Event Time: May 26, 2013 GMT. See international times below. Please note, it's Summer Time, so the time for the UK differs by one hour from GMT.
Changes:
- Two review teams instead of four.
- Everyone who reviews gets a special achievement award in their profile.
- Members of winning team get trophy in their profile, but only if they review.
- Team captains can send out newsletters via PM.
Wait, What's a Review Day?
A Review Day is a period of 24 hours where everyone on YWS tries to write as many reviews as they can. During this time, no new works can be submitted.
Each Review Day, we have an overall goal that we try to reach. This month we're going for 650 reviews! That's an awful lot and it's very ambitious, but can we do it? Of course we can! But we need YOU to help us.
Even if you only have time to write one review, please do join us! If everyone did just one review, we'd easily meet the goal.
Heads up: Review Teams and some changes
Each Review Day, you can choose to be on a Review Team. This way, when you do a review, the points from that review get added to your team's total. A running total is kept, and the team with the most points wins.
In the past, we've always had 4 teams. However, this has not always worked well; usually you have two teams far out in front, which leads to members of the other two teams feeling discouraged. Sometimes, it's one team far out in front. Very rarely is it truly competitive. The reason for this is that YWS simply isn't that big. Mathematically, there's no way to make 4 teams competitive.
So, we're trying out 2 teams for the first time. Additionally, the members of the winning team will get a trophy to be displayed in their profile! However, if you're a member of the winning team and didn't review, then no trophy.
On top of this, everyone who participates will get a special YWS achievement award that will show how many reviews they did. Both the achievement award and the trophy will be displayed in a new section of your profile.
Moreover, captains of the Review Team will be able to send newsletters to their entire team, which should help with team unity.
When does it happen?
Due to things like orbital rotation, May 26 doesn't happen at the same time for everyone. So we instead base it off of GMT time.
Review Day thus begins this Sunday at 12:00 am GMT May 26 and goes until the following midnight. To make things confusing, daylight savings time is in effect for most of us! So for those in the UK, the celebration starts at 1 am.
To help with getting times right, a countdown clock will go up on the front page starting 72 hours prior to the fun.
Some international times
United Kingdom: 1 am (Sunday) to 1 am (Monday)
United States & Canada
Atlantic: 9 pm (Saturday) to 9 pm (Sunday)
Eastern: 8 pm (Saturday) to 8 pm (Sunday)
Central: 7 pm (Saturday) to 7 pm (Sunday)
Mountain: 6 pm (Saturday) to 6 pm (Sunday)
Pacific: 5 pm (Saturday) to 5 pm (Sunday)
New Zealand: 1 pm (Sunday) to 1 pm (Monday)
Australia
Eastern: 10 am (Sunday) to 10 am (Monday)
Central: 9:30 am (Sunday) to 9:30 am (Monday)
Western: 8 am (Sunday) to 8 am (Monday)
India - Delhi: 5:30 (am) Sunday to 5:30 am (Monday)
