ANNOUNCING the THIRD ANNUAL Snarry ART Games!!!

Starting at 12:01 am PST Wednesday, August 20, the Snarry Games will begin accepting sign-ups from fan artists far and wide for the Third Annual Snarry Art Games! The sign up post will be up for twenty-four (24) hours ETA: 48 hours!. It will be at our InsaneJournal here: snarry_games . Our teams this year will coincide with the Fic Games: "Team Dragon" and "Team Phoenix". The Genre choices will also remain the same:



1. Romance
2. Alternate Universe
3. Humour &/or Crack
4. Canon
5. Postwar
6. Angst
7. Alternate Reality
8. Horror
9. Hurt/Comfort
10.Wartime



As with the Fic Games, The prompts will be revealed upon team assignment. The teams will be given several days to peruse both the prompt and genre list and will be asked to commit to their choices by the end of the weekend. At that point, the teams will be off and running! Posting begins October 6, 2008.



You can find our (2007) FAQs on the Art Games HERE, and our Art Champions Master lists for 2006 Art Games and the 2007 Art Games.



After we announce the teams, we will be posting our seasonal concrit poll. The Snarry Games grow every year, and the viewing audience always gives us great feedback. We invite you to continue to watch the comm., and give us constructive feedback in order to make this year's Art Games the best ever! We always give our Games a thorough review before launching a new season.


**If you will not be available for the sign-up, but wish to participate, please send an e-mail to Snarry.Mod[at]gmail.com, and we will enter you in your absence.

Team size will depend on overall participation, and we hope to include everyone. Previous years have seen between 70-80 participants. Should the response this year exceed those numbers by a significant amount, we will then employ a lottery system. In the event a lottery is necessary, any artist who is not assigned a team will be placed on the Alternate list. Any alternate who does not get called into service during the Games will be invited to submit Crack!Art for the Closing Games Ceremonies.


Thank you for supporting the Snarry Games!


Questions? Comments?

*testing, testing* Is this thing on? Yes? Good.

THEY'RE COMING!

Sign-ups in two weeks!

Friends of Snarry,

The Games Mod Squad would like you all to know that one of our premiere Champions, swtalmnd, three-time Gold and Silver medalist, has put up her extraordinary original Snarry painting, Unbound by Gravity, done for dementordelta's story The World as it Is, on the sale block.

Here is a teaser - click on the picture to take you to her Art Sale post. Get an original Snarry Games piece for yourself!

The snarry_games mods would all like to congratulate and wish the hd_worldcup players and its mods good luck in their upcoming Games!

The Maintainer of those Games, wook77, contacted us in regards to animal rescue situation. We wanted to take a moment from all the Snarry Goodness to share with you information about it.

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In the past month, an animal organisation in Tucson, Arizona has helped to break up a fighting dog breeding ring. This resulted in 150 pitbulls being housed at Pima Animal Care Center with the Humane Society of Southern Arizona taking in approximately 70-80 dogs from PACC and adopting them out.

Now - Pima County has a huge hoarding case. At last count (the animals are still rolling in so it's rather hard to give you a completely up to date number) there are 755 dogs and 40 exotic birds. There are puppies being born as I type this. The conditions at the house were horrible - the carpet squished from the urine. In addition - the dogs were stacked in crates one on top of another. These crates were open wire cages. This started as a puppy mill and quickly became a hoarding case.

Some links so you can see what is going on - CNN Video. Official HSSA Information: http://www.hssaz.org/news_chihuahua_rescue.html

To put it bluntly - there is no way that the Humane Society has the financial resources to take care of 800 animals unexpectedly. They normally house 200 dogs. They have converted the large conference room to house the exotic birds. They have converted their training center into an emergency triage/shelter for the dogs.

Considering that the HSSA is housing these animals, I'm going to link to the HSSA website donation information - Donate. Please.

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We would also like to remind viewers here in Livejournal that we no longer post any entries here, though we are posting DAILY right now over at InsaneJournal. Champion Interviews and Opening Games Crack!Art galore!

You can watch on IJ here: Snarry Games on IJ or add the RSS Feed to your flist here by clicking THIS.

The snarry_games begins posting the 2008 Winter Games stories April 19-20!

"I'm so excited about the Games this year! Look at the talent we have lined up!"

"I know, Alicia! These two teams are just phenomenal. The Games are going to be so wild this year. What do you think, Leila?"

"Um, what? Sorry, DJ, this phone connection is awful. Crappy service out here."

"I asked what your thoughts are about the Games - the two teams are really evenly matched and competition is going to be fierce."

"The game? I can't believe you even have to ask me that. GO PATRIOTS! W00t! NEW ENGLAND RULES!"

"Hey! Whaddaya mean Patriots? GIANTS, BABY! NEW YORK REPRESENTIN'!"

"Leila! Lisa! I meant the SNARRY GAMES! *facepalms* And on that note..."





See who's still standing when the flames roar in the 2008 Snarry Games"

A Severus Snape/Harry Potter Anonymous Holiday Exchange

What is the Snarry Holidays Fest?

Snarry Holidays is an anonymous holiday gift exchange fest for Snape/Harry fans on InsaneJournal. Participants will give and receive art or fic centered around the Snarry pairing (slash, pre-slash, or gen).

Please feel free to friend or join the community!

Sign-ups begin August 21st and ENDS SEPTEMBER 11th!

snarry_holidays



Can never get enough Snarry? After the Snarry Art Games are over, you can look forward to the Snarry Holidays! A New holiday fest just for our boys! Go Sign up! Go watch!

We were approached by some Stargate-Atlantis fans a while ago, and look! They have finished their most excellent community, and sign-ups start tomorrow! We congratulate them and wish them mush success with their first ever Games! We welcome as an affiliate:



Sign-ups start June 8th 2007

Best of luck!

The Mod Squad.

Friends of Snarry:

The 2007 snarry_games Winter Games are nearly over. We have just posted the last of a Grand Total of 64 Snarry stories. We are very happy and awed by the overwhelming response and support of this project, and would like to thank everyone who has been involved. The mods, the Champions, the voters and judges, the reviewers and reporters, the affiliates. Thank you all!

We now move into our final voting phase. We will be giving everyone until 6:00pm, Thursday, May 31/07, EST, to finish their reading and voting. The polls will remain open until that time (feel free to pimp your favourite team during this time), and then will be closed to enable the Mods to begin the counting process, which should last approximately 4 days. You can also take this time to edit your votes, if necessary. Instructions on how are under the cut, where you will also find a Master List of all the submissions to help guide you to the entries that you may have missed during this month-long Snarry flurry. If you are all caught up, enjoy the Drabbles to come!

Do not think the community will be idle, because tomorrow we begin posting the Closing Games Drabbles, as well as some more Champion Interviews. We also have new Affiliates to announce, and thanks to give. Those of you who have not yet seen the wonderful Opening Games Crack!Art done by many of last year's Games Champions, do enjoy.


( MASTER LIST OF ALL ENTRIES )

Hi! How's everyone enjoying the Games so far? Feel like pimpin'? Lucky for you, our most beloved graphics queen mod, pervart has made some pimp banners for y'all. She promises icons, too.

( Pimp Banners for the taking, pimp the Games, your favourite Team, or your favourite story )

While we are discussing pimpin', the snarry_games Teams have been having a little fun, supporting their teams. We have gathered as many of these pimps as possible.
Warning: May or may not contain trash talk. *g*

( Team Wartime and Team Postwar get down to business )

Looks like Wartime is ahead a bit, yeah?

*g*

Thank you to the lovely anonymouse who gifted us with a LJ Gift Certificate! You keep us going, help to keep the polls open. ♥

Enjoy the Games!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Our first official affiliate, the triatha_ron Games, has just completed their inaugural Games!!

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The triatha_ron is a Ron-centric ficathon based in part on the model of snarry_games.

The TriathaRon had Teams of Het, Gen and Slash writers pitted against each other for a friendly competition which has just finished their inaugural run!

Maintained by the most awesome mad_maudlin, marginaliana, and tarie, who have just posted the MASTER LIST of all the entries! Go check it out HERE, and see the Ron ♥LOVE♥!

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Congratulations to the Triatha-Ron teams and moderators for their first ever Games!!

♥The Snarry Games Mod Squad.

The 2007 Snarry Games are beginning early this year, to allow for more writing time. We will still be posting the entries in April. However, watch the community, for there will be interviews with our teams, crack comic art from last year's Art Participants, as well as many other fun things to make the wait seem shorter!

Without further ado, I present the 2007 Snarry Games teams:

2007 SNARRY GAMES TEAMS!

TEAM POSTWAR	TEAM WARTIME
the_con_cept	ac1d6urn & sinick
alisanne	amanuensis1
anise_anise	angelsotherlove
daughter_moon	aqua_alta
dementordelta	auctasinistra
diagonalist	bethbethbeth
Melisandre	briarwolf
corvus_coronis	captain_tulip
empathic_siren	cluegirl
eriador117	daylyn
goseaward	eeyore9990
hel_bee	elfwreck
hikaru	escapisms
igtow	femmequixotic
pixystick	imogenedisease
nenyaentwhistle	joanwilder
maeglinyedi	lixtetrax
mia_ugly	loupgarou1750
lexin	atrata
roedhunt	pir8fancier
rakina	naatz
iulia_linnea	nimori
rons_pigwidgeon	perfica
sansa1970	rexluscus
snakeling	dacro
stasia	synn
strlingdragnfly	themostepotente
swtalmnd	treewishes
snapetoy	vain_chan
jin_fenghuang	montana_dan
schemingreader	meri_oddities
thewenchywiccan	venivincere
ze_dragon	ziasudra_fic
*****	*****
POSTWAR ALTERNATES	WARTIME ALTERNATES
TBA	TBA
TBA	TBA
TBA	TBA

Official Comm Brit-Picker (thank you!) tryfanstone

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Thank you!

The Mods here at the snarry_games would like to congratulate the following Champions for their nominations in the Sorting Hat Awards for their Games Entries:

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Sorting Hat Category: Bonding fics

Blood and Fire, by Games Silver Medalist, cluegirl!

Sorting Hat Category: Infidelity and Breakups

Seven Year Itch by Games Gold Medalist, elanor_isolda!

Sorting Hat Category: Time travel fics

Cockroach Clusters, Please by Games Gold Medalist, ziasudra_fic!

and:

Gladly Beyond Any Experience by Games Gold Medalist, femmequixotic!

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Congratulations to you all, and good luck!

The snarry100 drabble community is having a challenge this week inspired by our very own Art Games!


From the snarry100 Mods:

Happy Thursday, everyone! We had a fantastic drabble week; there were some very interesting firsts memorialized in drabbles. Aren't new things fun? This week's challenge is inspired by the snarry_games, which if you aren't watching for the gorgeous art, you should be!

Challenge 24: Images

There are some amazingly talented fanartists in fandom, and many of them create beautiful Snarry images for us to gaze at in awe. This week choose your favorite Snarry fanart and write a drabble to accompany it. Please include the link to the art you picked so that everyone can admire the beautiful pictures!

Go, have fun, and remember to come back here to let us know if you have drabbled one of our Snarry Games art entries!

Cheers!

ETA: The Editors over at the hp_art_daily having been having a little fun with the Snarry Games. As many of them are on opposing teams, the dailies have been rather hilariously biased interesting, to say the least. Thank you, hp_art_daily!