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The SCP Foundation's world is vast, and full of many eclectic and niche Groups of Interest. From para-militaries to online shitposters, to pretentious artists, even one dedicated to animals — we've got it all. So this is what this contest aims to celebrate: the many GoIs that add flavor to the SCP Foundation!

Whether you're making a new one from scratch for this contest, remixing old SCPs into a GoI flavor, or going with tried and true methods, this contest asks you to form a team of no more than 3 users and write a story with whatever GoI(s) you want to use!

The Contest

You and your team will create three (3) pages minimum to qualify for the grand prize. These 3 pages are limited to:

• GoI Formats
• Tales

That's right! SCPs are NOT ALLOWED for this contest! This is because of the theme of the contest which is…

"FOUNDATIONLESS"

This can be applied broadly, as long as the Foundation is not directly involved, its good to go!

Your Team

Your team should consist of three people. You'll work together on the collection. Everyone must contribute significantly to the final product. It is expected that each team member will write at least one work.

Once the postings have been opened, you will not be allowed to add team members! Choose wisely.

After picking a team, decide on a cool name and edit this page. At the bottom, you'll find a simple form which you can use to include your new team on the page.

Being Classy

There are multiple ways to approach this project. You can get together with some of your friends, write stuff, and have lots of fun doing it—regardless of winning or losing. Or, you can write, get angry at your friends for not performing the way you want them to. You can complain about them, the rules, the contest, the judges, and hate your life.

Try to be a bit more classy. This is supposed to be a fun opportunity to add more to the site rather than make yourself upset, frustrated, or angry. People have quit over contests. You're better than that.

Rules

The basic rules of the contest for theWRITING CATEGORY are as follows:

1. Your team must consist of three people, all of whom must be announced. You may only be on one team. Each team will have a captain, but the individual members are responsible for posting their own work. Please pick someone who is actually around to be Captain, as all communication and questions about the contest should go through them to the organizers. Any other responsibilities the team chooses to invest in the captain should be discussed among the members of the team.
2. Furthermore, you may NOT use drafts that existed before the contest went up. All entries must have been created after the contest page went up¹. Any entries found to violate this rule will be subject to disqualification.
3. Format screws are fine. You must use one of the pre-existing formats for your chosen GoI if any exists; if no format exists for the GoI, then you may create one. The tale(s) should be substantive and long enough to show that you've invested some time in them.
4. A minimum of 3 articles must be written for the contest; there is no maximum number, but only the 3 highest-rated articles will count towards point total.
5. Teams may create hub pages for their work. However, hub pages will not count for scoring nor for the minimum article requirements.
6. You may not delete or edit an article once posted, regardless of performance. Articles that dip to the deletion mark will be subject to normal deletion practices, but they will not be removed until after the contest has ended. This should encourage everyone to work hard with their teams to have a superior product. What's posted is posted. Small corrections are fine, but significant edits are not.
   • Small corrections are defined as: fixing minor sentence wording, correcting grammar usage, changing spacing, etc. Large, substantive changes are not allowed until the contest has passed.
7. Each entry must be posted by its primary author. Collaborative entries between teammates are encouraged but each author must contribute at least one (1) entry which was mainly written by them. If you rewrote someone’s work entirely, it's not really theirs anymore, and it wouldn't be fair for them to post something you spent four hours revising when they only invested ten minutes writing it. This does mean that one or two people will be writing more than one entry.
8. You may enter both the Writing and Art categories. However, keep in mind that you may only submit one art piece per person in the Art category.
9. Any contestant who takes unusual and/or negative actions to increase their vote total, or decrease that of their competitors, will be disqualified for the involved contest and potentially banned from further contests (and possibly further disciplinary action).
   • Examples of shenanigans include, but are in no way limited to:
     • Downvoting all of your competitors' work within minutes of them being posted
     • Spamming people with PMs about your work
     • Spurring Malicious Upvoting/Downvoting, whether on your work or anyone else's
   • If you're not sure if something counts as shenanigans, then it probably does, but feel free to ask Naepic, Uncle Nicolini, or wackdog.

The basic rules of the contest for the ART CATEGORY are as follows:

1. Collaborations are permitted.
2. Art Plagiarism: Any art you post to the wiki must be compatible with the site's CC BY-SA license (for example; a CC-BY or a Public Domain license). If you trace, recreate, or heavily reference an image, it must also be compatible with this license and you must cite it. Failure to cite your sources in the above cases is grounds for disciplinary action equivalent to literary plagiarism.
3. Any and all mediums of art are welcome, as long as they comply with the Site's policy.
4. You may enter both the Writing and Art categories, however, you may only have one entry per person in the Art category.
5. Any contestant who takes unusual and/or negative actions to increase their vote total, or decrease that of their competitors, will be disqualified for the involved contest and potentially banned from further contests (and possibly further disciplinary action).
   • Examples of shenanigans include, but are in no way limited to:
     • Downvoting all of your competitors' work within minutes of them being posted
     • Spamming people with PMs about your work
     • Spurring Malicious Upvoting/Downvoting, whether on your work or anyone else's
   • If you're not sure if something counts as shenanigans, then it probably does, but feel free to ask Naepic, Uncle Nicolini, or wackdog.

Achievements for Writing

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Bardic Inspiration

Name all pieces in your series after an artist's discography.

International Person of Mystery

Write about an International GoI.

Change PoVs

Write a GoI Format about an extant SCP.

This Could Have Been An Email

Write a GoI Format without a single email appearing.

Lack of 1,000 Words

Write a GoI Format without a single image.

At Least 5,000 Words

Write a GoI Format with at least 5 images.

New Life

Create a new GoI Format for an existing GoI.

Total Winner

Write an article that gains +100 in less than 24 hours.

Muhammad Ali Special: Me. We.

Write an article under 200 words, not counting CSS or License Box, etc.

HarryBlank Special: The Writing Goes On

Write an article over 10,000 words, not counting CSS or License Box, etc.

They actually did it.

Set your story in the Unfounded canon.

Royal Rumble

Have 5 or more GoIs in a single story.

New Kid On the Block

Create a new GoI, which features heavily across 3+ works, for the contest.

Worldbuilder

Set your GoI Format in any Canon/Series.

> goi format author

Enter exclusively using GoI Formats.

Technically Allowed

Write a foundation-format tagged tale, while not breaking the contest's stipulation.

Bribe Nico

Figure this one out yourself. Attempts to financially bribe me will be met with disqualification.

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Achievements for Art

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Cool and Unusual

Create art in a non-standard medium— basically anything that isn't drawn.

Trying Something New

Create art in a style outside of your norm.

To Boldly Go…

Create art for a GoI created for this contest.

Total Winner

Create a piece of art that reaches +50 within 24 hours.

Illustrator

Create art inspired by an existing GoI/GoI Format/Tale.

Jack Kirby Special

Create a comic.

Hero of the People

Create art of an existing GoI with less than 30 tag results.

That Was Fast!

Create art of one of the writing pieces submitted to this contest.

International Artist of Mystery

Create art of an International GoI.

Royal Rumble

Create art of 5 or more GoIs in the same piece.

New Kid On the Block

Create art of a new GoI.

Dramatis Personae

Create art of the leader(s) of a GoI.

Change PoV

Create art of an existing SCP through the lens of a GoI.

Bribe Nico

Figure this one out yourself. Attempts to financially bribe me will be met with disqualification.

Footnotes

1. Drafts that were not completed before the contest began may be admitted on a case-by-case basis. The general principle is less than 50% done; if you're not sure, feel free to ask.