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Details and Rules Introduction

The Rules for the X-Day 2003 Competition will mostly resemble those for previous years. However, there were some changes, and so please take a few minutes to read the Details and Rules pages carefully, before submitting your work. If you still have questions about the contest, or wish to voice concerns or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact the X-Day Manager, Darren Duncan, via the Contact page.

The X-Day yearly competition is intended mainly for works related to Marvel's X-Men and related titles or characters. However, some works for other Marvel titles and characters will also be accepted, if they are ones that fans who like the x-titles are also likely to read. Preferrably, these will have had a significant amount of creative-based in-continuity interaction with x-title characters over their history, not including things like brief cameo appearances or company-wide mega-crossover marketing events or merchandising products. Or they could be by a common creator, or have a similar tone to the x-titles. Technically, the entry doesn't need to have the slightest relation to X-Men, even if that is what X-Day is biased towards. If in doubt, ask the X-Day Manager.

X-Day 2003 will mostly resemble the previous years in what it is about and how it is run. The event still focuses on 3 main categories of creative works, which are fan art, fan fiction, and fan websites, but this year there is a fourth main category (shown third), for fan media (items that don't fit in the previous categories, such as fan-made movies or comic strips or wearable costumes). Each of these main categories will be divided into sub-categories such that similar types of works will be grouped together, and the competitions will actually take place within different sub-categories.

Sub-categories were added in 2001 so that the competitors will be more evenly matched. It will also allow the X-Day results to reflect how each submission is viewed when placed against other similar entries - not when placed against entries that enjoy better resources, have existed longer, or which address different issues.

Each X-Day competition has three main activity stages which must be done in order. The first is collecting and listing submissions which may compete. The second is collecting votes or ratings on the listed submissions to determine winners for that year. The third is the announcement of the year's winners. The submissions gathering period must start before the voting period, and the voting period must end after the submissions period; however, those two periods can and will overlap, ensuring that participants have the most time to do either, and allowing for more flexible start and end dates. The winners announcement will be after the voting period ends. There will be notices posted on the home page of this site and posted to various other discussion forums for when each stage begins and/or ends.

The Submissions period will be at least 4 weeks long, and the Voting period will also be at about 4 weeks long; the voting period will continue for at least one full week after the submissions period ends. Within a few days after the Voting period ends, winners will be announced. You will have at least 2 weeks notice before the submissions period ends and two before the voting period ends, so you should have enough advance notice to get involved.

You should read the Sub-Categories page next in order to better understand the other Details and Rules pages.

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This site has been designed to be fully useable on any web browser; you should be able to navigate to all site pages, use all input forms, and read all of the site text, including all Fan Fiction. However, this site is graphics-oriented and will look better in a relatively new web browser that supports images and cascading style sheets; obviously, you also will need graphics support to view the Fan Art. The site should be fast even to dial-up modem users.

This web site displays and/or incorporates creative works by a wide variety of people; each work is Copyright (c) by its contributor, and they are credited in each place where their work is displayed in full or in part. Portions of this web site that do not have explicit credits, including the main organizational design, textual history or instructions, visual layouts, graphics, and program or database code, are Copyright (c) Darren Duncan and/or Shannon Pipik.

This site is not affiliated with Marvel Entertainment Group, who are the trademark and copyright holders of the 'X-Men' and associated characters. Any references made on this site to said property constitutes fair use.

Site last updated 2004 June 11.