Review Blitz 2023 Kick-Off
November's waning, the holidays are approaching, and with them comes one of Thousand Roads' biggest community events: Review Blitz! We'll be cranking out reviews to fill authors' stockings for a solid month, and we'd love to have you be a part of it! Last year we wrote a whole 597 Blitz reviews, and this year we'll be going for even more! (At least six hundred. We were so close...)
If you aren't familiar with Review Blitz, feel free to check out previous blitzes to get an idea of how they work: I (2019), II (2020), III (2021), and (IV) 2022!
Whether you're a blitz veteran or joining in for the first time this year, it's time to start thinking about your plans! As usual, we'll be looking for your help and feedback to set the timeline for the event, organize prizes, and handle the logistics work necessary to make the event run. With that in mind, a couple orders of business:
When is Review Blitz happening this year?
We'll be running Blitz from December through January as usual; the exact dates will depend on the outcome of the poll in this thread! Please vote for either or both options, depending on what works for you. The poll will close on November 28th. One way or another, Blitz will run through some part of December 2022 possibly into January 2023.
What's new this year?
We're not expecting any major changes to the event this year, but be on the lookout for some enhancements to the web app and some tweaks to the scoring and reward structures. We're always open to new ideas, however, so please don't hesitate to share if you have thoughts about how Blitz can run be even better!
Interested in helping out?
We can't have a blitz without all the awesome people who log reviews, work behind the scenes, and provide prizes to all our amazing reviewers. If you're interested in helping out with blitz this year, please reply to the thread with the following:
- What kind of prize(s) would you like to offer? In the past we've had people offer art commissions, custom drabbles, reviews, poetry, and more. If there's anything special you can make or write, it would probably be welcome as a prize; just ask if you're unsure. The more the merrier! Even if you only think you can toss in an extra review here or there, we'd love to have you.
- How many of each kind of prize would you like to offer? A drabble and a sketch commission? Three reviews? However many prizes you can offer, it helps the logistics team figure out prize tiers if we know roughly how many of each we'll have available.
- Would you like to help out with Blitz logistics? Whether you can offer prizes or not, we also need people to help coordinate the event. The logistics team does things like figure out the weekly themes and the point structure of the event, helps test the app, approves reviews, and assigns prizes. These are active positions that run throughout the entire Blitz. We're looking to add one or two more people to the logistics team for this year's Blitz!
If you're interested in helping out this year, please reply to this thread by November 28th so we can get to work designing the prize tiers. One way or another, it's time to start getting hype for Blitz!
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