Word War Banter

Hi y'all,

Welcome to the Regional Word War. Please prepare to be ground into the dust beneath the boots of the mighty Cambridge. If you could all form an orderly queue... :-)

In the meantime, I thought you'd like to know who your opponents are. To date the regions participating are:

Brighton
Cambridge
Darlington
*Essex
Ireland::Elsewhere
London
Manchester
Oxfordshire.
*Scotland
*York & Leeds

All these regions have their own Word War Banter thread so please feel free to wander over and give them (and us) hell! :-)

I'll let you know if/when other regions decide to join us.
*Edited to add.

Good luck everyone.

Lottie

Hello, this is Danny P. the England:Manchester ML.

Seeing as though it's now less than 12 hours until NaNo begins, I just thought I'd apologize for how badly my region is going to beat the region of Brighton! ;)

-Danny P.

This is Essex checking in. Be afraid, be VERY afraid!

that's fighting talk buddy, we will be all over Manchester like a rash!

Hi Everyone,

The first leader board is up and can be found here:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010

L

Can I be the first to say, well done to all our word warriors, who have managed to once again achieved the astonishing feat of being last. We all know the plan, to hang back until we can sneak up at the end and trounce all of those other regions at the last minute in the most cinematic and exciting way possible.

Well done for sticking with the plan everyone.

The only way is up.

No, you're just all failures. Half of your members haven't even broken two thousand. And two have 0.

We start as we mean to go on...

By failing abysmally. You suck, all of you do.

That's just because we've all been too busy writing to update our word counts... right guys?

Hell yeah, especially if what you meant to say was to busy updating our word counts to write.

You watch out other regions, if I ever find a plot, you are going down.

Mutability is our tragedy, but it is also our hope -Boethius

Bah.

You're just getting even worse than when you started if that's even possible. They've been forced to add an eleventh place to put you on so you couldn't come in the top ten. You're doing too badly fo that.

Hi again,

The leader board has been updated and can be found here:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010

If I were only on 7k I wouldn't make myself so obvious by shouting everyone else down, sir.

Come back and call Brighton crap when you've broken 10k.

Also, for the record, we're falling down the rankings because a new team has entered the fray. You appear to be falling down the rankings because people who were behind you are now ahead of you.

I think that's called losing.

Hi again,

The leader board has been updated and can be found here:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010

Aren't we doing well! :P

The trouble is that Brighton is just too exciting to stay in and write at night. If we lived in somewhere like, say Cambridge, where hardly anything truly bangin' goes on, we might be doing better. But we are cunning, and the great push forward is only days away. Come on Seagulls!

I'd have some smart comment to make about that, but unfortunately I believe you're right! ;-)

The leader board has been updated and can be found here:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010#comment-262934

(Can I just add how pleased I am that you're heading in the right direction.)

Can I just be the first to say....

Ah baby, not last...now that's a good feeling.
On top of the world. (kinda)

And it's also pleasing to finally have statistical proof that Brighton is, actually, better than London.

Wow, I've been writing for so long that my eyes are playing tricks on me. I could have sworn that leader board just showed us to be not last. Surely an optical illusion?

Go team Brighton!

Hi guys,

The leader board has been updated and can be found here:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/1042010#comment-280789

The sign-ups are now officially closed.

You have until 8pm on the 20th November to drop out without affecting your region's word count. However, dropping out will affect your standing in the 'highest proportion of participants winning' prize, so think carefully before you do.

If you do need to drop out please PM either your own ML or me directly before the deadline.

MLs, you have 48 hrs after this deadline in order to inform me of someone dropping out, otherwise they will have to stay in until the end.

Good luck for the rest of the month! :-)

Lottie

Oh? No pre-sign-up-closing warning?

Damn, and I was going to sign up and drag Brighton to even murkier depths. :(

Looking at the Leader board:

The only "Municipal" region with more combatants than us is "England::Elsewhere". But that's quite a big region. Most of the others, averaging over fewer competitors, are bigger than us: I'm fairly sure that Manchester is bigger than Brighton, for example. And Scotland, isn't that bigger than Brighton?

The smallest number of participants (several regions, including the leaders) is 6.

We have 20.

I wonder how we'd place if only our six fastest writers were counted? (I wouldn't be one of them.)

There ought to be a prize for the region with the largest proportion of nanites taking part!

Although I suspect, looking at the scores, that Cambridge with 18 participants to our 20, but with an average score nearly one and a half times ours, would probably do well even on a system that took into account participation & population levels. But I don't think we'd still be scraping the bottom (as usual)!

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There is a prize for most warriors over the finish line. I think with our sense of community, desperation and fervour we should easily be able to take that one.

And first place too...obviously. I expect a surge forward any second now.

Shebit, just for the record, we're revising your target upwards to 8 million words. If you can make that then we might be in with a fighting chance.

Or not.

Time to start playing now, then, Brighton. We've lulled them all into that false sense of security. Now we start writing, and they won't know what hit them!

Hmm...

I find it rather amusing that I am now beating Jurgen_von_Lichtenstein, the arrogant arsehole who decided to repeatedly flame my fellow Brighton and Hovians... And I am, by our standards, a rather lowly writer who decided not to enter because he would drag the team's wordcount down!

Oh well, at least I can don a miniskirt (not for the first time this NaNo!) and pompoms and cheer my team on!

Go team, go!!! Write those words!!!

8 million, you say? That's... quite a lot. I'll see what I can do, but no promises.

*faints* We're not last? What's going on!?!??!?!

True, though our sudden rise up the board could be down to two low scorers dropping out.

Nice to see we've got a fair few over the 20k mark now, though. My word count is feeling suitably threatened, which is pushing me to write more, because I like being our poster child, dammit!