Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25936766-20161203005301/@comment-26397825-20161214032250

The contest starts at the beginning of every month, with the winner being the person who won the previous month. So the next OC contest will be starting on the 1st of January. For ease of keeping track of time, we tend to use the wiki clock to determine dates and times.

The completion date for entrants is up to the judge, but it is usually either 1 or 2 weeks. You can edit your character as much as you like within this time frame, but any edits made after the deadline will be ignored. The judge chooses a theme, though asking for advise or ideas from other users is perfectly fine.

There are rules provided in the first post of each competition, which are consistent for each contest and only change if necessary (such as when we changed the OC/Semblance/Weapons rules to be 'can't be submitted within two months' from 'can't be submitted to the last two threads' after we had threads over three months old).