Don't know if I've done this quote correctly as I've only been on funtrivia for a few months.

However, I don't know when Memorial Day is, nor do I know when you celebrate Thanksgiving, as I don't live in America. I just play funtrivia for the great games and quizzes that are offered. I don't care about dates or excuses.

Let's just wait for it to happen and I'm sure it will.

I should also point out that for fairness reasons, once the Monday 12 noon deadline was missed by any significant amount of time (and I am not speculating about the why, although Memorial Day and spending the time with family and friends would be my default explanation - Terry is rarely online on weekends and holidays), the game has to be pushed back by a day. Time zones make it otherwise impossible for some (Asians and Europeans) to play the set.

At this point, I would simply presume that Terry has announced the start for Monday simply because it was always a Monday for the last several years, not noticing the holiday and that the challenge will start today at noon - first working day of the week.

Hey folks, for the past 20 or so GCs I have just chosen a randon Monday ahead as a start time.

Unfortunately the random Monday was Memorial Day this time, which was a holiday that I was unavailable on and had forgotten about.

We will start the GC a day late, so a few hours from now. Apolgies if this inconvenienced anyone.

Thanks, Terry. Glad that it wasn't anything terrible. I would have missed the beginning, and now that you are starting the GC on my birthday, I am sure to win the whole thing!

Thanks again,

Sue

No fair! Starting on Sue's Bday...home cooking if I've ever seen it!


Hope you had fun on the holiday Terry. Game on!

And Wesley, how about we announce that immortal and hardmode immortal badges will be made upgradeable shortly, starting with this new gc?

Tier 2, 2 immortal trips, tier 7 7 trips

I want cake, Sue! And yay happy birthday!

Thank you Terry.

Sue, enjoy your day.

I'm glad to hear kyleisalive has a real time connection to Terry independent of the messaging system. It may be useful someday. It is good to hear that, if an emergency ever did arise (and I'm glad one didn't this time), Terry can be contacted. I'll be sure to remember that. I'm also pretty good at remembering Monday holidays, so, if, in the future someday, I see the GC is scheduled for Labor Day, say, I can bring that up immediately well ahead of the start date.

I like the upgradadable Immortal badges. My prediction on that is this will increase play of the GC in both modes by past winners. The effect of that will be to make namrewsna's prediction a couple of runs ago to almost certainly come true this run and the succeeding runs, as it will take multiple runs to fully upgrade both badges (and there will be a few "OCD" enough to do just that - perhaps even....), so expect the 30th new Immortal position to go well off the top 100 Normal mode list, which means less than 30 new Immortal badges will be awarded at the end of this run.

Anyway, I apologize for being a pain. Glad Terry wasn't fleeing some hurricane.

Spare a thought for the countries that are 8 hours ahead of you. There are many either old or infirm players here that are probably not concerned what time you start. I am one of those players and tire of the constant bickering about things that are unimportant in the grand scheme of things.

Please keep in mind that my contacting him is at my discretion. Besides this, it's usually if the site's down or a big project is in progress.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! And for the upgradeable badges.

But where's my cake?

Thanks for the update Terry.

We all get cake at the end of GC.

Happy Birthday, Sue!

Thanks, MiraJane!

Curious if the Hardcore Immortal will remain a Mega Badge or whether it will drop to the upgradeable group? (Not that mine will be upgraded for awhile since I'm switching to normal mode this challenge.)

Thank you also to Kyleisalive. Did his best to soothe an awkward situation.

A 800+ score in an adventure category it's better of 1200+ in a non adventure category? How much bonus affect the advance in the global challenge? The expertise and the adventure bonus. Thanks

Normal adventure (*) is +200, Expert (**) is +300.

At time of writing, there have been 9 GC sets since it began. How do the leaders have 54 games completed? The Brain Twist is included for advancement but doesn't count in the total number of games, does it?

EDIT: I just remembered, the Impossible counts as a game. Question answered.

Impossible counts as a game played, so there are six games per set maximum, not five. 9×6=54.

I feel like a little kid.

This is the first time I've decided to make an actual run at playing every single set of Globals, and maybe going all the way.

I played the second half of June 2, and advanced a level, but it's not showing up in my stats. Only the first level of June 2 is showing.

Is this common? Did it happen because I advanced when I played my Impossible game?

Or, should I be concerned because it didn't register anywhere but on my home page, and in Globals themselves, showing that I absolutely played? Now it's June 3, and I can't play again, because I already played!

If this is a glitch, I really, really need it fixed. If this isn't a glitch, can someone please explain this to me?

Please, don't let this turn into something that becomes an issue two or three days after the fact, and can't be fixed.

Now I understand why everyone gets so excited about Globals. When you take them seriously, they become really serious!

Help, help, oh help...

I see you with 53 games played which would mean you missed one half day plus a single game so far (or have not yet played this morning). I can't really see anything else, but if you go to

http://www.funtrivia.com/minigame/myhistory.cfm

you should see most of your play history for this GC - it shows the last 50 individual FINISHED games, so if you played consistently, you should right now see May 30 and 31 as well as June 1 and 2, plus the last two sets you played on May 29.

Note that this will only show finished sets - the June 3 am set will only go up on this page at noon, after it has been scored and ranked.

I'm not sure if this question has been asked and answered yet so here goes nothing if in GC32 those players that are already Immortal earn an advancement reaching that status once again does that mean those of us who haven't yet are still playing those that have in other word will they fill up the 30 spots making it harder for the players that have not yet became Immortal?