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| The Sev Trek Competition Rules
This page is divided into two sections. The first part are the rules of the
Write Your Own Sev Trek Competition. The second part is just some recommendations you can choose to follow or ignore.
Rules
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Each week, the funniest punchlines are listed in the Comic Strip Archives. Whoever writes the winning punchline will be listed in the Hall of Fame.
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Don't submit any crude or lewd punchlines. Sev Trek is strictly PG rating!
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If you don't want to be added to the Sev Trek mailing list, just don't enter your email address in the Fill-Out Form.
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When you submit a punchline, you are allowing Sevloid Art (that's us - the creators of Sev Trek) to publish your punchline in any purpose. For example, if your punchline is judged the funniest, it will be used in the comic strip. If the comic strip proves popular enough, it may be printed on a Sev Trek shirt later on.
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Please type your name and punchline in upper and lower case (no ALL CAPS).
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When using character names, use the alternative Sev Trek names. If you use the original names, I'll replace them with the Sev Trek names (but I'm lazy and rather you'd do it!).
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DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT rehash punchlines from previous strips (are you listening, Riff? You know who you are!) Although "my brain shrunk" eerily seems to work in most comic strips, I've read it a million times now (even in The Pits and Twist competitions) and it is starting to get a little tired.
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Recommendations
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The shorter your punchline, the more chance you have of winning. The best types of punchlines are the ones that contain a lot of information in only a few words.
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Read the Submitted Entries page before entering your own punchlines. This is just to avoid entering punchlines that have already been done before. You wouldn't believe how many repeats of punchlines I get. For the Measly Crusher Practical Joke comic strip, I musta got over 100 punchlines involving Measly and an airlock.
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Only a small proportion of submitted punchlines actually get published on the Entries Page, so please don't email us if yours doesn't make it.
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Read How to Write a Funny Punchline. You might pick up a tip or two on comic strip writing.
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Now this is just a suggestion, but usually the comic strip is attempting to explain some Star Trek anomoly in a funny manner (eg - why Klingoff foreheads changed, why sev ships go whoosh in space). Although you can do anything in your punchline, I tend to prefer ones that explain the Trek inconsistency.
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