(posted in Ontario::Ottawa's forum here and also in Illinois::Naperville's)
That's what we in Illinois::Naperville had been wondering. Which region would we challenge, which region (perhaps again in Canada) might be comparably sized and motivated for word war. Fortunately, diurnal_lee and I have been ML-friends the last couple of years, so when I saw that our total affiliated regional wordcounts were so similar, we exchanged some nanomails.
So now I've come to officially throw down the gauntlet to mighty Ottawa for 2007's challenge. I even put together this special page with special graphs to accommodate rolling up the affiliated wordcounts (and filling any gaps in the wordcount history entries) to show the compared Total Affiliated regional Wordcount comparison.
So here are the proposed terms (taken from http://naperwrimo.org/wordwar2007/):
As of the date of challenge (11 Nov), Naperville leads Ottawa in Total Region-Homed regional Wordcount but trails Ottawa in Total Affiliated regional Wordcount. Ottawa also slightly trails Naperville in Average Region-Homed Wordcount.
The Challenge: whichever region defeats the other will have its regional song sung by the defeated region at its TGIO (winning region is also welcome to reciprocate just for fun); this song will be recorded and posted in the winning region's nanowrimo forum. Naperville's regional song is Typin' Away Again Near Dear Ol' Naperville (and there is even a Karafun karaoke file available).
Options:
- Total Affiliated Wordcount (a close stat but not specifically region-homed); Note!: this option is somewhat problematic in that it is easiest to track the other region by affiliating with it (which then changes the stat!) - Naperville currently lags 165.2 words per affiliated member
- Total Region-Homed Wordcount (not quite as close but still interesting) - Ottawa lags by 628.7 words per region-homed member
- Average Region-Homed Wordcount (very close AND region-homed) - Ottawa lags by 419.3 words per region-homed member
Which option do you prefer? All of the gaps are, I think, quite achievable by either side.
--Tim
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Tim Yao aka NewMexicoKid
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Nov 13, 2007 - 22 10
HELLO TIM.
ON BEHALF OF MY FELLOW MLS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE REGION OF OTTAWA, I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE.
(ohmigod we're going to die, aren't we?)
We're thinking Option #3 would be preferred, if that's okay with you? Just let us know!
MAY THE BEST REGION WIN!
(ps, I'm really, really tired right now, so please to excuse the scary caplock of doom.)
This was posted over in the challenge thread in the Ontario::Ottawa forum! I've added a region-homed average wordcount graph to our wordwar page.
--Tim
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Nov 19, 2007 - 19 04
Over in the Ottawa thread,
...We still haven't decided what song Naperville has to sing.
We need some redoubled efforts to raise our regional wordcount average!
--Tim
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Nov 21, 2007 - 07 16
Objects in rear view mirror may be closer than they appear. Also, they are completely awesome. That's right, Napervillians, I just declared our awesomeness on your board. :D
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Nov 27, 2007 - 13 02
Hey Naper-folks, Not sure if anyone else had a chance to check out the Ottawa chat board about our Word War but it's worth stopping over and reading. ( http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1059550 ) There's some serious smack being talked about us but it's pretty hilarious....especially since WE'RE WINNING! Way to go everyone, let's keep it up!! :-)
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Nov 29, 2007 - 18 59
Go Naperville go! <3333
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Nov 30, 2007 - 06 15
Don't slack off, NaperWriMos! We may be ahead at the moment, but anything can happen this last day!
Write, write, write! (myself included!)
--Tim
P.S. Jabber chat room for word wars all day through midnight!
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Nov 30, 2007 - 21 32
*sneaks in and adds almost 3k words* HI!
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Dec 1, 2007 - 06 34
...silly posts didn't show up for six hours. o.O
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2nd edit: And then I edit my double post and it shows up at the bottom? Weeeeeeeird.
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Nov 30, 2007 - 23 33
Thanks, thanks, thanks to all the wonderful NaperWriMos out there! The unofficial stats show us to be 1192.67 words per wrimo ahead of Ottawa, though we'll have to wait another seven hours or so for the official final numbers.
Things were hoppin' in the jabber chat room tonight! Congrats to everyone there, especially to hopelesswarning who made it to 50k just a few minutes ahead of midnight! Great effort, folks! Ottawa fought really hard--they kept erasing our lead all the way until about 11 pm.
--TIm
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Dec 1, 2007 - 00 21
kewl - my awesome wife jumped in at the last moment and tossed in over 6K words to our cause... yay Naperville!
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Dec 1, 2007 - 12 47
From the Ottawa forum thread:
And congratulations to Naperville for pulling out the win in the final hour. I look forward to singing your region's theme song at our TGIO next week.
Thank you very much, Lee-Anne! Your region was awesome in giving us a terrific fight. We tracked the unofficial wordcounts hourly throughout the last day and were worried many times when Ottawa fought back, narrowing the extremely narrow lead to about 100 words per wrimo several times throughout the day and into the night.
We look forward to hearing your rendition of our theme song! (note the karafun file on that site, which makes it easier for folks to sing the song).
Thanks--and congratulations to everyone from both regions who put up such a terrific effort.
--Tim
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Tim Yao aka NewMexicoKid
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