BBO 2024: Scavenging for the Nests Introduction

[Mia Fountain]

BBO 2024: Scavenging for the Nests

This year the Blue and Bronze nests will be competing against each other in a scavenger hunt in the Forbidden Forest. The nests will compete with each other to gather potions ingredients, catalogue various creatures, and visit sites of interest found within the forest.

Organized by:

Adeline Morior, Anne-Marie Gagne, Aquaria Sandalwood, and Lex Green with Mia Fountain

Timeline:
• November 1: Week One Posted
• November 8: Week Two Posted
• November 15: Week Three Posted
• November 22: Week Four Posted
• November 30: Everything Due

Beans/Sapphires and Awards:

You will have the chance to earn 10 beans/sapphires per task with an additional 10 beans/sapphires for completing all 4 of a week's given tasks. If you complete all 16 of the tasks, you will earn an additional 50 beans/sapphires. If you complete all of the tasks by the deadline, you will earn 250 beans/sapphires.

You can see your completed tasks and earned beans/sapphires here.

Awards:

Adventured into the Forest - for completing 8 tasks
Practical Experience - for completing all 16 tasks

Join in:

To join in the activity, please sign up in the signup thread. Once you have signed up you can begin completing tasks, you do not need to wait to be placed into a nest.

Nests:

Blue:
Janne Halla
Galena May
Cassie Williams
Maria Williams
Lexa Winslow
Evelin Stockom

Bronze:
River Fenwick
Katherine Laurier
Luna Ravenlong
Ellie Vernez
Prof. Will Lestrange
Viviana Kingston

Questions:

If you have any questions that are not answered below please post it below or private message one of the organizers and myself (Mia Fountain).

When do signups for the activity close?

Signups are open until the end of the activity, all tasks are due by November 30th at 11:59 pm HOL time.

Which team will I be on?

Ravenclaw staff and students are divided into nests (blue and bronze) by the first letter of their first name. Students and Staff from Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin will be added into one of the nests when they sign up for the activity. To keep things fair members from the three houses will be placed into one of the nests in the order they sign up for the activity, while trying to keep the teams as even as possible.

How is the winning team determined?

Each week we will post the totals for each of the teams, including the totals for each of the team members. The winning team is the team with the most items found including bonuses for completing all four tasks for a given week.

Why are there missing tasks?

Each organizer is responsible for posting their own tasks and depending on their schedules and time zones, they may not be able to post until later in the day. Don't worry, the tasks will be posted as soon as possible!

Why is the task I completed not recorded in the spreadsheet? Where are my bonus beans/sapphires?

It can take up to 48 hours for completed tasks to be added to the spreadsheet. If 48 hours has passed, please reach out to the organizer of the task to double check. Bonus beans/sapphires can be missed while tasks are updated in the spreadsheet, but they are usually caught before the week's totals are posted.

What if I can't/don't want to do a particular task?

If a particular task is too impractical or undesirable for you to complete, you may do an alternative task or skip the task. If an alternative task is not provided along with the task you can ask for one or suggest one.

How do I post Graphics?
You can upload a graphic you have created to an image hosting site. Some popular image hosting sites are Postimages, Imgur, and Imgbb. Once you have uploaded the image to an image hosting site, you can copy a link. The “BBCode” to attach on The Roost forum submissions (which can be accomplished automatically for you by the click of a button from options on some of the image hosting sites) is [*img][*/img] with url in the middle (i.e. [*img]link[*/img]) — NOTE: You would remove the asterisks (*) in order for this code to be successful. They’re added here to display the example effectively. Images imbedded directly into posts must be kept within 600x600 pixels.

Can I use AI to complete a task?

If the task is a written task, no you cannot use AI. Written tasks must be written in your own words. If the task is an artwork task, you cannot submit any graphics that are created purely from AI. Any artwork you submit must have been altered, added to , and/or changed in some way by you. For more information on AI and it's use at HOL, please see Use of AI Tools on HOL.

[Mia Fountain]

Thank you to all of the participants in this years BBO.

The winners of the Practical Experience award (for completing all 16 tasks) are:

Galena May
Luna Ravenlong
River Fenwick

The winners of the Adventured into the Forest award (for completing at least 8 tasks) are:

Ellie Vernez
Galena May
Luna Ravenlong
Maria Williams
River Fenwick
Viviana Kingston

Beans and Sapphires have been awarded as follows:

Cassie Williams - 10
Ellie Vernez - 130
Galena May - 200
Janne Halla - 30
Luna Ravenlong - 200
Maria Williams - 110
River Fenwick - 200
Viviana Kingston - 90
Prof. Will Lestrange - 40

[Galena May]

Thank you so much! Congratulations everyone!