hello everybody!!

this new year i set myself a goal: to beat my previous record of 27 entries in a calendar month... well it just so happens that the appropriately 28-day-long february is coming over the hill. all i need to do is average one entry a day for that month!

i'd like to invite any other BotBrs interested in doing lots and lots of battles to join me on my quest :D anyone who submits 28 entries this february* gets a trophy from me on their barracks page, and much BotBr respect. there are no strict rules, it's not supposed to be a formal event or anything, just my excuse to go wild and do as much music making as i can (and rope in a couple of you to do it with me).

p.s. i'll also be hosting a new OHB series to get things going on my end. vote here

for whether you'd rather it be NSF+ or allgear.

*ed. to be clear this means you don't have to submit every day, you can miss days and make up on other days.

ed. 2 well this has taken off in a major way, check lumby's thread to keep up with the action!!

reminds me of feb2015 when i told myself to write at least 10 tweets per day, and in the end i ended up at, what... 100 tweets per day on avg

I bet fresh n000b zor would love in on this challenge too!

i propose a secondary goal: break the monthly record of xhbs hosted. february and march are both great months to pursue this goal, but with the february fever ider it makes the most sense to do so in. not an easy goal, but if we get 183 battles this month i'll give everyone who participated this trophy on their profile too

hmm, I could think about maybe doing a daily lunch break draw battle to contribute to that noble cause since those are lower stress for me personally, but not sure how long my boons would survive. I could try mid day sometime this week and see if people would be able to show to feel it out.

well the poll is currently at 0 votes for allgear, 5 for NSF+, and 6 for a mix of both. if that trend holds what i'll probably do is make the series NSF+ but do plenty of one-off allgear battles on the side.

reminds me of feb2015 when i told myself to write at least 10 tweets per day, and in the end i ended up at, what... 100 tweets per day on avg
encouraging...

I bet fresh n000b zor would love in on this challenge too!
who?

i propose a secondary goal: break the monthly record of xhbs hosted.
YES

not sure how long my boons would survive.
personally my plan in the event of boonloss is to simply abandon any pretence of pride and start begging like a dog.

hmm i can contribute hostistism to february but i'm not sure how many ohbs i will actually be able to enter! it's winter chip!! but i love seeing the big activity bursts so perhaps i will just host stuff for people to have fun with. and maybe join sometimes

you know you're gonna need OPM to beat frickin 183 battles in a month right? you have to have OPM.

beating the 180+ ohbs in one month is unlikely and i dont believe it will be done until i am proven wrong.

> hmm, I could think about maybe doing a daily lunch break draw battle to contribute to that noble cause since those are lower stress for me personally

that sounds like an awesome idea! of course, it can't be draw perse - moratorium still around and all that (possibly until the End Times^tm) - but i think a daily visuall thing would be neat! reminding me a lot of what vav used to do with his lunch break series.

> personally my plan in the event of boonloss is to simply abandon any pretence of pride and start begging like a dog.

damn i thought i was the only one gunnin for that strat lmao

> you know you're gonna need OPM to beat frickin 183 battles in a month right? you have to have OPM.

...you didn't think i don't have my ways, did you?
the war between us never ended, dami

i'm not sure how many ohbs i will actually be able to enter! it's winter chip!!
major entries count!!

you have to have OPM.
*tossing breadcrumbs over the ground to summon the pigeon master*

beating the 180+ ohbs in one month is unlikely and i dont believe it will be done until i am proven wrong.
sounds like a challenge to me..

This will give me some moar batol experience, and with the amount of ohbs being hosted, I'll have even MOAR opportunities!

lumby - if you want to push for it, to Kleeder's point we'd need 6.5 average battles hosted a day to beat it, which could be a stretch during winter chippin. Maybe a separate thread although these are related? Also I thought there was a stats page somewhere that showed the months with the most battles and I can't remember where that is but was gonna take a look.

I thought the title said 28 days of troll

Just thought I'd say that

to kilowatt: the XHB lyceum page has something close to that, but you are right. i'll be making a thread about this soon, as i think even though the two are related in spirit the goals are pretty different

edit: here it is!!

yeah that’s the page I was thinking of

28 days of trolual

28 x 2 = ?

no..... that's not possible........

just submitted my 28th entry of the month...how far can we go??? how many entries are you on??

counting majors, i'm at 48! on track to beat my own xhb record too regardless

I've also broken my own monthly record which was previously 24 thanks to advent. Currently at 36!

looks like there'll be plenty of trophies going round, not to mention much BotBr respect

46 entries for me in February, but this makes me wonder how well i actually did with output compared to other months. gonna compile some stats later and post them here because why not

looks like 81 total entries for me, 25 of which were to winter chip, so ... serendipitously that makes my new XHBs-in-a-month record... you guessed it... 56

kleeder ohb stats:

2018: 201 ohb entries total
2019: 237 ohb entries total
2020: 275 xhb entries total
2021: 166 xhb entries total
2022: 91 xhb entries total

funfact, i started ohbing in may 2018, and did at least 1 battle every month until july 2022, where i entered a few majors but no minors at all.

months with most ohb entries:
05/2020: 77
02/2023: 46
11/2018: 45
03/2019: 41
06/2020: 37
10/2018: 34

I too broke my monthly entry record, though with a measly 11 entries (4 majors for Winter Chip and 7 OHBs). My last record was 10 in Dec of last year, all major entries for Advent + YEA.

i think i submitted 130 entries in february... (i have no idea if i broke any record...)

well well well... everyone gets a trophy

I managed to do bang on 28, in spite of having not been on as much after the first week and a half, woowoo!

52, which was more than double my previous record and one that I don’t think I’ll ever get close to. Phew

anybody who wants to claim their February Fever Grinning Golem simply reply to this thread with the number of entries you made in february.

the Golden Golem goes to nitro for submitting 130 entries, not to mention for his honourable service saving all our boons!

32 feb emtries oh my!!

55 XHBs and 5 majors. 60 emtries Feb 2023!

11 entries! Hopefully will have time later in the future to destroy this small record!

kilowatt uwao! 4 more to go~
roz only 47 for me. my investment in teh event kiiiiinda died out in a couple days.. lol.


bluf: goals rant for (possible) next time

surely i can do better, when is the next month that we will do this? goals time, if this happens. i wana do at least 3 xhbs every day that month, not including the First Few Days craze where i cld easily have a fun discussion with the xhbs very scrumptiously. ah and i missed too much drawing and txt xhbs, those i were able to do with just a fone (especially at work yeeeee), but sometimes when i was perfectly available and at home, i saw the batol and just said "eh, more sleep for me" which was a mistake wuahah. and another thing to do next time is to just keep hosting (and do more common formats in hosting); i had a few boonlosses in feb, that kinda deterrd me from doing any more involvement and contributed to the "eh, more sleep for me". oh this turnd out a bit long oopsies. like and subscribe if you enjoyed reading this post