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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AcrylicInk 
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Two of my author challenges have sunnies now. There's Take Your Head Out of the Sand! in History (also a Sprint quiz) and How High Can You Build It? in World. Reply #1681. May 18 19, 9:18 AM |
gracious1
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Do Author Challenges count now? I thought TRIC and Author Challenges didn't count? (I'm confused.) Reply #1682. May 20 19, 3:41 AM |
Fifiona81
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From the information in the main post: "Each of these must be for an author challenge or for an author lounge activity (lounge challenge, commission). " So author challenges count & TRIC don't (they're not lounge challenges). Reply #1683. May 20 19, 3:53 AM |
spanishliz
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The other thing that doesn't count is Adventures in Authoring. Author Challenges have always counted. Reply #1684. May 20 19, 8:41 AM |
| spanishliz
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New sunnies for me this week: Team Task Challenge: Animals: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Animals/Exemplary-Animals-397365.html Also, from Commission 50: Celebs: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Celebrities/Good-Old-Benedict-391198.html If the old one can't count for my new run through, not a problem. I was just so surprised to see sunnies on this one that I thought I'd like to record it :) Reply #1685. May 20 19, 8:55 AM |
| gracious1
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From the Team Task Challenge: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/VideoGames/Titles-that-Launched-the-NES--Saved-an-Industry-397394.html Reply #1686. May 27 19, 6:23 PM |
| gracious1
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Another surprise from the Team Task Challenge: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Hobbies/Color-Me-Purple-Part-4-Eat-Your-Purples-397541.html Reply #1687. Jun 06 19, 9:28 PM |
| spanishliz
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I would have thought that quizzes from that particular challenge, where each question was contributed by a different team member, would not count for PanGalactic, would it? Reply #1688. Jun 07 19, 12:42 AM |
Kankurette
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I've got some History sunnies! It's for Begin Again, another Team Task challenge quiz (it was a quiz in the category where I'd written the least): http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/History/Begin-Again-397316.html Reply #1689. Jun 07 19, 3:47 PM |
| gracious1
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Here's one I missed (Team Task): http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Entertainment/Whos-that-Green-Guy-on-the-Screen-394219.html Reply #1690. Jun 08 19, 12:37 AM |
| Kankurette
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I've got an Editor's Choice for Entertainment: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Entertainment/Meat-the-Family-397946.html It was for an Author Challenge. Reply #1691. Jun 16 19, 2:09 AM |
bernie73
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I have received a sunny in Celebrities for my quiz "More Color Me Purple: Winners of the Purple Heart". http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Celebrities/More-Color-Me-Purple-Winners-of-the-Purple-Heart-397718.html Reply #1692. Jun 17 19, 10:10 AM |
apathy100
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Although I was removed from the initial chart, I noticed that one of my quizzes now has a sunny beside it. My quiz "Oregon: Not A Typical History" is now meeting these standards. http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?id=394442 Reply #1693. Jun 17 19, 12:22 PM |
1nn1
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I signed up for my second round of PGS on October 31. I have written 47 quizzes since. Today when my "Religion in Poland" came in at 2057, this quiz became my 20th and final category in which I have received sunnies since sign up, 244 days later. I will substantiate this claim shortly. Here is the Religion quiz: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Religion/Religion-in-Poland-397754.html Reply #1694. Jul 01 19, 7:06 AM |
| gracious1
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Absolutely stunning! And record-breaking! Congratulations! Reply #1695. Jul 01 19, 11:27 AM |
WesleyCrusher
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Trying to update but I'm encountreing a few issues here: 1) bernie73 - I have looked back for about a year but can't find a signup for you. Can you point me to it please? (If you've never formally signed up, I can enter the start date of commission 56 for you as the signup date). Also, it looks like your Celebrities one does not qualify since it was not directly for the Team Task challenge but for the informal addendum your team wrote. 2) gracious1 - I'll have to disallow your Hobbies one since it wasn't one you wrote alone. 3) spanishliz - you can only count quizzes you first submitted for editing since the (re-)signup. So that one late promotion won't qualify. 4) 1nn1 - I'll need all 20 links since you didn't claim any yet since re-subscribing. A quiz list would be a preferable way :) By the way, bold names are those who have had at least one quiz scored since the last update. Update table to be released once I have Nick's proper confirmation of the second crown. Reply #1696. Jul 01 19, 1:54 PM |
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" spanishliz - you can only count quizzes you first submitted for editing since the (re-)signup. So that one late promotion won't qualify." Thanks, Wes. I thought that would be the case, just thought I'd ask :) Reply #1697. Jul 01 19, 5:11 PM |
| bernie73
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Wes, I hoped that my Note in Reply #1591 was sufficient to sign up. If not, just let me know what I need to do. No worries about the Celebrities quiz not counting. I figure that at the pace I will probably work through this, one mire quiz just means the difference between 8,900 and 9,000 days to complete. :) Reply #1698. Jul 01 19, 9:21 PM |
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I am happy to substantiate my claim but I am away from home at the moment and cannot access my hyperlinked spreadsheet which will do just that. The hyperlinks go directly to the quizzes themselves and the sheet contains data such as challenge involved, date online, date of sunnies, initial rating position, highest rating position. I will post this information when I return home on Thursday. Reply #1699. Jul 02 19, 1:35 AM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Bernie - thanks. I just missed the signup in the long list of posts. Now I have a date for you. Since Nick might take a few days and there's really not much to update in the chart once he has his data in (he'll jump from 0 right to 20 if everything goes right), I've uploaded the chart. Three on 19 now, all of them 5 years or more in the making. Two of those three stuck on Video Games... Reply #1700. Jul 02 19, 3:14 AM |
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