SASO Intro Post

Since a lot of the people doing SASO don't already know me, and I know I will be referring people to this journal from bonus rounds, I figured I would make a little intro post about myself. I've already written something to share with the other team captains, so this is a bit of a rehash, but! Hopefully it will be informative and helpful.

Name: Lira
Age: Twenty-Six
Prounouns: she/her or they/them
Location: Maryland, USA (GMT -5:00)

Other Social Media: lir lirahaiku unelegantly

Sports Fandoms: Yowamushi Pedal, Hikaru no Go, Chihayafuru, Daiya no Ace, Oofuri, Eyeshield 21, Ping Pong the Animation, Kuroko no Basuke, Haikyuu.

Ships I May Write: If I do this for yowapeda, it'll go on for days, but I can give a quick and dirty breakdown if you want to bait me into writing stuff during bonus rounds.

---Hikaru no Go: Akira/Hikaru
---Chihayafuru: Arata/Chihaya/Taichi, Chihaya/Oe, Chihaya/Shinobu
---Daiya no Ace: Furuya/Miyuki/Sawamura
---Oofuri: Abe/Mihashi

Characters I May Write: There are characters who I'm just really interested in the psychology of, and even though this is a shipping event, if the opportunity to meta about them comes up I may try my hand at writing a prompted ship I otherwise wouldn't.

---Hikaru no Go: Akira, Ogata
---Chihayafuru: Taichi
---Daiya no Ace: Eijun, Miyuki, coach Kataoka
---Oofuri: Abe
---Eyeshield 21: Hiruma, Agon
---Ping Pong: Smile, Dragon, Demon

Perhaps later I'll make a section for Yowapeda, but most of what you need to know is: bait me with Kinjou, Fukutomi, Makishima, Imaizumi, and Arakita. They're my faves to write and my faves to ship around with virtually everyone. I may make prompts for ships besides yowapeda ships and the ones on this list, but this is also a pretty comprehensive guide to what I will prompt.



I hope to see you in bonus rounds!

SASO Participant Data

I'm someone who loves statistics, so I've taken it upon myself to organize some data on how well represented different fandoms are within the SASO. I've broken this down both in terms of number of teams per fandom, and number of participants associated with each fandom. Below is the data as I have organized it.

( Onward to some statistics! )

What does all of this mean? In the end, whatever you want to take away from it. These numbers function roughly as a popularity sampling of the fandoms nominated to the SASO (and it's therefore worth considering which fandoms were nominated without finding representation by a team), but it is my personal opinion that they do not entirely accurately reflect the popularity of each nominated fandom within the participant base of the SASO.

But hey, hopefully this was an interesting read for someone besides myself! More statistics potentially forthcoming (if I remain ambitious) as the SASO progresses.