Ultimate Post-A-Thon [2023]

As of January 6th, 2023 at exactly 7:12am PST, we began another year of writing. This is year #2 of our biggest, baddest writing challenge of the year, but coming at you from a whole new angle. Some things will stay the same, like the fact that it's just like all our other post-a-thons but ULTIMATE. For the entire year of 2023, every person who signs up will be going head to head, competing for pit stop rewards in a marathon race to the top.

Our first change is that instead of each month, every THREE months, or each quarter of the year, HGRPG's raddest poster with the highest word count will receive a nice little cash prize of $5,000! The over-all highest word count of the year come Jan 5th, 2024 at 11:59 PST (wow!) will cash out an additional $25,000 - woof! - along with the custom title of ULTIMATE PAT'ER 2023!

This time though, your biggest competition? That's right y'all, look in the mirror for full effect or any nearby reflective surface, it's YOU.

Take a little sip of this:

Absolutely everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who writes 5k a month this year and meets the 15k quarterly/three month check in, will receive a little U-PAT badge for their tracker. Each badge represents a section of the marathon and throughout the year, if you meet requirements, you can collect a brand new badge for your little carrying case! Let me break it down for you:

• Everyone who has a tracker will get a badge case edited into your post by one of our 3 staff working on the project.
• Write 5k/month OR 15k within three months, receive (1) badge for your case
• At the end of the year, if you have all 4 badges, you’ll have written 60k! (That's only 5k a month!)
• As your prize, your badges will go in your profile as awards!
• We will be hosting monthly weekend long blitz-a-thons on the last weekend of each month to help you hit your goal!

So cool right??? Here are some things to note about that though:

• No two quarterly badges will look the same, so if you want this year’s quarters, you have to play to win them this year.
• If you compete two years in a row, your old set of quarterly badges will be removed from your profile and you can keep it in your tracker/signature/whatever, but you’ll never have two upat tracker banners at once he he hoo hoo, we're not doing banners anymore, we're doing awards! so keep em! FOREVER!
• *if you are that year’s ultimate UPAT winner, then you get a banner in your profile as well forever!
• you have to complete all 4 quarters quarterly, not 60k in like, a month, sorry, doesn't work that way!
• friendly reminder that absolutely everything except mandates in the games counts!

Most importantly, you win: clout! Once you win, you get your name added to this list of icons:

LOOK AT ALL THESE WINNERS:
2022: Elegant w/150,000k!

IF THAT'S NOT A LIT PRIZE THEN IDK WHAT IS! 😎

All you have to do is: write, write, write! And sign up, of course. Sign up's will take place in this thread just like usual; however, since these trackers are gonna get long, we'll be creating brand spanking new UPAT trackers for the year! Please just post in your old tracker thread from last year if you still have that. Let's reduce our digital footprint!

The minimum pledge for the UPAT is going to start at a whopping 60,000! It looks like a big scary number, but we're talking 5,000 a month. With all the events and, well, other PAT's, the word count will rack itself up! Just write like normal and the UPAT will complete itself. Anybody who completes their pledge will receive $10,000 and a CB, just for extra pleasure. Anyone looking for a real challenge can pledge 100,000 words for the year and cash out the big $20,000!

Make your way to the - tracker board - to start your 2023 tracker, you'll need it for when you sign up below. This year, we'll be hosting pit stops every 3 months, so our first deadline will be March 31, 2023, midnight PST. This is when you'll catch up your trackers and update your sign up post with your monthly total.

*As soon as your tracker is updated, please let one of us know so we can edit your new badge into your tracker!

We're going to be keeping everyone updated with a specific slack channel this year where we can announce check-ins, blitz weekends, and reach out to each other for threads to help meet goals!

Please join #ultimate-pat on slack to stay involved. :)

UPAT BLITZ WEEKEND SCHEDULE 2023:

jan 28th - 29th
feb 25th - 26th
march 25th - 26th
april 29th - 30th
may 27th - 28th
june 24th - 25th
july 29th - 30th
aug 26th - 27th
sep 30th - oct 1st
oct 28th - 29th
nov 25th - 26th
dec - ratmas!


SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!
SIGN UP... NOW! 💪

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january:
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october:
november:
december:

2023 total WC:

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the Ultimate Post a Thon 2023 is hosted by these baddies:
ryan , ✨ zozo. , gamemaker kelsier
( header/badges also by ele )