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Here is the list of teams who participated in Round 2 and the prompts they filled! You can browse all Round 2 entries here, or find a specific team's works through the team banner list or the esomain tag list.

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Welcome to the ESO! To get our creative juices flowing, we're opening with a Team Banner Bonus Round and giving all teams the opportunity to rep their ship with a banner. Participation in this round is optional, but your team will be rewarded a bonus of 100 points if you choose to participate. The banners will be used on an index post to link to each team's tag on the esomain community.

To participate in this round:

• Create a 1000 x 250 pixel horizontal banner (png, jpg, or gif) including your team name and a catchphrase/tag line
• Upload it to any image hosting website
• Contact the mod team through Twitter DM or Discord DM with the link to your banner

Each team should submit only ONE banner if they choose to participate, so plan to cooperate or designate one person to complete the task.

You may be wondering, "Does graphic design have to be my passion?" And the answer is, absolutely not. Please feel free to submit an MS Paint doodle or a photo of a napkin you've scribbled on as long as it includes both your team and your catchphrase.

Submissions open: Now!
Deadline: 7 July

Have fun, and we can't wait to see what you come up with!

Welcome to the third round of the ESO! This is the final stretch, so let’s sprint to the end with the Free Play Round. This time, you have the liberty of making as many pieces of fanwork as you want for your team—anything goes, and we can’t wait to see what you come up with.

The prompts for this round are:


(By no means should you try to respond to every single one of those, please take the round at your own pace!)

To participate in this round, you can submit as many pieces of fanwork for your ship as you want, and your team will be awarded points based on the fanworks you have collectively submitted.

Submissions open: 4 August
Deadline: 11 August

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For the second round of the ESO, we'll be filling each other's prompts! As preparation, we are asking for one prompt per participant (not per team). This prompt can be for any Enstars ship (or no ship at all) and any scenario (feel free to go into as much or as little detail as you want). Please go ahead and prompt something self-indulgent - this is a round about giving gifts to each other, after all, so make sure you'll be receiving something you like.

All the prompts will be published in a spreadsheet, and when the second round opens, you will be able to fill any prompts, and number of prompts of your choice (as long as it's not your own one). You will get points per prompt that you fill (more details on this will be released when the round starts.)

Multiple people will be able to claim the same prompt, but we will have a function on the spreadsheet to let you know how many claims a prompt already has, if you'd like to be sure you're picking one that nobody else is already doing. Let's try to make sure as many people get gifts as possible!

Prompting opens: 15 July
Prompting closes: 20 July

Submit your prompt here. Remember, only one prompt per participant, so please make sure to identify yourself via your Twitter handle! Additionally, if you would like to change your prompt, please submit the form again using the same Twitter handle.

View submitted prompts here. We will be updating this spreadsheet with approved prompts, so feel free to take a peek if you want to get a head start.

We can't wait to see what you come up with!

Sign-ups open: 18 June
Sign-ups close: 3 July

Keep in mind:

• Teams are open on a first come, first served basis—we will be updating the team rosters in manually in order to verify participants.
• Eligible teams will have 3 to 6 members.
• Once a team qualifies for the first round, it's fine if it drops below the minimum number of members.
• You can only be a member of one team.
• This competition is open to participants of all ages, so we will not be accepting sign-ups for incestuous ships or teacher/student ships.
• If you are signing up for Team Rarepair or Team Gen, please write that in instead of a ship name.
• If you would like to switch teams, please edit your submission or submit a new form with the same name/Twitter handle.
• If you wish to change teams after the event starts, you will need to DM the ESO twitter.

Each team requires a captain in order to be recognised. Captains will be expected to:

• Make some form of group chat for your team and check in with them regularly
• Organise and submit the team's entry on Dreamwidth for each round (so if you don't have a Dreamwidth account, you will need to make one)
• DM the ESO twitter with any issues your team has, and respond to any DMs received

The job of captain is first come, first served. To register as captain, please check "yes" when prompted on the Team Sign-Up form.

You are encouraged to be optimistic and sign up for the pairing you would most like to support, even if you think it won't have enough members—in the best case, you will end up with a team, and in the worst case, you can just switch teams after signups are closed.

We will be opening a dedicated team switching period after we close sign-ups, so don't worry if you're still feeling indecisive—go ahead and send in your form. If you haven't submitted a form before the sign-up period closes, we will not be accepting new registrations during the team switching period.

Switching period opens: 3 July
Switching period closes: 6 July

Switch teams here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ahyD-NmCFofuCn5rlbr0IFNtRl67g5T-YN3TfUP-cjk/

All start times/deadlines are 18:00 GMT.

Signups for the ESO are now closed.
→ Check out the current team rosters here.

As always, please direct questions to the ESO twitter or message the curiouscat.