2017 Sign Ups!
Welcome to the 2017 round of K-pop Olymfics! Make sure you read the rules carefully before signing up. If you're interested in participating in this competition and joining a team, please read the instructions and then fill out the form in the middle of the post.
Team Canon/Alternate Reality - Team Canon writers work within the current reality of K-Pop. The fics are set in the reality of K-Pop as it is right now, or has previously been, with no changes. They also have the option of writing Alternate Reality, which is set in the K-Pop world as we know it, but with a (realistic!) change to real life (such as a trainee who was cut from the group line-up making it into the group, a group's break-up never happened, an unpopular group became popular, etc). Most of the events in Team Canon/AR, however, are expected to be based on fandom facts. They may take place in the past, but may not take place more than one year into the future.
Team Alternate Universe - Team AU writers may set their stories in any universe they wish (except canon or future!). These new settings and situations may be as ordinary (coffee shop, college, hospital) or as unusual (airship pirates, futuristic space explorers, fantasy heroes on an epic quest) as you want. In the AU universe, K-Pop as we know it does not exist; though idols and idol groups may exist, the story must be set outside idol group life.
Team Future - Team Future writers will take K-Pop's current reality, but fast-forward a bit. Their stories will be set at least one year into the future, and speculate on what might become of our idols in the years to come. However, though these stories may be set very far in the future, they must avoid going into science fiction territory; there are no major changes in technology (such as teleporting, holographs, idols becoming indestructible robots, etc).
How to Sign-up
Olymfics signups are now closed!! Thank you to everyone who signed up, and your team mod will be in contact with you on January 1st!
Please list three groups you would like to write for, in priority order for how likely you are to write them (the one you will most likely choose is #1, least likely is #3). These, along with your team preference, will be taken into account when assigning teams; we will try to achieve a roughly even distribution of groups across the teams.
You will not be assigned a specific group to write. Instead, you may write for any of these three groups. Though you may only write for these three groups, you may switch between them during the writing period without notifying any of the mods. Pinch-hitters may choose to write for the groups of the writer they're replacing for that prompt, but they are not required to; they may write for any group they wish.
Please also select your team choices in priority order. Though you aren't required to rank all the teams, be advised that you may be put in a team you didn't request if there's not enough room on your desired team(s), so it's a good idea to rank all of them.
THE FOLLOWING FANDOMS ARE BEING REPRESENTED:
100%, 2PM, AOA, B1A4, BAP, Beast, Big Star, Bangtan Boys, Big Bang, Block B, Day6, EXID, EXO, GOT7, Gfriend, IKON, Infinite, KARD, Lovelyz, Monsta X, NCT, Park Shinhye, Pentagon, Red Velvet, Secret, Seventeen, Shinee, Show Me the Money cast, SNSD, TWICE, U-Kiss, UNIQ, UP10TION, VIXX, Winner, Wonder Girls
Be sure to keep checking back as we'll keep adding to list as sign ups come in!
IMPORTANT DATES:
December 18, 2016 - Sign-ups open
December 28, 2016 - Sign-ups close
January 1, 2017 - Team assignments sent
January 6, 2016 - Prompts list posted
January 6, 2017 - Writing period begins
February 7, 2017 - Check-in
March 14, 2017 - Writing period ends
March 21, 2017 - Posting begins
If you have any further questions, feel free to contact the mods or comment on the info post. You can also follow @kpop_olymfics on twitter to keep up with all the Olymfics news. We hope to see you on one of our teams!
Team Canon/Alternate Reality - Team Canon writers work within the current reality of K-Pop. The fics are set in the reality of K-Pop as it is right now, or has previously been, with no changes. They also have the option of writing Alternate Reality, which is set in the K-Pop world as we know it, but with a (realistic!) change to real life (such as a trainee who was cut from the group line-up making it into the group, a group's break-up never happened, an unpopular group became popular, etc). Most of the events in Team Canon/AR, however, are expected to be based on fandom facts. They may take place in the past, but may not take place more than one year into the future.
Team Alternate Universe - Team AU writers may set their stories in any universe they wish (except canon or future!). These new settings and situations may be as ordinary (coffee shop, college, hospital) or as unusual (airship pirates, futuristic space explorers, fantasy heroes on an epic quest) as you want. In the AU universe, K-Pop as we know it does not exist; though idols and idol groups may exist, the story must be set outside idol group life.
Team Future - Team Future writers will take K-Pop's current reality, but fast-forward a bit. Their stories will be set at least one year into the future, and speculate on what might become of our idols in the years to come. However, though these stories may be set very far in the future, they must avoid going into science fiction territory; there are no major changes in technology (such as teleporting, holographs, idols becoming indestructible robots, etc).
How to Sign-up
Olymfics signups are now closed!! Thank you to everyone who signed up, and your team mod will be in contact with you on January 1st!
Please list three groups you would like to write for, in priority order for how likely you are to write them (the one you will most likely choose is #1, least likely is #3). These, along with your team preference, will be taken into account when assigning teams; we will try to achieve a roughly even distribution of groups across the teams.
You will not be assigned a specific group to write. Instead, you may write for any of these three groups. Though you may only write for these three groups, you may switch between them during the writing period without notifying any of the mods. Pinch-hitters may choose to write for the groups of the writer they're replacing for that prompt, but they are not required to; they may write for any group they wish.
Please also select your team choices in priority order. Though you aren't required to rank all the teams, be advised that you may be put in a team you didn't request if there's not enough room on your desired team(s), so it's a good idea to rank all of them.
THE FOLLOWING FANDOMS ARE BEING REPRESENTED:
100%, 2PM, AOA, B1A4, BAP, Beast, Big Star, Bangtan Boys, Big Bang, Block B, Day6, EXID, EXO, GOT7, Gfriend, IKON, Infinite, KARD, Lovelyz, Monsta X, NCT, Park Shinhye, Pentagon, Red Velvet, Secret, Seventeen, Shinee, Show Me the Money cast, SNSD, TWICE, U-Kiss, UNIQ, UP10TION, VIXX, Winner, Wonder Girls
Be sure to keep checking back as we'll keep adding to list as sign ups come in!
IMPORTANT DATES:
December 18, 2016 - Sign-ups open
December 28, 2016 - Sign-ups close
January 1, 2017 - Team assignments sent
January 6, 2016 - Prompts list posted
January 6, 2017 - Writing period begins
February 7, 2017 - Check-in
March 14, 2017 - Writing period ends
March 21, 2017 - Posting begins
If you have any further questions, feel free to contact the mods or comment on the info post. You can also follow @kpop_olymfics on twitter to keep up with all the Olymfics news. We hope to see you on one of our teams!