Category: Challenges

11/5/13

Week Two: Head Thinker Challenge

HouseAuthors, please enter the Challenge Tower to begin the Head Thinker Challenge. Your Ideal this week is: Female Equality/Societal Views of Women.

As was done last week, our expert team of literary researchers have determined which HouseAuthors are most capable of performing well in this challenge are: Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, Christina Rossetti, Juana Inés de la Cruz, Rabindranath Tagore, and Virginia Woolf. Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, and Lu Xun are banned from competing this week. Furthermore, this debate shall be done in three stages. In the first round, three groups of two HouseAuthors will put forth a line from one of their texts that they feel best describes their attitudes towards women. I will judge their submissions and choose the winners from each pair. The winners of that round will move on to an instant elimination round, with each of the three remaining HouseAuthors voting to eliminate one of the other two competitors. There will be no tiebreaker, so some agreement must be reached before the challenge can continue. In the third and final round, the last two HouseAuthors will debate one another, and I will again choose a winner.

LET THE DEBATE BEGIN!!!

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10/31/13

Week One: Power of Reason Challenge

HouseAuthors, for this week’s Power of Reason Challenge, we are going to play a little game of luck. As you may have noticed, you are all together in one empty room. Before you are ten doors. Nine of them lead into a room similar to this one, but one door will contain a book filled with scientific advancements that are unparalleled to the societies you originally come from, and a book of matches. For the nine of you who choose the doors leading into the next room, you are safe, and get to move onto the next room. The unlucky HouseGuest who chooses the one door is eliminated from the challenge, and must signal their defeat by burning the book. The next rounds will work in a similar fashion, until only one HouseAuthor remains, and can then claim the Golden Cross – the symbol of Power of Reason in this game.

If you truly believe in free will, and not the relative comfort of predestination, then surely you will win this challenge. That is, unless your beliefs are misguided? The best of luck to you all!

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10/29/13

Week One: Head Thinker Challenge – Results

I’m afraid our competing HouseAuthors may have missed the mark on the Ideal they were supposed to debate upon… Social Mobility is a wonderful thing! There’s nothing wrong with having a drive set to working your way up the career ladder, and frankly, I’m a bit insulted that all three HouseAuthors believe that only sadness and death can come from it. If I could, I would refuse to grant one of them the title of Head Thinker and instead decapitate all three of them, but our producers insist upon following the rules.

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10/29/13

Week One: Head Thinker Challenge – Debate

HouseAuthors, please enter the Challenge Tower to begin the Head Thinker Challenge. Your Ideal this week is: Predestination & Social Mobility. But first a twist!

Our team of literary researchers have analyzed your writings and have determined that only Herman Melville, Leo Tolstoy, and Franz Kafka deem this esteemed Enlightenment Ideal to be worthy of discussion within their texts. As such, it would be pointless and unentertaining for our viewers to endure the ordeal of sitting through the seven other HouseAuthors debating a topic they clearly don’t care about! Therefore, only Mr.’s Melville, Tolstoy, and Kafka will be eligible to compete in today’s challenge. We’re sorry for this inconvenience, but our logic does seem reasonable, no?

LET THE DEBATE BEGIN!!!

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