Double Event: April: Egg Hunt Team Challenge - Teams & general discussion

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

As I couldn't think of any way to do an actual Easter Egg Hunt as an online reading team challenge, here is my alternative suggestion:
We'll call the points you can achieve for your group eggs, and the group with the fullest egg basket in the end wins... ^^'

Challenge Duration: April 1-30, 2021

Registration for the challenge:
To take part, just make a post in this topic saying so. Everybody can join in!
Please post your registration until March 27th, 6pm EST so that I can sort you all into teams before the start. The teams will be revealed on the same evening.

Challenge Rules:
1) Each book you finish in April can earn eggs (i.e. points) for your group.
2) For a book to count, you must post it to this thread with the name of your team and the list of things it achieved eggs for. Example:

I finished [book name] for Team [team name]! (1 egg)
635 pages: 3 eggs
a rabbit on the cover: 2 eggs
eggs mentioned at least once: 2 eggs
Colour green on the cover: 1 egg
Female author: 1 egg
Number in title: 1 egg
Total eggs earned: 11 eggs

3) Do not forget to pledge books for your team on the group homepage (and to create the corresponding shelf for the challenge). If your group fulfills the book pledge, it'll earn 10 additional eggs!
Here is a guide to joining the challenge on the Challenge page with pictures!
Team Bronte's Challenge Page
Team Shakespeare's Challenge Page
Team Baudelaire's Challenge Page
4) Have fun and don't forget to cheer for your team ;-)

List of egg-earning attributes:
1) book finished in April: 1 egg
2) 400-499 pages: 1 egg
3) 500-599 pages: 2 eggs
4) 600-699 pages: 3 eggs
5) > 699 pages: 4 eggs
6) a rabbit on the cover: 2 eggs
7) "egg(s)" mentioned at least once: 2 eggs
8) Female author: 1 egg
9) Favourite author: 1 egg
10) BIPoC author: 1 egg
11) LGBTQ+ author: 1 egg
12) colour green on cover: 1 egg
13) number in title: 1 egg
14) title has at least four words: 1 egg
15) title has only one word: 1 egg
16) first person narrator: 1 egg
17) multiple narrative points of view: 1 egg
18) book of a genre you don't usually read: 1 egg
19) book has won a literary prize: 1 egg
20) book is part of a series: 1 egg
21) book is a debut: 1 egg
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April now is a Month of a Double (Challenge) Event, together with our regular monthly challenge we're having our first readathon to celebrate the group's growth, 150+ Members Jubilee Readathon.

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PS: I won't take part myself unless there's no way to sort you into equal groups otherwise.
PPS: The teams are all named for dead authors born in April. ;-)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Participants:

Team Shakespeare:
Noor
Niharika
arwyn_d
Anika
Katrīna
Lost soul
iamaunicornwithyellowfeet

Team Bronte:
Lorelei
Surya
Shreya
• Ari •
Taylor {I don't understand fishing metaphors!}
Ƥiya
Naomi

Team Baudelaire:
Blob Fest!
Katie
Sharon
Eloise
Lia
Aria
Addie

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Registration for the April Challenge is open now!

Please read the first post and ask if anything is unclear.

If you want to join in, please register until March 27th!

[nαомι]

I want to join!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Naomi wrote: "I want to join!"

Yay! The first Egg Hunter!

[Anika]

I want to join , please

[Katrīna]

I’m interested in this as well 😁

[stu , in charge of BOTM]

I wanna join?

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Welcome, Anika, Katrina, and Blob Fest!

This makes at least two Egg Hunter Duos already :-)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Quick reminder that there's still time to join April's Egg Hunt Challenge!

[Dreamer]

I would like to join too :)

[Niharika✩]

me too!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Very good! That gives us 2 Egg Hunter Trios so far!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Welcome on board, arwyn_d!

[Niharika✩]

Hey. I'm going to be busy with another challenge for the first few days of April and won't participate in this one. Just relevant information.

Also, if this is too much to ask, I'd love to help out with challenges...

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Niharika wrote: "Hey. I'm going to be busy with another challenge for the first few days of April and won't participate in this one. Just relevant information.

Also, if this is too much to ask, I'd love to help ou..."

Awww, sorry to loose you for the challenge, but thanks for letting me know so soon :-)

Sure, help is always appreciated.
If it's suggestions, etc., you're having please always let me know here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
If it's something else you're thinking of, message me :-)

[Niharika✩]

Auntie Terror wrote: "Niharika wrote: "Hey. I'm going to be busy with another challenge for the first few days of April and won't participate in this one. Just relevant information.

Also, if this is too much to ask, I'..."

No. I meant that I won't participate for the first days of April. Which means you'll lose me for the first few days, not the whole challenge.

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Ah, ok - fixed that. I'll think of a way to compensate for that for your team ;-)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Nope, registration's open till Saturday, and you're very welcome on board :-)

[Lorelei]

I'd like to join!

[Katie]

I'd like to join but how do the teams work? Do we sort ourseleves out or will we be put into groups?

[iamaunicornwithyellowfeet]

I’d like to join too!

[Surya]

I'd like to join 😁

[Sharon]

As long as I can remember the rules, this looks like fun! I'll join :)

[[deleted user]]

I'd like to join!

[Eloise]

Sounds fun, count me in please :)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Wow! Welcome, everybody!

The teams will be revealed on March 29th.
I'll lock this thread after March 27th until I've got you all sorted. Then it'll be open again for discussion and questions.

I'll open the second topic on April 1st for posting your finished books and related eggs ;-) Now that there are so many participants, I think that will make it easier for me to keep up with the egg-counting.

[Lia]

I want to join!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Lia wrote: "I want to join!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Welcome on board!

At the moment it seems that there'll be three teams with 6 hunters each. I'm very excited!

[Lia]

k thx!!!! :)

[Shreya ◠◡◠]

i want tooo joiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Welcome, Aria & Shreya, I'll update the list tomorrow. Looks like we might need a fourth team after all :D

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

I'll lock this topic on March 27th, ~6pm EDT.
So there are about 50 hours left to join now!

[addie]

Can I join? :))

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Sure :-) and very welcome!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

You did so on Tuesday already - or so I thought ^^'

[Piya]

Can we still join ? If yes add me in :)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Sure, there are about 3 hours left.

I'll add you to the list once I'm home, Piya - you're in. :-)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Inês :)) wrote: "im sorry but i changed my mind and i am not gonna join 😔
i feel like April is going to be a though month and i dont want to add more pressure on myself😊
good luck for everybody!"

Sorry to hear that - but thanks for letting us know in advance!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Topic temporarily locked - teams to be revealed soon!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Here are the teams and their respective challenge pages (which will be unlocked on March 31st)!

Team Shakespeare: Team Shakespeare's Challenge Page
Noor
Niharika
arwyn_d
Anika
Katrīna
༺ Lady Night ༻
iamaunicornwithyellowfeet

Team Bronte: Team Bronte's Challenge Page
Lorelei
Surya
Shreya
• Ari •
Taylor {I don't understand fishing metaphors!}
Ƥiya
Naomi

Team Baudelaire: Team Baudelaire's Challenge Page
Blob Fest!
Katie
Sharon
Eloise
Lia
Aria
Addie

From April 1st onward, don't forget to post your finished books in the finished books registry!

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Hello everybody,

I'm glad to see that the first people have already pledged their goals on their team pages!
I just opened the finished books registry topic for posts so that any book you finish from 0.00 o'clock on April 1st can be written down there right away.

I'm very excited to see how this challenge plays out. :-)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Hello Egg Hunters,

I know there's still time until the challenge closes. But just so you all are aware:

While the challenges on the challenge pages will close punctually on the stroke of midnight on April 30th, the Book Registry thread will stay open until May 1st 4pm EST, in case some people forgot to enter books they finished during April.

The winning team will be posted here, in this thread.

I hope you are all having fun.

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Just under one week left!

A reminder to all Egg Hunters:
Don't forget to check your team challenge and make sure that all your books are being registered properly. If you fulfill the challenge, your team will get an extra 10 points (which might be what decides upon the winner, as things are looking now).

[Eloise]

Extra stupid question to be asking near the end of the challenge, but
does *finish* in April mean books started before April but finished in the month still count?

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Yes, exactly :-)

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Just over 8 hours left to register books you finished in April in the book registry thread!

Also: both Team Shakespeare and Team Bronte will get 10 extra points for finishing their challenges on the challenge page!

[Eloise]

Auntie Terror wrote: "Yes, exactly :-)"

I feel exceptionally stupid - please imagine a facepalm gif here

[Auntie Terror, in charge of challenges]

Here are the final scores:

Team Egg Baskets:

Team Shakespeare: 427 eggs + 10 for completing their challenge = 437 eggs

Team Bronte: 342 eggs + 10 for completing their challenge = 352 eggs

Team Baudelaire: 254 eggs

Congratulations to Team Shakespeare, our winning team of the first team challenge!

[Niharika✩]

We win!!!