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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Fifiona81
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I've got a television one from the Sprint: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Television/Downton-Abbey-Characters-The-Earl-of-Grantham-395951.html Reply #1641. Feb 11 19, 7:07 AM |
spanishliz
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Making a start at my second run-through! Both from the Sprint: Movies: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Movies/Big-Bad-Bob-395992.html Television: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Television/A-Canadian-Starred-in-That-395936.html Reply #1642. Feb 11 19, 8:54 AM |
gracious1 
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Here's one from Sprint: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Literature/Poes-Poems-Pwn-Posers-362166.html Reply #1643. Feb 18 19, 8:42 AM |
angikar
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And I am sure I will never ever get a single sunny. :-3 Mark my words, Wes, the day I get One sunny, I start Pangalactic. I don't know why, but my single questions get rated very high, but my quizzes are never. Reply #1644. Feb 18 19, 1:41 PM |
AcrylicInk
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This was a Sprint quiz and an author challenge. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/Take-Your-Head-Out-of-the-Sand-396129.html Reply #1645. Feb 23 19, 1:37 AM |
| gracious1
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A two-fer from Sprint: Television: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Television/Women-Leaders-396239.html Sports: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Sports/Triple-Crown-Champions-396242.html Reply #1646. Feb 25 19, 6:33 PM |
| spanishliz
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From the Sprint: People: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/People/Which-Canadian-396231.html Reply #1647. Feb 25 19, 9:24 PM |
| gracious1
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From the Sprint: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Humanities/Artemis-Awaits-396402.html http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Animals/Wandering-Birdwatcher-Mad-Photographer-395752.html Reply #1648. Mar 04 19, 12:11 PM |
| AcrylicInk
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I got one in Hobbies from the Sprint. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Hobbies/Wrapped-in-Purple-396280.html Reply #1649. Mar 04 19, 6:09 PM |
| AcrylicInk
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What do the different coloured text and boxes mean on the chart? I can see quite a bit of green, and on my phone it looks like my name is in bold. Reply #1650. Mar 04 19, 6:15 PM |
| gracious1
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AcrylicInk, If I may attempt an answer.. The names in green are those who are giving the challenge a second go-'round. The names in bold, I'm not sure. Wesley alternates each column between white and aqua to make it easier to read and keep columns straight. If you get a quiz in a white category, it's filled with dark gray. If you get a quiz in an aqua category, it's filled with blue. (I notice that the blue for the second-timers is tinged with green, and the aqua is very pale.) Reply #1651. Mar 04 19, 9:21 PM |
Triviaballer
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angikar, I also have a much higher percentage of favorably rated single questions as opposed to quizzes with sunnies. Oddly a lot of my quizzes before 2015 are rated highly and barely any after. I don't think it's a coincidence that for some authors single questions are rated higher than quizzes. With a quiz you know who the author is and likely will have a subjective rating, I mean we are all human. With single questions you don't know who the author is and likely just rate based on the question which seems more fair. I haven't had a qualifying Pangalactic quiz in a long time. Reply #1652. Mar 04 19, 10:32 PM |
kyleisalive
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Re: "I haven't had a qualifying Pangalactic quiz in a long time." --You and me both. Reply #1653. Mar 05 19, 5:26 PM |
tiffanyram
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This quiz was a Sprint quiz as well as an author challenge: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/World/Traveling-the-Maghreb-396450.html This takes care of World for me, so now all I have left is VG! Reply #1654. Mar 12 19, 6:07 AM |
| spanishliz
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From the Sprint: Geography: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/London-Paris-Milan-396500.html Reply #1655. Mar 12 19, 7:01 AM |
malik24
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My quiz "When Music Met Science" for the first Time Crunch - http://www.funtrivia.com/bb.cfm?action=details&qnid=27488&boardid=2222222 currently has sunnies. Nope, I've no idea if I'll ever finish this, but since my name was still on the picture I thought I'd drop this one by. :p Reply #1656. Apr 12 19, 2:36 PM |
| celvet
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I doubt that I will be able to do this as I seem to specialize in the esoteric, but maybe. . . Anyway, I'll try. Reply #1657. Apr 28 19, 2:57 PM |
WesleyCrusher
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Yes, green is second round. I'll have to come up with a color for 3rd once someone gets there :) And the alternating tints of the columns are just for easier reference. Reply #1658. Apr 28 19, 3:53 PM |
| spanishliz
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If the Team Task Challenge counts here, then I can claim Brain Teasers, http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/BrainTeasers/Game-of-Zoos-Cryptically-Hidden-Animals-397066.html From Commission 56, Sports: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Sports/Five-Hundred-Miles-from-Cooperstown-396799.html I think that's it this week :) Reply #1659. Apr 29 19, 7:05 AM |
| gracious1
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Looks like I got one for the Team Task Challenge: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/BrainTeasers/Game-of-Zoos-Zoofinders-Zookeepers-397029.html Reply #1660. Apr 29 19, 10:36 AM |
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