Welcome Comrades to the 60th edition of the Dispatch
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Hello, hello! The Dispatch is going through some changes! You may have noticed one already: the reinstitution of
Ask A Mod! Well, our format around here has changed slightly - I've moved up to "Chief Executive" with the beloved
samuelc812 's departure and will therefore be sort of 'running the place' (with the Executives by my side) and I hope to make the CC Dispatch more expansive and exciting
One way we're achieving this is through the new "Subscriber of the Issue" feature, where a a subscriber is randomly chosen to receive a General Achievement medal - the only catch is that the chosen player must PM me in order to receive his or her medal, so be on the lookout for your name! That is, if you're a
Subscriber to the CC Dispatch This issue, our lucky winner is
darth emperor ! To receive your medal, PM me with the title of this issue as the title, and the new Foundry Executive's name in the body.
I've mentioned it already, but it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our dear Team Leader and founder of the Newsletter,
samuelc812 . We quite literally would not be here without all of the hard work and effort he put into this. With his leaving, we would like to say a big, pink
THANK YOU! to Sam for everything he's done, from events to the Newsletter and beyond. We also say a hearty hello to new Team Leader,
Gilligan , as he takes the reigns of the
Entertainment Team . He has big shoes to fill, as I'm sure we're all aware, but I have faith in him, as the rest of you should, too
True, Sam's leaving may leave a bitter taste in the mouths of many, but we look forward to the things ahead. Who knows? Maybe he'll be back some day...
Also, the Dispatch could really use some Reporters and Writers!
safariguy5 is actively looking for more Freestyle Writers, and with the leaving of long-time Tournament Reporter,
angola , I'm sure
Dukasaur could use a hand! And let's not forget Clans and Foundry! I bet
Leehar and
thehippo8 would love to have more help
Just send the appropriate Executive a brief application! If you don't know what section you'd like to write for, or if you're still not sure who to PM, you are always welcome to PM me, and I can fit you with an Executive
Now that I've effectively written an essay, onto the issue! We have a special, exciting interview with Support Volunteer Administrator,
king achilles ,
shieldgenerator7 continues his pieced novella, Dukasaur breaks down
Game 10000000 , hippo talks Turkey, and
alt1978 talks upsets and underdogs in the clan world. Oh yes, and make sure to check out the early release of Ask A Mod! in the Mess Hall
Enjoy the fruits of our laboring fingers!
Victor SullivanChief 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... Hello again readers, to another edition of the freestyle section. shield has brought us another chapter of his ongoing story about a post-apocalyptic CC world, Sully starts his "Ask A Mod!" series, and we have another Scum Insider to all you mafia aficionados out there.
Also,
king achilles riffs about his job, the Philippines, and some of the behind-the-scenes legwork that goes into running the website.
Enjoy!
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safariguy5 Freestyle Executive Ask A Mod! by Victor Sullivan show
Well, I think I'm going to jump the gun a bit on this one, but given recent circumstances, I'd like to answer this question from the Ask A Mod! thread:eagleblade22 wrote: How commonly are there new positions for mods?
Entertainment Contributors Discussions Moderators Clan Directors here . I highly recommend you graphics whizzes out there to apply for the Entertainment Team Cartographers Suggestions Moderators Cartographers Academy Instructors Newsletter Executives Academy Instructors Newsletter Executives dolomite13 left. And now I'm the 'Chief'
Epic CC Story: Chapter 1: Four Shots by shieldgenerator7 show
Epic CC Story: Chapter 1: Four Shots
The Scum Insider by safariguy5 show
The Scum Insider Newbie Help Mafia Information , Mafia and You , and Rules and Terms of Mafia .What is "Mafia"? Mafia News Actors Mafia and a mafia win in Clue Mafia .Mafia Callouts viewforum.php?f=213 Advanced Roles and Strategy by safariguy5 The Poisoner and the Poison Doctor What is It? Example How to Play this Role Mafia or more rarely, Third Party . Poison Doctors are usually Town . The Poisoner can act as a secondary mafia nightkill or a third party serial killer. The role is often used to balance a lot of town protective or manipulative roles. In order for town to be able to detect a possible poisoner, they much watch for extra nightkills on alternate nights. A loss of the Poison Doctor can also be a very strong tipoff that there is a poisoner.
show: Interrogation of king achilles
Q. What does a daily routine look like for you with regard to Conquer Club? Check pm's, check for any posts that needs my attention and then check the tickets. Q. What all are you in charge of on Conquer Club? Basically I look after the C&A department, the tickets and whatever issues that can be handled. Q. How would you describe your being an administrator on Conquer Club? It's like I take care of the holes of a ship so that the others can do the rowing and sailing to move forward. Q. Clearly, you have to deal with difficult situations regarding Cheating & Abuse, plus the wrath of the forum-goers that may disagree with verdicts you reach. What makes this all worth it? God. Q. What is your favorite admin "task"? I don't really have a favorite task. Q. What is your favorite thing to do on Conquer Club? When I get to help people. Also, reading when something new comes up in the C&A HQ forum. Besides from Andy and Lack, I also learn a lot from the C&A mods, past and present. Q. What is your favorite memory on Conquer Club? I've got some good CC memories but they are all personal and private stuff. Q. Why do you always have creepy avatars? How did that come about? Are they? They look just fine to me. Q. Which avatar of yours has been your favorite? My favorite is what I am using right now. I used this avatar years ago and I really like the flaming sword effect and because of this question, I am using it again. Q. Why do you wear the "Conquer the World" signature from the 2010 World Cup event 24/7? It looks simple and it's green, which represents life. Q. How do you manage to maintain such a cool head? I am very human and sometimes I do also lose my cool. Q. If there was one thing you could change about CC, what would it be? Maybe the way that people get points from new recruits. Maybe a fixed number of points like 1 or 2 points. So if I set up a 5 player game and I get 4 NR's(who usually deadbeats) the most points I would get would be 4 or 8 points. But if I lose, the regular computation will still take place. I still don't know if this is doable or agreed upon. Q. If you had the power to forum or perma ban one constant poster on the forums without any consequences, who would you pick? No comment. Q. Where am I (TheForgivenOne) in line to become a hunter Maybe in time. Q. Have you ever made a decision while being Admin that you wish you could take back? So far, no. Q. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you enjoy laying down the banhammer on a multi? For repeat offenders - 8. Q. I'm curious about the timeline. How long were you an ordinary member before you became a volunteer? What was your first volunteer position? How long did you stay in that position? I wasn't a volunteer. My first position was to answer the tickets, particularly the ratings department since they were piling up. Gradually, I was also put in as C&A moderator and hunter to help the hunters at the time. Q. When Manny Pacquiao is fighting someone, do you call in sick for the day? Never. Q. Have you ever considered posting outside of Cheating & Abuse just to post in threads that interest you? If so, what holds you back? If not, why? I do, when I have the time but answering tickets and helping investigating C&A cases takes up most of my time. I would not have the time needed to really get entangled in any forum discussion. Q. What is it like to live in the Philippines? It's a third world country so you try to manage things or get by up to the next day. Q. If Andy is a monkey, and lack is a turtle, what does that make you? King. Q. Did you personally know newtonboy and/or sw0rdf!sh? No. I also just "met" them when they were taken in by the webmaster. Q. Fondest memory of being an admin? Personal stuff but let's say when Lack and Andy gave me some encouraging talk. Q. Most complicated cheating/abuse case you have ever come across? No comment. Q. Do you ever get annoyed with all the many pms(im sure you get millions!) you get? Not really but there are times when some just don't get it or refuse to listen. Q. Do you have a favorite map to play on, or are there any maps that you find appealing? So far, they are still the Classic and Midgard maps. Q. Are you looking forward to the next Whac-A-Mod competition, so you can be in another Whac-An-Admin game? Maybe. When are we going to have a Bust-A-Mod competition where we bust the mod who whacs an admin in a game? Q. Because you're in the Philippines, do you ever have problems with the cultural differences between there and the US or Canada (where most of the members are from)? Not really. I expect to see many differences but this is also the Internet so I am also seeing some Internet behavior, I guess. Q. Okay, time for some personal flavour: Favourite food? Favourite alcoholic drink? Favourite non-alcoholic drink? Favourite food: adobo Q. What do you enjoy doing on CC that does NOT involve any official duties? And what games do you play besides CC? - Playing CC games if time permits. Q. What do you think makes a good Multi Hunter? Levelheaded, follows what the evidence shows, does not get easily pressured or influenced by peers and does what is expected of the position. Q. What is one TeamCC position you think you'd never be able to handle and why? Let's just say, maybe in the other departments that I rarely go into. Q. What is one TeamCC position you think you'd like have, if it couldn't be C&A-related? Wishful thinking, maybe being a cartographer just because I admire how people make quality maps but I think what they do is a whole different world from where I am. Q. What kinds of maps do you think Conquer Club still needs? Maybe maps that are made particularly for team games, if possible? Q. How has CC affected you as a person - being the "Support Volunteer" and what have you? It made me see how different the people in my country are compared to the people in CC. Q. What do you think CC would be like if you and Andy swapped roles? Chaos. Q. Was Hyasri a "sock puppet"? More specifically, was he a fictional person introduced for the purpose of getting rid of the Flame Wars forum? He came out of nowhere, Flame Wars got removed, and then he disappeared. All within mere days. It's no wonder there've been speculations about him and I (MeDeFe) for one would like some details, I think most forumites would. All I can say is that he is a real person. Removing Flame Wars was not his primary concern as he really had plans to do a lot of stuff when he gets settled in. Things just didn't work out for him eventually. Q. Why did you do it? Whatever it is, I did not. Q. Do you get to polish lack's golden auto-mobile? No. Q. No interview is complete without a mention of SirSebstar. How would you like to mention hem? For SirSebstar, I see hem as a good moderator. Seriously. Q. When do you quit? Between you and me... Q. What gives you pleasure if you look at the forums? It is always a pleasure to see some people who make sensible posts and not always trying to be cynical comedian. Q. Do you enjoy running the Live Chat Volunteer Appreciation Day events, or is it more of a hassle? I like seeing you all enjoy the live event everytime. Q. Describe yourself in a brief paragraph that is at least 100 words. No comment. I'm just a boring, simple, regular person. Q. Do you believe a notorious rule-breaker can ever redeem him or herself? If so, how do you think they should go about doing so? I would always like to believe that people can change for the better in real life. It can also be easy to promise anything. Unfortunately, some do not follow the rules until they receive that final disciplinary action or when it's too late. Some people will not listen until you let them realize that you will no longer tolerate their repeat violations. Some may support giving these people a chance but do not forget that there will also be support for the disciplinary measure that was given as well. It is hard for us to implement the rules if we always let good intentions or good excuses/promises to prevail or be granted some exemption as it becomes impossible to regulate people with bad intentions who will take advantage of a situation. Q. Name a hidden talent that you have that no one would suspect you have. None.
Hello again my friends, and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments! In this issue, I have presented an analysis of
Game 10 Million , which is now in its second round. (It may be only one game, but it has enough players that it could easily qualify as a tournament, and it will last longer than many tournaments do!)
Sonicsteve presents
Join This? Or Not! , our regular look at tournaments currently recruiting. We have the third installment in
DaveH 's
Tournament Tips -- this series continues to impress me, and I hope it impresses you too!
We say goodbye to long-time War Games reporter
angola , who has become too busy to continue his work on the newsletter. Many thanks for all your work in the past, angola, and best wishes for the future. We are definitely interested in filling the vacancy as soon as possible, so if you're interested in writing about tourneys, and specifically about the
TPA , drop me a line!
The big news in the tournament world is the
Fantasy/Sci-Fi contest being presented by
Tournament Directors and
Tournament Organisers Usergroup (as personified by DJ Teflon and our own sonicsteve.) If you fancy yourself a creative person, if you love Sci-Fi and fantasy, and if you've always wanted to create an interesting tournament, then I definitely suggest you should put something together and enter this contest!
Last but not least, in a shameless act of self-promotion, I would like to invite you to check out my
First Anniversary Tournament , which celebrates my first few victories when I joined CC a year ago...
Dukasaur Tournament Executive Game 10 Million by Dukasaur show
For CC's Ten Millionth Game, Samuelc812 designed a special map. Appropriate to the concept of gladiatorial battle-to-the-death, he chose the old Roman arena as his concept. This map will be used for many Battle Royales in the future, so you may want to have a good look at it. Samuelc812 has also promised to write a strategy guide for it before the 6th Anniversary events roll around!Here , for example. Well, we now have an answer. The Ten Millionth Game is a sequential Battle Royale with 50 players, and Round One took barely 15 days.Game 10000000 2011-11-09 20:44:01 - Game has been initialized Flow520 and ChrisBeerens ; people who have helped, mentored and taught me, like macbone , Leehar , and josko.ri ; people with whom I've fought brutal epic games, like mwaser ; tournament organisers and players whose tournaments I've played in or who have played in mine, like fuzzy316 , Enormastitz , gameplayer , djelebert , and mviola ; and even famous people I know only from their forum posts, like Incandenza .Aaarrrrggh ), a Brigadier (josko.ri ), no fewer than 6 Colonels, 19 Majors, and 12 Captains. There are only 4 Lieutenants including myself, and only 7 non-officers. The lowest-ranking player is Elmo9199 . (As a rough estimate, Elmo could rake in something between 2500 and 3000 points if he was to sweep the map.) On the regular CC Scoreboard I sit at the bottom of the top quintile, but in this game it's the diametric opposite: I'm at the top of the bottom quintile, a paltry 41st of 50.First round deployments: askirby . Putting all their eggs in the arena basket, seven players chose to deploy all three troops on their Gladiator. The tiniest minority were those who put all 3 on the Audience: only mlmarcelo and dustin800 chose this option.Second round deployments: Attacks: LB Ninja , and he opened up a skirmish for Proximo:2011-11-12 23:16:24 - LB Ninja assaulted Gladiator - Proximo from Gladiator - Lucius and conquered it from askirby
fuzzy316 , who opened up a card spot on Aisle 1:2011-11-17 02:40:14 - Fuzzy316 assaulted Aisle 1 from Audience - B16 and conquered it from neutral player
NicholasBlkthrn only has two. I have to reconsider my prediction. I really thought nobody would attempt a kill until the second half of round 3; now I'm thinking there may be a kill in the second half of round 2. I won't cheat and go back and edit my prediction; let's let it stand and see how close it comes.
Tournament Tips by DaveH show: inviting your players
Once your tournament is full; you have tournament rights; you have created the blank games and randomised your player list. Now you need to invite players to join their games. Code: Select all ="[to]"&D4&" "&$D$2&"[/to]"Game 1234567 (Auto-Join Game )Code: Select all =G$3&"[list][to]"&D4&" "&$D$2&"[/to][/list]" tag puts the game information on the next line (which looks a bit better!).Game 1234567 (Auto-Join Game )Click image to enlarge. Code: Select all ="[to]"&D4&" "&$D$2&"[/to]"&"; "&"[to]"&E4&" "&$D$2&"[/to]"&"; "&"[to]"&F4&" "&$D$2&"[/to]"Game 1234567 (Auto-Join Game ); View Game 1234566 (Auto-Join Game ); View Game 1234565 (Auto-Join Game ) tag;Code: Select all ="[list][to]"&D4&" "&$D$2&"[/to][/list][list][to]"&E4&" "&$D$2&"[/to][/list][list][to]"&F4&" "&$D$2&"[/to][/list]"
Join This? Or Not! by sonicsteve show
And now for our regular look at a selection of the tournaments in sign-ups:Speed tournaments, but I wanted to draw attention to The Speed League which will be taking place for 6 hours each Friday night for a 5 week season, wih two divisions to cater for different timezones. Week one has already taken place, but there is still a chance to accrue plenty of points (and have fun killing each other) by competing over the remaining 3 weeks of the season to earn a place in the play-offs or championship final.ElricTheGreat is looking for plenty of people for his Elric's Stealer of Souls Tournament . Not surprisingly, this tournament features the SoC settings. One signup gets you into both halves of the tournament -- Terminator games on the Classic map and Standard games on the Canada map. At press time, there were still 72 slots open in the 216-player tournament.Create/Join a Tournament or Tournaments Tab and take a look at the many others waiting to be filled. Requests for Immediate Players section of the tournament forum. You can be playing very quickly after signing up as a reserve.
We are all so used to seeing
Victor Sullivan 's name associated as Newsletter Foundry Executive that it seems just plain weird to see anything else. Anything else other than his promotion to
Grand Poobah that is! Congrats Sully on the promotion! So now it is my fifteen minutes of fame. But as my dinghy is firmly attached to the ship, I am not afraid at all. I also want to acknowledge all the hard work and effort that has gone into this section before me and the tireless efforts of those beavering away behind the scenes today!! So from that high-flaluten beginning, let's get down to business. This issue sees
OliverFA delving into whether special game mechanics could provide new map opportunities,
koontz1973 talks about what you can do to help the map makers, I pursue that with a look at
Death Race Mojave as a practical example and then give
Thanksgiving to the Turkey Hunt (pun intended!). So enjoy! Thanks and regards!
thehippo8Foundry Executive Should every map be playable in every setting? by OliverFA show
Hello fellow CCers! This time I would like to discuss a bit about game settings and maps. As you know, one of the Foundry requirements for new maps is that they must be playable in every single setting. We have quite a lot of settings now. Singles, Doubles, Terminator, Assassin, 2 players, 8 players, Fog of War, Nuclear Spoils… Quite a big variety! Some settings are just a matter of flavour, like the initial placement of troops, while some other settings make for very different game, like Fog of War. This means that depending on the settings chosen, we can be playing very different games. Can every map adapt to each of those different types of games? You won’t find anything like that in the 200 maps catalogue. Mogul City Limiting playable settings in a map would not be a way to save the mapmaker from the effort of checking the map with this setting. It would be a way to enable the mapmaker to invest an extra effort in just a few selected settings.
How to help mapmakers by koontz1973 show
How to help mapmakers. Getting into the foundry. Ideas Everyday, people come here to post ideas for maps, some are great ideas like Four Corners tic tac toe vomit Draft This is the area where some have a go at getting there idea made into a map. This is the area that you will see for the first time, a map makers idea on the screen and this is the easiest place to get your ideas onto the screen to. A good example of this is in the Mega USA map thread. People started asking for Alaska and Hawaii to be added, even though it was not on the USA map pack. They are there now. Main foundry A place where games are made. This forum is split into two but moulded into one. Games and graphics. Have a problem with both, speak up now or you may end up playing on a map that is sub par. Final Forge Gets the most visits as this is where games get to be played for the first time in beta. Have a problem with an aspect of the map, speak now of forever hold your piece, as after this, nothing gets done. How can you help? Negative criticism means voicing an objection to something only with the purpose of showing that it is simply wrong, false, mistaken, nonsensical, objectionable, disreputable. Negative criticism is also often interpreted as an attack against a person.
Critic wrote: The woods looks a bit like bushes, and not very pretty bushes.
Critic wrote: I find them awful and absolutely not up to par with the rest of the map.
Critic wrote: I love it.
Critic wrote: nice map
Constructive criticism aims to show that the intent or purpose of something is better served by an alternative approach. In this case, criticism is not necessarily deemed wrong, and its purpose is respected; rather, it is claimed that the same goal could be better achieved via a different route.
Critic wrote: As for forests.... I've had to do dozens of designs on different impassables on some maps. Current forests are better than the previous ones, but they have this kind of plastic feel to them, which doesn't really seem too forest-y to me.
Mapmaker wrote: I refuse to change them. They are good woods.
Mapmaker wrote: The plastic look phrase I can work with and try to sort out.
Mapmaker wrote: Made the woods darker and they do look less fake.
Click image to enlarge. When is the best time to give feedback? about Europe wrote: Who created the map? Who gave him the right to give that name to the area of Former Yugoslavia??? Please, someone correct this BIG mistake, name it Yugoslavia, or something, and don't piss off again people from those other five nations!!
about England wrote: I just took a look at this map again. It looks like shit, how did it ever get out of the foundry?
Map-in-focus: Death Race Mojave by thehippo8 show
Koontz1973 makes a good point in his article,
How to Help Mapmakers , in which he reminded you all that you have your place in this process of map creation. It’s a really important role, and I hope you take what he says to heart. Maps can’t happen without your involvement. True enough, a map can stall in the wings for an apparent lack of interest. But maybe you didn’t realise that politely sitting back and leaving the decisions for
“those in the know” or just
“someone else” means that no-one gets to hear your opinion. But what you think is really really really important so please, let’s be hearing from you!!
Death Race Mojave Click image to enlarge. the Death Race 1 (a remake of Death Race 2000 ) and the imaginatively titled Death Race 2 . The storyline in Death Race 1 is:In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans watch by the millions as criminals with life sentences race armoured cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die but the winner may earn his freedom. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife's murder. Sent to Terminal Island, he's offered an out by the steely and manipulative Warden Hennessey - race as the popular mask-wearing (but now dead) champion, Frankenstein, or rot in prison. Jensen makes the bargain. As the three-stage race approaches, he realizes that the whole thing may be a set up - can an anonymous man behind a mask get revenge and win his release?
As many comic books, games and original movies are being remade, director Paul W.S. Anderson is not new to those remakes. He adapted Resident Evil, Mortal Kombat and AVP. Now he remakes the original movie Death race 2000. Not surprising. While watching this movie, I realised that he still has his habit of making games plots. Death race plot is quite similar to those racing or survival games plot. It reminds me of DOA (Dead Or Alive) which Paul produce.
natty_dread said:I can see a good backstory in a map like this, but the trick is integrating that story with the graphics & gameplay of the map in such a way that it becomes obvious what the deal is, without having to explain everything explicitly.
grifftron did an update and away we go again. The ever astute Industrial Helix noted:After reviewing this map a couple of times, I can't seem to make heads or tails of the gameplay, but the graphics are pretty awesome. You should try putting some numbers on the map indicating where the starting positions are and where there might be neutrals.
greenoaks suggested:Gameplay at first is difficult to follow as there is so much going on, but then so does Stalingrad.
Victor Sullivan provided valuable feedback with:It took me a bit to wrap my mind around the gameplay. For the most part, I think it works. The legend could have a bit more clarity: the "Warden borders armoury" should go with all of the Warden stuff in that box with the badge, and it took me awhile to understand the Sniper diagram. I think you should use arrows there instead of "2 DEEP" and "3 DEEP". As far as gameplay goes, there doesn't seem to be much incentive to get out on the track, so I think a +1 per 2 or 3 (I prefer 2, myself) track pieces with a car would do well, then eliminate the +2 per 3 with the Snipers, as I think their bombarding abilities are good enough, since they would be good tools for cards.
Maert has pointed out some graphics issues, but frankly the map is looking great and those shouldn’t take much to resolve. So, here’s your chance people to put your oars worth in because this map looks destined to hit Beta really soon!
Thanksgiving: Or let’s get the Turkeys! by thehippo8 show
It is a time of love and family gatherings. Of too much food and strange gifts. A time of good sales at the strip mall and twiddling your thumbs. But most importantly ... it is time to get the turkeys! There’s no presidential pardon here! Maps that celebrate all that is America Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. For the more cultured Click image to enlarge. celebrated war of our (civilised) history, where I am sure they ate Turkey's by the (KFC ?) bucketload ...Click image to enlarge. conquered . Bonus points if you get the drop on Thrace (look it up) ...Click image to enlarge. Emperor Trajanus Decius really needed a large bird to eat to celebrate peace he brought to his realm, but not before the ensuing catastrophic war and annihilation ... Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. first Balkan war , one part of one enormous international shindig, and no doubt the birds had long since flown ...Click image to enlarge. Turkish pride was born and where you can revel in your own reverie ...Click image to enlarge.
This edition for clans we have Alt musing on the recent spate of upsets in the clan scene (and they are so many that it's tough to call some clans underdogs any longer as they pack some big punches),
Skillfusniper33 joins our dispatch team with an in-depth look at the 2nd stanza of the exciting Newcomers Cup competition and Bogan somehow avoids mentioning his clans close loss to Tofu in his rum-filled contemplation of that inexplicable element that can often split the die in tense clan matches. We have been using more and more abbreviations and acronyms of clan names lately, so remember to peruse the
[Official] List of Clans to decipher any quandary's you may be in.
Elsewhere in clan news, the Semi-finals of the Conquerors Cup reach their conclusion as the 2 clans that were split by only 1 game in a previous 80 game encounter, and tied each other in this 60 game edition, are again 3-3 near the end of their tiebreak. Looks like after months of agonizing, the outcome now just rests on
Game 10077607 where the monkies have seemed to finally taken the lead.
Methinks all this headache could have been avoided if they just played 1 game at the beginning, or better yet a coin toss since that may be the only way to ever split these quite brilliant clans that are the stalwarts of elite gaming on CC. Even if TSM do win this World 2.1 showdown, there are 153 games highly competitive clan games between TSM and Thota, and quite simply nothing separates them.
We also have the ACC semi's between Memento Mori/Dynasty and Bofm/Foed, as well as the RST finals between Bofm/Empire commencing soon, while Foed leads the standings in the Random League as the only team still unbeaten after 4 matches, so there's still a lot of action exhibiting the competitiveness of Clans. More news on the latest developments can also always be found in
Active Challenges .
Also note that there is now an Open Application Callout for Clan Directors, so pm
Masli if you'd like to contribute to the development of clans going forward, while the CLA is expected to release the format of it's eagerly anticipated Clan League 4 soon.
Leehar Clan Executive Upsetting Trend by Alt1978 show
In the clan world, there has been a predominant perception that there are three classes of clans…the super elite, the strong tried and true, and then the pitiable rest. Movement through the castes was to flow at the rate of molasses on a flat plane…taking ages to move from one caste to another. In the clan world over the past month, a wave of upsets has swept over the scene challenging the age old paradigm. The super elite are still elite, but some up and coming new clans as well as written off forgotten clans are taking swings at the upper middle…and landing punches to close the gap between new and “tried and true”.
Newcomers Cup 2 by Skillfusniper33 (IGNI) show
Benga has returned with the second edition of the Newcomers Cup (NC2), which has the purpose of helping some of the newer clans face off against each other, and gain a little more experience in running a war thread, being in charge of games, as well as to prepare them for The Conquers Cup. To qualify for the NC2 you had to be ranked below 21 on Algorithm of 400 Click image to enlarge. HH vs MD - 20-19 Game 10021154 may just allow MD to pip the tie at the finishing lineTNC vs LHDD - 15-15 tie OSA vs IGNI - 13-18 IGNI leading 1RFG vs MB - 23-10 1RFG leading, won the war
Just Lucky by Bogan's God (Bofm) show
Greetings from the Pirate war desk, aka the saloon bar. After reading Master Fenrir 's most excellent musings on clan wars, have been doing some thinking. Damn it makes my head hurt. Damn your eyes fenrir. How much of clan wars is really down to luck? clan war , ACC 3rd round , and the Random Suicide Tourney /multi clan event. All of the challenges were close, we did not open up a can of whup arse and trample them. All three of the encounters could have very easily gone Legions way. We at BoFM were very lucky. Some of the members of Legion are amongst my oldest friends on CC. Concrete, culs(have named the tactic of dropping 2 stacks everywhere after culs, so in game chat I suggest culsing the buggers and my teammates will know to spread out with 2 stacks!), snowgun, tammy, the list could go on. Much respect to all those in Legion for not getting bitter and for being good sports at all times.that good , I know that not to be true. We lost against OSA(well played Benga and crew), our first lost in 10+ clan wars. I know it wasn't map selection, as we got completely owned on a few maps that normally we would win easily. We don't give up even if things are looking grim, but same for the legion. The Legion had one player that missed a few turns, but that didn't have enough impact to decide the outcome, and also happened in games that we already had pretty much in the bag. We have a similar number of active players. Clan average BoFM - Points 2202, Games played 3612, Win percentage 49, medals 42. Clan average The Legion - Points 1961, Games played 6133, Win percentage 46, medals 48. So clans are very similar, The Legion boasts more experienced players and the Pirates have a slightly higher average rank. We all know that rank doesn't equate to skill (Trust me on that, I'm a better player now then when I was a brig or a general).
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