Subject: The Fun Trivia Sprint Rivals (aka IV)
Posted by: WesleyCrusher
Date: Feb 10 20
FINAL SCORES
1. Joepetz (Standard) 9:00 h
2. kyleisalive (Ironman) 10:36 h
3. WesleyCrusher (Hardcore) 12:42 h
4. rossian (Hardcore) 15:23 h
5. malik24 (Ironman) 17:29 h
6. Blowing in the Wind (Team) 20:09 h
7. The Cataphonics (Team) 21:46 h
8. LeMoNracers (Team) 23:03 h
9. Fifiona81 (Standard) 23:43 h
10. Two Bears and a Packet of Chips (Brace) 36:16 h
11. Kankurette (Standard) 77:15 h
12. bernie73 (Standard) 78:51 h
13. spanishliz (Standard) 272:50 h
Tasks were posted around noon FT time, on Feb 29, March 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and Apr 1.
It's that time once more: We're looking for some overly dedicated authors who wish to experience race craze with even more fiendish and outlandish tasks while exploring the final depths of quiz-writing on a tight timer.
The rules are just the same as last time - including the option to participate solo, in pairs and in threes. And it starts on February 29, because that's a nice date and it's a Saturday too. Just like last round, it will last 36 days - nine legs of four days each - and you can start each of your tasks at any time during the leg's running time.
Depending on the level of challenge you want to have, there are several signup options:
TEAM (mild): You form a team of two or three authors. One of you must complete one of the two options on each of the nine tasks. Each member can submit a quiz; your best time will count. You will need to have at least three quizzes written yourself (regardless of whether they will count as being the fastest, so a 3-person team won't have to exactly split 3/3/3) at the end to receive finisher credit.
3-person teams can choose to play in "trace" mode, which is a 3-author brace (see under that entry). It's still listed with the regular team setup, since it's only 6 quizzes average per team member, less than the full 9 you need to author with any other mode.
STANDARD (challenging): You are on your own, completing one of the two options of your choice on each task. You can do both if you want, your better time counts.
BRACE (more challenging): You work in a team of two, completing both sides of each task - each of you needs to do one. Your time is the average of the two times.
HARDCORE (nasty): Choices are for wimps. You pick one of the two taskmasters before the game starts and you only do their tasks. No excuses just because the other guy had a less evil idea.
IRONMAN (extreme): You are not happy with just nine quizzes, so you do all eighteen. Your time per leg is the average of your two times.
If you receive a rejection on a quiz, you will get a 30 minute penalty. If you should get an Editor's Choice award, your time will be halved or reduced by one hour, whichever gives the better result. There are also two special bonuses available throughout the game; you will discover them on their respective task. Bonuses or penalties will each apply to the quiz they were earned on.
The worst time you can receive on any quiz actually submitted within the main game time plus a 6 day grace period at the end is 42 hours (even if you take longer). If you miss a leg for any reason, you can thus choose to do it at the end (and take the maximum on that one quiz) instead of having to do them in order and accumulating several high times.
rossian will be this round's Evil Twin Apprentice. As always, you won't really do better with one or the other taskmaster - the theme and difficulty level of each task will be very similar. It's just those details that will make one or the other option more preferable...
Some rules addenda for everyone's benefit:
- You are allowed and encouraged to use and repurpose old templates for the Sprint. You are even allowed to finish up half-done quizzes if they fit your task (lucky!) as long as they had never been submitted before. Do some cleaning up while racking up great scores!
- The two task alternatives' timers are entirely separate. If you are playing in Standard or team mode, you can check out and complete one task, then look at the second and see if you can improve your time. Of course if you check out both at the start and cherry-pick, the second one is unlikely to improve your score as you've already set off both timers.
- Braces and Traces must have different submitters on the two sides. You cannot have the same person submit both quizzes - but, of course, you CAN work together and communicate within your teams/braces. No roadblocks, but of course any tasks that depend on the player (e.g. "Write a quiz that includes your FT name in the title") must match the actual submitter.
- When you've submitted a quiz, please post a note in the respective task thread so I can check and score it, but make sure not to publicly disclose information that could help others identify the task anywhere else. Remember others might not have started!
- Scoring will take place near the end of every 4-day round. Round scores might of course change later in case of rejections or Editor's Choices.
SPECIAL SPRINT IV RULE
To be credited with a finishing time on this Sprint, your entries will have to contain at least one photo quiz (if you have that capability) or one 20 or 25 question quiz (if you don't - you cannot use this option if you have photo quiz privileges). You will also need to have at least one match quiz. Which round you use to fill these requirements is entirely up to you, but you may not wish to wait until the last moment, as it could catch you off guard - also, be aware from the start that the round 9 task *cannot* work with the Match format or 20+ questions and will be very difficult to do as a photo task, so you need to effectively be done with the two specials by round 8.
If a round or bonus asks for a multiple choice quiz, all questions must be multiple choice; a photo quiz meeting this requirement does of course count.
Ironman players or Braces will have to meet these criteria once per taskmaster; it is however legit for a Brace to have both photo quizzes or both match quizzes by the same author (as long as they are for different taskmasters).
Please also note that you need to make the requirement with a quiz that actually counts for your timer, so if you're Standard, submit a photo quiz and then try to improve your time with the second task, you'd need to also do a photo quiz (or redo that option later). If anything like this happens, we'll try to find the best setup for you in terms of total time :)
All mandatory requirements have been met. No adjustment of times was required to accommodate them.
Signups (14):
IRONMAN
Kyleisalive
malik24
HARDCORE
WesleyCrusher (rossian's tasks)
rossian (Wes' tasks)
BRACE
Two Bears and a Packet of Chips (VegemiteKid and pollucci19)
STANDARD
spanishliz
Joepetz
Kankurette
bernie73
Fifiona81
Rowena8482 (withdrawn)
TEAM
The Cataphonics (gracious1 and LadyNym)
Blowing in the Wind (JanIQ and zorba_scank)
LeMoNracers (Leith90, MikeMaster99 and 1nn1)
Posted by: WesleyCrusher
Date: Feb 10 20
FINAL SCORES
1. Joepetz (Standard) 9:00 h
2. kyleisalive (Ironman) 10:36 h
3. WesleyCrusher (Hardcore) 12:42 h
4. rossian (Hardcore) 15:23 h
5. malik24 (Ironman) 17:29 h
6. Blowing in the Wind (Team) 20:09 h
7. The Cataphonics (Team) 21:46 h
8. LeMoNracers (Team) 23:03 h
9. Fifiona81 (Standard) 23:43 h
10. Two Bears and a Packet of Chips (Brace) 36:16 h
11. Kankurette (Standard) 77:15 h
12. bernie73 (Standard) 78:51 h
13. spanishliz (Standard) 272:50 h
Tasks were posted around noon FT time, on Feb 29, March 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and Apr 1.
It's that time once more: We're looking for some overly dedicated authors who wish to experience race craze with even more fiendish and outlandish tasks while exploring the final depths of quiz-writing on a tight timer.
The rules are just the same as last time - including the option to participate solo, in pairs and in threes. And it starts on February 29, because that's a nice date and it's a Saturday too. Just like last round, it will last 36 days - nine legs of four days each - and you can start each of your tasks at any time during the leg's running time.
Depending on the level of challenge you want to have, there are several signup options:
TEAM (mild): You form a team of two or three authors. One of you must complete one of the two options on each of the nine tasks. Each member can submit a quiz; your best time will count. You will need to have at least three quizzes written yourself (regardless of whether they will count as being the fastest, so a 3-person team won't have to exactly split 3/3/3) at the end to receive finisher credit.
3-person teams can choose to play in "trace" mode, which is a 3-author brace (see under that entry). It's still listed with the regular team setup, since it's only 6 quizzes average per team member, less than the full 9 you need to author with any other mode.
STANDARD (challenging): You are on your own, completing one of the two options of your choice on each task. You can do both if you want, your better time counts.
BRACE (more challenging): You work in a team of two, completing both sides of each task - each of you needs to do one. Your time is the average of the two times.
HARDCORE (nasty): Choices are for wimps. You pick one of the two taskmasters before the game starts and you only do their tasks. No excuses just because the other guy had a less evil idea.
IRONMAN (extreme): You are not happy with just nine quizzes, so you do all eighteen. Your time per leg is the average of your two times.
If you receive a rejection on a quiz, you will get a 30 minute penalty. If you should get an Editor's Choice award, your time will be halved or reduced by one hour, whichever gives the better result. There are also two special bonuses available throughout the game; you will discover them on their respective task. Bonuses or penalties will each apply to the quiz they were earned on.
The worst time you can receive on any quiz actually submitted within the main game time plus a 6 day grace period at the end is 42 hours (even if you take longer). If you miss a leg for any reason, you can thus choose to do it at the end (and take the maximum on that one quiz) instead of having to do them in order and accumulating several high times.
rossian will be this round's Evil Twin Apprentice. As always, you won't really do better with one or the other taskmaster - the theme and difficulty level of each task will be very similar. It's just those details that will make one or the other option more preferable...
Some rules addenda for everyone's benefit:
- You are allowed and encouraged to use and repurpose old templates for the Sprint. You are even allowed to finish up half-done quizzes if they fit your task (lucky!) as long as they had never been submitted before. Do some cleaning up while racking up great scores!
- The two task alternatives' timers are entirely separate. If you are playing in Standard or team mode, you can check out and complete one task, then look at the second and see if you can improve your time. Of course if you check out both at the start and cherry-pick, the second one is unlikely to improve your score as you've already set off both timers.
- Braces and Traces must have different submitters on the two sides. You cannot have the same person submit both quizzes - but, of course, you CAN work together and communicate within your teams/braces. No roadblocks, but of course any tasks that depend on the player (e.g. "Write a quiz that includes your FT name in the title") must match the actual submitter.
- When you've submitted a quiz, please post a note in the respective task thread so I can check and score it, but make sure not to publicly disclose information that could help others identify the task anywhere else. Remember others might not have started!
- Scoring will take place near the end of every 4-day round. Round scores might of course change later in case of rejections or Editor's Choices.
SPECIAL SPRINT IV RULE
To be credited with a finishing time on this Sprint, your entries will have to contain at least one photo quiz (if you have that capability) or one 20 or 25 question quiz (if you don't - you cannot use this option if you have photo quiz privileges). You will also need to have at least one match quiz. Which round you use to fill these requirements is entirely up to you, but you may not wish to wait until the last moment, as it could catch you off guard - also, be aware from the start that the round 9 task *cannot* work with the Match format or 20+ questions and will be very difficult to do as a photo task, so you need to effectively be done with the two specials by round 8.
If a round or bonus asks for a multiple choice quiz, all questions must be multiple choice; a photo quiz meeting this requirement does of course count.
Ironman players or Braces will have to meet these criteria once per taskmaster; it is however legit for a Brace to have both photo quizzes or both match quizzes by the same author (as long as they are for different taskmasters).
Please also note that you need to make the requirement with a quiz that actually counts for your timer, so if you're Standard, submit a photo quiz and then try to improve your time with the second task, you'd need to also do a photo quiz (or redo that option later). If anything like this happens, we'll try to find the best setup for you in terms of total time :)
All mandatory requirements have been met. No adjustment of times was required to accommodate them.
Signups (14):
IRONMAN
Kyleisalive
malik24
HARDCORE
WesleyCrusher (rossian's tasks)
rossian (Wes' tasks)
BRACE
Two Bears and a Packet of Chips (VegemiteKid and pollucci19)
STANDARD
spanishliz
Joepetz
Kankurette
bernie73
Fifiona81
Rowena8482 (withdrawn)
TEAM
The Cataphonics (gracious1 and LadyNym)
Blowing in the Wind (JanIQ and zorba_scank)
LeMoNracers (Leith90, MikeMaster99 and 1nn1)
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WesleyCrusher
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And we're off into leg 7. Reply #121. Mar 24 20, 12:02 PM |
rossian
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Mine is posted too. Reply #122. Mar 24 20, 12:10 PM |
malik24 
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Wes, wasn't the lower scoring GC task yours? If so, I should have my photo quiz substitute for your side ticked off (20Q Humanities quiz). Reply #123. Mar 24 20, 12:32 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Fixed - somehow this slipped my attention. I only checked your leg 5 and 6 quizzes today and of course that was #4. Reply #124. Mar 24 20, 2:12 PM |
1nn1
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1nn1, I will ask here as well (so you won't have to click the task thread to answer) - what work did you base your task 6 quiz on? (You can answer openly, everyone has written for 6). A movie was required based "Bringing Up Baby" was a 1938 movie where the screenplay was written for specifically for Katharine Hepburn, who starred with Cary Grant. Also starring was a cheetah called Baby who was a key plot device in this screwball comedy. The Cheetah gave the title and quiz the necessary criteria for the quiz. The question in the quiz about "Bringing Up Baby" was about the movie, not the cheetah/cat. Reply #125. Mar 24 20, 4:20 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Thanks - I got confused about the movies. The title rang a bell with me but I somehow misremembered the species in the film. Reply #126. Mar 25 20, 2:40 AM |
| 1nn1
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Actually Wes you were probably right. It was a leopard not a cheetah. I had to correct the quiz. thanks Reply #127. Mar 25 20, 6:36 AM |
| WesleyCrusher
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For task 7, please post in the respective clue thread if you're claiming the time bonus - the way it's set up would make it rather difficult for me to check each and every one... Reply #128. Mar 27 20, 4:38 AM |
| rossian
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And task eight has been posted. Reply #129. Mar 28 20, 12:15 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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As has mine, sorry for the delay. Reply #130. Mar 28 20, 12:51 PM |
gracious1
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We only have one task left! :( Reply #131. Mar 31 20, 3:24 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Well, after you're done with task 9 is when you should be focusing your energy on the virtual events. Or fill the meter. Or work on commission fission, a recommission, a contract... As long as you folks keep authoring quizzes, we won't stop posting challenges. Reply #132. Mar 31 20, 3:28 PM |
kyleisalive
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The next Commission also starts in April...and we have some Crossword projects in the works too. Reply #133. Mar 31 20, 3:37 PM |
| gracious1
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Wesley, I know there are other challenges, and I'm working on them, but nothing gets me motivated like Sprint! And it's fun! BTW, the Cataphonics did meet the photo requirement with Task 8. :D Reply #134. Apr 01 20, 12:00 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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Last task on my side has been posted. You'll have to look back at your previous 8 quizzes for this one, so if you are in Team or Standard mode and are not sure which ones of yours counted for every round, please hold off writing until I have scored rounds 7 and 8 (which I will start now). Reply #135. Apr 01 20, 12:07 PM |
| rossian
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My final task has been posted, too. Reply #136. Apr 01 20, 12:15 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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PRELIMINARY scores for legs 7 and 8 due to an issue regarding the eligibility of a quiz. Leg 7 timers 1. Joepetz 1:01 h 2. Two Bears and a Packet of Chips 1:18 h* 3. malik24 1:32 h 4. WesleyCrusher 1:45 h 5. Kankurette 1:51 h 6. kyleisalive 1:58 h 7. rossian 2:08 h 8. The Cataphonics 2:36 h 9. LeMoNracers 3:00 h 10. Fifiona81 4:01 h 11. bernie73 4:02 h 12. spanishliz 7:19 h 13. Blowing in the Wind 24:01 h (*) I believe that one of the two entries by this Brace is noncompliant which would require them to rewrite and take a really bad time here. However I haven't heard back from the author for several days on the issue now, so this score might change drastically. Leg 8 timers 1. kyleisalive 1:04 h 2. rossian 1:06 h 3. Joepetz 1:07 h 4. malik24 1:33 h 5. WesleyCrusher 1:29 h 6. Two Bears and a Packet of Chips 2:03 h 7. Kankurette 2:13 h 8. Fifiona81 2:22 h 9. The Cataphonics 2:35 h 10. bernie73 3:52 h 11. LeMoNracers 4:30 h 12. Blowing in the Wind 26:19 h 13. spanishliz 42:00 h Reply #137. Apr 01 20, 1:55 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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I can already confirm the teams' leg 7 and 8 entries with regard to who made the cut: Cataphonics: both 7 and 8 by gracious1 Blowing in the Wind: zorba_scank for 7, JanIQ for 8 LeMoNracers: 1nn1 for 7, leith90 for 8 Reply #138. Apr 01 20, 2:00 PM |
| WesleyCrusher
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If nothing goes completely wrong in the last leg, the medals have pretty much been decided (with a really small chance of silver and bronze swapping places - 1:06 should be a decent buffer if there's no "oops"). 4/5/6 and 11/12 are still within one hour, so there might be some movement there on the last leg. But remember, the main goal is to finish and so far it looks really good for that - with the one very understandable exception. By helping fight Corona on the very front, you're doing more than the rest of us combined, Rowena. Props to you! Reply #139. Apr 01 20, 2:14 PM |
LadyNym
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My quiz for Leg 8 is still being written. Even though we already had a qualifying quiz, I wanted to write one too, and finally managed to figure out what to write about. I did hit a wall for a while with Leg 8, which is uncommon - but hey, I'm human :D! Reply #140. Apr 01 20, 2:21 PM |
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