currently: 💤💤💤 the blog and event are on hiatus!
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Hello, and welcome to the Kirby OC Tournament! This is a fun and friendly popularity contest for Kirby-verse original character designs and their associated stories or lore. The event is hosted from 2024 on by @moonverc3x 🌙 and @starflungwaddledee 💫
After an especially long year in 2024, the tournament will be CLOSED for all of 2025. We understand a lot of folks keenly wanted it to run again as soon as possible, but after more than 6 months of near-full time work, the moderators and hosts need to recuperate before we consider it again.
However, this is a vibrant and creative community, and new events of all sorts are popping up all the time, including other tournaments and contests!! We recommend keeping an eye on tags such as #kirby-oc-event in case any take your fancy, and we hope that in 2026 we'll be ready to host again!
In the interim, below are some links from the 2024 tournament in case you'd like to revisit its highlights. Competitors and spectators produced almost 2000 propaganda posts in 2024 alone, so if you're excited to see some Kirby original character content, there's plenty there to keep you busy!
Thank you again for joining us for 2024, and we look forward to seeing more of your Kirby OCs in the future!
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quick links to previous tournament content
The 2024 Tournament Review Post a comprehensive selection of stats and highlights from the 2024 event "Propaganda" Archive and Tag 2000+ pieces of content created by competitors and spectators to encourage voting for their favourite OCs from 2024 and 2023. Includes illustrations, animations, roleplays, lore-dumps, and more! Grand Final Winners and all 2024 polls Final results announcements, and all poll results on tumblr, stored for posterity. Our full competitors list, easy links to character intro posts, and the match-ups (as they were posted during the event) can be seen in our official 2024 Competitors Sheet.
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quick answers to quick questions
When will the tournament be back? > We aren't able to confirm this for now, but at the time of writing we'd ideally like to host the tournament- or something like it- in 2026. This blog will receive the first updates. Are you sure the tournament won't run in 2025? > Absolutely positive, we're sorry. At this time we are not seeking to hand off to other hosts, either. We encourage folks to create and host their own competitions and events if they wish! Will you continue reblogging pieces mentioning @kirbyoctournament? > Not currently, but we might consider this sometime into 2025. We'd love to be able to highlight Kirby OCs and community creativity all year long, even when there is no active competition running. We'll keep you posted and update our guidelines if this happens! What about the Kirby OC Tournament Discord Server? > The Kirby OC Tournament Discord Server won't be going anywhere! While it will transition to being a more general Kirby OC server and may soon receive a name change, it will otherwise remain active even when there's no tournament running. Will you officially endorse my event in place of the tourney? > No. This is not something we can sufficiently moderate, and it comes with risks for everybody. Community members are welcome to make and host any kind of community event at any time, even ones inspired by ours, but we will remain affiliated only with our own blog and our server.
