Hello, VTM members!
Welcome to the House Cup thread for March! Please read through the information below so you will know what types of posts gain your house point and what types of posts lose them. As always, if you have a question, please PM me or any other staff member.
Best of luck to you and your house!
Please send me any submissions for the design for the March House Cup avatar! This is another good way to gain your house points as both submissions and the winner receives points! Please make sure you put include an indication of the month, year and house as well as including VTM House Cup. I know it's a lot to fit in, so be creative!
As you know, we strive to provide a safe and fun atmosphere for people who enjoy Harry Potter to hang out and get to know other fans. The staff often brainstorms ways to make your time here more enjoyable. We've come up with something new that we think you will all be excited about!
The VTM House Cup!
The staff of VTM are going to be patrolling the forums and awarding or deducting points from the four houses that you were either sorted into from the sorting quiz or the house that you claim.
Here's how it works!
All you guys need to do is continue posting as normal, abiding by the rules. As the moderators and Head Aurors (and admins) go through our daily jobs, we'll keep an eye out for exceptional posts and rule-breaking. Following the rules could potentially earn your house points. Breaking rules might get points deducted.
Here are a few things that will get points awarded to your house: Great posts, fanfiction of the month feature, winning the fanfiction contest, certain Quidditch Pitch answers. . .pretty much anything! At times we also award random points for things that amuse us!
Some things that might get points deducted: One-liners, netspeak, rude posting.
If you earn your house some points, you will see a staff member post in this thread telling everyone who won the points for which house and how many points are awarded. If you lose your house points, you will see a post that merely says the certain house has lost points. You won't be singled out. You may receive a PM telling you that you've lost your house some points, or you may see that information in the moderator edit in your post that has broken the rules. We will not single you out in this thread.
Mistakes happen, so please bear this in mind if your house loses some points. Do not search the forums to rant at the person who has lost points.
Awarding points is totally subjective. Not every post will earn or lose points even if some of you think the post should do one or the other. The points are at the sole discretion of the staff member who is awarding the points, so please do not start PMming staffers to tell them about a post you think deserves points. Though most of the staff members have been sorted and also have a house, we promise you that we award points without any bias towards a particular house. Half the time, we don't even know what house a person belongs to until we PM them to ask.
At the end of the month, the house with the most points will win the VTM House Cup for that month! The House Cup will be an avatar you can display, provided you follow the avatar/signature rules, in your avatar or signature. You'll be awarded the Cup in this thread where you can copy the image to your computer and upload it to your choice of photo sharing sites to use on VTM.
Please do not post in this thread but do check here often to see how your house is faring.
If you have not been sorted into a house, consider taking the sorting quiz or at least claiming a house. If we do not see a specific house, we will contact you via PM to see if you have a house that you prefer. It makes it a little easier on us if you have your house listed somewhere, whether it's in your signature or in your profile.
We will update the totals periodically throughout the month.
passerby
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House Points: March
GRYFFINDOR: 110
HUFFLEPUFF: 25
RAVENCLAW: 30
SLYTHERIN: 25
Because it took me a couple of days, I'm going to start everyone out with 10 points this month! Keep those posts coming, everyone! You never know what we'll award points for!
Full Version: Vtm House Cup - March
5 points go to Ravenclaw for the very interesting mystical creature mysticnovelist created!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
5 points awarded to Gryffindor for ChannelingGinny's sig! Classic!
5 points go to Hufflepuff for the great movie quotes Dumbledore's Widow posted here.
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the recent winners of the Golden Snitch! 
In 1st place winning 20 pts for GRYFFINDOR: Lulu-lolo
In 2nd place earning 10 pts for RAVENCLAW: BRoyals
And 3rd place with 5 pts for GRYFFINDOR: DeSs
In 1st place winning 20 pts for GRYFFINDOR: Lulu-lolo
In 2nd place earning 10 pts for RAVENCLAW: BRoyals
And 3rd place with 5 pts for GRYFFINDOR: DeSs
5 points will be taken from Gryffindor because a member believes Ben Affleck is "handsome."
5 points will be awarded to Slytherin because Snapefan21 has Sweeney Todd in her signature.
5 points will be awarded to Slytherin because Snapefan21 has Sweeney Todd in her signature.
Congratulations to Dumbledoreisalive and lancelot243! They are this week's winner of the Golden Snitch. They have EACH earned GRYFFINDOR House 15 points!
5 points go to Hufflepuff for this post by smelliarmus, who gathered the five laws of magic, making it unnecessary to google! 
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
DeSs won this week's Golden Snitch, gaining Gryffindor 15 points!
Second place went to Ginerva Molly Weasley, gaining Gryffindor another 10 points!
Last place went to mugglelovrspew, gaining Raveclaw 5 points!
Congratulations to all of you!
Second place went to Ginerva Molly Weasley, gaining Gryffindor another 10 points!
Last place went to mugglelovrspew, gaining Raveclaw 5 points!
Congratulations to all of you!
The winner for the March House Cup is GRYFFINDOR on 110 points. Congrats to all Gryffindors!
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