For winning HHT 2000. See graphic here. It is too big to fit on this column. Those of you on slow dial up like Cruncher, I apologize in advance for the size of the graphic. www.booinc.com has full stats of the tournament.

The HHT is over. Space Ghost has given the victory to the Rebel Alliance. Esoteric Alliance came in 2nd. And Cloud Nine led by Xanos came in third. Space Ghost has explained the following reason for the controversey surrounding Megahertze’s ability to come back after 5 deaths:

“The Reason for Mega Hertze’s Return after 5 deaths is believed to be the result of going form one version of TWGS to anorther version and then Returningback to the previuos version. The only people who ever had any Access to the game’s tedit was EleQ and Fuse,,,and fuse didnt even know the he could till this happened,…..Server changes happend to this Tourny and for that I’m Sorry…..”

Sometimes these things cant be helped. TWGS is still in beta after all. The bugs always come out at all major games. To top it off, this game was orginally at Eclipse hosted by Intergate with one set of global settings. Then it had to go to the Home Sector/Stardock BBS, whose global settings are completely different. If the file was also sent from one version of the TWGS to another version, it could affect the game as well. I also noticed Eleq upgraded to .43 then downgraded back to .39. All this can really affect one game greatly.

Now I want to respond to a post on the SilverWings website that got me REALLY REALLY mother-f**king pissed off!. Big D posted this comment on the SW website.

“OK. Well that pretty much was the opposite of what another well respected member of the Tradewars community said when he stated that he was almost positive that Timberwolf had tedit access to be able to update the HHT game stats for certain newspages. Anyway, that’s his story and he’s sticking to it. “

Big D, are you IMPLYING that I had something to do with this controversy????????? Fuck no! What reason would I have to do this? What would I possibily gain by this???? I’ll have you know I never got TEDIT access to the HHT since it was moved to the SD BBS. I have asked Eleq a few times for access and finally got a response a few days ago only to find out the admin password was different than the Eclipse Server. The same day SG shut down HHT, Eleq finally gave me access to get past the BBS and into the port to the TWGS adminstration. I then typed my name and the admin password for the HHT I was given when it was at Eclipse/Intergate. I thought Space Ghost gave me a local admin password and it seemed that the admin password wasnt sent with the file and Eleq used a different password so I never got in the TEDIT at the SD BBS TWGS . The HHT was already shut down so I decided then to just forget it and let SG deal with it.

Big D, I take excellent pride in my honesty and reputation for all the games I run and I never..ever..have thought about using the editor..not even once..to help benefit a player or two. And I’m greatly insulted by the comment you posted on the SW website. I demand a public apology in all the Y-groups forums and on your website and also the comment retracted from your website. I also want this “well respected member of the Tradewars community” identified. This player then also should make the apology for EVEN thinking I had something to do with the Megahertze controversy.

Or..there will be HELL to pay. You got my word on that.

If you did not already notice the graphic on the splash page, here it is again:

More announcements about the WTC 2001 coming soon!

Congratulations to The Rebel Alliance for dominating the HHT 2000! The team consisted of Stonewall (Red CEO), Moldar, Chunky, Oso, Devil Dog (Blue CEO), and Neo! They played one hell of a game and I was lucky enough to be eliminated by Stonewall one night when I wasn’t able to make extern .Second place went to: Esoteric Alliance – Ovid, Planet Hopper, Coale, White Knight, Commando, and Bazzaarr.

In a CLOSE Third Place: Cloud Nine – Xanos, Nightwing, Brilliant Beast, Tienzi, Reydar, and Vasilis.

Congrats to all of these players for sticking it out until the bitter end!

Here’s an update that I received from the owner/founder of the USO, Bad Girl, when asked for a current update on the tournament. There are also some interesting facts thrown in there about this year’s USO so far!“The USO is going great. We had 114 players registered and 93 logged into play. The first night there were many poddings and killings. Mr Clean still ranks as #1 killer and podder with 31 poddings and 19 kills…but watch out that New Zealander XIDE is approaching him fast with 18 kills. Many players have come to shine in this tourney…we are seeing some excellent playing from players who normally only play on small servers. We have been hearing from many of the players that is has been the best tournament so far. Those that have been eliminated have come back to tell us they had a great time and will be back next year for sure.

Here are a few highlights:

So far 18 people have been podded by Nav Haz and 6 people have been killed from it.
12 people CBY’d
4 people have been podded by mines and 3 have been killed by mines.
1 person has been podded by corbo
2 have been podded by planets
1 has been blown up and killed on a port

We have had a small problem with TWGS but Eleq fixed it as soon as he became of aware of the problem. This tourney has been running very well. For those that didnt play …well all I can say is you are missing a fun one!

Bad Girl”

Thanks Bad Girl!! As a player in the USO myself, I must say I’m having a wonderful time! One thing that Bad Girl forgot to add was that one person so far has been podded by Captain Zyrain (way to go DarkOne {Grin}).

If you missed out on the tournament this year, be sure to check it out next year! For up-to-date information on this year’s game check out the official USO 2001 site!

Yesterday Space Ghost had me shut the doors on the Haunted Halloween Tournament currently being hosted on Stardock BBS. So if you are one of the eleven players that were still in the game and you are having troubles with your game password, now you know why. ;)There is no official winner at this time, but as soon as I hear word, it will be posted!

I also want to give mad propzzz to my man Space Ghost for running a fine game! I enjoyed myself greatly before I was eliminated! Good work Tom!

The HHT is closed pending an investigation by Space Ghost regarding the controversy surrounding Megahertze’s death count. Space Ghost posted this info in various groups today:

Many Many Many thanks to EleqTrizi’T & thestardock.com For Hosting the HHT.

Due to some Questions Concerning A users DeathCount , I have asked Fuseblown to CLOSE the game by changing all User P/W’s….

I will determine its destiny after i have heard back from all of the players that are active in the HHT…….As the Player involved hasnt responded to me yet I will Wait to hear from him and his team. Again, Thanks a lot E!!!!! i really appreciate you and Andrew for Hosting the Game.

Timberwolf is covering news of the Haunted Halloween Tournament on his web site, TW Gazette once again!Also, please don’t forget that we have HHT logs online in our Game Logs section, along with all of the other games currently being hosted on Stardock BBS!

A new tournament is hitting the scenes this year. The Canadian Trade Wars tournament will begin on April 1, 2001. It will be hosted by Mission: NightHawk BBS (winning team of BOTE 2000).The practice game for this upcoming tournament will begin TONIGHT at 8pm EST at nighthawk.lakehead.net. Make sure you check it out!

Check out this screen cap from the server. The most people online I’ve ever seen at once. Congrats to Bad Girl and Guardian, their USO Tournament’s popularity is the sole reason for this.