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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looney_tunes
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I am considering it a race against myself, not against others. Some may be competing to be the first to cover all 20 categories with sunnies starting from the beginning of the challenge, and good luck to them, but I have done that, and am only interested in the discipline of spreading my categories in the near future as I write the quizzes I would normally write. Reply #121. Mar 29 12, 4:05 AM |
pollucci19 
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I'm with you LT ... I'm on a slow burn to pangalactica Reply #122. Mar 29 12, 4:31 AM |
WesleyCrusher
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It's really meant like in a typical arcade game - your primary concern is the personal score, but we'll keep a high score list which may or may not interest you :) Reply #123. Mar 29 12, 6:13 AM |
highfells
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Oh good, then I shall not be shamed by my slow progress! Who knows, I may even increase my quiz-writing rate from "3-toed sloth on tranqillisers" to "arthritic tortoise". Reply #124. Mar 29 12, 10:56 AM |
guitargoddess
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Don't worry, I'm definitely the tortoise lagging behind the group. I've written exactly half a question since signing up! Reply #125. Mar 29 12, 5:09 PM |
Creedy
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I've got Buckley's of getting a high score on a video quiz - unless of course I write one called Video Games for Dummies. Reply #126. Mar 29 12, 9:18 PM |
| Creedy
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(Lol, Playmate !) Reply #127. Mar 29 12, 9:18 PM |
| looney_tunes
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Creedy: unless of course I write one called Video Games for Dummies. That's pretty much a good idea - if you don't know much about a subject, start exploring it and finding details that interest you. You can then present them to the players. Of course, Rossian has just done that very nicely, making it harder for the rest of us. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/VideoGames/Take-It-All-347970.html Reply #128. Mar 29 12, 11:09 PM |
rossian
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Thanks for the endorsement, L-T. I'm as shocked as the rest of you to discover I do know a little bit about video games. Only time will tell if it garners enough plays and ratings to count for this challenge. Reply #129. Mar 30 12, 12:22 AM |
MikeMaster99
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Some of my misspent youth was put to use in doing Rossian's quiz. It brought back some memories! Reply #130. Mar 30 12, 2:02 AM |
| Creedy
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Curses - foiled again :) Maybe I'll write one for new born babies - all about wii Reply #131. Mar 30 12, 4:42 AM |
malik24
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It has more ratings in a day than most of my VG ones get in weeks (one of them just made the year mark unranked, yay!), so I'm sure you'll be fine on the quantities. :) Now I have a little time, I might try and finish my Adele challenge over the weekend... maybe April will be a bit more productive than my almost quiz-free March. Reply #132. Mar 30 12, 5:52 AM |
| Creedy
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I have visitors from now till Easter, so won't be doing much except - ugh - cooking. Reply #133. Apr 02 12, 12:50 AM |
reedy
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Here's my second qualifying quiz: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/ForChildren/Money-for-Candy-347481.html Reply #134. Apr 02 12, 6:13 AM |
| MikeMaster99
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I've managed to get off the mark (will be a while before number 2 though) with my humor in chemistry quiz, Bond, Covalent Bond done for the Stepping Up XII. http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=347169 Reply #135. Apr 02 12, 6:28 AM |
| rossian
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My first one, from the Scattergories challenge http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/Knights-Tales-347437.html Reply #136. Apr 02 12, 6:47 AM |
| zorba_scank
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My second quiz from the Scattergories challenge: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/BrainTeasers/Xhosa-or-Zulu-347463.html Reply #137. Apr 02 12, 8:22 AM |
tazman6619
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I have two more through: From the Adele's Challenge - VG http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/VideoGames/Dont-You-Remember-347338.html From Stepping Up XII - Sci/Tech http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/SciTech/Google-Earth-is-Spying-On-Me-347239.html Reply #138. Apr 02 12, 9:10 AM |
kyleisalive
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My Sports requirement has been checked off. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Sports/Time-Wounds-All-Heels-347220.html Reply #139. Apr 02 12, 5:27 PM |
| looney_tunes
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Here are three categories. I need to wait until Iget home to check whether the other quizzes that got ranked this week can be included or not. (The lionks look strange, because the quizzes are not on the newest quizzes list, and when I open them from my list of quizzes this is what I get. Hope you can follow the!) Geography - Scintillating Slovakia was written for the Bus Ride, and its rank means it will certainly join the rotation http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=347488&edit=1 Literature - One Solitary Life was written for Stepping Up XII http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=347165&edit=1 Hobbies - Please, No PEas was written for the lates commission http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=347452&edit=1 More news next week. :) Reply #140. Apr 02 12, 6:36 PM |
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