'Bout; Slightly Less Worse Each Time

My chars and I were all logged-in overnight day 0 (as they typically are), and none of them registered until the final day when they already had max plaudits. Must've been around 10-11am PST - I'm sure I can check logs if knowing an exact time is important. But yeah, all my chars got the title (even though only 1 has any sort of mastery rank) - and they remained grouped together in the ranking.

So I owe Dab something, obviously, just dunno what makes up for missing the title. :/

Same as Michelob and Enochroot here, I didn't even register on day 0. First time I ever registered my total was several days in. I ended up in the first 10 on the final list. Two characters, and they were indeed right next to each other on the final list in the order I registered their scores.

I did register fairly early on the final day, don't have it logged but it was in the first couple hours after the day reset at 8am PST (I had logged out the previous night with all my items ready to trade for the final day's VBDs, so it didn't take me long). I think that was shortly before Enoch's reported time, and IIRC I was also a little higher on the list than Enoch.

Two of my chars were right next to each other as well but the third ended up much higher on the list (registered that third one maybe 30 minutes after the other two).

I got this;
1) Wait until I mention new objectives being slammed in the DATs (I'm checking monthly for it, if they change it's probably a strong indicator there's an upcoming 'Bout) which I'll post here and on my site.
2) Go farm all of the stuff that can be farmed for those objectives, enough for 2 go arounds of each objective.
3) Send them to Dab.

Conscience cleared until you find out they aren't a fan of you clogging their inbox with a ton of (normally) useless crap. ;D

I checked just by curiosity the other day to see if one day I will even bother with this senseless work. After I saw the whole 100+ at 1400, I will just never bother, period. Just to make the 1st tranche, I would have to call out from work, and I ain’t doing that.This is just ducking stupid from SE the entire thing. Some folks can just never even try, and some cannot succeed base on nothing they did wrong. This is not a NM that you can pop 3x a day, it’s a 3x a year event that take full dedication for 2+ weeks, can’t miss a day, got to be home for those 2 hour the event is on…

Now to the folks from phoenix, just send Dab a Yagudo drink.

They adjusted it so you can miss a day and double up the next day, but you do have to be logged on for day 0.

Well, for what it's worth, they acknowledged the Title issue at least. Timestamped: https://youtu.be/VwwF3ePPCPA?t=750

And now they've gone beyond just acknowledging the issue, and announced they are making changes for future Vana'bouts. From the May Version Update pre-release notes:

The next one will be slightly less worse than last time!

Objectives for the upcoming Vana'Bout - Round 9:

Single-Time Objectives

Rhapsodies of Vana'diel 1 (VB) - Will auto-complete for most, for new players you just completely flag it by accident go to any of the 3 cities in a zone with a Mog House attached to get started, requires completion of up to the end of 1-6, Flames of Prayer. (25 Plaudits)
Here We Go Again (VB) - Beat ★Return to Delkfutt's Tower on any difficulty 1 time. (30 Plaudits)
Mog Garden: Arboreal Grove (VB) - Interact successfully with your Arboreal Grove 9 times. (30 Plaudits)
Recalling Adventures (VB) - Speak to any of the Moogles that tell you your stats during the Adventurer Appreciation Campaign, found at Southern San d'Oria (J-9)/Northern San d'Oria (D-8)/Bastok Mines (H-9)/ Bastok Markets (G-8)/Windurst Waters (F-5)/ Windurst Woods (K-19) 1 time. (30 Plaudits)
The Swarm (VB) - Get at least 1,000 points in The Swarm special battlefield, requires one member of the party to obtain a Pest Repellent from the Login Points moogle, use it as an item, and then you access the battlefield from the Fortilace at (D-9) in Rolanberry Fields (S). Take cleave jobs, BLU can solo this no problem. (25 Plaudits)
Mog Garden: Furrow (VB) - Obtain 9 items total from your furrows. (30 Plaudits)


Daily Objectives

Tiger's Teeth (VBD) - Give Taumila in Southern San d'Oria (F-9) 3 black tiger fang, 1 time. (30 Plaudits)
Domain Invasion (VBD) - Complete Domain Invasion 1 time. Whereisdi is your friend. (20 Plaudits)
High Five (VBD) - Perform synergy 2 times. It doesn't say if it needs to be successful or not, maybe someone can clue me in here if it's been an objective before.
(30 Plaudits)
Jingly (VBD) - Play Mandragora Mania 1 time. You don't need to win, but if you do want to win... (20 Plaudits)
Auctioning (VBD) - List a phoenix feather, spool of malboro fiber, vial of black beetle blood, square of damascene cloth, or piece of oxblood on the AH 1 time. It doesn't have to sell, you just have to list it, can unlist it after. Recommend doing this so you can just keep hold of one of the items for each time it comes up during the event. (30 Plaudits)
Campaign Operative (VBD) - Complete campaign ops and earn 1,000 Allied Notes. (20 Plaudits)
Donations (VBD) - Give Gajaad in Al Zahbi (J-6) at least 1 Imperial bronze piece 1 time. (30 Plaudits)
Gobbie Mystery Box (VBD) - Open any dial on the Gobbie Mystery Box 1 time. Sorry new players, your character has to be 45 days old to use the gobbie box so, you'll need to skip this one. (20 Plaudits)
Unity: Wanted (VBD) - Complete any UNM fight 1 time. You must have the objective set for that UNM for it to count, no scumming off someone else's accolades. (20 Plaudits)

I'll once again be keeping Vana'Bout Daily up to date through-out the event once it starts, I'll try my best to post overviews for each set of daily objectives each day here too.


Edit: I'm realising now that only 9 daily objectives is suspiciously low... I'm going to take a second look since last bout had 24 daily objectives.