The May Day Review Day Spectacular

On YWS' Reviewing Sunday in January, we hit a record 693 reviews in 24 hours. We haven't tried to beat it yet, but I think we have a pretty good shot of doing so on May 1. So, can we hit 700 reviews in 24 hours? Time will tell.

So what is a Reviewing Sunday? On the last Sunday of every month*, YWS holds a reviewing day. This means:

• No new literary works can be submitted (you can wait 24 hours!)
• The Featured Works block on the front page is changed to a Last 5 Reviews block
• You can earn up to 100 points per review instead of the normal 50

* Due to Easter Sunday falling on the last Sunday of April, we have re-scheduled April's Review Day for May 1.

Now, because the Earth is round and it tends to spin, not everyone has Sunday at the same time. So we're going to go by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and declare 12:01 am GMT to 11:59 pm GMT as the YWS Reviewing Sunday. Some international times for that are below:

United Kingdom: 1:01 am (Sunday) to 12:59 am (Monday)

United States & Canada
Atlantic: 9:01 pm (Saturday) to 8:59 pm (Sunday)
Eastern: 8:01 pm (Saturday) to 7:59 pm (Sunday)
Central: 7:01 pm (Saturday) to 6:59 pm (Sunday)
Western: 6:01 pm (Saturday) to 5:59 pm (Sunday)
Pacific: 5:01 pm (Saturday) to 4:49 pm (Sunday)

New Zealand: 12:01 pm (Sunday) to 11:59 am (Monday)

Australia
Eastern: 10:01 am (Sunday) to 9:59 am (Monday)
Central: 9:31 am (Sunday) to 9:29 am (Monday)
Western: 8:01 am (Sunday) to 7:59 am (Monday)

India: 5:31 (am) Sunday to 5:29 am (Monday)

The countdown timer will be added 2 days before the festivities begin.

I'm not going to be around in the day! But I'll try to get some reviews done in the evening when I get back.

The banner /is/ supposed to remind me of Soviet Union, right?

Demeter wrote:The banner /is/ supposed to remind me of Soviet Union, right?

I'm so ready for this(: Maybe I'll even get a new star.

~peanut~

You know, no matter how many times I check these, reviewing Sundays never actually start on Sunday where I come from. You'd think that over time I'd have a chance to truly experience the Sunday-ness of a reviewing Sunday, but no, disappointment again. I guess I'll have to buck up and sacrifice my Saturday for the good of the site.

Eek! I'm totally gonna be available. And if I'm unavailable, I'll make myself available.

Spoiler

We shall crit!
We must be swift as the time of day
(We shall crit!)
with all the force of a writer's migraines
(We shall crit!)
with all the strength of a red ballpoint pen,
mysterious as the or'gins of this sooong!

I am so going to be there. xD

I'll be there for some of it.

Ack! I have tons of things due the next day. D:

I'll try to do a couple!

I'm getting excited.

Go team Pinkshearwater! And go team YWS!

Whoo! I think we can do this.

I so believe we can do this!! XD

TEAM LILYMOORE WILL WIN.

...hopefully.