u/merikus

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.