Review Blitz 2025 Kick-Off
It's the most wonderful time of the year! As the northern hemisphere slides into darkness, one bright spot remains on the horizon: Review Blitz! It's a whole month of feedback frenzy as we catch up on all those fics we meant comment on throughout the rest of the year. It's time to get that chapter ready to post, start a list of fics to hit, and finish those review replies from last year (oops)... Review Blitz is on the way!
This is our seventh year of running Review Blitz, if you can believe it! If you aren't familiar with the event, feel free to check out last year's thread to get an idea of how it works; the general structure will be quite similar this year.
Whether you're a Blitz veteran or joining in for the first time this year, it's time to start thinking about your plans! Here's the run-down for this year's event:
When is Review Blitz happening this year?
This year's Review Blitz will run from midnight UTC December 21st, 2025 - 11:59 PM UTC January 18th, 2026.
Interested in helping out?
We can't have a blitz without all the awesome people who log reviews, work out the scoring, and provide prizes to all our amazing reviewers. If you're interested in helping out with Blitz this year, please reply to this thread with the following:
- Would you like to offer prizes? What kind? 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 are once again looking to add one or two 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 December 12th so we can get to work designing the prize tiers. One way or another, I hope you'll join us for another round of Review Blitz!
Just as an FYI, I'll be sending out invites to the Discord prize server (optional! all communication can be done over the forums if you'd prefer not to join the Discord) over the weekend, once this thread closes.
