Come on and slam…
And welcome to the 144-Hour Jam Contest!
A jam contest, you say? What's that?
It's simple. From March 9th through March 15th, you will write three stories over a six-day period, competing for honor, glory, and meaningless prizes. This contest is designed to squeeze inspiration out of you and see what kind of works you can produce in an accelerated timeframe.
The Winners
First place goes to notgull notgull , who secured 275 upvotes across all three of his entries:
- SCP-4808 - Spontaneous Dog Manifestation (+47) for Day ×ばつ2
- SCP-4804 - The Pulp is Fictional (+70) for Day ×ばつ2
- notgull's Proposal (+158) for Day ×ばつ2
Second place goes to NatVoltaic NatVoltaic , who secured 198 upvotes across all three of her entries:
- SCP-4290 - The Child Hungers (+156) for Day ×ばつ2
- Barrels of Prose and Slugs of Pulp (+25) for Day ×ばつ2
- Sweeter Dreams Inc. (+17) for Day ×ばつ2
Third place goes to Mortos Mortos , who secured 196 upvotes across his three best entries:
- SCP-4464 - Dogs Could Be Bigger (+72) for Day ×ばつ2
- SCP-4494 - The Specter Fights For Justice! (+99) for Day ×ばつ2
- SCP-4744 - Stay Woke (+25) for Day ×ばつ2
Additionally, the 2019 144-Hour Jam Contest GRANDER PRIZE goes to NatVoltaic NatVoltaic , who secured 198 upvotes across all three of her uniquely-formatted entries:
- SCP-4290 - The Child Hungers (+156) for Day ×ばつ2
- Barrels of Prose and Slugs of Pulp (+25) for Day ×ばつ2
- Sweeter Dreams Inc. (+17) for Day ×ばつ2
Congratulations to the winners! Thank you to everyone who participated, and especial thanks to UraniumEmpire UraniumEmpire and TSATPWTCOTTTADC TSATPWTCOTTTADC for collecting and tallying up the final scores!
The Entries
Dawn of the First times Second Day: Shaggy Dog
Day One Winners:
Top Three Overall (and SCPs):
- SCP-4290 ("The Child Hungers") by NatVoltaic NatVoltaic !
- (TIE!) SCP-4464 ("Dogs Could Be Bigger") by Mortos Mortos !
- (TIE!) SCP-4844 ("Last Man Standing") by TyGently TyGently !
Top Three Tales:
- Mobile Toddler Force by RockTeethMothEyes RockTeethMothEyes !
- Dr. King Turns Everyone at S&C Plastics into Appleseeds by Ihp Ihp !
- No Dead Bodies. Ever by LukeLukens LukeLukens !
Top Three GoI Formats:
Judge's Awards!
Truly Screwed: Captain Kirby Captain Kirby , with How Not to Walk Your Dog: Poor Pacing in the SCP Format, for having the best format screw: a full-blown essay!
All Day One Entries!
Entries
- A Surprise Encounter with Crispy Sex Pirates by Lt Flops
- A Bit More of a Plan by OthellotheCat
- Carnifex Carl by ch00bakka
- SCP-4942 by stormbreath
- SCP-3786 by minmin
- SCP-4844 by TyGently
- Where Is This Going? by ModernMajorGeneral
- Dr. King Turns Everyone at S&C Plastics into Appleseeds by (user deleted)
- SCP-4895 by ResearcherSheppard
- Signal for the Crack of Dawn by Gekkoguy
- SCP-4964 by gishface
- SCP-4115 by TetrarteT
- Mobile Toddler Force by RockTeethMothEyes
- SCP-4234 by MaliceAforethought
- SCP-3824 by (user deleted)
- No Dead Bodies. Ever. by LukeLukens
- Rising and Falling by GrimmCreeper
- SCP-4937 by Greyve
- An Agent, A Cadet, A D-Class and A Janitor Walk Into The Sunlight. by Doctor North
- The Glow and The Door by Zapperr459
- Potato Girl by Decibelles
- The Great Shucks of the Unnamed Lords by DrChandra
- Critter Profile: Midas! by Ayers
- SCP-4216 by Aftokrator
- SCP-80RK-J by DrLeibowitz
- SCP-3648 by rattles
- SCP-4902 by Rex Atlas
- (Not The) Foundation Fight Club! by Ellie3
- Hard To Keep From Being King by PeppersGhost
- Canst thou draw out Leviathan with an Amortization? or his Tongue with a Bribe which thou lettest down? by Gabriel Jade
- How Not To Walk Your Dog: Poor Pacing In The SCP Format by Captain Kirby
- Mage's Best Friend by Stallmantic
- The Things I Did for Love by kinchtheknifeblade
- 04/23/87 by TheHouseOfBalloons
- SCP-4672 by Mecheon
- SCP-4521 by Westrin
- SCP-4464 by Mortos
- SCP-4897 by ManyMeats
- Canine Communication by Proasek
- Nobody In Trouble by JackalRelated
- You May Become Science by Elenee FishTruck
- SCP-3819 by ScarfDyedShadow
- SCP-4808 by notgull
- A Beautiful Machine I Made by Almarduk
- Project Koza, 1942 by Uncle Nicolini
- SCP-3681 by macro_au_micro
- SCP-3678 by MissMercurial
- SCP-3874 by Uncle Nicolini
- Mind Your Manners by PersonMcName
- SCP-3593 by Weryllium
- SCP-3472-J by UraniumEmpire
- SCP-4290 by NatVoltaic
Dawn of the Second times Second Day: Pulp Fiction
Day Two Winners:
Top Three Overall (and SCPs):
- SCP-4513 ("Pounded in the Butt with Moby Dick by my IRS W-2 Tax Form") by Rounderhouse Rounderhouse !
- SCP-4494 ("The Specter Fights For Justice!") by Mortos Mortos !
- SCP-4804 ("The Pulp is Fictional") by notgull notgull !
Top Three Tales:
- What's the Deal? by TyGently TyGently !
- Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring... by Ayers Ayers !
- S&C Paper by Uncle Nicolini Uncle Nicolini !
Top Three GoI Formats:
Judge's Awards!
All Day Two Entries!
Entries
- Nobody's Observations on Arson, Activism, and Mustaches by OthellotheCat
- Barrels of Prose and Slugs of Pulp by NatVoltaic
- Documents Recovered in Honshu, Japan, 1949 by PhantomClock
- Heatwave by pieiswrong
- SCP-4566 by ch00bakka
- SCP-4491 by Gabriel Jade
- SCP-4727 by minmin
- 'Pulp Fanfiction' (TUP9I/LFOCI/2ONIP) by GrimmCreeper
- Gamers Against Creativity by fishingenthusiast
- UIU/PETRA File: 1974-028 by JackalRelated
- SCP-4513 by Rounderhouse
- SCP-3827 by Weryllium
- To pulp the fiction. by GlitchyMemories
- SCP-4868 by RockTeethMothEyes
- SCP-4377 by MaliceAforethought
- SCP-4494 by Mortos
- Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring... by Ayers
- Open War at Site-34 by Proasek
- What's The Deal? by TyGently
- On The Failure Of The "Open Sky" Accords by Taffeta
- Not all Fiction is Told by Rex Atlas
- SCP-4429 by gishface
- SCP-PU1P-J by Stallmantic
- MTF Whiskey-Tango by DrLeibowitz
- SCP-4804 by notgull
- SPC-993: BOBBLE THE CLOWN SHARK by Lt Flops
- SCP-4720 by Gekkoguy
- Intelligence Agency Data Archive — Subject: CrossFire by Doctor North
- S&C Paper by Uncle Nicolini
- Wait, Did You Mean The Movie Or Pulp Magazines? by DrChandra
- SCP-4854 by (user deleted)
Dawn of the Third times Second Day: So it was all a dream…
Day Three Winners:
Top Three Overall:
- not_a_seagull's Proposal by notgull notgull !
- SCP-4269 ("Fuck With The Lights Turned-On") by OthellotheCat OthellotheCat !
- Project Proposal 2014-1221: "Finally Waking Up" by Uncle Nicolini Uncle Nicolini !
Top Three SCPs:
- not_a_seagull's Proposal by notgull notgull !
- SCP-4269 ("Fuck With The Lights Turned-On") by OthellotheCat OthellotheCat !
- SCP-3548 ("We exist, but only in your mind") by Alistair Hawks Alistair Hawks !
Top Three Tales:
- Clash of the Cosmic Comedians by TyGently TyGently !
- The Many Business Ventures of S & C Plastics by Ellie3 Ellie3 !
- Still the Same Nightmares by pieiswrong pieiswrong !
Top Three GoI Formats:
Judge's Awards!
Seinfeld Cinematic Universe: TyGently TyGently , with Clash of the Cosmic Comedians, for creating a series that involved Jerry Seinfeld saving the world!
The Cicierega: Also TyGently TyGently , with Clash of the Cosmic Comedians, for creating the story that best mashed up all three themes at the same time (even if it was in three parts)!
The Stefánsson: notgull notgull , with not_a_seagull's Proposal, for having the guts to write an 001 Proposal!
My Father's Values: Gekkoguy Gekkoguy , for naming all his entries after lyrics from the same Jethro Tull song, Thick as a Brick!
All Day Three Entries!
Entries
- SCP-4904 by minmin
- SCP-4190 by Lt Flops
- SCP-4919 by ModernMajorGeneral
- SCP-4145 by SecretCrow
- 'Dream Daycare' (D2924/6RE33/945AM) by RockTeethMothEyes
- Everybody Dreams by Varaxous
- SCP-4789 by Weryllium
- Project Proposal 2014-027: "I'm a bad dream/That I just had today" by Gekkoguy
- SCP-4188 by Mortos
- Sweeter Dreams Inc. by NatVoltaic
- SCP-4917 by JackalRelated
- SCP-4977 by MaliceAforethought
- 'A Second Chance At Today' (IZ229/AN78A/GI753) by Gabriel Jade
- SCP-3548 by Alistair Hawks
- SCP-3784 by DrChandra
- The Many Business Ventures of S & C Plastics by Ellie3
- What You See is (Not) What You Get by Proasek
- SCP-4767 by gishface
- My Head Is On Fire And I'm (Not) Ok by Captain Kirby
- notgull's Proposal by notgull
- Among The Stars - Track 0 by Stallmantic
- SCP-4180 by Taffeta
- SCP-4598 by DrCaroll
- SCP-4744 by Mortos
- Fifth Avenue, please. by DrMartens
- Critter Profile: Bakugo! by (user deleted)
- The Bed Salesman: A Brief Interlude by Ellie3
- Clash of the Cosmic Comedians by TyGently
- Project Proposal 2014-1221: "Finally Waking Up" by Uncle Nicolini
- Still the Same Nightmares by pieiswrong
- My One True Love by Doctor North
- SCP-474 by RJB_R
- SCP-4269 by OthellotheCat
- Critter Profile: Otis! by Anorrack
- Timeline η-5 by DrLeibowitz
Contest and Rules
The contest will be broken up into three periods of 48 hours each. At the beginning of each period, a THEME will be announced. From the moment the THEME is announced, contestants will have exactly 48 hours to write an article based on that theme. However, contestants will not be able to post their articles until 24 hours have elapsed since the theme's announcement. All contest articles posted for each period must adhere to that period's theme - if you write an article for the first period but only post it in the second period, that article will be disqualified.
Winners will be determined by vote count. There will be first place winners for each theme, as well as a Grand Prize Winner for the entrant who writes for all three themes and amasses the highest overall vote count.
You are free to solicit as much critique as you can get within the time period.
- The contest will begin at 12:01 AM (EST) on March 9 and end at 1:01 AM (EST) on March 15 (due to Daylight Savings Time). Contest voting will end on March 29.
- Authors may not collab with each other. One author per article only! You can still get critique from as many people as you can!
- This year, to give people more time to both read and write entries, the theme period has been doubled from 24 to 48 hours.
- As soon as a theme is announced, entries for that theme are IN PROGRESS: they should be worked on but cannot be posted.
- Once 24 hours have elapsed since the beginning of the IN-PROGRESS period, entries for that theme are OPEN and can be posted.
- As soon as the NEXT theme is announced, entries for the PREVIOUS theme are CLOSED and cannot be posted for the contest.
- To clarify: you can still post articles for closed themes to the site, but they will not be considered as valid entries for the purpose of the contest.
- Authors may submit any number of entries per theme. Only the highest-rated entry per theme will be considered for voting totals.
- Each theme's entries will have fourteen days, beginning from the END of their posting period, to accumulate votes. At the end of this period, net upvotes will be tallied and used to determine the final placements.
- All types of articles - SCPs, Tales, and GOI Formats - are allowed.
- Entries can be as long or as short as you want. Feel free to add supplements or use ListPages; however, only the main page of the article will be considered for the entry.
- Authors do not have to submit entries for all three themes; you may pick and choose which themes to submit to, but only authors who submit entries for all three themes will be considered for the Grand Prize. Furthermore, to receive the Grander Prize, you must submit one entry of each type: one SCP, one Tale, and one GOI Format.
- No significant content edits may be made after the entry has been posted until the contest has ended. SPaG, Wikidot syntax, and CSS edits are allowed, but significant changes to the content are prohibited. A good rule of thumb is that if you wouldn't do it to someone else's work, don't do it to your own until the contest ends.
- Contest entries will go through the normal deletion process. As there is no limit on the number of entries you may post, you may always reenter. However, you may not repost a new version of a previously deleted entry in the contest. You can always submit these documents to the site again, but they cannot reenter the contest.
- Entries must be new and original. You cannot edit or suggest an existing document for this contest. Nor are you allowed to submit any article submitted for this contest to the concurrent SCP-INT GOI Contest.
- Shenanigans Rule: The contest organizers reserve the right to disqualify entries and entrants for behavior they deem unsportsmanlike, such as downvoting other contestants' entries solely to gain a vote advantage or excessively self-promoting their articles. If you're not sure whether or not your action will fall under the Shenanigans Rule, ask either A Random Day A Random Day or ProcyonLotor ProcyonLotor .
- Tag your entries with 'jam-con2019'.
Winners will be chosen through total upvotes. At the conclusion of the contest, a post will be made by the judges announcing winners and awarding special prizes to deserving entries. The judges for this contest are A Random Day A Random Day and ProcyonLotor ProcyonLotor - please PM them with any further questions you might have.
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