Regional Word War :: Saskatoon vs Regina - Friendly Taunting and Challenges!

Hi! I’m James, Saskatchewan’s (self-appointed) International Ambassador. Welcome to the 2009 Incredible International Challenge. Thanks for throwing down the gauntlet, Karalianne.

In keeping with ancient traditions from times long forgotten (2003), participating regions contend for five awards.*

• The "We Are The Champions" Award goes to the region with the most winners.
• The "We Are Also The Champions" Award goes to the region with the highest percentage of winners (take the number of winners and divide by the number of people who signed up and posted a word count).
• The "Carpal Tunnel Award" goes to the region that writes the most words in total.
• The "Loquacious Grandeur Award" goes to the region with the highest average number of words written (take the total words written and divide by the number of people who signed up and posted a word count).
• The "Everybody Gets An Award" Award goes to any region who has not already won an award. In the spirit of Nanowrimo, every region who participates will be a winner!

Bonus awards! (introduced in 2008)*

• The "Wasting Time Like Crazy Award" goes to the region with the most posts.
• The "We Also Be Wasting Time Like Crazy Award" goes to the region with the most posts per author.
• The "We`re Not Old, We`re Experienced Award" goes to the region with the earliest average join date.
• The "Rookie of the Year Award" goes to the region with the most recent average join date.
• The "Share the Wealth Award" goes to the region with the most authors with a donation halo.
• The "Noble Benefactors Award" goes to the region with the highest percentage of authors with a donation halo.
• The "We Hate Nanowrimo Award" goes to the region with the most participants with no word count.
• The "No, We Hate Nanowrimo Award" goes to the region with the highest percentage of participants with no word count.

Have a fun, productive November!

Sincerely,
James

The fine print:
* Award winners will be announced in early December. Bonus awards will be awarded unless I don’t feel like it, or procrastinate, or can’t find all the numbers necessary to complete the calculations**.

** The results are not audited. Therefore, I can cheat*** with impunity when calculating them.

*** Don't worry. I won`t cheat****.

**** But I could if I wanted to. Mwa ha ha ha.

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Saskatchewan's International Ambassador

Thank you, James!

Apparently the Reginaians(?) have gone into hiding because they are so frightened of us.

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-Janna
Moderator, Character & Plot Realism Q&A
ML, Saskatoon
Canadian Overlord

The Book of Tim

Ah, but I don't see you guys from Toon Town saying anything either.

I believe the correct vernacular is Reginan, but, as I'm from White City, not Regina, I cannot be certain.

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-Nikki
dA | blog | twitter

Well, I'm saying something, and nobody's responding!

I feel slighted. :(

Hey, are any of you guys coming to our online kickoff tomorrow night?

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-Janna
Moderator, Character & Plot Realism Q&A
ML, Saskatoon
Canadian Overlord

The Book of Tim

We're having an IRL kick off tomorrow night, but it's on campus so as long as there's wifi in Morgan's place we could go online.

I will, at least!

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-Nikki
dA | blog | twitter

I believe they are too busy filtering their drinking water by hand and don't want to put their smelly, wet hands on their keyboards.

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Saskatchewan's International Ambassador

Or maybe we're just so busy working on our wordcounts that we don't feel like sparing typing time being mean to people from Saskatoon.
And who drinks water in november anyway? Do you have so much time on your hands that you actually sleep and don't need caffiene?

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morG

I'm just so hardcore that I don't even need caffeine. I run off of adrenalin alone!

Wait, I'm supposed to be snarking on Saskatoon not on Morgan.

Darn, I suck at this.

Hmmm... how about I make fun of everyone who posts here, no matter their location?

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-Nikki
dA | blog | twitter

I would just like to add that moose problems in Saskatoon don't mean you get word count freebies. XD You are also not allowed to count anything a moose draws in the dirt as writing in any way... it just does not count! lol

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"Mankind proposed that it was intellectually far superior to dolphins because it had invented, science and religion, and great technologies such as the atomic bomb. The dolphins stated they were intellectually superior for the very same reasons."

Check out our progress, Saskatoon!

Not only do I have more than twice as many words as Phoenixfox (10,984 vs 5,134), we are totally kicking Regina's butt as a region, too!

Currently...
Saskatoon has 50 people and Regina has 49.
Saskatoon has 312,968 words and Regina has 267,090 words.
Saskatoon has 6,259 words per person and Regina has 5,450 words per person.

WE ROCK!!!!

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-Janna
Moderator, Character & Plot Realism Q&A
ML, Saskatoon
Canadian Overlord

The Book of Tim