OK, so evidently I've not explained the upcoming break effectively enough - so here's a quick refresher on what'll happen.

• All MHOC legislation, debates and votes will be paused. There may be some votes running over into the next week from the Devolved Sims, but that should be it.
• In canon, you can effectively treat this as a recess. In terms of any current deadlines, they will be extended and canonically you'll treat them as if they were normally this long.
• Parties may continue to run internal electoral stuff or host internal debates. I both caution and ask nicely that you keep this good natured and not have to invoke the speakership to step in - this is our break as much as yours.
• We'll be hosting a couple political-esque events. Based off /u/Brookheimer's recent post, I realised that in light of current events a complete stop and doing nothing probably isn't the best. More on this later.

Please remember that we're all trying to make the community a nicer place for everyone involved. We're testing the breaks as a concept to see if they'll relieve any pressure we find ourselves under sometimes. It's all a work in progress - please help us with this :).

As mentioned above - we're going to run come competitions. There'll be two main ones in the coming week. Please remember to play nice in these competitions!

Competition One: Propaganda Posters

This is a simple design one, based off an old classic. It's designed based, so the nicest looking one (in my opinion) will win. There are two categories, which are as follows:

• WW2 Style posters designed around modern (or MHOC) events.
• Modern Electoral Posters. Either about an IRL party or an MHOC party.

Any entrants to the poster competition most submit their posters to r/MHOCStrangersBar. Do modmail the sub if you require access.

Competition Two: Press

For those of you that can write. This is keeping it simple. As someone from a journalistic persuasion, I want to see good writing. Nice grammar, slick spelling and most of all - grabbing solid information. There is no word limit, but don't go massively overboard. We have two categories, these are:

• Interviews - Grab someone relevant from MHOC and get an interview from them. Look to the elderly veterans and see if they'll volunteer. I want to see good questions and being able to grab solid answers out of people.
• MHOC Political Highlights. Find an event from the history of MHOC and do a write up on it. Use quotes and put an opinionated spin on it.

Any entrants to the press competition must submit their posters to /r/MHOCPress. Do modmail the sub if you require access.

Entrants to both competitions must be flagged with the relevant post flair and submitted by 00:01 Monday 30th March and 23:59 Friday 3rd April to be in the running. Winners will be announced on Sunday 5th April.

Each category of the competitions will have £15 Amazon Voucher prizes for the winner! There'll also be a £10 Amazon Voucher prize for the one that makes me laugh the most.

GOOD LUCK!