IWT Turnaments?

[Lightning_11]

Hello All,
Does anyone know when the next IWT tournament is? The last one I could find (IWT 11 - Horror) was held in 2015-2016. Is anyone still holding such competitions, or were they discontinued. If they still exist, where are they held on the website and when?

[mizal]

They didn't have any way to be run the last few years without a forum. We talked briefly about doing one for 2020 with the theme of Rebirth (on the creative writing board) but there's no official thread about it yet. I guess DEP will do that in January.

[Locke]

As Mizal said, there's some discussion going on about it right now. Some ongoing problems with the site were resolved very recently, and things are just getting in motion. I would expect an announcement sometime in the next several weeks. The deadline is traditionally a number of months away, so anyone who cares has plenty of time to find out about it and craft a story.

[Lightning_11]

Interesting. I am new, so I had no idea there was a forum before this. Why was it removed?

[Locke]

There were several. The first forum was replaced with a vbulletin (I think an earlier version than this one?). There was no archive - aside from some random bits on archive.org - so some awesome old threads went away, but I think it was an improvement. I know that version of vbulletin was vulnerable to some known exploits, though. Spammers paralyzed most of the forum on several occasions (Lady X Admin probably the most memorable). There was also at least one account hack/impersonation. As I understand it, after a round of particularly odious spam, Sev got tired of dealing with it and killed the forum. I don't know all the details - that's hearsay - so I may be off on that last part. I honestly never expected to see the forums online again. It was a nice surprise to do a random nostalgia search and see they'd just come back.

[End Master]

Unsurprisingly Locke disappeared as usual and didn't actually write anything for the last IWT we had.

[Rapist Jeff]

Haw .