Challenge Event Structure and Minimums

The polls have closed and it's time to launch the Challenge Event!

Frequency Monthly. The poll ended up in a perfect tie between every two weeks and monthly. In the interest of giving people time to work on their responses, we're going to start off monthly and see how that goes.

Structure It will be a Challenge, there will be a deadline, and it will reward an icon or similar token. The first event will begin immediately. In accord with the monthly frequency, the deadline for this round and the start date of the next will be November 1, unless people get impatient and we switch to every-two-weeks.

Minimums 100 words or equivalent. It was a dead heat for a long time, but in the end the 100 word minimum won out. I have listed proposed equivalents below. I don't have personal experience making most of these content types, so if my propsoed equivalent doesn't seem fair to you, please say something and I will adjust.

EQUIVALENTS:

Fic / Poetry / Meta / Headcanon: 100 words.

Icons: 2 icons.

Banners: 1 banner.

Photoset: 3 images.

Recs: 5 recs.

Art: One B&W sketch.

Manip: One manip.

Mix (no cover art): 5 songs.

Mix (with cover art): 3 songs + cover.

Vid: 30 seconds.

Did I miss a type of content you're thinking of creating? Please let me know!

Posting Please post your Challenge response to the community. It's totally okay to host it on an alternate site (AO3, deviant art, etc.) and just link to it on the community, but I encourage adding a brief comment to the link. If you want the icon reward, make sure to identify it as a Challenge response!