Hope you all are having a great day!
So I won't be doing Reapings this year as that is the death of a lot of SYOT's and honestly, I get so bored writing them. Instead I will be either doing flashbacks/interviews or else get right into the goodbyes/train rides.
There will be a combination of first and third person. parts that are hectic like the bloodbath will be third person where normal days will be first person. This is just to avoid confusion.
To advert bias (Cause lets be honest, even the best writers will play favourite from time to time) each tribute will be given a score based upon how equipped they are for the games. Be prepared this might be a whole lot of crazy that you might not get but I will explain the process, just to show how I will be fair with picking who will die and who will win. Now this score is how your tribute will fair against others. So someone with a score of 5 going up against someone with a 10, they would be killed off. The tributes will be randomly moving around the arena but YOUR STRATEGIES WILL BE FACTORED IN. So say you hide near the Cornucopia the entire games, you will move around in a radius close to the cornucopia and stay hidden. So your strategies have a LARGE impact on how the tribute behaves.
Since the tributes will move around the map randomly, encounters, deaths, alliances, etc. will all be by chance and not by me playing god and picking who runs into who and who dies and so on. So the person who wins this SYOT truly won, there was no "Hey I like your tribute, I'ma have you win," or fluke or anything. They honestly, fairly, and deserving won on their own...If that makes sense.
The Arena will be a grid. Certain spots containing water, food, etc. Now, again, how you designed a tribute can either help or hinder your chances at this. So say a tribute from District 11, they won't really worry about food. They can find plants all the time. But for those who might die from dehydration or weakened by lack of food, this is not me throwing a curveball for entertainment, your tribute has just not been able to locate food or water within the arena. This is the same for injuries, infections, and so on.
This is all in a attempt to be fair and have a more realistic experience. Your tribute didn't die from dehydration cause I was bored, they died cause they really couldn't find any water, your tribute didn't die in the bloodbath cause I needed more deaths, they died because they ended up in the same grid zone as a career and got killed. This way, I don't know who will win or who won't so I won't be focusing the story on 3 or so people I want to win and rather be writing about a tribute who is having a interesting expierence within the virtual arena.
I hope you understand this XD And that you all like it and it adds an edge to this game.
