The Amazing Read
The Amazing Read is our new challenge that will be starting on August 1st. It is a team competition and an individual competition combined into ONE challenge. We don't have every i dotted and t crossed yet, but I'll give you enough info so that hopefully you'll be excited to sign up.
The Amazing Read will consist of five legs and a finale.
Leg 1: England, China
Leg 2: Japan, France
Leg 3: Scotland, America
Leg 4: Africa, Ireland
Leg 5: India, Italy
Finale: Three countries to be determined
All of the countries in the first five legs currently have tags in the top 200 tags.
Team Competition
Readers will be paired up into teams of two by the administrators. For each leg of the race, one person must read a book under the tag of the first country and the other person must read a book under the tag of the second country in the leg and write reviews. There may also be challenges in some or all of the legs that must be completed to win.
The first team to complete the leg will automatically move to the finale and cannot participate (competitively) in the subsequent legs. The finale will have five teams racing to the finish. There will be some constraints on the types and lengths of books you may read (i.e. a children's book won't qualify).
Each leg of the race will be conducted individually and have specific start date and time. Teams may select which legs to do, or they may do all of the legs (unless they win one).
Individual Competition
In addition, readers may also participate in an individual competition. The top three winners of the individual competition will select the countries that will be used in the finale.
In broad strokes, individuals will be reading a book from each of the ten country tags. There may be challenges that permit them to skip some of the tags along the way. For each read, the individual must write a review.
Winning the individual challenge will depend on the following criteria:
1. Individuals will need to finish all ten reads within a set timeframe to qualify to win.
Then, if they qualify, the winners will be selected based upon
2. Earning bonus points by reading books that also fit the monthly PBT tag
3. Earning bonus points by completing challenges
3. Writing high quality reviews (there will be voting for the best reviewer for all of those folks who do finish the ten reads in the prescribed time frame).
Prizes will be awarded to both the winning team and the top individual competitors.
