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The Games was an Original Character Tournament hosted on DeviantArt and created by Britbau.

The living puppet Festival was created solely for the purpose of entertainment. Festival, however, soon found that people thought his life was unnatural, and that he was a thing of evil. Scorned by man and denied his true purpose, Festival left civilization for what seemed like it would be forever.

Years later, just as the living puppet begins to be fade from memory, a new game show is announced with none other than Festival himself as the host. The circumstances are strange however... How did Festival manage to get his own show, and to what advantage? This new show quickly gains the public's attention due to its boasts of fabulous rewards, including the grand prize of fortune, fame and possibly even a brand new car! Festival quickly announces that the show will have a limited number of spots for contestants. "Only 32 will be let in!"note  Festival shouts, "Prove to me you're worth it!"

And so the games begin. The games will be exciting, the competition rough, and the prizes fantastic! ...But at what cost...?

This tournament is interesting for (at least) 2 reasons.1. It is not a fighting tournament. The judges base it on story and creativity.2. Each round is given a theme, rather than an event. It is up to the competitors to come up with the Game based on the theme.

Round 1's theme was "Target", and Round 2's theme was "Obstruction". Round 3's theme was "Masquerade". The final round's theme was "Justification".

Auditions for The Games OCT started in October 2010 and the tournament concluded in December 2011. The winner was Miroboy with their character, Sam Iam.

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This OCT contains examples of the following tropes:

  • Ascended Extra: Lucy and Yakon, who tried to get in separately( with Beyondnor's(Minz and Enz's creator) art with a friend's writing), but failing that, Beyondnor immigrated them into his story when he was accepted in as a favor.
  • Attention Whore: Spike will do just about ANYTHING to get attention. Tongue stabbing, anyone?
  • Beware the Nice Ones: The judges all appear nice and friendly, but harbor some pretty jerkish actions, especially Gregory. Each has been portrayed as having their own agenda.
  • Hidden Agenda Villain: Very likely Enz, Rune, Ne'krov and Mr. Sum.
  • Love Triangle: Both Spike and Darius like Adrianna. (Interesting note: this triangle actually started when both Auriceli and Rubymight filled out a meme that paired Adrianna with Darius and Spike respectively. All three artists agreed it was too good an idea, and it quickly became canon as Rubymight incorporated it into her entry. It has since been hinted at in other entries by assorted artists.)
  • Running Gag: The stage getting destroyed. Horizontal Mambo. Also, Robert.

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