About & FAQ

[triplecrowncommittee]

The Triple Crown, or winning three difficult races, is the most difficult achievement in the racing world. And we like to think that the Triple Crown of 10k Exchanges is a pretty big achievement too!

There are three exchanges with a 10k minimum:

• Five Figure Fanwork Exchange (FFFX, fffx) is long, with a five-month writing period.
• Heart Attack Exchange (HA, highadrenalineexchange) is short, with a two-week writing period.
• Fic in a Box (FIAB, ficinabox) Exchange is funky, with the ability to write more than one work to complete an assignment (more information at the FIAB DW comm once it's established).

To win the Triple Crown, you must participate in all three exchanges by publishing either an assignment, a pinch hit, or an assignment-length treat to each collection before its creator reveals.

Winners will be able to claim their win once the last exchange, FFFX, is over. They will receive fabulous prizes! Prizes include but are not limited to: icons, certificates, knitted creatures, and a raffle ticket to win a fic in any fandom of your choice.

Questions or concerns? We can be contacted here on Dreamwidth or via email at triplecrowncommittee@gmail.com.

Rules

To win the Triple Crown, you must do all three of the following:

• Five Figure Fanwork Exchange (FFFX): publish one 10k gift fic OR two 5k gift fics OR one 10 page comic OR two 5 page comics to the collection before FFFX author reveals (note: if you're making two 5k or 5 page gifts, they need to be for the same recip)
• Fic in a Box (FIAB): publish 10k worth of gift fic OR fic equivalent (art, podfic, interactive fiction, etc) to the FIAB collection before author reveals. This could mean ten 1k treats, or it could mean one 10k assignment, or anything in between.
• Heart Attack Exchange (HA): publish one 10k gift fic OR one 10 page (25 panel) comic to the HA collection before author reveals.

Works submitted for each part of the Triple Crown must be acceptable per that exchange's rules and that mod's best judgement — the challenge is to produce works that satisfy the requirements of an assignment for each exchange, which includes at minimum length/medium and avoiding your recipients' DNWs.

Additionally, this is an event run for free by volunteers for fun to encourage everyone to do their best and create lots of fanworks! To this end, our one additional rule is very simple: don't be an asshole. We expect you to ship and let ship, be civil to your fellow participants, and participate in good faith. We reserve the right to take appropriate measures to ensure that all our participants have a positive experience.

Full Schedule (as of right now!)

Below is a list of all relevant dates that we currently know about. These are subject to change for things like collection opening delays, and the far-future Triple Crown prize awarding part of things is just our best guess. (Also, we will probably not be updating the below schedule literally all the time — check what date it is to see what stage of things we're probably on, and check the comm of individual events for the most up-to-date information!)

2020

• July 14: FFFX nominations start
• July 24: FFFX sign-ups start
• August 7: FFFX sign ups close
• August 9: FIAB Nominations start
• August 14: FFFX assignments out by
• August 18: FIAB nominations end
• August 19-20: FIAB nominations cleanup
• August 20-29: FIAB signups
• September 1: FIAB assignments out by this date
• September 14-20: FFFX Assignment Swap Week
• October 18: FIAB assignments due
• October 25: FIAB first rolling PH deadline and last day to submit makeup assignments
• November 1: HA tagset nominations open
• November 6: FIAB last rolling PH deadline
• November 6: HA tagset nominations temporarily close for cleanup
• November 7: HA signups open & tagset reopens
• November 8: FIAB work reveals
• November 14: HA signups close
• November 15: FIAB author reveals + HA assignments out by
• November 16-22: FFFX Check-in Week
• November 29: HA assignments due
• December 6: HA works revealed
• December 13: HA authors revealed

2021

• January 20: FFFX assignments due
• March 12: FFFX works revealed (see here for more info)
• March 12: Last day creators can offer a new prize
• March 13: Prize creators will be emailed to confirm their offers
• March 26: FFFX creators revealed (see here for more info)
• March 26: Deadline for creators to send prize confirmation or withdrawal
• April 2: Finalized list of prizes will go up, prize claiming will begin, & raffle signups will open
• April 16: Prize claiming and raffle signups closes
• April 17: At 4pm EST, winning raffle tickets are chosen by Discord robot in a live event (countdown)
• April 20: Prize emails will be sent out to winners & prize creators by the end of this day
• April 30: Prize creators will get in touch with their recips by end of this day
• August 16: Prize creator check-in period begins
• August 31: Prize creator check-in period ends (only those who haven't completed their prizes yet need to check in)
• December 31: Prizes due

FAQ

Do I have to sign up for all three exchanges to qualify?

No, you do not have to be signed up. Your qualifying works can be treats or pinch hits. All qualifying works must still be posted before the author reveals for each exchange, however, even treats!

Do I have to be a writer?

You can be an artist. You can do a 10 page comic (with 25+ panels) for Heart Attack, a 10 page comic or two 5 page comics for FFFX, and a mix of various things for FIAB. Check specific exchange links for details about mediums!

Do combinations of shorter treats count towards the Triple Crown for Heart Attack Exchange?

No; you have to make a single 10k+/10 page+ fanwork and post it to the main HA collection in order to complete that leg of the Triple Crown.

How do I claim my prizes?

The Triple Crown Committee will be tracking all three collections to make sure we know which fics were in before author reveals. All you need to do is participate in the three exchanges as outlined above, and then, when the final exchange (FFFX) is over (in March 2021), submit your wins. We are not yet 100% sure how you will submit your wins, but right now our basic option is to have you comment on a post with links to the works you wrote.

What prizes are there?

Oh, buddy, there's a lot! Right now, all winners will receive:

• an icon
• A certificate
• a small crocheted creature of your choice
• a raffle ticket to potentially win a 10k fic in any fandom of their choosing by thedevilchicken
• other prizes not yet finalized!

To read up more on the first prize announcement, check out this post. To brainstorm more prizes/offer prizes, check out this post. You can also email us with ideas at triplecrowncommittee@gmail.com!

Comments

[modly5]

Hi! This sounds a great challenge and I'm tempted. Can you link the communities of the exchanges you mention in this post though? I know about two of those, and I'd like a chance to check the other two. :)

[triplecrowncommittee]

hi there! for Triple Crown, there are three events: FFFX, Heart Attack, and FIAB. When the Heart Attack and FIAB comms have been created, this page will be edited so that "AO3 Collection [not ready yet] • Dreamwidth [not ready yet]" shows as "AO3 Collection • Dreamwidth" with links. I hope that helps!

[modly5]

Oh, ok, thanks for explaining. I'll wait for the links/news about those two. I thought f5k was the forth in the list, I have to have misread.

[triplecrowncommittee]

no problem! there's only 3 events in the triple crown and they all have a 10k minimum <3

the heart attack comm is up now heartattackexchange.dreamwidth.org/ and fic in a box should be up by the end of the week

fic in a box is a bit more funky than the average exchange which is why it's taking a second to get the comm together, but the funkiness makes it more fun too, so it's worth the wait! ;)

[modly5]

Wonderful!! I'm really tempted to do this challenge. :D

(Just as heads-up, in the event it isn't wanted, but the anon comments function of this community is currently off.)

[triplecrowncommittee]

thank you so much for letting us know! anon comments should be enabled now

and if you're tempted to do the challenge but you're on the fence about it, you have some time to think it over. since assignment-length treats and pinch hits qualify you for triple crown, the first thing you absolutely *have* to do to qualify is create something assignment-level for fic in a box before author reveals, and FIAB author reveals aren't till mid-November 👍

[lemonsharks]

No, you do not have to be signed up. Your qualifying works can be treats or pinch hits.Collapse

AW YISS

[triplecrowncommittee]

*finger guns at the kate beaton reference* aw yiss, motha fuckin treats!

they still have to be posted before author reveals and they still have to reach the length requirements that an assignment for their exchange would be expected to hit—so like a drabble treat for heart attack wouldn't qualify a person for the triple crown-but hopefully this helps make triple crown more accessible <3 <3 <3

[regency]

If you are only treating, do all the treats need to be for the same person?

For example in FFFX, you write a 5k fic for Participant A and a 5k fic for Participant B. Or for Fic In a Box, you spread your 10k words across three different people.

[triplecrowncommittee]

Great question! Basically, to qualify for an event, the treats you make have to fulfill fulfill the basic requirements of an assignment for that event.

So in FFFX, one assignment could be two 5k fics for Participant A, but not one for A and one for B. Regarding FFFX, your two 5k fics have to be the same person to qualify.

However, in Fic in a Box, due to the somewhat more complex system, you can create 10k of stuff spread out over 2+ recipients and still officially qualify for your own 10k worth of gifts, so in that case, you could totally have 3 or more recipients and still qualify for Triple Crown.

Does that help?

[the_no_name_system]

[EDITED]: Just saw my question already answered in the comments! Apologies for the duplicate!

[triplecrowncommittee]

np! <3