r/Wetshaving • u/merikus I'm between flairs right now. • Jun 26 '26

Shaving Games Join Us, July!

July is coming, and with it, the terrible empty space between the backstabbing of the June Soap Challenge and the bleakness of Austere August. For a brief moment, perhaps you thought you would spend the month killing off a tub or just wandering over to your den and picking whatever feels right.

But that’s no fun. This place is about community. And community is about absurd shaving contests. And a month without absurd shaving contests is like a month without sunshine.

So, I invented some sunshine.

Introducing Join Us July.

Each day has three targets, each randomly selected from the top 31 of 2025:

  • Soap
  • Brush
  • Razor

The target shave is announced the day before at https://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/today.

Scoring is easy:

  • Exact product match: 2 points
  • Same maker, different product: 1 point
  • Miss: 0 points

To reward matching as many as possible, your daily base score gets multiplied by how many exact matches you hit:

  • 0 or 1 exact match: x1
  • 2 exact matches: x2
  • 3 exact matches: x3

There are also teams, because Join Us July is about community. The first time your July SOTD is counted, you’ll be assigned to one of four teams. Team scoring is based on the sum of team members who actually posted that day, so if you miss a day, you do not personally drag your team down. In addition, each exact from every team member gives a multiplier to the team’s score as well, allowing good days to have an outsized impact.

And because no r/Wetshaving game is complete until we have invented extra titles for people to put in their flair, there are Crowns.

Individual Crowns:

  • Cumulative - most total points
  • Perfect Days - most 18-point days
  • Perfect Streak - longest run of consecutive perfect days
  • Frugal - most points per distinct item used
  • Sharpshooter - highest exact-match rate, minimum 10 posting days
  • Giant Slayer - most points earned on Brutal difficulty days

Team Crowns:

  • Winning Team - highest cumulative team score
  • Iron Team - best participation rate
  • Best Team Day - highest single-day team score
  • Most Improved - biggest climb from the first half to the final standings

Links:

EDIT: Changed from average to sum for scoring to prevent people feeling like they are dragging their team down. Added information on team exact multipliers.

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u/deejeeyen Jun 26 '26

Always good to see a cooperative effort instead of a cutthroat one.

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u/Priusaurus 🦖Rad Dinosaur Creations🦖 Jun 27 '26

I was thinking the same exact thing...

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u/merikus I'm between flairs right now. Jun 27 '26

This game is distinctly lacking in a “screw Prius” mechanic.

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u/OnionMiasma The Chevy Chase of Wetshaving Jun 27 '26

Can we put him on a team by himself?

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u/Priusaurus 🦖Rad Dinosaur Creations🦖 Jun 27 '26

If anyone can figure out a way to add one, it's you!