Hello Team
BENELUX and welcome to STAGE 3 of the WoF.
This is the first of two group Stages. A draw was conducted a short while after the last match of Stage 2, with my 2-year old daughter Inara doing the honours and pulling 18 different colour jellybeans out of a bowl. She ate most of them but we recorded the order (each group, top, middle and bottom, was given 6 colours and drawn separately). Here are the Groups: You are in Group C.
Group A:
1. DACH / 2. FINLAND / 3. CZECH
Group B:
1. SWEDEN / 2. AMETHERA / 3. POLAND
Group C:
1. USA / 2. ITALY / 3. BENELUX
Group D:
1. GREAT BRITAIN / 2. EUDORIA / 3. WALES
Group E:
1. FRANCE / 2. ROMANIA / 3. CANADA
Group F:
1. GUINEA / 2. AUSTRALIA / 3. AFRICA
All teams will now hunt against the others in their Group. Each team has TWO matches in Stage 3.
MATCH SCHEDULE: Each Group will conduct the following matches;
Team 1 vs Team 2
Team 1 vs Team 3
Team 2 vs Team 3
HUNT WEEKENDS:
November 22nd/23rd
December 6th/7th
December 13th/14th
You have two matches to organise. Please contact your opponents and agree a timeslot from the six already in use (
SAT 14:00, 19:00,
SUN 00:00, 07:00, 12:00, 17:00) as soon as possible. Your matches can take place in any order and on any of the 6 days listed above. Any matches not played by the last slot of the Stage (17:00 Sunday December 14th) will be declared a no-score. Any team who agrees a time then does not attend will be scored 0. All matches will start on time unless there are major technical issues. Teams may start a hunt late but will finish hunting when their opponents do. Any team finding it hard to agree a time MUST suggest 4 out of the 6 timeslots they CAN hunt (and therefore agree with at least one of their opponent's 4) or forfeit the match. If Team A offers four options and none are agreed by Team B then the match takes place on the preferred timeslot of Team A. If neither team offers 4 choices of timeslot and no choices coincide then both teams score 0 for that match.
PLEASE AGREE AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE, PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE OF THE DIFFERENT TIME-ZONES OF YOUR OPPONENTS, PM ME ALL AGREED TIMESLOTS ASAP STATING ALL TEAMS INVOLVED PLEASE.
Team BENELUX, your upcoming matches are:
BENELUX vs ITALY
BENELUX vs USA
Short Straw Bonus of 10 points now applies to Main and Support respectively.
Details below.
Loot Bonus of 15 points now applies.
Win Bonus of 100 points per match now applies.
After all matches are played, Team scores will be totalled and the top two teams in each group will progress to
Stage 4. Stage 4 will consist of 3 groups of 4. The top
3 scoring Teams from Stage 3 will be
seeded to head each group in Stage 4. The Groups will then be decided with a second draw with Inara and the jellybeans.
STAGE 3 MOBLIST:
MAIN TEAM:
HISPIDUS: Provider and Above: 10 points
CAPERON: Provider and Above: 9 points
ITUMATROX: ANY: 8 points
CAPERON: Young, Mature and Old: 7 points
HISPIDUS: Young, Mature and Old: 6 points
KINGFISHER: ANY: 5 points
/ Carries
SHORT STRAW BONUS highest amount in a global during the match on a 5 point mob earns that team
10 points at the close of the match.
SUPPORT:
ATRAX: ANY: 4 points
/ Some ATRAX QUEENS may appear in certain spawns, these also score 4 also so it might be best to avoid them until after the match.
TANTARDION: ANY: 3 points
/ More due to arrive, co-ords to be announced.
ARGONAUT: ANY: 2 points
SABAKUMA: ANY: 1 point
/ Carries
SHORT STRAW BONUS highest amount in a global during the match on a 1 point mob earns that team
10 points at the close of the match.
/ Rumour has it some extra-large Sabakumas will be arriving to bolster their wriggly ranks.
BONUS MOB: WILD CARD.
/ The
first team in a match to global on an
unlisted mob will make that mob the Bonus Mob
for that match and score 25 points.
Their opponents must then hunt whatever it was to get their 25 points. All Wild cards are ANY maturity i.e. opponents only need global on the same species, not maturity that the first team scored with.
Exceptions: No Turp, gibnib, fugabarba, no mob unavailable to your opponents for hunting, no mob not found on Calypso in a current spawn. No mob that requires a toxic shot to hunt due to location (unless also found elsewhere on Calypso). Robots allowed. Vanguards not allowed. Event mobs not allowed. FOMA and CP mobs not allowed. Shared Loot mobs not allowed.
START/FINISH POINT
67700, 71830, 271
A nice valley with a lovely view
CALYPSO CROSS:
From this Stage to the Final, each match offers the chance for one team to win the Calypso Cross. This is an award for the Team that scores the most per person during a single match.
Example:
Team A score 250 using 5 people in total = 50 points per person.
Team B score 500 using 25 people in total = 20 points per person.
After the Final, when every score of every match is analysed, whatever team scored the most points per person will win the award. This is intended to reward those determined smaller teams who punch above their weight and achieve a good score despite a lack of numbers, but could as easily reward a larger team who hunt efficiently despite the chaos of the WoF
The award itself has been confirmed, the details of the prize have not. Will keep you posted.
Hurrikane
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