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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kyleisalive
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Hopefully my new Sports quiz gets some sunnies so I can be on the board in three weeks. ;) Next couple of stops are Religion and Entertainment. Reply #61. Mar 09 12, 10:08 PM |
looney_tunes
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I have been too busy to do anything about this until today - my Commission quiz has been submitted, hope it makes the grade. Now to tend to some of the others I have been lining up. Reply #62. Mar 09 12, 10:44 PM |
leith90 
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Sign me up Wes. I'll see GG's 6 years and raise her 4. Reply #63. Mar 09 12, 11:15 PM |
rossian
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I've been persuaded to add my name to the list, but can you backdate my sign-up to Friday 9th please, Wes, to include the Scattergories quiz I started on that date. I may regret this and fear I may never finish. Reply #64. Mar 11 12, 1:20 AM |
Creedy
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Do you mean the major categories only - or the sub-categories as well? Reply #65. Mar 14 12, 2:23 AM |
| Creedy
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Can you sign me up from 1st March please, Wesley? I think that allows me to include the Scattergories and the Stepping Up XXII and Commission XXI challenges. Reply #66. Mar 14 12, 2:50 AM |
| Creedy
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I'll have to create a spreadsheet to keep track Reply #67. Mar 14 12, 2:52 AM |
| looney_tunes
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"Do you mean the major categories only - or the sub-categories as well?" The challenge is to write a quiz for each of the 20 major categories that ranks with sunnies. Of course, there is no problem with achieving this multiple times in a particular category, but only one will count. I absolutely set up a spreadsheet for myself, listing all 20 categories and entering each quiz that I hope will qualify as I submit it. I also have a column to record the challenge for which it was written, in order to qualify. If one of them does not get sunnies when it gets ranked, I will remove it and know I need to write another quiz for that category. Of course, no quizzes have been ranked since this challenge started, but at this stage I have submitted to four categories, and am working on a fifth. Reply #68. Mar 14 12, 3:52 AM |
| leith90
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Just to clarify, do player author challenges count? Or do they have to be challenges/commissions listed on this board? Reply #69. Mar 14 12, 4:07 AM |
| Creedy
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Thank you, Looney :) Reply #70. Mar 14 12, 4:25 AM |
| Creedy
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I scrolled back, Leith, and it said they do (thank goodness) in reply 40. Reply #71. Mar 14 12, 4:28 AM |
| Creedy
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And erk - video games. I haven't got a clue. Reply #72. Mar 14 12, 4:29 AM |
| looney_tunes
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Leith90, according to WesleyCrusher's post at the top of the page, "Each of these must be for an author challenge or for an author lounge activity (lounge challenge, commission)." So an author challenge title would qualify. Reply #73. Mar 14 12, 4:29 AM |
eburge
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Don't be afraid of the video game, Creedy. Embrace them. ;) Kyle and I can help you along the way should you want it. Reply #74. Mar 14 12, 5:00 AM |
| leith90
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Phew! That's a relief. Thanks people. Reply #75. Mar 14 12, 5:12 AM |
| Creedy
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LOL at the "embrace them" comment - but thank you. I appreciate your kind thought. :) Reply #76. Mar 14 12, 7:50 AM |
| Creedy
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Did you ever see that hilarious movie "Galaxy Quest"? The spoof on all the Star Trek films etc? In one of the deleted scenes - which they REALLY should have left in - Alan Rickman, who believes in method acting, is shouting directions to Tim Allen, when Allen is being chased by the rock monster. "Become the rock! Be as one with the rock!" etc It was very funny. Therefore I shall embrace the video category, and become as one with the video category Reply #77. Mar 14 12, 7:55 AM |
tazman6619
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I would like to note for the record that I attempted my first VG quiz because of this challenge and it is doing quite well in the ratings department, my best one out of my last 4 quizzes. Do not be afraid to try what is uncomfortable, you may surprise yourself with the results. Reply #78. Mar 14 12, 10:19 AM |
guitargoddess
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I know next to nothing about Video Games and once I complete this challenge I'll have THREE VG quizzes online! Reply #79. Mar 14 12, 3:17 PM |
| leith90
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Ihave only ever played one video game, and that was years ago when my children were younger. I've written 2 quizzes on it, now have to do a third? Unless I watch when my husband next plays one of his car chase games. Reply #80. Mar 14 12, 3:25 PM |
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