68.5th OOCG Announcement & Sign-ups

That's right, it's that time of year again! In just a few days, we'll be holding another OOC Games, but this year things will be done with another sort of twist. In years past, members have battled it out as themselves, past tributes, and characters from within the canon Hunger Games universe, but this time around we're breaking away from the familiar and working with something a little different.

This time around, members will play as characters from other canons.

If you're wondering what that means, take a look at this link, which lists the available characters/canons.

Here's what you should know:

- You should go to this link to enter yourself into the reaping. Please put your top 5 character choices (in order) and your preferred fandoms if those characters are not available.
- For the reaping, we will randomly pick 24 members from the list of those who have signed up.
- From then on, we'll work through everyone's choices and canon preferences in order to assign characters. Please note that we are going to pay attention to gender, and that's yet another limiting factor in our assignments – please do not be upset if you don't get the character(s) you prefer.
- These Games are being GMed by both Python and myself, so if you have any questions, contact one of us.
- Sign-ups will close on the 26th at 12 (noon) EST, and the reaping will be posted as soon as we've assigned a character to each member.
- THIS is the Arena map.

The 68.5th OOC Games will begin at 10 AM EST on Dec. 27th. If you haven't participated or seen the OOC Games before, this is what you should know:

- We hold an out-of-character version of the Games each December.
- It is an entire Hunger Games role-played out in ONE day. It usually runs for about eight hours.
- There is very little actual writing involved; mostly just funny one-liners per post and quick, rapid attacks. We discourage full posts because they simply take too long.
- Everything will be shortened, and the rules are slightly different in places; more on that will come later.
- It has nothing to do with the in-character Games whatsoever, so there's always a random, hysterical twist. This year, it's characters from other canons.
- If you are going to submit your name to participate, you must know that you'll be entirely free this Saturday. It's definitely a time commitment, but it goes by fast.
- It's FUN. So enter yourself, because you won't regret it. It's one of our very best site events, and even if you're only able to watch, you'll get a kick out of it. Participate!