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[ScarlettPixie]

Room Building Blitz - Water Theme!

 
Cowabunga, it's almost summer and the time is so right for a water themed room contest.

You've got the talent, the mad skills, the judgement, but can you bring them all to bear in just 90 minutes?

Blitz is a chess term for a game that is fast and furious and the winner is decided in moments.

This Saturday, June 5th, we will have a Room Building Blitz and the winners will be known in just 90 minutes.

Here's the blazing blitz schedule (all times are Pacific Time in the afternoon)

At 3:30 you enter your room in the contest, any furni in the room is automatically stored.
At 3:31 you start building and you have 45 nail biting minutes to create your masterpiece.
At 4:15 your room locks automatically and your masterpiece is complete.
At 4:16 you start judging, select Judge Rooms from the Menu.
At 4:45 judging is complete and you drop your smoking mouse!
At 5:00 winners are announced and prizes awarded!
Do you have the skills and the speed, only 90 minutes will tell!

So, get fast with your mouse, even get building with a little help from your friends, but remember, you have just 45 minutes to create your masterpiece!

The top 5 places in our Room Building Blitz will receive:


Room Building Blitz Pin
Room Building Blitz Trophy
All the items in the picture, smoke not included


Wood Desk - Cherry
Office Chair - Black
Computer Monitor- Black
Mouse and Pad - Blue
Keyboard - Black
Computer CPU - Black
Credits


5,000 credits to 1st place
4,000 credits to 2nd place
3,000 credits to 3rd place
2,000 credits to 4th place
1,000 credits to 5th place

Judging the Judges

Room Judging Blitz Pin and 5,000 credits for the judges who are within 1 point of the room averages.

Happy building and may the blitz be with you!


Picture of Building Blitz Prizes

[Purpleduck]

Thanks for posting this Pix!  What an intense 45 minutes of building this will be!

[ScarlettPixie]

Oh I cannot wait for this! This will be fun! And intense stress! Woot!

[PrincessWendyBird]

Hmmm, we will be at church during this event. However, it is happening during the second service, while our son is in his Jr. High group and the rest of us hang out in the atrium. (We attend the first service) So, looks like we might be taking our laptops with us and building/judging then.

This does make it hard for families that share computers. We decided we will work together and just do 2 entries as a family. For other families that share computers, there is no way everyone can build a room using the entire 45 minutes. Too bad they didn't work out a different schedule. For example, from 10am EST until 3pm EST you can build your room. However, once you enter your room during that time frame, you have only 45 minutes and then your room is locked. This would give families a chance for each person to build his/her room. Then judging could run from 3pmEST until 8pm EST. Again, once you begin judging, you only have 30 minutes and again the entire family would get their 30 minutes to judge rooms. Then winners could be announced by 9pm EST. A one day building blitz.

I imagine this might be a way to stop clones from bombarding an event like this. For us, no worries, this still sounds like fun and like I said, we already discussed building 2 rooms as a family and if we are lucky enough to win something, the kids can have the prizes. Thanks for the info, Pix, I will try to add a picture of the prizes to the first post here soon. 

[Aurorasparkle]

This sounds very fun and interesting but I agree with Wendy about it being hard with families who have to share a computer.  This isn't a problem for us though since my daughter and I are the only two that play but we usually attend church on Saturday and it is right during this entire event.  Not sure if we'll be entering but it looks like a lot of fun.  I sure wish there would have been a couple different times to enter.

[lisuhut]

Hi
There is infomation on the home page about a speed room building contest on sat
good luck to you all , as the event will be on to late for me.
Which is why i have not become a member , as we lose out on lots of events
Lisu x

[lisuhut]

Hi
Okay how come i posted first , but am on last ?
Now then Pixie just cause you gift me those lovely gift bags dose not mean you can queue jump Lol
Good luck anyway to all that manage to enter
Lisu x
 

[Purpleduck]

Hi
Okay how come i posted first , but am on last ?
Now then Pixie just cause you gift me those lovely gift bags dose not mean you can queue jump Lol
Good luck anyway to all that manage to enter
Lisu x
 

Hi Lisu, if you look at Pixie's date and time, you will see that she started the topic yesterday evening.  While you started one today.  Rather than have two threads about the same thing, I merged both yours and Pixie's.  Merging looks at the posts, and arranges them in order of date and time they were written.  You were only last, as noone has happened to post since you.  So it wasn't Pixie (other than having started it earlier) it was me, merging them.   

[ScarlettPixie]

Hi
Okay how come i posted first , but am on last ?
Now then Pixie just cause you gift me those lovely gift bags dose not mean you can queue jump Lol
Good luck anyway to all that manage to enter
Lisu x
 

Queue jump, Lisu!? LOL.. and I still have bags for you!!!!! so there....

[lisuhut]

Hi
Oh no , i should held off saying it until after i got the bags !!
See old age creeps in again , engage mouth before the brain
Congrats on your room by the way
Hugs
Lisu x

[ScarlettPixie]

Hi
Oh no , i should held off saying it until after i got the bags !!
See old age creeps in again , engage mouth before the brain
Congrats on your room by the way
Hugs
Lisu x

ROFL Lisu!

[Purpleduck]

Okay, I set a timer for 45 minutes (after having cleared my room), and I found out two things in rebuilding it.  One was pleasant, I finished building with 13 minutes to spare.

The other not so pleasant - when I let the room clear itself back into inventory, turns out not everything went there.  I had to go buy 3 pieces of rock support!  So word of caution.. remember where you bought everything so if this happens to you, you can quickly buy more.

[Flamanette]

Wo that is freaky!  Yes remember where they came from, but perhaps stock an extra or two just in case?

GL to all those who will be brave enough to enter this thing; I have not decided yet.  I may just need to take a break and sit this one out.

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[funfly]

Or else stock extra items on a spare peep that loads quick; or keep some stock items in another empty room of yours....then run there like crazy!

[Purpleduck]

I hope I am wrong, but I just had a thought as I re-read the rules and timing.

So you are going to be in your room at 3:30, and they will strip the room.  How will they know who is part of the contest?  If someone just happened to be in one of their rooms at 3:30, would they strip that room?  Now THAT could be terrible!

Sounds to me like they should have put a warning up, that if you do not wish to participate in the contest, then stay out of your rooms at 3:30. 

[funfly]

I interpreted it to mean:

at 3:30 you enter your room into the contest (like with a button as we did with other contest)
And once you entered the room by using contest button, then it strips your room.....

But, I could be wrong!

[Purpleduck]

That sounds like a better idea.  But "contest button"?  I know my mind is a sieve lately, but I don't recall any contest button, nor where it would be.