| What are the Teams about? |
The Teams are set up by the Webmaster and serve as a replacement for the State Competition for getting the most Pumpkin Points in past years. Each Hunter is assigned to a team upon first registering on the website; the assignment is made on an as needed basis to keep the number of team members per team even. Each time a Hunter earns Pumpkin Points, they are added to their assigned Team's Point total. The Team with the most points at the end of the Season, will get the Pumpkin Power trophy - - An award for each Team member profile and the trophy for the Team profile.
Once again in 2009, the Teams will play against each other in matches. Each match result will be recorded in the team's win-loss record for determining the teams who face off in a championship match.
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| I want to be on a specific team, can I change teams? |
| When you first register, you have the oppotunity to request the team you wish to be on. In years past, the request is granted only other teams are not in need of members. THIS YEAR (2009), YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE ASSIGNED TO THE TEAM YOU WANT!! (So start recruiting new members for your team!) Once registered, if you want to be on another team, you can make a request to the Webmaster or your Team Captain to change teams. Team Captains cannot change teams. |
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| Can I start my own team? |
| Teams are started by the PHA inner circle. Other Hunters can request to create their own team next year once they have attained a rank of Pumpkin Finder. A new team can only be created if the requestor has at least three hunters willing to join that team on the spot in the following season. Potential Team Captains should e-mail the Webmaster their request to create a team; the request must include a creative team name and an idea for a team logo. The team will be created when the three hunters requests to join the new team is received by the Webmaster. |
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| Where do my points go if I join another team? |
| Pumpkin Points earned for a Team, stay with the Team. Each Pumpkin Point earned stick with the team the hunter was assigned to at the time the point was earned. Keep that in mind before you think about joining a new team, you will then end up possibly playing against yourself. |
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| How do I earn Pumpkin Points? |
Pumpkin points are earned by doing certain things on this website. They are only earned by registered Hunters logged in. You earn points for your profile by:
- having a submitted count a jack-o-lanterns verfied (ranged 5 - 50,000 points depending on the time of season).
- having a picture of a Jack-o-Lantern put into the Hall-o-fame (100,000 points).
- Playing Pumpkin Hunt - The Game (1 Pumpkin Point per 1 Game Point)
The only Pumpkin points that will count for your team are the Hallo-Fame points and Game Points.
In the past years, counted jack-o-lanterns added to Team points but this was determined to be a bad practice because of the subjective, on-your-honor system for verified jack-o-lanterns. So the points earned from jack-o-lanterns will not count for the team. |
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| So then, the Pumpkin Points earned by Pumpkin Hunting don't go to the Teams anymore, like they did in the past? |
| That's right. Pumpkin Hunting is the main cause of this site and organization, but we all felt that basing the team points competition on a subjective 'hard-to-verify' thing like awarding team points to for pumpkins found wasn't profoundly fair to those playing the game. Pumpkin points for finding pumpkins will still be awarded to improve your rank and may help decide Top Hunter, but they will not effect the teams points anymore. |
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| I'm a Team Captain and I want to add or drop members of my team or trade with another team, can I do this? |
Yes, you can do this. Captains will be able to manage their team from the Forum menu to handle Drops and Adds. The webmaster is trying to get the tools in place to allow the Team Captains to do trades their own. But until that is done, all requests for trades will need to be handled by The Admin. Both team captains must contact The Admin via private message with the same terms, it will then be honored and executed. However, it will not be retroactive for the time the request is agreed upon... only when the Admin gets around to making the change happen. And remember, the points earned by the player will remain on the Team they earned them for. A trade deadline of Oct 20 will be observed as well, no transactions will be made after those dates.
Feel free to trade for whatever you want, a player for two players, a player for pumpkin points, whatever you both can agree on. |
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| Team Match play? What is this? Are the teams playing each other now? |
Yes! This is something we are doing again since it was a hit in 2008. The PHA Inner circle wanted to have a fair competition for the teams where team members could match up agaist each other while playing Pumpkin Hunt - The Game. Unlike the Top Team points competition where the teams get points for how often they play, the teams will score points in matches based on how well they play.
The basic rules for match play are listed here:Official Team Match Rules. |
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