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Hina
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Nov 18, 2013 06:46AM
Congrats everyone!! It has been fun. Mods did a great job hosting the whole challenge and the mini challenges every month. Hope to see you guys in the next round.
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Continuing on with the TTRC...
For those of you who want to finish what you started, we are leaving the Tower Team Reading Challenges threads, the "sister group," and Team Home Page Challenges open.
Some of you want to finish your Team Mini Challenges for November; some want to see what they can do towards reaching 1,350 (with or without BAPs); others want to go until the end of the year; and die-hards want to go until April, 2014!
Whatever you decide, as an individual Team or Team Member basis, is completely up to you. Even if you are the only Team Member interested in continuing, we're sure the other Teams will interact with you.
We, the Mods and Captain Paige, will do an informal update once a month.
Whatever you decided, remember to have fun! There will be much less pressure, definitely.
As far as Round III, we do NOT know when it will start, but it will NOT be in January. For the next Team Challenge, the other Mods want to do some type of board game that will last anywhere from one to several months.
I don't mind continuing to tag books for this. Anyone else going to do it?
I was just thinking about it myself, Hina, and wondering if anyone else from our team was going to continue.I would really like to, at least until the next team challenge starts.
So, I will join you.
jingles wrote: "I was just thinking about it myself, Hina, and wondering if anyone else from our team was going to continue.I would really like to, at least until the next team challenge starts.
So, I will join..."
cool...I am just curious to see how long it will take to get to my own goal and our team goal. Plus with nothing else to worry about challenge wise...its easy enough to tag the books I am going to read.
I'm down for tagging my books to hit our goal.
Yeah, me too, Hina. I think I have over 50 books to go to reach my personal goal. And I think continuing will really help me practice for the next round. This round I had a lot of frustration going on because I just really didn't understand all the BAP's, cupcakes, etc. I was reading like crazy, trying to get our numbers up, and it seemed no matter how much I read, or pushed myself to read, we just kept falling further and further behind. Thus my frustration.
I think continuing will help me prepare for Round III.
Carrie wrote: "I'm down for tagging my books to hit our goal."Awesome Carrie!
Yes, Jingles, I was trying to figure out why Mauvelous was slipping, when they had been doing so well. But then one of the trackers found a member who had 20 books that needed to be 'tagged' for the TTRC. That was hard to find, as she continued to occasionally 'tag' books, so we knew she was still in it. Messed with our "find the absentee members by looking at the trend" theory.
jingles wrote: "Yeah, me too, Hina. I think I have over 50 books to go to reach my personal goal. And I think continuing will really help me practice for the next round. This round I had a lot of frustration ..."
True there was a lot of things I didn't understand...but I look at it this way...don't get anxious and worry about getting numbers up...because there is always going to be someone who has read more did more BAP's...all you could do is that you did the best you could and enjoyed reading the books you did. LOL...so I hope you don't get frustrated in the next round, but you were probably one of the people who read most books that counted as cut throat.
I know, LK, it was just crazy! I was going nuts trying to figure it out. Lol.@Hina - you are absolutely right. My focus on the numbers totally messed me up. Instead I should have just been happy with doing the best I could and let it go at that. A very good lesson learned for next round.
All in all, I had a lot of fun doing it. Our mods are so totally awesome, with all the things they came up with. It sure was interesting, trying to keep up with them and wondering what they would come up with next.
I am totally looking forward to Round III. I know it will be some time before it starts, but in the mean time, I will keep "practicing", and you know what they say - "practice makes perfect". Lol.
Glad you are hanging in there with us, Carrie.
I know I had like 4 or 5 I had missed to tag. JoLene was nice enough to message me and let me know which ones.
Carrie wrote: "I know I had like 4 or 5 I had missed to tag. JoLene was nice enough to message me and let me know which ones."Carrie, I had the same problem with this too, in Round I. The only way I knew I could keep track of it in Round II and not miss anything, was to create a spreadsheet specifically for the Tower Team Challenge. Each time I finished a book, I would add it to the spreadsheet, and then always check my spreadsheet total with my Tower Team shelf total. If my numbers were off, I would go back and check to see what book I'd missed tagging to the Tower Team shelf.
Honestly, that's the only way I was able to accurately track it in Round II.
I have a lot of other challenges going to, so I have just one excel document, with a different tab for each challenge I'm doing. It was easy to just add another. Lol.
Carrie wrote: "I know I had like 4 or 5 I had missed to tag. JoLene was nice enough to message me and let me know which ones."Mine was to tag the book on the challenge as soon as I could...whether I finished the book or not. I tried the excel file just to see what and how much I am reading in a month and what books I want to read in the following month...but I tend to fall behind and I hate catching up with the excel file...so there is a lot of unfinished lists left.
Hey, it is easy to not 'tag' a book. I did so myself when I did an audit on me!
Lisa Kay wrote: "Hey, it is easy to not 'tag' a book. I did so myself when I did an audit on me!"lol...the only one i can remember now is when I tagged a book that didn't meet the page requirement...but then again...I usually put my books on my google calendar so I can put in the right start and end date in GR and which books I have read if I don't get a chance to come on GR, which so rarely happens...since I stop by for a little bit every day...:)
I can continue tagging as well......it was a mystery that we fell so far behind but I think it was partly because we were mostly reading shorter books --- before the BAP started, we were ahead of the curve, but then when teams started earning extra BAPs, we weren't getting many extra points.
I think it was only Barbara and Jingles that were consistently also reading longer books. I know that I did change my reading habits a bit and read shorter books. For next go round, if there are "chunkster" points from the beginning, I will just read to my list.
I hear you on that, JoLene.I'm already preparing for Round III. I'm making a list of chunkster books, books that can be turned into Cut Throat, etc. I also decided maybe I should look into anthologies, since at the very end there, we needed some really short stories.
I know that things will probably not be the same in Round III as in Round II, but at least I can make some preparation for going into Round III. If I need it, I'll have it. If not, no harm done. It certainly can't hurt to prepare. Lol.
Don't do too much work Jingles, the Mods said the next round will be different. In post 762, the Mods wrote: "As far as Round III, we do NOT know when it will start, but it will NOT be in January. For the next Team Challenge, the other Mods want to do some type of board game that will last anywhere from one to several months."
I'm thinking like monopoly or chutes & ladders which are basically scavenger hunts. So cut throats and chunksters may not matter. Just a thought.
Oh and I'll keep tagging as well.
Lisa Kay wrote: "Hey, it is easy to not 'tag' a book. I did so myself when I did an audit on me!"I kept forgetting to tag them too, so I made it a point to check each book listed on my "2013 month" shelf for the TT tag a couple times a week just to make sure I got them all.
Oh, I had forgotten about that, Barbara.
Yes, Barbara★, I had to open two windows and do a side by side comparison between my TTRC and my main GRs "read" shelf. And I still missed one from way back in May that I had on neither shelf, but had on my typed one. I couldn't go by number, because some of the short stories I don't add. But now I'm going to, at least to my main GRs one.
Barbara ★ wrote: "Don't do too much work Jingles, the Mods said the next round will be different. In post 762, the Mods wrote: "As far as Round III, we do NOT know when it will start, but it will NOT be in January..."
I am wondering how they are going to do the next round, it sounds very interesting and the mods are very creative in coming up with some of these things so I am very curious to see how they are going to take a board game and turn it into something that lasts months.
Yeah, can you imagine playing Monopoly or Chutes and Ladders by reading books? That would be so much fun!
I actually created a game called Readopoly for the group I am the challenge mod. It was pretty fun, but A LOT of work to administrate. Also, it was not a team challenge.Anyway, I'm so happy that this is over. I grew up in Washington Illinois. My childhood home, neighborhood and grade school were all destroyed by the tornado. Luckily all of our close friends are safe and sound with minimal damage. Even though I haven't lived there in 35 years, I still can't seem to focus on other things right now :-(
That's terrible JoLene. A tragedy is always worse when it hits close to home.
Here's a link to Candyland adapted into Fantasyland by the SOS group: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...The Challenge Facotry is doing a team Monopoly: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Crazy Connection Challenges did an individual Monopoly: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
It's definitely doable but like JoLene said. It involves tons of administrative work.
I'm sorry to hear about that, Jolene. Those things are never easy to deal with, no matter how much time goes by. We lost some very dear friends in the Joplin Tornado a couple of years ago, and have some family members still trying to get their feet back on the ground.
Those are pretty interesting challenges going on in the other groups, Barbara. I may have to check into a couple of them. Like I need to commit to another challenge - not! Lol
JoLene wrote: "I actually created a game called Readopoly for the group I am the challenge mod. It was pretty fun, but A LOT of work to administrate. Also, it was not a team challenge.Anyway, I'm so happy tha..."
So sorry to hear that JoLene. Regardless of living away, its the place you grew up at people and place you know so it definitely hits harder than just hearing of a tragedy on the news. Glad to know that your friends are safe and sound.
Barbara ★ wrote: "Here's a link to Candyland adapted into Fantasyland by the SOS group: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...The Challenge Facotry is doing a team Monopoly: https://www.goodreads.com/..."
Nice games! Now you are tempting me to other groups and join even more challenges...lol...RRRC did a snakes and ladders game too.. It was fun! It was designed for individuals, not team based.
The "readopoly" that I did was a bit different. The board was all places from literature. Then you read books and the number of books that you read translated into "book bucks" that you could use to buy the properties. Certain "special" properties had tasks associated with them. My version, people were playing on their own board --- so if they landed on a property that they owned, they would get "rent". People could take a turn every day. I had about 25 people playing and if I didn't validate every day or every other day, it could get crazy out of control :-D
I spent a whole weekend, creating a spreadsheet that would automatically track everything, but you still had to go through people's turns and validate their books.
Thanks for all the well wishes. My family gives me a really hard time for living in CA now, but after Illinois, we moved to New Orleans (Katrina) and now my mom and brother live in Tuscaloosa (5 miles from huge tornado 2 years ago), so CA is looking pretty good (knock on wood).
Thanks for the links, Barbara★!
I'm always willing to drag my fellow challengites into another challenge group. mwahahahaha
JoLene wrote: "The "readopoly" that I did was a bit different. The board was all places from literature. Then you read books and the number of books that you read translated into "book bucks" that you could use..."That sounds neat JoLene. I love how you adopted it to suit you group. It takes a very clever person to do that effectively.
Good morning, Hina.I am doing great. I finished my 195th book last night for the Tower Team II challenge. I had further to go than I thought I had. It will be interesting to see if I complete my goal (250 books) before the end of the year.
How is everyone else doing?
November has been a very slow month for me. Only 14 books so far. I usually have double that. My warehouse guy got fired so I'm all alone and doing the work of 3 people so I'm too exhausted to read when I get home at night. Unfortunately I'm not going to finish all my November monthly challenges and I was doing so well this year. Darn.It's a good thing Tower Teams Challenge ended or I'd be no help at all to the team. :(
I have also slowed way down......I am meh on all the stuff that I'm reading right now. :-(
This time of year always gets slow for me too. I'd bee in the same boat too, Barbara if the Tower Team Challenge had not ended. I think I'm only at 18 books for the month.On that note, I hope everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Ditto --- I hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday and doesn't eat too much :-D
Hopefully you ladies have Friday off too. Unfortunately I have to work. :(Oh well, enjoy your holiday!
I have to work on Friday too ---- in fact we are opening at 7am so I have to be at work at 6:30-ish.
Hey Hina....and all. I have to admit, I'm pretty happy that the race is done because I am deep in a slump. Too busy with holidays and remodel and jobs :-(Also, having a hard time choosing books because I'm not going any challenges at the moment :-)
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