EDITING BATTLE INTRODUCTION || V.2

Welcome to the Editors Guild: Editing Battle! If you do not know what the Editing Battle is, stick around to find out more!

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Explanation

The Editing Battle is a competition in the amino that focuses on gathering editors together to compete by editing. You can get to show-off your edits and push your boundaries by trying out new styles. This is open to all editors even if you are not part of the guild chat room or the team. This is a fun-filled event that we encourage all editors to in. We usually try to host this event in a time when people are more free, which around winter break, is the perfect time!

In this battle, editors willing to participate will be split into teams. There will be no maximum number of , as long as all teams have the same amount of numbers.

Every participant will be randomly added to a team and it’s chatroom, selected by the Editor’s Guild Leaders. You will work with this team for 3 weeks competing with other teams. You have 4 days, after the first challenge has been posted, to pick a leader within your team as well as pick a name for your team. The leaders will be in charge of activity as well as posting the blog with the edits included.

Each week, the leaders will announce an editing prompt for all teams to participate in, on this blog: TBA

There will be 3 stages. In each stage there will be 1 major activity that the team must do. This activity could vary from making posters, themes, or team-build an edit. For each activity there will be specific requirements that every editor must follow. These requirements will vary from (but are not limited to) the colours needed, characters that must be used, techniques and more, as well as a couple of tweaks.

For the first 2 stages, every editor on the team must create an edit. Someone in the team must volunteer to post the blog after collecting everyone’s edits. The blog will be linked to the voting pool at the end of the battle.

The last stage requires team building participation. We encourage you to get to know each other in order to prepare for the third stage. That way it is not as awkward when you start asg jobs to each other.

All voting will be community based, meaning that GIA will choose which edits they like best by voting in a poll. If there is a tie, the leaders will cast their own votes. Votings will begin once all 3 stages are over.

Prizes

The only way to really win and obtain the AC prices is when a team scores the majority of the votes.

For example, Team 2 got the most votes in the first and second stages. That would mean they got the majority of wins from all 3 stages, declaring them the winner of the Editing Battle.

If there are no majority winners, like Team 1 wins the first stage, Team 2 wins the second stage or Team 3 wins the third stage, the leaders will cast their own votes in an anonymous manner.

The winning team will split 5K AC plus receive a title that relates to their team name. The top 2 and 3 teams will receive a title that also relates to their team name and some ac as well.

All donations given to this blog will go straight to the winners!

DEADLINE

WARNING: THE DATES MAY VARY DUE TO THE BUSY HOLIDAYS.

Sign up begins on December 5th and will end on December 9. You will have 4 days to sign up.

The editing battle will begin on December 10th and end on January 1st. It will last for 3 weeks. If the date changes, we will let all participants know!

December 10th: The first editing prompt will be announced to all groups.

December 17th: The deadline for the first editing prompt. All teams must have their blogs posted by this day or else it won’t be included in the voting poll.

December 18th: The second editing prompt will be announced to all groups.

December 25th: The deadline for the second editing prompt. All teams must have their blogs posted by this day or else it won’t be included in the voting poll.

December 26th: The third editing prompt will be posted in this blog: TBA

January 2nd: The deadline for the third editing prompt. All teams must have their blogs posted by this day or else it won’t be included in the voting poll.

January 4th-7th: During this timeframe the voting blog will be posted for the first, second and third stages. There is no definite date since it is the holidays and New Years.

Sometime in mid-late January: The results blog will be posted and the winners will respectively be given their prizes.

WARNING: THE DATES MAY VARY DUE TO THE BUSY HOLIDAYS.

Teams are made by the Editors Guild Leaders: Plum ]. They will randomly add you to a team and a chatroom monitored by them. You do not need to create a team.

This way you are able to meet new editors and possibly make some new friends. Who knows, maybe you’ll be added to a team with someone you are already friends with.

In your team, you will have the choice to create a name and pick someone to post the blogs.

Rules

There are rules to follow before g up for this battle. Please read them carefully.

1. You must be active. This is going to be a team-building activity, please be aware that you have to be active and participating in all of the stages.

2. You must be respectable. Do not judge others in public nor in private. We do not tolerate this kind of behaviour.

3. Can abide by the [guidelines].

4. If you are unable to participate before the battle begins but you signed up already, please let one of the editor leaders know as soon as possible.

Click the sign up link below and it will take you to a google form site. Have your amino link rady beforehand.

SIGN UP FORM

Please make sure to hit 'external browser' in order to properly access the form.

Since this is a battle, we request all participating editors to read this segment properly to avoid getting disqualified.

✦ ALL EDITS MUST ABIDE THE [GUIDELINES]!!!

✦ Be active in the team. It is extremely unfair for the other of the team to be doing most of the work and have someone not participate at all. This includes sending resources or sharing ideas. This is a team activity, where communication is a big part of the battle, especially in the last stage. Please be active and do your edits accordingly.

✦ Although it is called a “battle” it does not mean that you can bad mouth others for their edits or team. Any foul-play, poor sportsmanship, bad mouthing is strictly prohibited. If a leader receives a report or finds out about this, you and everyone involved (aside from the victims) will be eliminated and will be blacklisted from ing future challenges/events/competitions etc.

✦ Do not plagiarize someone else’s work. If a leader receives a report about this, you will be disqualified and possibly blacklisted from future challenges/events/competitions etc.

✦ Do not use art of artist’s that does not allow reposts or usage of their art. Please respect the artist’s wishes and avoid using their artwork. Most of the time, you will know if they don’t allow usage or reposted in their bio. If we find out that your art cannot be used, it will be removed from the blog.

✦ Give credits to artists and resources used. Provide a proper link to the original art post that is not from a render website. If you want to find out more about crediting, please have a read at the Crediting PSA. If there are no proper credits linked in your team blog will be removed.

✦ Include proof of your edits. You can take an SS of the laters of the process of creating it, if layers are not available for you. If there are no proofs added in your team blog, it will be removed.

Please make sure you are following or re-follow the Editors Guild in order to be added to the chatrooms!

We hope to see many editors this battle. This is a big event we had a blast holding last year! The Editors Guild is excited to get the activity going as we know that a lot of editors have been looking for more events to participate in. There may be some mistakes since this is only the second time we had this event, however we are trying to make this a fun event for everyone! If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t be afraid to leave a comment!

If you want to meet other editors or talk about the Battle, come and us in the Editors Guild Chat. It is the perfect chatroom for Editors to come together and share tips and tricks with everyone!