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Can you beat the Chaser?

This is a team challenge, which will take place from March 1st to March 31st 2015. Winners will be announced on April 1st 2015 (no jokes!).

Participants are split into teams of 4 or 5. Please note, in this challenge you will rely on your team-mates; if you do not participate when you have said you will, you will let your team mates down! (You can also choose to play 'just for fun' ☺

The first part of the challenge is to read as many books as you can.

The second part of the challenge is to beat the chaser!



In this challenge, the part of the chaser will be played by myself and Abbie. **Evil laugh**

If as a team, you can read as many, or more books than Abbie and I, you will win!





This means that there is no limit to how many people win, as if your team reads more than we do - you win!
(In the event that nobody beats us, we will award random winners based on participation.) There will also be a prize for the person who reads the most.







When signing up for this challenge, you will need to tell us how seriously you are taking this challenge. If you are Serious about joining in and trying to beat Abbie and I, please say 'Serious'.
If you want to join in, but are limited in some way, or don't feel like you would keep up with your team, say 'Just for fun', and teams will be decided accordingly. (Serious players should be aiming to read 10 books or more during the challenge)

Teams will be picked on February 26th, and team threads opened. Each participant will need to comment on the team thread, confirming that they are 'ready' for the challenge to start, by 0:00 March 1st (Goodreads time). If you do not confirm that you are playing, you will be removed from the team.

Please note: We will not tolerate non-participation during this challenge. We have had problems with team challenges in the past, and it is your team-mates that suffer! If you are playing but will only be online at weekends, please let us know, if for any reason you have to pull out, please let us know.

We will try our best to make this a fair challenge for people who are serious about taking part. Please keep that in mind.

Points:
• 1 point for every book read and reviewed.
• 1 point for every buddy read (Bonus points for buddy reads will only be given if the buddy read has taken place in our group.)

Rules:
• Books must be read between the 1st of March to the 31st of March inclusive.
• Books must be over 100 pages to count.
• 1 re-read is allowed.
• Our regular challenge rules can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

**Goodreads runs on 'Pacific Standard Time' - you can check what time that is here - http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time...
Results will be posted shortly after 0:00 on April 1st Goodreads time ☺

Participants:

Serious:
Tatiana
Margarita
Berit
Mona
Once Upon a Time
Irene
Brooke
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Brittani
Markus
Elizabeth
Abigail
Amy
Eve
Victoria
Brooke
Christina
Noella
Alumina
Rachael
Max
Tana
Brittany
Ashley
Jamie
Heather
Arys
Megan
María
Melanie
Erin
Courtney
Jessica


Just for Fun:
Nikki
Siobhan
Kaelyn
Charliy
Brit
Rachel
Leigh
Silje
Marla Mei
Rachelle
Jackie
Kate
Presiana
Kathryn
Ri
Maya
Marta
Connie
Jess
Jenni

Teams:

Just for fun :)

Sarah wrote: "In this challenge, the part of the chaser will be played by myself and Abbie. **Evil laugh**..."

How cruel!!! Haha. But I have to hand it to you guys! This challenge sounds intense yet fun!

I'm "SERIOUSLY" in. :)

So just to clarify, we are using Goodreads time during this challenge?

I'm in! Serious!

I do have to warn you that I can only post reviews on weekends.

I'm in! "serious" :)

I will be VERY busy on the first week of March though (bc finals) so that will mean no reading. But I can read a lot after that.

I am new to this group, I just participated in a week long team challenge. Most of the books I read for that challenge were young adults, I would like to give this challenge ago, seriously :-) I have a question do all the books need to be young adults? Also i'm not quite sure what Good Reads time is. Another question is am I right in understanding you get more points if you read a book and a buddy read? Looking forward to this ;-)

Thanks guys ☺ You're all added ☺

Kate - Yes, Goodreads time, although if anyone is massively ahead time-wise, it's okay to start early and finish early if you get what I mean ☺

Tatiana - that's fine ☺ As long as we know ☺

Margarita - Thank you for letting us know! That's great ☺

Kate wrote: "Sarah wrote: "In this challenge, the part of the chaser will be played by myself and Abbie. **Evil laugh**..."

How cruel!!! Haha. But I have to hand it to you guys! This challenge sounds intense y..."

This challenge is kind-of my mum's fault because she really likes this TV show! It just looked like too much fun to not do our own version ☺

I'm in serious
I have a question should all the books be YA ??
and what is the Goodreads time ?

I will be serious even though I haven't had time to read lately but I plan to change that in March

Berit wrote: "I am new to this group, I just participated in a week long team challenge. Most of the books I read for that challenge were young adults, I would like to give this challenge ago, seriously :-) I ha..."


Welcome to the group Berit ☺

1 - you can read any genre of books for the challenge, they can be young adult or adult. The only exception is books which have more pictures than words - so childrens books, cookery books, graphic novels etc.
2. Goodreads runs on 'Pacific Standard Time' - you can check what time that is here - http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time...
3. Yes, you get double points if you read your book with a buddy ☺ Buddy reads have to take place in this group, and you have to make at least 4 comments about the book on the buddy read thread ☺

Does that help?

Mona wrote: "I'm in serious
I have a question should all the books be YA ??
and what is the Goodreads time ?"

1 - you can read any genre of books for the challenge, they can be young adult or adult. The only exception is books which have more pictures than words - so childrens books, cookery books, graphic novels etc.
2. Goodreads runs on 'Pacific Standard Time' - you can check what time that is here - http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time...

Everybody added ☺

I'm in. And I'm serious. :)

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ill be seriously in (:

Just for fun

Just for fun but I'll only be able to go on on the weekends.

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I'm in serious, but I have a few questions:

1) How will the teams be made?Will the groups be made by you or in some other way?

2) Are we going to have to comment the books we have read on a thread? Also, what do you mean when you say review? Does it mean a long overall discussion of the book or just some points you liked/disliked about the book?

Abbie and I will split people into teams depending on whether they're 'serious' or 'just for fun'. We will probably have 1 or 2 teams of each.

A review just needs to have a couple of points saying what you liked or disliked about the book, or alternatively - 4 detailed status updates whilst you're reading the book ☺

I'm seriously in .. can't wait :D

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I am in! just for fun though as I have two under 4's lol :) do I have to comment says I am participating the last day of this month and where will the groups be? will it be another tread (I haven't done this sort of thing before!)

Abbie and I will pick the teams on or before the 26th, and each team will have it's own threads where you'll be able to chat with your team mates, and post the links to your reviews. We'll probably keep the team threads in a seperate folder, but we will send out a group message when threads are up and running so that you don't miss them ☺

serious :) this sounds fun. but what constitutes as a review? sometimes I just give a star rating and sometimes I just say I loved this book! or something like that. does that count?

We just need a couple of lines saying what you liked and didn't like, so maybe - I really liked that this book was set in london, and I liked the main characters relationship with her brother. I didn't like the love triangle, and what happened to the neighbours dog.
Alternatively, you can do 4 detailed status updates as you're reading, and then just a star rating is fine ☺

I'm in - serious!

I'm in, and definitely serious!

Haha, I watch this show all the time! I like what you've done with March's challenge girls. I'll play serious, about time I get some motivation! :)

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Amy wrote: "Haha, I watch this show all the time! I like what you've done with March's challenge girls. I'll play serious, about time I get some motivation! :)"

It's an addictive show! I have the kindle app but I can never beat the chaser! Maybe if they did book-related questions I'd be alright, but my general knowledge is not very good.

Ooh, this sounds fun! I'll play serious.

I'm so addicted to this show, I have to play!! I'll be serious, but I won't be able to post reviews until the weekend most of the time

I'm in! Just for fun, though :)

Unfortunately school will interfere so I am just in for fun this time. I wouldn't want to let any one down.

I have a couple of assignments in March, but I'd like to join in for fun :)

Added:

Serious - Eve, Victoria

Fun - Brit, Rachel, Silje

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serious

I have a question do poetry books count

Just for fun because I have my midterms during March ugh :( I'll try to read as many as I can though!

I'm serious!

I'm seriously in :)

Kaelyn wrote: "I have a question do poetry books count"

Which poetry books are you talking about? As long as they're not 4 words to a page sort-of-thing they're fine ☺

Added:

Serious:
Brooke
Christina
Noella

Fun:
Leigh

I'm *seriously in !!!!

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Just for fun only :)