BINGO R8 | Discussion Thread

[[deleted user]]

Team #5 is Ferocious Five!!!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yep all team names have been added already. Just look up ladies ;)

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Debbie - barely here ☺ - wrote: "Team 7 has no captain or name quite yet (and one member not checked in) -- but I think at least our card is correct.

ETA: all checked in."

Thanks for letting me know about your card!

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Jennifer ♔Princess Penguin♔ wrote: "Team 4 is now "Fantastic Four" and I'm the captain. Everything matches on our Bingo card."

Thanks for the card info! And name/captain!

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Just waiting for card verifications!

Thank you everyone!!
Happy reading!

Checked cards:
Team 1
Team 2
Team 3
Team 4
Team 5
Team 6
Team 7
Team 8

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

And just did my team's card on behalf of our captain since I was already here "working" on this.

Team 3 OK.

[Regina]

Team 5's is okay.

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Regina wrote: "Team 5's is okay."

Thank you, Regina!

[Turtlecollector Dennis]

Team 2's card looks OK.

[Ezi]

Team 6's card looks ok...though I'm not sure what would be wrong

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Thanks! I input the shelves by hand, so sometimes there are "wrong" spaces on the board (on the google drive link, not the team thread official boards) which would make for some confusion as we are all scouting for who is going to get Bingo...

[Lauren]

Team 8's card is OK too.

[Thenia]

Team #1 captain reporting for duty: I'd already verified our card when they were posted, all good there.

I'll get back to you with our team name. ;)

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Thanks for the spreadsheet, Judithe! So nice to see 'um that way and see where everyone stands.

Yes, Christina, play along :)

Sorry about the fuzzy bingo cards. I'm not sure why, but I'm just happy they're showing up at all at this point.

[Mandy]

Team 3 looks good the card matches up.
We have no name yet. I'm also trying my hand at captain scary I know.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

;) You're doin' great, Cap! We'll should decide on a name soon though. I'm cool with whatever everyone likes.

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Thenia wrote: "Team #1 captain reporting for duty: I'd already verified our card when they were posted, all good there.

I'll get back to you with our team name. ;)"

Thenia, are we talking about the same card? I'm referring to the spreadsheet (link on page 2). Just confirming, THANKS!!

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Steph wrote: ";) You're doin' great, Cap! We'll should decide on a name soon though. I'm cool with whatever everyone likes."
Thanks, Mandy! You're doing great!

[Thenia]

Team #1 has a name: Read for Speed, since this is a speed round. :)

[Thenia]

Judithe wrote: "Thenia, are we talking about the same card? I'm referring to the spreadsheet (link on page 2). Just confirming, THANKS!! "

Checked again just to be sure I didn't miss anything and everything is as it should be with all our cards.

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Thanks, Thenia!!

[Daffodil]

Wow. I went on vacation for a week and missed out big time. LOL.

Good luck everyone!

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Like the name, Thenia & Team 1 gang. :)

Sorry, Daffodil, it came together rather quickly. Definitely hope you'll join us for our 2014 rounds.

[Daffodil]

I'll be there!

[Regina]

Team 5 lost a team member ...

[Deidre]

How did I miss this announcement? Be happy to fill in if a team is short.

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Thanks, but actually, for this round, we said in advance that drop outs would not be replaced. But, I'll keep ya'll in mind if that changes.

[Deidre]

Steph wrote: "Thanks, but actually, for this round, we said in advance that drop outs would not be replaced. But, I'll keep ya'll in mind if that changes."

Yeah, I just read the sign up thing. This would have been perfect for me, wish I knew what happened to my notice! Good luck to all, and I love the read or get booted idea...;-)

[Steph, Serious series addict]

Sorry, Deidre! Hate ya'll missing out on it. It came together rather quickly. Promise more will come in 2014. :D (many have mentioned liking the 3-book-boot idea, so that may stick around)

[Regina]

I love that rule too. Thanks for constantly improving this game.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Maybe for the regular round of BINGO, with the 3-book-boot idea, a sub can be called in to finish.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yep, distinct possibility Debbie. For this round as it was designed for speed we thought it would be inappropriate to add players.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Wow. No pacing yet? Having two books to read must be slowing down the pacers :DDD

[D.G.]

Shelves, shelves!!!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

:DDD

[Lis]

Shelf! Shelf! Shelf! X2

[Judithe, Soap Operas never end....]

Multiply those by a factor of 10... Sandra, it's Sunday....

[Mandy]

Shelf! Shelf!!!

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Shelf! Shelf!

[[deleted user]]

ok. so if someone only does one review before the next set of shelves are called they are already one book behind right? so if they wanted to catch up they would have to read that shelf plus the ones called before the next set is called...did i understand that correctly?

[D.G.]

Yes, Delmy. You got it.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Personally I think, due to all the timezone differences, there should be a 24-hour from shelf call leeway rule on that one. (I'm caught up but it's Saturday afternoon here for me and will still be Saturday when the "Sunday morning" shelf call happens.)

[D.G.]

I don't think it matters because we can start reading as soon as the shelves are called on our time zones, we don't have to wait until it's Sunday morning our time. And anyhow, we have 3 strikes so a player can be consistently behind two books and it won't matter.

[Regina]

Agreed.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

I just meant that for some members it's the wee hours of the night; not everyone will wakeup at 3 or 4 am to post a review to make the presumed deadline.

If this round is like other BINGO rounds, the shelf call doesn't always happen at the exact same time of day. And if the call isn't an exact time of day, it's unfair to make the cutoff rule the same time as shelf call or an exact time on the same day as. A 12-24 hour leeway let's everyone wake up and attend to their postings.

Or if it is going to be an exact cutoff hour, then that should be posted (specifying Sydney timezone, GMT or whatever).

[Regina]

But it isn't a true cut off. You can still submit the review after the shelf call. There is no penalty.

[Debbie's Spurts (D.A.)]

Regina wrote: "But it isn't a true cut off. You can still submit the review after the shelf call. There is no penalty."

I missed that in the rules. I just read that 3 books behind and you were out and wasn't really sure when the cutoff was.

Then Delmy posted on message 140 asking "ok. so if someone only does one review before the next set of shelves are called they are already one book behind right? so if they wanted to catch up they would have to read that shelf plus the on..." So I got confused and suggested that maybe it should be a leeway/cutoff that gave all timezones a chance to post same day as shelf call. Day as in daylight hours.

[[deleted user]]

I just wanted to make sure i understood that particular rule. Finals are coming up for me and i wanted to have good understanding in case i fell behind. Thanks for everyone clarifying it for me!
:)

[Regina]

We can behind a certain number - right? Am I wrong?

[Steph, Serious series addict]

D.G. wrote: "... We have 3 strikes so a player can be consistently behind two books and it won't matter."

Regina wrote: "But it isn't a true cut off. You can still submit the review after the shelf call. There is no penalty."

Both correct. The shelf announcement is what I'm using as a guideline/deadline for myself. It is universal for all teams. The announcement does happen at different times depending on where we all fall on the map, but it's still a week later for all of us (give or take a few hours either way). For some (same hemi as Sandra & Judithe), the week runs from Sun-Sun others Sat-Sat, etc.