Welcome Comrades to the 40th edition of the Dispatch
In this
C h r i s t m a s edition of our newsletter, and in honor of the 5th anniversary of Conquer Club, we interrogate none other than Lackattack, the big guy himself. Find out what it was like taking Conquer Club from a hobby to a full-time job. And get a sneak peek at what the future holds for our favorite game.
Just in case you missed the latest news, Conquer Club is turning 5 years old this January.
Find out how we are celebrating ! And be sure to check out the
Official Winter Holiday Celebration 2010 . it's time to get this party started!
Have a safe and happy holidays.
dolomite13 -
Newsletter Executive If you would like to apply to join the news team, please visit the thread below for more details!
Click here for Recruitment Details... Merry Xmas from the Freestyle Team!
This edition we have a review of the Annual Risk Classic (better late than never!) by TheSaxLad and advice from deathcomesrippin as to how to deal when faced in battle against those tough talking high rankers. I also had a conversation with the turtle himself in celebration of the website's 5th birthday! Discover below what actually was going on whilst Lack was at McGill! Enjoy
Nagerous Click image to enlarge. Annual Risk Classic Write Up by TheSaxLad show
Well there we have it folks, after months of deliberations and everyone looking forward to it, it came and it went. And it seems like most people had a good time. Flow520 wrote: As far as the general experience, I thought it was a very well run professional tournament. My hat's off to SteelHorse and his team for arranging it.
They managed to pull together a great group of experienced players from all over the country.
I felt it was really worth the cost of the weekend. I dont think they made a dime off of it. There was food/drinks/snacks galore, not to mention the great prizes for the tournament as well as the side games.
Overall, it was an amazing experience. I highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys a good game of Risk.
Gilligan wrote: "The RISK classic was phenomenal. Extremely well run by Steelhorse, it was a blast meeting everybody. I'll definitely be there again next year."
Final Table Jonesthecurl outsider Second Chance Tournament Winners Flow520 Gilligan http://www.annualriskclassic.com .
Dealing with the "Big Boys" (and "Girls") by deathcomesrippin show
Like any online gaming, there are levels of game play in Conquer Club which separate people according to skill. In online shooters, you are given a rank, which is earned through experience points, and in some new weapons are unlocked as you advance. In MMOs, you gain levels which increase your stats and somehow, through advanced methods that I am not privy to, apply to how much damage you do, or how much health you regain, so on and so forth. In our little game we call home, your level of skill is often reflected by your “rank”. You gain rank by defeating opponents in games, and claiming a certain number of points from them which is added to your total. When your total reaches certain plateaus, you are increased in rank. A list of the ranks can be found in the Instructions tab on the website.
show: Interrogation of Lackattack
Q. Hello Lackattack! Thanks for agreeing to be interviewed! Q: How did you come up with the idea for Conquer Club as a website? And the name? Global War . Every day I'd wake up early anxious to take my turn before going to school! About 7 years ago I wondered... could there be a version of Global War on the web? I searched and found a few web games - but I wasn't satisfied with the way they were designed and I thought it would be a fun project to build my own.Q: What was it like working full-time at a job, and then working on Conquer Club as a hobby? Q: What was it like to finally transition from Conquer Club as a hobby to Conquer Club as your personal business? Q: During the first year, did you ever have worries that Conquer Club would not take off---and that it'd just be you, your close friends, and a small group of interweb folk sitting around on a near empty website? Q: How much of the coding did you do yourself? I imagine there was a lot to be done. open source layout . It took about 6 months to have everything ready for launch.Q: Have you ever changed your avatar away from the turtle? Q: Why Leonardo? Q: What is your favorite part of running Conquer Club? Q: What were some of the best decisions you've ever made regarding Conquer Club? Q: What does your daily routine look like? How has it changed over the years? Q: Why have you been dedicated to keeping flashing ads and banners off the website? Why not try to increase revenue this way? Q: Is it true that from your full-time employment, you sometimes would work on Conquer Club? Did you ever get worried about being caught---or were you ever caught? Q: How have you grown over these last 5 years as a person---and has Conquer Club contributed to that growth in any way? Q: Were your family, friends, and associates skeptical about Conquer Club as an endeavor in the beginning? What do they think of Conquer Club now? Q: Why do you think Conquer Club has been as successful as it has been---and what do you see in the future that can make it even more so? Q: What gaming sites apart from Conquer Club do you like and why? Q: Was the community - the forums, the mapmakers etc - part of the plan or has that surprised you? Q: If you weren't lackattack which CC player would you most like to be? Bork bork bork! Q: What suggestions in the Suggestions Forum are you working on implementing? Clickable Maps now. I'm trying to get it done by our 5th anniversary... we'll see how that goes.Q: When you were a young man, what did you think your career was going to be? Did you have any dream jobs in mind? Q: CC has come a long way from where it started. How did you feel about its progress? Q: What is your vision for Conquer Club for 2011? Or another way of putting it, what New Year's resolutions do you have for Conquer Club for 2011? Q: How do you picture CC 5 years from now? Q: If you had more time to spend playing the game, how would you spend it? Clans? Tournaments? Mafia Games? Q: Who is the sexiest mod on Conquer Club? Q: Over the 5 year span, Conquer Club has seen numerous interesting players/forum-posters? What characters have most entertained/interested you? Q: Do you think Conquer Club will be a part of your life for the rest of your life? Q: Thank you very much for your time.
Hola amigos:
Welcome to the Holiday issue of the War Games. This is my first appearance as Tournament Executive and I want to thanks the whole ConquerClub Dispatch Team for the opportunity. On the other side, this is Amazzony's last issue! She will take a break for a while, but hopefully, we can have her back in the near future. Good luck ZZ, and thanks for all your help, time and dedication!
I wish all of you a wonderful Holiday Season (Christmas, Hanukkah, Navidad!) and a great new year, and lets hope Santa can bring us a better dice for 2011.
jricart -
Tournament Executive Join This? Or Not! by amazzony show: JOIN THIS - OR NOT
It is going to be for the last time when I share my unprofessional and totally biased opinion about the (not so) great tournaments that are waiting for your participation. Feel relieved, last time I shall hold my fist of fear above all the organisers keiths31 is doing his best to get the Triple Threat Terror [TPA] back on track.flexmaster33 's College Football Playoff 2010 which are always superbly run 1v1 tournaments."The White Man's Burden" is an interesting way to approach tournament. With the well organised post and premium prize, Raskholnikov is on the way to become a very solid organiser.kawe85 is trying to run something huge, doubles Great Family Tournament .benga - Escalating Fog: Classic Combination .Create/Join a Tournament forum time to time!
TPA Update by jrh_cardinal show: TPA Update
Barterer2002 has been running the Tournament Players Association (TPA) smoothly for 7 months now. So smoothly in fact that a newsletter update hasn't been necessary since late April, when the TPA was first announced. A huge amount of tournament players have signed up for one or more of the 31 TPA sanctioned events that have been announced so far. One tournament has been announced every Monday between May 3 and last Monday, December 13. Today, December 20, the tournament will be of the 8 player singles variety hosted by benga . Sign up quickly before the tournament is full!HighlanderAttack sits alone at the top of the Scoreboard . He has 11.85 TPA points, which are collected by each participant in all TPA events. However, HighlanderAttack is followed closely by Bones2484 (11.76 points). Sonicsteve is in 3rd place in the overall standings with 10.91 points. The final TPA tournament starts the last Monday in April. When that event and all others are complete, the top 3 players in the overall standings will all receive a General Achievement Medal. For now that's HighlanderAttack, Bones, and sonicsteve, but there is still a ton of time for anyone to make their way onto the list!
2010 Tournaments Year In Review by Night Strike show: 2010 Tournaments Year In Review
From the Desk of the Tournament Directors:Gilligan to the Entertainment Department. The work he did with the Hall of Fame was invaluable, especially as the third announcement came to light. It concerned the new database that lack built into the site and we Directors had spent many hours over the previous weeks tweaking and populating. The Tournament Database revolutionized CC Tournaments. Not only was there a search-able tool that ranked organizers and players by their tournaments run or won, but it also provided a list of all the tournaments recruiting players so members would no longer have to go to the forum every day to look for tournaments. It also drastically simplified the way privileges were granted (or removed), medals were distributed, and titles even changed by speeding up all of those processes. Within a couple of weeks, the new tab at the top of the site had led more than 300 new players to join tournaments! Some other additions were planned for the fourth announcement in the series, but those ideas were scrapped. Instead, Tupence was announced as a new Tournament Director to run tournament contests for public enjoyment. As an exclusive for newsletter readers, within the past few days Tupence has chosen to step down from his position, and we all wish him well in his future endeavors. barterer2002 began the year-long competition of the Tournament Players Association (TPA) that has been a huge hit in the tournament forums. It's so much of a hit that people are now wondering what happened to an organizer if they don't post their tournament within 2 hours of the target time. Lindax . A new points system was instituted to protect organizers who had a successful history of organizing tournaments but may have had personal issues arise that caused them to abandon tournaments. Working in conjunction with the Tournament Organizers Usergroup, abandoned tournaments began to be rescued at such a rate that now nearly every tournament ends with a winner. Many hats off to Lindax and all the organizers who step up to finish off started tournaments.Task Distribution List . This delegation led to another expansion in the number of Directors. danryan joined to assist with Abandoned and Rescued Tournaments while DJ Teflon joined to work on developing Speed Tournaments. Also in the fall, we saw the Rookie TO contest won by alstergren and a change in leadership of the Tournament Organizers Usergroup, the members of which elected jrh_cardinal as their leader. The end of 2010 has seen a discussion arise about the ability of organizers to exclude players from their tournaments. The resolution of this discussion should arise early in 2011.
In this issue we have a Map Spotlight featuring an interview with grifftron, the continuation of last issues History 101 on the military history of the United States of America and a special Xtreme Holiday interview with MrBenn and a very special foundry holiday word finder puzzle for your amusement. We will return to your regularly scheduled format next issue.
dolomite13 Happy Holidays The "X" in "Xmas" is for "Xtreme"! show
Sully: Did you come up with the idea to make this map before the "Festive Foundry Fun", or was that not the original plan?MrBenn: Sully: What was your thinking behind the gameplay? How did you come up with it?MrBenn: Sully: Any further things you'd like to say about the map?MrBenn: viewtopic.php?t=133219
Holiday Foundry Fun Word Finder show
Puzzle Solution
Maps Review Map Spotlight: Thailand show
Inside the Foundry History 101: United States of America (1865 - 1945) show
History 101: The Military History of the United States of America (1865 - 1945) Indian Wars (1865–1870) Spanish-American War (1898) Modernization Banana Wars (1898-1935) World War I (1917–1918) Russian Revolution Neutrality Acts World War II (1939–1945)
What a year the clans have had - quite a coming of age. Who would have thought clan wars would have become a spectator sport the way they have? Challenge threads have been full of excitement (and sometimes that excitement has become plain nastiness), and key games have been filled with chat from watchers dropping in. The Conqueror's Cup has added a whole new level of intensity to the scene. Several clans have established their right to be counted among the elite, a host of new clans have emerged to challenge them. More clan games have been played than ever before. The clan directors brought us game creation privileges. And to cap it all off, we have -
The clan medal! jpcloet has been working on this for a long time and it arrives as a Christmas present, bringing joy to the heart of many a committed clannie. It's awarded to any player who wins a small (or large) number of games in a challenge win. jp has worked through all the existing clan wars and handed out medals to everyone who qualifies (barring a few where there are troubles tracking down the games). The nice 11 medals won symbol you see above is taken from the profile of the early leader in the medals stakes,
blitzaholic - players from other clans such as TOFU and Legion are not far behind. It seems this is a valued and sought after medal. And no surprise. What's better than having a gang of mates and getting together with them to conquer the world?
State of Play by laughingcavalier (TSM) show
Clan League Season 3 Division A Chariot of Fire (TOFU) wrote:
Division B shaneback (Devils Brigade) wrote:
peanutsdad (Mythology) wrote: It's been a fantastic league, the competition has been spectacular, Jp did another great job running it. As for making the playoffs, I have to say, if we don't beat them and make the playoffs we will be extremely disappointed, so HELL YEAH, we're kicking ass and taking names. The playoffs are all ours....lol.
MTIceman41 (Mythology) wrote: With average dice and drop I feel confident we will get into the playoffs...this has been a great year so far!
Division C Division D Conqueror's Cup Finals THOTA vs. KoRT Bruceswar (KoRT) wrote: Simple answer "Yes" Longer Answer "Sure we can, but nobody is counting anything till the 31st game is won. Lets see how this plays out and should be a good match.
RUM RANTS: The Festive Foods Drunkards Lift Out by bogangod (BotFM) show
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