The Bell Tree Fair is back! It's been two years since our previous Fair, which ushered in the New Horizons era for The Bell Tree Forums with our biggest event ever. Two years later, the coolest and most awesome of you are still around, so of course we need to have another amazing TBT Fair! Every TBT Fair has its own theme, so the theme for this year is enchanted forest! How fantastical! Or spooky! Or eerie! Or beautiful! Perhaps not everyone's experience through the enchanted forest is the same, so let's make that journey together.
If you're new, The Bell Tree Fair is our biggest event series, which lasts for four weeks. You'll perform various tasks in events and contests. Those tasks earn you tickets, which you can spend on prizes. Speaking of prizes, we did not hold back this year!
Participate in Events and Contests to Earn Tickets
In this new forum section dedicated to the TBT Fair 2022, you'll see the Fairgrounds board for general threads, the Carousel of Contests board for contests, and the Event Pavilion board for events. Contests and events contain the tasks that allow you to earn tickets in various ways. We're staggering the start times of many events, so don't feel like you have to jump into everything at once.
Events
Events are what we call our participation-based activities, which can be found in the Event Pavilion board. These activities have been designed to be more accessible to everyone, with less emphasis on skill level. You will be rewarded simply for taking part. Everyone wins something! Some events also award extra tickets to the entries selected as the Staff Favorites: these are entries that the staff have internally judged as the best of the best. Events open and close at different times. Many also contain multiple rounds. See the event threads or the calendar thread for more details.
Contests
Contests are more competitive activities, which can be found in the Carousel of Contests board. They are skill-based and the participants usually take them very seriously. As with events, anyone who puts forth an effort will earn tickets, but the contest entries are judged and voted on by the community with large sums of tickets and exclusive collectibles offered to the top three winners of each contest. All contests open August 6th and will close August 28th.
During the Fair, we'll use the EDT timezone when listing important times. We'll also refer to EDT as "Fair Time" because it's the consistent time used across the entire event. You can check out the timetable for all of our events and contests over at the Participation Tracker, Calendar, and Alerts Thread. Also, click the "watch" button on this thread to receive alerts when we post updates.Spend Tickets on Prizes
Once you've earned tickets, you can spend them on a large variety of different prizes in the forum shop, including forum collectibles and physical prizes. See the Prize Booth thread for the full list of prizes and their descriptions.
We hope you have a fun time over these next four weeks and good luck! If you have any questions, we also have an FAQ thread for the event.
Staff Credits
Special thanks to the staff who worked very hard on this event over the last month and will continue to do so for another month while the event proceeds!
- Events Coordinator: Chris
- Art Coordinator: Mistreil
- Prize Coordinator: Jeremy
- Opening thread: Jeremy
- FAQ thread: Mairmalade
- Closing thread: Chris
- Event and Contest Hosts: Mistreil, Chris, Pyoopi, Nefarious, Mick, pandapples, Mairmalade, LaBelleFleur, Jeremy, Justin, Laudine, Oblivia, Kaiaa, dizzy bone
- Event Banners: Mistreil, dizzy bone, Pyoopi, Mick
- Opening Banner: dizzy bone
- Closing Banner: Laudine
- Line art: Laudine, Mick, dizzy bone
- Collectibles - crystals, lily of the valley, bluebird plush, butterfly spirits, butterfly wand, potions, heart of the forest, enchanted bloom: Laudine
- Collectibles - mushroom lamps, gnome, TBT Fair 2022 patch: Mistreil
- Backdrop - Fungi Fantasy: Mistreil
- Backdrop - Enchanted Ruins: dizzy bone
- Backdrop - Phosphorescent Friends: Mick
- Backdrop - Agaric Wonderment: Pyoopi
- Fair emblem and sticker designs: Mistreil, dizzy bone, Pyoopi
- Enchanted forum theme design: Laudine
- Prize contributions: Jeremy, Mistreil, Laudine, Kaiaa, Chris, Pyoopi, Mick
- Admin setup: Oblivia, Jeremy
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I was feeling really overwhelmed but now all is good! The time and effort everyone puts into these events is mind blowing to me and staff have outdone themselves once again. Looking forward to all the activities 
