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Originally Posted by Ipanema
This could be good. What will the rules be? How long does the challenge go?
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Very good questions!
The week before the challenge starts I'm going to talk with the moderators to get the new teams stats thread made into stickies so they do not get lost. The biggest thing I want to stress is participation. So
rule # 1 is please participate for the entire challenge if you start! All you have to do is update your weigh in each week and stay on top of it so the team leader's can be timely posting results.
If in the event that something comes up and you can't post,
rule # 2 please let your team leader know! This can be done either by private message or a post on the forum. If notified, we can take some things into consideration. If you don't tell anyone, then we can not count you in on our weigh in.
Rule # 3, Falling too far behind (usually a week or more) without notification can result in removal from a team. It sounds like a nasty rule, but remember there are other people counting on you.
The challenge will last for 12 weeks and starts on December 31st, 2006 when everyone will turn in their starting weights. I don't want to start taking weights right now because it's too far in advance. The earliest you can post your weight is December 31st, 2006, which is when I'll make the official post.
All weigh ins for week one are due by January 7th, 2007 at 10:00 pm EST at the latest. Then you have an entire week to weight in.
The absolute last day that you can weigh in is the Monday after the week you are weighing in for. Take for instance, you want to weigh in for week 2 which is 1/7/07 to 1/13/07. You have until 1/15/07 to weigh in. Results will be posted the following day.
Everyone will be split into teams. There's no particular pattern that I will be following. My main objective is to make the teams as close to even starting weight as I can. For those of us that are currently in TBL challenge, you may end up on the same color team as before, but this would be pure luck. It's all based on weight.
There will be winning teams and an overall Biggest Loser. Between the results posted weekly, one of the two teams will win weekly. Both teams will also have an overall comparison at the end of the challenge to see which team won. Each team will then take their highest losers and compare to crown the overall winner. I'm not sure about prizes.... I'm still considering it.
Hopefully this answers a lot of your questions. If you have anymore please feel free to PM me or post them below.