Subject: The Pangalactic Sunnies Challenge
Posted by: WesleyCrusher
Date: Mar 02 12
With Kyle's permission, I am going to launch an activity of my own, especially created for those of you who just never seem to have enough options to stretch your authoring skills to the limits and beyond.
At its heart, this is a new marathon quiz authoring race requiring a combination of speed, persistence, quality and variance. While you could win up to six badges(*) for finishing, those are standard awards you'll just happen to pick up on the way (unless you already have them). Essentially, you are thus competing for the love of authoring and for the bragging rights to have completed one of the most demanding authoring quests that will ever hit the site.
The race is open to every FT author and will run for as long as people wish to continue working on it. You can start the race at any time by signing up. Then, your goal is to write one sunglassed quiz per category, begun after the signup date (those you wrote before don't count). Each of these must be for an author challenge or for an author lounge activity (lounge challenge, commission). Report your finished works here once they have received their Sunnies to be added to the leaderboard. Finishers will be sorted by the time needed from signup to their 20th set of shades (so late starters will never be penalized). If anyone does this under a year, they're a master author, but anyone seeing this to the end will be a champion in their own right.
Oh yes, should you finish this and want to try again to improve your time, feel free to reenter. We'll keep your best time and your number of completions!
A few answers before you ask the corresponding questions:
In order not to penalize those who have taken an early jump at "Stepping Up XII", you *may* count a quiz you've done for that challenge even if you have already begun it. If you wish to do so, just notify me with your signup that you wish to retroactively sign up as of yesterday (March 1).
Quizzes written for The Amazing Trivia Race by those not yet arrived do count only if they are also author challenges and have been begun on March 1 or later.
If you still have to create a work in any other challenge or commission you entered before your signup date which you have never yet submitted to an editor, you CAN finish, submit and count it. This would be a good time to catch up on your commissions!
If you get an Editor's Choice on a quiz, it will qualify even if does not get actual Sunnies. This is also a great way to avoid the wait for ratings and shave several weeks off your score!
Once a quiz has been crosschecked and marked off on your grid, it does not matter whether it does retain its Sunny status later on. Once qualified, it remains qualified.
You are responsible for reporting your quizzes yourself in this thread once they do qualify (please provide a link for quick checking). It's best to check on Monday afternoon or Tuesday, that way you will always catch those newly awarded Sunnies early.
If you have added no new quizzes to your score for three months, your name will be dropped from the public listing of racers. However, you will remain in the internal database and once you do submit another qualifying quiz, you will be back in the list. This is just to weed out those who abandoned the game.
I will provide regular updates to the standings once the first quizzes start rolling in (which will obviously take 3-4 weeks). Kyle will be using his magical mod powers to add them to this post.
To make things easy for me, please do not link to your quizzes in this thread until they qualify.
If you have any further questions, just ask away. Good luck!
WesleyCrusher
(*) The 5, 10, 15 categories, Cool Quizzes, Author Challenges and one badge from the "Author" series.
Current Standings:
http://www.krath.org/pangalactic.png
***HALL OF FAME***
Looney_Tunes has finished the Pangalactic course TWICE! First time it took 181 days, the second time 361 days. Incredible!
Dcpddc478 has finished the Pangalactic course in the record time of 94 days! Amazing!
Rossian has finished the course in 143 days.
Reedy has finished the course in 150 days.
Kyleisalive has finished the course in 242 days.
Creedy has finished the course in 429 days.
Gracious1 has finished the course in 272 days.
Cellardoor has finished the course in 627 days.
Suomy has finished the course in 396 days.
WesleyCrusher has finished the course in 1,026 days.
JanIQ has finished the course in 1,005 days.
Pollucci19 has finished the course in 1,151 days.
Fifiona81 has finished the course in 533 days.
1nn1 has finished the course in 1,767 days.
spanishliz has finished the course in 1,989 days.
Posted by: WesleyCrusher
Date: Mar 02 12
With Kyle's permission, I am going to launch an activity of my own, especially created for those of you who just never seem to have enough options to stretch your authoring skills to the limits and beyond.
At its heart, this is a new marathon quiz authoring race requiring a combination of speed, persistence, quality and variance. While you could win up to six badges(*) for finishing, those are standard awards you'll just happen to pick up on the way (unless you already have them). Essentially, you are thus competing for the love of authoring and for the bragging rights to have completed one of the most demanding authoring quests that will ever hit the site.
The race is open to every FT author and will run for as long as people wish to continue working on it. You can start the race at any time by signing up. Then, your goal is to write one sunglassed quiz per category, begun after the signup date (those you wrote before don't count). Each of these must be for an author challenge or for an author lounge activity (lounge challenge, commission). Report your finished works here once they have received their Sunnies to be added to the leaderboard. Finishers will be sorted by the time needed from signup to their 20th set of shades (so late starters will never be penalized). If anyone does this under a year, they're a master author, but anyone seeing this to the end will be a champion in their own right.
Oh yes, should you finish this and want to try again to improve your time, feel free to reenter. We'll keep your best time and your number of completions!
A few answers before you ask the corresponding questions:
If you have any further questions, just ask away. Good luck!
WesleyCrusher
(*) The 5, 10, 15 categories, Cool Quizzes, Author Challenges and one badge from the "Author" series.
Current Standings:
http://www.krath.org/pangalactic.png***HALL OF FAME***
Looney_Tunes has finished the Pangalactic course TWICE! First time it took 181 days, the second time 361 days. Incredible!
Dcpddc478 has finished the Pangalactic course in the record time of 94 days! Amazing!
Rossian has finished the course in 143 days.
Reedy has finished the course in 150 days.
Kyleisalive has finished the course in 242 days.
Creedy has finished the course in 429 days.
Gracious1 has finished the course in 272 days.
Cellardoor has finished the course in 627 days.
Suomy has finished the course in 396 days.
WesleyCrusher has finished the course in 1,026 days.
JanIQ has finished the course in 1,005 days.
Pollucci19 has finished the course in 1,151 days.
Fifiona81 has finished the course in 533 days.
1nn1 has finished the course in 1,767 days.
spanishliz has finished the course in 1,989 days.
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kyleisalive
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And I promise that down the line, Globetrotting will contribute to something larger. ;) Reply #1561. Aug 14 18, 2:21 AM |
JanIQ 
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Do Road Blocks in the Amazing Race count towards Pangalactic? Most of the quizzes needed for the Amazing Race are collective efforts and thus can't count towards Pangalactic, but many road blocks have to be written by one of the racers individually. Reply #1562. Aug 19 18, 12:48 AM |
looney_tunes
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It says in the header that Amazing Race quizzes only count if they are Author Challenge titles. While most tasks in the race do allow all members of the team to work together, they do not actually require it. If you write a quiz on your own rather than collaboratively, and it uses an Author Challenge title, then it can count. Reply #1563. Aug 19 18, 4:07 AM |
AcrylicInk
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I'd like to sign up if this is still open. I may not get very far but I'll give it a go! Reply #1564. Aug 19 18, 7:22 AM |
| kyleisalive
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It's definitely still open and I may rejoin it during QuiWriMo in November. Globetrot Trivia provides surprising opportunities to fulfill these. I didn't expect to write in Religion and Sports, but I did for GT2. Reply #1565. Aug 19 18, 8:28 AM |
WesleyCrusher
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A new crown for 1nn1 (1767 days in the making) and seven people having written anything that counts... that's a year's worth of updates these days. How about encouraging me to provide some more frequent updates by actually writing quizzes? I'm seeing people on 15 and up who have stalled for several years now. Reply #1566. Sep 02 18, 5:09 AM |
spanishliz
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Congratulations 1nn1! I keep trying, Wes, but those last couple of categories are elusive. Reply #1567. Sep 02 18, 6:25 AM |
tiffanyram
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I probably could have finished years ago, but took long breaks from authoring. I'm back in it now since the race is going on. I have one online quiz for one of my missing categories that is an Author Challenge title...fingers crossed it continues to rate similarly as it has up to this point! Hopefully, I'll be able to add it in a couple weeks! Now to figure out how to get the last two. One of them, Celebrities, is the only category I've never written a quiz for. Reply #1568. Sep 02 18, 9:25 AM |
rossian
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Well done to 1nn1 and good luck to tiffanyram in her attempts to finish the challenge. I occasionally consider making a second attempt, but find that the feeling soon wears off when I think about having to write in VG. Reply #1569. Sep 02 18, 9:32 AM |
1nn1
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Thanks Wes on what must be an onerous task in checking all the entries. Thanks also to the well-wishers. It is tough gig but the destination is worth it. I agree with Rossian. My Achilles heel is video games and to date my one and only VG quiz was written to fulfill the PGS challenge Reply #1570. Sep 02 18, 5:51 PM |
CmdrK
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I got my VG credit on a well-timed Author Challenge. If I could just find one for BT... Reply #1571. Sep 02 18, 9:26 PM |
pollucci19
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Know where you're coming from Cmdrk… BT and Kids category... would have finished months earlier if it wasn't for those two categories Reply #1572. Sep 03 18, 5:34 AM |
| pollucci19
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(PS) well done 1nn1 Reply #1573. Sep 03 18, 5:34 AM |
shuehorn
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Congrats 1nn1! You give me hope too. Tiff, you will do it. Let's cheer each other on and get this done. Sue Reply #1574. Sep 03 18, 8:46 AM |
| 1nn1
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The six people close to finishing only need to write 12 quizzes between them. BT, VG and World 2 each and one each for Celebrities, Entertainment, Hobbies, Humanities, General, Religion. Let's all encourage them to finish The subcats that had my highest ratings in these cats were 1. BT - Number Phrases 2. World - National Flags (although the quiz I used was actually a world wordplay quiz http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/World/Its-not-EU-its-me-386768.html and it's still my second favourite quiz) 3. Celebrities - Australian celebrities (natch!) 4. Entertainment - Transportation in Entertainment 5. Hobbies - International Cuisine 6. Humanities - Synonyms and Antonyms 7. General - Mixed other countries I have only written one religion and one VG quiz both for PGS so I am not an expert. Happy to pass on tips, strategy to help get people over the line Reply #1575. Sep 03 18, 10:04 PM |
| tiffanyram
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Thanks for the tips! And congrats on your finish! Reply #1576. Sep 03 18, 11:30 PM |
gracious1
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So if someone wants to do this twice, what does one have to do? Reply #1577. Sep 04 18, 12:46 AM |
| gracious1
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P.S. Congrats 1nn1! Reply #1578. Sep 04 18, 12:46 AM |
| looney_tunes
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To do it twice, you just post saying that you are doing it again, then start identifying the qualifying quizzes as they arrive. All must be submitted after that first post. Reply #1579. Sep 04 18, 4:07 AM |
| WesleyCrusher
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I must personally say that I've been turned off a second go by the recent low rate of getting sunnies. It seems a lot of "how to get sunnies" is "write about a popular topic". If I look at those of my 2017 quizzes that got sunnies, it's more the ones that I wrote to have them written (mostly race 3 entries in reasonably popular categories) than the ones I actually felt I did a good job on or spent some time on making them special. Reply #1580. Sep 04 18, 12:15 PM |
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