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All right team! Based on various very cryptic comments from the mods, it seems that we probably want to protect our resource piles with these books. It has been said already that there is no point to using more than one on a particular pile. But we only have 3 we can protect. Any thoughts on which 3 to protect between Weapons, Shelter, Food, and Defense?
I gave them the choice between I Can Explain and Easterleigh Hall. Let me get our spreadsheet updated and I’ll post for them.
I saw that your captain is on a trip, so I wanted to remind you not to start reading until Week 2 of Round 2. That’s the Battle Week.
The Capitol here. We've got 2 options for you guys. If you go with Ars Historica, we will be reading I Can Explain. If you go with Arsenic in the Azaleas we will be reading Easterleigh Hall. It's up to you what you want play off of. Once you decide, please update your spreadsheet Battle Tab so we can update ours as well.
I'll go let District 2 know what our options are so they can decide which book they will read and then respond to us with the next book. Just giving them the options between I Can Explain and Easterleigh Hall.Team, if you are interested in participating in the Battle Arena week, please say so here. That way we can get input from people who want to read in that week and then respond quickly for the planning without waiting for people who don't want to commit to starting and finishing their books in that one week.
In the interest of keeping things friendly (which is the intention, hence the 5 points for the winner), District 2 is giving us options. They are looking at reading:Ars Historica OR
Arsenic in the Azaleas
And they would like to know what we would prefer. Remember, it doesn't have to be a single word. So titles that start with I CAn, I CAme, I CAll, etc. would work for that first one. Or for EAS, a word like EASt or EASy would work. Or even LEASe.
Don’t think too linear. If you read Ars Historica, we can read something that starts with I Can or I Came, or some other CA word.
Laura wrote: "Dale wrote: "i still dont understand it lol so we need to read a book that has ARS in the title?"
It has to start with ARS (or you can add more of the ending letters if needed. EARS, YEARS, EYEA..."
It could even be EAR (or YEAR) and then the second word starts with an S.
Dale wrote: "i still dont understand it lol so we need to read a book that has ARS in the title?"
It has to start with ARS (or you can add more of the ending letters if needed. EARS, YEARS, EYEARS, ETC). Articles can be ignored.
Truitt_T wrote: "We get points based on the number of letters we match, right? So if we read In Five Years, we’d max the points?"
Each book is worth 5 points. And the winning team gets an additional 5 points. Winning is the team who reads the most of their books. If both teams read all 10, the winner is the team with the LEAST amount of overlap.
Truitt_T wrote: "I think we have to wait until we’re given our Randomly Assigned Book Title at the beginning of Round 2 before we can make our first pick.🤷♀️At least I think so….."
It's In Five Years.
TARA wrote: "We are paired as follows:District 2 & The Capitol and our book title is In Five Years. Essentially what is going to happen is we need to find a book that overlaps that title by at least 3 letters (it can be any 3 consecutive, so fiv, year, ars etc. ...). "
Chiming in from The Capitol here. I'm almost positive the rules specify the final 3 (or more) letters of the book title!
Sorry. I was snooping because we just can't wait to get started!
ETA: Just confirmed in the Captain's Group that it is the LAST letters of the book.
Carrie wrote: "Quick question - will individuals be claiming the books we are hit with during the planning week?"The way I envision it is this: District 2 goes first this time. So they'll pick a book that overlaps with In Five Years. They'll add it to their spreadsheet, and our spreadsheet will automatically grab that info. Hopefully they will also post here as a courtesy. Once we have been told of that book, we'll all search our books for something that can overlap with whatever their title is. If multiple of us find a book, we'll go with which ever book has a combination of the lowest overlap and the worst ending letters. Then we'll add it to our spreadsheet and they'll pick again. We'll continue this until we have all 10 books on each side selected.
The key here is that the books have to be started and finished in Week 2 of the round. So we need people to commit to that. And not over-commit. Once you have a book in the Battle, think carefully about if you can do a second one. Because it would really suck if someone can't finish a book and no one else can get a copy of that book.
Does that make sense? I can see it my head, but I'm not sure I'm communicating it well.
So the mods just announced that captains need to have the spreadsheet finalized for the round within 1 hour of the round closing. That will 6 in the morning for me! Hopefully Keely or Yasmine will have a better schedule for that. But if you will be finishing a book in the last few hours of the round, please post here to let us know that something needs to be updated.
Our starting book will be In Five Years. So now we wait for District 2 to pick a book.
The Arena Battles are beginning!
In order to succeed in the Arena you will need to battle with your competing District Tributes.
You have been matched with an opposition and will fight them twice (once in round 2 and once in round 3), switching who strikes first.
We've been matched with District 2
The fight will consist of parrying book titles back and forth, by matching the end of your opposing team's title with the start of your own. You can use or ignore articles at the start of the title. There must be an overlap of at least three letters.
The less overlap the better in terms of winning!
Planning
To start the fight each pair will be spun a title by the Arena Masters. The first team must find a book with a title that overlaps by at least three letters, and declare their planned strike to their opposition team, who must then plan their riposte. Each team will plan out a maximum of 10 strikes each this way.
Note: planning must be completed within the first week, and you must NOT start reading any book until the second, fight, week.
Fighting
Once the fight phase starts each team simply reads their planned books!
There's no requirement to read them in the correct order, but if at the end of the week you have missed a planned strike then you will lose the battle, regardless of how many of the rest of the books you complete.
Supply Drops
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Points and Winning
5 bonus points for each completed strike
The winning team in each pair will get a further 5 bonus points
The winning team will be either:
- the team to make the last completed strike, if not all 20 books (across both teams) are read; or
- the team with the SMALLEST number of overlap letters in their strikes, if all 20 books are read; or
- if there is a tie for number of overlap letters, a coin toss will be made by a neutral mod to decide the winner.
Example
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Timings
The first week in each of Round 2 and 3 shall be for planning your fight
The second week in each of Round 2 and 3 shall be for fighting your fight
In Round 2 Districts 1 - 7 will strike first
In Round 3 Districts 8 - The Capitol will strike first
Preeti wrote: "I will definitely be done with One Hundred Years of Solitude but if there is a completed book that works for it, please go ahead and replace it if needed."To the best of my knowledge, we don't have any extra South America books. If we do, that hasn't been mentioned.
Supply Drop incoming from The Capitol!These books have been added to the Supply Drop page of your team spreadsheet! Links and all the proper stuff is on the spreadsheet. :)
Winter of the World - 915 pages
- So thick it can be thrown as a weapon
- Building on cover
- Boiled potatoes and cabbage. pg 340
- Blue cover; Big enough to be used as a brick in a wall
Edge of Eternity - 1159 pages
- So thick it can be thrown as a weapon
- Soldier took shelter in a forest during war.
- Potato salad. pg 72
- Book can be used as a brick to build wall.
Anna Karenina - 963 pages
- So thick it could be used as a weapon
- Red cover
- Cover is a feast for your eyes
- book can be used as a brick to build a wall
MelanieJoy wrote: "Laura we can scrap my BOMs. Also the Clover Girls - I DNFed."I deleted the BOMs, but Clover Girls isn't on the spreadsheet.
Maddielucy(Patti) wrote: "I will finish all of my books on the Spreadsheet :)"I won't touch any else's books! MelanieJoy just mentioned previously that she was considering DNF'ing those 2.
