User blog:Owenandheatherfan/Read About - Week Three

Welcome back, students, to year one of Read About!

In Read About, contestants will be split up into seven teams of two and will be required to read a certain number of chapters of a certain story I assign. After the deadline, the competitors will take a quiz, the questions being based off of the story that week. I will then find the average between the two scores, and that will be their total for the week. The partnership with the best score will earn a prize that will help them later on in the game, but the team with the worst score will be on the chopping block.

Last week, the students were assigned the first three chapters of Manatee's S.S. Total Drama. Unfortunately, many people didn't take the test by the time of the deadline, so the due-date was extended until Saturday. When the results were posted, it was revealed to the contestants that the week was actually a surprise double-elimination. The two teams with the lowest score, aka green and purple, were put on the chopping block. Their backs were against the wall, but in the end, it was Mister.. E. and Fyrexx who got the boot. Only 13 are left, what alliances will be made and what deals will be broken? More importantly, who will be eliminated? Find out this week on; Read About.

No returns. No debuts. No cheesecake.

Below, you will see the current teams. For week three, I am assigning the first three chapters of Total Drama: Superstar Showdown by Toadgamer80. When you are ready to take your quiz, please come onto the wiki chat and private message me. The deadline for this is Saturday, December 22, 2012. If you have not taken your quiz by that time, then you have one strike against you. Three strikes, and you will automatically be eliminated from Read About; no exceptions. Last week, I extended the date, but I won't be that leniant this week. The quiz will consist of ten questions, and no bonus (you can earn extra points from commenting on the story, however).
 * Red Team : FireFlameVG and Nduke
 * Blue Team : Jaxswim and BadAsp
 * Green Team : Manatee12 and COKEMAN11
 * Yellow Team : TDALindsayfan1 and 1dra7
 * Orange Team : EnTrey and LightningandDakotaFan6
 * Pink Team : BrunoSomebody and Aimers

This time on Read About, in order to encourage feedback, if you leave a comment that is at least ten sentences on the talk-page of the story that week, you will earn bonus points. Depending on your comment, the bonus points range from one point to five. And in certain cases, one point may be the difference from life and death.

Because of Thanksgiving break, you may have noticed that you had one week off. I wanted everyone to spend time with their family and not worry about Read About, so this is why this blog has been posted so late. I may do the same thing for Christmas; or have the round be holiday-themed. One more thing, Manatee has written S.S. Total Drama but he's also a contestant. Thus, he will not be eligible to compete until next week, to make it fair for the other students. If I ever want to use a story that is written by a competitor, same rules will apply.

Be sure to thoroughly read the rules, because breaking them will result in consequences, examples being a zero for the week or being removed from the game. Click here for the elimination chart, where you can see what team you are on. Additionally, you can see all of your scores. Click here to find the results for this week.