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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Rowena8482 
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I thought that Terry had said, several times, that there will not be a 20 Category Badge, for the various reasons he said each time he said it (if you see what I mean!) (Not that it makes much difference to me one way or the other, I've done all the categories I ever plan on doing, just asking for clarification) Reply #21. Mar 02 12, 6:20 PM |
WesleyCrusher
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I'm not planning on a badge for this nor will I actively pursue getting one, but the ways of the Terry are unknown to us mere mortals and who knows what happens should this activity take off and produce some winners. Reply #22. Mar 02 12, 6:28 PM |
guitargoddess
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Neat idea! I won't sign up (I already have sunglasses in all 20 categories and don't really have a desire to do it again, in a much shorter amount of time!) but I look forward to seeing what you guys produce :) Reply #23. Mar 02 12, 7:01 PM |
dcpddc478
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I also have sunnys in every category, but I like the challenge of trying to do it in a much shorter time...including the category that I don't like to eal with...I will be competeing against myself....good luck to everyone:) Reply #24. Mar 02 12, 7:48 PM |
| dcpddc478
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ooops...deal with...time to get the coffee going...thank goodness I have some rocky road ice cream to cover the need for chocolate! Reply #25. Mar 02 12, 7:50 PM |
MikeMaster99
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I'll give it a go too please Wesley. I've always suspected I'm an idiot - I think this provides conclusive proof :-) Reply #26. Mar 02 12, 8:38 PM |
eburge
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Re: "Is it Video Games? ;)" Of course not! It's Religion. ;p Reply #27. Mar 02 12, 8:55 PM |
kyleisalive
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Yeah-- Religion is my big, bold weak spot and I have this immense doubt I can muster up another quiz on it. My last one was about non-religion. Reply #28. Mar 02 12, 9:00 PM |
playmate1111
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Yeah .... go on then .... here's another sucker for punishment! Reply #29. Mar 02 12, 10:49 PM |
CellarDoor
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Man, both of you! I had no idea Religion and Video Games were nemeses this way. :-P It doesn't have to be so hard -- if you can write a History quiz or a People quiz, you can write a Religion quiz. We take quizzes on the history of religions (including different denominations, holy wars, whatever) and quizzes on groups of people whose common "theme" is their faith (not just saints but also, say, ten famous Unitarian Universalists, or even ten famous atheists or agnostics). Another notion, which I don't think has to be scary, is to pick up part of some holy book -- maybe a short book-within-a-book, or maybe a story or subplot -- and write about it in pretty much the same way you would a Literature quiz. (What was the situation at the start? What happened next? Who were the main players? Can you finish this pithy and memorable quotation?) Reply #30. Mar 02 12, 10:54 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Signup summary so far (12 racers): tazman 6619 - March 1, 2012 WesleyCrusher - March 1, 2012 CellarDoor - March 1, 2012 looney_tunes - March 1, 2012 dcpddc478 - March 2, 2012 malik24 - March 2, 2012 pollucci19 - March 2, 2012 highfells - March 2, 2012 reedy - March 2, 2012 kyleisalive - March 2, 2012 MikeMaster99 - March 2, 2012 playmate1111 - March 2, 2012 Reply #31. Mar 03 12, 2:50 AM |
zorba_scank
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Put me up as well, Wes. If nothing, it will at least encourage me to write more quizzes. Reply #32. Mar 03 12, 6:15 AM |
malik24
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Sports here. The '24 hours of Sports' was painful. Reply #33. Mar 03 12, 7:17 AM |
reedy
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I finally wrote a video games quiz during the amazing race, but I have yet to try my hand at either Celebrities or SCI/Tech. Reply #34. Mar 03 12, 7:58 AM |
mlcmlc
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Please sign me up! I currently have 2 lounge quizzes that i've promised but not yet started (Rental and Stepping up)...does it just start with the stepping up? or can both be included as possibilities? Reply #35. Mar 03 12, 8:35 AM |
JanIQ
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Nice thought, but I won't start immediately. I'll have first to concoct some other quizzes. Reply #36. Mar 03 12, 8:59 AM |
| WesleyCrusher
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mlc, if you have not started working on either, both will count. Reply #37. Mar 03 12, 10:16 AM |
shuehorn
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Count me in, do Author Challenge quizzes count for this? I have a title selected, but haven't started actually writing the quiz. Reply #38. Mar 03 12, 11:20 AM |
| mlcmlc
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Thanks. I have not started. I foolishly signed up for a title during the race, but never got there. whee! Reply #39. Mar 03 12, 12:57 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Author challenges do count (otherwise everyone would simply be playing the next 20 lounge challenges and finish the same day) and if you haven't yet written any questions, you may use it. Reply #40. Mar 03 12, 3:29 PM |
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