If you hit the "Regional Info" tab at the top of these forums, it will tell us the number of active Wrimos who call this region home, the percent who have donated money to the cause (you guys rock!), and, come November, the average word count. Yessss.
There's also a slot for comparing to other regions, though I imagine it will be in terms of total word count (but who can know until we start). For now, I've put the five Indiana "city" regions that we compared ourselves to last year, when we were better than all of them in the end (Bloomington and Indy give us the stiffest competition).
I'll keep our daily word count progress noted in this thread once NaNo kicks off, and note where our competition lies.
It's updated at some weird time overnight, probably to be synced up with Australia or something. So the "dates" will never be perfect, until the very end, but since everyone's synced at once, we'll at least get a good idea of where we stand.
As of November 1st, we are in a zillion-way tie for 209th with 0 words per person.
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36,923 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 03
The tyrant phase begins! I love tradition. :)
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 03 59
As of November 2nd, we are in 286th place with 2,350 words per person (44 active participants).
Looks like everyone in the world took advantage of the first day being a Sunday!
1,965 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 06 14
My piddling, sad word count is still being counted toward this region. I'm hoping to turn this around tonight!
----------Aubrey
http://star-shaped.org
11,038 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 09 43
What was our final position last year?
----------"Remember, remember
the fifth of November
because you should be
at 8335 words."
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 11 20
We were 86th, if I remember correctly, in terms of average word count. We have a reputation to live up to now, you know! Even if only in my eyes. Top 100 or bust!
50,559 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 14 50
Hey, I did what I could, Epic Fail on first day but am at 6457 as of today.
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 05 08
As of November 3rd, we are in 326th place with 3,169 words per person (54 active participants).
50,522 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 05 44
Well, we dropped, but we gained 10 new participants!
27,361 / 50,000
Nov 3, 2009 - 21 21
*limps onto the scene with pitifully small word count*
:-D?
----------NaNo 2006 winner
NaNo 2007 failure, due to the flu
NaNo 2008 winner, due to lack of internet
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 04 11
As of November 4th, we are in 353rd place with 3,702 words per person (58 active participants).
But... I saw this "update" last night, so maybe they'll update it again today?
50,559 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 04 45
I'm doing what I can, dude!!! Damn!! I could use a little back up....
XP
>>>Ever notice that particular emoticon is the same as the Windows OS? Maybe King Gates was trying to tell us something....<<<
45,368 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 01
We're trying...
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 08
Oh, don't I know it! I'm just reporting the facts here.
11,038 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 06 24
Remember - this is a marathon not a sprint! In the first week, everyone is excited to get out and go. But when the second week blues set in (and they always do), the dedicated ones persevere. That's when regions start falling off the charts and awesome regions with dedicated people, like ours, will steam on ahead to the top. Right now, what we all have to do is be sure to KEEP AT IT. No matter if it's 100 words or 5000 a day. KEEP GOING. That is what will bring us ahead. It's how we did it last year.
And too, every year there is always a region of only one person and they claim to have written 50,000 in one day. That just not right.
It's day four. Happy Day Four, everyone!
----------"Remember, remember
the fifth of November
because you should be
at 8335 words."
50,559 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 07 20
I understand completely. After all, my performance is a SO FAR kind of a thing. I have covered 1/5 of the distance (YAY ME!) but that is NOT the finish line!!
Besides, we are all here for each other, right? :)
and.... XP is still funny as an emoticon and an OS. (imho, anyway...)
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 15 55
Apparently we are updating the worldwide standings in the evening now. Pfft.
As of November 4th (again), we are in 372nd place with 4,579 words per person (62 active participants).
17,110 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 21 19
We'll do it! I bet this will be our best year yet!
43,501 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 21 41
I have done my part in the day's word count average. Come, bask in the glory of my 12,215 words. *raises arms in magnimous benediction* Fear not the 10,000 word line on your stat bar, join me in the light.
Ok, I'm a little sleep-deprived and I'm in the middle of a 7-day stretch at work, so I'm a tad off my game.
But. Really. Awesomeness is in my future. I can smell it.
Oh, and humble statician ML, weren't we going to word war with someone or someones? And what are their stats like?
----------"The system gives you just enough to make you think that you see change. Then it sings you right to sleep and screws you just the same." - Ani DiFranco
50,559 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 11 19
Ah, my beloved first child. How grand to be at 12,215! I am so pleased.
You may want to travel a little further, and catch up with the old man's 14,774, though. The light is better way, way, WAY up here!!
Keeping Up With The Allards (or Allard/Martin clan) may be enough of a word war within the region.... God/s/ess/esses know, it's pretty intense at the homestead, no???
The other day, for the rest of you, Barb's husband Nick chided me for "being a writer but sitting there playing Spider solitaire," and that caused my fingers to bop out enough to set me well ahead of schedule, where I remain.
Thanks to Nick!! Couldn't have gotten that far without your ginormous foot placed upon my lazy backside!
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 12 43
Tomas was trying to pit Baton Rouge against us - they're 650 words ahead of us, on average, which is about 160 spots ahead because the competition is so tight right now. I agree with Nicole that eventually our stamina will win out. It must!
But to compare us to the rest of Indiana, Jasper County is in 15th place (because there are THREE of them and they are all writing), Richmond is 850 words ahead of us in 153rd, Indy in 289th, Bloomington in 332nd, North in 335th, Terre Haute in 355th. We are ahead of Evansville (385th) and Elsewhere (440th). And Sri Lanka. Which is third from last at 482nd.
50,559 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 14 24
Ok. I am an IUSB graduate, so this goes against my nature, but ....
CALL DOWN THE THUNDER FROM THE SKIES!!!
Let's Go ND (region)!!!!!
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 16 18
As of November 5th, we are in 309th place with 5,769 words per person (65 active participants). Woo, 63 rank climb!
50,559 / 50,000
Nov 5, 2009 - 17 07
Um... think we can do it again for the second week? I will do what I can, and I know Barb and Nick will hold me to it....
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 17 41
As of November 6th, we are in 340th place with 6,449 words per person (69 active participants).
27,361 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 20 25
5,000! *shakes fist at the sky*
also I have an info dump chapter coming up. ...I mean once I get past this new character WHERE THE HELL DID SHE COME FROM WUT
oh NaNo. I've missed you.
----------NaNo 2006 winner
NaNo 2007 failure, due to the flu
NaNo 2008 winner, due to lack of internet
50,559 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 04 42
There is nothing like getting swept away into the magnificence of one's own prose and suddenly find someone in the story, and not really knowing who they are or from whence they came....
Kind of like when your main character suddenly chooses to leap over the narrative fence and attempts to flee the scene... Come back, Shane!!
5k!! Awesome! Hump the dump and fly, fly fly!
And more than word count, I think we should perservere, and assist, until we have the highest percentage of winners (for a group larger than 3, that is!).
40,604 / 50,000
Nov 7, 2009 - 09 39
Just finished taking the MPRE for which I've neglected NaNo. By Sunday I should be caught up.
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 04 08
I'm back! Did you miss me? (crickets)
As of November 10, we are in 404th place with 9,376 words per person (70 total participants).
So on average, 50% of us are current on track to finish on the 30th! That's pretty sweet.
Of course, there's no reason it shouldn't be, like, 90%... or 100%...
54,135 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 17 26
As of November 11th, we are in 407th place with 10,128 words per person (71 active participants).
50,522 / 50,000
Nov 11, 2009 - 19 19
Well, I like how our participant count keeps going up!