Midweek Madness: W50 Newsletter

[Pudgy Panda]

Archive
1st Edition - 1st of September 2010 - LINK HERE
2nd Edition - 9th of September 2010 - LINK HERE

Rules of this Thread
1) No spamming.
2) No flame wars. Please understand that when writing I remain as objective as I possibly can. Intellectual arguments over something you disagree with are welcome – flaming is not. I have not and will not ever flame any tribe (or player) in this thread, and I expect to be paid the same respect by you, the readers.

Table of Contents
This is the main layout that I’ll be using for this newsletter. Sometimes I will add special articles and features, but for the most part this will be the weekly line up:

Spoiler:

1. Maps
2. Rankings
3. Main Article
4. Sub Article (Usually includes interview)
5. Guest Columns - NEW!!!
6. War Room - NEW!!!
7. Survey Section

Newsletter Staff

Editor in Chief: FrailBeauty
Name: Daria
Age: 18
Location: St Petersburg, Russia.
TW Experience: I have played past worlds before, but I tend to think of W50 as the world where I evolved from nub to.. Erm, not-so-nub.
IGN: I am a co-player on the Zalem account.
Tribe: CBears
Other worlds: Currently I am only playing one other world (W51).
Skype - pandabearsftw

Guest Columnist: Hazad
Name: Hazad or Haz will suffice
Age: 22
Location: Not going to reveal this for now.
TW Experience: Almost 2 years I think. I first began in the core of w26, which was not a healthy starting point for someone with no familiararity with the game. Once I got annihilated there, I went back to w16 and joined right out on the rim, which was a great place to learn the simple game mechanics. I performed well there but I didn't truly learn much in the way of technical skills until w32, which was my faviourite world so far by a long shot. I joined w50 hoping to replicate that experience.
IGN: Hazad
Tribe: SchOol
Other worlds (current): I quit w32 for quite a while, and my account got annihilated, but I have since gone back to play around a bit.

[pipes2]

Favourite forum personality:SS
Worst forum personality:Faaaaark
Best tribe (not including your own):SchOoL
Worst tribe: HUG
Best in-game player: C0V3RT(#11rank-#1ODA)
Worst in-game player:Astronomy
Most promising tribe:~HELL~

[Buzz268]

I like it. Great Job.

[Doctor Claw]

Official Introduction
Hello there, W50. I trust you are all doing well (what with all these wars going on to keep you busy and all). It is my great pleasure to bring you the first edition of this new weekly newsletter (see title above). Midweek Madness indeed. There is never a dull moment for those of us that have fully dedicated ourselves to this world, be it in-game or on the externals. I thought it would be a good idea to have a place where weekly updates, articles, and interviews could be posted. In months to come it will be interesting to look back and see how much has changed.

I have two rules which all of us here need to follow if we want to keep this thread going.
1) No spamming.
2) No flame wars. Please understand that when writing this I remained as objective as I possibly could. Intellectual arguments over something you disagree with are welcome – flaming is not. I have not and will not ever flame any tribe (or player) in this thread, and I expect to be paid the same respect by you, the reader.

Fantastic newsletter!
But I got no mention in the introduction for inspiring you to start this. I feel neglected

[lordsanchez]

Nice letter frail.
I really enjoied the fact that you were capable of sitting on the fence while writing it, which makes it enjoyable for both sides

Favourite forum personality:SS
Worst forum personality:Faaaaark
Best tribe (not including your own):SchOoL
Worst tribe: HUG
Best in-game player: C0V3RT(#11rank-#1ODA)
Worst in-game player:Astronomy
Most promising tribe:~HELL~

You're just a goof.

[pipes2]

You're just a goof.

I cant stand any tribe that disbands and just takes the best members back
It would be END but there too bad to count in my opinion after more disbanding then i care to count

[Ground-Zero]

I cant stand any tribe that disbands and just takes some members back

It would be END but there too bad to count in my opinion

This is worst tribe in the world, so [END] do indeed count.

Your post is just full of bias, to claim a tribe like;
1000 ~TI~ 879 879 1 879 1 879
is better than HUG is just absurd.

[kettco]

That was a well presented recap of current events.

Looking forward to the next one.

[pipes2]

This is worst tribe in the world, so [END] do indeed count.

Your post is just full of bias, to claim a tribe like;
1000 ~TI~ 879 879 1 879 1 879
is better than HUG is just absurd.

I had to choose some one that matters

who knows maby that player just started and is totaly awesome

I said [END] is too bad to count in MY OPINION

besides gotta chose some1 that MIGHT still be around when the actually poll comes out [END] will probly have disband already

[mowaffaq]

Great work, love it

Keep it up and don't give up on this please. we need something to read other than the flaming xD

Gonna join in on the survey.


Favourite forum personality: Faaaaark
Worst forum personality: Hotrodder. Dont worry SS, your in the second place. just cant forget that nub xD
Best tribe (not including your own): School
Worst tribe: ACID
Best in-game player: The-Handyman
Worst in-game player: Ubegame
Most promising tribe: School again
Cookie "yea i read the rules"

[lordsanchez]

Favourite forum personality:SS
Worst forum personality:Faaaaark
Best tribe (not including your own):SchOoL
Worst tribe: HUG
Best in-game player: C0V3RT(#11rank-#1ODA)
Worst in-game player:Astronomy
Most promising tribe:~HELL~

BTW nub, you're missing something

[Doctor Claw]

Spoiler:

[QUOTE=frailbeauty;5389518]A Bit About Me
If you're interested in who's writing this newsletter (and why), clicky the spoiler below. If not, feel free to skip ahead to the slightly more interesting stuff.Name: Daria
Age: 18
Location: St Petersburg, Russia.
TW Experience: I have played past worlds before, but I tend to think of W50 as the world where I evolved from nub to.. Erm, not-so-nub.
IGN: I am a co-player on the Zalem account.
Other worlds: Currently I am only playing one other world (W51).

Why this thread was started.
I love to write (I also like to believe that I’m rather good at it). I applied for the position of W50 blogger, but the administrators have yet to get back to me on my application. I believe I can do a good job of running a news thread for our world. Only time will tell if others actually reading reading it though.
EDIT: Also I was inspired by Doctor Claw after reading his "Clippings of the Claw" newsletter. He will not let me forget this, and would be very hurt if I did not add this fact to my about me section

Why the name 'Midweek Madness'?
I will be posting weekly editions. They will usually come out on a Wednesday. Hence the 'midweek' part. Also, I'm not that great at coming up with original names. The initials MM look pretty rad though.

Contact details:
Skype - pandabearsftw

Now that you done that edit, I think you need to write a big article about the awesomeness that is Googly
You can include that event I just told you about on skype if you want lulz

[kettco]

Hmm... wouldn't this be copyright infringement on faaaark's use of the "MM" initials?

I will be posting weekly editions. They will usually come out on a Wednesday. Hence the 'midweek' part. Also, I'm not that great at coming up with original names. The initials MM look pretty rad though.

Then again, I suppose SS wouldn't be upset if the "MM" designation was used for this newsletter going forward

[UNFORGIV3N]

Awesome Job Frail, Thank You for the efforts and read. Very much enjoyed it.

Favourite forum personality: FrailBeauty
Worst forum personality: Faaaaark
Best tribe (not including your own): ~Swag (little tribe doing big things)
Worst tribe: Banned (big tribe getting owned by little tribe)
Best in-game player: MyHammerisBig (Rank 10 player w/ Rank 4 OD and Rank 6 ODA)
Worst in-game player: The-Tradesman (Rank 9 player w/ Rank 118 OD and Rank 112 ODA)
Most promising tribe: ~Swag

Cookie

[pipes2]

BTW nub, you're missing something

fine then

Favourite forum personality:SS
Worst forum personality:Faaaaark
Best tribe (not including your own):SchOoL
Worst tribe: HUG
Best in-game player: C0V3RT(#11rank-#1ODA)
Worst in-game player:Astronomy
Most promising tribe:~HELL~

cookie

[aarondenyer]

Awesome thread Frail

Favourite forum personality: Auskilla, however he rarely posts anymore.
Worst forum personality: Faaaaaaaark
Best tribe (not including your own): Whoever wins out of Cbears and HUG
Worst tribe: BANNED
Best in-game player: Tattered Apocalypse
Worst in-game player: Astronomy
Most promising tribe: JPEG

Cookie

[The Cracker]

One question? who the heck is lloyd ?

[lordsanchez]

Favourite forum personality: Lloyd-christmas
Worst forum personality: SS(I like him till he decides that he's "too mature" to finish a debate when on the losing end)
Best tribe (not including your own): Jpeg
Worst tribe: I think that there are many at the bottom.
Best in-game player: ratchet and bolt(nice timing when hitting multiple targets)
Worst in-game player: Ube Game
Most promising tribe: School(The most effective warring tribe thus far.)

cookie

All done, 6 or 7 edits later

[danigol]

Nice cant wait for another updte :o

[Karmaeffect]

I think the word 'cookie' at the end of each post is quite a nice idea. :P

Good effort. It was an interesting and enjoyable read.