What is Nerd Wars? It's a 3 month long crafting tournament, in knitting, crocheting, weaving and spinning on Ravelry. You sign up for a team (Team Rangers here! - from Babylon 5) and each team earns points by making something that will answer to one of 6 monthly challenges.You don't have to do all 6, or any, it's for fun and enjoyment. If you can tie your project with your team, you get extra points.
On top of that, you can opt to do dissertation - 3 month long project that will bring lots of points if finished, and even half finished half the points...
Here's the list of categories:
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Category Descriptions
The samples listed below with each of the categories are for demonstrative purposes only, to give a general idea of the type of challenges that may be issued. Actual challenges will be more detailed.
Giving Geeks
This category focuses on challenges that benefit charities, community-building, and other local outreach. This is the only challenge category that will not necessarily require a crafting project.
Past Challenges:
Scientific
This category focuses on challenges of scientific knowledge.
Past Challenges:
Nerd Culture
This category focuses on challenges of demonstration of the culture of geekiness - what it is to be a nerd, and the shared experiences of those who consider themselves dorks.
Past Challenges:
Intellectual
This category focuses on challenges of demonstration of intellectual abilities. This is where cleverness shines.
Past Challenges:
Technical
This category focuses on challenges of technical ability. Show off your mad skillz.
Past Challenges:
Team Spirit
This category focuses on challenges of showing one’s devotion to their team’s geekiness.
Past Challenges:
The samples listed below with each of the categories are for demonstrative purposes only, to give a general idea of the type of challenges that may be issued. Actual challenges will be more detailed.
Giving Geeks
This category focuses on challenges that benefit charities, community-building, and other local outreach. This is the only challenge category that will not necessarily require a crafting project.
Past Challenges:
- Donate mittens to a mitten tree, donation center, or charity
- Finish a WIP for someone who no longer can, through age, injury, etc.
- Help the victims of the Japanese earthquake and Pacific tsunami through donation of money, FOs, or other means
- Donate a new baby item to a local organization that distributes such items to families
- Do something for an animal to make that animal’s life better
- Donate something that will bring a bit of comfort (and hopefully joy) to an older person or to a nursing home, assisted living home, similar facility or an organization local to you that accepts and distributes such items to the residents of such facilities
Scientific
This category focuses on challenges of scientific knowledge.
Past Challenges:
- Craft something inspired by or resembling a nebula
- Craft something inspired by capillary action
- Craft something inspired by the environment and creatures of the deep sea
- Craft something inspired by lightening or electricity
- Utilize the Scientific Method to explore your craft
- Create something that incorporates waves as a mathematical model or a natural phenomenon
Nerd Culture
This category focuses on challenges of demonstration of the culture of geekiness - what it is to be a nerd, and the shared experiences of those who consider themselves dorks.
Past Challenges:
- Craft something that would be appropriate for a convention
- Let your nerd flag fly proudly by crafting in public or yarnbombing a public place
- Craft something related to books, the calling card of the nerd.
- Craft something inspired by your favorite YouTube video.
- Craft something representing a Nerd Wars team other than your own.
- Craft something reminiscent of “the good old days” of your fandom.
Intellectual
This category focuses on challenges of demonstration of intellectual abilities. This is where cleverness shines.
Past Challenges:
- Complete a project utilizing prime numbers
- Inspired by an Anglo-Saxon riddle, craft a literal or metaphoric shield
- Craft something inspired by or utilizing pi
- Craft something which illustrates or is inspired by a proverb or adage
- Craft something which illustrates or is inspired by a myth
- Finish your WIPs
Technical
This category focuses on challenges of technical ability. Show off your mad skillz.
Past Challenges:
- Inspired by ionic bonding, craft something using two different fibers
- Complete a project that uses more than one craft
- Using the same pattern, create something at two different scales of size
- Craft a three dimensional item
- Seek out and find new materials to use as yarn
- Craft a project which exhibits a technique you feel is your guilty pleasure
Team Spirit
This category focuses on challenges of showing one’s devotion to their team’s geekiness.
Past Challenges:
- Craft a valentine for a character in your nerddom
- Craft a creature from your nerddom
- Inspired by fools and tricksters in your nerddom, finish your WIPs
- Demonstrate what you love about your geekery
- Craft an item for or inspired by a villain
- Craft an item inspired by a tool or invention
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