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101 Ways to Avoid Writing the Sports Festival

1. Kill a student off

2. Write Mount Lady touring the food stands

3. Write a kid trying to break in to watch the festival because he’s such a big fan

4. Squirrel PoV

5. Stain’s PoV as he hunts Ingenium

6. Gentle robbing Put Your Hands Up radio station

7. A business course student is wandering the stands and selling things

8. La Brava tries to (and possibly succeeds) in hacking the Sports Festival to play Gentle’s videos

9. Police find out some of the second year kids are selling drugs and shut the Sports Festival down

10. Spinner making memes about the Festival

11. In the email inviting pros to see the festival, the wrong address is given and so no one comes to watch

12. Third Year Prank gives all the First Years food poisoning

13. Kaminari takes a wrong turn, sneezes, and takes out the power

14. Shiketsu holds their “Student Showcase” on the same day and no one comes

15. The story of a random bus driver facing all the people driving while watching the festival on their phones

16. The stadium is hit with a quirk where everyone starts speaking a different language so no one can actually understand what they’re supposed to do

17. Toga follows a Shiketsu student with an illusion quirk going on her internship

18. A group of activists sitting outside the festival comparing it to the Roman Colosseum fights

19. Skeptic is busy working on an algorithm to calculate each student’s potential

20. Aizawa records himself saying this like “Yep. Nope.” and plays it so he can sleep during the festival

21. Overhaul creates the first successful quirk erasing bullet and celebrates

22. Kota tries to make it through the day without thinking about heroes

23. Everyone gets turned into animals

24. An adoption center dresses cats up like heroes and does their own sports festival (like the Puppy Bowl)

25. Rappa goes to his fighting ring for their Sports Festival fight club party

26. Compress goes around the various stands and steals things while Death Arms, Mount Lady, and Kamui Woods try to catch the mysterious thief

27. One of the hero students fakes their own death right before the festival

28. Tengai leads the Eight Bullets in meditation

29. The Uraraka’s internet isn’t working the day of the festival and they panic

30. Dabi goes on an internet spiral and discovers Stain

31. The police are questioning Mustard because his search history has shown some red flags and matches an algorithm to detect a criminal they’re after

32. Tsu’s younger sibling falls asleep a minute or two after the festival comes on and cries when they realized they missed it. 

33. Fuyumi gives the kids she teaches a lecture about violent television as she shows the Sports Festival in class (she was required to)

34. Two students declare their love for each other right before the festival and throw the game so they can talk it out

35. The spinner to choose the challenge just keeps spinning. It doesn’t stop. No one’s really sure what to do so the kids end up playing Uno.

36. The Underminer comes to attack the festival

37. Best Jeanist catches one look at Bakugou and starts developing his plan to fix him

38. Hawks is told he has to choose in an intern to take. He watches 5 seconds of the festival, picks Tokoyami, and then runs off

39. A group of support students are too busy arguing with Melissa online about the best way to build something to pay attention to the festival

40. The next installment of a popular movie franchise premiers the same day the festival happens. Natsuo makes his choice.

41. A group of medical students log every injury for their project. Nothing about the actual competitors is said, just: broken radius, fractured rib, lacerated knee, etc

42. A group of cheerleaders sees the outfits the girls wore and prepare to sue

43. Mic tries to make it to announce the competition, but he got his fingers stuck in a Chinese finger trap and refuses to show his face

44. MLA attack

45. Kouda is nervous about competing and gets a bunch of wild animals to interfere. Chewing wires, pooping on spectators, the works

46. UA’s legal team is enjoying their peace before the calls start coming in and organize a beach trip

47. The Uraraka’s watch the sports festival, but their streaming plan consists of five second of live footage followed by three commercials

48. Fat Gum meant to watch the festival, but vendors keep stopping him to offer food

49. Ms. Joke’s 12 step plan to sneak into the announcing booth and ambush Aizawa

50. Shinsou spent the night before the Sports Festival reading every book the UA library had on it and was too tired to put the books away. He wasn’t the only one and now the Librarian has to clean up the mess

51. Curious just published her true crime book and is constantly refreshing online to look for reviews

52. Recovery Girl has a family emergency the day of the festival and it gets cancelled

53. The character’s fanon selves are dumped in canon world right before the sports festival

54. Izuku gets hit with a quirk that makes everyone around him experience his emotions. No one can do anything because they spend all day crying

55. Dark Shadow is offended by Bakugou’s speech and sacks him. Everything descends into a full on brawl and Midnight has to put all the first years to sleep

56. Mera from the Hero Commission has to redo his plans for the licensing exam because they had planned a cavalry battle and obstacle course.

57. A group of behavioral psychologists intend to watch the full festival, but listen to Bakugou’s speech and spend the whole festival arguing about it instead.

58. Someone mistakes a drama show for the sports festival and watches that instead

59. IT workers run around the city to keep everything working so people can watch

60. Eri starts planning her escape

61. The Vigilante known as Santa Claus is caught an everyone is too emotional to compete

62. Kurogiri kidnaps Aizawa and Mic and tries to hide them in his room

63. Power Loader freaks out because something in the support lab is counting down from a million and he can’t find it and has no clue what it is or does. 

64. The General Education, Support, and Business Departments organize a walk out

65. After Mirio, there were people watching all the time for clothing malfunctions so they can stop the feed. The feed is almost constantly out because one of the people responsible is trigger happy and weary of some of the kid’s quirks.

66. A cat falls asleep in the middle of the ring and Aizawa won’t let anyone move it.

67. Snipe had covered a 1-B class for someone last minute and taught them how guns work because he didn’t have anything planned. 1-B discovers students can use whatever they make. There are many casualties and the festival ends two minutes into the first round

68. Hawks made a bet with some other pros. As a result, a flashmob of heroes steals the show

69. The whole festival, there’s a fly just sitting on Midnight’s face that she doesn’t seem to notice and no one can focus on anything else.

70. There was a mix up in the orders for the uniforms for the festival and every uniform has something not television appropriate on it. As a result, the whole festival is just a pixelated blur

71. Twice bumps into a hero student the day of the festival and makes a copy. The clone goes to the festival and the real one gets kidnapped by Shigaraki

72. Nedzu is actually an alien spy and his people invade the day of the festival

73. The vestiges suddenly gain sentience and start freaking out

74. Dark Shadow has a gender identity crisis

75. A species thought extinct is found living in the arena at the area is declared off limits as zoologists are sent in

76. The clock in the teacher break room stops working so the students are just waiting in the arena while the teachers are chilling

77. Spinner is watching the festival but keeps getting everyone confused. All people without large mutations look the same to him. One of the few he can pick out is Tsu

78. They forget to come back for the kids who fell in the chasm in the obstacle race those kids are still waiting to be let out

79. Instead of passing out energy drinks, the students are accidentally given a drink branded to put you to sleep before the sports festival

80. The Prime Minister of Japan himself asks to speak with Aizawa on the day of the Sports Festival

81. Endeavor is trying to get backstage to see Shouto, but the person blocking the gate is prepared to deal with all of his Karen tendencies

82. Wash’s struggle to overcome his social anxiety and attend the festival

83. A team contact tracing for the outbreak of a quirk created parasite discovers that someone at UA is infected

84. Someone is stalking some of the first year students and UA decided to postpone the festival to deal with the threat

85. The body of the previous principal of UA is found under the floorboards in Nedzu’s office

86. Kaminari doesn’t show up for the festival. A series of notes scattered around the clue finally lead his classmates to find him hooked up some machines in the support lab

87. A third year programs greater sentience into the robots and they unionize

88. Midnight gets her hair stuck in some of the machines. Aizawa always told her it was a hazard.

89. The sex of one of the UA teacher’s first child comes out the day of the festival and their coworkers have one of the most destructive gender reveals in the history of Japan

90. Lunch Rush has spent all day preparing those extra games.

91. After Aizawa broke out of the hospital to go back to teaching, security tightened. Thirteen and other injured heroes plan to escape. 

92. A group of physicists watch the sports festival and have some questions

93. Tetsutetsu and Kirishima discover that they are half brothers 

94. Massive body swap day of the festival

95. Someone breaks an object that Nedzu treasures and everything goes on lockdown until he finds the culprit

96. All Might has a stroke

97. A quirk hits the first years and everyone’s hands get swapped with their feet for a day

98. Endeavor sets off the fire suppression system. They didn’t expect flames back stage and didn’t turn off the detectors ahead of time

99. Muscular finds Tensei after Stain leaves and decides to finish the hero off

100. Gran Torino and Nighteye decide to come to the festival in person and All Might spends the whole time dealing with them

101. Amajiki ate a strange quirk related substance and has gone berserk, threatening everyone at UA