What is 'duplication' in a PEP badge requirement?

Several of the PEP badge requirements state something like "Up to 10 points of duplication allowed from the Straw and Sand list".  For example, the Straw badge for Community says this, but it also says "New items from Sand Thorn list allowed".  Could someone clarify what exactly this means?  Does this mean for the Straw badge in Community you could pick a single item from the Sand list (new or already used for Sand badge) and repeat the same task multiple times up to a total of 10 points?  Is that what is meant by 'duplication'?  Does the 'new items' requirement restrict the 'duplication' requirement?

Hi there!

Duplications mean that you can do the same BB twice to meet the point for the badge level. It would be unlikely you would be given credit for doing a BB three times over or more.

If a badge requirement indicates that you can do "new" items from a lower level badge (such as Sand ) it means you can get points for the badge you are working on by preforming BBs from a lower level badge you may have already completed (as long as you have not already claimed the points for those specific BBs when completing the previous badge)

I think Ashley's got it.  But I'll state it my way to see if we find a discrepancy...

For Community, it says:

35 points required
New items from Sand Thorn list allowed (each counts for 1.5 points)
Up to 8 oddball points of community art allowed
Up to 10 points of duplication allowed from the Straw and Sand list  

So this means you can look back at the Sand list and do items in there that you haven't done before.  They're worth 1.5 points since the Sand list doesn't have points assigned to each task.

You can also duplicate (repeat) any BBs in Sand and Straw to keep racking up points.  I hadn't thought about duplication only being allowed once...  I'll have to run that past Paul to get his ruling.  In my mind you could duplicate a BB as many times as you want....

Since there are 11 BBs on the "thorn list" and you did two for Sand, you could do the remaining 9 and get 13.5 points for them.  Then you could duplicate up to 10 points of them, getting you to 23.5.  Since Straw requires 35 points you still have 11.5 points to go and they need to be from the Straw BBs.  My hunch is that it's easier to get a few Straw BBs than to do all the Sand BBs but it's up to you.

I just checked with Paul and at this time, duplication means you can repeat a given BB as many times as you want.  If you find a badge that this doesn't seem to make sense for, please bring it up and we'll evaluate.  Thanks!