Hello, EF! Just a quick update on the state of banner requests.

As a refresher: in the announcement for our upcoming Roadtrip Challenge Event, we included a link to a Google Form where authors could request banners as has been done in the past. Since then, we have heard from a number of participating authors that many of you have made other arrangements, and reached out to specific artists to capture the vision you have for your fic.

We love that our authors are so inspired and proactive. And since so many of you are approaching artists directly, we’re starting to wonder if the banner match component is one we need to concern ourselves with at all this year. So if you wanted to request a banner, we’re putting a deadline of midnight (site time) on Sunday 11th September on it so that our artists have ample time to claim and make banners before the event starts. 

If it turns out the need isn’t there, we’ll simply drop this element for this year and contact the few authors who have submitted information to help them make other arrangements. Truly, it all comes down to what our participating authors would like to see for this event! 

The link to make requests is HERE. 

UPDATE: You have spoken and we have listened. As such, we are dropping the banner request element of this event, leaving authors to make their own arrangements for art.