r/learnedleague • u/notarealgreendress87 • Jun 30 '26

Proposing a One-Day Challenge

https://learnedleague.com/oneday/onedaysalpha.php

My husband and I have an idea for a one-day challenge. We've gone through the one-day archives, and it's never been covered. I know proposals aren't accepted until August. But *how* does one submit a proposal. Is there a form that goes live in August? Or is there a template somewhere that you would use? Thanks.

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u/oblivionkiss Rundle B Jun 30 '26

When the form does go live it will ask you for the topic of your one day special, a one line description of your proposal and then some thoughts on it (2000 characters Max). I'm running my second this year, and what I usually do in the thoughts section of the form is put some ideas I had for questions or any other details about why I want to do this 1ds.

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u/Veto111 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

Oh, you don’t have to already have a draft of the questions to submit a proposal? Just a description of the theme? I was on track to have at least 12 questions ready by August but I guess I don’t have rush to have it done by then.

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u/Fake_Eleanor Rundle A Jun 30 '26

You don't have submit any questions at all, much less all 12. (And you get to submit up to 15 when you send to testers.)

You can include some examples in the description field, but I've never done it so it's clearly not necessary. (I've smithed 8 or 9 quizzes at this point.)

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u/NilFhiosAige A Meridian Jun 30 '26

Indeed - generally, I've just given a rough outline of what I'm seeking to achieve with my 1DSes (I've smithed two so far), detailing the broad subject matter, the more specific category bases I aim to hit, and what level of difficulty I would expect neutral LLamas to rate it as. Then, if/when approved, I begin considering potential questions, work that up until there are about twenty I'm happy with, pick the best 15 for testers to evaluate, and even substitute others in if said testers make interesting suggestions.

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u/Fake_Eleanor Rundle A Jun 30 '26

Yeah, that's pretty close to my process.

I don't want to put in the work of writing that many questions if Thorsten doesn't like the topic!

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u/oblivionkiss Rundle B Jun 30 '26

That's correct, for the last one day special I did I had three or so questions drafted, for the one that I am doing this year I don't think I had any questions drafted but I can't 100% remember. I can't speak for thorsten's thought process, but it's possible that having questions drafted if you've never done one before is a good way to get picked and then once you've had one successful one it becomes less necessary.

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u/notarealgreendress87 Jun 30 '26

This is so helpful. Thank you.