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CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby laughingcavalier on Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:39 pm

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Welcome Comrades to the 44th edition of the Dispatch! :) *giggles*

*tears up* Oh my goodness, I can't believe this is happening! I'd first like the thank samuelc812, and the Academy, of course... *chuckles*

Yes, yes! It's my first publication of the Dispatch! And my fellow reporters and executives have graced this issue well with their magical typing fingers - jricart and his new tournamigo, Angola, takes over for a Tournament Players' Association Update, two maps share the spotlight for the awesomest* section, laughingcavalier and company provide the most jam-packed Platoon Report I've ever seen (including an exclusive clan MVP article), and a fellow mafia goon joins me for a double dose of mafia goodness (or should I say, "goonness" :D :) :| :( )! Oh, oh! And I lead the short bus charge in Georgerx7di's fantastical interview! :P

So, dear friends and foes, I hope you all enjoy Issue 44! Remember you can apply to be a reporter or send in your own articles! Just click on the link below, underneath "Recruitment", or PM the appropriate Dispatch Executive (see bottom of post).

Cheers and thanks for reading,
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*Disclaimer: All sections are equally as awesome. Also, "awesomest" is not actually in the English Dictionary, contrary to popular belief.

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This edition we have for you an expanded scum insider! Safariguy5 has joined forces with Victor to add some advance strategy tips for mafia and how to play. If you are interested in the game then head over to the mafia games forum and sign up to one of the open games! You'll be hooked very quickly. Elsewhere DoomYoshi shares with us another random game analysis. Find out more below! We also have an interrogation of Georgerx7di, one of CC's very own spanking monkeys! I'd like to also take a moment to thank Wacicha who has retired from the team for all the work he has done with the society of cooks. He has an honour wall dedicated to him if you would like to add your own thoughts.


We also have an extra treat for you, the return of the Cook!

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Random Game Analysis by DoomYoshi

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Scum Insider by Victor Sullivan and Safariguy5

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Clickable maps review by kaisermikeb

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show: Interrogation of Georgerx7di

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Hi again amigos and welcome to your favorite part of the Newsletter, "War Games", where you can find information about CC Tournaments.

On this release of War Games, we have Dukasaur's Meet the Tournament Winners article featuring interviews with Tripitaka and xman5151. Both of these members recently won tournaments both run by Sniper. Dukasaur says, "I chose these players to interview the way I usually do, by browsing the lists of completed tournaments, and I didn't realize at the time that both tournaments were Sniper's. I didn't want anyone to think that we were playing favourites, it happened by chance, but I think it shows just how hard Sniper has been working, running many tournaments at once."

Angola, one of our new writers is taking over the "TPA Update" in this issue, and Soldierboy is giving us an update about new tournaments in his "Join This? or Not!" release.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and we hope you like our section.

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Meet the Tournament Winners! by Dukasaur
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TPA Update by Angola
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Join this? or Not! by soldierboy
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BAM! Natty brought back the Cook, and now Map Spotlight - giving you two interviews for the price of one issue (free) to make up for last issue! Also, yours truly briefly interviewed a few older Foundry mapmakers/commenters/cartographers, so check-check it! And (after a bit of drama) the Foundry team has a new reporter - OliverFA! I couldn't be happier to have him on board, and I hope you're just as excited as I am to see what he has in store for us next issue!

Cheers,
Victor Sullivan
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Map Spotlight: Quad Cities and Research & Conquer by natty_dread
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Time Machine by Victor Sullivan
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Clan news this issue? There's too much news - the active challenges forum has spilled on to a second page for the first time. Much of the activity is in the new competitions, the Newcomers' Cup, where a host of new clans are establishing themselves and the 1on1 challenge which is pioneering exploration into new challenge formats. Our coverage focuses on:

The Clan League - Agents of Chaos and The Spanking Monkeys have upset many pundits by making it through to take on Knights of the Round Table and Immortal Assassins respectively in the playoff semi-finals which start this week. We celebrate the regular season's Most Valuable Players, announced exclusively here in the Dispatch.

The Conqueror's Cup - season 2 kicks off so we speak to organiser Chuuuuck, and season 1 is within days of finishing: will it be KORT or THOTA who take the crown?

There's a lot of debate about how you rank clans - I don't understand it, but apparently Leehar does - hopefully you will too after you've read his article.

But clans are not all about competition: they're about having fun with mates. One player who has made this happen is Blackknight_6. In the first of a series of articles he shares what he has done in The Fourth Crusade to spice up his clan.

If there's one thing all of us clan members do it is take ourselves too seriously. Warning - stop now guys. Else our new columnist Master Fenrir will live up to his promise to get in your business, your faces, your grills, your Kool Aid, and your shizzle...

With special thanks to bruceswar of KoRT for producing, at zero notice, the clan icons which fill out our coverage.

laughingcavalier, Clans Editor

Clan League: MVPs announced by laughingcavalier (TSM)
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Conqueror's Cup Season 2 Preview by Leehar (Nemesis)
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Conqueror's Cup Season 1: The Finals by laughingcavalier (TSM)
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My Clan's Better Than Yours - Rankings Explained by Leehar (Nemesis)
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Spice Up Your Clan by Blackknight_6 (T4C)
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HARDBALLS with Master Fenrir (FOED)
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby InsomniaRed on Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:13 pm

Sporting my WWBD avi in conjunction with Master Fenrir's AWESOME article!!!
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby General Brock II on Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:00 pm

Why hasn't anybody bothered to interview me? :lol:
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Serbia on Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:14 pm

Nice interview, Tripitaka! :D
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:03 am

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"It's gonna be clamp this, clamp that. Bada-climp, bada-clamp!"

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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby OliverFA on Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:14 am

I would like to thank natty_dread for taking the time to write the spotlight about Research & Conquer. After more than two years, and all the obstacles and difficulties that the map has had to endure, it's nice to see it receiving some care :)
Welcoming the long awaited Trench Warfare Setting (Previously Adjacent Attacks).

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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Bruceswar on Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:20 am

Thanks for the mention. I hope next time you can use all the icons so they match up. Fun issue here. Look forward to the next one.

P.S. 43 icons in under 24 hours is pretty dang good.
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby safariguy5 on Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:20 pm

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Image

"It's gonna be clamp this, clamp that. Bada-climp, bada-clamp!"

-TG

"That's the last of it, now let's mafia things up a bit. Joey burn down the ship. Clamps burn down the crew."
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Qwert on Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:30 pm

Blitzaholic wrote:
qwert's is the biggest joke by whoever has the best winning %, for example we barely beat your clan 21-20, and lets say the clan ranked 21st beats the clan ranked 40th like 50 to 10, does that mean the 21st clan is better thna nemesis and thota? NO, but, qwert would have you beleive yes, seriously, it is a disgrace and joke to anyone who knows anything.

Blitzaholic wrote:
Jp's is flawed by idiotic math and he weighs 8 and 16 game challenges in small legues for clan seasons too heavy, it is too small a sample of games, the challenges should not count at all unless they are 40 games or more


=D> =D> , you deserve nobel price for perception of top 10 clans
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby jpcloet on Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:41 pm

No need to take shots at Blitz, let his own words speak. The RPI ladder had the league as a whole, so his facts are incorrect on that one. The first comment is fair in that is how ELO works, it is all about winning and win % so it won't work for all clans. There is a reason why the perception ladders have virtually no math in them. :)
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Leehar on Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:01 pm

Lol, tbh for the most part all 4 of you felt your rankings were the best, which is pretty understandable, I felt the pot shots added that little extra touch.
I still felt you guys did a good job showing the different views out there. If I had more time I was considering adding some community quotes as well for a more holistic approach.
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Commander9 on Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:32 pm

Just wanted to save that I loved reading Fen's work - possibly the best article I've ever read in this dispatch.
But... It was so artistically done.
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Qwert on Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:19 pm

i must say that i remove win% from mine ranking,and they wrong read mine ranking, and its based on points ,not win %.
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby HippieBroker on Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:27 pm

OMG...You are brilliant Fen!
you just made my day!
Keep up the great work!
No wonder I'm a major only. I've always asked myself "what would fen do" when I should have been asking "what would blitz do"!!??

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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby InsomniaRed on Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:34 pm

Can Master Fenrir get like MVP for this issue? :P He was brilliant.
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Qwert on Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:47 pm

>Being in the Top 10 of everything or Thota?<

I think that these whas most hard question to answer.
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Army of GOD on Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:54 pm

...
how about that Cook comic? Man, that one's a knee slapper














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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby InsomniaRed on Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:12 pm

What a great comic strip!!
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby RjBeals on Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:25 pm

that was interesting.
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby nagerous on Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:00 am

The cook has a surprise animation too! Hope you guys picked up on it :)
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby laughingcavalier on Thu Mar 24, 2011 5:10 pm

Our league MVP had no idea he'd won when we first approahced him for a quote.... he's expanded on what he had to say:

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i'd like to thank my agent, my director, my -oops wrong speech. lest there be any doubt my real skill is in picking genius teammates. among others ballen, josko and rodion.
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby BlackKnight_6 on Fri Mar 25, 2011 2:33 am

Great going Fenrir on that Hardballs piece. True satirical journalism. We love it!

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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Master Fenrir on Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:12 am

Thanks to everyone. True credit goes to Blitz for answering those questions and having a good sense of humor about everything. =D>
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby Ace Rimmer on Fri Mar 25, 2011 7:54 am

Master Fenrir wrote:Thanks to everyone. True credit goes to Blitz for answering those questions and having a good sense of humor about everything. =D>


Can we get him a medal for it?
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Re: CC Dispatch [Issue 44: 22-3-11] Curious George(rx7di)

Postby wolfpack0530 on Sat Mar 26, 2011 1:30 am

jakewilliams wrote:
Master Fenrir wrote:Thanks to everyone. True credit goes to Blitz for answering those questions and having a good sense of humor about everything. =D>


Can we get him a medal for it?


i second that =D>

real good dispatch. i love hard balls. and now you have brought them too meeeee
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