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

[shadaras]

+1 to sheliak and fiachairecht's comments. ToT was consistently one of my favorite exchanges because it was character-only OR matching. Even if ship matching isn't required, it'll give a different tone and and make writing extra tricks/treats more complicated. People could already use optional details to suggest ships they were interested in, and my sense of the exchange was that people liked leaning into the optional details enough that people who wanted ships could usually receive them even without any ship matching.

I also love morbane's suggestion of rolling/overlapping tagsets.

[pumpkinkingmod]

I appreciate the feedback, thank you! (I probably sound like a broken record at this point in the comment list, but I mean it every time.) The change is set for this year, and I'm hopeful it will open up more options for participants rather than fewer, but I understand the change is still disappointing for some.