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Hello, cycling fanwork creators!

As the road season starts up, peek ahead to the heat of summer, and the three Fanwork Classifications that await you!

As per usual, prewriting and precreation is strongly encouraged but you can only post works that will count towards each Classification during the time their respective collection is open! Three new glitter jerseys await the GC contenders.

In May, during our first Giro d'Italia Fanwork Classification a new challenge awaits- Hyperspecific Week, for which whoever has the most fills (and you can rig it in your favour in this challenge only with multiple fills per stage) across the six stages wins bragging rights as a versatile yet punchy creator.

July and August will bring the Tour and Vuelta respectively, both with slightly more themed offerings. This year, the Grand Tour Fanwork Collections are all 18+. We hope this will allow riders a greater selection of tropes, AUs, challenges and words to be inspired and vexed alike by. Due to feedback, this year we will be answering queries and questions only on Tumblr so they can easily be found- if you're concerned about asking a question, feel free to ask anonymously instead, especially if you have questions about a stage!

Come one, come all, turn off the Olympics for a brief moment and persuse the course ahead!

On this, the eve of the Olympic Road Race, the prompts for the Vuelta Fanwork Classification 2024 are being released ahead of time to give people time to prepare! More details will come shortly, but be aware that while you can create as much as you want, the classification will only open for posting on the day of the team presentation, so at August 15th 00:00am GMT. The classification will close on midnight the day after the final stage, so on the 9th September 11:59am GMT.

The same rules apply as the previous round. You are welcome to fulfill as many or as few prompts as you wish, in whatever order you wish. Whoever wins the General Classification with the most stages passed will win the prestigious glitter jersey- but in spain it is of course the maillot chispeante!

Should you wish to aim for a smaller goal, each category of stage will also have its own Category Classification. The winner of each of these classifications will get a little PNG accesory to show off their specialised skills!

At last, the scores have been counted, the tiebreakers taken into account, and the results are in! Thanks to everyone who participated in this event, whether by creating something or simply writing a comment- you are all the lifeblood of this fandom and that’s what this event is here to encourage!

Without further ado, we would like to congratulate our winner of the General Classification and thus the winner of the Vuelta’s Glitter Jersey- this year’s maillot chispeante, @miloformula123fan! Below is your prize, as well as bragging rights for the rest of the year. Expect to be  challenged next year as the defending champion! We hope everyone joins us in congratulating them for completing all of the stages and rest day goals, emerging as the overall victor. 

The Mountain (or Trope) Classification was won by the wonderful boxhoy. A full completion, this competitor cleared every stage in this classification! Congratulations on your valiant effort; you also landed in second place on the podium for GC! We look forward to seeing what this competitor accomplishes next! Below is your accessory!

The Medium Mountain (or Prompt) Classification was won by the lovely hoelywritingsx! Having already won the Challenge Classification in the TDFFC, this wonderful competitor showed off her ability across multiple prompts by scooping up a different classification this time around. Look out for next year’s Giro- maybe her streak will continue? Below is her hard-earned prize!

The Hilly (or AU) Classification was won by @blackmojito81! As mentioned before, the rest day goals are a vital part of the Fanwork Classification- and that was how this competitor rose head and shoulders above their competitors! Congratulations for your dedication to this community, and your commenting profligacy! Below is your prize!

The ITT (or Challenge) Classification was jointly won by @fag-the-wholewideworld and @idk-why-im-here-can-someone-help! It was a close race, and it was a nailbiter of a finish (went all the way to a tiebreaker)! Both deserve praise for their bravery in attempting the difficult challenges! Well done!

The Rest Day Goals were met by two people- our resplendent maillot chispeante as well as @mundanememory, who both get these laurels to crown themselves with! Interacting with other works is a vital part of fandom and how a community grows, so we’re grateful that you two did so!

Thank you again to everyone who participated or at least followed along or read anything from this challenge- it was an honour and privilege for us to mod it! The Grand Tour season is over, and the next Fanwork Classification will be for the Giro next May. Keep an eye on this blog, however- we’re going to be reblogging events and challenges people might like to take part in over the offseason! Also, we may be brewing up a slightly different offseason event ourselves: watch this space for any recruitment we might be doing.

Thank you to everyone who has made a work in this year's Vuelta A España Fanwork Challenge! We're thankful to all of you for competing and also making the cycling fandom just a little bit busier!

It's the final stage! The last chance for anyone to make a change on GC, and for the time trial specialists, the last opportunity to win a Grand Tour. For the competitors for the maillot chispeante, it's their final chance to win it. And for the rest of our competitors, as it's an Individual Time Trial, it is the second and last of the stages in the challenge category classification. In time trials you race against the clock, and so our competitors in order to complete this challenge must race against the clock as well. To complete this stage, you must create a fanwork in one hour.

The peloton approaches its final mountain stage- and one of the last opportunities for the GC to shift in any significant way. For our competitors, it is the penultimate stage, as well as the final stage in the trope category classification. This stage, competitors will have to create something following the trope of Coming Out Fic.

The final hilly stage is here, and the breakaway hopes to snatch a win while the GC contenders struggle and the sprinters hope they can crush the breakaway's feeble hope. It is the final stage of the AU category classification, and our competitors will be challenged with one of the more complex AUs this Vuelta- a Classic Cycling AU!