Review Blitz 2023: Prize Claim Thread
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, 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 "My Blitz" 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 11:59 PM midnight on February 5th 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, 2024 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 2023 Prize Shop
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
- 15 points: If you currently have one or more more forum companions
- 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
- Review: Review of a single chapter or one-shot
- Art: Sketch-level artwork of a single character
- 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(*)
- Review: 5x chapter review bundle (for a single fic)
- Art: Rendered/complex shading (artist's style/choice)
- Misc: Music(†) 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!
† A music prize would constitute about 30 seconds worth of custom music based on a simple prompt, such as a theme or location, composed by Kiba Makuro!
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, Nekodatta, Negrek
Review Bundles: Flyg0n, Namohysip, Negrek, Spiteful Murkrow
Drabbles/Flashfic: Negrek, Umbramatic
Item Deep Dives: IFBench
One-shots: Negrek
Music: Kiba Makuro
Review Bundles: Flyg0n, Namohysip, Negrek, Spiteful Murkrow
Drabbles/Flashfic: Negrek, Umbramatic
Item Deep Dives: IFBench
One-shots: Negrek
Music: Kiba Makuro
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