Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Preliminary announcement

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Summer Hiatus Challenge 2018--Preliminary announcement

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I am pleased to announce that I will be hosting the 14th Summer Hiatus Challenge beginning July 30, 2018.

I am looking for volunteers for the following roles:
  • Editors: nonplayers who will proofread and fact-check questions, assess difficulty and balance.
  • Playtesters: nonplayers who will play drafts of the questions in advance and offer feedback.
  • Guest category writers: players or nonplayers who write categories (if a guest category is used, the author receives the maximum points available for that category).
Such a massive undertaking as the Summer Hiatus Challenge would be difficult, if not impossible, without your help--thank you! If you are interested in helping out, please post in this thread or send me a PM.

The guest category submission form is available at https://goo.gl/forms/obqX0JTsWLOBKPG32.
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Yay! I'd like to be a guest category writer again
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Happy to be a guest writer again, though others may prefer that I not contribute any topics this year :lol:
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i am interested in being a guest category writer
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I'd be happy to write questions, play-test and edit as a non-player.
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I'll be a guest writer. I'm willing to play-test too, if needed.
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The question submission form is now available at https://goo.gl/forms/obqX0JTsWLOBKPG32

Thanks to those volunteering to be editors or playtesters. I will be PM-ing them with instructions next week.
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I've submitted questions the past few SHCs, and I have some more to contribute this season. And if you're looking for an editor or playtester, I'm at your service.
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I'll happily be an editor/playtester as well as question writer.
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rjaguar3 wrote: Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:29 pm The question submission form is now available at https://goo.gl/forms/obqX0JTsWLOBKPG32

Thanks to those volunteering to be editors or playtesters. I will be PM-ing them with instructions next week.
Working on my questions. The form doesn’t allow for pictures - I can do text only but if there’s a way to include pics, well that would be grand
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morbeedo wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 3:30 pm
rjaguar3 wrote: Sat Jul 07, 2018 1:29 pm The question submission form is now available at https://goo.gl/forms/obqX0JTsWLOBKPG32

Thanks to those volunteering to be editors or playtesters. I will be PM-ing them with instructions next week.
Working on my questions. The form doesn’t allow for pictures - I can do text only but if there’s a way to include pics, well that would be grand
If you have the picture(s) on a site like imgur, you can put the link in the "additional information" space for that question, I think. Whether the game-runners are willing to use questions based on pictures, I'm not sure.
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Thanks to Clue Jungry, NoWhammies10, John Boy, and Woof, for their category submissions. It's not too late to submit a category, so if you've got a category you want us to use, please use the form.

Also, please welcome Anachronism to the writing and editing team. I want to thank Anachronism for helping make this SHC be far better than what I could have done on my own.
Magna wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:00 pm If you have the picture(s) on a site like imgur, you can put the link in the "additional information" space for that question, I think. Whether the game-runners are willing to use questions based on pictures, I'm not sure.
To be honest, I've not thought about guest categories using images (and I don't like them because of accessibility/copyright issues), but Magna's approach seems reasonable.

I hope to see you July 30. (I will be posting the rules and wild card thread a few days before then.)
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Ok I’ll limit my use of images. What’s the deadline to submit questions
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morbeedo wrote: Sat Jul 21, 2018 1:36 pm Ok I’ll limit my use of images. What’s the deadline to submit questions
There is no firm deadline; however, submitting later may make it more difficult to fit the category in the schedule.
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I would like to be a guest writer myself. :)
Just a person who loves game shows.
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