Challenge Corner discussion

Alaina wrote: "yeah, this is the last challenge I'm going to participate in team-wise or at all."

:(

I hope you'll decide to come back later!

why? what's the point? Plus this goes for YA too. I'm just not going to do anything team related anymore.

Alaina wrote: "why? what's the point? Plus this goes for YA too. I'm just not going to do anything team related anymore."

Sorry to hear that. That's one of the reasons I though the other team this month should be so large so you and Wolf have some real competition. :)

That doesn’t bother me.

Aww. Sorry that you aren't enjoying participating on teams, Alaina. :(

And I think Alaina and Wolf on one team by themselves and then two additional teams would be good.

C.P. wrote: "Aww. Sorry that you aren't enjoying participating on teams, Alaina. :(

And I think Alaina and Wolf on one team by themselves and then two additional teams would be good."

KK. I'll change them now. Thankfully no one has checked in yet. :)

Oh wait. We want all participants vs Wolf and Alaina? I think that'd be okay.

I enjoy them on this group but if I’m not going to be on a team in the other group I might as well commit to this group too. I think I just need a break from all of that. I’ll just sit back and update scores and if I want to join I’ll just do solo.

Oh, I checked in. But feel free to switch me up. :D

You can leave it one team. If you haven't changed it yet.

Lol you can leave it as two teams. Since you already have the threads

C.P. wrote: "You can leave it one team. If you haven't changed it yet."

Already changed them. :)

Alaina wrote: "Lol you can leave it as two teams. Since you already have the threads"

So two teams or three? I can do either. ^-^

Let's do a vote.

Lots of circular conversation today, haha. And maybe we will have other people to add later.

If you think it will be a good competition then leave it has one giant team. I mean it’s all about people thinking it’s a competition right?

Alaina wrote: "If you think it will be a good competition then leave it has one giant team. I mean it’s all about people thinking it’s a competition right?"

So one vote for big team. :)

Either way is fine by me. :)

One team is good with me.

Sounds like it's one big team then. Will go fix it now. ^-^

Teams are posted. ^-^

Hi ladies! :D The top three winners get to choose prizes from the list right? Does the winning team get to as well or just the top 3?

Yes, the top 3. Not sure if we want to do the whole team. That could be a lot of books to send out. What do you think?

It would be about 9 books right??

I wasn't sure how many people were on the team.

C.P. wrote: "I wasn't sure how many people were on the team."

7 people actually participated.. and I'm one of them. so I was just going off of that

I mean there was 10 people on the team. Out of that 7 people participated: myself, Lane, Jenn, Charleygirl, Hanna, Rainysun, and Maya. I feel like if a team wins first place.. then maybe the books should go to people who actually participated? I feel like that is fair.. but it's what you guys think.

Yes, I think if we are going to do the team thing then only those who submitted a review will get a prize. That seems fair to me. So we can do the top three and the team if you like, Felicia.

Okay, sounds good. I'll comment on the February thread to mention to them all they can pick a prize. And I'll message them as well. :D

Sweet, thanks! I created a Prizes folder that is near the top of the group. I am going to put a thread in there about prizes with general info about it.

Woohoo! I think we should mention that if a team wins and not everyone participated as planned (on that team) then those who participated will get a prize.

Maybe then everyone who signs up will participate for that said challenge

I will edit my post in the info thread to include that.

I always wondered if that's what they did in YA too.. like if a team won.. did they only offer prizes to people that participated.. or to everyone on that team..

I think they do it for everyone...but I'm not sure. The only time I've been on winning teams I have participated.

CP, do you think you can edit the prize information to say first come first serve? Because if two people choose the same book, by chance, the first person to ask will receive it.

And how long of a deadline do we want to give winner to choose their prize? The 5th of the following month? Or the 7th?

Yes, I will edit that.

I would say the 5th.

Perfect. I messaged all the winners. :D

Hey guys. So Lindsey just posted three books on the solo thread for February's challenge. I told her since it's March that the threads are closed because of the new challenge and asked her to post them in the March thread (if she signed up). However, she read those three books in February.. what should I do? Should I tell her that it's okay to post them in the March thread?

here's the feb solo thread:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Alaina wrote: "Hey guys. So Lindsey just posted three books on the solo thread for February's challenge. I told her since it's March that the threads are closed because of the new challenge and asked her to post ..."

I would say no the the Feb. But you could ask her if she has any pages she can count towards the March challenge?

Just asked! I have to step out of my house to go pick up wine so if anyone see's her respond on the thread could you answer her if I'm not back?

Alaina wrote: "Just asked! I have to step out of my house to go pick up wine so if anyone see's her respond on the thread could you answer her if I'm not back?"

Sure. :)

She said they were all read in February. :)

Ouch. Maybe going forward we need to put a time limit on the posting of reviews? Like say books must be read and reviewed by midnight on the first of the next month?

I think the challenge rules usually say something like "books must be read and reviewed from *first day of month* to *last day of month*"

Yeah I feel like with the challenge rules we always say what days the books will count. I didn’t think we would need to say what days they wouldn’t count?

Yeah, I don't think so.

Also thank you to all the moderators of the group. This is like my favorite group that I’m a part of and I just appreciate all the work y’all put into it.

~Maya

This is from one of our winners! Thought I'd share her kind words. :D

Aww. She's sweet. It's nice to know that people like it. :)

Oh, and Felicia, I don't know if you saw my comment about Opal earlier but you should check your softcover of The Raven King and see if it's in there. Thrn you could return the kindle version and save a buck.