Thanks! What areas are most in need of coverage?rjaguar3 wrote:We have 37 categories written as of right now. As a reminder, you can submit your category using this form: http://goo.gl/forms/qoA3Vajg07. If your category is used, you will get a perfect score for the category.
Summer Hiatus Challenge 2015
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- Vermonter
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Hate bad wagering? Me too. Join me at The Final Wager.
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Would I be allowed to submit a category even though this is my first post and I just signed up? I played SHC a bit on the Sony boards, but have disappeared for a few years.
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Currently, I think the biggest need is art and religion/mythology/philosophy questions.Vermonter wrote:Thanks! What areas are most in need of coverage?rjaguar3 wrote:We have 37 categories written as of right now. As a reminder, you can submit your category using this form: http://goo.gl/forms/qoA3Vajg07. If your category is used, you will get a perfect score for the category.
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Sure, go ahead. Reading the writers' guide may help with your submissions.cf22 wrote:Would I be allowed to submit a category even though this is my first post and I just signed up? I played SHC a bit on the Sony boards, but have disappeared for a few years.
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Somehow I missed the submission link, but I've now submitted several sets of questions. Looking forward to it!
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Thank you to everyone who has submitted categories for the SHC. If you would like to submit your own category, here is the form.
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Cool, thanks! Submitted.rjaguar3 wrote:Sure, go ahead. Reading the writers' guide may help with your submissions.
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I submitted my category earlier today. I hope everybody likes politics.
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Have we a plan for this? I'm still planning to help with any editing. I'm also happy to judge a week, too.
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We are well underway with planning and writing this year's SHC and will start on schedule on Monday. A rules/introduction post will be up soonish. If you would like to write a category, feel free to do so through the link given by rjaguar3 above.patkav wrote:Have we a plan for this? I'm still planning to help with any editing. I'm also happy to judge a week, too.
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Woof wrote:Now more than ever I miss Paucle. RIP, dear quizzer.
Amen.
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Woof is absolutely correct: We cannot expect any consistency of quality and variety with different editors assigned to coordinate different weeks. Patkav and I will serve as editors for the entire tournament, with perhaps one other chosen to rule on any disputes that arise. (Volunteers?) I might also submit some categories for consideration, but as an editor, in the interest of fairness, I should probably step aside as a contestant.Woof wrote:Before this gets too involved, I'd like to express some misgivings about having weekly editors and writers. Very often, the editing process will involve heavy revisions and/or completely dropping a category as unworkable or inappropriate. To put this on a very short time scale seems unwise to me. Additionally, DoT always paid careful attention to the distribution of topics, spreading out the topics across a wide field of subjects. How can this be accomplished piecemeal by a rotating cast of editors? I feel that it would be better to have a small cadre of editors who get submissions from authors early on in the process, ideally before the start of SHC and then can spend their time putting together a good collection of boards and getting revisions (when needed) in a timely fashion.
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Submitted a couple categories along these lines, but I'm not sure I ranked their order of difficulty well. Feel free to change it.rjaguar3 wrote:Currently, I think the biggest need is art and religion/mythology/philosophy questions.Vermonter wrote:Thanks! What areas are most in need of coverage?rjaguar3 wrote:We have 37 categories written as of right now. As a reminder, you can submit your category using this form: http://goo.gl/forms/qoA3Vajg07. If your category is used, you will get a perfect score for the category.
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