Subject: Bus Ride Renewal Challenge
Posted by: Terry
Date: Mar 16 10
While the replacement of low-ranked quizzes is a continuing goal, preparation of extra quizzes to introduce variety for the tourists is also important now that the Bus Ride is well-established. Some tourists have been around the world over ten times, and even nice quizzes get repetitive. The lowest-ranked quiz currently used for the tour has a ranking that is roughly in the top third of all quizzes, so replacement is not an urgent matter, but we would still like to have new quizzes of a suitable quality to use as replacements, to provide a bit of diversity for those players who have played every day since the beginning, and who have probably memorised the answers to the current quizzes.
If you create a new quiz on a Bus Ride country, get it placed online, and have it place within a reasonable ranking, it may be rotated in to provide a more diverse program. Should your quiz manage a higher ranking than the current entry, it could become the permanent fixture, waiting for a future challenger. As an added bonus, we have modified the ratings system to give all quizzes in our rotation a ratings bump.
Feel free to use this thread to also "claim" a country so that you don't duplicate someone else's effort, and make sure to follow along with our later posts and updates to make sure that everything is in order. We look forward to seeing what you can come up with!
This link will show you what the ranking is for each of our current country quizzes.
LINK TO CURRENT BUS QUIZ STATUS:
http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm
Posted by: Terry
Date: Mar 16 10
While the replacement of low-ranked quizzes is a continuing goal, preparation of extra quizzes to introduce variety for the tourists is also important now that the Bus Ride is well-established. Some tourists have been around the world over ten times, and even nice quizzes get repetitive. The lowest-ranked quiz currently used for the tour has a ranking that is roughly in the top third of all quizzes, so replacement is not an urgent matter, but we would still like to have new quizzes of a suitable quality to use as replacements, to provide a bit of diversity for those players who have played every day since the beginning, and who have probably memorised the answers to the current quizzes.
If you create a new quiz on a Bus Ride country, get it placed online, and have it place within a reasonable ranking, it may be rotated in to provide a more diverse program. Should your quiz manage a higher ranking than the current entry, it could become the permanent fixture, waiting for a future challenger. As an added bonus, we have modified the ratings system to give all quizzes in our rotation a ratings bump.
Feel free to use this thread to also "claim" a country so that you don't duplicate someone else's effort, and make sure to follow along with our later posts and updates to make sure that everything is in order. We look forward to seeing what you can come up with!
This link will show you what the ranking is for each of our current country quizzes.
LINK TO CURRENT BUS QUIZ STATUS:
http://www.funtrivia.com/buslist.cfm
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looney_tunes
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After this week's rankings, I have added a number of quizzes to the list to be rotated onto the tour: Burkina Faso (Tizzabelle), Egypt (Ponycargirl), Kenya (Kyleisalive), Mauritania (SisterSeagull), Romania (Reeshy), Russia (Reedy, Rwanda (Rossian), Senegal (Tizzabelle). There are still a lot of countries with quizzes yet to be ranked - it's been great to see so many of them recently. Kyle, Senegal can now be removed from the list of countries lacking a second quiz, which is getting shorter all the tie. :) Reply #1141. Sep 30 13, 1:10 PM |
Tizzabelle
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Congrats to everyone who now has their Bus Ride Driver's Licence. :-) I'll take Kazakhstan next, please, if no one else has claimed it. I promise to not mention Borat. ;-) Reply #1142. Sep 30 13, 8:45 PM |
| Tizzabelle
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Kazakhstan is now online for scrutiny. :-) http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Kazakhstan---Home-of-the-Free-Spirited-363389.html Reply #1143. Oct 09 13, 2:04 PM |
malik24 
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Possible Mali replacement quiz: http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Malik-in-Mali-362788.html Ranked a little below the current one, but not by much. Reply #1144. Oct 14 13, 8:07 AM |
| looney_tunes
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The Mali quiz is bit below the current one, but ranked well ahead of any alternatives, so it is now listed for a rotation quiz. I haven't got time before work to check all the other candidates that may have been ranked this week, but will check them this evening. Reply #1145. Oct 14 13, 12:46 PM |
| looney_tunes
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When you have a moment, Kyle, Estonia and Vanuatu can come off the list of countries with only one useful quiz. EnglishJedi's Estonia quiz and Tizzabelle's Vanuatu quiz will be in the next rotation. Reply #1146. Oct 15 13, 1:11 AM |
KatieK54
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After nearly a year, the Senegal quiz has been completed and submitted for editor approval. Reply #1147. Oct 20 13, 8:37 AM |
kyleisalive
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What a coincidence! http://www.funtrivia.com/bb.cfm?action=details&qnid=27970&boardid=2222222 Reply #1148. Oct 20 13, 2:13 PM |
| KatieK54
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And i believe my title matches a current quiz title for Senegal exactly... Reply #1149. Oct 22 13, 8:56 PM |
| KatieK54
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http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Senegal-One-People-One-Goal-One-Faith-354912.html Reply #1150. Oct 23 13, 6:52 PM |
EnglishJedi
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Now that the quiz race and Adventures in Authoring are over, I can get back to helping fill in some of the blanks here. I didn't see if my Marshall Islands and Czech Republic quizzes made it into the rotation... Marc Reply #1151. Oct 25 13, 11:13 PM |
| looney_tunes
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They are both on the tour right now. You can see the current quizzes with the link in the header to this thread. Reply #1152. Oct 25 13, 11:25 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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In general, what is the priority -- the ones at the top of the post with no secondary quiz even though some of them such as St Vincent Grenadines are ranked really high, or those in red on the country list that are either lowly ranked or really old? Reply #1153. Oct 29 13, 11:47 PM |
| EnglishJedi
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I'm going to go a Turkey quiz, since the one on the tour at the moment is both lowly ranked and old. M Reply #1154. Oct 29 13, 11:48 PM |
| looney_tunes
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Even the countries whose single quiz is very highly ranked would ideally have another that could be rotated in for a tour, just to add some variety for the players who haven't yet missed a day. Terry set up the red coding, and clearly it is set to show rankings under 25,000 as being desirable to replace. I would love to see everything have two quizzes with sunglasses available, but that's a very high target. None of the current quizzes is anything like the dreadfully minimal ones with which many countries started, and which led to the establishment of this thread. Any with rankings outside the top half of the site have been checked by me, and seem like decent quizzes even if, for some reason, players haven't responded all that well. If you write a quiz on a country that is listed as having no replacement, and it gets a satisfactory ranking, it will be rotated onto the tour, even if only for one cycle before becoming a reserve. If you write a quiz for another country (and please do if you get the impulse), it will need to be ranked higher than one of the two already there. You can only see the current one, but I have a spreadsheet listing all the reserves, so make comparisons each week to see how any new quizzes compare. Which I am about to do for this week, and will return in a while to post any new additions to the tour. Reply #1155. Oct 30 13, 12:49 AM |
| looney_tunes
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One new addition this week - Honduras now has a replacement (from habitsowner). Kyle, Honduras, Estonia and Vanuatu need to be removed from the list in the header, please. Reply #1156. Oct 30 13, 1:12 AM |
| EnglishJedi
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Here is the link to my Turkey quiz. http://www.funtrivia.com/trivia-quiz/Geography/Turkey-Is-Not-Just-for-Christmas-363879.html Please rate it appropriately if you enjoy it. Thanks Marc Reply #1157. Nov 07 13, 11:00 AM |
Lpez
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My Angola quiz is now ranked at #13602! Will it work here? http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=363144 Reply #1158. Nov 07 13, 12:36 PM |
| looney_tunes
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It certainly will - you can expect to see it on the next rotation. Kyle, Angola can also be removed from the header, please. Reply #1159. Nov 08 13, 2:19 AM |
gracious1
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Wow. The Bus Ride curse is for real. My Ghanaian music quiz went from a Sunny to the 44s in a day. :-/ Reply #1160. Dec 24 13, 2:47 AM |
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