Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

Here are the 2024 Team Reading Competition Teams! Please let me know if I have missed you or spelled your name incorrectly.

Silver Swords
Captain: Yanique
Angela Jr.
Elizabeth
Erin
Felina
Frank
Nyssa
Tammie

Horns of Hammerad
Captain: Iain
Brian
Diana
Hailee
Julian
Marie
Paula
Saar
Siobhan

Jaghut Guardians
Captain: Jenna
Ann-Marie
Choko
Chris H
Emily
Mei
Mel
Virginie

Tome Raiders
Captain: Niki
Charlie
Gaea
Katie
Monika
Narilka
Nirkatze
Olivia
Rob

I'll post the team threads in a few minutes. Should be an interesting year with a lot of new members joining!

As I just pointed out in my team thread, somehow my team seems to have pretty much every person with IAN in their name (without rearranging the letters in a different order)...

Man, my streak of being on Niki's team every other year has been broken. I'm excited though!

Timelord Iain wrote: "As I just pointed out in my team thread, somehow my team seems to have pretty much every person with IAN in their name (without rearranging the letters in a different order)..."

Hahaha that's amazing 😅

Elizabeth wrote: "Man, my streak of being on Niki's team every other year has been broken. I'm excited though!"

I knowwww :( I tried to find a way to put you on the Tome Raiders, but just couldn't manage it this time around. Hope you have a great time on the Silver Swords this year, though!

Shinies! Looking forward to a new year folks!

Wow! I'm in new team 😁. Yay!

Nyssa and Katie have been added to the competition. :)

Thank you again Jenna <3

Katie wrote: "Thank you again Jenna <3"

no problem, enjoy the competition this year! :)

Added Virginie to the Jaghuts! Happy reading!

Jenna wrote: "Added Virginie to the Jaghuts! Happy reading!"

Yaaaaay! You came in and nabbed me for your team haha :D

My guess of lowest point team was wrong... looks like Jenna went with adding to smallest team... now all teams have the same amount of people...

Timelord Iain wrote: "My guess of lowest point team was wrong... looks like Jenna went with adding to smallest team... now all teams have the same amount of people..."

Yeah, usually I do lowest point team as long as the member count is less or equal. I try to even out the numbers so each teach team has the same amount of people whenever possible. I was debating back and forth but then decided to go with my usual rule.

This year has been hard to arrange the teams with a lot of new people joining and a number of late entries. Not that I'm complaining about new/late people - we love to have you! Just makes it harder to evenly distribute people.

Virginie wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Added Virginie to the Jaghuts! Happy reading!"

Yaaaaay! You came in and nabbed me for your team haha :D"

She only nabs her favorites :)

Chris wrote: "She only nabs her favorites :)"

Lol it doesn't matter what I say at this point, does it? :D

Rigging the competition to ensure she maintains #1 status, more like ;)

Hahaha if that were the case, the Jaghuts would have definitely won more often than we have. :D

Added Olivia to the Tome Raiders! Have fun 😁

Thank you :)

Added Marie to the Horns of Hammerad! Happy reading :)

Jenna wrote: "Added Marie to the Horns of Hammerad! Happy reading :)"

Thank you! I was only following the sign up conversation and didn't see the reply here till now 😅 Should make sure to follow all the important ones.

Marie wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Added Marie to the Horns of Hammerad! Happy reading :)"

Thank you! I was only following the sign up conversation and didn't see the reply here till now 😅 Should make sure to follow a..."

You've been added to the spreadsheet with the basic blue template since you're on the blue team: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Named you Marie C to avoid any confusion with Ann-Marie, you can include any books you started since April 9th, when you re-signed up and met the 100 comment requirement...

There are monthly statistics rows hidden/grouped with the + button on the left of row 4, you can show/hide them by clicking the +/- button that it flips between...

Feel free to recolor the sheet any way you want, and resize rows/columns to write longer book titles/etc... making any bigger changes like adding columns or trying to rearrange things requires some intervention, since I/we need to be able to accurately grab your point totals and book statistics from the top row cells for Participant Data collection in other tabs of the sheet (and the rankings on the Main Page & Rankings)... and it might break the points formulas on your own sheet...

If you find any bugs/errors or have any questions, there's a spreadsheet thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Timelord Iain wrote: "Marie wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Added Marie to the Horns of Hammerad! Happy reading :)"

Thank you! I was only following the sign up conversation and didn't see the reply here till now 😅 Should make su..."

Thank you, Ian! Sorry for giving you more work in middle of the year.

Btw, the rules say I can also add books I started few days before sign up as long as I am still reading them? Just asking because I started Of Fire and Blood on 7th to qualify for BR bonus and two books I started on 8th.

If it says that, it's fine... that's a newer rule and wasn't sure how it worked with late joiners... rule is also true for books in progress on New Years' Day, as long as you don't start 30 books in December to exploit...

I barely had any pages in for two of them and Magic Burns I had less than a third, just started it to join the conversation at the beginning of the BR. I was still also reading another audiobook until 10th that won't be counted as that one I started on 1st and was mostly finished by 9th.

So, certainly didn't get any head start.