Posted April 2 (edited) Welcome to the 20-Week Breeding Challenge: 2024 edition! Sign-ups are open! This will be our 5th year, I believe, although last year saw an abbreviated version. But we are back with a full 20 weeks this year! I know some people have participated in the past and have been eagerly awaiting this year's event. For those of you who are not familiar with the Challenge, keep reading! What is the Challenge, you ask? Starting Sunday, May 5, 2024, we will be competing to see who can create the longest lineage (with a cohesive pattern) in a 20-week time period. The challenge will end on September 21, 2024. Why 20 weeks? It seems a good length of time to build a fairly long lineage while still being able to keep people interested and engaged. It allows us to finish before the holiday breeding madness begins. It's a nice round number! Why should you participate in the challenge? Good Question! First of all because it is FUN! Also – PRIZES! Every member who joins this project, will be offering a prize (sort of like a poker pot) at the end of this project. The plan is for everyone who finishes the challenge to win a prize. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners will get to pick their prizes from the pot first. The rest of the prizes will be randomly distributed to the remaining finishers. Rules (because we do need rules!): All lineages must be some form of stair or spiral format. Examples: Stair, Single Step Spiral, Double Step Spiral, and so on. One of the base starting dragons MUST have a "Stolen on" date of May 5, 2024 or later. The other dragon (its mate) may be a previously existing CB dragon. The last dragon in your line must have a “Laid on” date of September 21, 2024 or earlier in order to be counted. You must create a public group for all dragons produced/used in the project. All dragons in the final lineage must be on your scroll and in your group at the end of the Challenge. Inbreeding will be allowed. At the end of the challenge each player will be asked to contribute one prize. It can be an offspring of your challenge lineage, or anything else you choose. Forms (because we need those, too!): To Join: ~~~~~~~~ A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): Forum Name: Today's Date: Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : Challenge Group Link (required): Goal (Plan for your lineage): Note: You do not need to select your starter dragon, yet. You can enter "TBA" for now and then announce your starter dragon when the Challenge begins. Reporting your lineage growth (Ideally to be posted each time you breed a new dragon for your lineage - your dragon will not be added to the standings until it is reported here): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Lineage gets longer! Proof (link to egg's lineage): What Gen are you on now?: Prize offering (At the end of the challenge): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I would like to offer a prize! Lineage Link to Egg: OR Description of What You'll Breed/Have Bred: Edited April 2 by purplehaze Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) Participants: Name | Scroll | Group 04uni | Scroll | Group BlueCanary1 | Scroll | Group BringsTheSnow | Scroll | Group Ceylanka | Scroll | Group dinsfire24 | Scroll | Group dracornithologist | Scroll | Group Edenello | Scroll | Group End_Dragon | Scroll | Group euphoric_poptarts |____| Group Frayed | Scroll | Group Frej_the_Gold | Scroll | Group Fuzzbucket | Scroll | Group Gwathgor | Scroll | Group LadyMadonna | Scroll | Group Lagie | Scroll | Group missy_ | Scroll | Group Mistywolf3628 | Scroll | Group purplehaze | Scroll | Group rinoa26 | Scroll | Group Saintley | Scroll | Group simkim | Scroll | Group trystan | Scroll | Group Zonnedauw | Scroll | Group Edited April 17 by purplehaze Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) Standings: Week 1 standings: Name | generation | rank Edited April 2 by purplehaze Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) Reserved for prizes offered at the end of the challenge! Prizes offered: Edited April 2 by purplehaze Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) Ooo I've been waiting for this! Time to figure out the dragon I'll be using and start collecting A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): https://dragcave.net/user/Edenello Forum Name: Edenello Today's Date: 4/2/24 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : TBA Challenge Group Link (required): https://dragcave.net/group/262957-20-week-breeding-2024 Goal (Plan for your lineage): I'm currently planning on a PB triple-step spiral with Vreyma drakes; it will (hopefully!) be a lyrical lineage for Linkin Park's "Waiting for the End" Edited April 2 by Edenello added dragon type Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): https://dragcave.net/user/Frej_the_Gold Forum Name: Frej_the_Gold Today's Date: 2024-04-02 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : TBA @purplehaze Can the May 5th starter dragon be Market bought? Challenge Group Link (required): https://dragcave.net/group/262961-20-week-breeding-challenge-2024 Goal (Plan for your lineage): Joining usefulness to fun, I'm planning a Purple (m) X Kingcrowne (f) stair. I haven't decided on a naming theme yet. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) A New Challenger Enters! Forum Name: euphoric_poptarts Today's Date: April 2nd, 2024 Starter Dragon: TBA, depending on whichever I find first Challenge Group Link: https://dragcave.net/group/262962-1--20-week-breeding Goal: A different female every time, but the same male. Upward staircase with Delta (Small)s and Kyanite Pygmies (see below for concept). Spoiler May end up playing around with the Delta's size change (ex. alternating big and small), but not currently planning to. Since inbreeding is allowed, I wanted to play around with lines I wouldn't otherwise make. I'm hoping that, since Deltas are so easy to get and Kyanites are the highest priced pygmy in the market, I won't have to worry about wrong breed eggs .-. Edited April 3 by euphoric_poptarts Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 1 hour ago, Frej_the_Gold said: Can the May 5th starter dragon be Market bought? Absolutely! Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) yay! 🎊 🎉 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional):https://dragcave.net/user/trystan830 Forum Name: trystan Today's Date: 4/2/2024 Starter Dragon: TBA, will try to snag/buy on the morning of May 5th Challenge Group Link (required): Which are the Poetry of Heaven Goal (Plan for your lineage): kinda like future Alzirr or Trystan. Each male and female spoke of the spiral will 'match' and this time i'll be using Antareans, Elux Lucis, Nebulas, and Sonatas (blue and silver*). Offspring is offspring - it's the 'pairs of parents' in the spiral. *anyone know when the DC eclipse is? (the 'DC Calendar Tools' link in my sig suggests the end of May. what do we think?) Edited April 2 by trystan Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link: dracornithologist Forum Name: dracornithologist Today's Date: 2024-4-2 Starter Dragon: TBA Challenge Group Link: 2024 20 Week Lineage Challenge Goal: Triple Step Spiral involving Red dragons of some kind ... TBD if naming will be fun vibe or more of a serious one! Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): https://dragcave.net/user/BringsTheSnow Forum Name: BringsTheSnow Today's Date: April 2, 2024 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : TBD Challenge Group Link (required): https://dragcave.net/group/262983-snows-20-week-challenge-24 Goal (Plan for your lineage): To be determined! Maybe something with Deltas? 2 hours ago, trystan said: *anyone know when the DC eclipse is? (the 'DC Calendar Tools' link in my sig suggests the end of May. what do we think?) By my count, it should be an eclipse in 24 days. That would put it at April 26th. This is, of course, if I can count and add properly. I have been corrected elsewhere- looks like Trystan was right the first time and the expected Eclipse day is May 28th! Edited April 2 by BringsTheSnow Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 57 minutes ago, BringsTheSnow said: By my count, it should be an eclipse in 24 days. That would put it at April 26th. ooh, thanks! sooner that originally thought! I'll keep stalking the forums and discords, so I won't miss it Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): https://dragcave.net/user/zonnedauw Forum Name: Zonnedauw Today's Date: 2nd of April, 2024 Starter Dragon (link and name if named) : TBA Challenge Group Link (required): https://dragcave.net/group/262985-20-week-breeding-challenge-2024 Goal (Plan for your lineage): TBD but something in rainbow colors probably Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) 10 minutes ago, trystan said: ooh, thanks! sooner that originally thought! I'll keep stalking the forums and discords, so I won't miss it I just got confirmation that you were right the first time and the actual Eclipse day is Approximately May 28th. Edited April 2 by BringsTheSnow Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 (edited) 2 hours ago, BringsTheSnow said: I just got confirmation that you were right the first time and the actual Eclipse day is Approximately May 28th. ah, okay, thanks. the link i used is a page that 42 (i think) put together. I'll still be on the lookout for the eclipse on the forum anyway! Edited April 2 by trystan Share this post Link to post
Posted April 2 Oooh - been meaning to give this some thought for weeks . . . but, life . . . Will definitely be entering, just have to decide what . . . Share this post Link to post
Posted April 3 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): https://dragcave.net/user/Lagie Forum Name: Lagie Today's Date: April 2, 2024 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : To be determined... Challenge Group Link (required): https://dragcave.net/group/263000-20-week-challenge-2024 Goal (Plan for your lineage): Spiral or possibly stairstep, I'm thinking at the moment with hooded murklings. This may change. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 3 New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link: I be here Forum Name: Fuzzbucket Today's Date: April 3 2024 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : TBD, Challenge Group Link: https://dragcave.net/group/263036-20-weeks-2024 Goal : Stairstep. I have messed up too many spirals.... In red, I think. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 3 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link: Here, or in my sig Forum Name: dinsfire24 Today's Date: April 3rd, 2024 Starter Dragon: TBD Challenge Group Link: Blackened Chasms Goal: Not sure yet. Possibly a Deep Sea spiral, or one with Bleeding Moons? Share this post Link to post
Posted April 5 Oooh I've been waiting for sign ups for this! A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link: Here Forum Name: Saintley Today's Date: 4/4/24 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : TBA Challenge Group Link (required): 20-Week Challenge 2024 Goal (Plan for your lineage): Spiral with Black and Nebula Share this post Link to post
Posted April 6 Woohoo! It's back! I have no idea what I'm doing yet. Thank you for hosting, purplehaze A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link: https://dragcave.net/user/tarotlover Forum Name: missy_ Today's Date: April 5, 2024 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : TBA Challenge Group Link (required): 100-Day Challenge 2024 Goal (Plan for your lineage): TBD Share this post Link to post
Posted April 8 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): https://dragcave.net/user/04uni Forum Name: 04uni Today's Date: 4/8/24 Starter Dragon (link and name if named): TBA, will be a storm Challenge Group Link (required): https://dragcave.net/group/263833-and-then-rainbow Goal (Plan for your lineage): single step spiral rotating through colors in this order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple - no inbreeding and preferably no repeat breeds, although repeat breeds may end up happening Share this post Link to post
Posted April 8 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): https://dragcave.net/user/Gwathgor Forum Name: Gwathgor Today's Date: April 8, 2024 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ): TBA Challenge Group Link (required): https://dragcave.net/group/263849-challenge---20-weeks-2024 Goal (Plan for your lineage): Triple step spiral involving Astraels, still thinking about details Share this post Link to post
Posted April 8 A New Challenger Enters! Scroll Link (optional): My Scroll Forum Name: simkim Today's Date: April 8, 2024 Starter Dragon (link and name if named ) : TBA Challenge Group Link (required): Group Link Goal (Plan for your lineage): Planning on a stair with Guardians and Reds. Reds because they're the 19th standard NR in respect to May 5 being my 19th wedding anniversary. Guardians because my hubby used to be very protective of me. I miss him. Share this post Link to post
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