Whatever happened to....Team Suck

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/11/2006 11:50:47 AM · #226

As far as I can tell there will be team averages calculated so I'm not sure it matters if there is a different number on the teams.

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

10/11/2006 11:59:32 AM · #227

Feel free to join The Hoovers - I'm in the process of moving (it's a long process, too) and I may miss a challenge or six here and there.

bcoble

Olympus E-300 EVOLT

Olympus 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 Zuiko Digital ED

10/11/2006 12:10:08 PM · #228

Where is our ultimate sucky leader? What is the next step to showing how well we all suck?

raish

Olympus C-2500L

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

10/11/2006 12:15:48 PM · #229

Originally posted by bcoble:

Where is our ultimate sucky leader? What is the next step to showing how well we all suck?

I'm on it - at least I thought I was - my woody has just risen over 5. It'll droop.

10/11/2006 01:11:51 PM · #230

Originally posted by bcoble:

Where is our ultimate sucky leader? What is the next step to showing how well we all suck?

Maybe we should make an offering or sacrifice to conjure up our fearless leader?

The next step is to enter one of the following challenges? morning/lighting3/oxymoron and do your sucky best (or worst).

Melismatica, It looks like you have an invitation to the Hoovers and Entrophy - why don't you pick one and update the list.

Does someone want to give

ragamuffingirl an invite?

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D

10/11/2006 03:08:10 PM · #231

ragamuffingirl is welcome in the OOFers!

melismatica

Minolta DiMAGE F200

10/11/2006 03:09:27 PM · #232

Originally posted by bcoble:

Originally posted by melismatica:

Originally posted by maryba:
It's been awhile seen we posted the teams and members.

UPDATED TO ADD MYSELF TO THE HOOVERS

Current Suck League Teams

Team Novice -- liltritter, cuspie, Giorgio, raish
Team Minus -- posthumous, mngolfer, meyers, levyj413
The Hoovers -- chaimelle, xianart melismatica, dolphnz8, Melethia
The Out of Focusers -- k4ffy, kdsprog, maryba, bryantbus
Team Entropy -- theSaj, meanwile, bcoble, mist

This was from a few pages back - maybe can update this?

If I add my name to one of these teams is that going to upset the delicate balance? There appears to be four people on each team.

There will always be room for you...

raish

Olympus C-2500L

10/11/2006 03:33:07 PM · #233

There's this logo thing again. Any novices like to comment on this one, or make one, or anything at all, really. Forgive my enthusiasm, it's a novice thing...

mist

Canon EOS-60D

10/11/2006 03:37:46 PM · #234

So if one sub-team has five members does that mean that they all should? Or does it not really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM Lens

10/11/2006 03:42:42 PM · #235

Originally posted by posthumous:

okay, tell you what... it's Sunday. That means a new challenge will be announced at midnight EDT. That will start our first week of competition. Any other challenges announced this week will be fair game, particularly the Tuesday opens.

Possible scoring strategies:
1. For each player, I will take the high score for the week, and then average them together for the team average. That means each player has to enter at least one challenge per week.

2. I take the top three scores for each team and get the average, that means 3 out of 4 players have to play every week.

3. I simply take the top three scores, so for example if raish enters three challenges in one week and scores higher than all his teammates, I will take the average of his scores. This means that each team has to enter 3 challenges per week.

4. I take the average of all the scores of a team. This requires that each team only has to enter at least 1 challenge per week TOTAL.

2 thru 4 have the advantage of not requiring as much work (yay!) but the disadvantage that some players are going to feel excluded some weeks. Then again, the whole point of competition is to feel good at the expense of someone else's misery... hmmm.... so what do you think? or come up with another voting method. I've also mentioned adding points for favorites given during the challenge.

The last I heard the scoring plan was #2 - if that is the case the number of players on a team doesn't necessarily matter as long as you have 3 members enter a challenge.

skewsme

Canon EOS-6D

10/11/2006 03:43:17 PM · #236

I think the fearless leader is stuck in a work meeting right now, but I believe there was always a plan to make new teams if there was a need...

some of the unused names include:

team mercurial - hosting erratic patterns

team mellow - scores roll off our backs, dude

team aesthete - we put the fart in artsy-fartsy

...or make something up ;-)

10/11/2006 04:10:54 PM · #237

okay, I'm back online, at least for a little while...

My concern about 5 vs. 4 is that 5 definitely has an advantage, since the pool of scores is larger. Then again,

melismatica is known to have astral projections and leave her body/camera for weeks at a time, so that might be okay. And

meanwile is about to be off the grid for a while, so maybe

ragamuffingirl could be on Team Entropy.

The thing is, more people might want to join. Once everybody's in who wants to be in, I think we should come up with a balanced playing field. Maybe everyone will have 5 by then, and/or the remaining 4s can recruit a 5th... (in other words, I'm hoping everything just works itself out while I'm rocking on the back porch with my electric Kool-Aid)

And you are correct about the "live" challenges. Give us your best, your suckiest, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free!

mist

Canon EOS-60D

Tamron AF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical for Nikon

10/11/2006 04:14:00 PM · #238

I for one welcome all the other new suckers.

bryantbus

Nikon D70

10/11/2006 05:43:41 PM · #239

Now that is a logo that Sucks!! Good job.

Originally posted by raish:

There's this logo thing again. Any novices like to comment on this one, or make one, or anything at all, really. Forgive my enthusiasm, it's a novice thing...

Tamron AF 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical for Nikon

10/11/2006 06:32:41 PM · #240

Originally posted by bryantbus:

Now that is a logo that Sucks!! Good job.
Originally posted by raish:
There's this logo thing again. Any novices like to comment on this one, or make one, or anything at all, really. Forgive my enthusiasm, it's a novice thing...

I love it!

bryantbus

Nikon D70

10/11/2006 07:19:26 PM · #241

We could say 4 is the min for a team and 5 or 6 the max? The team could recruit up to the max or not.

10/11/2006 08:45:26 PM · #242

Originally posted by bryantbus:

We could say 4 is the min for a team and 5 or 6 the max? The team could recruit up to the max or not.

Yeah, good idea. 4 is min and 5 is max. and if we fill up and someone else wants to play, 3 5th wheels can abandon their teams to make another team.

theSaj

Canon EOS-20D

10/11/2006 09:26:23 PM · #243

:)

Message edited by author 2006-10-11 21:27:07.

mist

Canon EOS-60D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM Lens

10/12/2006 02:49:04 AM · #244

woohoo! Extra-team-membera-arama!

Elaine

Canon EOS R5

10/12/2006 05:09:22 PM · #245

I just entered Morning, and I predict a high of 5.1 but will probably end up below 5. Trying to come up with an idea for lighting, but I don't have much time so will have to wait for inspiration to strike on Monday. The Hoovers are off to a sucky start!

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

10/12/2006 05:19:59 PM · #246

Yay Hoovers! SUCK SUCK SUCK!!

:-)

10/12/2006 06:56:48 PM · #247

I don't even know if I'm going to enter Morning. I *hate* morning.

but I might try something on the way to work tomorrow.