <3 Roxy (15 votes) 8. Dave <3 Jade <3 John <3 Rose (12 votes) 8. Gamzee <> Karkat (12 votes) 10. Guardians (11 votes) 10. Dave <3 Nepeta (11 votes) --- 11. Dirk <3 Jake (10 votes) 11. Dave <3 Karkat (10 votes) 12. Dirk <3 Jane (8 votes) 12. Dave <3 John (8 votes) 12. Eridan <3 Roxy (8 votes) For more information, please refer to the Collab Round Tabulation Spreadsheet, which has information such as: 

Lists of everyone who voted in final votes and preliminary votes , separated by team. If your name is listed on at least one of those sheets, you will receive 15 points for voting.

The rankings of all other teams in the preliminary vote tallies.

Final vote tallies.

Congratulations to the top teams! Points will be allotted on the Big Kahuna spreadsheet by the end of the day. All Collab Round entries can now be discussed and cross-posted freely without worrying about the anonymity policy. You can comment on this post, but please mind our anti-wank commenting policy.

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Final Score Cross-Check

As we're winding down, we think it's important for you all to double check that your scores from bonus rounds, voting, etc. look accurate. Here is the link to how scoring works, and here is the link to the Big Kahuna Spreadsheet. Please note that the posted scores are not up-to-date, as we are still scoring bonus rounds and the collab round.  If you spot any errors or you don't think that you got the correct amount of points for a certain round, please email us at [email protected] telling us what the discrepancy is. If it's a bonus round score, we would appreciate it if you could attach a document that lists your submissions so we can look through that. Thank you!

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We encourage you to leave comments and questions for what you liked and didn't like this year. And we'll do our best to accommodate those requests next time!

In addition, we are trying to gauge interest for hosting a HSWC next year. If you want this to happen, please let us know!

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The voting deadline has been extended a day to accommodate for lost time. Voting ends August 27th at 11:55 PM UTC. 

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Due to mod error in tabulating the collab round preliminary votes we accidentally left a finalist team off of the final vote roster. Because of this we have had to re-make the final vote poll, which you can find here.

Please re-cast your vote to have it counted.

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The voting deadline has been extended a day to accommodate for lost time. Voting ends August 27th at 11:55 PM UTC. 

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Collab Round Issue

We received a report that there was a mistake made when the collab vote poll was created. Specifically, instead of it only being open to members of the HSWC DW, it was open to all registered DW users. Given we found this out a week into voting, we decided to close the poll and create a new poll for the top 15 finalists for you all to vote on this week. This is so the previous poll is not put to waste, and we can comb through the votes already cast to make sure all voters are actually part of the community.  There will be an update sometime tomorrow (8/20) with the top fifteen rankings, the final round poll, and the preliminary vote spreadsheet.  We apologize for any inconvenience caused by this error. The final vote deadline will be extended an appropriate amount of time if necessary. Thank you for your patience.

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BR6 Closed, BR7 and BR8 are open!

Bonus Round 6 has ended, and Bonus Round 7 (Companion Pieces) and Bonus Round 8 (Recommendations) are now open. These rounds will be open until August 26th at 11:55 PM UTC. 

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Collaboration Round Ends!!

As of 11:55 pm UTC, the submission deadline for the Collab Round is closed. Thank you everybody so much for all your group effort! Voting will be up and ready to go in a couple of days, but until then take a break!! It's well-earned!!

Reminder that minor edits are in fact allowed to your entry right up until voting opens up on August 12 at 12:05 AM UTC!!

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Main Round 2: Final Rankings

The top fifteen ranked teams in Main Round Two are: 1. Eridan <3 Feferi <3 Sollux (32 votes) 2. Robots (24 votes) 3. Ancestors (21 votes) 4. Hella Jeff <3 Sweet Bro (18 votes) 5. Dave <3 Jade <3 John <3 Rose (16 votes)  6. Dave <3 John (15 votes) 7. John <3 Karkat (15 votes) 8. Rose <3 Roxy (13 votes) 9. Eridan <3 Roxy (10 votes) 10. Gamzee <3 Tavros (10 votes) -- 11. Dirk <3 John (9 votes) 12. Kanaya <> Karkat (9 votes) 13. Guardians (7 votes) 14. John <3 Rose (6 votes) 15. Moirallegiance (6 votes)

For more information, please refer to the Main Round 2 tabulation spreadsheet, which has information such as:

Lists of everyone who voted in final vote and preliminary vote, separated by team. If your name is listed on at least one of those sheets, you will receive 15 points for voting.

The rankings of all other teams in the preliminary vote tallies.

Final vote tallies.

Congratulations to the top ten teams! Points will be allotted on the Big Kahuna spreadsheet by the end of the day. All Main Round 2 entries can now be discussed and cross-posted freely without worrying about the anonymity policy. You can comment on this post, but please mind our anti-wank commenting policy.

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Come vote for your top three favorite entries out of the final vote qualifiers! Everyone can vote here. If you haven’t already cast a vote this voting period, do so now and earn 15 points for your team!

The voting period ends August 9th 11:55 PM UTC.

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On Posting Collab Round Entries and Missing Friendleaders

In Main Round 2, a number of teams had issues with their friendleaders not being available to post their entries in the Main Round 2 community in time. As a result, some teams were not eligible for MR2 preliminary voting because members of these teams failed to post their entries before the cutoff. While we tried to reach teams with inactive friendleaders ahead of time, we can’t poll every team right before posting time, and so we rely on friendleaders to take responsibility for posting main and collab round entries. However, sometimes things come up for friendleaders, and they are unable to post, sometimes even after believing that they’re good to go a week or two before the deadline. This is okay! Life happens!

To ensure that everyone can post entries in a timely manner and be represented in the collab round, please contact us at least 48 hours before the end of the round posting period (in this case, Aug 8 at 11:55 PM UTC if you have any concerns at all about whether your FL and/or vice-FL will be around to post on behalf of your team. If the situation with your FL/vice-FLs is unclear, we request that you talk to us; if your friendleader is unresponsive, we can give you posting access instead. (Please have only one person from your team contact us if at all possible.)

If you don’t let us know how to accommodate you by August 8 at 11:55 PM UTC, we cannot guarantee that your entry will be eligible for voting, since while we will do the best we can to help you right up until the last minute, we mods have jobs, school, travel plans, &c. that mean we may not be able to get to your requests on time.

We want everyone’s work to be represented in the collab round, both for the joy of producing fanwork and for the excitement of the voting process! Please help us help you by making sure you’re ready to post in advance of the deadline.

Thank you,

mods

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BR5 closed; BR6 open!

Bonus Round 5 is now closed, and Bonus Round 6, Genre-Blending, is now open for business! The post can be found right here.

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Main Round 2 Vote is Open!

To determine your division, CLICK HERE.

The voting communities are the same as the previous round. In case you were not present for MR1, you must ACCEPT THE INVITATION to join your voting division community and be logged into your DW account in order to vote. If you have not received an invitation, please contact us to sort things out. 

Casting a vote will earn your team fifteen points.

This vote will end on July 31 @ 11:55PM UTC, at which point Main Round Two's final vote will open. Click below for your poll and entry list!

DIVISION ONE

DIVISION TWO

DIVISION THREE

DIVISION FOUR

TEAM NOIR

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br4 closed, br5 open

Bonus round 4 is now closed, and bonus round 5 (Quotes) is now open for prompts and fills!

MR2 closes tomorrow, July 14 @ 11:55 PM UTC. By now, all friendleaders should have received an invitation to the Main Round 2 community. Please check your pending invitations inbox on Dreamwidth, even if you did not get an e-mail notification. If you still do not see an invitation there, send us an e-mail ASAP at [email protected]. If you are a vice-FL who will need to post your team's entry, you will also need to contact the mods for an invitation.