EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

Welcome to the 8th annual House Cup Challenge! 2022's theme is... HOBBITS or more specifically FRODO, SAM, MERRY, and PIPPIN


HOW THE CHALLENGE WORKS
- Everyone who wants to play joins a house and all the houses compete to read the most over the three months. The scores are based on an average and there will be an overall winner as well as 2 winners each month when you will go head-to-head with another team.
- The Challenge will run from October 1 through December 31. All books started & finished during this time will count toward the challenge.
- Post in YOUR HOUSE’S THREAD ran by your house’s prefect. contribute with the BOOK TITLE and DATE FINISHED and NUMBER OF PAGES.
- If you would like you can make one post, or one per month, and update them to keep everything in one place, but I do ask that you make another comment letting your team prefect know that you updated it.

Each house has its own thread:

FRODO - Prefect: Laura
SAM - Prefect: Saar
MERRY - Prefect: Cynthia
PIPPIN - Prefect: Erin

RULES AND SCORING
We will use an average score to balance the different house sizes. We will use a tiered scoring system based on the number of pages in a book. Essentially, it's 1 point for every 250 pages read within a book. Here's the breakdown:
1-249 pages = 1 point
250-499 pages = 2 points
500-749 = 3 points
and so on...

- If its a graphic novel, heavily pictured book or sparsely worded (i.e. poetry), half points will be awarded, so it will be 0.5 points for every 250 pages. The points will be awarded per book and not per cumulative pages read.
- Easy point-getters are limited to 10 per month per participant. These will be books with less than 50 pages.
- A book cannot be counted more than one time in a month, so a maximum of three times over the course of a challenge.
- If you read one of the group's selected group reads for October, November or December, you get to add a bonus 0.5 point. (This must be read in the month that the book is our BOTM pick)
- For a book to count, it must be started and finished during the challenge timeframe.
- Use the page number of the most popular edition when you search on Goodreads for every book read. This includes audiobooks, ebooks, and physical books.

- Number of participants per house will be counted based on contributions, so if a member signs up and does not contribute, they are not used in average calculations.

- This challenge will feature a ROUND ROBIN TOURNAMENT with each month featuring a matchup with a different house. To count for a matchup, the book must be read within that month and posted no later than one day after the end of the month. We will not do late term adjustments, but books read in an earlier month (no earlier than October) can still count toward your house’s overall total. The winner of the tournament will be featured in EHRTBM Hall of Fame.

- There will also be an Overall winner featured in the EHRTBM Hall of Fame.

- Participants must log their book in Goodreads as read to count them in the challenge.


Since this competition can get intense, please note that we do expect good sportsmanship from participants and failure to demonstrate good sportsmanship will result in warnings. Multiple warnings or extremely offensive remarks may result in a participants removal from the challenge.

Happy reading everyone!

OVERALL COMPETITION:

Total Average Points:
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ROUND ROBIN SCHEDULE

OCTOBER
Merry vs. Frodo
Pippin vs. Sam

NOVEMBER
Frodo vs. Sam
Pippin vs. Merry

DECEMBER
Pippin vs. Frodo
Merry vs. Sam

You get to pick which house you would like to be on. Maybe you have never read the Lord of the Rings books, or maybe you have and are finding it impossible to choose one Hobbit over the others, either way here is a quiz that might help:

https://www.allthetests.com/personali...

Please use this thread to talk about the challenge and ask any questions!

You Can sign up in your house thread starting the last week of September, feel free to join in anytime!

Yay!! So glad to see this challenge is back!!

I volunteer to be the prefect for Pippin!!

I’ll be prefect for Frodo please

Sign me up under frodo please

Can i be under Frodo please

I'm in for team Sam and I would like to be prefect.

I volunteer to be prefect for Merry

I don't know how well I'll do, but I can try! I wanna be with Pippin or Merry!

Alright, didn't even have this up for 24 hours and we have all of our Prefects! Thank you for volunteering and welcome back! I will be sending the prefects a message with instructions in a week or so.

This is the hardest time I've had in 8 years trying to decide which house to join. Usually I know right away, but I love Sam and Merry both so much! lol...this might have to come down to a coin toss or whichever house has less members.

I'd like to join Merry please!

I will be in House Sam please.

This is the BEST news!!! Could I join Team Pippin please? Can’t wait to get started - this is always the highlight of my reading year! :-)

Woohoo! Awesome theme! I am literally going to be finishing up reading The Return of the King today. And planning on a Lord of the Rings movie marathon tomorrow.... with all the meals.... :)

Oh, man, I love them all. I can't choose! I'll have to figure out who I love more.... lol

This seems like fun, I might it a go. I don't really mind which house I join, which ever needs a member to balance out the teams.

Does any book count towards the reading goal?... fiction, nonfiction, classic, & contemporary?

I’ll join Team Frodo.

Wohoo - glad this challenge is back again! I'm going to really prioritize it this year. I'll join team Merry!

I am Happy to join any team that needs members, if you want to assign me to one as the start date gets closer please just let me know which team I’ll be in

Nice! I was thinking about that yesterday.

I'd like to join team Pippin please

I'd like to join team Sam please

Please add me to Sam. Have ❤️ Sean Austin since Goonies.

Second breakfast here I come!

If I weren't so busy this semester I'd join. Oh well. Maybe next time. I've already seen a drop in my reading habits just from the amount of coursework I have.

I would like to join team Sam! So excited for this challenge!

I'm so looking forward to this!!! I would love to join team Pippin!

For anyone interested on the team breakdowns so far :)


Pippin
1. Erin
2. Catherine
3. Alex
4. Fannie
5. Miriam

Frodo
1. Laura
2. Christene Paula
3. Tash
4. Rebecca_book-hooked

Sam
1. Saar the Book Owl
2. Ashleigh
3. Satrina
4. Jennifer
5. Marina

Merry
1. Cynthia
2. Kathy
3. Britt

Undecided
1. Tokoro
2. Tori
3. JennH
4. Nicky
5. Lindsay

Pretty even teams so far! Can't wait for others to join :)

You forget me in team Pippin

Fannie wrote: "You forget me in team Pippin"

Sorry about that, Fannie. I edited my original comment so it should all be correct now.

If I accidentally missed anyone else's name, please let me know.

Cynthia wrote: "Fannie wrote: "You forget me in team Pippin"

Sorry about that, Fannie. I edited my original comment so it should all be correct now.

If I accidentally missed anyone else's name, please let me know."

No problem and thank you!

I’d like to join team Merry if it isn’t too late?

I would like to be in team Sam.

I would like to be one team Merry and hang out with Cynthia again.

May I be on Team Frodo, please?

i would like to join team frodo please

I would like to be on Team Sam.

Welcome new Frodo team members! Lovely to have you all on the team this year and welcome back Bryce (evofox) lovely to have you on the team again this year 😀😁

HOBBITS!!!! Omg I’m so excitedddd 😭😭😭

Taya wrote: "I’d like to join team Merry if it isn’t too late?"

Definitely not too late! We'd love to have you on Merry team

Jan wrote: "I would like to be one team Merry and hang out with Cynthia again."

So excited to do another challenge with you! 😊

Thank you, Laura :) I'm excited to join and try out this challenge. This is a fun idea!

Can I join Team Sam please? :D

Pony wrote: "Thank you, Laura :) I'm excited to join and try out this challenge. This is a fun idea!"

I look forward to it every year and love being a prefect - two weeks to go 🎉🎉🎉

I put 15 books on hold from my library last night before I had to stop myself from adding more 🙈🙈🙈. I guess you could say I'm excited for the challenge to start too.

How are everyone's TBRs looking?

Also, on the topic of TBRs I was checking out the October BOTMs. I was curious if 216 pages was a typo for The Hound of the Baskervilles? I couldn't find an edition with that page count but that's what I saw listed under our group's poll and suggestion pages.

Cynthia wrote: "I put 15 books on hold from my library last night before I had to stop myself from adding more 🙈🙈🙈. I guess you could say I'm excited for the challenge to start too.

How are everyone's TBRs looking?"

I've got way too many books on my TBR, but at least I know for sure that I won't run out of anything to read XD
Gonna take a reading sprint as soon as this challenge starts!

I’ve got so many books I want to start but I’m holding off till 1st October and I’ve picked all spooky ones for October. My audiobooks are going to be off the charts the next three months 😂

Same here. I have a lot of books I'm excited to get to, but I'm trying to hold off until the challenge starts. In the meantime, I'm finishing up a few things I had already started to try and clear my reading schedule for the challenge.