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This is where you will track your points for the 2025 Summer Reading Contest.

As soon as you’ve registered, make a post to keep a tally of your featured comments here. Failure to do this may result in your comments not being counted towards your group’s total. Remember not to edit-lock anyone else’s posts. 

You may also use this thread to discuss strategies, chat about the contest, and keep tabs on your competition using the leaderboard.

🏆The Review Bored (Cavus, Fluxion and Mousecore): 20
🏅The Worst (Shadowdrake, Benholman and NotSoSpecial): 3
🏅Team 2 (Liminal, RK and Yummyfood): 2

☼ Rapid Reviewers ☼

Name: #

𓊝 Cruising Critics 𓊝

Name: #

⚘ Stranded at Sea ⚘

Team ADHD / Team Please Sherb Save Us / Natural Born Winners (Darius, Mizal and Suranna): 0
Team 5 (Corgi, Milton, MrAce): 0


Last edited: 3/6

🥇 Mousecore: 8
🥈 CavusRex: 7
🥉 Fluxion: 5

⋆ The Prolific Ones ⋆

Benholman: 2
Liminal: 1
Shadowdrake: 1
Yummyfood: 1

≫ The Somewhat Skilled ≪ 

Name: #

𖥧 The Amateurs 𖥧

Name: #

𓋼 The Time-Challenged 𓋼

Name: #

𖦹 The Soon-To-Be Shamed 𖦹

Corgi: 0
Darius: 0
Milton: 0
Mizal: 0
MrAce: 0
NotSoSpecial: 0
RK: 0
Suranna: 0

? Team Unassigned ?

Anthraxus: 0
Enterpride: 0
UnescapableDeath: 0


Last edited: 3/6

Reviews: 2

Featured: 2 (100%)

Team: #1 (Fluxion and Mousecore)

Games reviewed (Dates based on CEST time):

• In 3 (Length 5, 01/06, Featured)
• Spy Mission (Length 6, 02/06, Featured)

Length of Stories	Points Awarded	Number of Featured Reviews	Points Scored
1 - 4	1	0	0
5	2	1	2
6	5	1	5
7	7	0	0
8	10	0	0

Points total: 7

Current reviews: 1

Current featured: 1

Current teammate(s): RK and Liminal

Most recent reviews:

Searching for Sunsets

Team #2

Teammates: Yummy and Liminal

Total Points: 1

Story length	Points Awarded	# of Featured Reviews	# of Regular Reviews	Points Scored
1-4	1	1	0	1
5	2	0	0	0
6	5	0	0	0
7	7	0	0	0
8	10	0	0	0

Reviews done so far:

Mission Sunshine(4/8)

Featured Reviews:
Mission Sunshine(4/8) *****FEATURED******

Teammates: CavusRex and Fluxion

TOTAL POINTS: 8

Story Length	Points Awarded	# of Featured Reviews	# of Regular Reviews	Points Scored
1 - 4	1	1	0	1
5	2	0	0	0
6	5	0	0	0
7	7	1	0	7
8	10	0	0	0

Contest review list:

1. Mole (2/8) ** FEATURED **

2. Shadow of a God-King (7/8) ** FEATURED **

Reviews: 4 (Yay!)

Featured: 1 (Double yay!)

Team #2

Games Reviewed:

• Temple Of Spades
• Locked Out (The Movie)
• Locked Out (The Movie) Episode Two
• Locked Out (The Movie) Episode Three (The finale of the Locked Out saga. Reviews of longer storygames to come.

Guess I should do this.

Team: #3 with Suranna

Reviewed: 0
Featured: 0
Team total: 0


Game/Date/Length/Worth:

My Total Points:

Don't need no fancy newfangled tables.

With 25 featured comments I can overtake BZ's spot on the leaderboard. Which will make me sad, I miss him. But this will allow me to begin gunning for Steve's dead gay corpse, which is what Berka would have wanted.

 

Team: The Worst

Length of Stories	Points Awarded	Number of Featured Reviews	Points Scored
Example: 6	5	3	5 x 3 = 15
1 - 4	1	1	1
5	2
6	5
7	7
8	10

Total Points: 1

Stories Reviewed:

• This Is Not A Storygame (1 length review featured 6/2/25)
• Bright Days (3 length)
• Night Shift (2 length)

Points Scoring

In light of the new scoring system for reviews, it would be appreciated if you could keep track of story length on your posts. You may use this table if it helps:

 

Length of Stories	Points Awarded	Number of Featured Reviews	Points Scored
Example: 6	5	3	5 x 3 = 15
1 - 4	1
5	2
6	5
7	7
8	10

Total Points:

I will copy this table and fill it out... just curious though... it says we accumulate points daily. If we get switched teams do we keep our points and take them with us? Or do they stay with that team?

That's a really good question :D

You definitely keep your individual points score. As for the points you earned with that team I think they will stay with that team and then you need to start earning points for your new team after you swap (otherwise everyone will be trying to steal certain members for their personal points rather than their reviewing abilities). This is my interpretation but leave this with me and I'll clarify it soon :D

As Will said, the points would stay with the team. Any card-related powerups only affects team points, e.g. doubling your points for the day doubles the team's score but not individual rankings. This also prevents teams from just stealing the top scoring member on the last few weeks of the contest to win. 

I do not envy those who have to track daily point totals... all of our threads are setup to track total points without a way to track points for just the day... 

Perhaps I can add a date to the "games reviewed" section to help? 

Well it's sure not me lol. I'm assuming also that Mystic has some kind of spreadsheet set up to track overall activity for teams already though, because I don't see many planning to do that either and it's not going to be as simple as adding up the numbers of the people in them at the end.

I'll be keeping a spreadsheet of points earned each week, along with the cards that are used and the effect they will have. But adding a date to your games reviewed section would definitely be helpful.

Yeah, I've added it where I list the games reviewed for you. I have no clue how this is working... but I feel the dates will be important. I did make a decision that the date commended, not the date the review was left, is what is listed.

Also good to see Mizal shirking responsibilities! I guess CYStia does never change.

Reviews: 

Featured: 

Team: #3 

Storygames:

Those of you who are tracking individual games reviewed, I'm sure it would help a lot if you also noted the game lengths next to any you had featured.

In fact, everyone should do this. I mean, I'm not saying I will spitefully miscount anyone who makes it harder for me when it's time to award points....but that sure is a sentence I just typed.

Team: ?

Reviewed: 0 Featured: 0 Team total: 0

Points Scoring

In light of the new scoring system for reviews, it would be appreciated if you could keep track of story length on your posts. You may use this table if it helps:

Length of Stories	Points Awarded	Number of Featured Reviews	Points Scored
1-4	1	none yet lol	none yet lol
5	2	none yet lol	none yet lol
6	5	none yet lol	none yet lol
7	7	none yet lol	none yet lol
8	10	none yet lol	none yet lol

Total Points:

Stories Reviewed:

Here we go.

Point Tracking (Total - 2):

Length of Stories	Points Awarded	Number of Featured Reviews	# of Standard Reviews	Points Scored
1-4	1	?	1	? (Min 1)
5	2	?	1	? (Min 1)
6	5	?	-	?
7	7	?	-	?
8	10	?	-	?

Story Tracking:

Story Title	Date Reviewed	Story Length	Score Given
Detective 2: Han Island	6/2/25	5 (16,152)	7
Mouldy Oldiez	6/2/25	3 (7812)	5

Reviewed:

 

Featured:

KOBOLD KEBABS  Play length: 4

A Bird in a Cage  Play length: 4

 

Point Total: 2

 

 

 

 

Progress so far:

Reviews: 2.

Mole. Play length: 2.

The Knight Order of the Golden Sun. Play length: 6.

Featured: 1.

I see you... scrolling by without a care, looking for the latest post. Well, since you're down there... here are some shameless self-plugs for stories you can review for the contest in increasing order of length:

The Shameful Dead. Length: 3. Genre: Horror.

Slay the Dragon. Length: 3. Genre: Medieval dick jokes.

Chivalry. Length: 5. Genre: Medieval fantasy.

By the Light of Day. Length: 6. Genre: Horror/vampires.

Fey Light. Length: 6. Genre: Grimdark fantasy.

Shadow of a God-King Length: 7. Genre: Grimdark fantasy.

How do you guys make the fancy table? I'm a bit technically challenged here.

Do you want me to stick the one Mystic made into your post?

I'm just going to do without myself and just mark it all out in a big list like God intended.

That would be amazing!

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_tables.asp

Here's how you can code one out through html which will convert it into the fancy table.

Thanks!

Well let me know if you need some help straightening your post out once you're done experimenting. (You may want to look up break line tags.)

Oh yeah, I copy pasted cavus’s table and ended up trying to fill it out. I better fix up some of the html, thanks again!

Team: #5 with Corgi213 and MrAce321

Reviewed: 0
Featured: 0
Team total: 0

Game/Date/Length/Worth:

My Total Points:

Might steal one of those tables later. I like sturdy text furniture,