Mark your calendars! It was a close call, but the date for Olivarry Week 2017 (by one vote!!) is July 9th – July 15th. Thank you to everyone who signal boosted the last post and voted.
So here is a breakdown of how the dates for the event will look (please note that some of these may be subject to change depending on admin availability, but there shouldn’t be any issues at this point, and the Olivarry Week date is set in concrete):
May 13th: Prompt suggestions close, prompt poll opens. May 27th: Prompt poll closes. May 28th/29th: Themes announced. July 9th: Olivarry Week 2017 begins. July 15th: Olivarry Week 2017 ends.
We’re still taking prompt suggestions for the next week, so throw them at us! As mentioned above, suggestions close next Saturday (May13th) and a poll will be posted on the same day.
As always, thank you to everyone for their input. If you guys could give us another signal boost for this post to get the word out, that’d be awesome.
(I’ve included a breakdown of the votes under the cut if anyone is interested)
We’re so excited to see everyone’s interest in the event, and thank you for all of your prompts so far! Remember, tomorrow is the last day to vote for your preferred date for Olivarry Week 2017. The post for the poll can be found here.
We’ve already received so many awesome suggestions and we can’t wait to see which ones make it into the event! We’ll still be accepting prompts for the next week. Prompt suggestions close on May 13th (next Saturday!) so make sure to get your suggestions in if you haven’t already.
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