Voiceteam 2026 Round 1
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voiceteamPOP THE CHAMPAGNE:
Contribute to someone's first time making a new format of fanwork. That someone could be yourself, another Voiceteam player, or even someone outside of Voiceteam! Possible new formats include podfic, written fic, oral not!fic, podfic with a director, podcast, filk, vid, visual novel, etc.
Point value: 45 points for each player who contributes. For a list of possible ways to contribute, see the message on the Voiceteam server.
HOT OFF THE PRESSES:
Create an audio fanwork of a text that was posted to AO3 under 24 hours before you pressed record.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes.
LISTEN TO YOUR HEART:
Listen to one or more audio fanworks while doing something kind for someone else. Examples: Make a meal or treat for them, make them a gift or card, send them a thoughtful text while listening to filk, take a task unexpectedly off their plate by doing it for them, etc. Bonus points if something you do not normally do for this person.
Point value: 20 points for each audio fanwork you listen to while doing something kind for someone else, +5 if it meets the bonus condition.
PODPOSAL:
Reach out to another player whose work you admire and invite them to collab with you on an audio fanwork. You can use this resource for ideas of how to find Voiceteam players whose works you admire, how to phrase your invitation, and how to phrase your responses to invitations from others.
Point value: 20 points for reaching out but not collaborating (i.e. the other player said no). 35 points for each player who contributes to an audio fanwork.
ROCK OUT:
Include a live instrument in your audio fanwork in some way. Your voice does not count as an instrument, but other than that creativity IS allowed, so feel free to make a shaker out of a pill bottle or bang a fork on a spoon, etc. Bonus points for an often maligned instrument, such as kazoo, ukulele, cow bell, or bagpipes.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes, +10 for an often maligned instrument.
DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE:
Participate in a game of podfic Duck Duck Goose. You can find the rules here. Points for each audio fanwork you create yourself, and points for each audio fanwork by another player you listen to and react to.
Point value: 40 points for each player who contributes to an audio fanwork created while playing DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE. (For a contribution to count, it must happen within the 5-minute period after the "Goose!" message is sent.) 10 points for each time you listen and react to an audio fanwork created by another player as part of DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE.
SUN SALUTATION:
Create a new pre-recording routine with at least 2 elements you don't usually do. (Examples: stretches, vocal warmups, specific food or drinks, strategies to emotionally connect to the story or characters, etc.) Every audio fanwork you record using this routine gets points.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes.
PITCH N’ POD:
Introduce one or more other Voiceteam players to a fandom they didn't know before, meaning they have not consumed any canon or fic for this fandom before. Then create a multivoice audio fanwork in that fandom, where at least one of those fandom newbies contributes their voice.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes, +10 if you are a fandom newbie lending your voice.
WE ARE EVERYWHERE:
Create avant-garde location-based audio art with your team! Each team member should think of one or more unique places they could plausibly record from. Choose a single sentence for team members to record in each place, with the only change being the name of the location. (For example, a team could choose the sentence "I am creating art [describe the location]" and examples could be "I am creating art in the bath," "I am creating art beneath four cats," etc.) Edit all the clips together. The minimum number of clips is 5—bonus for each clip after that.
You have our permission to get weird with this one.
Point value: 10 points for each player who contributes, +1 per each additional unique location after the first 5, with a maximum of 50 points.
TRANSFORM, TRANSFORM, TRANSFORM!:
Players make a transformative chain with at least three links. At least one of the links must be an audio fanwork. For example, one player writes a fic, other players make a podfic and fanmix based on the fic, some players make a filk based on one of the songs from the fanmix, other players make art and an oral not!fic based on the filk, and so on! (Click here for a helpful visual of all that!) A chain does not have to be linear—what’s important is that all transformative works (except the first one) are based on at least one earlier work in the chain. Players can contribute to more than one link in a chain and get points for each link they contribute to. Players can contribute to as many different chains as they want.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes to a link on the chain; each link is its own submission.
Contribute to someone's first time making a new format of fanwork. That someone could be yourself, another Voiceteam player, or even someone outside of Voiceteam! Possible new formats include podfic, written fic, oral not!fic, podfic with a director, podcast, filk, vid, visual novel, etc.
Point value: 45 points for each player who contributes. For a list of possible ways to contribute, see the message on the Voiceteam server.
HOT OFF THE PRESSES:
Create an audio fanwork of a text that was posted to AO3 under 24 hours before you pressed record.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes.
LISTEN TO YOUR HEART:
Listen to one or more audio fanworks while doing something kind for someone else. Examples: Make a meal or treat for them, make them a gift or card, send them a thoughtful text while listening to filk, take a task unexpectedly off their plate by doing it for them, etc. Bonus points if something you do not normally do for this person.
Point value: 20 points for each audio fanwork you listen to while doing something kind for someone else, +5 if it meets the bonus condition.
PODPOSAL:
Reach out to another player whose work you admire and invite them to collab with you on an audio fanwork. You can use this resource for ideas of how to find Voiceteam players whose works you admire, how to phrase your invitation, and how to phrase your responses to invitations from others.
Point value: 20 points for reaching out but not collaborating (i.e. the other player said no). 35 points for each player who contributes to an audio fanwork.
ROCK OUT:
Include a live instrument in your audio fanwork in some way. Your voice does not count as an instrument, but other than that creativity IS allowed, so feel free to make a shaker out of a pill bottle or bang a fork on a spoon, etc. Bonus points for an often maligned instrument, such as kazoo, ukulele, cow bell, or bagpipes.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes, +10 for an often maligned instrument.
DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE:
Participate in a game of podfic Duck Duck Goose. You can find the rules here. Points for each audio fanwork you create yourself, and points for each audio fanwork by another player you listen to and react to.
Point value: 40 points for each player who contributes to an audio fanwork created while playing DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE. (For a contribution to count, it must happen within the 5-minute period after the "Goose!" message is sent.) 10 points for each time you listen and react to an audio fanwork created by another player as part of DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE.
SUN SALUTATION:
Create a new pre-recording routine with at least 2 elements you don't usually do. (Examples: stretches, vocal warmups, specific food or drinks, strategies to emotionally connect to the story or characters, etc.) Every audio fanwork you record using this routine gets points.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes.
PITCH N’ POD:
Introduce one or more other Voiceteam players to a fandom they didn't know before, meaning they have not consumed any canon or fic for this fandom before. Then create a multivoice audio fanwork in that fandom, where at least one of those fandom newbies contributes their voice.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes, +10 if you are a fandom newbie lending your voice.
WE ARE EVERYWHERE:
Create avant-garde location-based audio art with your team! Each team member should think of one or more unique places they could plausibly record from. Choose a single sentence for team members to record in each place, with the only change being the name of the location. (For example, a team could choose the sentence "I am creating art [describe the location]" and examples could be "I am creating art in the bath," "I am creating art beneath four cats," etc.) Edit all the clips together. The minimum number of clips is 5—bonus for each clip after that.
You have our permission to get weird with this one.
Point value: 10 points for each player who contributes, +1 per each additional unique location after the first 5, with a maximum of 50 points.
TRANSFORM, TRANSFORM, TRANSFORM!:
Players make a transformative chain with at least three links. At least one of the links must be an audio fanwork. For example, one player writes a fic, other players make a podfic and fanmix based on the fic, some players make a filk based on one of the songs from the fanmix, other players make art and an oral not!fic based on the filk, and so on! (Click here for a helpful visual of all that!) A chain does not have to be linear—what’s important is that all transformative works (except the first one) are based on at least one earlier work in the chain. Players can contribute to more than one link in a chain and get points for each link they contribute to. Players can contribute to as many different chains as they want.
Point value: 35 points for each player who contributes to a link on the chain; each link is its own submission.
