In the spirit of friendly competition, we have challenged my old region of Denver, Colorado, to a word war. And we are going to TROUNCE THEM, AM I RIGHT?
...er. I mean. Friendly competition! Friendly!
Over the course of the month, I'll be posting in this thread with updates about how we're doing against our transatlantic rivals, so that those of you who feel like you a have a few hundred extra words in you can see if they're needed to keep us going. Since Denver is a much larger, older, and more active region than Glasgow, we'll be doing this based on average words per writer, so every little bit you write counts! I have faith in you guys to make this really fun and exciting for us. We have a write-in in a castle, remember? So we automatically get to be cooler anyway!
Glaswegians, start your word warring engines!
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Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
55,900 / 50,000
Oct 23, 2009 - 15 28
This is great, very motivating!!
1,692 / 50,000
Oct 24, 2009 - 11 23
So this is just about writing more? Phew, I thought it was going to be like some sort of poetry slam.
33,730 / 50,000
Oct 26, 2009 - 01 51
Its about writing as much as you can so the average word count beats Denver :) (sorry Sabrina!)
We dont expect you to write excessively more than you would normally but its a way to keep motivated and show them over the river (big river) we are better than them! We must be - we took their ML :)
----------27,956 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 18 43
this'll motivate me to write. i feel like a baby here so i can't make it to write ins, but maybe this'll work just as good in upping my word count.
220,067 / 50,000
Oct 27, 2009 - 18 46
That's the spirit! Participate however you can! *Insert cheerleaders with pompoms and backflips here*
...actually, there's a thread in here as well for other things people would like to see the region do during NaNo to help everyone out...if you think of anything that might help keep you motivated as well, since you can't make the write-ins, be sure to let us know, 'kay?
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
0 / 50,000
Oct 29, 2009 - 01 06
So, would I be correct in assuming that as long as my profile location is set to Glasgow I will be contributing to the Word War?
Also, shouldn't we have challenged Denver to a letter count instead? I was considering "Awayan'boilyaheidyajakey" as my first sentence, but that now seems like a poor opening salvo for this conflict.
220,067 / 50,000
Oct 29, 2009 - 04 18
Awww, but that would be unfair! You guys put extra letters in "color" and "favorite" and things like that over here! :(
(It's okay. I looked at some of the word counts from last year before the site reset, and I think we can take 'em!)
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
220,067 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 12 49
Hey guys! We're two days into NaNo, which means both us and Denver have one full day and change under our belts, so here's the first update on the word war!
Total word count for Denver: 544,449 words
Total word count for Glasgow: 291,537 words
But remember, we're doing AVERAGE word counts due to the discrepancy in the region sizes, so the actual winners at present are:
Average word count for Glasgow: 3,181 words
Average word count for Denver: 2,441 words
GO GLASGOW GO!
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
33,730 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 13 40
Oooh yay Glasgow!
----------47,600 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 17 27
Wasn't sure if I should sign up for this 'cos I knew I would miss day 1 and possibly day 2 but I managed a late start this evening and still managed to top Denver's average. So go ahead and sign me up too.
----------Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!
220,067 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 17 32
Cassandra, don't worry...this one's kind of an everyone-in thing; we're just checking the word count scoreboard every couple of days to see the average total for the region and going by that! So as long as you write something, it still counts!
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
220,067 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 13 13
Total word count for Denver: 1,723,058 words
Total word count for Glasgow: 520,986 words
But since we're going by average, the winners are:
Average word count for Glasgow: 4,961 words
Average word count for Denver: 3,988 words
So we're still beating them by about 1,000 per person, but they're catching up! Come on, guys, keep writing!
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
46,181 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 03 01
Ooh, thanks for the update!
220,067 / 50,000
Nov 10, 2009 - 08 02
Sorry for slacking with this...I was fighting off illness after Guy Fawkes day (not used to so much smoke!) and then the site had its down time, but here's where we stand with Denver so far!
Total word count for Denver: 5,497,961 words
Total word count for Glasgow: 1,499,970 words
But since we're judging the winners by average words written:
Average word count for Glasgow: 11,627 words per writer
Average word count for Denver: 9,748 words per writer
Also, while we have the same number of winners per region (one apiece so far), Glasgow's got a higher percentage of writers beyond the halfway point already, and more writers keeping up above the on-pace goal so far as well! (That took a bit of time to figure out, whew!) You guys are AWESOME!
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
220,067 / 50,000
Nov 16, 2009 - 07 18
Time differences mean that posting this weekly makes a bit more sense. But anyway, here's how we're doing against Denver going into Week 3!
Total word count for Denver: 8,926,557 words
Total word count for Glasgow: 2,276,135 words
But since we're judging the winners by average words written:
Average word count for Glasgow: 15,104 words per writer
Average word count for Denver: 16,986 words per writer
So we're still about 2,000 words ahead but Denver's slowly starting to close the gap! Come on, Glasgow, let's show them that we're like the little region that could and keep it up! ^_^.
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
47,600 / 50,000
Nov 16, 2009 - 07 36
Is that the right way round? It looks like Denver are beating us by about 2000 words :-(
----------Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!
220,067 / 50,000
Nov 16, 2009 - 12 56
...d'oh, yes, I fail. Reverse that. It's Glasgow at almost 17K and Denver at a little over 15K ^_^.;; This is what I get for updating during lecture, isn't it?
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA
220,067 / 50,000
Nov 23, 2009 - 14 18
heading into the final week of NaNo, here's how we're doing against Denver!
Total word count for Denver: 12,493,164 words
Total word count for Glasgow: 3,200,663 words
But since we're judging the winners by average words written:
Average word count for Glasgow: 22,861 words per writer
Average word count for Denver: 20,649 words per writer
So we're about 2.2K ahead, a bit better than last week! Keep it up, guys, almost there!
----------Glasgow ML 2009
Denver ML 2007-2008
2002 Lost
2003-2005 WINNERS!!!
2006 Changechildren-100K
2007 Embers of Espionage-121K
2008 How Not to Get the Girl of Your Dreams-165K
2009 Nightmares and Cityscapes-TBA