Runway Rally

### **Runway Rally: Intro**

Joining a Fashion House not only allows you to borrow from FH members, it also allows you to participate in Runway Rallies to win prizes. Rally prizes come in different sizes and can be won by completing a specific number challenges to fill in the pieces on the monthly prize board. The number of challenges you need to enter for a rally depends on your FH's rally style (or mode). Meeting the required number of challenge goals depends on the total score of your participating FH members for each rally challenge. Calculations for the required total score can be a bit complex ... so let's save that for last.

### **Prizes and Rally Style (Classic/Fancy/Fierce)**

**Prizes:**

Rally prizes come in three sizes or "Prize Bags" -- Small, Medium, and Grand. The most coveted prizes are the Grand prizes, usually Hair Accessories, expensive jewellery, expensive clothing, and 2000 diamond bundles. Medium and Small prizes are usually clothing items, smaller diamond and Covet cash bundles, and less expensive jewellery and accessories.

**Prize Boards:**

The Runway Rally prize board can be accessed from the Social tab on your main Covet dashboard. You'll see "Runway Rally" between "About" and "Chat."

The board will re-set on the first of every month, with a new set of prizes available. You can view the prizes either by tapping on the prize board or by scrolling down to "View Prizes" on the Runway Rally home screen. Every time you meet a House challenge goal, a random piece of the puzzle board will be awarded. If your total FH score is high enough, you may earn more than one puzzle piece on the challenge. When you've completed the number of challenges required in your FH rally, you may also be awarded an additional number of pieces. Three consecutive, vertical pieces on the left of the board equals a Small prize bag; the block of six pieces just left of center equals a Medium prize bag; and the square of nine pieces making up the right half of the board equals a Grand prize. Note that being awarded a puzzle piece does NOT guarantee that you'll receive a *new* puzzle piece each time! The pieces you'll receive are randomly generated. Inevitably, you'll receive multiple copies of the same puzzle pieces, so you'll need to achieve more than the 18 pieces shown, and It will normally take your FH at least a few rallies to complete the board puzzle.

If you successfully complete enough rallies to win all the prizes available that month, your FH has "cleared the board."

**Rallies:**

The number of challenges you'll need to enter depends on your FH's rally style: Classic, Fancy or Fierce. You can think of these like difficulty settings: Easy, Medium, Hard. The difference between the three modes will be the number of challenges that need to be entered for each rally, and the combined total House score needed to win each challenge.

if your FH rallies on **Classic** mode, you'll need to meet the total House score required on each of **9** challenges. If you meet all nine, you'll receive **7** additional board pieces, over and above any puzzle pieces earned for each challenge.

If your FH rallies on **Fancy** mode, you'll need to win **10** challenges, and you'll receive **18** additional board pieces if you do.

If your FH rallies on **Fierce** mode, you'll need to win **11** challenges, and you'll receive **35** pieces.

### **Rally FAQ**

**Can my FH change rally mode?**

Yes. Your Head of House (HoH) can set the rally style for each rally. Note that every member must adhere to the style set by the HoH. In practicality, many FH's rally primarily or exclusively on only one style, and advertise it when recruiting, as well as clearly letting new members know what rally style is expected.

**If my FH rallies on Fierce, will I need to do at least one Flashback challenge?**

Depends on House rules. Some FH's do not require newer or LCV members to do a Flashback challenge; this means that if you don't, you'll be entering 10 of the required 11 challenges, and more experienced and/or HCV players will need to enter the eleventh instead. Some FH's require that all members enter at least one Flashback. Ask if you're not sure.

**What if I can't participate in my FH's rally?**

The total required House score for each challenge is calculated based on the number of participating House members. This is why it's CRITICAL that you "toggle OFF" if you can't participate in the rally because you're going on vacation, taking a break from Covet, or just not doing the rally. If you don't do the challenges and you don't toggle off, the score your House needs to achieve will be higher and the FH's chance of winning that challenge is compromised. Even if you miss one challenge on Fierce mode, it could cost your FH the bonus 35 pieces for that entire rally. Moral of the story: remember that toggle button!

PRO TIP: Note that many FH members also toggle on and off for alternate rallies in order to save Covet cash and diamonds for the next rally. **BUT** - this is important! - if you toggle off for two rallies in a row, **you won't receive any prizes** won by your FH during those rallies!

**What is the calculation for the required total House score on challenges?**

Ok, so this is the tricky bit. Rather than clutter up this already rather full Runway Rally page, we suggest having a look at the Runway Rally Challenge calculations sheet in the reference library section of this site, here.

July 2020