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May 26, 2013 Review Day: Reviewers of the World Unite!



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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)
  





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Cool, hopefully this Review Day will be better than the last. When will be able to get into our teams?
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Early Wednesday; probably around 10 am EDT with the aim of having team captains picked more than a day prior to Review Day. That way, we can begin Review Day with names, images and the such already picked out.
  





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Iggy says...



Thank. God.

School ends on the 24th. I can do this. I finally have time to do this.
“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then."
- Lewis Carroll
  





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Paracosm says...



Woop woop! Time to get ready for an awesome review day.
Review unto others as you would have others review unto you.

Don't panic!

Also, Shino!
  





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StoneHeart says...



Waaaaaah!

I wanted to be a team captain some review day . . . now with only two review team I'm dooooomed to have someone higher than me on my team ;'(

:D

But it still sounds great.
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I spread my dreams under your feet . . .

. . . tread softly for you tread on my dreams.


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Jonathan says...



Uh... *Chews on sword point.* Charge!
There seems to be nothing written here. :shock:
  





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Thu May 23, 2013 12:20 am
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I hope I have time to do this! So the last day to publish is the 25? How are review captians chosen? And I really don't know my time zone XD
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Thu May 23, 2013 12:23 am
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and what do the stars under our names mean?
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Yep, the last day to publish is indeed the 25! That's also a free literary work day, meaning it will cost 0 points to post something on the 25.

Review captains are chosen by the team in a sort of free-for-all process. What usually happens is that someone starts a thread in the team forum asking for nominations, and the team tends to quickly fall around one particular person.

Don't worry about your time zone; just follow the countdown clock on the front page.

The stars correspond to how many reviews you've done. Check out question number 4 here:
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Hope that helps!
  





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Omni says...



Will we get those little dots by our names again? I kind of liked that :P
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Thu May 23, 2013 4:43 am
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Yep! The dots will be back.
  





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Nice! Also, love the new Review Day banner!
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Thu May 23, 2013 7:56 pm
Blues says...



REVIEW DAY YES
  





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Thu May 23, 2013 8:34 pm
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O:
Shiny new changes.. But I have an exam the day after.. But review day..

I think I'm in.
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