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TT2-AUGUST Challenge for Book Advantage Points: Created by Teams
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Q1. "We're feeling really lazy. May we just copy another Team's idea?"~ Frequently Asked Questions -
A1. Definitely. Just give credit where credit is due.
Q2. "Should we use the cupcakes in some way?"
A2. While there will be cupcakes offered to win during your Teams challenge period, we will save using them for future months.
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Please Note:
In the Spell-It-Out section, for each letter read books with titles (only the first or starting word will count), series names, authors (both first or last names), character (first or last name), that begin with letters that correspond to letter of the phrase or term you choose. You may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the, etc.)
Yes, we will allow main character (MC) names!
MC Definition: Only major characters will be allowed, or one that plays an important part. So for instance in Dead Until Dark, you may use Sookie, Bill, Sam, Eric, or Pam; but, not Arleen or the other vamps that appear only for a few scenes.
Restrictions: S.P.E.L.L. I.T. O.U.T. is limited to 24 letters.
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Links to Team Challenges for August - (some don't work yet!)
✔ = hyperlink works
✔Atomic Tangerine
B'Dazzled Blue
✔Blast Off Bronze
✔Cadet Blue
✔Cerulean (AKA "Hobbit Blue")
✔Electric Lime
✔Forest Green
✔Leather Jacket Black
✔Magenta Mix-up
Mango Tango
✔Mauvelous
✔Moonstone
✔Pewter Blue
Purple Mt.'s Majesty
✔Radical Red
✔Tickle Me Pink
✔Wild Blue Yonder
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Q1. "We're feeling really lazy. May we just copy another Team's idea?"~ Frequently Asked Questions -
A1. Definitely. Just give credit where credit is due.
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A2. While there will be cupcakes offered to win during your Teams challenge period, we will save using them for future months.
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However, you are already worrying about what we think? My fault, entirely; the Mods should have "locked" this thread. (view spoiler)
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do we post the challenge we created for August here
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Feel free to submit your proposed challenge here.
It won't be approved for awhile, as we will be comparing it to the other Teams. But we'll start reading them, probably in July.
Quick question: If the total number of books required to complete the challenge we come up with is more than 75 books, would still need to complete the entire challenge to get whatever points are awarded, or would we be able to stop when we hit 75 books? I suspect I know the answer, but I wanted to ask to be sure. Thanks!
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Please Note:
In the Spell-It-Out section, for each letter read books with titles (only the first or starting word will count), series names, authors (both first or last names), character (first or last name), that begin with letters that correspond to letter of the phrase or term you choose. You may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the, etc.)
Yes, we will allow character names!
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Yes, we will allow main character (MC) names!
MC Definition: Only major characters will be allowed, or one that plays an important part. So for instance in Dead Until Dark, you may use Sookie, Bill, Sam, Eric, or Pam; but, not Arleen or the other vamps that appear only for a few scenes.
August Scattergories
This is the link to the spreadsheet we will use for tracking books/items. There is an example of two books read on the tab labeled 'TC' for you to look at now, but they will be deleted before the challenge starts.
We have a huge variety of speeds in reading from 1 book a month to almost a book a day on our team. We wanted everyone to feel they could participate, so we put no limits on how many items a book could be used for. We have thirteen unique letters in our team name and 16 categories, this makes a potential 208 spots if a fast reader wants to try to complete the whole thing(6 items per book if you can read a book a day). One letter has 16 spots and most likely will take at least 2-3 books to complete a letter, but completing a whole letter is not required in Scattegories.
Team Hobbit Rules for Scattegories
1. Choose a letter or letters from the team name and read a book where you can find items on the list that start with that letter. For example with the letter C, an animal found could be the word 'cat', a color found could be the word 'crimson', an author could be Colleen Coble(2 pts for two Cs)
2. You can find as many as you like out of the same book.
3. Each square can only have one item from one book. For example, you can not find the word 'cheetah' from one book and 'cat' from another and use both of them for animal under C.
4. It is not necessary to finish a letter, just find a many as you can. Each word that starts with the letter gains 1 point. If you find a phrase like 'blue baboon'(2 pts) or an author with the same initials like Colleen Coble(2 pts), you get additional points each time the first letter is the same.
5. Post your book when finished and tell us what categories you found in the book and why they fit. Unlike other challenges where we can just look at your shelf to list your books, you will need to post the book and items since we can not see inside the book.
6. The whole team will need to read 75 books total in the month of August.
7. If you want make a personal goal for this challenge, here are some options to consider:
a. choose a specific letter/letters and try to complete them
b. choose a category/categories and try to complete them
c. pick a number of points to reach and see if you can find enough words to reach it
Forest Green Trivial Pursuit
Category 1: Wild Card - Spell out SUMMER HEAT WAVE(14 books)
In the Spell-It-Out section, for each letter read books with titles (only the first or starting word will count), series names, authors (both first or last names), character (first or last name), that begin with letters that correspond to letter of the phrase or term you choose. You may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the, etc.)
Category 2: People and Places - Ask a team member to choose a book from your specified shelf and then read it(places) or read a book from a team member's shelves with a rating of at least 4 stars(people)
You may post a request in July in order to be able to find and read the book in time, but the book will not count unless finished in August.
Category 3: Arts and Entertainment - read a book with a cover to match another team's door (at least half the teams or 8 books)
To create less confusion, the colors wanted for each team are listed and team captains have discretion to determine if enough of color is on cover
Atomic Tangerine - orange
B'dazzled Blue - bright blue
Blast Off Bronze - bronze, brown
Cadet Blue - light blue
Cerulean - bright blue
Electric Lime - green
Leather Jacket Black - black
Magenta Mixup - magenta(purplish/red, purpleish/pink)
Mango Tango - yellow
Mauvelous - light purple
Moonstone - white
Pewter Blue - light blue
Purple Mountain's Majesty - purple
Radical Red - red
Tickle Me Pink - pink
Wild Blue Yonder - bright/dark blue
Category 4: Science and Nature - read books that deal with technology, travel, vacations, outdoors, camping, or going on an adventure
These are only examples of what may fit in this category
Category 5: Sports and Leisure - read YA books before those teens have to go back to school or create a summer salad by reading books with fruit/veggie(image or word) on the cover
Category 6: History - Read books published at least 10 years ago or set at least 10 yrs ago.
This can include classics, Agatha Christie, historical fiction, etc.
Rules
1. You are not required to participate if you choose not to and may just read and tag books with your shelf. The captain reserves the right to use a book from your shelf if it will fit a needed category.
2. Categories with no specified amount of books will require at least 1 book read to complete the challenge.
3. A book may be used for only one category. Please post which category you read it for.
4. The team will need to read 75 books this month during this challenge to earn the Book Advantage Points(BAP)
5. A fun personal challenge for faster readers: Just as in the real game of Trivial Pursuit, try to earn a wedge from each category (1 book each in all 6 categories) or try to fill a game piece all in one category (6 books from one specific category)
Radical Red's Challenge: Inspired by the Grease Soundtrack
Grease
A classic or a book you feel as though everyone else has read.
Summer Nights
In the spirit of the fling, read a stand-alone, or the first book of a new series. Alternatively, read the next book in a series (in the spirit of their meeting again!)
Hopelessly Devoted to You
A romance
You’re the one that I want
A second romance OR erotic fiction
Sandy
Either: a book with a beach on the cover or a book from one of Sandy's shelves!
Beauty School Dropout
A book about a teenager dealing with an "issue" - drugs, mental illness, expulsion, running away etc OR a cover with make up/a face (because most of those have make up on!)
Look at me, I’m Sandra Dee
Either read a book tagged as Humour and Comedy or a book from one of the most popular lists.
It’s raining on prom night
A book set in a school, or with a character in formal wear on the cover.
Alone at the Drive-in Movie
Read a book about a break-up, divorce, death of a partner, or single character
Blue Moon
Read a book about werewolves or shape shifters.
Those Magic Changes
A book tagged as paranormal, a book about witches, or a book about someone going through a big change in circumstance/living situation.
Grease Lightning
A book with a male protagonist or a book with a car on the cover.
Spell it out
P.I.N.K. L.A.D.I.E.S A.N.D. T.H.E. T.B.I.R.D.S.
Moonstone's August ChallengeStart: August 1st (time TBD by mods)
End: August 31st (time TBD by mods)
Goal: 90 books (this is just a team goal and not set by the mods). We will be reading 9 books from each of the 10 categories below.
Participation is not mandatory. Participants will have a chance to reserve spots prior to the start of the competition. As a last resort, the Captains reserve the right to move books around if it would fit better in another category.
Participants have been asked to read 7% of their goal. We recognize that RL may take over and if members of our team cannot meet their 7% goal, we plan to fill in the gaps with other team members' read books.
1. Back to School Shopping - Read any book with shoes on the cover. For verification, you will need to post cover.
2. Day at the Beach - Read any book that has a beach scene or beach related items on the cover (sand bucket, beach umbrella, etc.) For verification, you will need to post cover.
3. Series, Series, Series - Read a book in a series you have already started. It cannot be a first in the series (although there should be record on your read shelf that you read others in the series.)
4. Summer Vacation - Read a book set in another country than your own. For verification, you will need to provide what country you currently live in and if not stated on GR, will need to say where the book took place.
5. What I Did On My Summer Vacation - Read a book that you are reading for another challenge (other than the Tower Team challenge.) For verification, you must state the name of the challenge. It does not need to be a NBRC challenge although that is preferred.
6. Recommendation Please - Read a book that was recommended to you. For verification, state who recommended the book. This does not need to be someone within GR or on your team but can be family members, librarians, etc.
7. Do You Know Your Team Members? - Read a book that another team member has rated 4 stars and above. This book can be read any time and does not need to be within the Tower Team challenge. For verification, state the team member, their read date and their rating.
8. Genres, Genres, Genres - Read 9 books from 9 different genres. The list includes: Romance, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Crime, Historical, Fantasy, Young Adult, Chick-Lit, Women's Fiction, Science Fiction, Non-Fiction, New Adult, Erotica, GLBT. The genre must show up on the book's main page.
9. They're My Favorite - Read a book by your favorite author.
10. New to Me - Read a book written by a new-to-you author.
On behalf of Baroness Blue:Cadet Blue's~All About Us In 9 Steps~
◈ Duration: August 2013
◈ Rules & How to play:
#1.We have 9 members so we must read 9 books for each step for a total of 81 books, only 75 are required to finish the challenge
#2.Any book read by a team member during August for the Round II challenge is eligible for fitting one of the steps
#3.Since we have different reading speeds a step can be done by one member's books only or by all members, it's up to the team to fit the books the best way they can
#4.The same book can be used as many times as read by team members
◈ Steps:
◈#1.Our team's name is CADET BLUE, a spell-it-out step.
◈#2.Our team's color is BLUE - read a book with a predominant blue cover.
◈#3.Our team's read-a-thon theme was Books in Uniform. We're going to repeat it.
◈#4.Our team has excellent taste in books. We're going to "steal" from each other books read during the TTRC round II.
◈#5.Our team reads a great variety of books. We're going to pick a book from every member favorite genre.
Genres:(view spoiler)
◈#6.Our team is from all around the globe. We're going to read books set in the city, state or country of a team member (currently living, have lived or were born). Or if the book turned into a movie or TV series we can use the place of filming.
Example:Lisbon was the chosen place for filming the TV series Gulliver's Travels and Sonia's birthplace.
Locations:(view spoiler)
◈#7.We were the initial "mod" team. Read a current BOM or a past one you always wanted to but never had the time.
◈#8.Our team captains (the former two and the new one) love any excuse to post pictures - choose a book by its cover - a cover you like, a cover you hate, a cover that doesn't fit the content, a bright cover, etc.
◈#9.Ours is a team of 9. Read a book where authors first or last name starts with the same letter as our team members' name.
Example: Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep uses Jex's "J"
According to the names under the (view spoiler) we'll have 3 "J", 3 "L", 2 "S" and 1 "E"
NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round IITeam Mauvelous
Connect 5
Duration: 8/1/13 - 8/31/13
The goal of this challenge as a team to read 75 books in the Month of August. The goal is to read 5 books for a category and connect them with a common theme found in the category. You are allowed to do as many categories you feel comfortable doing.
The rules are simple:
- Book must be 160+
- All the categories must have 5 books each to be considered completed. If you are unable to complete it on your own, or would like to collaborate with another member of the team to get the total of five, it is okay as long as you let us know, so we can count it towards completion. You can decide ahead of time or post it in the challenge thread later to get a partner.
- There is no minimum or maximum number of categories to do.
- Please read each categories carefully, some are more specific than others.
- All participating members are required to have 1 post to keep track which you will edit and also to post an update of books read. It can help you and me to better keep track and post new updates as you finish your books so I can update the spreadsheet more regularly. This will also help when you are collaborating on a challenge.
- You cannot repeat the same category if you have already completed it once.
- You can let another "borrow" your book as long as you do not use it anywhere else, meaning all books should only be used once.
Categories:
1. Long Vacation: Read 5 books that are set in 5 different countries of the same continent.
2. Go Team Mauvelous: Read 5 books using the Spell it out rules using first word of title, authors first or last name or series title. G.O. T.E.A.M. M.A.U.V.E.L.O.U.S.
3. Women's Equality Day: Read 5 books by woman authors published published since 1999.
4. Connect 5 books: You may use a word from title or an authors first or last name and create a chain of 5 books.
5. Summer Settings: Read a 5 books that take place during the summer season (at least 50% of the action should be in the summer)
6. Connect 5 bookshelves: Connect 5 books through bookshelves/genres on the book's main page. At least 10 people need to shelve the book as something for it to be used.
7. "Must Read" Mania: Pick a listopia list with "must read" in the title and read 5 books from that list. Please make sure the list has "Must Read" in the Title.
Listopia
8. Friendly Visit: Read 5 books that are set in or where the author is from places where our team is from:
JoLene is from California.
ETO is from Pennsylvania.
Hina is from Illinois.
Jingles is from Arkansas.
Valerie is from Texas.
Barbara is from New Jersey.
Carrie is from Canada??
Thilde is from Denmark.
9. Friendship Day: Read 5 books that a friend has rated a 4 or 5.
10. "I spy with my little eye:
a. Jewelry on the cover.
b. Dress on the cover.
c. Sunglasses on the cover.
d. male and female on the cover.
e. naked chest on the cover.
f. Hat on the cover.
g. Tattoo on the cover.
11. Stop Hitting Yourself: Read 5 books that have a violent tendencies or weapons/violence in the title, authors, series and/or book covers with a weapon. The story could be particularly involved in a lot of violence/fighting to survive.
12. War of the Tower Teams: Read 5 different book covers that are the colors of participating Tower Teams II. (The cover cannot be Mauve.)
13. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: Read 5 of your favorite authors and/or books that you have been waiting anxiously to read.
14. Around the world: Read 5 books, each set in a different continent (Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, South America)
15. Read the 5 W's: Pick one genre to read for each of the 5 question and follow the instructions accordingly for that particular genre.
A. What happened?
Contemporary Romance - Pick a book that has friends to lovers theme OR Second Chance theme.
Romantic Suspense - Pick a book that has one of the character as an officer of the law (police officer, FBI agent) OR the heroine is on the run/hiding.
B. When did it take place?
Historical Romance - Pick a book that has a wallflower heroine and a rogue hero OR forced marriage/marriage of convenience.
Time Travel Romance - Pick a book that has a character going back in time OR a character time travels to the present.
C. Where did it take place?
Fantasy Romance - Pick a book that takes place in a completely made up fantasy world that is not Earth OR pick a books that has a character(s) will save a city/Kingdom from the villain/monster/socially unexpected policies.
Science Fiction - Pick a book with aliens OR pick a book that is set in the future on Earth.
D. Who is it about?
Paranormal Romance - Pick a book where the character is a vampire or shape shifter OR pick a book where there is magic, witches or ghost involved.
Multicultural Romance - Pick a book where there is an interracial couple OR pick a book where the hero/heroine overcomes adversity.
E. Why did it happen?
Erotic Romance - Read a book that is involved in Dom/sub relationship and/or there is a BDSM theme OR a book that has a menage scene. (Alternative, since this genre is so controversial, the third option is to choose a book in a genre that you rarely read or something new to you, but it couldn't be one of the ones you used earlier in this theme)
Inspiration Romance - Pick a book that falls into the category of inspirational romance, christian themed romance OR pick a book that is categorized as a sweet "clean" romance.
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Team Captains, Co-Captains and Team Members may create and submit their own challenge for Book Advantage Points.
It may be one of your previous mini-challenges, or one in the works.
Goal: 75 books total.
Duration: The challenge will last the whole month of August.
Each Team will do their own challenge that they created.
Please submit your ideas, detailing your goals and time period by July 26th for review.
We will look them all over before deciding upon the number of Book Advantage Points to be given. We may then ask you to tweak your challenge a bit to make it equal in ease or difficulty, depending on what the other Teams are doing.
HINT: Think light, easy, breezy, and FUN!
Restrictions: S.P.E.L.L. I.T. O.U.T. is limited to 24 letters.
Please Note:
In the Spell-It-Out section, for each letter read books with titles (only the first or starting word will count), series names, authors (both first or last names), character (first or last name), that begin with letters that correspond to letter of the phrase or term you choose. You may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, the, etc.)
Yes, we will allow main character (MC) names!
MC Definition: Only major characters will be allowed, or one that plays an important part. So for instance in Dead Until Dark, you may use Sookie, Bill, Sam, Eric, or Pam; but, not Arleen or the other vamps that appear only for a few scenes.