Well hello everyone.
First, the news you need to hear; there will still be a WoF this year.
My Internet is poised to be connected on March 16th, although this is the seventh or eighth date I been given for said event. This looks more promising though; they actually put the phone poles in, the cable is coiled up ten feet from the building it's due to connect to. I stare at it daily. All it seems to need now is for the biggest and some might say only telecommunications installer in the entire country to send some guy with a pair of pliers and join the f@cking thing together. It has only taken since december 2010. Yes, well over a year. To install a phone line in a building less than 100 metres from the nearest pole. And we wonder why Britannia don't rule the waves no more.
Anyhow; so I did think that if all goes well, and I'm online in late March, the following will probably have to happen before the WoF begins;
I'll have to spend a little while familiarising myself with the new stuff in the game. I have been dropping in from time to time but I can't run the WoF without a working knowledge of the spawns and LA's. Tried before, doesn't work
Then I want to promote it, properly. There will be a website just for WoF where the teams and Judges will register. There will be in-game ads, forum ads, virals, the works.
Anyone who fancies the Job of promoter send me a PM. It might even pay. Anyone interested in helping with the website, drop me a PM too. The same goes for anyone who wants to help in any way, be it Judging, archiving or anything you think would help.
Then we launch.
Realistically (and this is all hinging on whether British F@cking Telecom do what they should) we are now looking at WoF registration being late summer, perhaps August. By then I hope to have the people and plans in place for a sixth WoF to remember, instead of a hastily-executed mess.
To those contacting me for LA sponsorship: I will respond, but there might be a delay. Just sorting it out so we have a good deal for everyone
Thanks to everyone for your patience.
On matters of nationality and other rules; Most, if not all of the things I have "Allowed" have been either things I could not easily control or
ingenious solutions to playing within the written rules. To apply rules is harder than most people think; a tournament operating with as much freedom as possible was a core part of the WoF's conception. When teams have pm'd me in the past to ask if something they have thought of doing is okay to do, I have never been asked anything that would constitute unfair play. In fact, as most of these tactics were originally conceived by smaller teams desperate to score higher, it can be said that their use actually levelled the playing field and made it a fairer competition all around. Some teams could use their might, others their ingenuity. The fact that these crafty takes on the rules got noticed, emulated and became legitimate styles of play (with their own names etc) is just part of how the WoF is evolving. And, most importantly; a devious team full of cheats do not ask the organiser if they can use a certain tactic, do they? They ask so that the tactic can be seen to be approved and therefore is open to be
used by anyone else who thinks it will work. That's another thing; they
don't all work.
So to summarise; stop worrying about what the other teams might do. Concentrate on how yours is going to score more than them. If someone adopts your killer plan next time be proud, and think of a better one.
When I launch the WoF properly I will highlight the new incentives for smaller teams, but the first two rules of WoF remain firm: Free to Enter, Open to All. It's all a big gang fight. Pick your gangs and go at it, have a blast along the way. See you all soon.
Hurrikane
