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ARCHIVE Team Challenge: UNO 2016
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Daphne
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Feb 09, 2016 10:05PM
I'll 5th it for sure! Thank you Karen. :)
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6th (late to the party). Karen, great work!
OMG, I can't wait!!!Where is my team??
Sooomewheeeeere over the rainbooooow.... ;-)
TeeheeMy computer crashed yesterday so I'll try and do more number crunching today. It may still be a few days until I he team threads together :)
I swear I haven't touched your computer! :o(I always get blamed for any and all computer issues) ;)
Karen wrote: "TeeheeMy computer crashed yesterday so I'll try and do more number crunching today. It may still be a few days until I he team threads together :)"
Looking forwards to meeting my team - but don't envy you all the behind the scenes stuff - is a HUGE task!
Will try really, really hard to be patient - have books, have wine, have chocolate - yep I can cope! :)
Eldarwen wrote: "Sooomewheeeeere over the rainbooooow.... ;-)"please, bring me money $$$$$$$ lol
Sorry, the leprechauns keep evading me!! D:
Boo! Computer issues are no fun. Sending positive wishes your way, Karen.
Thanks ;)It is a really old computer (still has Windows XP!) as I pretty much do everything on the ipad. However, there are certain things that are much better on a desktop... like MS Excel which is what I use to put the teams together.
Sorry...cat is bouncing around like an idiot.......Anyway, I just signed up and hope to be in this challenge.
;) Welcome Jennifer
Here's a teaser for you...
* We will start with 13 teams
--I have only named 4 so far - They are Muppets, Peanuts, Scooby Doo, Princesses. (no you can't request to be on one of those as I've already done the team assignments for 13 teams!)
*I have 9 teams still to be named... happy to take suggestions ; I am taking them from the UNO special edition card pack names (and not re-using those names we had last year)
*We will be starting off with 13 hands of UNO. This is because we have some players this year with large numbers of books they read per month
*Speaking of large numbers, we have one member who reads 100 books per month! So she has agreed to her own individual reading page requirement of 300 page books to be able to count for the challenge (to bring her back to about 60 books per month ;) )
* We will have one ALL Europe members and one ALL Aus/NZ team this year
*I am in spreadsheet heaven... or is that hell? Using the RANDOM function to randomise hands for 13 teams and then create 13 spreadsheets.... and then create 13 team threads.... and then I will need to post them... so... uhm... give me a few days :)
Woo hoo. All Aus/NZ team. Can't wait. Thanks for the teaser, Karen.
Karen wrote: "Here's a teaser for you...
* We will start with 13 teams
--I have only named 4 so far - They are Muppets, Peanuts, Scooby Doo, Princesses. (no you can't request to be on one of those as I've alr..."
I googled and I found a lot of special editions, just as:
One Piece
Frozen
Angry Birds
Hot Wheels
Minions
The Big Bang Theory
Barbie
POKEMON (!!!)
MARIO BROS. (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) :O I want this one, where can I find it?
Family Guy
Glee
Sponge Bob
Looks awesome Karen! Im so excited to meet my team!Given my name, yay for using Scooby-Doo as a team name. :)
Lol Babitix, I've been wondering the same thing as well - some of those decks, I really, really want! Never seen anything but normal Uno in shops though unfortunately.
Yay Karen!!Wonderful teaser :-D So looking forward to this.
I'm curious now if the all Europe team will be peanuts... ;-)
I'm definitely unhappy with your European/NZ little game :PThat's not fair!!!! (ok, I'm jealous)
Karen wrote: "Here's a teaser for you...
* We will start with 13 teams
--I have only named 4 so far - They are Muppets, Peanuts, Scooby Doo, Princesses. (no you can't request to be on one of those as I've alr..."
100 BOOKS A MONTH?!?!?! *faints*
Move over Drishti I'm fainting with you - 100 books A MONTH is 1,200 a year!Swoon!
Gosh, just imagine being able to read so many books! It would give you at least a little hope to get all the books read you want to read in a lifetime. Now it's just a dream far far away haha.
Eldarwen wrote: "Gosh, just imagine being able to read so many books! It would give you at least a little hope to get all the books read you want to read in a lifetime. Now it's just a dream far far away haha."Yes, very, very far away ;)
And signing up for challenges where you basically add more books than you manage to read doesn't help either ;)
(Neither does it help having friends that keep recommending books to read...) ;-)
My sentiment exactly, Eldarwen. Anyone else wake up in the middle of the night in a bit of a panic thinking about how they'll never get to read all the books they want? My husband still thinks I'm crazy when it comes to reading and he's been dealing with me for 40 years!Karen, thanks again for all your work. I vote we all buy you a new computer! :)
My husband did the math on 100 books a month. Assuming 300 pages per book, 6 hours per day reading for 30 days, it takes 2.1 seconds to read a page!!!
Thanks for all your hard work Karen!!!I don't know what you used last year but my suggestions are:
TMNT (yay!)
Mario Bros
Care Bears
Wizard of Oz
X-Men
Nightmare Before Christmas
Harry Potter (no doubt this was used last year lol)
I would love to be able to read 100 books per month. I think my 12 year old daughter could do it lol She was home sick from school last week and she read 4 books in a day! I was a bit jealous to say the least!! Unfortunately, a little thing like school and homework and sports gets in the way of her reading. ;)
Sally906 wrote: "Move over Drishti I'm fainting with you - 100 books A MONTH is 1,200 a year!Swoon!"
I hadn't recovered enough from 100 books a month to do the math for 1200 books a year. But, now you tell...... *faints again*
Nanci wrote: "My husband did the math on 100 books a month. Assuming 300 pages per book, 6 hours per day reading for 30 days, it takes 2.1 seconds to read a page!!!"I finally did some math too. Assuming there are thirty days in a month, the person reads approximately 3 books a day!! I can't even finish one! LOL!
I've finished 3 in a day before. Those are days I'm working a long night shift and I can listen to 8-12 hours strait of audiobooks. Then an hour or so of paper/ereading. I actually really like those days because I can completely fall into listening to a book.
100 books a month??? I can't even imagine or comprehend this!!! I'm lucky if I finish a chapter a night, just kidding but really how do you do this???
I was once in a challenge with someone who read 300 books per month. There are some HUGE readers using Goodreads! Granted, many of her books were less than 100 pages, but it was still amazing
Huge thanks to Annika who volunteered to be my spreadsheet minion and complete all our sheets while I was sleeping :)That means that teams are posted!
Spreadsheet of assignments is here
Captains - I suggest you PM your team members if they haven't arrived over the next few days. We will then sort out any reserves/changes to be made by the 25th
Thanks for all your work ladies! Looks great. I'm excited to get started.
Daphne wrote: "I've finished 3 in a day before. Those are days I'm working a long night shift and I can listen to 8-12 hours strait of audiobooks. Then an hour or so of paper/ereading. I actually really like thos..."I've done 3 in a day too - but the day I did that I was in a plane for 13 hours!!! The books were all less than 300 pages as I didn't want to take heavy books on the plane and do in my bag allowance!!
It looks so good - I was so excited to see the threads to up! Great names - and lots of fun teams!
Awesome ladies :-)Minions are such useful things... ;-)
Thank you, Karen and Annika!! This is a lot of work!
Thank you Karen & Annika!! Can't wait to start!
Scooby Doo song is playing in my head! See you all on the Uno side and have fun!
Lol Nanci. Glad I'm not the only one that happened to ;)
I just signed up as a reserve player - somehow I don`t think I should be as nervous as I am xD
TeeheeDon't be nervous :)
I generally find there are always a few people that don't end up joining their teams (real life gets in the way) so we should be able to assign you before the challenge starts. I'll review any gaps we have and assign reserves after the 25th
Where are the Simpsons???I am the only one from South America. I'm feeling kinda lonely ):
Karen wrote: "It makes you unique :)Here they are: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."
You are so nice! Thank you (:
