About Original Character Tournaments

Original Character Tournaments or OC Tournaments (commonly shortened to OCTs) are art or writing competitions where competitors compete by making a story with their own Original Character(s) and their opponent's Original Character(s).

Detailed Summary
Original Character Tournaments or OC Tournaments (commonly shortened to OCTs) are art or writing competitions where competitors compete by making a story with their own Original Character(s) and their opponent's Original Character(s).

Most competitions have an Audition Period, where prospective competitors will submit a character and an audition depicting the start of the character(s) story and how they ended up in the tournament setting.

Once accepted, competitors will get matched up in Rounds, where they are given opponent character(s) they must impliment in their story.

Tournament Formats may vary, but commonly accepted terms are Elimination Tournaments and Non-Elimination Tournaments.

Elimination Tournaments are normally a traditional tournament-bracket format, where each round will half the number of competitors by picking the best of each matchup. For example, a 5 round OCT would start with 32 competitors.

Non-Elimination Tournaments are a format which involves no forced elimination of the competitors. Competitors are eliminated if they fail to submit an entry or the criteria set out by judges. Typically a winner is decided via a point-based system.

Media Types
Most tournaments allow a certain type of media for entry. This includes:
 * Comics
 * Animation
 * Games
 * Writing

The majority of tournaments require some form of visuals.

Types of Entry
Competitor Entries - These are stories submitted for a tournament's rounds.

Spectator Entries - These are stories based on the Tournament's settings and characters. Both competitors and non-competitors can make these entries.