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I apologize for the clickbait title, but if you're reading this, it clearly worked. ;)

The winning team will be announced on November 9 to give everyone some time to update their spreadsheet.

time zone note: My location's time zone is UTC+09:00. I'll post sometime in the evening of the 9th for me, but if you want to be sure all your points are submitted before the announcement, make sure to input all your pages by the 8th.

A reminder that the competition officially ends on October 31 and only books read by that date can be counted, but Iain has set up the spreadsheet so you can continue tracking for the remaining two months of the year if you wish to do so.

Horns of Hammerad has this in the bag ;)

I was surprised to notice my team had reclaimed the lead, after fluctuating all over the place throughout the year (at least 1st/2nd/3rd places)...

Depending how accurate the current inputs are, my team has the strongest last place participant, and that extra team member really helped...

Oh crap, I haven’t updated that spreadsheet in months. Not that my little points will make a big difference. Ha ha.

Every point make a difference Felina :)

Somehow I dont think me finishing one more book before tomorrow evening will swing the results, but I'm still gonna do it :D

Oooh I didnt realise we were winning Iain!

If Niki is around she really needs to update her sheet for Tome Raiders haha!

Niki hasn't input any books in 2 years... not sure how much of a difference it would make, but I know she reads...

Siobhan wrote: "Somehow I dont think me finishing one more book before tomorrow evening will swing the results, but I'm still gonna do it :D"

Depends on the size of the book. I am finishing my eye read of Words of Radiance tm and all those pages will bring a lot of points 😁

Timelord Iain wrote: "Horns of Hammerad has this in the bag ;)

I was surprised to notice my team had reclaimed the lead, after fluctuating all over the place throughout the year (at least 1st/2nd/3rd places)...

Depend..."

Haha, thanks for the compliment, Iain 🤣

So much for Horns of Hammerad superiority... Choko just pulled a Soo, and plugged in months of books, I think... enough to take the lead from Emily, on their team... and now they're 100pts ahead of 2nd place (Horns)

It was nice while it lasted.

Timelord Iain wrote: "Niki hasn't input any books in 2 years... not sure how much of a difference it would make, but I know she reads..."

I usually take this into account when I'm making the teams. I mostly just put her on the team so the fourth team can have a mod captain. :)

Having a captain isn't really necessary, though. Maybe for next year that team can have no captain and be a lawless band of readers who are solely motivated by the prospect of destroying all other teams with the incredible amount of pages they consume.

Wow, I have been in every year's team read, and realized that my points have only varied 50 higher or 100 lower from where I finished.
Too funny, I never have been able to break 1,000 points, even though I vow to do it each year.
Work always drags me down, what a bummer.
Look forward to next year!!
Congratulations to all once the final counts are in!

Timelord Iain wrote: "So much for Horns of Hammerad superiority... Choko just pulled a Soo, and plugged in months of books, I think... enough to take the lead from Emily, on their team... and now they're 100pts ahead of..."

Ah, I was wondering if I should pull a Soo (love that that's what it's called btw) and input all the mangas/manwhas I read since my team wasn't that far away and I felt a bit guilty for disappearing (again). I was kind of dreading the idea of figuring out 6+ months of reading (I use another website to track mangas) but Choko's last minute update saved me lol.

Hello again everyone 😊I ended up falling behind in my buddy reads all across the board (here, my discord groups and IRL), but loved updating the spreadsheet!!! I'm glad I joined this year!🤣 Hopefully next year I'll be better about buddy reads 😂

Virginie, I totally feel you when it comes to tracking manga. I've been reading a loooooooot of webtoons this year and it's been tough guestimating how many pages those might be but defnitely undershot for safety, haha...and fanfic, but I didn't count that here at all, hahaha!

It’s what I call it, Virginie :D

That year she participated, she plugged in 7 months and like 2000 points the night before, after going quiet for 6 months��

These days, Soo flipflops about inputting alot of her asian web serials, light novels, etc that she discusses in the Vagabond thread into ŷ������ at all, nevermind a non-existent spreadsheet��

@Mei: graphic novels / manga gets penalized so hard anyway, for points, that even overestimating a little probably wouldn’t hurt too much�� 25% page count for points vs 100% audio and 125% ebook/physical book��

Jenna wrote: "Having a captain isn't really necessary, though. Maybe for next year that team can have no captain and be a lawless band of readers who are solely motivated by the prospect of destroying all other ..."

Do we want to finally try putting Iain, Choko and Nirkatze on one team vs everyone else? ;)

Mei ☽︎ wrote: "Virginie, I totally feel you when it comes to tracking manga. I've been reading a loooooooot of webtoons this year and it's been tough guestimating how many pages those might be but defnitely undershot for safety, haha...and fanfic, but I didn't count that here at all, hahaha!

Inputting manga volumes is easy, but guesstimating pages for manwhas is hell. I'm also reading lots of fanfics, webnovels and overall stories in all kind of formats that are not books exactly. I kind of want to get points for those but also am too lazy to actually do the work to get those points even if it were allowed hahaha.

Narilka wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Having a captain isn't really necessary, though. Maybe for next year that team can have no captain and be a lawless band of readers who are solely motivated by the prospect of destroy..."

It's almost cheating... we guarantee every book is a Buddy Read...

Narilka wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Having a captain isn't really necessary, though. Maybe for next year that team can have no captain and be a lawless band of readers who are solely motivated by the prospect of destroy..."

Lol that would be a fun one :D

Narilka wrote: "Do we want to finally try putting Iain, Choko and Nirkatze on one team vs everyone else? ;)"

Looking at the numbers.... We would lose, and it wouldn't even be close xD

Using this year's numbers, it would need to be 3 teams...

The real problem is how much work is involved in changing the team amount... screws the Main Page up alot... we had to build a separate main page the year there was only 2 teams...

LoL! "Pulled a Soo" 🤣🤣🤣

I think I may sign up for 2025.

Bwahahhah

Virginie wrote: "Narilka wrote: "Do we want to finally try putting Iain, Choko and Nirkatze on one team vs everyone else? ;)"

Looking at the numbers.... We would lose, and it wouldn't even be close xD"

Oh dear lol

Timelord Iain wrote: "Using this year's numbers, it would need to be 3 teams...

The real problem is how much work is involved in changing the team amount... screws the Main Page up alot... we had to build a separate ma..."

Could you leave the XLS 4 teams with the knowledge that team 4 would be 0 points? Give it one team member that never enters anything but saves you time on formatting? You could then hide the tab so no one inputs any data by mistake.

Jenna wrote: "Having a captain isn't really necessary, though. Maybe for next year that team can have no captain and be a lawless band of readers who are solely motivated by the prospect of destroying all other ..."

Love this 😂

Just make 4 teams and have 2 of the teams be lawless readaholics. 🤣

Narilka wrote: "Jenna wrote: "Having a captain isn't really necessary, though. Maybe for next year that team can have no captain and be a lawless band of readers who are solely motivated by the prospect of destroy..."

The rest of us wouldn’t have a chance 😂

Narilka wrote: "Do we want to finally try putting Iain, Choko and Nirkatze on one team vs everyone else? ;)"

Lol this has been considered before, but they would completely destroy the rest of us :D

And how is everyone going to accuse me of picking favourites again if I don't add at least one of the heavy hitters to my team? ;P

4 teams allows there to be competition even if 1st place or last place is locked in early... and keeps things interesting if people join later in the year...

Having only 2 teams one year, the competition locked in pretty early, and lost some of it's luster, from what I remember...

And putting the heavy hitters on one team either makes them the obvious winner, or puts alot of stress on them not to burnout and tank the team, I think?... less room for team to work together to cover any fluctuations...

Just have a separate hypothetical competition 😂

Tonari no Emily wrote: "Just have a separate hypothetical competition 😂"

I always used to... there's a section at the bottom of the main page that adds together the point total of the #1 person on each team, I think...

I like having more teams and the possibility of moving around during the year, even if every year doesn't quite work out 100% competitively...

I'll be Team 4. Solo Outlaw! XD

Who knows if I'll read a ton or middling spree of 200?!?!

It'll be a mystery! Bwahaha

Just don't judge me if I have hypothetical conversations by myself in a solo team?

Me0: Woo! I read 2 manhuas and finished an audiobook!
Me1: You can't take credit for the LN! That's mine.
Me2: Any Wandering Inn reading on the website was done by me. No one else can get credit. Gimme those thousands of page counts!

Hmmm, reading comps that can lead to split personalities. All bookworms. XD

When Iain posted about winning I thought that was a bold move because I am superstitious and would never declare victory early like that! My goal was to finish on the top 10 overall and I managed that so I am good. As far as the teams go I say leave them as is, I an a fan of the results lol

I didn't expect to keep the lead, honestly... was half shit talk tradition, and demoralize the enemy into not bothering to update their sheets because it's not worth it :D >:D

As someone who keeps their sheet pretty up-to-date, I don't/didn't have many points to add on the final days, so I was riding the glory of being first again for the first time in awhile, because Jaghut was consistently #1 when their sheets were up-to-date since at least Mid-Spring...

Timelord Iain wrote: "I didn't expect to keep the lead, honestly... was half shit talk tradition, and demoralize the enemy into not bothering to update their sheets because it's not worth it :D >:D

As someone who keeps..."

I didn't know shit talk was a tradition!

dammit

Ann-Marie wrote: "When Iain posted about winning I thought that was a bold move because I am superstitious and would never declare victory early like that! My goal was to finish on the top 10 overall and I managed t..."

Top 10 will be my goal for next year. I did about 90 points per full month on average. So I would be looking at around 900 points if I started in January and kept that pace. It will depend on how many crazy people participate next year tho.

For my second goal, I will try to go for 1000 points. I want to eye read more next year so it should be attainable.

On that note, if I started in January our team would win 😎

I actually did the counting just for fun (and to have my personal Excel sheet complete) and I would have extra 150 points. Obviously, there are no BR points and I would have more challenge points if I did some replacing of shorter books with longer but I am not going to get into that.

Jenna wrote: "Narilka wrote: "Do we want to finally try putting Iain, Choko and Nirkatze on one team vs everyone else? ;)"

Lol this has been considered before, but they would completely destroy the rest of us :D"

I just did the math...

Ian/Choko/Nirkatze = (view spoiler)[8,000.5 points (hide spoiler)]

Everyone else = (view spoiler)[16,607.6 points (hide spoiler)]

Just saying ;)

Yeah, that's why we wouldn't be able to keep the 4 teams format if those 3 crazy book devourers teamed up lol

Naw, two teams - them vs the world! They'd need Soo though to help it be more fair ;)

Earn 8000 points Soo!!! :D

I’m not really supporting the change�� but if done we’d have to recruit 2-3 more big point earners to make it competitive in a 2 team format�� and Emily is the wildcard with reading about to nosedive in 2025 when the baby arrives��

💪💪💪 When is sign up? I'm ready to readitup in 2025!

🤣

Obviously whatever the group wants but stacking a small team against the group doesn't sound fun to me.

Yeah my only goal for next year is to participate and update the sheet regularly xD

Signups will probably be late November / beginning of December, if I remember last year�� after winner is announced, minimum��