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Dumbcon Contest Hub
What was Dumbcon?
Dumbcon was an unofficial contest in which participants submitted one bad, dumb, or otherwise challenging writing idea to be randomly given to another participant. Each participant then attempted to write their assigned prompt as a mainlist SCP.
Dumbcon ran between Jan 8th 2026 - Feb 4th 2026.
But first, a quick message from our sponsor (winner of dumbest prompt) zoempaws:
The Spoils
Prizes were available for this contest. They are as follows:
1st Place - A parody content farm of your article, created and posted by Raddagher!
Won by PlaguePJP
2nd Place - Art of your dumbcon article.
Won by tacticalnecromancy
3rd Place - Public Shaming.1
Won by LordStonefish
Dumbest Idea - A permanent advertisement framed at the top of this hub for whatever you want. (Selected by the hosts — site content and licensing policy still applies.)
Won by zoempaws
Prizes are currently in production and will be added to the hub when they are done.
Results
- SCP-9597 — SCP-9597 by PlaguePJP at 122
- SCP-9811 — SCP-9811 by tacticalnecromancy at 89
- The Community's Proposal — The Community’s Proposal by LordStonefish at 78
- SCP-9981 — SCP-9981 by whenwerewe at 70
- SCP-9163 — SCP-9163 by Heck_Tech at 55
- SCP-9967 — SCP-9967 by mxsinister at 50
- SCP-9930 — SCP-9930 by CRAt26 at 39
- SCP-9564 — SCP-9564 by popsioak at 38
- SCP-9157 — SCP-9157 by Miss Lovecraft at 32
- SCP-9195 — SCP-9195 by ThanTheDemoness at 29
- SCP-9380 — SCP-9380 by Detective_O 1 at 27
- SCP-9180 — SCP-9180 by Wondrous Expanse at 24
- SCP-9868 — SCP-9868 by Koscheiisms at 24
- SCP-8584 — SCP-8584 by SeekGull at 21
- SCP-9919 — SCP-9919 by Harmacy at 20
- SCP-9412 — SCP-9412 by AltaLego at 19
- SCP-9856 — SCP-9856 by TealQuacks at 18
- SCP-9969 — SCP-9969 by Sylvester_Prince at 18
- SCP-8293 — SCP-8293 by TheEmeraldWolf at 17
- SCP-7534 — SCP-7534 by Hikarinu at 15
- SCP-9616 — SCP-9616 by InanimateStudy at 15
- SCP-9204 — SCP-9204 by NebulousStar at 14
- SCP-9745 — SCP-9745 by Mooys at 14
- SCP-8753 — SCP-8753 by LeraviTheXatu at 13
- SCP-9069 — SCP-9069 by kingofmice at 13
- SCP-9093 — SCP-9093 by The Frodmaer Club at 13
- SCP-9217 — SCP-9217 by TopDownUnder at 12
- SCP-9349 — SCP-9349 by XHAWK77X at 11
- SCP-8568 — SCP-8568 by jazzwave at 11
- SCP-9513 — SCP-9513 by Unidentifiedgoober at 10
- SCP-8236 — SCP-8236 by Mister_Toasty at 10
- SCP-9625 — SCP-9625 by Shirley Sterling at 8
- SCP-9575 — SCP-9575 by DrBlitz at 8
- SCP-8838 — SCP-8838 by DreadnoughtGalaxy at 7
- SCP-9717 — SCP-9717 by AgentCheese at 7
- SCP-9074 — SCP-9074 by demolitionderpy at 4
- SCP-9144 — SCP-9144 by 22o9L at 3
- SCP-9461 — Case File 9461: Disciplinary Hearing of M. Stone by UlyssesBark at 1
- SCP-9298 — SCP-9298 by Zyde at 0
- SCP-9155 — SCP-9155 by Didelphia Poss at 0
- SCP-9470 — SCP-9470 by Booblesnoot at -2
- SCP-9379 — SCP-9379 by DappledDaspletosaur at -4
Prompts
This is a list of all final prompts submitted to Dumbcon. It is structured as:
Writer | The prompt they received | Who submitted it
Any prompt here that is unused, consider it open season if you'd like to write them, just get in touch with wackdog and quickly ask.
| Name | Assigned | Prompter |
|---|---|---|
| troutmaskreplica | A human that turns into a building under the full moon. So a were-house | Ex320kyt |
| didelphia poss | something from space is pissing on or near the earth, bonus points if the piss itself is anomalous | agentcheese |
| agentcheese | A human who has to be kept perpetually bald because if they have any hair they can control the baldness of nearby people. | BlazingPie |
| tacticalnecromancy |  |
vapidpoem |
| switchitea | Why almost all hearing people crunch leaves with their feet | theemeraldwolf |
| the frodmaer club | An anomalous Law & Order (doesnt have to mention by name for CC) spinoff broadcast in even numbered zipcodes in the greater Utica area where the procedural is played completely straight but the law and logic is completely ridiculous, absurd, or outright fascistic. (e.g. A woman who finds the dead body in the cold open is summarily executed by Jerry Orbach's character for being suspiciously ginger. Jack McCoy gives a passionate speech about the Mass Effect 3 ending to convict a white supremacist for hate crimes. As part of a sting operation to bring down a sex trafficker, Mariska Hargitay's character goes undercover as a serial killer of stamp collectors and gets her man by interrogating people whose favorite number is a multiple of five) | rezthemachine |
| Uncle Nicolini | okay so i stayed at a friends house over the past week and they have cats and two of the cats are absolute fucking gluttons who will literally steal food out of the plate that you're eating it on and you have to literally physically forcefully push them away and lock them in another room to stop them from eating it and they also will chew through literal cardboard and plastic if they suspect that there's food in it and they also learned how to open the lid of the garbage can so they can go inside and and if you lock them up in the wrong place theyll also eat the carpet in the hopes that they can fit under the door and also they tried to eat our weed. okay so i was thinking… what if there was a cat like that. except it's immortal and can teleport. | radian628 |
| dfastillo | Every Thursday in the town of Witby a winged pig falls from the sky. | Ironpaw |
| 22o9L | The Church of the Second Hytoth has a number of highly mysterious figures in its lore. These include the Nameless Creator, who is responsible for making and remaking the universe, "Aiv-Zon / The Devourer," the being that destroyed the First Hytoth, and Myran-leusan, the Holy Seventh about whom we know basically nothing else. The person assigned this prompt is to write an article that reveals the identity of one of these figures. It's Dado. | xhawk77x |
| velvetnell | That duck has a lot of guns, and knows how to use them. | vilsolad |
| penumbralchoir | guy who kills you by stealing your butt | ubergoober |
| alienspacebat | A sapient and sentient cloud that can only communicate using internet meme slang. Its vocabulary is limited to terms ranging from the MLG montage parody era (e.g., "Get rekt," "360 no-scope") to "Gen Alpha" slang (e.g., "skibidi," "rizz," "67"). The anomaly is incapable of normal conversation and must convey all thoughts, emotions, and information through the specific linguistic styles and tropes of these eras. | Doctor Infraviolet |
| Shirley Sterling | Evil Dado, Awful Communist | booblesnoot |
| NebulousStar | A Golden Retriever that will retrieve you anything if given enough time. | Starlady |
| battlecruiser12 | fish Hospital drama, or CoralMD, or Gills Anatomy, uhhhh The Good Sturgeon. Okay I think I'm out of fish medical drama puns | ProblemPal |
| lordstonefish | An unknown force applies physical pressure to all individuals on earth, the more wealth they own, the more pressure it applies, causing a Broken Masquerade scenario where trillionaires, billionaires, and millionaires all explode, including MC&D. What remains of the Foundation establishes global socialism. | Uncle Nicolini |
| zale13 | Opposites Day at the Foundation | hiddenweta |
| CRat26 | The message @everyone pings every single user on any social media platform you use it on and the foundation explains it as phantom vibration syndrome. | MateB |
| plaguepjp | Insect shower. | J Dune |
| radian628 | Micheal the sentient microwave is dedicated to living the American suburbia dream. | zoempaws |
| Unidentifiedgoober | Temporally pivotal, yet otherwise unremarkable hot dog eating contest | battlecruiser12 |
| Cathy Autumn | Morally dubious sentient subterranean zoroastrian vampire horses | CRat26 |
| vilsolad | The population of Australia gets magic pissbending powers. | InanimateStudy |
| Mooys | the cow that makes you leftist dies and everyone is very sad | blueeyedfox_ |
| MDEV0 | poop sandwich | HaydenSaintPascal |
| Ares1909 | male pattern baldness | SeekGull |
| Ironpaw | The Foundation uses pataphysics to launch a copyright lawsuit in our reality in an attempt to terminate an anomaly in theirs. | onlineopossum |
| JNColossus | A produce box in a supermarket that causes messages to become engraved in any produce (fruit/vegetable/etc) placed inside of it. | ripplequeen |
| Harmacy | Upon encountering a jawless fish, foundation agents are anomalously under the impression that it is their superior in the foundation chain of command | Unidentifiedgoober |
| rezthemachine | "The Love Triangle", a sentient triangle whose sole purpose is to hook people up, romantically, regardless of any previous status. | Mister_Toasty |
| zoempaws | Some multiversal shenanigans forces the SCPF to work together with an Shark Punching Centre MFT (marine fighting team). The twist is that the SPC turn out to be hyper-competent. | Gelbsucht_IE |
| BlazingPie | Handbag/purse whatever full of spiders. It never runs out of spiders and you cannot put any non-spider thing into this purse. (I hope this is sufficiently dumb—please let me know if that is not the case.) | mxsinister |
| Mister_Toasty | Ichthyosaurs operating out of the Jurassic Coast have managed to hack the British Government, the palaeo-cyber security community is in shambles. | ThyCheshireCat |
| vapidpoem | A horror article about a bird feeder with a camera built in, allowing you to watch the birds stop by. However, every night the bird feeder will summon a man who consumes all the bird seeds. If you don't regularly fill the bird feeder, dead birds will start flooding your lawn, severely impacting the local wildlife and getting you arrested for eco-terrorism. Bonus points if these bird feeders were mass produced. | kingofmice |
| libraryofbabel | A math equation so utterly baffling that it cause anyone who tries to answer have indigestion | Detective_O 1 |
| cdudeman123 | Politically corrupt apple | fermentating |
| letova | Frighteningly enormous crowd of people (holding hands and singing together): “🎶he’s got the whole world’s fingers, in his mouth🎵” to the tune of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ0crxOVEEQ (public domain song, not public domain rendition of the song) | lordstonefish |
| poltatherian | A really really dumb, really really scared Foundation researcher accidentally contains their coworker | TopDownUnder |
| hourlyalice | Holy shit that sucks man' but like it's actually a holy (angelic) shit (feces) that sucks (vacuum? open to interpretation) man (man). | Hikarinu |
| xhawk77x | A horse is married to an entire church congregation, including the priest, in a valid wedding ceremony. | LightlessLantern |
| dalaillama | An Explained or Neutralized SCP following a small group of MTF soldiers and their dog looking for a ghost in a supposedly haunted location. It needs to have as many Scooby-Doo references as feasible. | letova |
| MateB | an scp thats a moss ball with Googly eyes and everytime you look at the ball you turn into moss. | DirEthan |
| AltaLego | A man tries to make a grilled cheese. This is objectively bad. | troutmaskreplica |
| Miss Lovecraft | Ayn Rand is the reincarnation of the fairy queen Mab’s lover and most loyal knight and had lesbian mind sex with her as a way to produce Atlas Shrugged. Note overtly sexual content isn’t allowed. The sex can be a metaphor. The romance should be real and steamy. AO3 levels. That’s all | Cathy Autumn |
| whenwerewe | DOG EATING CONTEST | mothmanUXO |
| Doctor Cimmerian | Man eating monster, coincidentally, is purple, flies, and has one eye and one horn (or, is a reference to another pop culture phenomenon based on a description of characteristics alone). This is only a problem because the Foundation cannot manage to get anyone to take it seriously. | Mooys |
| mm24b_7 | An Explained article about a poorly understood cult in a rural town that worships a giant cocktail shrimp buried in the nearby woods. The Foundation intervenes after catching wind of online claims from people stating to have witnessed cult activities. After collecting testimony and evidence that might back them up, the Foundation is ready to give the town nexus status but decides to look into any possible link between witnesses. Turns out they were all guests at this party where they got high on psychedelics and hallucinated all the phenomena. | JNColossus |
| Cerastes | The Foundation must make a anime gacha game that gives them at least $500 million in profit to prevent an Alagaddan invasion from occurring | alienspacebat |
| Hikarinu | An Electric Razor that gives people more body hair rather than shaving it off. | thanthedemoness |
| TealQuacks | Roll of tape that is evil | Rhineriver |
| DappledDaspletosaur | “dado’s apartment of abnormal and panopticon rental service” (dado/Department of Abnormalities crossover episode. Good fucking luck) | plaguepjp |
| zyde | It is a closely guarded secret that the O5 council shares one brain cell. Shame the one currently using it had to go and die. | DappledDaspletosaur |
| demolitionderpy | A sentient booger that travels from host to host and turns people's brains into snot. | koscheiisms |
| DeLuxuryCastle | Before you may contain me you must first answer my riddles three. The order is simply P-V-C | hourlyalice |
| kingofmice | A device that offers you either a million dollars or a dog that doubles in age every second. The properties persist. | Goobomber |
| ripplequeen | A bunch of anglerfish in the depths of the Pacific Ocean gather every two weeks to perform several lost media metal records. Any and every human swimming in the depths of the Pacific Ocean within a 2 km radius from said anglerfish during said gathering experience psychedelic hallucinations followed by a temporary catatonic state. If rescued (alive, of course), humans affected by these anglerfish will only be able to communicate in screamo vocals for the rest of their lives. | Miss Lovecraft |
| DirEthan | The city of Hoboken New Jersey was made by the foundation to keep something contained. Trouble is, the Foundation has no record of what’s supposed to be contained, or if it’s still there. | TealQuacks |
| Ex320kyt | A food processor robot (like a Thermomix) that, after you turn it on, will make a professional dish in 3 minutes. This dish will be made of your least favorite food. The machine does not need ingredients, and never uses inedible ones like iron, glass, or the like. It will avoid using any food you are allergic to. The dish is usually pretty tasty to people who don’t have issues with your least favorite food. | Ares1909 |
| LightlessLantern | scp that turns your immune system into a nonprofit ngo | Fr0stbyte |
| ulyssesbark | A doorknob that, when installed into a door, eventually causes the surrounding building to blow up through some random catastrophe. However, the door, doorknob, door hinge, flooring, support, and anything else that keeps the door standing will remain untouched. | dalaillama |
| Gelbsucht_IE | Neurologically Explosive Fish: Fish that blows up your mind. | mahalayati |
| thanthedemoness | The Foundation finds why socks disappear everyday and everywhere and find a way to stop this. Unfortunately, they discover why this is a bad idea in the worst way ever. | heck_tech |
| mxsinister | The six-seven meme. Take yourself as seriously as possible. | poltatherian |
| wondrous expanse | write an article from the perspective of a Foundation that has been mentally and physically transformed into toddlers1 by some kind of powerful monster/phenomenon. this toddler-fied Foundation must then contain said anomaly and try to continue day-to-day operations as usual. everyone retains their approximate intelligence and personalities, but find it difficult to articulate well and, of course, have the emotional maturity of preschoolers. they are the only ones effected by this phenomena — all humans outside the Foundation remain the same. hijinks ensue. | demolitionderpy |
| blueeyedfox_ | Jared is a guy from Missouri. One day, all documents referencing his name were changed to say “Gared”. He tried to get them changed. They just changed back. Only the Foundation can help him now. | libraryofbabel |
| popsioak | A skip that reproduces Shakespearean plays using random insects, specific example being a Romeo and Juliet story involving a wasp and a bee. | zale13 |
| Eeveerian |  |
Harmacy |
| Rhineriver | 035 & 049 survive an American Airport / "What's going on in American airports that a murder monster considers it their worst nightmare?" | velvetnell |
| ProblemPal | trees revolt against being used to wipe asses, violently | popsioak |
| byzantophile | Two people who are not real try to blend into a facility as foundation personnel | cdudeman123 |
| SeekGull | Reeincarnating blue colored clown mobsters | 22o9L |
| TopDownUnder | evil island that turns you into a cyborg | NebulousStar |
| onlineopossum | Romcom Hell World, where everyone who isn’t singing is probably making out in the rain, or sunset, under the bleachers, on the roof, anywhere not currently occupied by a musical number. How does anything get done? Don’t worry about it, cmon, we have to pretend to be dating so your family doesn’t ask awkward questions at the wedding! | didelphia poss |
| booblesnoot | Entity that infiltrates small political movements and anomalously convinces them to make 'increasing the social acceptability of peeing in pools' their main issue. | KatyaStrangelove |
| theemeraldwolf | A story about Blorb, the wizard rat who ate all of the moon cheese | DrBlitz |
| ubergoober | A continually running Dance Dance Revolution arcade machine that has to be played at all times to keep the earth spinning. | Cerastes |
| costyfishy & Btibble | The central anomaly MUST be at least 2000 paper airplanes, with at least one significant mention of a K-Class Scenario. | DreadnoughtGalaxy |
| koscheiisms | SCP stickers that make anything they are stuck to legal Foundation property | Mimi Q Binn |
| Doctor Infraviolet | Evil supernatural TV show that targets a single person and makes the nearest 99 people try to hunt them down and kill them, while broadcasting the event like a regular tv show or youtube channel with obnoxious edits and visuals. If they survive the next 24 hours they get a briefcase with junky knickknacks and giftcards and branded t-shirts. | AltaLego |
| Detective_O 1 | An apollyon monkey that has 65000 hands on each of its 12 arms that hold every firearm ever produced in the universe and is gay and has a rly unserious attitude and and says he "wants to shit" on the planet and after he made this statement, diarrhoea begins rain on the earth | mm24b_7 |
| mattam | Ghost hunting show where ghosts hunt ghost hunters | dfastillo |
| KatyaStrangelove | A Kangaroo Court | costyfishy & Btibble |
| InanimateStudy | A particularly grumpy anomaly forces the on-site therapist to request the aid of one of the Foundation's oldest departments: the Department of Foolishness. A Foundation trained jester, Dolly, is assigned to the case. | animal hospital |
| hiddenweta | There is a famous saying that "it takes a village to raise a child". Write an article based on the phrase "it takes a child to raise a village". | whenwerewe |
| HaydenSaintPascal | There's an antimemetic effect surrounding traffic cones, but only on tuesdays. Several foundation facilities are destroyed because of this. | mattam |
| Goobomber | Animal rescue operation becomes replacing the entire work force of [legally distinct tax help company] out of a love of the game. (Fucking people over) Also known as, I pulled a fish from the ocean and it filed my taxes in return. | zyde |
| DreadnoughtGalaxy | A researcher who somehow reincarnated as an ordinary object used in the lounge of the foundation and is at peace with it, where he finds out his crush can communicate to him and wants to marry him despite the circumstances | Shirley Sterling |
| DrBlitz | man who manifests inside your bathroom and makes you pay to enter | byzantophile |
| sylvester_prince | What if their was an immortal lizard that thought things were disgusting that the Foundation keeps in acid for some reason | ulyssesbark |
| FrankEntropy | immortal baby stuck in a concrete wall | sylvester_prince |
Backup and Reassigned Prompts
| Writer | Assigned | Prompter |
|---|---|---|
| Harmacy | beatles but orange | The Frodmaer Club |
| babe in the woods | switchitea | |
| Write a story with 15-20 plot twists. Can be played seriously or not. The significance of the plot twists may vary, but it's better to get some big ones in there. | frankentropy | |
| "Jesus Christ: Time Cop" basically Jesus is an agent of the time police and he catches and imprisons people who come back in time to meet him/save him. | Doctor Cimmerian | |
| AWhiteBoy | Urine is stored in the balloons. | PenumbralChoir |
| Statue that only moves when you smell it | AWhiteBoy | |
| mahalayati | The moon has a giant machine gun turret attached to it pointed directly at the earth | Theworm4444 |
| fermentating | the sensation you get from eating a slice of cold cheese fresh outta the fridge | Tacticalnecromancy |
| KatyaStrangelove | "The Game" is a cognitohazard | AWhiteBoy |
| Theworm4444 | A bad written letter for santa by a little kid, after someone tries to read it, the subject will have problems, writing, spelling or saying a word with 2 vowels in a row | DeLuxuryCastle |
| Mathgeek | acid rain but it's LSD | jazzwave |
| Mimi Q Binn | "You just found out about this whole ""SCP"" thing a couple of days ago, and it looks really cool! You've only read up to SCP-500 or so, but you get the gist. Now you're ready to take a shot at writing your own! The article should have that series 1 charm, including: -At least one redaction of major information -Explicitly referencing at least one classic series 1 SCP -An MTF exploration log where at least one member dies." |
Mathgeek |
| heck_tech | old man that cant fall over unless he's pushed | BAD_DATA |
| J DUNE | Horse Cop | AWhiteBoy |
| Shirley_stirling | Life gave this guy way too many lemons | AWhiteBoy |
| jazzwave | Slug politics | lordstonefish |
| mothmanUXO | Box that if you look inside of you freaking die | AWhiteBoy |
| ThyChesireCat | A person that fishes for private property (as in, literally uses a fishing rod to literally fish for and catch owned land, houses and such). | eeveerian |
| animal hospital | A spoon with legs and a mouth. When food of any kind is in a room with the spoon, it will attempt to feed all of it to the nearest person by jumping in and out of their mouth. The spoon only speaks one word: "Yum." This word is spoken at different frequencies, indicating that it is a language. The spoon also wears a small Batman cowl. | wondrous expanse |
| LeraviTheXatu | Biblically Accurate Hand Grenade | AWhiteBoy |
| starlady | Room Temperature Horror | wackdog` |
| Penny farthing that is really intuitive to ride | AWhiteBoy | |
| A key that can open exactly 50% of locks | BAD_DATA | |
| What if a pear was cold. | wackdog | |
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB2kNDTUkgI based off the first clip | awhiteboy | |
| burger made of atoms all in the shape of burgers | awhiteboy | |
| Upon encountering a jawless fish, foundation agents are anomalously under the impression that it is their superior in the foundation chain of command | unidentifiedgoober |
Entry List
(Entries will show up here when tagged.2)
SCP-8293 by
"A story about Blorb the wizard rat, who was just trying to help"
SCP-8568 by
SCP-9967 by
The 67 meme is proof postmodernism won.
SCP-9195 by
Do you remember the good old days, Julia?
SCP-8838 by
This world is made better just by you living on.
SCP-9745 by
SCP-9930 by
This is considered largely insignificant.
SCP-9564 by
SCP-9380 by
SCP-9597 by
PlaguePJP: LIV
SCP-9069 by
According to ratings, people like it when contestants have multiple prizes to choose from. Unfortunately, multiple prizes aren't within the budget this year.
SCP-8753 by
SCP-9513 by
SCP-9155 by
SCP-9969 by
SCP-9163 by
She was about to run away. I couldn't let her do that.
SCP-9811 by
Do everything for the love of it.
SCP-9625 by
When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, right?
SCP-9919 by
SCP-9093 by
Maybe cops aren’t good people
SCP-9217 by
Dr. Kon described the results as "cleaner than expected."
SCP-9856 by
I want to stay here. I've more than earned it.
SCP-9575 by
Coming inside is a privilege. I don't care how poor you are, you ain't getting in.
SCP-9868 by
There are currently 1,568 instances of SCP-9868 in use by the Foundation.
SCP-9981 by
BEGIN MEAL.
SCP-9412 by
Sometimes we mess up even when we do everything right. But that's okay. Because it's never the end of the world, only the end of the day.
SCP-9349 by
A story about love, manhood, courage, belonging, and three men falling in love with a talking horse
SCP-9717 by
Were we always alone?
SCP-7534 by
It was handed to me directly. Dr. McKinsey Sultan walked into my office, tears in her eyes, and slammed it on my desk. Told me to take it.
SCP-9180 by
Filename: Dog.1
Name: Dog.1
Author:Wondrous Expanse
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Filename: Dog.2
Name: Dog.2
Author:
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
SCP-9144 by
“You must trust the Holy Forth”
SCP-9616 by
"This is seriously my only option? Pimp myself out as a laughingstock for the whole site?"
SCP-9204 by
SCP-9157 by
Don’t try to find me. I’ll be where I belong.
The Rules
1a. Each contestant must submit 1 dumb/bad idea to either wackdog,
BAD_DATA or
AWhiteBoy.
1b. Organisers may reject a submitted idea and request a new one if it is not deemed dumb/bad enough.
2a. Each contestant may submit a list of things they are uncomfortable writing.
2b. If you receive a prompt and realise you are not comfortable writing it, please reach out to either wackdog,
BAD_DATA or
AWhiteBoy to request a different prompt.
3. Each contestant will receive a prompt at random, taking into account their preferences.
4. The idea must be written as a mainlist SCP, which is not a shitpost.
5a. Overtly sexual or hateful ideas are not allowed, as our content farm creator needs to maintain monetization on the video. This may be negotiable with hosts, however you will be forfeiting the first place prize.
5b. All prompts must be CC compliant and thus cannot contain any copyrighted characters or companies as central to the idea. Sorry chat, no blue hedgehogs.
6. Submissions must be posted within the posting window. No major edits can be made to submissions after they are posted. Submissions cannot be reposted.
7. Submissions must be tagged with dumbcon2026-unofficial
8. Collaboration is permitted, however each person can only take credit for one submission. Multiple submissions associated with one person are not allowed.
9. Attempts to swindle or otherwise go against the spirit of the contest may result in disqualification from the contest at the discretion of contest hosts.
10. Winners will be decided based on total upvote count.
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