The voting in the Icon Challenge has now closed, in a race so close your mods had started to make plans in case of a tie. *g*

And the winning team is ...

Team Fine!Well done to both teams for producing so many great new icons for the fest, and congratulations to Team Fine - enjoy the two extra days on your deadline ( Read more... )

Thanks to both teams and their supporters for their entries in the icon challenge - and now it's time to vote! Which team do you think came out ahead?

The winning team will receive a couple of extra days on their deadline.

( Behind the cut: Icons in support of Team Cool )

Time for the second of our warm up challenges - and now we have our teams, it's for a team prize!

Team Cool and Team Fine (led by their fabulous captains melagan and reddwarfer), their supporters, and of course the mods too, will be needing plenty of suitable icons to see them through the next couple of months. We have our official McShep Match 2013 icons by mific, of ( Read more... )

A big thank you to everyone who took part in the Drabble Tree warm-up challenge!

Our top drabbler was ldyanne, with 11 drabbles (out of a total of 52). Congratulations!

If you haven't read them yet, do check out all the drabbles here. Feel free to comment away now the tree is complete ( Read more... )

It’s time for the first of our warm-up challenges here at mcshep_match!

The aim of this event is to create a drabble tree - a set of drabbles branching off from each other each based on words or phrases from a previous drabble in the tree.

To take part, all you need to do is write a drabble - you can find a great post on drabble-writing here, but basically ( Read more... )

The voting in the Icon Challenge has now closed, and the winning team is…

Team Space!

Well done to both teams for producing so many great new icons for the fest, and congratulations to Team Space - enjoy the two extra days on your deadline!

Deadline for Team Time: Monday 23rd July
Deadline for Team Space: Wednesday 25th July ( Read more... )

Thanks to both teams for their entries in the icon challenge - and now it's time to vote! Which team do you think came out ahead?

The winning team will receive a couple of extra days on their deadline.

( Behind the cut: Icons in support of Team Space )

The Icon Challenge is closed now! Thanks to everyone for the icons, the enthusiasm, and the entertaining conversations. :D ( Read more... )

Time for the second of our warm up challenges - and now we have our teams, it's for a team prize!

Team Space and Team Time (led by their fabulous captains busaikko and neevebrody) and their supporters will be needing plenty of suitable icons to see them through the next couple of months. We have our official McShep Match 2012 icons by ladyofthelog, of course, but this ( Read more... )

A big thank you to everyone who took part in the Drabble Tree warm-up challenge!

Our top three drabblers were velocitygrass, our winner with six drabbles in the tree, and melagan and mific, who each contributed five. Well done to all of you!

If you haven't read them yet, do check out all the drabbles here. Comments are open once more now we have finished counting ( Read more... )