Challenge #4: Distasteful
TripleM will not participate in this challenge.
Every so often on Survivor, the producers will hold a challenge that asks the contestants to eat disgusting things. You know, stuff like exotic bugs and animals, sometimes raw, sometimes still squirming. The tribe that does a better job of keeping their food down wins immunity.
I looked into it, and the cost of shipping cockroaches and grubs to all corners of the world for you guys was just a little beyond my budget. Don’t worry – I have a plan B.
I’ve established a list of individual tasks that I believe you’ll find somewhat distasteful. Each task is scored (all-or-none) for each player that attempts it, and each task is worth a different amount of points. The tribe with the most points at the end wins immunity! In the event of a tie, I will award victory to the tribe with more players opting-in to the "
Cut in Half"
task. If still tied, I will invite an impartial judge to choose a winner based on style.
No posts in this thread will count towards the challenge. This thread will be your one haven in which you can ask questions and behave respectfully. All PMs will also be exempt form these restrictions.
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× Dignity Compromising Tasks
Tl;dr (3pts) – All of your posts for the next five days must contain at least 250 words. This does not include quoted text, smilies, or formatting tags. I will run your posts through the MS Word 2007 word counter. It’s probably best to err on the safe side and exceed 250. Minimum of five posts, at least one on the General board.
Bustd Kyboard (2pts) – None of your posts for the next five days can contain the letter E. This does not include quoted text, smilies, or formatting tags. Minimum of five posts, at least one on the General board.
No Punctuation (3pts) – None of your posts for the next five days can contain any of the following punctuation marks: ( . , ; : ‘ “ ? ! - ). Additionally, words must consist entirely of lowercase letters, or entirely of uppercase letters. This does not include quoted text, smilies, or formatting tags. Minimum of five posts, at least one on the General board.
Oh, Yeah (2pts) – Make two consecutive posts in the same thread (that is, you are the first response to your own post) with a timestamp difference of at least six hours. You must successfully do this two times during the challenge (in two different threads) to score the points.
Spam-Bot Uprising (2pts) – Three of your posts for the next five days must accuse other forumites of being spam-bots. Each accusation must target a different forum member. None of the accused can be among the 11 players currently remaining in the game, nor can they be actual spam-bots. Each accusation must be in a different previously existing topic, and cannot be made in this topic or in the spam-bot topic. I will be final judge and will inform you if your posts meet my standards.
Happy Birthday? (1pt) – Update your profile information so that your birthday falls at some point during the week. I will check on a fairly regular basis. If I ever see your name listed at the bottom of the forum among the day’s birthdays, you will score one point. I won’t inform you when you have passed this task, So you might want to celebrate your birthday on multiple days this week just to be sure. FYI, I am in the GMT-8 time zone.
Signature for sale (1pt) – You will commit to changing your signature for the challenge week to content authored by the opposing tribe.
Avatar for sale (1pt) – You will commit to changing your avatar for the challenge week to an image chosen by the opposing tribe.
The Fear (1pt) – Respond to somebody's post by quoting them, then adding only the colon-fear smiley afterwards (
). This only needs to be done once and does not count against the tl;dr task. You cannot quote a player.
Opt-in Tasks
Cut in half (5pts) – If you commit to this task, Schik will cut your rank point total in half. This will be a permanent change. This will not affect your mod points. You can opt-in to this task at any time during the week by sending me a PM. Your participation will be kept secret until the end of the challenge, at which point the rank point change will be made.
Ultimate Sacrifice (5pts) – You will commit to receiving one additional vote the next time you are not immune from the vote. You can opt-in to this task at any time during the week by sending me a PM. Your participation will be kept secret until the end of the challenge.
Team Tasks
Happy Birthday Team Bonus (up to 5pts) – You can score bonus points for accomplishing the Happy Birthday task simultaneously with your tribemates. Your bonus will equal the maximum number of your tribemates that I see apparently sharing the same birth date. For example, if I log on and see three of your names on the list, your bonus will be three points until you can exceed that maximum.
Before we begin, I want each tribe to submit to me their proposed signatures/avatars for the other tribe to opt in to for the "
For Sale"
tasks. You can create a specific signature/avatar for each opponent, if you wish. Once I have those proposals, I will post them publicly. I'll then set a time for the challenge to start, giving you a window of time to update your profiles. The challenge will continue for five days.
If anybody watching the game has creative proposals for tasks, please PM me and I will consider them for inclusion.
I realize that there are a bunch of grey areas here, so please ask your questions. Apologies in advance to the forum community. The way I see it, I’m just making up for the DoOD’s lost time. Have fun!
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[Last edited by RoboBob3000 at 03-17-2009 05:20 PM]
