Thread: Spellbee2's Sweet '16 Competition

Night 13
1 frag: .5 points
wbtb: 2 points
1st DILD: 10 points
stabilise: 1 point
dc manipulation/mind control: 5 points
crazy-ass fast flying: 10 points

night total: 28.5

Night 14
1 nd: 1 point
wbtb: 2 points
1st dild: 10 points
phase through large object (wall): 10 points
fast flying: 10 points
super strength: 5 points
1st 3-step task: 5 points (or is it limited to only complete the 3 step task twice? I've already done my second set of 3 during week 2, so if thats the limit then discount this.)
TOTY fail

2nd dild: 5 points
messing about with weird rock-tree glowing obelisk thingy... 0 points

night total: 43 points

new total: 489 +28.5 + 43 = 561 ish

dj link

Fourteenth night
1 full non-lucid dreams: 1 pt
4 fragments of non-lucid dreams: 2 pt
WBTB (failure): 2 pt

Total: 5 pt
Competition Total: 106 pt

Almost LD, I realised that I'm dreaming but I couldn't do anything with that or I woke up :c

3 dreams

49.5

3 last nights :
3 dream fragments.
subtotal = 26,5

4 NLDs-4 points

competition total-435 points

Day 14:

A good last day. Woke up in the middle of the night, so got to remember more dreams.

2 non-lucids - 2 points
3 fragments - 1.5 points

Last night, pretty dismal:

1 full dream: 1 point
2 fragments: 1 point

Total: 2 points

And to finish the competition off I present you...two fails of mine.

Both night 13 and 14:
1 non-lucid: 1 point
WBTB: 2 points

Night 13 and 14 total: 6 points

Comp total: 127

Not quite happy with the result but considering that I restarted lucid dreaming the day the competition started I am satisfied afterall.
At least I finished 1 task^^

Well I guess I used up everything I had at the beginning, but it was fun while it lasted! :P But hey, I still have a chance for a nap WILD so we'll see!

Fourteenth Night:
2NLDs (2)
WBTB (2)

Night Total: 4
COMP. TOTAL: 233

Final night, unfortunately couldn't get anything going for me.

2 dreams - 2 pts
WBTB - 2 pts

Night 14 Total - 4 pts
Competition Dreams Total - 248.5 pts
DJ Comments - 6 - 2 pts

Competition Grand Total - 250.5 pts

Good to know I'm improving, at least. Last competition I got 241 points, and 222.5 in the one before that.

LOL well I didn't get lucid again last night (well I did once, but only for a short while and I didn't think to actually do anything, so yeah)... so not very many points to add since my last post. I'll update all my points tomorrow after work, hope that's alright!

23rd-24th 8:00pm to End of Competition
Last Day 14

+2 WBTB

+7 Non-Lucid dream recalled

1030p Minecraftish like dream
12:10a Formula
1:15a Bible Translations / Grafatti / News
4:20a Auditorium / Toothless Man / County Duty / Cat as Pillow / Spinning Around
4:50a Records / Images
6:00a School Coffee Shop / Checking Mail / Strange Land / Creature Hunters / The Trident
3:00p Walking / Bike Intersection / Skating / Bread and Jam

Night Total +9
Competition Final Score 208.5 points


Only one comment posted
60 plus non lucids
5 lucid dreams
Total Estimated Lucid Time: approximately 4 Minutes 40 Seconds

Achievement: Stretched Flip Phone to the size of a notepad

Spellbee, I haven't added any points these past few days, but I only got like 2-3 points a day and I don't feel like counting them up so it's alright, I don't need them.

I only got three points in the last few days. (It was 4.5 but I realized that it ended yesterday evening.) That was fun! I'm sure my lucids will become more frequent again soon enough.

Night 11: 3 pts (i NLD, WBTB)
Night 12: 4 pts (2 NLD, WBTB)
Night 13: 6 pts (4 NLD, WBTB)
Night 14: 13 pts (1 NLD, 1 very brief LD, WBTB)

I promise I'll get the DJs up soon for the one puny little LD XD


Competition Total: 427 points

Nice job, everyone! This was a good competition.
I always love seeing how people are getting points and what the challenges are!

And the first competition of 2016 has come to a close. Thanks everyone for the submissions. I guess all the anticipation for the final scores is gone since I made that spreadsheet, so without further ado, here's the final scores:

- - - - - - - - - - - Upper League - - - - - - - - - - -

Earth
• KestrelKat 424
• Raipat 82.5
• spellbee2 250.5
• PKJacker 68.5
TOTAL 825.5


Wind
• SammyTheSnake 26.5
• cooleymd 208.5
• imazu 238
• dolphin 435
• ExothermReacton 127
TOTAL 1035


Fire
• Ctharlhie 156.5
• obfusc8 561
• coolcoolcool 28
• MrPriority 4.5
• ginsan 94
• Nfri 7.5
TOTAL 851.5


- - - - - - - - - - - Lower League - - - - - - - - - - -

Snap
• Pickman 112
• LiLeila 104
TOTAL 216


Crackle
• shabby 68
• patches 49.5
• AstralMango 42
• lunagoddess 53.5
• SwordArtOnline 58
TOTAL 271


Pop
• BrutalNightmare 29.5
• NickSeagull 16
• Purp3L 66.5
• m4ra 1
• Gusto 26.5
TOTAL 139.5


- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Obfusc8 scrambled his way to the top of the Upper League scoreboard with 561 points


But it wasn't quite enough to stop the unrelenting force of Team Wind and their impressive score of 1035 points.


Pickman shredded the competition in the Lower League with 112 points (with an equally impressive showing from teammate LiLeila with 104)


But without help from the rest of their team, they were no match for the delicious crispy taste of Team Crackle and their score of 271 points.



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Awards
Mass Recall: Most points scored for Dream Recall - LiLeila (86)
Induce THIS!: Most lucid dreams during competition - dolphin and obfus8 (16)
Something's Amiss: Most DILDs during competition - obfusc8 (15)
WILD West: Most WILDs during competition - dolphin, Raipat, spellbee2 (2)
Django Chained: Most chained lucid dreams (aka DEILDs) - spellbee2 (1)
Terrible Roommate: Performed WBTB every night - cooleymd, ExothermReacton, imazu
Control Freak: Most Basic or Advanced tasks completed - obfusc8 (34)
Relatively Unstable: Most RCs/Stabilizations - Ctharlhie (6)
Employee of the Month/Year: Most TOTMs/TOTYs completed - KestrelKat (3)
Team Player: Most teammates summoned in lucids - KestrelKat (2)
GOOOOAAAAAAL: Most Personal Goals completed - imazu, KestrelKat, obfusc8 (2)
No Comment: Most DJ Comments posted - lunagoddess (9)

And with that, another competition is in the books. Here's to a happy and very lucid 2016!

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I want to hear from YOU!

Let me know what you thought about this competition. What did you like? What didn't you like? What worked? What didn't? What would you like to see added in the next competition?

Primarily though, I'm really interested in when you guys would want to have the next competition. I definitely think we need to do it more often than every 6 months, but I don't want to have it so frequently that it becomes routine and loses its specialness. I'm currently thinking of making it a quarterly thing (one every 3 months), but I'd love to hear what you guys think. I had a blast hosting this competition, so I'm definitely up for another one whenever you guys want.

Originally Posted by spellbee2

I want to hear from YOU!

...What worked? What didn't? ...

It wasn't the IND(ividuals) in wIND that put the WIN in WINd it was people posting everyday that put it there (same thing true of krackle in the other league)

Maybe as part of the signup have some sort of participation level survey. Just from past experience I figured that some people who signed up were gonna let life or whatever get in the way of dreaming.

In the end I don't think it mattered who was on your team, what mattered was if they showed up. I'm pretty sure several contestants with low scores are at least twice the Lucid dreamer that I am. But in a pre-contest participation survey before the members of teams where chosen I would have voted my level as All-In-And-Then-Some

In the last competition there were a few nights I didn't even get to sleep at all and posted ZERO but I posted that goose egg even so, and showed up every day.

In the lower league just like in the Upper it was having a team with the most active people that mattered more than anything else

Of course one other thing would have been to actually have the advanced league, but luckily all three of the people with huge points were on three different teams and so averaged out their effect on total score

Originally Posted by spellbee2

But without help from the rest of their team, they were no match for the delicious crispy taste of Team Crackle and their score of 271 points.

I spent the past few weeks looking at the scoresheet and thinking, "Is it seriously just me and LiLeila versus everyone else?"

I have no complaints about the competition itself. I thought it went well and checking in on it daily really seemed to help increase my recall. I haven't had this many LD's in such a short space of time in a long while. In fact, I had two more since the competition ended, which I wasn't expecting.

I agree we should do this more often. Every 3 months sounds like a great idea.

Summer will be a great time for me (as I won't be stressed from wrangling kindergarteners all day)! But there's also spring break. ,aye around Easter time for the next competition?

Also, I love the awards XD it's a nice touch!

Once every 3 months sounds like it's far enough apart to retain its specialness, but not too far apart. It may sound like a long time, but 3 months is like the minimal time to make noticable progress, right? Approximately. At least to me.

I actually liked everything about this competition, the personal goals (I had a lot of fun with these... even though I didn't complete any ), the weekly challenges, the fact that you could get points with toty and totm and the team tasks. The scoresheet was neat, but I wonder if it's necessary. I think it's perfectly fine to update the scores in a simple list in the original post.

Thank you for hosting this I certainly got motivated and my momentum is still present, I'm at the start of some great progress here! (I even updated my dream goals in my signature)


edit: now that the competition is over... Arrogance time! You guys better make some progress within the next 3 months because Gin-san is going to take ALL THE POINTS

Thanks for the competition spellbee!

I liked everything but I loved the spreadsheet.

Once every 3 months sounds good.

Originally Posted by dolphin

Thanks for the competition spellbee!

I liked everything but I loved the spreadsheet.

Once every 3 months sounds good.

Same!

I loved the competition. Three months sounds good.

Originally Posted by cooleymd

Maybe as part of the signup have some sort of participation level survey. Just from past experience I figured that some people who signed up were gonna let life or whatever get in the way of dreaming.

I definitely agree that lack of participation from some people was the biggest flaw of this competition. But I've learned from the Buddy Program that despite those participation surveys and multiple PMs as reminders, there's really no way to stop people from disappearing on you. Kind of the nature of any forum, really - some people can be super active one day and disappear completely the next.

I know that in some of the older comps, Sensei made the final team score an average of the individual scores of the people that participated. But then what about the people who only submitted one or two days - their lower scores would still hurt the rest of their team. We could do an "average score per night reported", but then that would discourage people with low-scoring nights from submitting, because they wouldn't want to hurt their team's average. Do you kinda see my predicament? About half-way through this competition, I really did think about changing the final score to a team average, because it felt unfair to Pickman and LiLeila that they were losing to teams of 5. But then I thought changing it would be unfair to everyone, since it was understood from the beginning that it would be a total sum score instead of an average score.

I really don't know how Sensei did it, but he was able to get almost 100% participation in the last comp. It's hard when people don't sign in, so they don't see the multiple PMs I sent reminding them, etc. At least for Sensei's, it was always only like one person per league that went AWOL, so it didn't throw off the balance too much. I think we just happened to get unlucky in that all of them happened to be on the same team. When I made the teams, I basically put each league in order, from most frequent lucidity to least, and broke any ties in the order by random numbers. Then I assigned their teams like a snake draft (#1,2,3 on team 1,2,3; #4,5,6 on team 3,2,1; etc.). If it wouldn't hurt anyone's feelings, in the future I'd add a 3rd step and kind of manually balance the teams based on how committed I think they are - nothing too deep, just enough that it's at least somewhat even and they're not all on Team Snap the same team.

Thanks for the competition spellbee2 and everyone that took part. It was a blast, despite not really knowing the scoring and stuff to start. Also my lucid rate went up cause I was so motivated and almost daily wbtbs... and typically it has now dropped back down. So pls host a new comp. Asap... or like in a couple of months would be good.