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Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker
(last edited Jan 01, 2021 05:15AM)
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Thank you for all of your hard work! <3
You were smart and left mine alone. Bwahahah~ I can't believe it took hours to rearrange stuff on the new one. The fancy sheet. lol
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Time passes quick when sheet fiddling... I was always surprised when 3-6 hours had passed when I was fiddling...
You did tons of editing... and I saw your points drop to 0 shortly after the announcement... the only other person I was pretty sure had been fiddling already was Melissa... and she just added her first real book right after the fake one...
If anyone else was adding books already, they accidentally left the read date as 1/1/2020 instead of 1/1/2021, and I deleted it...
I fiddled with your sheet once, to test copying column merging, to get rid of the publication column, then reverted and told you about it, but didn't actually mess with your sheet... half your color choices hurt my eyes :D
Whatcha got against bright blue?!?! I actually wanted a different one for the boarder for the links section but I'll work that out later. It was either too dark or bright. *shrug*
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I guess I have a bit of a problem with neon glow colors... but in general, I don't have a problem with any single color, it's the font/background combos that hurt my eyes...
most sheets have a faint blue font, or a white/background color blend... light green on dark green, etc...
Yeah, no good color combos. I don't want yellow with black but the other colors combs I tried IN combination with the Totals Chart colors didn't work. More fiddling with it later.
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Hey Bill, welcome back to the challenge! Sign-ups are here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Good timing as well - I'm going to add any new competitors to teams this weekend. :)
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Jenna, I'd be free if not for Temper & Edgewalker
(last edited Jan 16, 2021 05:46AM)
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Since House of Chains has 8 members instead of 9 (**for the Tome Raiders, I counted Soo as two people when making teams so they won't be getting a new member yet), Angela Jr. will be added to the House of Chains.
And, as the Jaghuts are in 4th place, Bill will be added to the Jaghut Guardians.
You can both add points from whatever day you signed up for the challenge.
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Bill, I just gave you a copy of the monthly formula, since you didn't ask for anything special...
Angela, I copied your sheet over from the 2020 sheet, fixed a couple things real quick that we changed this year, and added 2 checkbox columns for Re-(reads) and E-(books)... I haven't done the data collection and graphs yet, but those are the new columns needed to make them happen in the near future, so you can start recording...
Timelord Iain wrote: "I added Bill and Angela Jr to the spreadsheet... AJ signed up January 2nd, and Bill signed up January 15th... plugged those numbers in for your start date for the predicted pages/points per day stu..."Thanks, Iain! Sorry for giving you so much work 😅
I'll have a look at it and enter all my books so far! For start date you can also put Jan 1st, since I didn't read anything that day anyway - had to work all day!
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How do I sign up for this? I'm new to this group.
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It's a bit late to try and signup for this now, but there should be a 2022 competition with signups in November-ish and teams in December...
The competition runs from New Year's to Halloween, so we're about a month away from done for this year, and the holidays are a break period... it's mostly just a helpful spreadsheet and some friendly grouping and competitiveness...
To participate you need to show you're active in the group by meeting the signup requirements listed over in the signup thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Also, since you also just commented in Hailee's challenge thread, you can copy anybody's challenge idea you want to, or create a unique personal one, just create a new topic in the Individual Set Challenges folder... just copy Hailee's first comment, if you want to setup a Buzzwordathon challenge...
Hi Reed!First, check out the Rules page.
You'll notice there is a 100 post minimum to participate, so I would first try joining some Buddy Reads and engage in other threads.
Also, the competition ends at the end of October, so you may want to look forward to participating next year, starting January 1st. :)
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From there, in the upper right corner, near the group name, is a button that says "new topic"... that's where you make new threads... it defaults to making a thread in the current folder, but a dropdown menu lets you put the thread in whichever folder you choose... if you start screwing around, the mods will probably move your thread to the appropriate location or delete it... not sure what powers they have...
I know I'm an early bird, but will there be an 2022 - edition?
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As long as people are still interested :)
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I think I saved alot of the templates...
Jenna wrote: "Saar The Book owl wrote: "I know I'm an early bird, but will there be an 2022 - edition?"As long as people are still interested :)"
Nice :D Count me one of them!
Timelord Iain wrote: "Should be easier to setup the spreadsheet next year... maybe... assuming no more drastic changes :DI think I saved alot of the templates..."
Yeah, but it's a really good spreadsheet. No drastic things needed ;)
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Really appreciate all the work you put in to the spreadsheets to make this happen, Iain. If it gets to be too much or you need to take a break, just let us know how to make it easier for you.I'm in for next year. Especially when the group has been quiet, or I don't have the time to participate in the Buddy Reads, then it's nice to still pop into the Competition threads and see what people are reading.
And of course: delicious delicious data. <3
Thank you Iain for all your hard work!
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Reed wrote: "YOᑌ ᗰIᔕᔕEᗪ ᗰY ᑎᗩᗰE"Sorry, Reed, but this challenge was with sign up's last year to start this year.
As Iain said, sign ups will appear soon. In waiting, maybe you can read the rules before signing up as a bit of information.
Timelord Iain wrote: "Just commemorating the end of the 2021 competition… 2022 signups should appear soon, I expect…"Can't believe it's over already!! What a year!! Can't wait to join you all for the next round :D
It's always crazy how fast the competition comes to an end every year, it always sneaks up on me lol. Excited for next years competition!
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Are you missing the comments responding to all of your inquiries, Reed? We've not started signups for the next year, and the current competition ended 10/31. So sit tight - we'd love you have you join! I'd recommend getting involved in a bunch of challenges and buddy reads between now and Jan 1st because you'll need 100 comments of substance (random comments here and there don't count) to join in this particular challenge. But rest assured you can always join mid-year if it takes a while to hit that level of participation. Please feel free to lmk if you have any questions.
Jessica wrote: "It's always crazy how fast the competition comes to an end every year, it always sneaks up on me lol. Excited for next years competition!"Right though? :D It was a good year~
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I've never been on the winning team either!
Blood Eagles
Captain: Margret
Frank
Lucija
Melissa
Olivia
Paula
Shaitarn
Tammie
Yanique
House of Chains
Captain: Scott
Angela Jr.
Brian
Elizabeth
Hacen
Iain
Iniya
Jessica
Rob
Jaghut Guardians
Captain: Jenna
Anni
Beena
Bill
Choko
Hailee
Katie
Laura
Manju
Sha
Tome Raiders
Captain: Niki
Chris
Elinor
Maria
Narilka
Saar
Solseit
Soo
Please let me know if there are any spelling mistakes or if I missed your name on the sign-up sheet.