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GOI Contest 2021

The contest has ended!

Thanks to all the participants!

GOI Contest 2021

Since the early days of "The Explorers", the different groups of people (and occasionally entities) that reside in the Backrooms have been integral to the lore of the universe. New groups are introduced to the wiki every month, but if you look at the groups list, it's clear that many of the groups we do have are barely developed, with only a handful of articles to their name. For this reason, we have decided to hold GOI Contest 2021!

The Contest

Participants will create teams of 3-5, choose an existing GOI (Group of Interest), and write a number of articles revolving around that GOI. These articles can all be connected to one storyline, or they can be completely separate pieces.

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Rules

This is a team contest, so all participants must be apart of a team consisting of 3-5 people. Teams must be listed on this page, and all teams must be finalized by the end of the Writing/Planning period (though team members are still allowed to drop out of the contest after this point as long as your team still has at least 3 members. Each team should have a "captain". This title doesn't really mean anything. It only exists so that staff knows who to contact with anything regarding the team.

Your team must pick an existing GOI. However, the GOI you pick doesn't have to have a GOI page; in fact, you can even pick a GOI that has only been mentioned a single time in an article. The reason for this constraint is that the goal of this contest is to develop already existing GOIs rather than make new ones.

Your team cannot pick a GOI that was created by a member of your team. This is to encourage participants to be creative and go outside of their comfort zone, as well as make it less likely for people to use storylines that they had already planned out before the contest.

Your team may submit as many entries as they want, but each team member must submit at least one as the primary author (collaborations still count towards this, but only for the person who posted the page).

The score of each team will be the sum of their 4 highest rated pages. This is to encourage participants to write more while also not rewarding quantity over quality.

No major edits will be allowed once a work is posted. Minor edits such as fixing a typo or grammatical error are fine, however.

Contest entries will not require greenlight to be posted. This is mostly due to the fact that the greenlight team is very overloaded, and in some cases there just might not be enough time. It is still highly recommended that participants get extensive critique from their teammates.

Any attempts to give your team an unfair advantage will result in disqualification. What counts as this will be decided by staff on a case by case basis. If you aren't sure if something counts for this, please ask staff (though in most cases, if you have to ask, you probably shouldn't be doing it).

All entries must be posted during the "Posting Period". Any articles posted before or after this period will not count towards your team's score.

Please tag your entries with "goicon2021" and add them to your team's section of this page.

Each member of the winning team will get to pick an article for the September feature cycle.

Dates

Planning/Writing Period (June 15th to July 14th): During this period, you must organize your team and begin writing your articles. At some point during this period, your team must be added to the "Teams" section of this page.

Posting Period (July 15th to August 14th): Teams must be finalized before this time. All articles must be posted within this period. There will be no exceptions.

Voting Period (August 15th to August 31st): This final period exists so that any last-minute entries still have time to accumulate upvotes before the contest is over. At the end of this period, the winners will be announced.