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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 9, 2022 21:51:23 GMT 10
Today's Challenge pays homage to a specific sub-culture of the HP fandom... but unfortunate we can't tell you exactly which one without spoiling the Challenge. Sorry about that. ![:P](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png) We'll try to include some fun reading/watching material with the results post instead of here. And we'll be able to reveal the actual Challenge name too once you've all played it. ~ When you begin this Challenge by joining the Member Group 'Challenge Six' you will have 15 minutes to create two submissions for a design contest.
All the details about what exactly you'll be designing and how to go about it will be provided once you join the group. The instructions will be short and very specific, so be sure to read through them carefully - we don't want to disqualify anyone's creative efforts. You can revise your designs as much as you like, as your final post/s within that time frame (as measured from when you join the Member Group) will be accepted as your official submissions. If you fail to post your submissions within 15 minutes, we will not accept them afterwards. The submissions will be judged a panel made up of: the Cancelled players who have been voted out, the Gallery who have been watching from the sidelines, and all the Ministers except for Peter (who will be the only one to compile submissions and show them to the panel, without revealing which player created each submission). The panelists will all need to Rank their Top Ten favourite submissions from best to worst. The highest Ranked submission overall will receive 28 points from the panel, the second highest will receive 27 points, and so on. Ties for placements will all receive the higher score. However, if no panelists list a submission in their Top Tens, it will receive 0 points. ~ But that's not all...
The scores your submissions receive from the panels will not necessarily be the scores you finish the Challenge with. This is because all of you will need to make a Prediction about the score your submissions will receive. This Prediction must be posted within twenty minutes of your joining the Member Group, meaning that you will have an extra five minutes to think about it after making your final submissions (those are still due at the 15-minute mark). If your Prediction is lower than the total points your submissions end up receiving from the panel, your final score for the Challenge will be your Prediction. If your Prediction is higher than the total points your submissions receive from the panel, your final score will be 0. ~ An example...Let's say that Xenophilius completed the Challenge, by posting his two submissions within 15 minutes of beginning the Challenge: During the next five minutes, Xenophilius reflected upon his extreme lack of creative talent and then posted the following Prediction: If the panel actually awarded his submissions a combinedu score of 5 points, his Prediction would be too high, so he would receive 0 points. On the other hand, if the panel actually valued the childish surrealism of his submissions and awarded him score of 30 points, he would still be unable to score any higher than his Prediction, so would end the Challenge with a score of only 6 points. ~ ~ ~ For the first and only time in The ORG of the Phoenix, we will be adding up the scores of all the players on each Side, and the Side with the most points overall will win Immunity. The losing Side will attend Magical Council tomorrow night and vote the next player out of the Game. In the event of a tie, we'll compare the submissions made by the Side Prefects and award the win to the highest-scoring submission of those four. If somehow this is still a tie, the Prefect to post their last submission the quickest will win. (Edited to add: We're also awarding 10 House Points to each of the three highest Ranked submissions.) Because this Challenge requires a window for judging to take place, the deadline will be earlier than usual, at 7:00pm AEST. We'd like everyone to please post in this thread or like this post to confirm that you have read and understood this. This Challenge must be completed by 7:00pm AEST tomorrow (Tuesday) which is EARLIER THAN USUAL.
Do not discuss the Challenge until after this deadline. Any questions... you know what to do. Good luck!
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 10, 2022 3:03:03 GMT 10
The angry bears have been back this evening, so I'm reposting this here: I just want to let you know that we're aware the board has been lagging and cutting out intermittently today. Proboards hosts the site and have announced that they're doing everything they can to solve the problems ASAP, but they're all far beyond our control. What we can do is offer some tips for working around the angry bear attacks: 1. When you know the site is playing up, the safest thing to do is to type your posts and PMs out somewhere else (Notepad, Word, whatever), then copy them across when you're done. 2. If you get surprised by the site being down after you've tried to post something, follow these steps to get back what you wrote: - Immediately duplicate the tab in your browser. (Right click -> Duplicate) - Use a new tab to load the home page and check if/when the forum is back online. - Once it's back, use one of your duplicated tabs to go back and see if the post you typed is still there in the reply box/window. - If that doesn't work, hit refresh on the other duplicate tab and it should ask you to resubmit the form, and then post whatever it was you tried to submit. I've suffered through this plenty of times (through the angry bears and also internet outages on my end), and at least one of those two options has always worked. Still it's no guarantee, hence recommending you type things elsewhere if you know there are issues. 3. If you're in the middle of a Challenge when the angry bear strikes, contact me off-site wherever I sent you your login (if that's a proboards site as well and also down, try my Discord JustJaking#5261). The Ministers will verify that the site is down and find a way for you to complete the Challenge fairly. This happened earlier today with one of you and we offered them extra time to complete the Challenge, though in the end this extra time was not required as the site was back up and running fairly quickly. Obviously I'm not constantly online so please don't rely on me responding quickly while you're playing the Challenge. Keep refreshing the board and try to do the Challenge as best you can, even if you run overtime. And we'll sort it out later, trying to be as fair as we can.
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Post by Nymphadora Tonks on May 10, 2022 11:25:47 GMT 10
Peter Pettigrew, Just to clarify, we make a thread in our journal for the episode 6 challenge, and we submit our 2 designs + scores there ?
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Post by Hedwig's Killer on May 10, 2022 11:29:50 GMT 10
Peter Pettigrew, Just to clarify, we make a thread in our Diaryjournal for the episode 6 challenge, and we submit our 2 designs + scores there ? ftfy, apparently. Seriously, group effort what is the deal with this bit Peter is doing? Item clue? joke? seeds of paranoia?
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 10, 2022 11:39:49 GMT 10
Peter Pettigrew, Just to clarify, we make a thread in our journal for the episode 6 challenge, and we submit our 2 designs + scores there ? Yes, that is correct.
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 10, 2022 19:06:44 GMT 10
Barty Crouch Jr Corban Yaxley Oliver Wood Hedwig's Killer Lily Potter Igor Karkaroff Kingsley Shacklebolt Dedalus Diggle Lucius Malfoy Nymphadora Tonks Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody Regulus Black Pyrites Fleur DelacourThe deadline has passed and the judging has begun! Thanks everyone for getting this done on time ![:)](http://images.proboards.com/new/smiley.png) For the record, the title of the Challenge has of course been the correct one all along. Because the Gallery can see your Side boards, I'm going to ask that you all refrain from discussing the Challenge anywhere on the board... except for in PMs. So until the results are posted, you can talk about this in PMs only. Here's the full list of spoilers, by the way. Enjoy! SUBMISSION A: Longbottom kills Voldemort. I shouldn't have told you that.
SUBMISSION B: Ludo Bagman was really James Potter using Polyjuice elixir, checking up on how his son is doing.
SUBMISSION C: SNAPE. KILLS. himself emotionally, because he loved Lily and revealed to be good rather than an emo in his 50's!
SUBMISSION D: Ginny kisses Albus at the end of The Deathly Hallows
SUBMISSION E: Hermione was actually three house-elves stacked on top of each other wearing a wizarding robe the whole time.
SUBMISSION F: Neville Longbottom turns out to not only be very hot, but also dateble and everything-able really!
SUBMISSION G: Hermione is secretly a Dursley!! She excelled in her studies and made Dudley look bad so they abandoned her.
SUBMISSION H: Harry, I am your father.
SUBMISSION I: After weeks of exposure to a mind-affecting horcrux, Ron casts the Imperius Curse on Harry to kill Hedwig.
SUBMISSION J: Drop Dead Fred. Once a cult classic from the 80s but now a spoiler for the most painful character death
SUBMISSION K: 'Ginny kissed Albus' from the last chapter. Didn't expect Ginny to be into geriatric guys let alone be into necrophilia.
SUBMISSION L: Lily Potter used a love potion on Severus Snape when they were children
SUBMISSION M: You get a Weasley. You get a Weasley. EVERYONE GETS A WEASLEY!
SUBMISSION N: House Elves join Voldemort because wizards are dicks, Hermione's SPEW makes them rejoin good guys and be happy with slavery.
SUBMISSION O: After misadventures with a time-turner, it turns out that the Dursleys and Weasleys are in fact the same people
SUBMISSION P: Why is she called Moaning Myrtle? She spent a night with me.
SUBMISSION Q: It will be revealed that entire story was just imagination of 10 years old Harry.
SUBMISSION R: Draco killed Harry, because he fell in love with Voldemort. Then, he burnt down Hogwarts in an act of love.
SUBMISSION S: Harry and Ron discover the Secret Of The Gravity Bong, and a jumbo sized bag of Doritos mysteriously disappears
SUBMISSION T: Harry murders Ron by Ron's request upon seeing Yule Ball outfit!
SUBMISSION U: Cedric Diggory comes back as a Hogwarts ghost to fight Voldemort, marries Moaning Myrtle, makes her moan for new reasons!
SUBMISSION V: Malfoy has a secret crush on Harry and the reason he "hates" him is internalized homophobia
SUBMISSION W: Soon after Hedwig's Killer kills Hedwig, Harry kills Hedwig's Killer and forever introduces himself as Hedwig's Killer's Killer
SUBMISSION X: Crookshanks is an animagus! And not just any, but Professor Quirell who survived to keep an eye on the kids
SUBMISSION Y: Voldemort's father was Harry's son, Albus, after a time turner fiasco. But when the baby had no nose he left.
SUBMISSION Z: George Weasley used a time turner to go back in time and build a new identity as Willy Wonka
SUBMISSION &: Rita Skeeter deletes a litre of beeter-oot juice!
SUBMISSION $: Hedwig transfigured into Voldemort’s long lost brother, and killed both him and Harry because he hates orphans.
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 10, 2022 20:35:24 GMT 10
The Challenge deadline has passed and the results are in.
Special thanks to our esteemed Panelists! ![:fan](https://i.imgur.com/074wyXd.gif)
Dolores Umbridge Godric Gryffindor Mrs Walburga Black Minerva McGonagall Rodolphus Lestrange Alecto Carrow
Now to the scores!
We won't announce who submitted which Spoiler here, or what each one scored, but we will confirm your own score for you privately.
The Department of Mysteries' predictions which were able to score were worth:
20, 20, 18, 17 and 10 points.
They also had two players who failed to score because their predictions were too high.
Their total score was: 85
The Daily Prophet had one player who failed to score because their prediction was too high.
Their predictions which were able to score were worth:
35, 35, 20, 18, 18 and 15 points.
For a total score of...
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141 points!
Which means...
![](https://i.imgur.com/xErKYxb.png)
Congratulations to The Daily Prophet for earning Side Immunity once again!
Barty Crouch Jr Corban Yaxley Oliver Wood Hedwig's Killer Lily Potter Igor Karkaroff Kingsley Shacklebolt
You will all be safe tonight. Cast your Switch/Flick charms by 9:30pm and then wait for the next Challenge to appear in The Hogwarts Grounds.
Unfortunately, this means that The Department of Mysteries will need to attend another Magical Council tonight, and vote out a second Side Buddy.
Dedalus Diggle Lucius Malfoy Nymphadora Tonks Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody Regulus Black Pyrites Fleur Delacour
You will all need to stop sending PMs at 9:15pm AEDT, at which point we will tag you in your Magical Council thread. The voting deadline is 9:30pm.
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Post by Fleur Delacour on May 10, 2022 20:37:38 GMT 10
The Challenge deadline has passed and the results are in.
Special thanks to our esteemed Panelists! ![:fan](https://i.imgur.com/074wyXd.gif)
Dolores Umbridge Godric Gryffindor Mrs Walburga Black Minerva McGonagall Rodolphus Lestrange Alecto Carrow
Now to the scores!
We won't announce who submitted which Spoiler here, or what each one scored, but we will confirm your own score for you privately.
The Daily Prophet's predictions which were able to score were worth:
20, 20, 18, 17 and 10 points.
They also had two players who failed to score because their predictions were too high.
Their total score was: 85
The Department of Mysteries had one player who failed to score because their prediction was too high.
Their predictions which were able to score were worth:
35, 35, 20, 18, 18 and 15 points.
For a total score of...
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141 points!
Which means...
![](https://i.imgur.com/xErKYxb.png)
Congratulations to The Daily Prophet for earning Side Immunity once again!
Barty Crouch Jr Corban Yaxley Oliver Wood Hedwig's Killer Lily Potter Igor Karkaroff Kingsley Shacklebolt
You will all be safe tonight. Cast your Switch/Flick charms by 9:30pm and then wait for the next Challenge to appear in The Hogwarts Grounds.
Unfortunately, this means that The Department of Mysterieswill need to attend another Magical Council tonight, and vote out a second Side Buddy.
Dedalus Diggle Lucius Malfoy Nymphadora Tonks Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody Regulus Black Pyrites Fleur Delacour
You will all need to stop sending PMs at 9:15pm AEDT, at which point we will tag you in your Magical Council thread. The voting deadline is 9:30pm. What iz the méaning of this? ![:smh](//storage.proboards.com/7252598/images/qNnigqDBRwmLStksufWc.gif)
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Post by Hedwig's Killer on May 10, 2022 20:39:49 GMT 10
... what? did you mix us up?
Who actually won
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Post by Nymphadora Tonks on May 10, 2022 20:39:53 GMT 10
I don’t know if I misunderstood the rules, but shouldn’t the department of mysteries have won for getting more points ? Peter Pettigrew
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Post by Dedalus Diggle on May 10, 2022 20:39:58 GMT 10
DP DEFAETED ITSELF!!
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Post by Barty Crouch Jr on May 10, 2022 20:40:43 GMT 10
I am confused about who won too, but i like any twist which helps Daily Prophet!
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Post by Lucius Malfoy on May 10, 2022 20:40:44 GMT 10
Umm is there an error above, it says we scored more points?
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 10, 2022 20:42:44 GMT 10
So sorry for the mixup here.
The Daily Prophet scored the 141. Department of Mysteries will attend Magical Council.
I'm editing the prior post now to show that.
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Post by Regulus Black on May 10, 2022 20:43:38 GMT 10
Corruption in the ranks of the Ministry! What a scandal!
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Post by Hedwig's Killer on May 10, 2022 20:43:47 GMT 10
I commend the dedication to the bit, confusing the masses, fake leaks etc.
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 10, 2022 20:45:04 GMT 10
On a totally unrelated note, tomorrow's Challenge deadline will allow for a buffer between the deadline and the results announcement.
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 10, 2022 20:49:23 GMT 10
Also let it be known that The Fat Lady made the effort to submit votes, but only at the moment after we corrected the results. They didn't count for anything, but this was indeed not over until The Fat Lady sung ![:fan](https://i.imgur.com/074wyXd.gif)
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Post by Oliver Wood on May 10, 2022 20:51:40 GMT 10
Also let it be known that The Fat Lady made the effort to submit votes, but only at the moment after we corrected the results. They didn't count for anything, but this was indeed not over until The Fat Lady sung ![:fan](https://i.imgur.com/074wyXd.gif) Ba Fat Lady d' yer mean @delores?
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Post by Lily Potter on May 10, 2022 20:51:46 GMT 10
Do we get to know which spoiler scores 28 etc?
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