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Chopped: Choose Your Own Adventure!

We’ve done Chopped a couple of times now, and it’s been a raging success all around, so we thought we’d try something a little different! In our traditional Chopped Challenge, we choose the Theme and the Tropes for each Round, and you follow along, which is a blast, but doesn’t leave you with much wiggle room. So, this time… it’s ALL wiggle room!! YOU choose the Theme, YOU choose the Tropes, YOU have total control to decide what your Chopped fic will be! The way it works is simple:

Choose a Theme for your fic from our list of themes!
Choose four (4) Tropes for your fic from our list of tropes! (You can, of course, choose more than four, but only the first four tropes you list will be included for voting)
Write your fic! Make sure you put what your theme is and what tropes you used in your fic summary, or in the notes at the TOP of your fic, so we can keep our eyes peeled for them as we read them!
The Challenge will be structured the same as our previous iterations of Chopped, the only difference being there will be only one round, rather than four!

The list for tropes and themes will be released, and you will have a ten (10) day writing period, followed by a two day voting period. Voting will be based on the use of your theme, the use of each of your tropes, the combined use of your theme + your tropes, and two bonus polls, most unexpected use of a trope and most unique pairing (which will count for both platonic and romantic pairings). [We have expanded the writing period in this round due to the fact that we had to extend two rounds while we were doing Chopped 2.0, and to accommodate the fact that you may need a little extra time to choose your own tropes and themes.]

Dates:

Trope and Theme lists released and writing begins: Date
Writing ends: Date @ 11pm
Voting begins:
Voting ends:

Rules:
Our rules from the previous iterations of this challenge have worked out really well for us, so we are going to stick too them! If you need a refresher, the rules are as follows:

The requirements for the fics entered into the competition will be:

Must be The 100
Must fit your chosen theme
Must use ALL of your selected tropes. If you don’t use the tropes, it will result in disqualification!
All fics must be 10,000 words or less (though we do allow a 500 word buffer zone to tie up a fic that has hit the 10,000 mark without being completed.) [In our previous challenges, we suspended the word limit for tropes such as ‘reincarnations’ and ‘groundhog day/timeloop’. To keep the challenge fair for those who do not choose tropes that would extend their word limit, we will not be doing so for this challenge.]
All ratings are welcome, G through E, but please be aware that some smut fics may not be everyone’s thing! Write what you like, but it the voting is public so just keep that in mind!
You will be disqualified if you include:

Rape!
Underage! (This means no high school AU with sex, no teacher/student if the student is underage, zero adult/under 18 relationships!)
Incest! (incest includes adopted siblings, parent/child, step siblings, biological siblings, or any familial relationship, blood related or not!).
Negativity towards any character or ship! (This includes any sort of abuse perpetrated by a character intending to paint them in a negative light, negative statements about a character intended purely to express your dislike of a character, or things of that nature.)
This competition was created to get creative and different fics out into the world, and to create a fun, positive fandom experience for everyone! In order to ensure that we achieve that goal of a positive experience, we reserve the right to disqualify anyone if we are reading and we think it violates any of our rules.

Please remember this is an anonymous competition!! Please dont post your fics on your own AO3 account or on tumblr until the voting is over!