Welcome, potential prosers to… Wait, wait! Hear me out. Don’t just look at who authored the post and leave. Especially because I’m only partially responsible for this. The other half is everyone’s favorite Colin (I assume I don’t need to specify, but let’s just say it’s not Wolfson).
So here’s the pitch… PWTP gives us all sorts of amazing writing challenges, but one type of challenge that it hasn’t given us is group challenges. Sometimes people hate group challenges, but sometimes people love them (I should have led with the loving part, right?). We’ve seen them in Spookymilk Survivor before (for example here and here). Much like regular PWTP, the difficulty and length of submissions will change from time to time. Probably a little bit more so here. Sometimes the submissions will be pretty minimal (think “20 Questions” if you’ve seen that played here before), and sometimes they’ll be about a regular PWTP length. We’ll never ask too much of any one player – that’s the point of groups, right?
Every week you’d get a new group, decided randomly, and everyone in that group would be trusted to participate. Scoring might need to be adjusted slightly, depending on the nature of any particular challenge, but for the most part I think we’d try to just give a group score. Sometimes we’d have big groups, sometimes small groups. Ultimately, the more often your team does well, the better you as an individual will do in the rankings. After the regular season the top half of players would enter the playoffs, and we’d still use group challenges to whittle it down to a final 2. Those 2 would then draft a team from the eliminated players to complete the final challenge.
In order for this to work, we’d probably need at least 15 players. So sign up today!
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April 5, 2017 at 5:15 am
ash10101
I am totally in. That sounds very cool.
April 5, 2017 at 9:26 am
spookymilk
I’m in. Nothing draws me in like the threat of creative differences.
April 5, 2017 at 10:04 am
nettiebarron
This sounds like trouble. It’s a horrible idea.
I’m in.
April 5, 2017 at 10:05 am
nettiebarron
Depending on the start date. Vacation with no internet mid-April.
April 5, 2017 at 10:17 am
mbnovak
Start date: when Annette comes back.
April 5, 2017 at 7:28 pm
The Dread Pirate
In. Plus, I’m still holding out hope that my suggested Baldrick’s Dictionary challenge gets tried out.
April 5, 2017 at 8:43 pm
mbnovak
Send it my way. I vaguely remember it, including that I liked it.
April 7, 2017 at 9:22 am
nibbish
This sounds like fun. I’m in.
April 13, 2017 at 9:39 pm
MelissaD
I have no time for this or anything else. So sign me up!
May 4, 2017 at 2:29 pm
hungry joe
If it’s a group thing, I’m into it.
May 5, 2017 at 10:46 am
christinapepper
That’s what she said.
May 6, 2017 at 1:26 am
hungry joe
May 6, 2017 at 1:27 am
hungry joe
ugg.
May 5, 2017 at 4:25 pm
margaritamartini
Hi everybody!
I just discovered a SUPER LONG list of email from CdL in a mailbox called “Social.” I had no idea.
Anyway, is this still available? I’ll play if it is!
The groups won’t be engaged in any backstabbiness, right? I had to delete my scheming app in order to free up space for inner sunshine.
Besos y abrazos,
Margarita
May 8, 2017 at 1:05 pm
mbnovak
So it looks like we’d be at like 8 right now? If everyone else grabs another player, we could still do this.