Fortnight Grading & Challenges
Fortnights now include two new player-facing features: automatic grading after you submit, and a built-in challenge option when you believe an answer was ruled incorrectly. This page explains how both features look and work.
What happens right after you submit?
After you submit your answers for the day, the site takes you to a grading screen while your five answers are scored. That screen updates automatically as each answer is processed, then continues on its own once grading is complete.
Grading your answers
Please wait while we score this day's matchup.
You do not need to refresh the page while grading runs.
What you see once grading is complete
Once the grading screen finishes, each question shows your submitted answer, whether it counted, and the correct answer.
- Your Answer: The exact text you submitted for that day's question.
- Correct / Incorrect: The grading result attached to your answer.
- Correct Answer: The official answer revealed after grading.
- Category: The sport/category shown on the card for quick scanning.
Question #4380
Name the NBA star who began as a legend at Farragut Career Academy, then built a 21-year NBA career while carrying a nickname suggesting premium admission.
How challenges work
If one of your answers is marked incorrect and you believe the ruling should be changed, use the Challenge Grading button on that question. You can do that immediately after grading finishes or later from the matchup result page, as long as the challenge window for that day is still open.
A challenge is tied to the answer you actually submitted. It is not a chance to replace an answer after the deadline. It is only for asking staff to review whether your original response should have counted.
Challenge pending review
The challenge has been filed and is waiting for a staff decision. Until that review happens, the original result still appears on the question.
Challenge Reviewed
After the review is complete, the pending badge changes to Challenge Reviewed. If staff leave an explanation, it appears directly below your answer on the question card.
Example of a reviewed Fortnight challenge
Important things to remember
- You do not need to stay on the grading screen forever; the page will advance automatically once scoring is done.
- A challenge does not instantly change the result. It first moves to a pending state, then updates after review.
- Because they involve a manual review that may take some time, you will receive an email with the outcome when your challenge is reviewed.
- You should also receive an email if one of your graded answers is updated because another player successfully challenged the same answer.