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Tue 11 Oct 11
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JMK
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Decathlon Sign-up October 2011
October 2011 Decathlon
Roll up! Roll up!
The August Decathlon will begin on Monday October17th. The rules are listed below. To take part, simply post “I’m in” in this thread. Sign-up closes 1am Monday the 17th GMT.
Some changes have been made for this month's Decathlon. Your challenges will be sent by Factacular and may look a little different to usual. They will be delivered to you at the same time as the dailies each day. If they don't please check your home page and if they are not there then let me know asap.
There is another change I hope you will like but I will leave that as a surprise.
Please make sure to play a few facts in Factopedia if you sign up, makes it easier for the FacTournament program to pick you up.
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 Factacular.
• 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 the same time as the daily challenges.
• 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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Tue 11 Oct 11
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shortbreadforme27
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well okay then in................ ta.....................
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Tue 11 Oct 11
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JMK
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Wed 12 Oct 11
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Wed 12 Oct 11
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Allan R. Matthes
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I am in
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Wed 12 Oct 11
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caro (online)
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in please
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Wed 12 Oct 11
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Knitwitty
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Hang on... Nemesis is SSG evil(er) mirror twin...
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Wed 12 Oct 11
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Nemesis
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There was an accident in the transporter
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Thu 13 Oct 11
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JMK
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Some changes have been made for this month's Decathlon. Your challenges will be sent by Factacular and may look a little different to usual. They will be delivered to you at the same time as the dailies each day. If they don't please check your home page and if they are not there then let me know asap.
There is another change I hope you will like but I will leave that as a surprise.
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Thu 13 Oct 11
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Leo McKern
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i'm in...if you'll have me
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Thu 13 Oct 11
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doczane
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in please *hands open, eyes closed, waiting for surprise*
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Fri 14 Oct 11
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Sat 15 Oct 11
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sally906
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A surprise? Oh dear - it won't blow up will it. I saw the wires and TNT over there in the corner so I am worried!
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Sat 15 Oct 11
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JMK
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Shhh, I was hoping no-one would notice those.
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Sat 15 Oct 11
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Bright But Idle
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Sat 15 Oct 11
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JMK
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Sun 16 Oct 11
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kevg
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Daft Thistle signed in by pm to me
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Sun 16 Oct 11
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in please
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Sun 16 Oct 11
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Leo McKern
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now that's a better picture kev
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Mon 17 Oct 11
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JMK
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Today's challenges have been sent.
Hope you like the change.
The scores can be found here
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