Review of the Week hub

Review of the Week is this thing were someone reads all the reviews posted here in the span of a week and then picks their favourite three. Long ago, back in the way before, it used to be a staple program of the site but interest and participation waned and it stopped for a few years. We bought it back mid 2016 because we hate free time.

We even have a brand new rota in place for 2020. First off, thanks again to previous alumni, Nightfire and Jerec for being part of the OG panel, without whom RotW would have never made it out of the blocks. This year's casualty is Joe, who's gone off to have another kid and give up on sleep entirely. He will be ably replaced by Masters, who knows a thing or two about writing reviews.



Look out for weekly topics appearing in the Contributor Zone section of the forums.

All rise for Site King!

2017: King EmP
2018: King Masters
2019: King Joe
2020: King EmP
2021: King EmP
2022: ???

Site king probably returns, giving active reviewers a chance to see their RotW placements turn into some league tabley. Everyone loves that mess. You will receive 3 points for a win, 2 for second and 1 for third. I'll keep a sometimes up to date league table somewhere around the forums on a haphazard timetable that makes no logical sense. This way, you can all track your progress throughout the year and marvel at my usually accurate maths skills.

Questions and comments and other nonsense goes below:

Obviously, this will be my year... even though database work will all but certainly consume most of my free time for the next few months yet. But I'm working toward particular goals, and making splendid progress, so I do plan to be a more active contributor of reviews in the year's second half in particular. Time will tell how that works out for me.

Thanks for stepping into the rotation, Masters!

Way I look at it, if I win every single week I have a review up for things, I will have a decent chance of overcoming how I'm usually submitting 20 or so reviews a year nowadays!

But every single non-win makes that goal more and more out of reach. So, technically, if I don't win it all, it's all the fault of the other three judges for holding me back and not letting me reach my potential. Twisted logic? Sure, but twisted logic is still logic!!!!

I was never winning anything this year with my feeble output. Let's see if this year a new challenger emerges. Speaking of which, I wonder what became of Freeman, and Hasty?

I think I may be ready to return to rotation. I've kind of settled into things right now (though I will warn you ahead of time that if I have an ROTW that falls on the week I move, it'll probably be late).

Which week are you moving in?

Anywhere's fine, even if only as an alternate.

Okay. How about, for now, you take Jason's slot until his move is done. After that, we'll either look into a five man rota or perhaps give one of the guys who have been doing this since day one a break.

Sounds good.

Working on ROTW. With the move and the site being down, I got sidetracked for a little bit. I'm also hopelessly drawn to Grandia, so that hasn't helped.

Might be Friday, might be next week for mine.

First busy week at work since the whole COVID thing started, so I'm busy with a project and, other than taking a bit of time to get caught up on message board responses, haven't been able to do much besides that, whether it be RotW, the three reviews I could be writing or, uh, whatever else I do that isn't work while at work.

ROTW will be up tomorrow. Sorry for the lateness.

Outstanding weeks for 2020 are as follows:

42: MARC - 12th -18th OCT
46: MARC - 9th - 15th NOV
50: MARC - 7th - 13th DEC
52: OD 21th December -- 27th December
53: JOE 28th December -- 3rd January

If Marc has no objections (can't imagine he would, unless he's just about finished working on it) I don't mind picking up one of his weeks. I can do the October or November week. Not December, I'm in that one.

Never mind :D

Still working on Dec 28 - Jan 3. Hope to have it up soonish.

I obviously didn't see this before now. Thanks for offering to help, Jerec. I finally got to work and churned out all three topics in basically one day.

I've begun work on Jan 4 - 10. I will hopefully have it up around Tues-Thurs.

I'm more than halfway through Jan 4-10. Will finish tonight (I just need to finish Dagoss' review, then read Rob's and I'm done).

I'll do FEB 22nd - 28th next.

I am beginning work on ROTW Feb 1-7. I intended to start yesterday, but that pesky overtime crept up again.

Mine will likely be out tomorrow. Have a work project that needs to be finished this week, so that's set me a bit back as far as "typing other things" goes.

Just letting you know I'm aware I have a topic due. I've worked a little on it, and I should hopefully have it done soon.

My goal is not to add to the current streak of "Me fail to do RotW? That's unpossible!" we have going on, but I'll be busy as hell this week, so it's up in the air whether it'll be done, say, tomorrow; or if it'll be next week. I don't know, you don't know, nobody knows!

I thought I could probably limp through this, but it doesn't seem to be happening. The less I type, the better chance this mess will resolve itself so I'm going to have to drop out of the RotW rota for now.

I'm going to see which weeks have gaps and try ro hit them some time this week or weekend.