u/merikus

July is over. The scoring is done. 4,923 individual items. 98 players. 694 exact matches.

Team Standings

1. 🤢Team Prius🤮 — 6,244
2. Team GUTL — 5,022
3. Team Air Bud — 4,846
4. Team uNObTaNiUm — 2,969

At the halfway mark Prius and GUTL were twelve points apart. Twelve. We were so close. But then GUTL went all i sleep and Prius outscored them by more than a thousand points over the back half and that was the ballgame.

Air Bud nearly doubled their own first-half total in the second half, which is the biggest surge anyone put up all month. Which could have been exciting! But it wasn’t. It moved them exactly zero spots.

In fact, no team changed rank after day 15. That is why the Most Improved Team crown is going unawarded.

Team Crowns

Winning Team: Team Prius (6,244 points)

Iron Team: Team Prius (67.3% average daily participation)

Prius took both. Two thirds of that roster posted on an average day for 31 straight days, and that helped them win.

Best Team Day: Team Air Bud (663 points, July 23)

Fatboy, Omega Proraso Professional, and Seaforth! Roman Spice. Air Bud put up thirteen exacts in a single day and turned 51 member points into 663. That is the highest single day any team scored this year and it isn't even close.

Most Improved Team: Vacant. Nobody moved, as described above.

Individual Crowns

Cumulative: /u/Impressive_Donut114 (233 points)

31 days posted, 45 exacts, never in danger. Congratulations to the best player in Join Us July 2026!

Perfect Days: /u/Impressive_Donut114 (6)

Six days with an exact in all three categories. Second place had four.

Perfect Streak: /u/Impressive_Donut114 (1)

Twelve of you got one perfect day or more but no streaks. Donut wins the tiebreak on total perfect days.

Sharpshooter: /u/ChrisDaBombz (63.9% exact rate)

Only posted twelve days, which is two over the minimum to qualify, and hit an exact on nearly two out of every three items he put up. He did not show up often. When he did, he was not messing around.

Frugal: /u/ChrisDaBombz (3.75 points per item)

105 points out of 28 distinct items. Everyone above him on the leaderboard needed 60+ items to get there.

Giant Slayer: /u/Just_Bit2698 (56 points on Brutal days)

Seven Brutal days this month. Just_Bit2698 pulled twelve exacts out of those seven days. Nobody else was within thirteen points.

Top Ten

1. /u/Impressive_Donut114 (Prius) — 233
2. /u/sahenders (GUTL) — 211
3. /u/AdWorried2804 (Prius) — 199
4. /u/Confident_Media_4304 (Air Bud) — 178
5. /u/Just_Bit2698 (GUTL) — 151
6. /u/partyman97_3 (uNObTaNiUm) — 142
7. /u/snoo-ting (GUTL) — 138
8. /u/Environmental-Gap380 (Prius) — 127
9. /u/gcgallant (uNObTaNiUm) — 111
10. /u/ChrisDaBombz (GUTL) — 105

78 of the 98 signups put at least one point on the board.

Thanks to everyone who played. This was the first year for Join Us July and the whole thing basically ran itself, which was the point. Please let me know if you have any feedback!

Join Us July - July 29, 2026

Rank	+/-	Team	Score	Members	Participation
1	–	Team Prius	5867.0	21	0.675
2	–	Team GUTL	4719.0	22	0.581
3	–	Team Air Bud	4466.0	26	0.548
4	–	Team uNObTaNiUm	2733.0	26	0.446

Rank	+/-	Player	Score	Days	Exact Rate
1	–	u/Impressive_Donut114	209	28	0.488
2	–	u/AdWorried2804	193	28	0.536
3	–	u/sahenders	183	26	0.538
4	–	u/Confident_Media_4304	155	28	0.405
5	–	u/Just_Bit2698	141	28	0.369

Today’s target:

• Soap: House of Mammoth - Indigo (Medium)
• Brush: AP Shave Co - MiG (Hard)
• Razor: Tatara - Muramasa (Brutal)

Difficulty: Hard

Tomorrow’s target:

• Soap: Barrister and Mann - Roam Two (Easy)
• Brush: Stirling - 510SE-XL (Brutal)
• Razor: Rockwell - 6S (Hard)

Difficulty: Medium

Rules: https://reddit.com/r/Wetshaving/comments/1ugiwq0/join_us_july/

Overall Standings: http://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/leaderboard

You can ask questions here too.

Join Us July - July 22, 2026

Rank	+/-	Team	Score	Members	Participation
1	▲ 1	Team GUTL	3907.0	22	0.587
2	▼ 1	Team Prius	3766.0	21	0.683
3	–	Team Air Bud	2915.0	23	0.607
4	–	Team uNObTaNiUm	2038.0	23	0.491

Rank	+/-	Player	Score	Days	Exact Rate
1	–	u/Impressive_Donut114	145	21	0.444
2	–	u/sahenders	138	19	0.561
3	–	u/AdWorried2804	134	21	0.508
4	–	u/snoo-ting	106	21	0.413
5	–	u/Just_Bit2698	97	21	0.333

New team members since the previous day:

• Team uNObTaNiUm: u/OnionMiasma

Today’s target:

• Soap: Fanzine - Caravaggio (Brutal)
• Brush: West Coast Shaving - Synthetic (Brutal)
• Razor: Weck - Sextoblade (Hard)

Difficulty: Brutal

Tomorrow’s target:

• Soap: Spearhead - Seaforth! Roman Spice (Medium)
• Brush: Omega - Proraso Professional (Easy)
• Razor: Gillette - Fatboy (Easy)

Difficulty: Easy

Rules: https://reddit.com/r/Wetshaving/comments/1ugiwq0/join_us_july/

Overall Standings: http://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/leaderboard

Join Us July - July 15, 2026

Rank	+/-	Team	Score	Members	Participation
1	–	Team GUTL	2641.0	22	0.597
2	–	Team Prius	2375.0	21	0.697
3	▲ 1	Team Air Bud	1373.0	23	0.59
4	▼ 1	Team uNObTaNiUm	1271.0	19	0.571

Rank	+/-	Player	Score	Days	Exact Rate
1	–	u/Impressive_Donut114	103	14	0.452
2	–	u/sahenders	96	13	0.564
3	▼ 1	u/AdWorried2804	91	14	0.524
4	–	u/Just_Bit2698	66	14	0.333
5	–	u/ChrisDaBombz	65	8	0.625

New team members since the previous day:

• Team Air Bud: u/Tetriside
• Team uNObTaNiUm: u/RenegadeLamp

Today’s target:

• Soap: House of Mammoth - Kryptonite (Hard)
• Brush: Yaqi - Cashmere (Hard)
• Razor: Gillette - Tech (Easy)

Difficulty: Easy

Tomorrow’s target:

• Soap: Martin de Candre - Vetyver (Brutal)
• Brush: Rad Dinosaur Creations - Raptor (Hard)
• Razor: Above the Tie - S1 (Brutal)

Difficulty: Brutal

Rules: https://reddit.com/r/Wetshaving/comments/1ugiwq0/join_us_july/

Overall Standings: http://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/leaderboard

Quick heads-up on a change to how you log in to the Djudge Portal.

The old login used a bot that DM'd you a one-time code every time. That bot is gone. Dead. It kicked the bucket, shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible.

Due to this development, logins now work as follows:

• Ask an organizer for an invite (see below).
• You get a one-time link. Open it, pick a password, and add an email.
• From then on you just log in with your Reddit username + your password. No more begging a bot for a code.

That's it, set it once and done.

A few notes:

• Your account is tied to your Reddit username through the invite link I’ll send you, so scores/entries stay attached to you.
• The email is only used for password resets (forgot your password? you can reset it yourself now) and the occasional notification — no more relying on Reddit inbox DMs. We won't spam you.
• The invite link is single-use and expires, so redeem it when you get it.

While a login doesn’t really matter for Join Us July, it is essential for Lather Games appeals. Please sign up early so everything runs smoothly.

Comment below or shoot me a DM and I’ll send you a link.

It was a nailbiter ’til the end.

After Day 11, our top two contestants never fell out of the top three. Their battle continued to the end, until our second-place winner, /u/Just_Bit2968, suffered not one but two (count ‘em, two!) snipes to the head on the last day. One of the snipes was from veteran sniper /u/ChrisDaBombz, dropping some Bomb Drop - Dune Goblin on Day 30 that was Just_Bit’s Day 1 soap. /u/JoboozeRum then came in from the top rope for his very first snipe of the month with Soap Palooza - Hellbent Cherry.

At the end of the day, one stood alone.

Congratulations to /u/frankieIVfingers as the very first winner of the June Soap Challenge! Frankie won with a whopping 614 points, including 540 bonus points, after being sniped only three times.

There is no prize. I welcome you to change your flair to whatever you want, which you could have done anyway.

But Frankie isn’t the only one we need to celebrate. After spending the first part of the month comfortably in first place, /u/AdWorried2804 turned his precipitous drop into anger, spending the rest of the month blasting through the field and running away with 22 snipes. On the other side of the coin, along with helping lift Frankie to victory, /u/ChrisDaBombz also proved he had an eagle eye, coming away with the Zero win, with 9 zeros.

And, most importantly, /u/Priusarus lost! Thank you all for making that possible.

Thanks to everyone who played, to NDG for coming up with the game. Hopefully we’ll do it again next June.

In the meantime, help your team out in Join Us July(remember, all SOTDs count, no tag required), and get ready for Austere August in a month! After that, the portal takes a break as we tune it up for the October Lather Games!

The fun never stops here at /r/Wetshaving!

Blah blah blah I really just want to post about Join Us July.

July is coming, and with it, the terrible empty space between the backstabbing of the June Soap Challenge and the bleakness of Austere August. For a brief moment, perhaps you thought you would spend the month killing off a tub or just wandering over to your den and picking whatever feels right.

But that’s no fun. This place is about community. And community is about absurd shaving contests. And a month without absurd shaving contests is like a month without sunshine.

So, I invented some sunshine.

Introducing Join Us July.

Each day has three targets, each randomly selected from the top 31 of 2025:

• Soap
• Brush
• Razor

The target shave is announced the day before at https://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/today.

Scoring is easy:

• Exact product match: 2 points
• Same maker, different product: 1 point
• Miss: 0 points

To reward matching as many as possible, your daily base score gets multiplied by how many exact matches you hit:

• 0 or 1 exact match: x1
• 2 exact matches: x2
• 3 exact matches: x3

There are also teams, because Join Us July is about community. The first time your July SOTD is counted, you’ll be assigned to one of four teams. Team scoring is based on the sum of team members who actually posted that day, so if you miss a day, you do not personally drag your team down. In addition, each exact from every team member gives a multiplier to the team’s score as well, allowing good days to have an outsized impact.

And because no r/Wetshaving game is complete until we have invented extra titles for people to put in their flair, there are Crowns.

Individual Crowns:

• Cumulative - most total points
• Perfect Days - most 18-point days
• Perfect Streak - longest run of consecutive perfect days
• Frugal - most points per distinct item used
• Sharpshooter - highest exact-match rate, minimum 10 posting days
• Giant Slayer - most points earned on Brutal difficulty days

Team Crowns:

• Winning Team - highest cumulative team score
• Iron Team - best participation rate
• Best Team Day - highest single-day team score
• Most Improved - biggest climb from the first half to the final standings

Links:

• Daily targets: https://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/today
• Leaderboard: https://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/leaderboard
• Daily results: https://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/scoreboard
• Visual standings: https://portal.wetshav.ing/10/join-us-july/visual-standings

EDIT: Changed from average to sum for scoring to prevent people feeling like they are dragging their team down. Added information on team exact multipliers.