Challenge Corner discussion

Thank you!

Thanks! I'm currently drinking some tea and typing up my reviews :)

I will do the scores a little bit later. I will also create the quarterly review later today.

Posted the team scores.

Anyone know what happened to the solo team?

I know I haven't read much this month, but does any team need help to even things out?

How many people were doing solo? Most of those don't usually end up posting.

C.P. wrote: "How many people were doing solo? Most of those don't usually end up posting."

I believe there are 3 people on that team.

Jackie wrote: "I know I haven't read much this month, but does any team need help to even things out?"

Surprisingly the teams are somewhat near each other right now...

___Team______|__Points____|___Buddy___|__Pages___|__Total___
_____________|____________|___Read____|___Read___|__Points__
Battle School____|_____28_____|___________|_11,243___|_129.23_
Camp Half Blood__|_____27_____|_____1_____|_11,768___|_131.85_

Hogwarts_________|_____38_____|_____1_____|_13,880___|_163.41_

St. Vladimir’s___|_____43_____|_____3_____|_17,677___|_216.4__

Especially since not everyone is posting reviews. Team Battle School and Team Hogwarts only have 2 people each not posting. Team Half-Blood and Team St. Vladimir's Academy both have 3 people not posting.

Team St. Vlad has the least amount of people and only 3 people have been posting (it's my team--and I have a lot of the points).

Other than that it's kind of close..

Ok just let me know

Alaina wrote: "

Posted the team scores.

Anyone know what happened to the solo team?"

I forgot to create a solo team thread for October! O.o I always forget that one. :(

Bookbuyer wrote: "Alaina wrote: "

Posted the team scores.

Anyone know what happened to the solo team?"

I forgot to create a solo team thread for October! O.o I always forget that one. :("

Hahaha well I guess you're welcome for the friendly reminder

Alaina wrote: "Bookbuyer wrote: "Alaina wrote: "

Posted the team scores.

Anyone know what happened to the solo team?"

I forgot to create a solo team thread for October! O.o I always forget that one. :("

Hahah..."

:D

Is anyone on right now? Can someone make a buddy thread for the Wonder Woman book for the 26th? I'm on my phone at the moment.

C.P. wrote: "Is anyone on right now? Can someone make a buddy thread for the Wonder Woman book for the 26th? I'm on my phone at the moment."

I can. :)

C.P. wrote: "Is anyone on right now? Can someone make a buddy thread for the Wonder Woman book for the 26th? I'm on my phone at the moment."

I was going to say I could do it.. but Bookbuyer beat me to it haha. Got sucked into my book.

Thanks guys!

The quarterly challenge review thread is up. Please let me know if there is anything wrong with the scoring template as this is the first time I've made one all on my own. I am super tired right now, but I swear that I will make team threads tomorrow! I'm so so sorry!

Hello, guys!

I'm back from my trip now, and ready to do whatever it's needed :)
In which area do you need the most help at the moment?

Right now I think everything is pretty set. Unless you would like to set the team review threads.

C.P. wrote: "Right now I think everything is pretty set. Unless you would like to set the team review threads."

I'll be setting up the teams' review threads :)

Salha wrote: "C.P. wrote: "Right now I think everything is pretty set. Unless you would like to set the team review threads."

I'll be setting up the teams' review threads :)"

TY. :)

One of the members of Team Mermaid asked this and I wasn't sure about the answer.

"and does THE count as a T .. if it's .. using the book I'm currently reading "The Glass Castle" or does it count as a G lol (first challenge)"

They can skip The of they want to.

C.P. wrote: "They can skip The of they want to."

KK. I'll let them know. ^-^

Should I post on the main thread that they can skip The, An, and A?

Shared the review threads for each team in the October Sign Up thread, and in each teams' thread :)

Salha wrote: "Shared the review threads for each team in the October Sign Up thread, and in each teams' thread :)"

TY. I'll add them up top when I have a sec. ^-^

You can add it. :)

C.P. wrote: "You can add it. :)"

KK. I'll do it in a min then. :)

You might want to post that in the main sign up thread as well.

Jackie wrote: "You might want to post that in the main sign up thread as well."

I did? Should I do the individual threads as well?

Never mind.

Jackie wrote: "Never mind."

:)

Could you please explain me how to do the calculations for the scoring templates? I'd like to be able to help with that :)

It's mentioned a few pages back somewhere. I'm on my iPod right now so I can't find it currently. :/

I'll look at the scoring breakdown and post how we to do it for this one.

We have a couple people wanting to be added to teams. Do we have any good places for them?

Ok, here is a kind of "formula" you can use for scores in October.

points + buddy read points + number pages/200 = total

Everyone gets a point for a book that fits and then buddy reads are a certain number of points based on pages. The 5 points for 1000 pages is that last part where the 200 comes in.

Hopefully that helps. :) I can do an example one if you want.

Add them first to the team that doesn't have me or Alaina as we are fast readers. Shapeshifter is also all checked is so that's another thing to consider. :/

Bookbuyer wrote: "Add them first to the team that doesn't have me or Alaina as we are fast readers. Shapeshifter is also all checked is so that's another thing to consider. :/"

:D

C.P. wrote: "Ok, here is a kind of "formula" you can use for scores in October.

points + buddy read points + number pages/200 = total

Everyone gets a point for a book that fits and then buddy reads are a cert..."

Got it! Thank you so much for the explanation :)

On the buddy read part, it's 1 point per book between 100 and 499 pages; and 2 points per book with over 500 pages?

Yes, I believe so. Whatever it says in the point breakdown section.

I'm so excited for October :)

Salha wrote: "C.P. wrote: "Ok, here is a kind of "formula" you can use for scores in October.

points + buddy read points + number pages/200 = total

Everyone gets a point for a book that fits and then buddy rea..."

Correction: one point per book that's between 100 and 399 pages; and two points per book that has over 400 pages.

I'm updating the scoring templates with the two new members :)

Thanks!

If someone is on tonight and gets a chance, there are some buddy read threads to do. :) I was thinking about doing them, but I can't function well right now. I hate being sick. :(

C.P. wrote: "If someone is on tonight and gets a chance, there are some buddy read threads to do. :) I was thinking about doing them, but I can't function well right now. I hate being sick. :("

I can do it.

This is the updated breakdown of the teams so that we can add people to the right teams. Ghost and Mermaid are currently only missing one member so far.. Vampire and Shapeshifter are all checked in.

Team Ghost
✓ 1. Bookbuyer
✓ 2. RainySun
✓ 3. Maya
4. Ashley (ashleypaigepowers)
✓ 5. Felicia
6. Amanda

Team Vampire
✓ 1. Alaina
✓ 2. Jamie (The Kansan Reader)
✓ 3. Laura
✓ 4. Susan
✓ 5. Sierra


Team Mermaid
✓ 1. Trisha
2. Bunnita
✓ 3. Hanna
✓ 4. Ashley Olynyk
✓ 5. Eline
6. Lais
✓ 7. Rae


Team Shapeshifter
✓ 1. Jamie
✓ 2. Salha
✓ 3. Kelli
✓ 4. Charley Girl
✓ 5. Lexi
✓ 6. Maddison

Looks good!

C.P. wrote: "Looks good!"

I'v been very impressed with the participation and quick check in this month! ^-^

It's been really good! Hopefully that keeps up.