Trick or Treat 2021 Welcome and Update

[pumpkinkingmod]

Hello, ghosts and goblins! It's time for another spooky season of Trick or Treat. I'd like to briefly introduce myself as the new Pumpkin King—Hello, I'm the new Pumpkin King! Thank you very much to the previous rulers who have made this event so much fun over the years.

The 2021 rules and FAQ post is here. The schedule remains as usual:

Sept 1 – Nominations Open
Sept 8 – Nominations Close
Sept 11 – Sign-Ups Open
Sept 18 – Sign-Ups Close
October 24 – Assignments Due
October 31 – Gift Reveals
November 7 – Creator Reveals

There is one significant update for the 2021 round of Trick or Treat; I've decided to add relationship nominations and matching as an option. If you love the traditional Trick or Treat character matching set-up, you can continue to nominate, request, and offer characters as usual! Relationship tags will just be an extra option for participants interested in that.

Due to these changes, I won’t be using an eternal tag set this year.

Let me know if you have any questions, and I'm excited for the tricks and treats to come!

Edit: Just a note that I'm slowing down on comment replies here but will get to questions as I can. The above changes are confirmed for the 2021 round. No decisions have been made about the 2022 round.

Comments

[klutzygirl]

Chiming in to agree with the disappointment about this abrupt change (just days before nominations open) to an exchange that's worked just fine as is - on character matching - for years. Plus, as others have said, we already have Shipoween to fill the ship-based needs of a Halloween exchange. The two exchanges have co-existed for several years without any issues, and it's fun participating in both.

I've had my nominations set for months on the basis that we were still using the eternal tagset, which is supposed to be used year after year. That's why we keep adding to it, and it's also worked just fine. Please reconsider!

I agree with using both the eternal tagset, keeping it open for new character nominations, and the 2021 tagset, if you do want to try this experiment out. Or maybe consider upping the number of character/ship nominations from six to ten!

[pumpkinkingmod]

Thank you for the feedback! I'm sorry for the short notice. I let everyone know as soon as I was able to finalize things, but I know that doesn't change how abrupt it might feel for everyone.

Re: Shipoween, I'm unsure if you've seen their announcement in the meantime, but Shipoween mod won't be running that exchange this year.

Re: the eternal tag set, unfortunately it's just too big. It's larger than each of the past two Chocolate Box tag sets, which regularly break on the admin side. The addition of ships makes it a definite nonstarter this year, but even just adding new characters would be an administrative risk. Moving forward with a new, single tag set for this year will be simpler and safer.

I've increased the nominations limit to 10 fandoms, and I hope that's helpful!

[klutzygirl]

Thank you for increasing the nominations limit!