Our first-ever special event affiliation contest starts today, September 14th! Multiple groups are pulling together to make a grand event to celebrate our friends and affiliates. The contest has been given a theme, prizes, and will be judged using a system that will evenly judge all allowed mediums.

The Theme and Deadline

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The theme is "Tangled Up". The idea is you must have ahoges (the hairs that stick out of Hetalia character's heads) tangled with the ahoges of other characters.

Contest

ends February 28, 2013.

This allows anyone who isn't into the OC contest to participate in a contest. This is our final extension. We will judge entries after this regardless of how many or few have entered.

SUBMISSIONS GO TO THE APH-Ahoge-Lovers GALLERY. Here is the aph-ahoge-lovers.deviantart.co…. Keep in mind that the folder is open to submissions from affiliated group members, so if you don't want to join an extra group, you won't have to.

Rules and Requirements

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There MUST BE AT LEAST TWO or more ahoges tangled up.
It doesn't HAVE to be perverted – but it's okay to have it like that too. There's already a group elsewhere that focuses on the "naughty" side of ahoges, so don't feel like you have to make it that way.
Submissions should be submitted as Mature Warning with the selection "Ideologically sensitive" because countries personified as people is actually considered Ideologically sensitive.
Can be any of the following mediums: Comics 20 pages or less (including 4Komas, which you are only allowed two of), Animations as long as the models are yours,  Digital and Traditional artworks (no motivational posters or stolen works – if you didn't make it, please don't use it) and literature (no poems and preferably under 10,000 words).
You MUST have the contest and all involved groups mentioned in the artist comments of your submission.
OCs are allowed as long as there is a link to the profile of the OC so that we can check it out. Any OCs in HetaliaFans 's workplace zone may be used as an OC, since we know them so well. There must be at least one canon or fanon character (fanon example would be the police ones) tangled up with the OC for it to be allowed.
Nothing overly explicit as far as mature works are concerned. Please remember Devantart's guidelines when creating your works. Mild swearing is fine.
Collaborations are allowed as long as the artists tell us who wants what in the artist's comments.

Prizes

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1st Place
Three month premium membership from HetaliaFans
A feature and colored bust request from KimberBee
One-shot fanfic, het or non-romance (non-yaoi, -yuri, -shonen-ai, -shojo-ai, -lemon/lime/smut) from PoisonousTiger
A feature and colored bust request from KimberBee
Chibi or colored bust of max 2 characters from Naliaderp
1 full-colored picture/bust of max 2 characters from smilyimp

2nd Place
One Month premium membership from HetaliaFans
Chibi sketch of any Hetalia character from Ruehl21
Animated avatar or request full or bust of max 1 character (maybe color or b&w, simple composition) from Firesonic152
Free art request from ShikuroxKanno

3rd Place
100 from HetaliaFans
 Request full-colored bust/picture of max 2 characters from SparxPunx
Request a full-colored chibi from Popo-Licious
Request drawing from tablamesa

Winners and the honorable mention will be featured in the journals at APH-Ahoge-Lovers, HetaliaFans, and Hetalia-Artists

Judges

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FAQ

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Feel free to ask any questions in case we've forgotten something.