Contestants:
All of you should have received a PM with your pen name and the theme for your round of 16 match. The PM should also have included some additional information. We decided to make an adjustment to the tournament that has no effect on the contest itself but adds some flavour to it.
We added a role play element to the whole thing. Rather than just being a means to hide your identity, we are giving you access to your pen name account. You should now no longer be able to see the tournament board with your regular accounts but only with your pen name accounts. You can access your pen name account with your pen name and the password included in the PM I sent you.
So you can now create your story threads in the tournament directly using your pen name account. Furthermore, I would like to encourage you to use your pen name account for some role playing throughout the tournament. This is of course completely optional. But feel free to use your pen name account to comment in character on your opponent's story or other contestant's stories as well. Or respond in character to feedback you got. Trash talk your opponents, write a tongue in cheek scathing review of their story or take a side in another match unrelated to you. For inspiration, you have also been assigned a sworn enemy and a dear friend from the other contestants. But, friendships can of course break over the course of the tournament and enemies might become friends after all. If and how you engage with this role play element is up to you. The goal is to get as many people as possible to follow your pen name account. Whoever has the most followers at the end of the tournament will get some form of additional price. However, as I said before, if this not your thing, you can completely ignore the role playing and just focus on writing your stories.
