Hogwarts Weight Loss Challenge - Enrollment Now Open

Hey guys. Just wanted to address you all personally real quick.

I'm Ghost, the creator of this challenge. This is my second "term." About three months ago, I posted a silly "what if we did a Hogwarts weight loss challenge" brainstorming thread in this forum. It blew up, and we ended up having a full-blown competition.

The reason behind the house limits is just the number of hours that go into tallying up house points, and keeping the weight-loss spreadsheet current. Last term, I spent about two hours every day working on this. For example, whenever I offer a trivia question, students message me with their answers (to avoid cheating when posting in the forums). That's over 120 people messaging me, and I have less than 48 hours to tally them up, let people know if they're right, and address wrong answers. On top of that, we normally have exercise and food challenges running, as well as people logging their weights. I've asked a few people to help me out this term, but it is still very difficult.

Our current game has enough space for 200 people - that's 50 per house, and already 80 people over what we did last term. However, I have a very hard time turning down people who are as excited as I am about this challenge (and so many of you seem to be really excited). I'll see what we can do about upping the cap.

There are currently over 100 people on our waiting list. But we are going to go through that really quickly. A few things to keep in mind:
- People really do drop out. Very often. Every week, I was removing 10+ people and replacing them last term. We replaced over half of the Gryffindor house over the course of a couple of weeks.
- I will be removing anyone who does not get the first weigh-in posted on time (without alerting me first). A lot of people get excited and sign up, but aren't able to follow through. Anyone showing inactivity this early on will be replaced.
- I have plans in the works for people on the waiting list. It will involve competing with the currently enrolled students, similar to the Triwizard Tournament idea that has been thrown around here. I'm not going to share details, but I've been working on this since last term.

Don't give up if you're on the waiting list. Your owl will most likely still come.

Thank you all for your interest, your patience, and your understanding.
You all do the Harry Potter family proud.

- Ghost

Wait. It's CLOSED.

Okay, all you Ravenclaws! Show your inner-organizer to this list and start a second game!

I can add you to the waiting list! I upped the house limit, which allowed for 100 people to move from the list to the challenge. That means, we have more space on the list.