Homestuck Shipping Olympics

The Homestuck Shipping Olympics (HSO) was a mixed media Homestuck fanworks challenge which ran in 2011 and 2012. This challenge emphasized creativity, teamwork, and variance in shipping. 
==Overview==
HSO drew inspiration from the Demon's Lexicon Ship Wars as well as other Star Trek Ship Wars and Ship Olympics.The HSO Announcements Blog!, 06 May 2012. (Accessed 24 April 2013) Participants would sign up and form teams with their favorite ship in Homestuck, then create fanwork relating to that ship and various prompts. Fanworks could be created by individual members of the team, but had to be submitted to the public voting area by the Palhoncho (team leader). Prompts were assigned in four different rounds, the fourth being a "collab round" where three team members or more had to participate in the creation of the fanwork. Teams were assigned points based on how many votes they received from other teams during a voting period. Teams also received points from participation in "bonus rounds," where point value was given to teams based on the amount of content they put out relating to the prompt. At the end of HSO, a winning team would be declared based on overall point value.GIANT INFORMATION POST, 18 July 2011. (Accessed 24 April 2013)INFO POST, 03 April 2012. (Accessed 24 April 2013)
==2011 Games==
The 2011 HSO had over 450 signups and over 50 teams.LIST OF TEAMS (formerly LIST OF SIGN-UPS), 20 July 2011. (Accessed 24 April 2013) All Homestuck quadrants were allowed, as well as ships with more than two characters and selfcest. Teams had to have a minimum of five members with a maximum of twelve members.SIGN-UP POST, 17 July 2011. (Accessed 24 April 2013) If someone was not able to join a team with the required amount of participants, said user could join the rarepair team, the voting only team, or drop out of the competition.
The overall winner of the 2011 HSO was Team Kanaya<>Karkat. The winning teams and other awards can be found here. A corrupted rankings list can be found here. The top 15 of each round can be found here.
===Example Works===
====Art/Fic====
Topsy Turvy Back to Front The Right Way Round (Team John<3Rose<3Dave<3Jade)
and her pale fire she snatches from the sun (Team Kanaya<>Karkat)
Girls' First Datestuck (Team Jade<3Rose)
====Interactive Fiction====
Sail Your Ships (Team Ectobiology)
Baptized By Fire (Team Dave<>Terezi)
====Visual Novel====
Jade: Be The Hero (Team Dave<3Jade)
Between The Woods And Lifeless Lake or How We Spent Our Summer Vacation (Team John<3Rose)
==2012 Games==
The 2012 HSO had over 1,500 signups and over 120 teams.SIGNUPS CLOSED, 12 May 2012. (Accessed 24 April 2013) The overall rule structure was the same as the previous year, however, teams had to have a minimum of six members with a maximum of ten members.
The overall winner of the 2012 HSO was Team Dave<3Rose<3Terezi. The winning teams and other awards can be found here. A full rankings list can be found here.
===Example Works===
====Art/Fic====
Perpetuum Mobile (Team Dave<3Rose<3Terezi) 
A Roving Dust (Team Aradia<>Sollux)
====Comics==== 
Spacewatching (Team Terezi<3Vriska)
====Adventure Games====
Call of Shakira: Gears of Jadekat (Team Jade<3Karkat)
Fuck Yeah, Adventure (Team Bro<3Grandpa)
====Interactive Fiction==== 
Crank That Boner Time (Team Dave<3Dave)
Dave Strider and the Legend of the Wind King (Team Dave<3John)
====Visual Novels====
Play By Heart (Team Dirk<3Jake)
==End of HSO==
Due to the extreme effort required to moderate the 2012 HSO, inkpool and mimicre called off any future HSO iterations.The HSO Announcements Blog!, 25 September 2012. (Accessed 24 April 2013) The event was extremely stressful to the team of moderators, so much so that mimicre took a indefinite leave of fandom activities.psa, 14 September 2012. (Accessed 24 April 2013) Any further related shipping Olympics, including the Homestuck World Cup, will not be considered to fall within the bounds of HSO.
==References==
Category:Homestuck
Category:2011 Challenges
Category:2012 Challenges