The Battle of the Elite 2001 has just been announced and will be taking place August 11th. Unlike other tournaments, BOTE is set up where any BBS may submit one team to play for them.

Then there’s also the BOTRU

As you may have heard, WTC closed down for a few days so that JP could fix the corruption in the game. While he did fix it, I wonder if the game can continue without it happening again. I know at least two people who’s ships have been changing around on them even now. One had a max ISS change to a merchant frighter, a pod, then a maxed havoc.

Also new for the WTC is the latest version of TWGS: Now at v.47. New in this revision are:

– ALL ships in fedspace are now being repossessed at extern (Which makes this obsolete.)
– a 50% chance of a turn being deduced while fleeing. Used to cut down the cash made from SDF.
– Lastly, I think a screenshot is in order:

In the continuing saga of StarDock running out of materials for ships, Prophet wasn’t online during extern yesterday which caused his ships to get repossesed.

With other corps scripting to grab any available ship slots over the past week, the removal of these ships didn’t help the spam at stardock. Which is in a word, cool. Now not only do I get spam at Stardock, but also in the logs! I don’t believe there’s any immediate threat of the ship limit being hit again, but as Miss Cleo predicted, I’m probably wrong.

I’m sure you’ve already heard about the ship incident in the WTC. I’m sure you were expecting to hear about it here first. I’m sure you wern’t suprised when you didn’t. Inbetween moving and working torwards a new site design, I always felt there was more I need to write or redo before it was done. It started with a few paragraphs and ended up being a few pages.

I wanted to talk about a couple things regarding the WTC 2001.

First off, the chances are very good I won’t be playing WTC unless I get an offer I can’t refuse which won’t happen. This is gonna be a terrific summer. My kids are finally old enough that I can take them places and have some fun..even go to an amusement park and go on the nasty rides with them instead of just watching them putter along on a kiddie ride. We plan on going to the beach. We plan to go camping. We plan to do a lot of other stuff. I certainly won’t waste my summer getting podded by the various 12-20 member super-megacorps entering the WTC when I can be outside being active and having some fun. I still will pop in a game or two just to chat and stuff and will most definitely still run my games at Fament and operate this website. I also will be helping Macahan with the BOTE since I’m a co-sysop at Fament.

Another thing I want to say about the WTC is this: I’m told Bad Girl and Guardian aren’t playing WTC. Damn shame cuz while many individuals has won a major 2 times in a row , I dont think a team has won two in a row or at least the core of the team won 2 in a row. Example is this: Peacemaker and Rawhead Rex won first 2 USO’s but with different teammates. Last year the team of Bad Girl, Peacemaker, Guardian, Mirkath, Atog, and Lady Ice won the WTC. They still are together but as Dragon Elite and Dragon Elite has more members on the team as well, for example, Darth Vader – a nasty ass hunter and killer, and Speedy – a dedicated farmer who does his job well. Add the likes of Dietrich and Hammer and there’s a hell of a team with an astounding chance of being team repeat champions of a major tournament – a feat never accomplished unless I’m wrong. but without Bad Girl and Guardian playing, Dragon Elite cant really be called repeat champs even if Peacemaker, Lady Ice, Mirkath and Atog are 4 of the 6 players recognized as champs.

The Good Guys, however, might end up being the first team to win 2 different majors in a row, providing the same 6 players who won the USO are also winners of the WTC. Who knows?

Be interesting to see who all enters the WTC and if any entries end up becoming secret entries such as the Death Corp of last year’s WTC or the Cleaning Crew of this year’s USO.

For those of you that missed Eleq’s notice about the WTC being free now (yes, it is, however, if you still choose to donate, money will be send to the Bud Fund and donors will be listed as Stardock BBS donors on the site) and about registrations now being open, this is your notice! 🙂

EleqTrizi’T with your team line-up, and make sure you specify the CEO.

Hekate told me this morning that Bud called her around 10:30PST last night and told her he was going home. Things weren’t as bad as we thought. Glad to hear the news Bud!

So I’m deciding to make the WTC a voluntary donation. And of the voluntary donations, at least half will go to a pay-out for the winners, but only if they also donated. The payout will also be based on the amount of each donation.

You may begin registering FREELY now.

Even though I haven’t received any complaints or concerns over WTC’s donation-oriented nature, I am going to make these changes…I’m going to lower the exemption to $40. I’m also going to allow anyone in high school or below to be exempt from donations as well. You will need to be willing to provide proof of age if requested, however.

I plan to use the WTC as a once-a-year game-based fund raiser.

Here’s the information from the TW gOD himself…That’s right, it’s time for WAR. Deadly, low-down, devastating, take-a-toll-on-your-soul WAR. I proudly present WTC 2001!!

Jump over to the WTC page for information!!

https://www.thestardock.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?wtc.htm

Well since it is such a quiet week in TW I thought I would share with everyone that Prestone (the big meanie!) ran into Bambi the other night.. and I mean that literally! He did go back to look for the pod but it was no where in sight…looks like his ISS may have to be in the shop a week or two.

Lethal Lottery is coming up soon…should be alot of fun. I am sure the day by day results will be published in egroups!