jedibuttercup

I posted the following over on the TtH webforums, too, but I think I may get more response here on LJ.

I'm participating in the current round of firefly_lffws, and I wondered if anyone has done anything like that in the crossover community before. It's a challenge where a whole raft of people sign up, and then every week they each submit a drabble via screened comment (so no one else can see their entries).

At the end of the week, the mod puts up all the entries anonymously in one big post, and people are invited to leave screened "vote" comments. Depending on how big the list of participants is, either one or two writers are "voted off" two days later, and the top vote-getter usually gets a banner. At the end of the competition, of course, a winner is announced, with a nice shiny art-prize or somesuch.

Do you think this would work as a crossover competition? I'd need someone to do the art for me-- one tiny banner a week, and a larger one at the end, and I can point the volunteer artist at examples from the Firefly challenge-- but I'd be willing to run the community. I think it would work best with double drabbles rather than just 100 words, since a crossover has to be established, but it would focus on one character in the competition's stated focus fandom, with a theme word, and no other restrictions on content, any crossover allowed except RPF. Writers would be allowed one skip-week, provided they commented before the drabble-due hour, except for the finals/semifinals.

I'm not sure yet, however, if there's enough interest to justify my setting this up. I know I got a lot of participants in the drabble competition I ran in March, but that one didn't require people to write every week until voted off. On the other hand, if I can snare an artist, an art prize might be a right shiny temptation for people to participate.

What do you think? I'd set it up as a Buffy-centric crossover competition first, if I get enough interest, as that's where I've seen the most fans so far; if that goes over well, I'd be open to running a Stargate-centric crossover one as well, or other fandoms according to demand.

Comments, please.
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