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Announcing the Grand Tour 2025 Fanwork Classification Route Presentation

Hello, cycling fanwork creators!

As the road season starts up, peek ahead to the heat of summer, and the three Fanwork Classifications that await you!

As per usual, prewriting and precreation is strongly encouraged but you can only post works that will count towards each Classification during the time their respective collection is open! Three new glitter jerseys await the GC contenders.

In May, during our first Giro d'Italia Fanwork Classification a new challenge awaits- Hyperspecific Week, for which whoever has the most fills (and you can rig it in your favour in this challenge only with multiple fills per stage) across the six stages wins bragging rights as a versatile yet punchy creator.

July and August will bring the Tour and Vuelta respectively, both with slightly more themed offerings. This year, the Grand Tour Fanwork Collections are all 18+. We hope this will allow riders a greater selection of tropes, AUs, challenges and words to be inspired and vexed alike by. Due to feedback, this year we will be answering queries and questions only on Tumblr so they can easily be found- if you're concerned about asking a question, feel free to ask anonymously instead, especially if you have questions about a stage!

More information and posts will be released as the dates to each Grand Tour grows near- flex your creativity, riders! New goals lie ahead!

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sorry i know you're probably busy with the tdf collection, but for the telephone style fic for the vuelta, does it count if you outline the idea and someone else writes it? or do you have to write it?

To pass the challenge, you don't discuss the fic, the outline or the idea at all with your collaborators! The idea with telephone is that the next person in the chain can take it in whichever direction they want after they get the previous section, and hopefully by the end, it's something interesting and surprising to everyone involved. You need at least three people, as mentioned in the explanation, to do this challenge, and we will likely require you all to post the idea and the outline in the author’s note or something similar once the fic is posted on here or on ao3. You should not be discussing or have involvement with any other part of the challenge (aside from at the beginning when some basic dnws might be mutually established). Good luck!