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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Yup-- that's the case! Reply #101. Mar 18 12, 10:49 PM |
PDAZ 
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Then sign me up please! Reply #102. Mar 18 12, 10:56 PM |
guitargoddess
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Question, do all the quizzes have to KEEP their sunnies until we complete the challenge? Or if one falls out of sunnies after a month or so, do we have to write another quiz for that category? Similarly, if a quiz falls a little short of getting sunnies and then in 6 months the sunnies threshold changes and that quiz gets included, does it then count? Reply #103. Mar 22 12, 6:47 PM |
looney_tunes
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Either at the top or earlier in the thread, WesleyCrusher said that a category gets ticked off if it gets a sunnies quiz and you report that here, with a link for checking. Once ticked, the category stays completed even if it drops out later on. Reply #104. Mar 22 12, 8:41 PM |
WesleyCrusher
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The quiz must get a sunny at any time in its career. You report it at that time and I verify it. Then it's good forever. It doesn't matter if that time is right after it first gets rated or a year after - as long as it was originally written in the correct time frame and reported while it has sunnies, it does qualify. Reply #105. Mar 23 12, 1:25 PM |
| guitargoddess
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Oh you're right looney, it does say it above. I fail at reading. But thanks for the clarification! :) Reply #106. Mar 23 12, 5:37 PM |
zorba_scank
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My first quiz for this Challenge has qualified. It was written for and accepted by the Quiz-O-Meter. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Animals/Kings-of-the-Animal-World-347180.html Reply #107. Mar 26 12, 8:15 AM |
pollucci19
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and mine was part of the Set List 2 (Category - Movies) http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=347199 Reply #108. Mar 26 12, 8:54 AM |
tazman6619
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I have two that qualify: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/Roman-Revenge-346573.html http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/Roman-Revenge-346573.html The first was written for Stepping Up XII and the second for Set List 2. It was created prior but I did no real work until after the challenge commenced. Reply #109. Mar 26 12, 9:06 AM |
| tazman6619
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Oops here is the first one lol: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/BrainTeasers/A-Brief-History-of-Ooze-347162.html Reply #110. Mar 26 12, 9:06 AM |
reedy
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I also have a qualifying quiz - created for the Challenge Categories challenge: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Hobbies/Overboard-345919.html Reply #111. Mar 26 12, 11:48 AM |
| WesleyCrusher
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The first five are in my spreadsheet (unfortunately my one that could have made it failed to clear the bar) and it looks like tazman takes the lead. Reply #112. Mar 26 12, 12:20 PM |
| kyleisalive
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My total begins next week (hopefully). Reply #113. Mar 26 12, 12:27 PM |
| looney_tunes
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I was slow to start on this - I might have one ranked next week, definitely a sizeable handful by the following week. Reply #114. Mar 26 12, 5:51 PM |
Creedy
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http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=347167 (Title: Baroque History for Kids. For: Stepping Up XII challenge. Category: Children) http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=347116 Title:Mr Greedy. For: Mister Quiz challenge. Category: People) Reply #115. Mar 26 12, 9:21 PM |
| Creedy
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Both marked with sunglasses today - my 27th March 2012. Your 26th I think. Reply #116. Mar 26 12, 9:24 PM |
| Creedy
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(How can anybody take this avatar seriously) Reply #117. Mar 26 12, 9:25 PM |
playmate1111
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I don't :) Reply #118. Mar 27 12, 9:56 PM |
Jakeroo
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Was it meant to be serious? If so, then you've succeeded on the seriously cute qualifications lol Reply #119. Mar 27 12, 11:11 PM |
highfells
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Is this Challenge supposed to be a race? If so, I will be a strong contender for the Ultimate Placing Award! Reply #120. Mar 29 12, 3:54 AM |
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