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This is a topic for us current Heads of House (Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and now Hufflepuff...Slytherin, start your own common room and come join us if you want!) to plan Inter-House Challenges.
Other members of the Houses are welcome to post ideas for challenges, and the Heads will do the planning from here so we don't have to keep checking in between the other Common Rooms.
Also, if anyone just wants to chat it up with other members of Houses, that's cool too. It's just a common area for us to use however!
The first Inter-House Challenge will start on October 1st and last through October 31st.
What we need to decide first is WHAT the challenge will be.
I think we can keep our weekly/monthly weigh-ins that each house has set up, but have a starting weigh-in and an ending weigh-in at the beginning and ending of the challenge. Instead of every person weighing in individually for the Inter-House Challenges, let's have members weigh in on their Common Rooms, then Heads of House will total it up and we'll lose weight in percentages as a whole. Then we will just have one House be the winner, and Prefects & Head Girls/Boys can be chosen within each House each week/month/etc.
What do you all think of that part? Any other ideas?
As far as the first challenge, maybe it could be something like we have to earn House Points individually for doing exercises or drinking water, etc, then add those all up and just post the whole House's totals each week, and switch up the challenges each week? Or have one big month-long challenge, and report the House Points at the end of it?
Any opinions on that part?
This is just to get us brainstorming, feel free to share your ideas!
Other members of the Houses are welcome to post ideas for challenges, and the Heads will do the planning from here so we don't have to keep checking in between the other Common Rooms.
Also, if anyone just wants to chat it up with other members of Houses, that's cool too. It's just a common area for us to use however!
The first Inter-House Challenge will start on October 1st and last through October 31st.
What we need to decide first is WHAT the challenge will be.
I think we can keep our weekly/monthly weigh-ins that each house has set up, but have a starting weigh-in and an ending weigh-in at the beginning and ending of the challenge. Instead of every person weighing in individually for the Inter-House Challenges, let's have members weigh in on their Common Rooms, then Heads of House will total it up and we'll lose weight in percentages as a whole. Then we will just have one House be the winner, and Prefects & Head Girls/Boys can be chosen within each House each week/month/etc.
What do you all think of that part? Any other ideas?
As far as the first challenge, maybe it could be something like we have to earn House Points individually for doing exercises or drinking water, etc, then add those all up and just post the whole House's totals each week, and switch up the challenges each week? Or have one big month-long challenge, and report the House Points at the end of it?
Any opinions on that part?
This is just to get us brainstorming, feel free to share your ideas!
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Hufflepuff Head of House here!
Welcome to Hogwarts!
I agree with the dates of the first inter-House challenge.
Also think inter-House challenges should be monthly, but Head Boy and Head Girl should be chosen from the ENTIRE group, while each House Chooses their own Prefects. (I'm going to be choosing my Prefects monthly)
My idea for the first inter-House challenge is miles walked, ran, or swam (or jogged, or biked, flown on a broom, whatever). Many of us incorporate walking (and such) in our daily routines anyway.0 -
wow, the ceiling is so beautiful and starry tonight!0
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wow, the ceiling is so beautiful and starry tonight!
It's still a little light, and just before sunset for me
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Hey there - Ravenclaw Head of House here! How about starting the first inter-house challenge September 1 so we don't lose momentum. Just something easy to get us going.
Another thought - in the original HP challenge, I would use the group weekly challenges for my house to earn house points with - it was easier than having group challenges AND Ravenclaw challenges. Why don't we set weekly challenges for all of us here - rotating which house sets the challenge each week. We can earn house points individually in each house and then in total for the group each week.
The ceiling is still bright and sunny here - always sunny - every day in AZ.... (we could use some rain!!)0 -
Hey there - Ravenclaw Head of House here! How about starting the first inter-house challenge September 1 so we don't lose momentum. Just something easy to get us going.
Another thought - in the original HP challenge, I would use the group weekly challenges for my house to earn house points with - it was easier than having group challenges AND Ravenclaw challenges. Why don't we set weekly challenges for all of us here - rotating which house sets the challenge each week. We can earn house points individually in each house and then in total for the group each week.
The ceiling is still bright and sunny here - always sunny - every day in AZ.... (we could use some rain!!)
September 1st works for me as well. I just thought you all were finishing up previous challenges.
But you're right, awarding House Points for in-House challenges AND inter-House competitions doesn't make sense, but I still like the idea of each House being it's own entity to an extent.
What if we award Galleons or O.W.Ls (just another name for points) to our individual members for our in-House challenges (I'll be using a point system to select my Prefects), and award House Points to the Houses after our monthly competitions? Keep them a standard number for each competition, 100 for first place, 50 for second, 25 for third, something like that. After three inter-House competitions, we can award a House Cup (just bragging rights and a little thing to add to the signature).0 -
awesome!!! you guys should totally do a Quidditch match also.. points awarded on miles ran, etc... sounds like a fun forum to join.0
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awesome!!! you guys should totally do a Quidditch match also.. points awarded on miles ran, etc... sounds like a fun forum to join.
Do you belong to a House? If not, you should join one!0 -
Slytherin House MAY be on its way. 0
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Hey there - Ravenclaw Head of House here! How about starting the first inter-house challenge September 1 so we don't lose momentum. Just something easy to get us going.
Another thought - in the original HP challenge, I would use the group weekly challenges for my house to earn house points with - it was easier than having group challenges AND Ravenclaw challenges. Why don't we set weekly challenges for all of us here - rotating which house sets the challenge each week. We can earn house points individually in each house and then in total for the group each week.
The ceiling is still bright and sunny here - always sunny - every day in AZ.... (we could use some rain!!)
September 1st works for me as well. I just thought you all were finishing up previous challenges.
But you're right, awarding House Points for in-House challenges AND inter-House competitions doesn't make sense, but I still like the idea of each House being it's own entity to an extent.
What if we award Galleons or O.W.Ls (just another name for points) to our individual members for our in-House challenges (I'll be using a point system to select my Prefects), and award House Points to the Houses after our monthly competitions? Keep them a standard number for each competition, 100 for first place, 50 for second, 25 for third, something like that. After three inter-House competitions, we can award a House Cup (just bragging rights and a little thing to add to the signature).
Gryffindors were having a goal to be October 1st, but we could move to Sept 1 just as easily!
I didn't mean having 2 seperate challenges, I mean having the challenges we set for the whole thing, but having each House check in in their common room, then the Heads of House tallying the scores as a whole and posting them here.
Does that make sense? Sorry to be unclear.
I pick Prefects every week, and Head Girl/Boy at the end of each goal date, so picking the Head Boy/Girl out of all of us sounds perfect! So at the end we can each post our top scorer and then the best 2 out of those will be Head Boy/Girl (no matter the gender).
I think we could have OWLs and NEWTs be just little parts of the challenge that if you complete them individually you get them. OWLs would be easier than NEWTs, maybe they could be the food challenges and we can leave exercise related things to be rewarded with House Points?
I think it would keep the momentum more easily if we just nominated the winner of the House Cup at the end of each monthly challenge (and each month would be like starting a new year at Hogwarts). I also think we could give bonus points at the end for OWLs and NEWTs (1st, 2nd, 3rd according to how many each House earned overall).0 -
No ideas, just wanted to say that I'm not personally a fan of "miles" challenges and would prefer something like set of things or something like that. But I'll certainly go along with whatever.0
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Hufflepuff Head of House here!
Welcome to Hogwarts!
I agree with the dates of the first inter-House challenge.
Also think inter-House challenges should be monthly, but Head Boy and Head Girl should be chosen from the ENTIRE group, while each House Chooses their own Prefects. (I'm going to be choosing my Prefects monthly)
My idea for the first inter-House challenge is miles walked, ran, or swam (or jogged, or biked, flown on a broom, whatever). Many of us incorporate walking (and such) in our daily routines anyway.
I like the miles challenge! What if we had a big challenge like that to last the whole month (or maybe we can have a miles or a minutes of cardio challenge every month), then Quidditch matches each week for things like jumping jacks, situps/etc (stuff we can count for House Points). The winner of each Quidditch match gets to pick the challenge for the next Quidditch match, and the House that wins the most Quidditch matches gets the Quidditch Cup at the end.
Also, I'm going to start making signature pics for every single possible award because I. AM. SO. EXCITED!0 -
No ideas, just wanted to say that I'm not personally a fan of "miles" challenges and would prefer something like set of things or something like that. But I'll certainly go along with whatever.
Maybe miles OR minutes of cardio?0 -
Slytherin House MAY be on its way.
Yay! I saw the thread up to recruit, and linked them to us all, and the Great Hall.0 -
No ideas, just wanted to say that I'm not personally a fan of "miles" challenges and would prefer something like set of things or something like that. But I'll certainly go along with whatever.
Maybe miles OR minutes of cardio?
or lets break it down to what really counts here on MFP... Calories Burned./?? :-) And it's easily tracked with the Reports option of MFP0 -
SLYTHERIN HOUSE IS NOW OPEN FOR APPLICANTS!
can't wait to get into the hussle with you guys!0 -
No ideas, just wanted to say that I'm not personally a fan of "miles" challenges and would prefer something like set of things or something like that. But I'll certainly go along with whatever.
Maybe miles OR minutes of cardio?
or lets break it down to what really counts here on MFP... Calories Burned./?? :-) And it's easily tracked with the Reports option of MFP
That differs so much from person to person, I wouldn't vote towards that if it were me. Just my opinion.0 -
I WANNA BE IN RAVENCLAW SO BAD :[0
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I WANNA BE IN RAVENCLAW SO BAD :[
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Go be in Ravenclaw! 0 -
Hey there - Ravenclaw Head of House here! How about starting the first inter-house challenge September 1 so we don't lose momentum. Just something easy to get us going.
Another thought - in the original HP challenge, I would use the group weekly challenges for my house to earn house points with - it was easier than having group challenges AND Ravenclaw challenges. Why don't we set weekly challenges for all of us here - rotating which house sets the challenge each week. We can earn house points individually in each house and then in total for the group each week.
The ceiling is still bright and sunny here - always sunny - every day in AZ.... (we could use some rain!!)
September 1st works for me as well. I just thought you all were finishing up previous challenges.
But you're right, awarding House Points for in-House challenges AND inter-House competitions doesn't make sense, but I still like the idea of each House being it's own entity to an extent.
What if we award Galleons or O.W.Ls (just another name for points) to our individual members for our in-House challenges (I'll be using a point system to select my Prefects), and award House Points to the Houses after our monthly competitions? Keep them a standard number for each competition, 100 for first place, 50 for second, 25 for third, something like that. After three inter-House competitions, we can award a House Cup (just bragging rights and a little thing to add to the signature).
Gryffindors were having a goal to be October 1st, but we could move to Sept 1 just as easily!
I didn't mean having 2 seperate challenges, I mean having the challenges we set for the whole thing, but having each House check in in their common room, then the Heads of House tallying the scores as a whole and posting them here.
Does that make sense? Sorry to be unclear.
I pick Prefects every week, and Head Girl/Boy at the end of each goal date, so picking the Head Boy/Girl out of all of us sounds perfect! So at the end we can each post our top scorer and then the best 2 out of those will be Head Boy/Girl (no matter the gender).
I think we could have OWLs and NEWTs be just little parts of the challenge that if you complete them individually you get them. OWLs would be easier than NEWTs, maybe they could be the food challenges and we can leave exercise related things to be rewarded with House Points?
I think it would keep the momentum more easily if we just nominated the winner of the House Cup at the end of each monthly challenge (and each month would be like starting a new year at Hogwarts). I also think we could give bonus points at the end for OWLs and NEWTs (1st, 2nd, 3rd according to how many each House earned overall).
We can play for a House Cup every month, that's fine.
Maybe I was unclear as well. LOL. Let me try to clarify this...
To break it down... my vision of this has each House having their OWN little challenges weekly, AS WELL AS a Monthly inter-House competition (of a slightly bigger scale than in-House competitions).
For example, my House is doing Jumping Jacks (chosen by a vote) this week to accumulate points (not called House Points anymore, that gets confusing, as we've learned) that I'll use to pick my Prefects after four weeks of in-House challenges.
While that's going on, we will also work toward the monthly inter-House competition for HOUSE POINTS.
That way, the Houses operate on their own, as well as a part of the Four Houses.
That's why I suggested calling points accumulated in-House something different (O.W.L.s).
Does that make sense?
I hope so. LOL. :laugh:0 -
No ideas, just wanted to say that I'm not personally a fan of "miles" challenges and would prefer something like set of things or something like that. But I'll certainly go along with whatever.
Maybe miles OR minutes of cardio?
or lets break it down to what really counts here on MFP... Calories Burned./?? :-) And it's easily tracked with the Reports option of MFP
That differs so much from person to person, I wouldn't vote towards that if it were me. Just my opinion.
I don't like the idea of calories burned either. My sister and I can run the same amount of time and I'll even go a greater distance, but because she's heavier and not as in shape as I am yet, her calorie burn is a lot higher than mine. I'd have to work out half again as much as some people to get the same number.0 -
I just put in my info to join Slytherin! This is a FANTASTIC idea. Kudos to you all! I don't think I've ever been so excited for a challenge!! 0
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Hey there - Ravenclaw Head of House here! How about starting the first inter-house challenge September 1 so we don't lose momentum. Just something easy to get us going.
Another thought - in the original HP challenge, I would use the group weekly challenges for my house to earn house points with - it was easier than having group challenges AND Ravenclaw challenges. Why don't we set weekly challenges for all of us here - rotating which house sets the challenge each week. We can earn house points individually in each house and then in total for the group each week.
The ceiling is still bright and sunny here - always sunny - every day in AZ.... (we could use some rain!!)
September 1st works for me as well. I just thought you all were finishing up previous challenges.
But you're right, awarding House Points for in-House challenges AND inter-House competitions doesn't make sense, but I still like the idea of each House being it's own entity to an extent.
What if we award Galleons or O.W.Ls (just another name for points) to our individual members for our in-House challenges (I'll be using a point system to select my Prefects), and award House Points to the Houses after our monthly competitions? Keep them a standard number for each competition, 100 for first place, 50 for second, 25 for third, something like that. After three inter-House competitions, we can award a House Cup (just bragging rights and a little thing to add to the signature).
Gryffindors were having a goal to be October 1st, but we could move to Sept 1 just as easily!
I didn't mean having 2 seperate challenges, I mean having the challenges we set for the whole thing, but having each House check in in their common room, then the Heads of House tallying the scores as a whole and posting them here.
Does that make sense? Sorry to be unclear.
I pick Prefects every week, and Head Girl/Boy at the end of each goal date, so picking the Head Boy/Girl out of all of us sounds perfect! So at the end we can each post our top scorer and then the best 2 out of those will be Head Boy/Girl (no matter the gender).
I think we could have OWLs and NEWTs be just little parts of the challenge that if you complete them individually you get them. OWLs would be easier than NEWTs, maybe they could be the food challenges and we can leave exercise related things to be rewarded with House Points?
I think it would keep the momentum more easily if we just nominated the winner of the House Cup at the end of each monthly challenge (and each month would be like starting a new year at Hogwarts). I also think we could give bonus points at the end for OWLs and NEWTs (1st, 2nd, 3rd according to how many each House earned overall).
We can play for a House Cup every month, that's fine.
Maybe I was unclear as well. LOL. Let me try to clarify this...
To break it down... my vision of this has each House having their OWN little challenges weekly, AS WELL AS a Monthly inter-House competition (of a slightly bigger scale than in-House competitions).
For example, my House is doing Jumping Jacks (chosen by a vote) this week to accumulate points (not called House Points anymore, that gets confusing, as we've learned) that I'll use to pick my Prefects after four weeks of in-House challenges.
While that's going on, we will also work toward the monthly inter-House competition for HOUSE POINTS.
That way, the Houses operate on their own, as well as a part of the Four Houses.
That's why I suggested calling points accumulated in-House something different (O.W.L.s).
Does that make sense?
I hope so. LOL. :laugh:
That makes sense, but I find it more complicated than necessary...Hm.
Maybe we could compromise and do something like this:
We have one big challenge each month we have an Inter-House Challenge. This challenge will be something like miles traveled, or minutes exercised, or calories burned, and we could earn House Points for each mile/minute/calorie. It will be for all four Houses to compete in for the House Cup at the end of the month. The House Points would also decide Head Boy/Girl.
Houses can individually set weekly challenges to earn OWLs or NEWTs (maybe one easy activity and one hard activity? or one food challenge and one exercise challenge?), which will add up to add the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place bonus points accordingly to the corresponding Houses at the end of the month. These could decide Prefects, maybe?
I'm not sure how the Quidditch matches could fit in without being too confusing tho...
Oh, wait! The Quidditch matches could be the weigh-ins/percentages lost! and the biggest percentage lost (per House) gets the Quidditch Cup!0 -
Hey there - Ravenclaw Head of House here! How about starting the first inter-house challenge September 1 so we don't lose momentum. Just something easy to get us going.
Another thought - in the original HP challenge, I would use the group weekly challenges for my house to earn house points with - it was easier than having group challenges AND Ravenclaw challenges. Why don't we set weekly challenges for all of us here - rotating which house sets the challenge each week. We can earn house points individually in each house and then in total for the group each week.
The ceiling is still bright and sunny here - always sunny - every day in AZ.... (we could use some rain!!)
September 1st works for me as well. I just thought you all were finishing up previous challenges.
But you're right, awarding House Points for in-House challenges AND inter-House competitions doesn't make sense, but I still like the idea of each House being it's own entity to an extent.
What if we award Galleons or O.W.Ls (just another name for points) to our individual members for our in-House challenges (I'll be using a point system to select my Prefects), and award House Points to the Houses after our monthly competitions? Keep them a standard number for each competition, 100 for first place, 50 for second, 25 for third, something like that. After three inter-House competitions, we can award a House Cup (just bragging rights and a little thing to add to the signature).
Gryffindors were having a goal to be October 1st, but we could move to Sept 1 just as easily!
I didn't mean having 2 seperate challenges, I mean having the challenges we set for the whole thing, but having each House check in in their common room, then the Heads of House tallying the scores as a whole and posting them here.
Does that make sense? Sorry to be unclear.
I pick Prefects every week, and Head Girl/Boy at the end of each goal date, so picking the Head Boy/Girl out of all of us sounds perfect! So at the end we can each post our top scorer and then the best 2 out of those will be Head Boy/Girl (no matter the gender).
I think we could have OWLs and NEWTs be just little parts of the challenge that if you complete them individually you get them. OWLs would be easier than NEWTs, maybe they could be the food challenges and we can leave exercise related things to be rewarded with House Points?
I think it would keep the momentum more easily if we just nominated the winner of the House Cup at the end of each monthly challenge (and each month would be like starting a new year at Hogwarts). I also think we could give bonus points at the end for OWLs and NEWTs (1st, 2nd, 3rd according to how many each House earned overall).
We can play for a House Cup every month, that's fine.
Maybe I was unclear as well. LOL. Let me try to clarify this...
To break it down... my vision of this has each House having their OWN little challenges weekly, AS WELL AS a Monthly inter-House competition (of a slightly bigger scale than in-House competitions).
For example, my House is doing Jumping Jacks (chosen by a vote) this week to accumulate points (not called House Points anymore, that gets confusing, as we've learned) that I'll use to pick my Prefects after four weeks of in-House challenges.
While that's going on, we will also work toward the monthly inter-House competition for HOUSE POINTS.
That way, the Houses operate on their own, as well as a part of the Four Houses.
That's why I suggested calling points accumulated in-House something different (O.W.L.s).
Does that make sense?
I hope so. LOL. :laugh:
That makes sense, but I find it more complicated than necessary...Hm.
Maybe we could compromise and do something like this:
We have one big challenge each month we have an Inter-House Challenge. This challenge will be something like miles traveled, or minutes exercised, or calories burned, and we could earn House Points for each mile/minute/calorie. It will be for all four Houses to compete in for the House Cup at the end of the month. The House Points would also decide Head Boy/Girl.
Houses can individually set weekly challenges to earn OWLs or NEWTs (maybe one easy activity and one hard activity? or one food challenge and one exercise challenge?), which will add up to add the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place bonus points accordingly to the corresponding Houses at the end of the month. These could decide Prefects, maybe?
I'm not sure how the Quidditch matches could fit in without being too confusing tho...
Quidditch matches would definitely be too confusing.
I think we're on the same page without releasing it though! Haha!
House Points for inter-House challenges, O.W.Ls for exercise challenges, N.E.W.T.S. for food challenges.
O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s each House has accumulated gets factored into House points at the end of it all or the House Cup at the end of the month.
Good? :bigsmile:
We'll just have to work out in-House OWL and NEWT guidelines. We have to have a similar scoring system.
Hufflepuffs are doing jumping jacks from tomorrow until Sunday. Our weekly challenge will reset every Sunday), so I was thinking 1 OWL per 1 set of 20 jumping jacks.
Basically, 1 OWL per 1 set of whatever the exercise challenge is.
And maybe 1 NEWT for every day the food challenge is adhered to?
NEWTs and OWLs should count for the same, though... just for simplicity's sake.0 -
Another idea for a Quidditch Match - each month each House picks 7 members to represent them, and those members are in the Quidditch Match for the month. These 7 people then have a specific monthly challenge that they need to complete, and each day they complete it, they get 1 point. If they double the challenge, they get 2 points, triple - 3 pts, etc. This way, it rotates each month and everyone gets a chance for an extra challenge. Then at the end of the month, the House with the most points wins! Then every 6 months, the House with the most wins, wins the Quidditch cup!
IDK - just an idea.0 -
"Oh, wait! The Quidditch matches could be the weigh-ins/percentages lost! and the biggest percentage lost (per House) gets the Quidditch Cup!"
DIDN'T SEE THIS!!! I like that idea!!!0 -
Another idea for a Quidditch Match - each month each House picks 7 members to represent them, and those members are in the Quidditch Match for the month. These 7 people then have a specific monthly challenge that they need to complete, and each day they complete it, they get 1 point. If they double the challenge, they get 2 points, triple - 3 pts, etc. This way, it rotates each month and everyone gets a chance for an extra challenge. Then at the end of the month, the House with the most points wins! Then every 6 months, the House with the most wins, wins the Quidditch cup!
IDK - just an idea.
I think that's a cool idea, but it's kind of a bummer in between for those that aren't on the 'team' to not be able to participate...we'll see what people think tho.0 -
"Oh, wait! The Quidditch matches could be the weigh-ins/percentages lost! and the biggest percentage lost (per House) gets the Quidditch Cup!"
DIDN'T SEE THIS!!! I like that idea!!!
I know, right? We've been so excited about the exercise we forgot about the weights! I think it will be fun to have all the major aspects of Hogwarts to look forward to. Now, if only we could get some House Elves to do our cooking and cleaning...0 -
"Oh, wait! The Quidditch matches could be the weigh-ins/percentages lost! and the biggest percentage lost (per House) gets the Quidditch Cup!"
DIDN'T SEE THIS!!! I like that idea!!!
I know, right? We've been so excited about the exercise we forgot about the weights! I think it will be fun to have all the major aspects of Hogwarts to look forward to. Now, if only we could get some House Elves to do our cooking and cleaning...
Is it decided then? Where's Ravenclaw?
I'd like to go ahead and give my Hufflepuffs the specifics of their challenge this week! 0 -
Another idea for a Quidditch Match - each month each House picks 7 members to represent them, and those members are in the Quidditch Match for the month. These 7 people then have a specific monthly challenge that they need to complete, and each day they complete it, they get 1 point. If they double the challenge, they get 2 points, triple - 3 pts, etc. This way, it rotates each month and everyone gets a chance for an extra challenge. Then at the end of the month, the House with the most points wins! Then every 6 months, the House with the most wins, wins the Quidditch cup!
IDK - just an idea.
I think that's a cool idea, but it's kind of a bummer in between for those that aren't on the 'team' to not be able to participate...we'll see what people think tho.
I'm not sure of how many people will be in each House, but that's why I thought to rotate who was on the "team" each month. Other members can do the challenge, but only the House members selected for the "team" will count for the points earned.
Like I said, just an idea. 0 -
Hey there - Ravenclaw Head of House here! How about starting the first inter-house challenge September 1 so we don't lose momentum. Just something easy to get us going.
Another thought - in the original HP challenge, I would use the group weekly challenges for my house to earn house points with - it was easier than having group challenges AND Ravenclaw challenges. Why don't we set weekly challenges for all of us here - rotating which house sets the challenge each week. We can earn house points individually in each house and then in total for the group each week.
The ceiling is still bright and sunny here - always sunny - every day in AZ.... (we could use some rain!!)
September 1st works for me as well. I just thought you all were finishing up previous challenges.
But you're right, awarding House Points for in-House challenges AND inter-House competitions doesn't make sense, but I still like the idea of each House being it's own entity to an extent.
What if we award Galleons or O.W.Ls (just another name for points) to our individual members for our in-House challenges (I'll be using a point system to select my Prefects), and award House Points to the Houses after our monthly competitions? Keep them a standard number for each competition, 100 for first place, 50 for second, 25 for third, something like that. After three inter-House competitions, we can award a House Cup (just bragging rights and a little thing to add to the signature).
Gryffindors were having a goal to be October 1st, but we could move to Sept 1 just as easily!
I didn't mean having 2 seperate challenges, I mean having the challenges we set for the whole thing, but having each House check in in their common room, then the Heads of House tallying the scores as a whole and posting them here.
Does that make sense? Sorry to be unclear.
I pick Prefects every week, and Head Girl/Boy at the end of each goal date, so picking the Head Boy/Girl out of all of us sounds perfect! So at the end we can each post our top scorer and then the best 2 out of those will be Head Boy/Girl (no matter the gender).
I think we could have OWLs and NEWTs be just little parts of the challenge that if you complete them individually you get them. OWLs would be easier than NEWTs, maybe they could be the food challenges and we can leave exercise related things to be rewarded with House Points?
I think it would keep the momentum more easily if we just nominated the winner of the House Cup at the end of each monthly challenge (and each month would be like starting a new year at Hogwarts). I also think we could give bonus points at the end for OWLs and NEWTs (1st, 2nd, 3rd according to how many each House earned overall).
We can play for a House Cup every month, that's fine.
Maybe I was unclear as well. LOL. Let me try to clarify this...
To break it down... my vision of this has each House having their OWN little challenges weekly, AS WELL AS a Monthly inter-House competition (of a slightly bigger scale than in-House competitions).
For example, my House is doing Jumping Jacks (chosen by a vote) this week to accumulate points (not called House Points anymore, that gets confusing, as we've learned) that I'll use to pick my Prefects after four weeks of in-House challenges.
While that's going on, we will also work toward the monthly inter-House competition for HOUSE POINTS.
That way, the Houses operate on their own, as well as a part of the Four Houses.
That's why I suggested calling points accumulated in-House something different (O.W.L.s).
Does that make sense?
I hope so. LOL. :laugh:
That makes sense, but I find it more complicated than necessary...Hm.
Maybe we could compromise and do something like this:
We have one big challenge each month we have an Inter-House Challenge. This challenge will be something like miles traveled, or minutes exercised, or calories burned, and we could earn House Points for each mile/minute/calorie. It will be for all four Houses to compete in for the House Cup at the end of the month. The House Points would also decide Head Boy/Girl.
Houses can individually set weekly challenges to earn OWLs or NEWTs (maybe one easy activity and one hard activity? or one food challenge and one exercise challenge?), which will add up to add the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place bonus points accordingly to the corresponding Houses at the end of the month. These could decide Prefects, maybe?
I'm not sure how the Quidditch matches could fit in without being too confusing tho...
Quidditch matches would definitely be too confusing.
I think we're on the same page without releasing it though! Haha!
House Points for inter-House challenges, O.W.Ls for exercise challenges, N.E.W.T.S. for food challenges.
O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s each House has accumulated gets factored into House points at the end of it all or the House Cup at the end of the month.
Good? :bigsmile:
We'll just have to work out in-House OWL and NEWT guidelines. We have to have a similar scoring system.
Hufflepuffs are doing jumping jacks from tomorrow until Sunday. Our weekly challenge will reset every Sunday), so I was thinking 1 OWL per 1 set of 20 jumping jacks.
Basically, 1 OWL per 1 set of whatever the exercise challenge is.
And maybe 1 NEWT for every day the food challenge is adhered to?
NEWTs and OWLs should count for the same, though... just for simplicity's sake.
*relieved sigh* I think we've got it as long as Ravenclaw is on board
Ok, so we earn House Points to count towards the House Cup at the end of the month. This is the same for all Houses, for the whole month. The House Points decide the Head Boy/Girl (the top 2 people regardless of gender, because we seem to have our men outweighed by our women).
OWLs are exercise challenges and NEWTs are food challenges decided by each Head of House each week for that House. They are worth the same amount. OWLs will be given 1 for every set of an exercise (to be decided by each Head of House), and NEWTs will be given 1 for every day the challenge is completed. Each Head of House can name Prefects as often as they like based on the OWLs and NEWTs (I'd probably do one for each). At the end of the month, the Houses with the most OWLs and NEWTs combined will receive bonus House Points towards the House Cup (1st - 100, 2nd - 50, 3rd - 25).
Quidditch matches will be decided by the total percentage lost for each House each week, and the most lost overall will get the Quidditch Cup.
Are we missing anything?0
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