November 2020 Recap

Events

Week 1

House Apis fell at a total of 35,359 words

Siobhan the Writer and Cryssalia became the first two to complete NaNoWriMo

Game of Tomes participants wrote 406,076 words in the first elimination period

Week 2

House Meles fell at a total of 86,557 words

CoffeeQuills completed NaNoWriMo

Game of Tomes participants wrote 339,119 words in the second elimination period

House Chiroptera fell at a total of 187,601 words

Game of Tomes participants wrote 382,698 words in the third elimination period

Game of Tomes participants achieved 1 million words written!

Week 3

House Lapin, House Avis and House Mollusca had a bidding war over WriterGreg's words with bits - Kitoypoy and RPGDinosaurBob poured bits in, and Bob achieved victory for House Avis

House Avis fell at a total of 312,213 words

SunnyL wrote 80k words in the fourth elimination round

Game of Tomes participants wrote 422,600 words in the fourth elimination period

Eiliagh completed their second NaNoWriMo in a single month. This was their first time winning NaNoWriMo

Sable Aradia completed NaNoWriMo

Week 4

Eiliagh completed 3 NaNoWriMos in a single month

Game of Tomes participants wrote 342,274 words in the fifth elimination period

House Lapin fell at a total of 494,222 words

Game of Tomes participants wrote 367,800 words in the final stretch

The Game of Tomes participants achieved a total of 2 million words written!

WriterGreg did a 24 hour charity stream for Kids Need to Read

WriterGreg hosted a 24 hour charity stream event at the end of the Game of Tomes 2020, featuring a number of guest worldbuilders, including many Tome Knights and major and minor house leaders! You can see the whole playlist of those features at this link!

The Undead Horde lost at a total of 364,143 words

House Mollusca won the Game of Tomes

Aftermath

The event was not without its problems. Scoring for the Undead Horde turned out to be inadequate, and was revisited in 2021. Demand for streams, and opportunities to stream the event, forced the organizers to create a 24 hour streaming event calendar on the fly, so it was resolved that in 2021, this would be done beforehand. Also, the viewership of the ASC writing streamers was increased, but the viewership of the ASC RPG streamers fell. It was decided that something should be done to focus the same kind of promotional effort on the RPG streamers on another occasion, and an event would be created to celebrate them in spring of 2021.   However, the success of Game of Tomes 2020 far exceeded expectations. It brought new people into the community, and created lasting loyalty to the event in many of the participants. It also brought many disparate writing groups on Twitch together, including the ASC, the Twitch Writers' Network, and the 4theWords community. Several Tome Knights reported record totals in their word counts, and several others reported completing NaNoWriMo when they never had. The organizers, by popular demand, resolved that it would become an annual event.   Game of Tomes was so successful that, by popular demand, a "Game of Tomes Lite" event for Camp NaNoWriMo, the Game of Tomes Tourney of Tales, was created for April and July in 2021, with intentions of making them annual events as well.   From the cooperation born of Game of Tomes, writers and streamers from the ASC, the Twitch Writers' Network, the 4theWords community, and the 31 Days 31 Stories community, came together to create Writers' CONduit, a streamed writers' conference to take place on Twitch at the end of June 2021.