Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Team Xena



Members

• Carmen Co-Captain
• Monica Co-Captain
• Alison
• Sarah Groth
• Filipa
• Catherine
• Kathleen
• Zanyar Kamaran

Spreadsheets
Master Spreadsheet

Team Spreadsheet

- Once all columns of a goal have been filled out a new goal will appear within 5 minutes.

- Do not change existing pages. You may add a new page to your spreadsheet if you want to track additional information.

- Mark books as used in your books list once they are used for a goal.

- Only books read during the current round may be applied towards goals, once the round has ended those books may no longer be used for a goal.

- Once you merge teams, you may use your books for your partner teams goals. List them in your books list and on their goals sheet. Mark them as used.

- If you end up with more than 3 open goals, contact a moderator for help.

Hi Sarah and everyone else. Very excited to be on team Xena.

Hi all!! Is everyone ready to get started?

Can't wait. I have been challengeless for almost a week now so feeling a bit lost :)

Hi team!! Checking in, can't wait to start. :)

Hi everybody. I didn't know the teams were posted. Wow I'm glad I caught of of the other teams posting or I wouldn't have known. I hope everyone is ready for battle :)

Monica I 'm going to save a few spots for us since the Mods must have forgotten to do that.

Team Bookshelves
Carmen~ gladiator games
Monica nbrc gladiator challenge
Alison~ gladiator games
Filipa~ gladiator games
Sarah~ the gladiator games
Catherine~ nbrc gladiator games
Kathleen~ gladiator games
Zanyar~ nbrc gladiator

Challenge Rule:

◈ The battles take place between each team at the end of the round.

◈ A gladiator may gain an advantage through two methods: attack and defense.

◈ Attack points are awarded for reading books. (Half a point of attack for books under 500 pages and 1 point of attack for books 500+ pages)

◈ Defense points are awarded for completing goals. (1 point of defense per goal)

◈ If a teams defense is higher than the attacker's attack power, the hit from the attacker will be 0.

◈ Books read towards defense goals also count towards attack points.

◈ There will be 3 defense goals active for each gladiator, when one is submitted on the spreadsheet, another will be automatically generated a short time after.

◈ Any book read during the current round may be used to complete goals.

◈ Books read in a previous round may not be used on new goals.

◈ Attack and defense points carry on into the next round and are added to your gladiator teams total point value.

◈ Ties in battle will result in both sides receiving a victory point.

Battle Week 1 Goals
Read a book with a weapon on the cover.
Read a book whose author (first or last name) starts with an R.
Read a book where a character is a teacher.
Read a book that is book 6,7,8,9 in a series
Read a book with a planet, star, sun or moon on the cover
Read a book with a red cover
Read a book that starts with the letter X
Read a book which has the main location (setting) as Europe
Read a book first published in December
Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Classic
Read a book first published on the 30th of a month
Read a book where a character is a witch/wizard
Read a book first published on the 9th of a month
Read a book with the main genre (listed on the first page on GR) as Spiritual
Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with F
Read a book that is in the Amazon 2005 bestsellers (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/...)

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Go right ahead Carmen. Not sure if I should reserve any. Getting excited and nervous about this game.

Sarah all I know is we have to read at least one book in 2 weeks. I will learn as I play.

Monica wrote: "Go right ahead Carmen. Not sure if I should reserve any. Getting excited and nervous about this game."

I am too. If you want you can reserve some if you think of anything that we might need it for later. I'm going to put the rules and the teams shelves. It might be easier to check posted books.

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Sarah wrote: "Carmen or Monica

Do you want link's to our shelves for the books?"

I've been working on some of your shelves but some don't have a specific shelf or they are private but once you have the shelf I would greatly appreciate the link :)

Your ok Sarah. I have your shelf. If you see the post I made. If you click on your shelf name. It will go directly to it. So you are ok. Only the one's with the missing shelves are missing.

Sarah wrote: "Sorry did not see that you posted that. Thanks!"

Your welcome. I might have been working on it while you were posting LOL

"She was Xena, a mighty Princess forged in the heat of battle!"

Eni wrote: ""She was Xena, a mighty Princess forged in the heat of battle!""

Hahahaha Hi Eni :)

Hai :D I may or may not have been a Xena fan when I was a teenager xD

Eni wrote: "Hai :D I may or may not have been a Xena fan when I was a teenager xD"

Hahahaha That's ok.

The master spreadsheet and team spreadsheet has been added to the beginning of your team thread.

Captains and co-captains should message the moderator account with their team name and google doc e-mail to be added to the approved editors of the team spreadsheet.

Here's the link to my shelf - Gladiator games

Hi, Looks like you've all been busy while I've been sleeping.

Apparently my goodreads app hates this thread as it keeps crashing everytime i try to open it :( so appologies now if I miss anything.

I've set up my shelf but not sure how to put up a link. Can you find it?

Was going to check our clues and start planning my reads but can't access the spreadsheet. Is it just me?

Good morning team.

Alison I'll take care of it later today. I'm on the app now and can't really do much on as you know LOL

Alison wrote: "Was going to check our clues and start planning my reads but can't access the spreadsheet. Is it just me?"

No, our team spreadsheet link is coming back to this thread. Now I'm curious about our goals. :p

That's because there was no link :)

Fixed now.

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "That's because there was no link :)

Fixed now."

Fab. Thank you.

Thanks! :)

Sarah wrote: "I have a question... Can you read more then one book for a goal? Like for the Read a book whose author (first or last) starts with R can you read all your books for that goal or just one book a goal??"

Only one book counts for each goal. So after one of you read R book, you'll get new task.

We are not saying that only one person can read book for a goal, but there is no point for it. As far as I see most teams will have first comes thing going on. Meaning, few people might be reading book for a same task, but book that is read first will be the one that goes for it. It kinda makes sense since it's better for a team to finish task quickly and get new one. More tasks finished, more points
Now, even if you are reading book for a goal and someone else is faster, your book can still be used for another goal. Or it can be used for attack points.
Every read book during challenge (that fits requirement) can and will be used just not all in the same way. :)

But in the end it's up to team and your captain how you'll work on tasks. Will one person read for one task, or more, up to you.

So do we have a plan of how we want to do this? Do we want to allocate clues or just all do our own thing and see who finishes a book that fits first?

Please welcome your new team member Zanyar Kamaran.

Welcome Zanyar! :D


I think using the first book finished might be the best approach, since that will allow us to rotate goals quicker. We'd just have to make sure we have all of them covered, wouldn't want to leave a poor goal all sad and alone. :P But I'm ok with however you guys want to do this. :)

Hi Zanyar. Welcome to team Xena.

Sounds like a good idea to me Filipa. I have a couple of books on my kindle at the moment which will work for either author starting R or weapon on cover. I can't think of any with a teacher.

I have books for all of them, especially the weapon one. Soo many weapons. lol

❀Tea❀ wrote: "We are not saying that only one person can read book for a goal, but there is no point for it. As far as I see most teams will have first comes thing going on. Meaning, few people might be reading ..."

Thanks Tea for answering the questions. It's been a crazy day at home.

Ok ladies. How would you like to do this? Would you like to pick a goal and maybe see who can get it done and then maybe use the other books for the next goals? The faster we get the goals completed the more points we get. What do you think? The more stuff we can collect for other goals too will be a good idea too. Since we can use read books for upcoming goals as long as there from the first 2 weeks.

I'm still missing Catherine. I PMed her and waiting for a response. As for our new teammate Zanyar,welcome to Team Xena.

Gladiator countdown clock

I have a few books with teachers.

I have Divergent I am starting and the authors last name starts with R.

I guess we'll start our books tomorrow then work our way through and see who finishes what until we here from the other 2 team members.

Hey guys....I'll put my shelf up in a few :)

Hi ladies.
Sounds good Sarah
Catherine welcome to the group :)

Ok..so it's nbrc-gladiator-games

Ok...so I'm confused....

Catherine wrote: "Ok...so I'm confused...."

Hi Catherine. What are you confused about?

Hi all, I started and finished The One by Kiera Cass today. Doesn't fit any of the clues as it sounded like they were all covered but we can use for half an attack point or wait and see if it fits a future goal.

Any preference to what I read next or should I just go with whatever?

Anything we read can be used? Or do we only need to use books that fit the clues?