Ironman League Event Round 3 Reulsts
Events Results by Fishibaron on April 28, 2004 at 09:08 PM

Good round of matches tonight. Started out a little slow, but picked up in the end. The winners of the night are below, but the standout player this week was Miner, who was, in a word, dominating:

Match 1:
blindsight wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 2 kills: blindsight

Match 2:
Perceptor wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 5 kills: Perceptor

Match 3:
Miner wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 3 kills: Disturbance

Match 4:
Miner wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 2 kills: Miner, cell

Match 5:
Miner wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 2 kills: blindsight, Soundforge

Match 6:
Soundforge wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 4 kills: Soundforge

Match 7:
Miner wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 4 kills: Kepi

Match 8:
Miner wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 3 kills: Miner, Drak

Ref Applications
General News by Ace on April 28, 2004 at 12:16 AM

We are currently making adjustments within the upper staff. During this time it's possible ref applications will not be reviewed and interviews not scheduled. Please be patient, we have your applications on file and will notify you of their status as soon as upper staff positions have been finalized. No need to check in, you won't be forgotten =) Also, 3 out of four squads in iml have obese members.

Ironman League Event Round 3
Events by Fishibaron on April 27, 2004 at 07:21 AM

Ironman League Event Round 3 will be held tommorrow, Wednesday, April 28th, 2004 at 7:00PM EST. Please join us for this new royal rumble style elimination individual event.

Results
General News by Ace on April 25, 2004 at 10:43 PM

There will be no box score pilot results until the MR developers get a chance to fix the Masterrater log parser for manual uploads or until the bots get permission from their new location to upload. The eta on this could be next weekend or it could be next season, hard to tell at this point. Once again, thank you for your patience. Please flame through.

Mrbots
General News by Ace on April 24, 2004 at 02:09 PM

The guys who've been hosting the bots lately have been incommunicado due to real life work and we're working towards getting them a permanent home. Until that time they will be in and out and not uploading prac/game stats automatically. It might be a little bumpy but we're working hard towards getting everything smooth again. We thank you for your patience, gimps.

Ironman League Event Round 2 Reulsts
Events Results by Fishibaron on April 21, 2004 at 08:15 PM

Due to problems with the server there was massive bot failure tonight. The Ironman Bot programmer assures me that the bot is still functional it is just that the server was messing up. So, we will continue Ironman Round 3 next week at 7pm on Wednesday. Here were the results for the two matches we were able to get in before the bot crashed: Pure Ironmen .. jaako and AcidFreak

Match 1:
jaakko wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 4 kills: jaakko

Match 2:
AcidFreak wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 8 kills: AcidFreak

Ironman League Event Round 2
Events by Fishibaron on April 21, 2004 at 03:54 AM

Ironman League Event Round 2 is Tonight! Wednesday, April 21st, 2004 at 7:00PM EST. Please join us for this new royal rumble style elimination individual event.

Ironman League Event Round 1 Results
Events Results by Fishibaron on April 14, 2004 at 08:45 PM

Today we held our first round of Ironman League in ?go Ironman. All in all, about 25 people showed up, things went smoothly, and I think everyone had a pretty good time. If you have comments/suggestions/flames or anything else to say about the event, then please post as a response to one of the "Event Feedback" posts in either the AML, IML or PRO forums. I am totally willing to change this game however you guys will like it, so please feel free to make comments. The results for Round 1 are below. For those of you confused about the results, there are 2 ways to win: 1) by being the last man standing, or 2) by getting the most kills.

Match 1:
sopwith pup wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 2 kills: Five o ford, Newgen

Match 2:
TardCart wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 3 kills: baby jesus, TardCart

Match 3:
Ace wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 3 kills: baby jesus

Match 4:
BountyKillah wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 2 kills: BountyKillah, Samara

Match 5:
Samara wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 1 kills: Solo Forever+, Samara

Match 6:
RenderGod wins, last alive
Winner(s) with 2 kills: Solo Forever+, RenderGod

Events Start Wendsday
General News by on April 12, 2004 at 01:22 AM

With the appointment of some fresh new blood as Event coord's it is my pleasure to announce that this wendsday we will be starting up regular events again. This week we will be trying a new idea called the Iron Man Event, with a cool map designed by Fishibaron, its bound to be a hit. Hope to see you all there wendsday at 7pm EST.

-Purple

Lagout rule reminder
General News by Demishadow on April 05, 2004 at 04:57 PM

From looking at old posts, the rules around lagouts have not significantly changed since atleast 2002... yet this season has shown some very vast differences between how people think the rules work on lagouts compared to how they are in the rulebook.

So, to restate it... if you lag out of a game you are burned. Doesnt matter if it was 1 second after the go, or 5 seconds after you died. You lagout, you are burned, there is NO engage limitation on this!

There is just once case where you can lagout and not be burned. This is when you are entering the game (say you are subbing a starter) and you instantly lag out. This is defined in 2 ways:
- If you "manually" enter and have not yet reached your playing freq by the time you lagout.
- If you "bot-assisted" enter and do not stay in for atleast 5 seconds before lagging out.

In the history of our appeals process it has shown that the refs are NOT reliably able to make sure if a player has engaged or not on such cases. As MRbots develop we can, and should, look into other options for this series of rules. However, atleast until next season the rules are as they are here.

Demi.

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10.3 Burning upon return from lagout

A player who returns to the arena after a lag out must use up ("burn") all ITEMS (reps, thors, portals, decoys and rockets) after changing to the right frequency. The ref will most often do this, unless he does not have a Bot to assist him. If a bot is not present the player must use all reps, rockets, decoys, warps, and thors, before rejoining combat. The player must not send decoys or thors in the direction of the battle.

10.7 Instantaneous lagouts and consequences

If a player returns from a lag out but lags again before changing to their team frequency, it does not count as another lag out. If the player changed to their frequency and then lagged out, it counts as another lag out. In the case where a ref automatically puts the player into the correct frequency the lag out will not count if it happens inside the first 5 seconds of being put into the game.

10.5 Consequences of engaging before being burned

If you try to engage the enemy before you are burned; you will be assigned a death and given a new ship if you still have lives remaining.

Easter Holiday
General News by Covert Agent on April 05, 2004 at 12:32 PM

This Sunday is Easter Sunday. Matches this weekend are optional (only played if both teams agree). Any matches not played this weekend will be played the following weekend (April 17-18). Additionally teams can schedule any makeup matches (assuming again that both teams agree to play).

Daylight Savings
General News by Ace on April 02, 2004 at 03:14 PM

Please note that the clock on the right side of this site is based on your own PCs internal clock and may not adjust to the time change that will occur ET on Saturday. Matches will be played based on eastern time so be sure to doublecheck your time so you don't miss your match.

Use this link to check the current Eastern time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=179
Daylight Saving Alerts/Notices

Also note that 4pm matches are booked solid. It is possible some matches may be starting late. If your match is 30 minutes late or longer in starting BOTH captains can agree to postpone or delay. Make sure your team can stay longer to avoid a weak showing. If you delay your match and wish to play the same day you must contact a ref directly and arrange for him/her to ref your match at another time.

Some rules/misc stuff
General News by Demishadow on April 01, 2004 at 07:14 PM

Hmm...

On the rules forum I have posted (very generally) what I think is currently the options on the table, for NEXT season, about rule 12.4

http://premier.shanky.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7172

As to the euro rule (rule 4.4)... yes, it is being discussed inside the staff. Over the next few days, if I am not way to busy, some more will be posted publically (on the rules forum) and the public can then give an opinion on the options listed.

Suprem is running a pro-based poll on the issue of mines/no-mines in Pro League for next season. Once again, how much interest that is shown to this issue will aid us in figuring out what kinda attention to put on it. As it is a mainly-pro issue at the moment the poll is on the pro forum. Suprem asks for only pro-players to vote which is as I think it should be... but anyone is definitly free to comment.

http://premier.shanky.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7199

Demi.