deep thoughts by stinkerbelle {re: team challenge]

Loving all the action on the board although I'm not really taking part in any challenges myself. Must try and leave some more comments though!

This is also my third month and I have participated more than I have in 20+ years of scrapping. I really like to win and I'm 1 for 2 right now.

There are quite a few challenges. I like finding all the challenges on one thread, but I try to post using tapatalk. The tapatalk app won't let me go to a link from the challenge thread so I have to scroll until I find it. I can't do all the challenges but I have found I can participate in some of them without changing my style. In other words I scrap my normal way and still end up meeting some challenges.

I have lots of trouble with the point system. I would like to see some simplification. Maybe just get a point for each layout posted, and one additional point for each challenge it meets. Like if I post a layout and it meets no challenge, it's worth 1 point. If I post a layout and it meets 3 challenges it is worth 4 points. If I post a layout and it meets one challenge it's worth 2 points. In other words layouts that get done but don't meet a challenge are still completed layouts.  That's kind of how it is but it gets confusing when I like post a 2 page spread on a challenge thread and only one page has the element of the challenge, or both pages do but it's 2 pages, not one.  Confusing.

Just my thoughts.

It's my first month so I don't have many thoughts about it. I think most of it is fairly straightforward and the points are pretty easy to work out. I actually really like combining multiple challenges on one page, I think it makes me scrap smarter! At the end of the day I still want pages I am proud of in my albums so I'm not going to stick everything on to a page just for points.

I agree that the challenges are difficult to find as threads get pushed down the board, but I worry they would get lost in another board. Maybe we could tag them like they do politics threads on NSBR? Then you can pull up all the threads with that tag.

I've only been able to play along once and I loved it. I enjoyed the friendly competition between teams and trying to complete as many of the challenges as I could.

I love the idea of one single thread for all the completed pages/cards/etc.

As someone who hasn't played the last couple of months but was still reading here I will agree that the challenges overtake the board. It would be great if we could have one thread of challenges, or even just one thread per week.

I don't have any strong feelings on the points system one way or the other.

Me too! It drives my creative process - I don't over think, I have an idea already in place.

I wonder if the challenges need to be more firm to their intention. The one on the top of my head is "pop a wheelie" - not all circles are created equal and should count as a point

I personally would prefer NOT to move to a sub-board! I tend to stick in one area of a board, and like how the challenge teams have increased the traffic on the GS board. Could we try a month with just 2 threads (challenge thread/layout thread) and see if it works before we create a sub-board?

I haven’t participated but I still want to put in my comments if that’s okay.

1. As someone who doesn’t participate, it’s frustrating how many threads the challenges create and they bump my favorite active threads to page two (like sc refugees and everything AE/Ali Edwards keep getting bumped and these are always active threads).
2. I think if you continue to have so many threads they should be tagged (like politics on nsbr) so it’s easy for me to scan titles for threads I want/don’t want.
3. On why I haven’t participated... I’m worried about the team nature, that I will sign up and then not post enough and bring down my team. I’d prefer if there were individual participants—maybe top individual points and team points? And allow people to participate in both or only individually? I know that makes points more complicated though not less (everyone would still only track their points as usual, your points would just be used both as your individual score and added to a team score if you were on one).
4. It would be neat to have some sort of “hall of fame” post to list past winners. 

When I joined, the first thing I noticed, or the lack thereof, was a Challenge board. I think it would be beneficial for so many reasons.

Have asked admin if a Challenge Sub Board is possible.  I think if the traffic from the last couple of months continues, it would be well used (Thinking 20 team members posting on 20 challenge threads over 31 days:  maybe 500+ posts per month?)  And if it is a sub of THIS board, you would open this board first, so any other scrappy discussion would catch your eye.

Like grammadee said, just put your name down in that July sign up thread and you're in! You're not commited to anything, you don't even have to do anything if you don't want to so you're not signing your life away or anything. Then you'll be assigned to a team. Then you can ask your team leader any questions but basically if you do a LO either for a challenge, or for something else and it happens to fit a challenge (say for example, the Word Up challenge to use a pre-made word), you get points. All just for fun and hopefully to make an extra LO/card or two

I'm loving the challenges - I haven't been as active as I would like as life keeps getting in the way (right now my scrapbook space is buried under everything from DD11's room)

Some random thoughts - - I think

that sometimes the intent of the challenge gets lost in the quest for points.

there are getting to be so many challenges in one month that it's not feasible to meet them all

maybe a time frame for all challenges to be put up - say before the 15th of the month for example - if you don't get yours in for a particular month it can go for the next month

limiting the number of challenges would reduce the "take over" of the board

I love that this got started. I usually don't actually scrap at home much. I make up page kits with all the pieces and them scrap at crops. I've been much more active about posting and chatting and I really, really enjoy that interaction.

Is it possible to add a something to the subject line like they do with politics in NSDR? So people can easily see the challenge posts?

I haven't paper scrapped in ages or digi scrapped in months, but I'm liking all the action on the board and I'm silently cheering you all on.