Register your team NOW for the 2002 WTC starting a couple of weeks! Please be sure to sign-up with the names that you wish to logon to the TWGS with!

Click Here to register your team now!

Just a reminder that the official WTC warmup game has begun over at MemphisTW! Telnet to siglinp.tzo.com:2000 to play! This is your chance to get ready for the big game..

Written by Ender:
As most of you may know if you keep up with chat in the TW League…we are currently trying to put toghter a new tournament idea. Brackets, like the NFL Playoff brackets, were one team plays another and the winner advances to the next round. I need some pepople that would like to help me with the idea, and someone who would like to hook us up with a server for a while. I dont know how many games there would be, there for I dont know how long we would need the server, or how many games would have to be on the server. Maybe we need a BBS, I dont know. But if you have any way you can help me out, e-mail me at Daniel_E_Higginbotham@yahoo.com.

So that everyone knows…I have created a forum specifically for the 2002 WTC under the Home Sector Forum. Use this to discuss any issues before and after the game has started.

I have been asked about this a couple of times and the plans have now been set! There will be an official WTC warmup game over at Memphis TW (telnet://memphistw.org:2000)!

Settings will be exactly as they will be in the actual tournament this year, with the exception of the universe seed, so this is your chance to prepare! Date and time are posted in the “upcoming events” box on the right!

Written by Cherokee:
TW CHESS round 3 is over.

Great job to all who played!

Silver Dragon has posted his own USO wrap-up article over at Planet Tradewars.

USO will be turned over to Hardcoded from now on and I’m sure they’ll do a good job of upkeeping the tournament.

Thankfully, MacAhan will *not* be pulling the plug on FEN anytime soon! He has also restored BOTE ’01 as close to its previous state as he could to the point before a lot of the players were CBY’d by an infiltrator.

BOTE ’01 will reopen on April 5th at 6:00pm Central time.

USO 2002 is now officially over! Corp [6] consisting of Xide (CEO), Gravdigr, Hekate, hELLCAT, Rave, and Speedy are declared the winners. RN: Bad Corp and Star Endeavors come in at second and third. Check the official USO 2002 site for official information!

Also, BOTE 2001 looks like it may end on a sour note as I’m sure most of you have heard. Someone managed to gain sysop access and proceed to CBY some of the players. MacAhan’s checking into everything, trying to figure out who did it. Either way, it looks as though the game might turnout to be the stalemate that some of the players wanted. FEN could be shut down for good due to this incident, but myself and many others hope that won’t be the case.

Friday I’m doing some more work. More ZOC scripts might be added. Links page will be re-done to have websites broken up into different categories like corp site, TWGS site, news site, etc. I’ll be adding a USO News page. Yes while Planet TW and Guardian both will be doing USO news, I’ll also be doing my own version of the news as well. In fact, this website will have a permanent Game News page section where I’ll have news of all the games I’m currently covering/playing in. Speaking of the USO, here are a few questions about it that can only be answered at game time:

�         Will Space Ghost regain his title of the “Ghost with the Most pods in the USO” or will he last long enough to give his team a fighting chance?

�         Will Res Judicata CBY when one of his teammates make a mistake or will he play on and overcome the mistake by his teammate?

�         Will the USO be beset by corruption enough to warrant a rebang or will it be able to be played without a rebang – the latter never have been done in past USO’s?

�         Can Hardcoded handle 70+ people at once?

�         Will the major bugs appear or re-appear during the course of the game? The nasty bugs have a way of coming out in the big games.

�         Will a team you never heard of step forward to give the big boys a fight or will one of the favorites play up to their potential and wipe out everyone else as they promised in previous forum smack talk?

�         Finally – Who will win USO 2002? – this one can be answered in Mid April.