What is Spirit?
Spirit is an attitude of loyalty, esprit de'corps, and willingness to give of yourself
and your time to the team.
Spirit points are extra points you can earn for doing fun and interesting tasks
that make you feel more a part of this team and the the Webleagues. They
also award you X-tra points that may make the difference between victory and defeat
at the team levels. Spirit tasks make use of your creativity, ingenuity, and intelligenceY.
There are tasks that make use of various talents and which pose various levels of
challenge. The more work involved in a task, the more points it brings.
On this team you generally (There are exceptions for victory and defeat in the upper
levels.) do not get points for fighting or voting or having a birthday. If you
are in a web site competition fighting and voting are what you should be doing. Spirit
points are for something extra, and we have lots extra.
Also spirit point totals on this team will run low. This is to prevent fighters who
are not self voting (a possibility) or who have no campaigns from being swamped by
a fighter who has "gotten lucky." Because spirit points here are low, I
multiply them by three (3) before handing them to the competition. This means our
spirit points compare evenly with those from other teams. Conversely, I devalue any
competition wide spirit point awards to one third (1/3) their original value when
translating them into Artistic points. In the chart,
you will see two values for your spirit points. One is the Artistic value.
The other with a "c" after it is the competition wide value.
And yes you can earn spirit points while you are on hold, over the weekend, during
the last week of the month when there is no fighting etc... During long holds, you
do not accumulate spirit points. On this team the spirit point clock will start ticking
again in late August/early September. Should a member leave
the competition, his/her spirit points will be divided evenly among the rest of the team unless
he/she states otherwise. Spirit points may be transferred or willed like money.
Let's take a look at all the ways you can earn spirit points:
- Have a spirit page on your web site: A spirit page gives both the
ArtLeagues and Webleagues free
advertising but it is also an opportunity to display your pride in your team and
this competition. A spirit page brings you five (5) spirit points per week whether
you are fighting or not.
- Cut and Paste Cheering: This is one I don't like but have to include.
Eessentially it is going through the motions. Each cut and paste cheer you put
in the Cheer Board is worth one (1) spirit
point.
- Original Contribution: There are a lot of very good alternatives to cut
and paste cheering. You can write your own cheers. You can draw on the team
group board, participate in team chats, post to the chat section of the
forum, or send e-mail to art@thewebleagues.com,
the team's email community
discussion and news list. Each of these activities is worth five (5) spirit points and
you can do them as often as you like.
- Donate Something: Group board drawings are all considered donations, but you
can also send the anitor Haldis
original graphics, midi, cheers, or
suggestions. Cheers, midi, and images will find their way to the
team's
main page and they are worth ten (10) spirit points per creation. You can create
as many things as often as you choose. This is a very good way to earn spirit points.
- Take a Challenge: Challenges are especially difficult spirit tasks. You
can currently write a sonnet or sestina and there may be a ArtLeagues trivia
question as well. Challenges are not easy. They are not meant to be. Each challenge
correctly or even reasonably completed (and some can be completed several times)is
worth twenty-five (25) spirit points. Also if you find a glitch or problem with
anything on the Art Leagues site and report it to me, it is worth twenty-five (25) spirit points.
- Special Awards: These are spirit point awards
given mainly by the competition.
You
receive a 100, 200, or 400 points for winning or losing
at the upper levels.
You also receive seventeen (17) spirit points for registering
for the
forum and cheer board, seventeen (17) points for entering the spirit page topsite contest, and
seventeen
(17) spirit points for entering the fighter of the month top site contest or
jointing any Webleagues related web rings.
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