Many, many apologies.

[kate]

I just wanted to apologize for our delay in releasing the stories. We had planned extra time for the pinch hitters to avoid exactly this sort of thing. I know you all worked very hard to finish your stories and are awaiting your gifts with bated breath (us too!), and we appreciate your patience so that we can guarantee every participant a story. It'd be sadder still to open the collection and have someone not get a story.

We will open the collection as soon as we are sure everyone is covered. We hope for it to be before midnight CST, but we can't guarantee it.

If you're looking for something to do in the meantime, there's always the Fic Scramble. There are some mighty awesome prompts out there, and more stories in this fandom are never a bad thing.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for being such an awesome group of people.

HEY LOSERS! It's time. :D

[kate]

We have all our stories, so I am going to open up the archive momentarily.

If you're in the process of writing treats, you can still post them to the Ante_Up_Scramble_2011 Collection even after the reveal, and they will be posted anonymously until author reveals on February 7. The Scramble collection will stay open, so anyone who's defaulted can post their original story if they want, and like I just mentioned, anyone in the middle of a treat can post anytime.

I'm closing the Ante_Up_Losers_2011 main collection, only the Scramble will stay open.

By the way - thank you all for being super-awesome! We doubled the treats in the last day, and I can't thank you enough for rising to the challenge while the wait must've been killing you. I've said it before and I'll say it again - y'all are awesome. ♥

That said, time to go read your stories, leave your authors brilliant comments, and make recs posts! :D :D :D

ETA: Er, having some technical difficulties... we're working on it, but so far no luck. Anybody have AO3 experience in running a challenge like this? PM or email me? Pretty please?

ETA2: We have gotten the stories to go live! But in doing so, we seem to have broken email notifications. :( You can check your gifts when you sign in to AO3 - go to My Gifts, and the most recent ones (aka your Ante_Up_Losers stories) will be at the bottom. Comment if you have questions!