Read-a-Thon #4 - Team Challenge Introduction

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

It's almost time for the kick-off of our final read-a-thon of 2018 and what's more important in a team challenge than some good strategizing? So you have a bit of a head start to start looking at your TBR and to choose which books you want to tackle in the next week (plus a few days).

For those of you who participated in the third read-a-thon, this one will look familiar. For those who didn't, here's a brief introduction:

Your team will work together to complete the various challenge tasks, listed below. As you check off a square, it will be removed to reveal a portion of a popular book cover. The object of the game is to reveal all the covers and then guess the link between the covers. Technically, a book cover is complete once you are able to guess the book that the cover belongs to. But it's a little extra challenge to reveal the entire board.

Note: Tasks with a ❄️can be overlapped with the other tasks

1. Read 3,000 pages total (max 500 pages per team member) ❄️
2. Read a book with snow or ice on the cover
3. Complete 30 books total (max 4 per team member) ❄️
4. Read a book with a purple or blue cover
5. Read a book that fits a “reject” prompt
6. Read 5,000 pages total (max 1,000 pages per team member) ❄️

7. Read a book with a character born after 2000 (child main character)
8. Read a book first published in December or January (of any year)
9. Read 7,500 pages total (max 1,500 pages per team member) ❄️
10. Read a book with a cold or chilly atmosphere
11. Read a book that you borrowed from the library
12. Read a book with S-N-O-W in the title
13. Read 10 picture or children’s books (3 per member)

14. Listen to 30 hours of audiobook (max 5 hours per team member) ❄️
15. Listen to 45 hours of audiobook (max 9 hours per team member ❄️
16. Read a comic book or graphic novel
17. Complete every read-a-thon game
18. Read a book set in a country different from your own

19. Read a book with a beautiful cover
20. Read a non-fiction book
21. Finish a book or story in one sitting ❄️
22. Read 6 books that count for the AtY challenge (max 2 per member) ❄️
23. A book by a new author (one you haven't read before)
24. Complete 40 books total (max 8 per team member) ❄️

The board game will be in this format, with 6 total covers, each composed of 4 "task" squares.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Team 1
Mindy (team leader)
Edie
Lieke
Diana
Traci
Joan
Tabitha
Shelley
Erica
Mini
Veronica

Team 2
Sabrina (team leader)
Beth
Brittany
Tracy
Johanne
Sarah E
Kathy Jo
Marin
Joanne
Jody
Shannon

Team 3
Chrissy (team leader)
Rachel
Ellie
Tammy
Liz
Ira
Michelle
Jennifer
Kelly
Hilde
MJ

Team 4
Emily (team leader)
Bernadette
Kathy
Lauren
Marina H
Silvia
Evelyn
Debra
Rachelnyc
Samantha

[Rachelnyc]

Yeah, I'm so excited for this! I know this is asked every time but can you clarify once again how many pages (or hours for audiobook) need to be remaining in a book for it to count? Or is it a percentage of the book that matters?

[Sabrina]

Should we make separate team threads?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

FAQ's

How many pages (or hours for audiobook) need to be remaining in a book for it to count?
Books started before the read-a-thon, with at least 100 pages left can be counted toward the game.

Non-snowflake tasks cannot overlap with each other, but can snowflake tasks only overlap with each other?
The snowflake tasks can be overlapped with non-snowflake tasks.

For the "Complete every Read-A-Thon game", is that just one person completing all of them? Or at least one person from the team participating in every one of them?
At least one person from the team must participate in each game. All team members do not need to complete all games.

Which day-one games count towards "Complete Every Read-A-Thon Game"?
Only the Kick-off post. All others (Bingo, Miles of Pages, Progress Post, and Completed Books) are separate activities or ways to track the read-a-thon.

For a book that is being counted for audio hours, can we also count the pages covered?
Books can be counted for either audio hours or pages, not both. If you've filled your audio requirement, you can convert the rest of the audiobook to pages read & use it for pages.

Theres an 8 book/participant max towards the 40 books task, but if we read past 8 books can those extra books still count for other tasks?
You can count your ninth book toward one of the other tasks.

How do we count the pages in the "read 500/1000/2500 pages total"?
The pages read are progressive/cumulative. For example, if you have read 100 pages, each box would have 100. If you read 300, you would have 100, 200, 300.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Team threads will be posted shortly :)

Team leaders will be in charge of tallying the group progress, likely using Emily's spreadsheet ;)

I will post the main thread and update the team boards every morning, using the tallies supplied by the team leader.

i.e. If the team leader says square 1 is complete, I will remove it.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

I just laid down in bed for sleep when I saw this! Now I want to get back up and start spreadsheeting haha! I’ll put together a template in the morning that each group can use, if they want.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Note:

I have left the level of difficulty very similar to that of the previous read-a-thon. I know many team finished early and required a second board during the previous activity. But it is very unclear how much people will get read due to the holidays. So we will definitely add additional boards if need be.

[Marin]

If you're in the middle of a book at the start of the read-a-thon, can it count towards the book challenges? For example, I am in the middle of a book with snow on the cover. Could finishing it count towards challenge #2, or should it be a book started and finished during the read-a-thon?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

You can count a book as long as it has at least 100 pages left :)

[Sabrina]

What does the "read a book with a character born before 2019" mean exactly? Isn't that just any character that's not a baby or isn't in a futuristic dystopian?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Working on the spreadsheet now. Laura, for clarity, if we add a second board, could we continue on with numbering the prompts. For example, instead of having a board that is 1-24, and then a second board that is 1-24, could we just start with 25 for the second board?

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Here's the link to Group 4's spreadsheet, if anyone wants to copy it over!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

[Johanne]

Looks good, Oh Emily, Queen of Spreadsheets.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Thanks haha! It was an easy conversion from the last Read-A-Thon.

[Johanne]

I still bow down in awe of your skills ;)

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Sabrina wrote: "What does the "read a book with a character born before 2019" mean exactly? Isn't that just any character that's not a baby or isn't in a futuristic dystopian?"

Thank you for catching that Sabrina. I was very sleepy last night when I was finishing things up.

It is after 2000. So a child main character :)

[Chrissy]

In which thread do captains report team progress to get squares uncovered?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

In the dedicated thread for each time. For you, that would be team 3. I’m away from my computer but it should be titled “Team 3 Discussion Thread”

[Sabrina]

Is there a game today?

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

The game for today is the “Kick-Off” :)

[Mindy]

Laura, if several of us from a group are doing the same task, that's okay, right? If the main idea is to finish the 24 tasks, does it help anything if some tasks are repeated multiple times, other than it adding to our total pages and total books?

It's my first time, obviously. I want to be a good team leader. :-)

[Edie]

Mindy wrote: "Laura, if several of us from a group are doing the same task, that's okay, right? If the main idea is to finish the 24 tasks, does it help anything if some tasks are repeated multiple times, other ..."

There is a second grid... lurking out there and last time our team went through two grids. Having a second book to fill in on that grid could come in handy. I would say books completed and pages read count whether or not they fit one of the "unique" tasks.

I completed the "Kick-off" task.

[Edie]

Mindy wrote: "Laura, if several of us from a group are doing the same task, that's okay, right? If the main idea is to finish the 24 tasks, does it help anything if some tasks are repeated multiple times, other ..."

Also, in cases where a book could count for more than one task (blue cover and something else) and the something else is a task uncompleted, you may want to move the books around to optimize what is checked off.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Did we have a game posted yesterday? (Dec 25)

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

No, we didn’t :( I had the intention but the holiday got the best of me. There will be one posted later today and then for the rest of the read-a-thon.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

No worries! I think the holiday got the best of everyone haha!