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CHALLENGE CORNER
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2025 House Cup Challenge!
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OCTOBER
Scarecrow vs. Dorothy
Tin Man vs. Lion
NOVEMBER
Dorothy vs. Lion
Tin man vs. Scarecrow
DECEMBER
Tin Man vs. Dorothy
Scarecrow vs. Lion
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Total Average Points:
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4
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Short Stories Under 50 Pages List
Please feel free to add your own recommendations!
- Keep in mind that this list is public to everyone on Goodreads. please make sure to check that these books are actually under 50 pages.
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Please use this thread to talk about the challenge and ask any questions!
You Can sign up in your house thread starting the last week of September, feel free to join in anytime!
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Wow! This came around fast! I haven't been making reading as high of a priority this year, so I think I'll bow out this time, but I'm looking forward to watching the challenge progress! It's like a favorite sport 😆
I love making lists though, so if no one minds, I think I'll reserve this spot for keeping track of the members for each team as they join. I always think that's helpful when deciding which team to join.Quiz link, if you still can't choose a team:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kat202717/wh...
👧 Dorothy House 👠 - (9)
Prefect: Laura
Members:
Fannie
Elle
Ruth-Maria
Jasmin
Tiffany
Lina
Julia
Tr1sha
🧑🌾 Scarecrow House 🧠 - (10)
Prefect: Cynthia
Members:
Colette
Alex
Rowiey
Kathy
Haley
Jan
Hali
Gemma
Megan
🤖 Tin Man House ❤️ - (7)
Prefect: Chaela (pending, see Message 50)
Members:
Lauren
Vindhya
Rora
Saar The Book owl
Liander (The Towering Pile)
Estefania
🦁 Lion House 👑 - (6)
Prefect: Jessica P
Members:
Lindsay
Miriam
Sandra
eruditehrlot
Jennifer
Unassigned:
christene_littlelibrary
Kelly
Total Challenge Participants: 34
I had fun doing this! I would like to be perfect for Lion
I enjoyed this one last year! Sign me up any house will do
I’d like to sign up for team Lion please
I'll be Prefect for the Dorothy House :)
Pony wrote: "Wow! This came around fast! I haven't been making reading as high of a priority this year, so I think I'll bow out this time, but I'm looking forward to watching the challenge progress! It's like a..."I am in the same boat as you in terms of not prioritising my reading. I am using this as a way to beat that for the last quarter of the year lol!!
Thank you for doing the participants list - that will really help see the team splits!
Laura wrote: "I am in the same boat as you in terms of not prioritising my reading. I am using this as a way to beat that for the last quarter of the year lol!!Thank you for doing the participants list - that will really help see the team splits!"
That's a good way to go about it! 😄
You're welcome 😊 For some reason I really enjoy doing stuff like that, haha.
Even though I'm not participating this year, I really enjoy keeping up with this challenge. So, if anyone needs any help with anything (like the participant list I'm doing, or anything like the short stories list Tori posted), it would make me really happy to help out the challenge and the teams.
I was waiting for that and what a nice choice for the theme. It was one of my favorite movie growing up.I'd like to join team Dorothy please.
Yes!! The post I’ve been waiting for!! Please could I join Scarecrow?
buzzfeed quiz says im scarecrow so i guess i pick that team XD
How exciting! I have been looking forward to this challenge!! Hopefully it'll help me get back on track with my reading goal for the year :)I want to be on Team Tin Man! ❤️
If no one else wants to be prefect I would be willing to give it a shot, but I have not done it before so if someone who has prefect experience would rather do so please feel free :)
So excited for this! Sign me up for Team Tin Man please! <3
Rowiey wrote: "buzzfeed quiz says im scarecrow so i guess i pick that team XD"Oh yeah! Speaking of Buzzfeed!
Here's a quiz for anyone who can't pick a team:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kat202717/wh...
Wow, can't believe it is almost time for this. I'd like to join the Scarecrow team
It's so exciting to see everyone. I'm super grateful to have 4 familiar faces on my team again :) I can't believe how fast this past year flew by!Unfortunately, I can also relate to being waaay behind on my reading goal 😅. I've been struggling through the worst reading slump I've had in years. I know I usually read a crazy amount of books during this challenge though, so I think this is just the thing I need right now haha. Hope everyone is able to accomplish theirs by the end of the challenge too ❤️
i look forward to teaming with you again Cynthia!
Hello! Excited to take part in this for third year in a row :))I would like to be in Dorothy House.
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I'm excited to do this for the first time! I'd like to be on the Scarecrow team.
Wow! It's that time of the year already! I've never read The Wizard of Oz, but Buzzfeed says I'm the Lion, so I'd love to join that team!
I was just thinking about the House Cup yesterday! I would like to join again. You can put me in any team. I've been a prefect once or twice. So, it's all the same for me.
Looking forward again to this!
I’d like to sign up for team LionI really enjoyed doing this last year and I am looking forward to this year's competition
Hey!! It’s my first time participating in this challenge 🎉 can I be part of the Dorothy team?
Of course you can! Welcome! And welcome to all who have joined so far!
Hi! It's my first time doing a challenge.I'd love to be part of Team Lion, if that's possible?
Hii I’d like to join team tin man please! And be a prefect if we don’t already have one , and if we have one I’m happy being a supporting member!
Hi, it's also my first time joining! Could I be lion, please?
Hi. I'd like to join the Scarecrow team.
hello, so glad this tournament is back! highlight of the reading year!please can I join team scarecrow?
I love the house cup. I am happy to be in whichever house. This was a lot easier when I could just choose Gryffindor.
Since I was in Laura's team last year too, I'd like to go in Dorothy House 💃🏼
I got Dorothy. Please add me to her house.
Wow, so many sign ups today!I'm adding anyone who doesn't choose a specific house to an Unassigned section of the list. I'll leave it to the prefects and the unassigned members to decide where they'd like to go - whether they want to take the Buzzfeed quiz, or wait until closer to the challenge start date to join a team and help even out numbers, or however else they want to decide.
The Tin Man group looks likes it needs more members, so I would like to join that one please. Looking forward to reading with you all 🤗
Saar The Book owl wrote: "I was just thinking about the House Cup yesterday! I would like to join again. You can put me in any team. I've been a prefect once or twice. So, it's all the same for me.
Looking forward again t..."
You can add me to Tin Man and if there's no one for the task of prefect, then I would like to take the task upon me.
I've never done this challenge and it sounds fun! I would like to be in house Tin Man! :)
I’d like to be in Scarecrow House, please
Saar The Book owl wrote: " You can add me to Tin Man and if there's no one for the task of prefect, then I would like to take the task upon me."On Message 21, Chaela asked to be prefect for Tin Man House, but mentioned that if someone with more prefect experience wanted to do it, they could.
I'll let you, Chaela, and Tori work it out among you and adjust the list accordingly 🙂
Edit: Oh! Also, on Message 37, Vindhya said she'd be interested in being prefect for Tin Man House if no one was, haha 😅 I'll keep an eye out to see how y'all work this out and adjust the list 😆
HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS
- Everyone who wants to play joins a house and all the houses compete to read the most over the three months. The scores are based on an average and there will be an overall winner as well as 2 winners each month when you will go head-to-head with another team.
- The Challenge will run from October 1 through December 31. All books started & finished during this time will count toward the challenge.
- Post in YOUR HOUSE’S THREAD ran by your house’s prefect. contribute with the BOOK TITLE and DATE FINISHED and NUMBER OF PAGES.
- If you would like you can make one post, or one per month, and update them to keep everything in one place, but I do ask that you make another comment letting your team prefect know that you updated it.
Each house has its own thread:
DOROTHY - Prefect: Laura
SCARECROW - Prefect: Cynthia
TIN MAN - Prefect:
LION - Prefect: Jessica P
RULES AND SCORING
We will use an average score to balance the different house sizes. We will use a tiered scoring system based on the number of pages in a book. Essentially, it's 1 point for every 250 pages read within a book. Here's the breakdown:
1-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points
and so on...
- If its a graphic novel, heavily pictured book or sparsely worded (i.e. poetry), half points will be awarded, so it will be 0.5 points for every 250 pages. The points will be awarded per book and not per cumulative pages read.
- Easy point-getters are limited to 10 per month per participant. These will be books with less than 50 pages.
- A book cannot be counted more than one time in a month, so a maximum of three times over the course of a challenge.
- If you read one of the group's selected group reads for October, November or December, you get to add a bonus 0.5 point. (This must be read in the month that the book is our BOTM pick)
- For a book to count, it must be started and finished during the challenge timeframe. This means, for example, that you can start a book in October and submit it in December when you finish it.
- Use the page number of the most popular edition when you search on Goodreads for every book read. This includes audiobooks, ebooks, and physical books. This keeps it fair for everyone.
*NEW*- If a book does not have a page count on Goodreads it can not be submitted for points for this challenge.
- Number of participants per house will be counted based on contributions, so if a member signs up and does not contribute, they are not used in average calculations.
- This challenge will feature a ROUND ROBIN TOURNAMENT with each month featuring a matchup with a different house. To count for a matchup, the book must be read within that month and posted no later than one day after the end of the month. We will not do late term adjustments, but books read in an earlier month (no earlier than October) can still count toward your house’s overall total. The winner of the tournament will be featured in EHRTBM Hall of Fame.
- There will also be an Overall winner featured in the EHRTBM Hall of Fame.
- Participants must log their book in Goodreads as read to count them in the challenge.
Since this competition can get intense, please note that we do expect good sportsmanship from participants and failure to demonstrate good sportsmanship will result in warnings. Multiple warnings or extremely offensive remarks may result in a participants removal from the challenge.
Happy reading everyone!