MCYT fic fight!

an art fight inspired event for MCYT authors status: sign ups open until July 17th!

[mcytficfight]

2026 SIGN UPS NOW OPEN!!!

Sign-ups for MCYT Fic Fight 2026 are officially live! Distinction has stopped rearranging the rules and is now staring directly at the signup sheet...

The form will be open until July 17th!

Fic Fight 2026 Sign Ups

This is the official sign up sheet for season five of MCYT Fic Fight! :D Fic fight is a writing event held from August 1 to August 31. comp

Feel free to hit up our inbox with any questions, and we can't wait to see you as the Withers and Wardens battle it out in MCYT Fic Fight's 5th anniversary!

[mcytficfight]

Hi!! I think the rules hyperlink on the form is still the 2025 one! Is there any differences for this year?

Hey, thanks for letting us know! The rules hyperlink should now be updated to the 2026 rules (:

[mcytficfight]

for the characters, if someone is in multiple smps but you don't want to include one of them, how would that be stated?

for example "PearlescentMoon [not Vampires]"

or would it be better like "PearlescentMoon [hermitcraft, empires & life series]"

or just not at all?

hi! any of those examples would work just fine! you could also add things you don’t want to see written for you to your dnw (do not write) if you’d like

[mcytficfight]

are we also allowed to join if we have nsfw fics on our account?

Hello! MCYT Fic Fight is a PG-13 event, so any fics written specifically for the event must follow those guidelines. Our event policy is that we do not allow works that break creator’s boundaries (ie. things such as explicit content or shipping), so we simply ask that participants adhere to that in terms of content on accounts.

[mcytficfight]

how long will sign-ups be open? Because I don't have time to fill it out today

Sign-ups are open all week! They officially close the 17th of July.

[mcytficfight]

Hi I was wondering will we be allowed one edit to our sign ups before the event starts this year? I want to finish my sign up as soon as possible but I suspect I'll be getting into more SMPs this week...

Yep! We always allow one edit to the sign ups :)

[mcytficfight]

FORM SHOULD BE WORKING NOW

We were made aware of some issues with the form, everything should be in working order now! If you filled it out and did not get the link, please let us know and we will fix it!

[mcytficfight]

Hi! This is such a cool event! I have a question!

"Writing a fic that utilizes at least one of the prompters requested characters in a meaningful manner. This will net you ten bonus points."

⬅️Does this mean that I could maybe get a fic that doesn't have any of the characters I said I liked? Or does every fic have to include one of my characters and you just get bonus points every fic?

Welcome!!

So that point bonus is there largely as an incentive to ensure that people actually include the preferred characters! It is technically possible that a fic wouldn't, which is why we include that bonus in our rules :)

[mcytficfight]

Hi for the characters section if I wanted the ensemble of an smp minus one or two players, how would I write that in the sign up?

The easiest way would be to put the characters you don't want in the DNW section of the form, that way anyone writing for you will see that you don't want those characters!

[mcytficfight]

Hey I’m getting a “Sorry!” message about needing to commit to the event, but I ticked “yes” for committing at least one fic. Should I just submit anyway?

Thank you for letting us know about the problem! We are doing our best to fix it right now, keep an eye out for when we fix it and thanks for the patience :)

[mcytficfight]

In the prefered character sign ups are you allowed to specify which fandom/series you want the character from (for example asking for both 'Smallishbeans (Empires)' and 'Smallishbeans (Hermitcraft)'?

Yes! You can totally specify which series you would want the character from.

[mcytficfight]

Hi, in preparation of sign ups, I've been looking at your creator boundaries doc to see what I can/can't out down on my prompts list in terms of shipping and I have a question: When the creator hasn't given a statement and it says "Our advice is to use common sense and tag everything you write accordingly.", does that mean I am allowed to put a pairing with that creator down on my sign up? It's alright if not, I just wanted to double check.

In general, that would be okay! We aren’t a primarily shipping event, but we try to follow boundaries as closely as we can.

[mcytficfight]

Hiya so Im just wondering when signups will start?

The form will be open at some point in the next hour!

[mcytficfight]

distinction has become strangely obsessed with the number 5.

five prompts.

bonuses every five fics.

five seconds after we finish fixing something, it breaks again...

[mcytficfight]

Hello fic fighters!

The polls have closed, meaning this years teams will be 💀WITHERS VS WARDENS🛡️!

Mark your calendars, and choose your favourite! Fic fight sign ups will open on July 10th and will close on July 17th!

Beware of distinction, it’s running around the season somewhere…

[mcytficfight]

good news! we found distinction.

bad news! it found season 5 first...

[mcytficfight]

is there a minimum length for fics and such? or a quality barrier? I'm not really good at writing stuff over 5k and very bad at writing mcyt stuff but I still wanna give it a shot if I can haha-

The only requirement is that you must post one fic at least 1k words in length! This can be posted at any time in the event, but that’s all we ask from participants.