Hogwarts Championship Year 2 (Sign up Open)

*sonorus*

Welcome back students! After a successful Year 1 with all of you passing, it is time for Year 2 of Hogwarts Championship. It is time to represent your houses. It is time to show your wit. It is time to show that you can be both a team player and individual player.

Over the next few weeks, you will be tested on 7 different subjects. Now, to be clear, while you are playing in your houses and a house will emerge as a champion, you are also playing an individual game to win within your house and become the next Head Girl or Boy!

Confused? Well let me explain in the rules below.

Each person is going to rank all 4 houses in the order that they want to be part of them. The 4 houses are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. I will do my best to try and give you your first 2 choices, but I ask for the ranking so that I can have an equal number (or close to equal) in each house.

This year we already have 4 Head Girls: minakrish for Slytherin, FaizaK for Gryffindor, RainOfDew for Hufflepuff, and SoniRita for Ravenclaw. Each of these ladies will get a chance to choose between 1 to 3 people for their house from the list I give them, in the order that I presented their names above, then I will assign the remaining people into houses.

There will be 2 types of winners. First, of course, there will be a winning house, which means that entire house's members win. Then, in each house, there will be a winner as well, which is the person who scored the most points.

In 4 out of 7 rounds, you will be playing a 100% individual game. What will happen is that your points will be added to the house. There are also "bonus" points for most rounds that will be awarded to individuals only. There will be different types of bonus points each round. In some cases, it might be timing, but in others it could be that negative marking becomes effective after 24 hours. So do read each round’s rules carefully!

In 2 out of 7 rounds, only a few people in your team need to play and it will be the responsibility of the Head Girl to assign these people. These will be head-on rounds on Discord. These games will be open to all viewers, so even if your house isn’t playing, you can still watch the game! And this time around there will be no bonus points awarded to the individuals who play. The score will be added to the House score.

In 1 round, I will leave it to you as a house to decide if you want 1 person to play the round alone, 2 people, 3 people, or the entire house. I will require only 1 submission from each house, but you will get enough time, and it is a slightly creative round.

If there aren't an equal number of people in the houses or if someone drops from the game, then I will ensure the house is not disadvantaged. After each round, I will take the average of that house score and add it to the house points to make up for the lack of a member or two. For example, if Gryffindor has 8 members and the other houses have 10 members, then I will take the average of Gryffindor's score, multiply it by 2, and add it to their house points. Gryffindor will only be disadvantaged in the 3 rounds that require a few members to play since they'll have less members to choose from.

Note that as long as you play (or are part of the game) for at least 4 out of 7 rounds, you will get a special badge! Badge will be shared later once I get it.

So...if that all makes sense then what are you waiting for? Sign up by May 1 11:59 PM IST, rank the houses in order, and show off that house pride! You will be assigned into houses by May 3 11:59 PM IST. I will take sign-ups until this second date, though those will be one offs.

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Tag credits: AI

Badge/siggy credits: x.titli.x

Q: How long will each round last?

A: I am giving 48 hours for the 4 individual rounds. The 1 group round will be 72 hours long to give Houses time to chat with each other before making a submission. For the 2 Discord rounds, I will have 6 games in total that I will try to set for evening IST timings. I hope to keep them to 48 hours at most, but if they fall on a weekend, then it might be longer as evening ISTs are mornings for me and I can’t do morning games on the weekend.

Q: How much time do I need to commit to the game?

A: I would say that the individual rounds should take about an hour total, while you might have to commit a bit more time to the group round. Discord rounds will last about 30 minutes per game, so it will take 30 minutes to 1.5 hours in total depending on how many times you represent your team.

Q: What are the rounds based on?

A: I said 7 subjects and there’s a previous season to review (if you didn’t play already).

Q: Is Harry Potter knowledge a must?

A: 1 individual round and the group round will have HP involved in it. For the individual round, using Google should help as the answers are out there. For the group round, you just need basic knowledge of 1 character which is a well-known enough character that you will find lots of details on Google.

Q: Is this a group game or an individual game?

A: A mix of both I'd say. I'm sure, in real life, you've all had a chance to represent a team, your school, or maybe a house in your school as well whether in sports, a math competition, a case competition, or something else. It's kind of the same here. You're representing your house. You are working to gain your house points, but also to make yourself stand out. So like in cricket, India wins but then there's also a Man of the Match or a Man of the Series, we'll have the same here - a house will win but then there will also be a Head Boy or Head Girl of each house.

Without any houses, just the people who have signed up are displayed here.

1. minakrish (Slytherin)
2. SoniRita (Ravenclaw)
3. RainOfDew (Hufflepuff)
4. FaizaK (Gryffindor)
5. WildestDreams
6. nutmeg7
7. Rosyme
8. AnashqU
9. ProfMcGonagall
10. serena_shadow
11. MysticHeart

Head Girl: minakrish

Head Girl: FaizaK

Head Girl: RainOfDew

Head Girl: SoniRita

Come 1, come all (and bring your friends. Sign up and rank all 4 houses in the order you would like to join them. I will do my best to give you your first choice, but I can make no promises.

Links to rounds

Link to previous year

Only🐍 House!

Come 1, come all (and bring your friends. Sign up and rank all 4 houses in the order you would like to join them. I will do my best to give you your first choice, but I can make no promises. Please do read through the posts above to understand all the rules!

Is it based on Harry Potter? Then I can't play...I don't have much knowledge about that topic.

Congrats and good luck for Hogwarts Championship Year 2 yay

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