NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
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Points for pages - July
How many points can you get in July? Points will be awarded according to the length of your books.
Books with 160-250 pgs: 7 pts
Books with 250-500 pgs: 3 pts
Books with over 500 pgs: 10 pts
Points for Pages - August
How many points can you get in July? Points will be awarded according to the length of your books.
Books with 160-300 pgs: 10 pts
Books with 301-450 pgs: 1 pts
Books with over 450 pgs: 5 pts
Cover Color Wars - August
This a war between the colors on the covers of books. Which color will win this month?
Green vs Red
August Monthly Minichallenge
Pick a team members name and spell it out or read books by an author with the same name. You may use the first word of the title, first or last name of the author, or first word of the series for the spell out option.
Sept mini
oct mini
nov mini
~ Seven Percent Solution ~
For seven weeks in June and July, the challenge we put forward to all the Teams is 7%! If only one Team completes this task, we will award them seven (7) additional books/points. If it is split, as it was for May, we will award each Team reaching the goal four (4) additional books/points. Any Team that completes at least three (3) of the following categories, for a total of 21 books, will receive a one (1) book advantage.
There are 12 months in a year. Since the main goal is to reach is 1350, and you want to stay on track, that means you need to read 112.5 books a month. We’ll round down to 112, because seven divides so nicely into it. We’ll give you a little leeway and set the goal as a little less than half your Team’s books - at 49 - plus give you an extra couple weeks. Works out to be a book a day. ☺
It is NOT mandatory that all Team Members participate. You may do this challenge as a Team, or have only one member do it. Yes, one member may do one book or some or all seven books from one category. For example, one member may read, for Category #2 Color of the Team Ranked Ahead, three books and leave the remaining four for their other Team Members.
In addition, if a Team Member says they are NOT going to participate due to time constraints or lack of interest, but a watchful Captain or Co-Captain notices that one of their books applies towards a challenge category, said Captain/Co-Captain may use the book.
GOAL: Your Team’s mission is to read 49 books. That would be seven books from a choice of seven categories. Yes, you may read 14 books from one category that you adore (essentially doing it twice), and ignore another completely. However, you may NOT read two books from one category and five from another to equal seven. Nor, if you are doing a category twice, read 10 from one and four from another. Any book finished April 12th or after.
DURATION: June 1 - July 19, 2013. You have seven weeks to complete this challenge. This would only include any book finished in that time period.
1. “Behind Enemy Lines”: Go “Behind Enemy Lines” and have some of your members read books that are from the enemies’ bookshelves. Yes, more than one person may read the same book. Please state the Team and person from whose shelf you are stealing.
2. Color Ahead: Read books with a cover that has a predominant color of the Team ranked ahead of you in the last Sunday Update of May or June. If your Team is ranked first, then use the color of the Team ranked last.
3. Color Behind: Read books with a cover that has a predominant color of the Team ranked just behind you in the last Sunday Update of May or June. If your Team is ranked last, then use the color of the Team ranked first.
4. Book of the Month or “Buddy Read”: Read books that are a NBRC BOM or “buddy read” AND participate in the posting Discussion Questions. (Please check with Mod running the discussion about the day’s DQs for which you want to volunteer.) NOTE EDIT BELOW! Yes, you may ask to have a “buddy read” set-up for a particular book. It must be posted in the regular NBRC group, under the alphabetical authors’ listings, and includes the regular NBRC members not involved in the Tower Teams Reading Challenge. You may all read the same book, or pick and choose which ones you want to read, or from those already designated.
5. Spell-It-Out: Read books whose title, author’s (first or last), or series name would spell “N.B.R.C. T.O.W.E.R. T.E.A.M.S. R.E.A.D.I.N.G. C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E.” You may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, and, the), if that helps. Special Note: You can ONLY use a letter as many times as it occurs. For example, you may have two people read a book with a title, author or series name that starts with “T,” but you may NOT have three people doing so. Yes, you only have to do seven books. Unless you choose to do it twice, or even thrice, in which case you still MAY NOT repeat the letters, unless they are repeated in the spelling.
6. From May’s R-a-T Mini Challenges: Read books with a predominantly green color; or have a flower on the cover; or are set in a favorite holiday destination; or have a moon on the cover; or have a iconic landmark or monument on the cover; or would spell out “A.N.Y. R.O.S.E.” (same rules apply as for #5). Yes, you may count one book that has a flower, one that has a landmark, and one that helps spell “any rose” to reach a combined total of seven (7) books.
7. Seven: Read books with seven letters in the title. Read books that have seven words in the title. You may include the series name, or not, and you may ignore the indefinite and definite articles (a, an, and, the), whichever is to your benefit. Or read books that are the seventh book in a series. Or are written by an author with seven letters in their first, last, or combined names - and initials, if that helps. Or you may read books, that total seven words with the title, series name, and author combined. (Example: Summer Knight, The Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher.) Or if the title has the word “seven” in the title. Or read a book that was originally published in the seventh month (July). Or you may spell out “S.E.V.E.N. U.P.” using the same spell-it-out criteria mentioned above.
REPEATING: Please note that Category #5 is the only category you may repeat three times, and ignore two other categories. All others, you may repeat twice, and choose to ignore one other category.
POSTING: Captain and Co-Captains, please only post in this thread when a category is finished . Please Note: Once you have posted a category as finished, that is it. NO SWAPPING AROUND BOOKS, ONCE A CATEGORY IS POSTED.
Captains and Co-Captains, you may start a thread over in the "sister group," or have your discussion in the regular NBRC group thread.
~ “Buddy Reads” and the 7% Solution Challenge ~
With regards to the 7% Solution Challenge taking place within the Tower Teams Reading Challenge, the Mods have decided that you do NOT need to create a day’s worth of DQs to satisfy Category #4 - Books of the Month or any impromptu “buddy reads.”
As far as the current BOMs, the Mods would appreciate any help (and there might be a cupcake or two in it for your Team, if you do a set).
Note: We added start dates to the threads’ titles.
Requirement for 7% Completion
Nevertheless, we stipulate that members participating in that challenge need to give more than a two sentence statement. Something more than, “I loved it. But hated the cliffhanger at the end...” repeatedly, member after member.
One example we liked was a comment or two at the end of every chapter or two where people put these under “view spoiler” (view spoiler). This is fine with us, though that makes it difficult to access for members reading on their phones.
Therefore, there needs to be some kind of designated stopping points for discussion - by chapters with view spoilers, as mentioned, or defined sections - agreed upon or defined by someone willing to make the suggestion.
If you like, you may reserve a post that refers the Mods to your comments.
Example (For this example, they all go to the same post; hopefully, you get the idea.)
Steven - link to my comments 6/10 on The Hobbit
Steven - link to my comments 6/12 on The Hobbit
Steven - link to my comments 6/14 on The Hobbit
Link to Forest Green August Challenge thread
~ For August the Mods are Taking the Month Off
...and Letting You Do the All the Work ~
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 character names!
Links in this index post refer to the descriptive post in this thread, links in the descriptive post about the challenge will lead to the challenge thread.
Ongoing Monthly Team Minichallenges It would be helpful if you post books for these challenges in the threads, but not completely necessary
Points for Pages Points and page limits may change from month to month
Cover Color Wars Two random colors are chosen each month to see which cover color is read the most
Monthly Team Minichallenges
August
September
October
November
Mod Originated Challenges for BAP Please post the books you read and how they will be used in the correct challenge thread.
June/July 7% Solution Challenge This challenge was finished while team was forming so there is no separate thread, all comments are in regular team thread
August Mods Summer Vacation
September
October
November