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Blitz 2022: Prize Claim Thread

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Negrek

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Staff
Review Blitz 2022: Prize Claim Thread
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Welcome to the prize claim thread, where you can cash in your hard-earned Blitz points for any one of the wonderful prizes provided by our team of volunteers. Take a look at the list of offerings below, and when you've decided what you like, simply post in this thread using the following format:

Code:
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3):
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc):
Preferred Method of Contact:

After you've made your post, a Blitz volunteer will contact you to follow up on any preferences you may have for your prize request and put you in contact with a volunteer to fulfill it.

The points for your prizes will be deducted from the points you've earned, but note that your rank on the leaderboard is determined by your overall score and is not impacted by any spending you might do on prizes. To see how many points you have left to buy prizes, visit the "Your Blitz Stats" tab on the Thousand Roads Companion app; the top of the page will show your total score and number of reviews as well as prize points remaining.

Prize Claim Guidelines

You can buy only one prize of any kind per prize level. This means that:

  • You can purchase one Level 2 Art Prize and one Level 2 Review Prize
  • You can purchase one Level 2 Art Prize and one Level 1 Art Prize
  • You cannot purchase two Level 2 Art Prizes

The prize shop opens immediately once Blitz begins. You can spend your points as early as you like! You then have up until one week after the end of Blitz to make any final prize purchases. That means you have until midnight on January 29th UTC! After that, any unspent points you have left disappear! However, if you'd like, you can donate prize points to another player or go in with one or more other people to afford a prize you wouldn't be able to alone, so long as it's something you can actually share.

Also note that once you have a volunteer assigned to you who will be fulfilling your prize, you have until March 1st, 2023 to communicate what you'd like done for your prize--what you'd like drawn, what story you'd like reviewed, what pokémon you'd like as a companion, etc. If you haven't made a decision by that date, you forfeit your prize.

Note that whatever you request from your prize volunteer should conform to that person's guidelines as well as the overall community guidelines--so nothing involving extreme gore, explicit sexual content, etc.

Fic Rec Bonuses

Want more prizes? Once per week, if you write a recommendation for one of the fics you've read for Blitz that qualifies for the weekly theme and is at least 100 words long and post it to the General Chat thread, you will be entered into a raffle for a prize drawing at the end of this year's review event. You can enter once per week and win up to four prizes--so spread the word about a story you loved reading this Blitz! Plus, each qualifying rec will earn you 0.5 bonus points, so recs can help you save up for prizes directly, too!

Review Blitz 2022 Prize Shop

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Forum Companions
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A friendly pokémon sprite that will appear beneath your username in each of your forum posts! For this prize, you can either select any canon pokémon as a companion or provide a custom sprite 68px wide by 56px tall to be used instead. You can buy one or more companions at the following prices--each level can only be purchased once:

  • 5 points: ONLY if you do not currently have a forum companion (and have no unclaimed forum companions through another event).
  • 15 points: If you currently have one or more more forum companions (or are eligible for one or more forum companions through a different event).
  • 30 points: If you have already purchased a forum companion through this year's Review Blitz (either the 5 or 15 point version).
  • 60 points: If you have already purchased two forum companions through this year's Review Blitz.

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Level 1 Prize - 20 Points
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  • Review: Review of a single chapter or one-shot
  • Art: Sketch-level artwork of a single character

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Level 2 Prize - 40 Points
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  • Review: 3x chapter review bundle (for a single fic)
  • Art: Flats or Simple Shading (artist's preference) or basic pixel art, such as for forum companions
  • Misc: Drabbles, flash fiction (100 - 1000 words), or item deep dives(*)

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Level 3 Prize - 80 Points
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  • Review: 5x chapter review bundle (for a single fic)
  • Art: Rendered/complex shading (artist's style/choice)
  • Misc: World Myth Encyclopedia/Aloladex entries(†), character spotlights(‡), or one-shots

* Item deep dives are explorations of different items' properties, history, and use, as seen in IFBench's Comprehensive Guide to Items. You get to choose the item or group of items the deep dive will be written for!
World Myth Encyclopedia/Aloladex entries are explorations of the in-universe lore, rumors, and cultural significance of pokémon or their biology, ecology, and care, respectively. For this prize, you choose the pokémon or evolution line you'd like to see written about!
‡ Character spotlights offer your character the chance to appear in one of Venia Silente's stories! You'll work with the author to determine your character's portrayal and what they might say/do in the story--see the character spotlights in Built for Risk as an example!

If you claim a review or miscellaneous prize, you can request a specific volunteer to fulfill your prize if you'd like. No need to specify who you'd like to fulfill your request when posting here--the Blitz volunteer who works with you on prize fulfillment will work it out with you by DM. Please note that although we'll do our best to accommodate your request, volunteer availability means we may not be able to.

Single-Chapter Reviews: K_S, Negrek, Spiteful Murkrow, Venia Silente
Review Bundles: bluesidra, Flyg0n, Negrek
Drabbles/Flashfic: Pen, Torchic, Umbramatic
Item Deep Dives: IFBench
World Myth Encyclopedia/Aloladex: Persephone
Character Spotlights: Venia Silente
One-shots: Negrek
 
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Ambyssin

Gotta go back. Back to the past.
Location
Residency hell
Pronouns
he/him
Partners
  1. silvally-dragon
  2. necrozma-ultra
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. dreepy
  6. mewtwo-ambyssin
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 1
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Art (someone who likes mewtwo, I guess)
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord

Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 2
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Review
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 

Navar

Professional Mudkip Lover
Location
Brazil
Pronouns
He/Him
Partners
  1. swampert
  2. chesnaught-apron
  3. lucario-mega
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 3
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord! Navar#8326, should have open DMs for any members of the Thousand Roads discord server
 

Ambyssin

Gotta go back. Back to the past.
Location
Residency hell
Pronouns
he/him
Partners
  1. silvally-dragon
  2. necrozma-ultra
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. dreepy
  6. mewtwo-ambyssin
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Forum Companion (15 points)
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Misc
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Gen IX Hisui Zoroark sprite (this is 56 x 68)
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 

Spiteful Murkrow

Busy Writing Stories I Want to Read
Pronouns
He/Him/His
Partners
  1. nidoran-f
  2. druddigon
  3. swellow
  4. lugia
  5. quilava-fobbie
  6. sneasel-kate
  7. heliolisk-fobbie
Heya, figured I should start cashing in the fruits of the past week and a half of labor since I've got the points for it now.

Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 3
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord, will also communicate via forum PMs if needed.
 

Spiteful Murkrow

Busy Writing Stories I Want to Read
Pronouns
He/Him/His
Partners
  1. nidoran-f
  2. druddigon
  3. swellow
  4. lugia
  5. quilava-fobbie
  6. sneasel-kate
  7. heliolisk-fobbie
Finally got the points to get the next one of these:

Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 2
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord, will also communicate via forum PMs if needed.
 

Umbramatic

The Ghost Lord
Location
The Yangverse
Pronouns
Any
Partners
  1. reshiram
  2. zygarde
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 1
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord

I'd like a pic of this character!: https://toyhou.se/6616002.sergeant-gwendolyne If the armor is too much I can provide a simpler one
 

Negrek

Abscission Ascendant
Staff
Level of Prize: Level 2
Type of Prize: Misc
Preferred Method of Contact: idk just take my points
 

Navar

Professional Mudkip Lover
Location
Brazil
Pronouns
He/Him
Partners
  1. swampert
  2. chesnaught-apron
  3. lucario-mega
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 2
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord(Navar#8326)
 

IFBench

Rescue Team Member
Location
Pokemon Paradise
Partners
  1. chikorita-saltriv
  2. bench-gen
  3. charmander
  4. snivy
  5. treecko
  6. tropius
  7. arctozolt
  8. wartortle
  9. zorua
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Forum Companion
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Misc
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 

Spiteful Murkrow

Busy Writing Stories I Want to Read
Pronouns
He/Him/His
Partners
  1. nidoran-f
  2. druddigon
  3. swellow
  4. lugia
  5. quilava-fobbie
  6. sneasel-kate
  7. heliolisk-fobbie
Quickly swooping in to cash in some points before the buzzer sounds, since I've gotten everything I could realistically hope for at this point:

Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Forum Companion (15-point version)
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Forum Companion
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord, will also communicate via forum PMs if needed.

Now to try and figure out what to do with the last 40 points I've got to burn.
 

Arukona

A Scribe Penning His Brainworms
Location
Ardalion
Pronouns
He/him
Partners
  1. aggron
  2. sceptile
  3. lucario
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Forum Companion
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Misc
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 

Negrek

Abscission Ascendant
Staff
Review Blitz 2022 is now complete!

All participants' scores are now final--which means we've entered the post-blitz prize fulfillment part of the event! This works as follows:

- You have one week to buy whatever you'd like from the prize shop!

- At the end of that week, we'll hold our prize raffle based on the recs posted in the Recs and Hype Thread!

- Finally, there will be one additional week where people can donate their remaining points to other people and choose additional prizes if they qualify.

So for now: one week to choose anything you'd like to buy with your existing pool of points! Have at it!
 

JFought

Sloooowly writing...
Location
HCL
Pronouns
they/them
Partners
  1. jfought-sword
  2. jfought-blue
  3. deerling-summer
  4. charmeleon
  5. vulpix
  6. monferno
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Forum Companion (5 points)
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Misc
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord

Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Forum Companion (30 points)
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Misc
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 

Sinderella

Angy Tumbleweed
Staff
Location
In Guzma's Closet
Pronouns
She/Her
Partners
  1. sylveon-shiny
  2. gothitelle
  3. froslass
  4. chandelure
  5. mimikyu
Level of Prize: Forum Companion (15 Points)
Type of Prize: Misc.

Level of Prize: Level 1 Art Prize (20 Points)
Type of Prize: Art
Contact: Discord DM
 

ShiniGojira

Multiversal Extraordinaire
Location
Stranded In The Gaps between Multiverses
Pronouns
He/him/they/her
Partners
  1. froslass
  2. zorua-gojira
  3. salandit-shiny
  4. goomy
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 2
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord or Forum DM is fine
 

Namohysip

Dragon Enthusiast
Staff
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. charizard
  3. milotic
  4. zoroark-soda
  5. sceptile
  6. marowak
  7. jirachi
  8. meganium
Total points: 43.75

Level of prize: Sprite Companion ~ Final!
Type of Prize: Misc
Preferred method of contact: Discord

Marowak! (15 points)

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Level of Prize: Level 1 (20 points)
Type of prize: Review
Preferred method of contact: Discord

Hands of Creation!
 

bluesidra

Mood
Pronouns
she/her
Partners
  1. hoppip-bluesidra-reup
  2. hoppip-bluesidra-pink
  3. hoppip-bluesidra3
Scrunched together those points... phew...

Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 2
Type of Prize (Art, Review, Beta, or Misc): Misc (Item Deep Dive)
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord (Forum is okay too)
 
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