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Blitz 2023: Prize Claim Thread

Negrek

The One Star
Staff
Review Blitz 2023: 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, 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

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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
  • 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

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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: 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
 
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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: Level 3
Type of Prize: Art
Method of Contact: Discord (ambyssin)
 

kintsugi

golden scars | pfp by sun
Location
the warmth of summer in the songs you write
Pronouns
she/her
Partners
  1. silvally-grass
  2. lapras
  3. golurk
  4. booper-kintsugi
  5. meloetta-kint-muse
  6. meloetta-kint-dancer
  7. murkrow
  8. yveltal
  9. celebi
Level of Prize: Level 3
Type of Prize: Misc (Oneshot)
Method of Contact: Discord primary, forums if not
 

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: Level 2
Type of prize: Pixel art, if possible (custom silvally or mewtwo sprite for forum companion; will have necessary points for new forum companion soon™)
Contact: Discord
 

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
Oops double post
Level of prize: Forum companion
Type of prize: Using custom sprite
Contact: Discord
 

Flyg0n

Flygon connoisseur
Pronouns
She/her
Partners
  1. flygon
  2. swampert
  3. ho-oh
  4. crobat
  5. orbeetle
  6. joltik
  7. salandit
  8. tyrantrum
  9. porygon
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): Level 2
Type of Prize (Art, Review, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 

K_S

Unrepentent Giovanni and Rocket fan
Final draft for point usage 1/30/24

Level: Prize level 3 (80 points)
Type: Art (cover art for a fic?)
Contact method: Dm

Level: Forum companion 1
(15 points)
Type: kanto golem
Contact method: dm

Level: forum companion 2
(30 points)
Type: earth badge newest form of the badge
Contact method: dm

Level: forum companion 3
(60 points)
Type: giovanni sprite hg/ss overworld spirite if possible
Contact: dm

Remaining 23 points are for grabs as donation upon request.
 
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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): 1
Type of Prize (Art, Review, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord

Hi! This will be for a TBD but probably humanoid and not necessarily Pokemon-related OC. Message me if you need more details.
 

canisaries

you should've known the price of evil
Location
Stovokor
Pronouns
she/her
Partners
  1. inkay-shirlee
  2. houndoom-elliot
  3. yamask-joanna
  4. shuppet
  5. deerling-andre
Level of Prize: Forum companion
Type of Prize: Custom sprite companion. Sprite is attached to this post.
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 

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Gyeig

Bug Catcher
Pronouns
he/him
Partners
  1. samurott
Level of Prize (Forum Companion, Level 1, Level 2, or Level 3): 3
Type of Prize (Art, Review, or Misc): Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord (gyeig)
 

Arukona

A Scribe Penning His Brainworms
Location
Ardalion
Pronouns
He/him
Partners
  1. aggron
  2. sceptile
  3. lucario
Level of Prize: Level 2
Type of Prize: Art
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord (arukona)
 

windskull

Bidoof Fan
Staff
Partners
  1. sneasel-nip
  2. bidoof
  3. absol
  4. kirlia
  5. windskull-bidoof
  6. little-guy-windskull
  7. purugly
  8. mawile
  9. manectric
Level of Prize: Forum Companion
Type of Prize: Mawile. If I get a chance to customize it I'll edit it in here.
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord

Level of Prize: LV 1
Type of Prize: Art (Planning to get a humanoid character, if that makes any difference)
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 

Mirage

Pokémon Trainer
Location
Honolulu, HI
Pronouns
He/him
Partners
  1. minccino
  2. espurr
Level of Prize: Forum Companion (5 points)
Type of Prize: Minccino forum companion (Yup, I'm basic enough to neutralize vinegar)
Preferred Method of Contact: Forum PM (but I can also be reached on Discord if that would make things easier!)
 

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 (15 points)
Type of Prize: Charmeleon
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord

Level of Prize: Forum Companion (30 points)
Type of Prize: Kanto Vulpix
Preferred Method of Contact: Discord
 
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