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Mon 8 Aug 11
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JMK
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Decathlon Sign-up August 2011
August 2011 Decathlon
Roll up! Roll up!
The August Decathlon will begin on Monday August 15th. The rules are listed below. To take part, simply post “I’m in” in this thread. Sign-up closes 1am Monday the 15th GMT.
Decathlon Rules and Conditions
• Players wishing to take part in the Decathlon must sign up by indicating their interest in the Sign-up forum
• The management (being the person/people running the current competition) reserves the right to refuse to accept a player in the competition at their discretion
• The decathlon will be played out of a single round (no qualifying round for the final)
• One brainoff from each of six different categories (e.g. Music, Science & Nature, Language etc.) will be sent each day for five days, a total of 30 challenges (3 from each of the 10 categories).
• Each Decathlon Brainoff will have 10 questions randomly chosen from the category
• Challenges will be sent out by the Tournament account.
• Brainoffs will be sent every day from Monday to Friday inclusive. Players will have 48 hours to complete a challenge. Challenges will be sent out at approximately 7.15 am GMT.
• If more than 8 players sign up then they will be split into groups of equal sizes, or as equal as possible, and groups will be assigned randomly by computer
• Scores will be posted in a dedicated thread. Updating the scoreboard is a manual process but scores will be updated at least twice each day, more often if possible. The winner is the person with the highest overall points total in the 30 brainoffs.
• In case the Factacular site hiccups, we will spring into action and resolve issues as soon as the site is up and running and continue with the competition. We do respectfully ask that everyone play their challenges as soon as possible after receiving them --- you will be less likely to be affected if the site goes down. We will only replay challenges if the site is down for more than 12 hours on the last day of a challenge. We will not replay for anyone letting the challenge time out or for minor site glitches.
• Please send a private message to JMK or Javalyne if you encounter problems.
• Most importantly - have fun!
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Mon 8 Aug 11
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Allan R. Matthes
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In, of course
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Tue 9 Aug 11
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JMK
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Participants
Figgmeister
Lucy
rmcmanus
Nemesis
TABBYTOES
Duncan Disorderly
tallyho
Quiz3000
Allan R. Matthes
JMK
Java
kevg
tob39
jackson
caro
cack
amalia
Kitrose08
emerald125
mapmaker
shaunt
saguingoira
Mimoza
DogmanMax
Tazing
Bright But Idle
Mike Pinchen
JustinKnoxton
RUI
satchelbean101
USS Palladin
Kristian
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Wed 10 Aug 11
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Bright But Idle
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In - from a campsite in France on dodgy wi-fi
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Wed 10 Aug 11
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Mike Pinchen
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Once more unto the breach!!!
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Thu 11 Aug 11
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JustinKnoxton
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Me too! Thanks(:
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Fri 12 Aug 11
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satchelbean101
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im in
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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Kristian
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I think I posted that I'm in. Strange...
I'm in. If there's still time.
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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kevg
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can't get the staff these days
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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JMK
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Can't see your previous post Kris but you are in now.
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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Tazing
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Just FYI, that's happened to me recently as well - I was 100% sure I signed up - even recall seeing the post - might be a bug?
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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JMK
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Possibly, will watch for it.
Sign up is closed.
Will start sending challenges in about an hour. Manually sending challenges so may take a while longer than usual.
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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JMK
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Duncan Disorderly, Figgmeister. saguingoira, satchelbean101, Java, rmcmanus and Lucy - you will be sent your Decath challenges by me. Everyone else will get them from Tournament Helper today.
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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JMK
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Challenges have all been sent for today. Good luck.
Scores will be posted here
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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Leo McKern
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In please...I type dozens of comments and forget to post them..
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Mon 15 Aug 11
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JMK
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Sorry Leo, you are a few hours too late. Have a look at the World Cup challenge.
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