High time for another update on my Funtrivia playing exploits.

Lets see, I won the Smartest of the Smart badge on sunday! I was stoked about that one I can tell you. I rarely play Who's the Smartest  because I'm embarrassed by my performances (regularly 3-4 out of 10). I noticed Sci/Tech was on and thought, why not give my favourite a bash, 24 seconds later I have an unassailable 10/10 and I checked every five minutes to see how close we were getting to 200 players (necessary to win said badge).

How about all the badgelets! It's my 4th attempt today to win a round of knockout so that I can have the 1st level completed and win the badge, but I scored 1500 so I'm not holding my breath. I like all the quiz playing ones, I've finished a couple, very slowly doing the others.

I think I'm about five or six days away from 5000 Geo points, same with the Daily points. I think those two games are excellent now, I wish everyone hadn't gone up in arms when Terry suggested making alterations to the Team game, it is nowhere near as good as the other daily games now and that's a shame. Trust in Terry! He nearly always gets it right! Oh well, looks like that game is doomed to stay as is for some time now. It is of course the infamous game amongst my team, because it is the subject that created the rift between our original team members.

I think I am about two ot three months away from a serious push for the Fill Me In monthly. I still hover around the 40th position mark, as I have done for three months, I think as some win the badge they will be less inclined to play what is something of an unpopular game amongst the masses. I still cannot bring myself to try to win Who Am I though, I find it quite a dull game not to mention difficult.

So Global Challenge 10 is about to end, kudos to all the new immortals. I'm wondering whether to have a go next time. Can I do it? My problem is that I refuse to log on at times when I certainly would not be using my computer. I usually have it on once a day on a typical working day. Going for the challenge, in reality, means logging in before work! Hmm. I'll think about it.

Something that happened over the last week is my sudden quiz writing surge! I finally finished my first one, a quiz about Babylon 5 episode 'The Long Night'. Then I rushed quickly into another, although I have not finished that yet, having some difficulties getting some of the questions right for the editors liking. I'm not complaining about that of course, I agree with the editor. I just didn't see certain things to start with, but then it is my first quiz (I'm not counting the actual first quiz because I spent two months writing it and it sailed through the editors, no probs). I think most players must have gone through a learning curve with regards to their first quizzes? It's all very well reading all the guidance and playing all the tune ups, but there were still things that I didn't think of.

I have a couple more quiz ideas in minds, perhaps I should write them down before I forget! I also plan to continue the episodic quizzes on Babylon 5. I have started off where player, kbrugman, left off - four episodes into season four. I enjoyed all of his episodic quizzes, but he hadn't made one for about two years.

Since this is 'part 1', I shall return to this at a later date. I think I shall try something quantitative here. These are the badges that I hope to have won by... ooh, end of september:

Team Player

Gold Madness

Obscure Knowledge

You Graduated!

Early Bird

Hourly Mix Winner

Daily Crown

Achievement: New Question

World Champ: World Game

Team Tycoon

and say, two more category wins in the Expert game.