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Review League: Season 0
Welcome back to Review League, an ongoing event meant to encourage a lively community of writers and readers on the Bulbagarden Forums! For those who don't know, the Review League is a game where you can collect points for leaving reviews on fic in the Writers' Workshop. The basic guidelines are as follows:
1) Review any story posted in the Bulbagarden Library subforum of the Writers' Workshop. If you comment on multiple chapters in one review, please point out in the review exactly which chapters you comment on.
2) Post the link to your review in this thread to have it logged. You don't have to post immediately, though we'd prefer that you post no more than four at once; bear in mind that you may only claim seasonal points on reviews logged in the same season that they were posted in! Please use the following format for logging reviews (or include all of the information):
3) Based on the guidelines below, calculate how many points you've earned with your review(s). It helps to say what criteria earned you the amount of points you calculated, but it's not required. If you're new and unsure how this works, please ask!
4) Check out your points on the ladder here, and then exchange your points for cool prizes!
We'll be trialing a major change from previous Review Leagues: Seasons! Every six months, the Review League will get a new facelift: this means new seasonal prizes, new ways to earn points, and new ways to spend points! The current Season is: Season 0, and will end in six months, on February 28th 2026 at midnight! Note that this Season will be running a bit long to give folks the chance to get into the swing of things; future Seasons will be 6 months long.
How to Earn Points
You can see how many points you have here! For the purposes of Review League, a review is defined as 100 or more words. You can determine how many points your reviews are worth using the following criteria:Baseline Points
- Every review logged nets you 1 point.
- For each additional chapter discussed in a review after the first, you earn 1 additional point.
- In order to receive this bonus, you must write an average of 100 words for each chapter that you are claiming, and the average wordcount of each chapter must exceed 1,000 words. You are free to review more chapters, but they will not receive bonus points.
- For every 250 words put into a review, you receive 1 additional point.
- If an author replies to your review and you continue to post and discuss their fic with them, you can add the discussion posts toward your word count. You would not get base points or any other additional points for replies, just word count points. Please don't write words just to inflate the word count. Your reviews should have some substance to them.
- For reviews of fics submitted to select contests in the Writers' Workshop, you receive 1 additional point.
- Current eligible contests: Spring 2025 Shipping
- For first reviews of a chapter or oneshot, you receive 1 additional point.
- For every 5,000 words read in the season, you receive 1 additional point. This is cumulative across all of your reading for the season.
- For chapters or oneshots that are greater than 5,000 words in length, you receive 1 additional point.
Seasonal Points!! - Season 0, Bulba Bookworm!
Have a fic that's left you at a lost for words? This Season, we'll be trying out a new method of earning points: comments! A comment is defined as a post on a story that meets one or more of the following criteria:
- The post is less than 100 words.
- The oneshot or chapter being commented on is less than 1,000 words.
- The post is submitted as part of a beta readingfor a oneshot or chapter.
- Tag the author whose work you beta'd, and ask them to react to your post. You do not need to post additional proof, though this will be assessed on the honor system. You're also welcome to reformat your beta into a review and post/claim it as a review instead.
Comments will be rewarded as a flat +1 point, but are ineligible for additional bonuses.
How to Spend Points
You can see how many points you can spend here! There are now two points shops: the Seasonal Points Shop and the Lifetime Points Shop. You can accumulate Seasonal Points during a given Season; at the end of each Season, all unspent Seasonal Points are converted to Lifetime Points, so keep an eye out! You can also choose to convert you Seasonal Points to Lifetime Points at any time, if you so desire.Reviews
You can exchange your Seasonal Points for reviews, provided by our friendly Workshop staff! These reviews can be on your story or another story (if you have the author's permission). This Season, we're tracking review prizes by wordcount: across a Season, you can add up the total wordcount of all of the fics you've requested to get reviewed that Season, which yields your Seasonal Prize Wordcount.
This number adds, but is calculated live: for example, if you request reviews for Oneshot 1 (2,000 words) and Oneshot 2 (2,000 words), this will cost the same as requesting a review for Oneshot 3 (4,000 words)--4 points.
Please reach out to staff if you're unsure how the math on your points works!
Art
Art's back on the menu again, with thanks to our lovely friends over in the Artist Gallery! Do note that you will only be able to claim a certain amount of Art prizes per Season using your Seasonal Points (though you can always convert your Seasonal Points to Lifetime Points, and claim at the Lifetime Shop instead, which does not have this restriction).
Sketch - 20 Seasonal Points (Limit: 2 per season)
Sketches will usually have rougher linework or blockier colors. A sketch contains no more than 2 characters (including Pokemon), and will typically have a simplistic background.
Spot Art - 60 Seasonal Points (Limit: 2 per season)
Spot Art will have some combination of finalized linework, detailed shading/colors, or a complex background, but typically no more than two of these. Spot Art contains no more than 3 characters (including Pokemon).
Page Art - 100 Seasonal Points (Limit: 1 per season)
Page art will usually contain an ensemble collection of characters, fully rendered colors, and/or complex backgrounds.
Art is a little harder to quantify, so in some cases we may adjust points costs based on the request--for example, a piece done in a style like a Sketch with 3 characters would be possible, but would just cost slightly more. If you're unsure, please feel free to reach out!
Other
Conlang - 80 Seasonal Points
Resident conlang nerd @Welkamo will make you a constructed language, including the phonology (sounds or other equivalent for cases like sign language), grammar, writing system, a short dictionary of words, and means of creating new words with the Zompist Word Generator. You can provide specifics of what you want, or just let him go wild based on who's speaking the language!
Interested in a prize, or interested in offering a prize? Reach out to @kintsugi or the rest of the Workshop staff and let's chat!
Badges
This Season's seasonal badge is the beloved:
- 150 pts
You can exchange your Seasonal Points for reviews, provided by our friendly Workshop staff! These reviews can be on your story or another story (if you have the author's permission). This Season, we're tracking review prizes by wordcount: across a Season, you can add up the total wordcount of all of the fics you've requested to get reviewed that Season, which yields your Seasonal Prize Wordcount.
| Seasonal Prize Wordcount | Seasonal Points Cost per 1,000 words reviewed |
| 0 - 4,000 words | 1 |
| 4,000 - 10,000 words | 2 |
| 10,000 - 20,000 words | 3 |
| 20,000 - 50,000 words | 5 |
| 50,000 words+ | 6 |
Please reach out to staff if you're unsure how the math on your points works!
Art
Art's back on the menu again, with thanks to our lovely friends over in the Artist Gallery! Do note that you will only be able to claim a certain amount of Art prizes per Season using your Seasonal Points (though you can always convert your Seasonal Points to Lifetime Points, and claim at the Lifetime Shop instead, which does not have this restriction).
Sketch - 20 Seasonal Points (Limit: 2 per season)
Sketches will usually have rougher linework or blockier colors. A sketch contains no more than 2 characters (including Pokemon), and will typically have a simplistic background.
Spot Art - 60 Seasonal Points (Limit: 2 per season)
Spot Art will have some combination of finalized linework, detailed shading/colors, or a complex background, but typically no more than two of these. Spot Art contains no more than 3 characters (including Pokemon).
Page Art - 100 Seasonal Points (Limit: 1 per season)
Page art will usually contain an ensemble collection of characters, fully rendered colors, and/or complex backgrounds.
Other
Conlang - 80 Seasonal Points
Resident conlang nerd @Welkamo will make you a constructed language, including the phonology (sounds or other equivalent for cases like sign language), grammar, writing system, a short dictionary of words, and means of creating new words with the Zompist Word Generator. You can provide specifics of what you want, or just let him go wild based on who's speaking the language!
Interested in a prize, or interested in offering a prize? Reach out to @kintsugi or the rest of the Workshop staff and let's chat!
Badges
This Season's seasonal badge is the beloved:
Reviews
You can exchange your Lifetime Points for reviews, provided by our friendly Workshop staff! These reviews can be on your story or another story (if you have the author's permission). Reviews can be purchased at a rate of 6 lifetime points per 1k words of review requested. Please note that you can only use Lifetime Points to request up to 50k words of review at a time (300 Lifetime Points), though we may make some exceptions in the case of longer than expected turnaround, or to review a longfic in its entirety.
Art
Art's back on the menu again, with thanks to our lovely friends over in the Artist Gallery! Please note that you can only request one art piece using Lifetime Points at a time, though we may make some exceptions in the case of longer than expected artist turnaround.
Sketch - 40 Lifetime Points
Sketches will usually have rougher linework or blockier colors. A sketch contains no more than 2 characters (including Pokemon), and will typically have a simplistic background.
Spot Art - 120 Lifetime Points
Spot Art will have some combination of finalized linework, detailed shading/colors, or a complex background, but typically no more than two of these. Spot Art contains no more than 3 characters (including Pokemon).
Page Art - 200 Lifetime Points
Page art will usually contain an ensemble collection of characters, fully rendered colors, and/or complex backgrounds.
Art is a little harder to quantify, so in some cases we may adjust points costs based on the request--for example, a piece done in a style like a Sketch with 3 characters would be possible, but would just cost slightly more. If you're unsure, please feel free to reach out!
Conlang - 120 Lifetime Points
Resident conlang nerd @Welkamo will make you a constructed language, including the phonology (sounds or other equivalent for cases like sign language), grammar, writing system, a short dictionary of words, and means of creating new words with the Zompist Word Generator. You can provide specifics of what you want, or just let him go wild based on who's speaking the language!
Badges
??? soon? (TM)
You can exchange your Lifetime Points for reviews, provided by our friendly Workshop staff! These reviews can be on your story or another story (if you have the author's permission). Reviews can be purchased at a rate of 6 lifetime points per 1k words of review requested. Please note that you can only use Lifetime Points to request up to 50k words of review at a time (300 Lifetime Points), though we may make some exceptions in the case of longer than expected turnaround, or to review a longfic in its entirety.
Art
Art's back on the menu again, with thanks to our lovely friends over in the Artist Gallery! Please note that you can only request one art piece using Lifetime Points at a time, though we may make some exceptions in the case of longer than expected artist turnaround.
Sketch - 40 Lifetime Points
Sketches will usually have rougher linework or blockier colors. A sketch contains no more than 2 characters (including Pokemon), and will typically have a simplistic background.
Spot Art - 120 Lifetime Points
Spot Art will have some combination of finalized linework, detailed shading/colors, or a complex background, but typically no more than two of these. Spot Art contains no more than 3 characters (including Pokemon).
Page Art - 200 Lifetime Points
Page art will usually contain an ensemble collection of characters, fully rendered colors, and/or complex backgrounds.
Conlang - 120 Lifetime Points
Resident conlang nerd @Welkamo will make you a constructed language, including the phonology (sounds or other equivalent for cases like sign language), grammar, writing system, a short dictionary of words, and means of creating new words with the Zompist Word Generator. You can provide specifics of what you want, or just let him go wild based on who's speaking the language!
Badges
??? soon? (TM)
Interested in a prize, or interested in offering a prize? Reach out to @kintsugi or the rest of the Workshop staff and let's chat!
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