Rarepair New Year 2025

The Big draw of the Official Event is the Raffle.

In this context, a "Raffle" is a kind of lottery, where participants who have earned "Event Tickets" get to put those tickets into a "Pot". Every "Pot" is associated with a "Prize" (which will be provided by a Prize Volunteer).

Certain kinds of Activity during the event will earn the Participant a number of Tickets. At the end of the event (on February 1st), the tickets earned will be tallied up, and participants will be asked to distribute their tickets into the Pots they wish to try to win. Participants may distribute their tickets in whatever manner they want, including withholding tickets or gifting them to other participants. Once all participants have been contacted about their ticket distribution, the Raffle will be held.

This is a digital raffle. As such, a random number generator will be used to randomly select one ticket for each Pot. The Participant who submitted that Ticket wins the prize associated with that Pot.

Once the prizes have been allotted, the Prize Winners will be put into contact with the Prize Volunteers, who will then be responsible for providing the winner with their prize.

For every unique piece of (Art)work (written or drawn) created by an Event Participant which:

• is submitted to a Registered Social Media
• is linked to in the Official Discord Server
• features and celebrates a Rarepair as defined by the event
• is Tagged in accordance with the Event's Tagging Standards

-the Event Participant will receive 1 Raffle Ticket for the Event Raffle, to be held at the end of the Event.

Bonus raffle tickets can be earned by having the Work meet certain qualifications.

The bare minimum Tagging Standards for a Valid Entry is:

• The Work must be advertised on a Registered Social Media with the relevant Social Media Tags #RarepairNewYear & #RarepairNewYear2025.
• If the Work is a Fanfic, it must additionally:
  1. be posted on AO3 with the Freeform Tags Rarepair New Year Event & Rarepair New Year Event 2025
  2. Be submitted to the Rarepair New Year 2025 Collection.
  3. Be tagged on AO3 with at least 1 (one) ship tag (either in the Relationships Field or the Additional Tags field) that qualifies as a Rarepair as defined by the event.

Works submitted to the Event which meet the Minimum Entry Requirements automatically earn 1 (one) ticket, but Works that meet Additional Requirements may be eligible for additional Bonus Tickets. The Conditions necessary to earn Bonus Tickets vary slightly depending on the Type of Work, separated into two categories:

• Literary Submissions (Fics)
• Visual Art Submissions (Images)

A Literary Submission is considered any single Chapter posted on AO3. This is to account for Multi-Chapter projects, so that every chapter may be submitted as their own Work.

• The work must meet the bare minimum to qualify for the event
• The Work must adhere to Official Event Tagging Standards.
• The Event Participant must first join the Official AO3 Event Collection on AO3 using their Registered Social Media AO3 account.
• The Work must be submitted to the Official Collection on AO3.
• The Work must not be submitted under Anonymous.
• The Work must meet or exceed a word count of 100 words by the metric of AO3.

Bonus Tickets will also be awarded to Works which:

• are exactly 100 words long (the Drabble Bonus)
• are exactly 500 words long (the Penta-Drabble Bonus)
• are the 1st Work in a Participant's AO3 to contain the Rarepair (the Pioneer Bonus)
• For Works which do not qualify for a Drabble or Penta-Drabble bonus, an additional Bonus Ticket will be awarded to a Work for every 500 words
• Additional Bonus Tickets will go to any singular event-original Work which breaks 50,000 words (the "This Isn't NaNoWriMo" Bonus)

Works recognizably inspired by or paired with a Visual Art (Image) submitted for the Official Event by another Event Participant will also get Bonus Tickets, provided the image in question is displayed and/or linked to in the Author's Notes with full credit to the Artist.

If an Event Participant has a pre-existing fic which they want to append new chapters to for the Event, that is permissible. However, entries made in this way will not qualify for All Ticket Bonuses, the exceptions being the "Additional Word-Count" Bonuses acquired every 500 words.

Multi-Chapter works which are started for and during the Event (including previous years, provided a tagged ship is still eligible as a rarepair and the fic is still tagged to Event Standards) are eligible for all Bonus Tickets.

Reminder: Valid Entry is defined as any single Chapter on AO3 which is appended to a fic that meets Event Tagging Standards.

To qualify for Bonus Tickets, Participants who wish to participate in this way must keep faithful and accurate track of (additional) word counts in the Beginning Author's Notes of each (appended) chapter, with a label identifying that chapter as an Event Entry. The recommended format for this is as follows:

An Entry for Rarepair New Year 2025
Word Count: #### words

For works which do not have this important information readily available, otherwise eligible bonus tickets may be withheld until such time as it is properly displayed for the convenience of our moderation team.

A Visual Art Submission is considered any single piece of visual media, be it a drawing, an animation, or some other medium that is accessible through visual means.

• The complete work must be made available on a publicly accessible Registered Social Media
• The work must meet the bare minimum to qualify for the event

Bonus Tickets will be awarded to a Work which is meaningfully and identifiably inspired by / derived from a Literary (Fic) submission from another Event Participant, provided that the post where it is displayed links back to the Fic in question with full credit to the Writer.

Bonus Tickets (of varying number) will be awarded to a Work for each display of the following visual media skillsets:

• Sketchwork
• Linework
• Rendering
• Color Theory

Additionally, any Works which qualify for these bonus tickets may earn an additional bonus tickets if they mirror their work on AO3, following the same tagging standards as written works.

Instructions and guidance for completing this successfully (as it does require a little knowledge of HTML) can be provided upon request. The standard recommended syntax is:

<img src="URL" width="100%">

All Works are eligible for Secret Bonuses, which may or may not be awarded at the Mods' discretion.

Works which are inspired by and transformative of another Event Work are eligible for the Inspiration Bonus.

Works which are gifted to another Event Participant are eligible for the Gift Bonus, which can be awarded when the acceptor of the Gift confirms delivery and appreciation to a Mod.