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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salami_swami 
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Sports and Sci/Tech are my enemies. Oh, and world. Religion and video games, nemeses? Nonsense. I am a video game lover who is also quite into the Bible. :) I will definitely be taking on this challenge, Wes. I will get started right away, as well. :) My goal is to finish this in 2012. ;) I, too, having sunnies in all categories (I think, save one, perhaps, but I'm too lazy to go check). But I am definitely willing to do it again. Reply #41. Mar 05 12, 11:03 AM |
| salami_swami
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Dang Sci/Tech, my highest rated quiz in there is 33,393. In the words of FRed (I hate him, yet he is addictingly funny...) "Oh my gammit!" Reply #42. Mar 05 12, 11:18 AM |
WesleyCrusher
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Welcome to the race - I hope to see the first quizzes reported on the 26th (today plus three weeks), so we should see it getting frantic from that date. Unless of course, someone nabs an EC and gets a head start! Reply #43. Mar 05 12, 11:42 AM |
kyleisalive
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Would you believe I'm starting with sports? Reply #44. Mar 05 12, 12:40 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Yes - the smart racers start with their weakest ones :) Reply #45. Mar 05 12, 1:21 PM |
| salami_swami
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Then I am not a smart racer. ;) I plan on knocking out the easier ones... Get them written and submitted, then work on the more difficult ones. The ones I find easier should not be too difficult if I need to write a second; so I'm starting with them. Haha. Writing music and general first. Reply #46. Mar 05 12, 1:32 PM |
EmmaF2008
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I'll sign up for this. I probably won't get a good run at it until college finishes but this should keep me ticking over in the meantime. An interesting idea! Reply #47. Mar 05 12, 3:28 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Signup summary update (17 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 zorba_scank - March 3, 2012 mlcmlc - March 3, 2012 shuehorn - March 3, 2012 salami_swami - March 5, 2012 EmmaF2008 - March 5, 2012 Reply #48. Mar 06 12, 1:57 AM |
| salami_swami
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Music is submitted. I'll let you know when it's online, but, as asked of me, I will not post the link to it for several weeks, when it gets sunnies. ;) Reply #49. Mar 06 12, 4:06 PM |
tazman6619
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Would a Bus Ride renewal quiz work for here and if so would it need to be a Challenge title? Reply #50. Mar 07 12, 9:11 AM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Bus renewal is a lounge activity and will be eligible regardless of challenge titles. Reply #51. Mar 07 12, 1:00 PM |
looney_tunes
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Everyone take note! And remember that you can write great Bus Ride quizzes in World, not just Geography. Even Hobbies could be used to explore the food in some countries (not most of the African ones where they seem to eat mostly fufu), and History is also an option. People can also work, if the country has enough well-known people. Remember that a successful Bus Ride quiz needs to be relatively easy to get at least half right, or the tourists will trash your quiz in frustration. They do have access to Wikipedia, and are encouraged to undertake research, but not many actually do so. I look forward to seeing Pangalactic Bus Ride quizzes. :D Reply #52. Mar 07 12, 6:27 PM |
| salami_swami
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I'll submit a few bus ride quizzes for this. Don't worry Music online. Now to wait. Also, doing general still as well as starting a people quiz. But I need help with it from someone who knows famous people through history very well. :) Reply #53. Mar 07 12, 6:32 PM |
guitargoddess
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Oh heck, I've changed my mind, sign me up! (But I don't want to hear any mocking from you speedy gonzalezes if it takes me six years to complete :P Or so help me god none of you will ever have a TV quiz go online again, lol) To clarify, if I've written one question already for my quiz for the 'Mr. Quiz' challenge (is that what it's called?) is that eligible to be counted for this challenge? Reply #54. Mar 07 12, 8:14 PM |
jmorrow
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I wasn't going to sign up for this either, as there are some categories I never thought I would ever write a quiz in, but if taking part in these Lounge activities has taught me anything, it's that you never know where the next commission or challenge will take you. So sign me up as well! Besides, someone has to keep GG company for the next 6 years. :-) Reply #55. Mar 08 12, 5:28 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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GG, with just one question, I think we can accept it. If in doubt, just backdate your start date to the day you wrote that one. Reply #56. Mar 08 12, 7:04 PM |
| guitargoddess
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Well according to the quiz history, I wrote that one question on Jan 29. I didn't think it'd been that long! There really just one question (plus the quiz intro) filled out though, your call, I don't mind if it counts or not. The category is General, so it will be easy enough for to get another quiz in there if this one isn't counted. Reply #57. Mar 09 12, 12:29 PM |
Aussiedrongo
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Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Might as well sign up for this considering a commission title on its way plus an Author Challenge title claimed and a couple more I fancy. Thanks Wes. Reply #58. Mar 09 12, 2:52 PM |
dcpddc478
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I have submitted in celebrities, not one of my favorite categories...working on television and movies, right now...trying to get my least favorite categories out of the way. Reply #59. Mar 09 12, 2:54 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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GG, I'll not be picky and allow it. You were rather honest, you could easily have swept the one question under the rug. Reply #60. Mar 09 12, 4:19 PM |
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