Greetings Obernetters,
Planning for the 2012 Moonfair has begun! Please read the following info, and if there are any questions, you can reply to this thread.
Obernewtyn.net's Moonfair 10th Anniversary:This year is a special year for Moonfair, being out tenth hosted event. To commemorate this splendiferous occasion, the Moonfairies will have special competitions and surprises for participants.
For the newbies:Obernewtyn.net holds an annual online Moonfair. In the past, typical activities have included games, puzzles, treasure hunts, writing and art comps, recipes, quizzes, storyboards...anything goes! Planning starts as of now, until the middle of August. The Moonfair itself runs from
September 1st to October 31st.
During Moonfair itself, the aim is to earn as many points for your guild as possible, and to have as much fun as possible too! The guild that earns the most points wins the illustrious Moonfair Cup.
Overall Winner Pointage:100 guild points will be awarded to first place, 80 points to second, 60 to third and 50 to last.
Competitions:Guilds: Guilds are encouraged to come up with 1 large-ish competition, and also host a sub-board, for the duration of Moonfair. The sub-board can include regular Moonfair favourites, such as Mystics Fortune Telling, and Dreamweaver's Story Board.
Categorised Competitions: We are after energetic, enthusiastic members to come up with, plan and organise competitions for Moonfair, to fit into a variety of Categories. It doesn't matter if you and your organisers are from the same guild, different guilds, or not part of a guild at all.
The Categories are:
- Artwork: where the entrant has to submit any kind of visual work
- Writing: where the entrant has to submit any piece of writing (this includes answers to quizzes as they can become novels in themselves ;) )
- Puzzle: where the entrant has to complete a sequence of clues to find an answer, or an on-screen puzzle, crossword, find-a-word, etc.
We encourage members to come up with small competitions that don't take so long to enter. If you have any doubts or queries over this, please ask below. As a general guide:
- Quizzes are restricted to 15 questions.
- Writing competitions are restricted to 1000 words.
- If you need people to find hidden items around the site/forums, you're restricted to hiding a maximum of 10 items.
If you have an idea for a competition, please see the
Competition Guidelines & Submission for information on how to submit your idea to the Moonfairies.
ThemesThis is the 13th anniversary of Obernewtyn.net, and so we are using a gemstones colour scheme of
citrine, malachite and moonstone.
The overall book related theme is
The Taillard Observatory.
Moonies The 'Moonies' are Obernet members who help with the behind the scenes stuff that makes Moonfair possible. This year your friendly neighbourhood Moonfairies are:
Min,
Agyllian and
ElspethInnle; and
Moonie Level Web (MLW's)
so far are:
Min,
Agyllian, and
ElspethInnle.
The Obernewtyn Awards The
Ober Awards Ceremony will take place as per usual - details regarding our traditional awards may be found in the
'The 2012 Obernewytn Awards' thread.
That's about it for now. This thread will be updated as new information surfaces. If you have any questions, please post them here.
-- Your friendly neighbourhood Moonfairies
