Filed under: Premier League

Considering that there was the Pro semi finals and the IML final played yesterday you'd think I'd have a decent set of screenshots for you today. Instead I watched the Broncos/Colts game and took these during commercials:

Filed under: General News

First of all a reminder that there will be no RSHL games this Sunday. All HZ matches (RSHL and MSHL) are postponed until their server problems are fixed. Keep reading the blog and Center Ice to keep up with how HZ's server move is going and the current status of RSHL and MSHL. For the first time this post actually covers the whole weekend and not just Sunday.

Beef has brought back his Saturday Practice League. It starts at 3pm EST in Chaos and is open to all current and waiting list Premier League squads. It's a simple single elim knockout format to crown a champion, who then have the option to defend their title the following week. I'm not sure if the old champs Assassins will defend their title or just start with a new tourney. It was very successful when beef first ran it, but it might need a couple of weeks to get going again.

But the big games in Premier happen on Sunday with the Pro semi finals and the start of the IML championship series. Former AML champs StarFire Elite will face off against the (mostly) former Cosmic Rift players in CR Virgins to crown the best intermediate squad in SVS - not something to be sniffed at. It's a very close call. SFE have the experience, but CRV have been playing more consistently in the playoffs. I think this one will go the full three games. Game 1 will start at 4pm EST, with game 2 starting ten minutes after the first game is finished. If a game 3 is needed it will probably be played next weekend.

Pro league is one step behind IML and their semi finals will start this Sunday. BIA & Unhallowed starts at 2est then Assassins will take on The Dark at 7est. As with IML both matches are a three game series. Most people expect Unhallowed and Assassins to cruise through to the final, but BIA and TD have the pilots to throw a spanner in the works if they get a good showing.

Meanwhile in AML the regular season comes to an end with Fly-NDie and StarFire Academy looking favourites to take the top two spots in the standings and make the champion series. But with the make-up round still to come BENCHERS UNITE, ReDS-AML and Skyrakers can still get involved. SFA/BU and ReDS/SR take place at 3est, then FnD and Warlords face off at 5est. The table should be a lot clearer after those games. Check out the Premier League website for all the lastest news.

There's changes in this Sunday's Powerball draft event. With Stagnate unable to host for the next few weeks Phantasmal will take over and will use his map in ?go phant. Everything else will stay the same. Sign-ups will open at 6.30pm EST. Just enter SSCX Powerball and follow the instructions on the welcome message. The draft will start at 8.30est and then the games will start at 9est. The draft is open to anyone.

With the announcement of the WZ Invitational this week expect a bigger turnout at the WZL Scrim. The action starts at 8pm EST in ?go league in SSCX Warzone CTF. The scrims are still player-based and not squad-based, which means anyone can jump in and play. Also there's scrims held through the week at 10est on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

If like me you try to extend your weekend as far as it will go, then you'll also like to know about RZJPL this Tuesday at 9pm EST. 9-Volt has been doing a lot of work recently and it's well worth showing up for.

If you want to add you own Subspace event, or point out anything happening in SVS that I've missed use the comments.

Filed under: Hockey Zone

HZ right now is in a state of flux as they get ready to move off their current temporary home and move permanently to PrittK's server. Until the move is made and all the ASSS modules are back up and running there will be no RSHL or MSHL games.

You can keep up with all the HZ news at Center Ice. It does say on the site that only RSHL is postponed, but I can't see MSHL continuing if RSHL can't be played.

Filed under: Premier League

A big weekend in Premier as the IML finals series start and Pro moves into the semi finals stage. It also sees the welcome return of beef's SPL. Here's how all the games look:


Pro League Semi Finals

BIA vs Unhallowed @ 2pm (Unh by 6.0)

The Dark vs Assassins @ 7pm (Ass by 4.0)


IML Finals

CR Virgins vs StarFire Elite @ 4pm (even)


AML Round 15

StarFire Academy vs BENCHERS UNITE @ 3pm (BU by 2.0)

ReDS-AML vs SkyRakers @ 3pm (ReDS by 3.0)

Fly-NDie vs Warlords @ 5pm (FnD by 1.0)


Saturday Practice League Week 5

Round 1 from 3pm
go here to sign-up

All times are in EST. The Pro and IML games are all best of 3 matches, with at least two to be played on Sunday. This is the final AML regular season round. Next week will be the make-up round then the top two squads in the table go straight to the final - there's no playoffs.

You can find all the latest Prem news on the Premier League website.

Filed under: RZJPL

Big happenings over in RZJPL in the last few days. The re-organisation of the Prem forums has seen a RZJPL board added. Shanky has also given 9-Volt some webspace for a new RZJPL website. I've added it to our links although it's still under construction.

The other big news is the new map for last Tuesday's event. I wasn't around to play on it, but going on the feedback> it was a great success.

9 is looking for more new maps, as well as help with designing the new website. If you're interested in helping post on the new forums. Don't forget that RZJPL is held every Tuesday event at 9pm EST in ?go rzjpl in SSCX Chaos/League SVS and is open to everyone to just show up, hop in and play.

Filed under: Logs

*** Join: servi2d (~BFranklin@pool-70-110-189-250.phil.east.verizon.net) has joined #subspace
(servi2d) hello
(GERB) hello
(servi2d) Hi, I'm a lifestyle male sub
(servi2d) hoping to meet a femdom
(GERB) wrong channel.
(GERB) this is about the internet spaceship game - subspace.
(GERB) fun game.
(GERB) www.ssbase.com
(servi2d) wow, that's embarassing
(servi2d) have fun
*** Part: servi2d (~BFranklin@pool-70-110-189-250.phil.east.verizon.net) () has left #subspace
(Mackieman) Now that was the funniest thing I've read here in years.

Filed under: Hockey Zone

Here's what's been going on with HZ's server move since I've been away. These are Center Ice news posts from zone sysop BlueGoku:


To keep up with all the latest news from Hockey Zone, check out Center Ice.

Filed under: General News

The latest version of Project Subspace is available for download. Here's what Bjorn said about it:


You can find more info about this on this thread and my original post.

Filed under: Warzone

This was written by Yzen and taken from the WZ forums:


You can read the thread in full here, although it's been spammed on all the major ss zone's forums.

Filed under: Premier League

Beef is bringing back his practice league starting from this Saturday. You can get all the info about how it works and sign your squad up on this thread.

It should get a big turnout. With the league in playoff mode right now there's a lot of squads with nothing to do over the weekend.

Filed under: Premier League

Seems like every time I take a break things start happening in Subspace. There's the whole Hockey Zone server move thing, the Warzone invitational and over in Premier League it looks like the staff are finally going to change back to a pyramid.

I've been calling for this for a while now and it looks like their going to use the system I suggested back on the old Premier League blog where you still have playoffs. You run the pyramid over x number of rounds then you take the top squads for the Pro playoffs, the second tier for the AML playoffs and the third tier for the AML playoffs.

There's still some work to do. 4v4 rules will have to be consistent now, although in practice that only means roster size and the subbing rule. Do we go with Pro subbing, AML/IML subbing or a new rule (say two full ship subs, then all subs are burned)? As for rosters right now in Pro you have a roster limit of 12, in IML it's 15 active and 5 inactive and in AML it's 20. Using the IML system through all of Premier would be a good compromise.

There's a lot of discussion and open threads about this on the Pro and IML forums. I hope that this time the staff go through with it and take their time to get it right rather than just start a new season. With beef bringing back his practice league there's something for squads to do until the start of the new season.

Filed under: RZJPL

The latest RZJPL event has just finished, here's all the stats:

rzjpl kills Five o ford with 8 flags!
Opposing team won (33325 points given)
Game Over.

|   Gametime: 43:55     Date: 10/17/06 21:56:46
+------------------------ ------ ------- --- --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -------+
| Name                       PTS    FPTS   K   D TK  F FK FL FD FP   FLT  |
+------------------------ ------ ------- --- --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -------+
| Ayatollah Assahola        3486    1977  10   7  0  0  4 16  0  1 18:28  |
| A mirror                  3218    2421  12   9  0  0  6 10  0  7 13:17  |
| Masamune                  3141    1491  11   8  0  0  4 14  0  4 14:33  |
| Confront                  2831    2322   7   1  0  0  5  1  0  0  5:26  |
| Vitamin B                 2713    1761   8   6  0  0  4 14  7  8 15:48  |
| Nilrem                    2527      93  15   6  0  0  1  5  1  1  9:19  |
| Five o ford               2371     621   9   8  2  0  2 10  0  0 12:30  |
| vorbis                    1915     837  10   8  0  0  3 12  0  3 12:21  |
| shakers                   1840       0  11  10  0  0  0  1  0  0  2:56  |
+------------------------ ------ ------- --- --- -- -- -- -- -- -- -------+
| Record            Name                                                  |
|  Kills             Nilrem              15                               |
|  Flag Kills        A mirror             6                               |
|  Flag Points       A mirror          2421                               |
|  Flags Grabbed     Vitamin B            8                               |
|  Flags Lost        Ayatollah Assah     16                               |
|  Deaths            gg                  15                               |
|  Flags Dropped     mr. penguin          7                               |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  MVP: Most Points  Ayatollah Assah   3486                               |
|  MVP: Flag Time    Ayatollah Assah  18:28                               |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

----------------------------------------------------------------
R   Freq                      PTS     FPTS   K   D  F  FK    FLT
----------------------------------------------------------------
01) March of the Pengui      5040     1989  29  32  0   7  29:52
02) 1                        4671     2322  18  11  0   5   8:22
03) Ereet                    4469     1977  17  18  0   4  18:28
04) Creation                 3710     1683  15  14  0   5  26:08
05) 4                        3402     2190  14  20  8   6  19:53
06) Impeccable               3218     2421  12   9  0   6  13:17
07) 4                        2713     1761   8   6  0   4  15:48
08) who                      2594      528  17  25  0   1  13:03
09) 1                        2527       93  15   6  0   1   9:19
10) 0                        2371      621   9   8  0   2  12:30
11) 2                         464        0   4  13  0   0   0:52
----------------------------------------------------------------

With Underlord's bot now working it was the best event so far. The statbox really helps keep track of the flags and which freq is leading - which has been hard to track with only one squad freq and everyone else playing pub. Here's a few screenshots I took in between choking:







RZJPL is held every Tuesday at 9est in ?go rzjpl in SSCX Chaos/League SVS. It's open to everyone. Just show up, hop in and play.

Filed under: Premier League

The playoffs kicked off in Pro and IML on Sunday while the regular season continued in AML. Here's what happened:


Pro League Round 1 Playoffs


Creation bt Unhallowed 10-6
MVP: ZDeathX (Crea) 10-6
LVP: Girfter (Unh) 0-1
Game time: 45:00
box score - game log

Unhallowed bt Creation 12-3
MVP: Seismic (Unh) 5-1
LVP: ZDeathX (Crea) 0-3
Game time: 23:55
box score - game log

(series tied 1-1)

Assassins bt Starseed 5-4
MVP: KriLYu (SS) 1-0
LVP: Reaem (SS) 0-2
Game time: 45:00
box score - game log

Assassins bt Starseed 12-2
MVP: bRUt (Ass) 5-1
LVP: KriLYu (SS) 0-2
Game time: 33:53
box score - game log

(Assassins win series 2-0)

The Dark bt Llamasery 12-0
MVP: mAImER (TD) 5-0
LVP: Crunchy (llamas) 0-3
Game time: 30:34
box score - game log

The Dark bt Llamasery 12-4
MVP: mAImER (TD) 3-0
LVP: Crunchy (llamas) 1-3
Game time: 35:33
box score - game log

(The Dark win series 2-0)

BIA bt Poke Her 3-2 (in OT)
MVP: 9-Volt (BIA) 1-0
LVP: Slimster (PH) 1-3
Game time: n/a
box score - game log

BIA bt Poke Her 9-6
MVP: Jinxi (PH) 5-1
LVP: designator (PH) 2-3
Game time: 45:00
box score - game log

(BIA win series 2-0)


IML Round 1 Playoffs


IMLlamasery bt Fly-NDeath 8-6
MVP: n/a
LVP: n/a
Game time: n/a

IMLlamasery bt Fly-NDeath 9-2
MVP: n/a
LVP: n/a
Game time: n/a

(IMLLamasery win series 2-0)

Prospect bt Nightwatch 5-3
MVP: n/a
LVP: n/a
Game time: n/a

Prospect bt Nightwatch 12-4
MVP: n/a
LVP: n/a
Game time: n/a

(Prospect win series 2-0)


AML Round 13


ReDS-AML bt BENCHERS UNITE 12-6
MVP: Dmax (ReDS) 4-0
LVP: phi|osophy (BU) 0-3
Game time: 41:27
box score - game log

Fly-NDie bt SkyRakers 12-6
MVP: Uni (FnD) 5-2
LVP: Crudgiver (SR) 1-3
Game time: 26:23
box score - game log

There's a couple of problems with MR right now. the IML results have yet to be added and the BIA/PH game logs aren't showing. Once these problems are fixed I'll come back and update this post. The llama/FnD scores are correct, but the Pros/NW ones might not be. Here's how the playoff picture looks in Pro and IML now going into the semis:


Pro League Semi Finals

Assassins vs The Dark

BIA vs Unhallowed or Creation


IML Semi Finals

CR Virgins vs IMLlamasery

StarFire Elite vs Prospect

As with the last round all matches are best of three. The semis in IML will start this Sunday while Pro will have to wait a week as the deciding game in the Unhallowed/Creation series needs to be played. I'll post a full schedule here on Friday. Don't forget you can keep up with all the latest Prem news on the Premier League forums.

Filed under: Premier League

Filed under: General News

A day late with this post this week, but as all the events are tomorrow I think I've gotten away with it. The day starts in Premier League with some big games as Pro and IML move into the playoffs.

In Pro all eyes will be on the top two seeds. The top ranked Unhallowed face Creation at 4est, while Ass start their three game series against Starseed at 3est. Most people expect both squads to cruise through to the semis. The fireworks should come in the other two games. Poke Her and BIA face off from 4est while the final match in the round sees Llamasery against The Dark from 7est. With llamas history of taking games to overtime it could be a late finish.

It's an easier round for the top two teams in IML as they get a bye straight to the semis. They can sit back and watch the other teams face off. first up is the IML llamas who take on Fly-NDeath at 3est, followed by Prospect taking on surprise playoff team Nightwatch at 7est. Like Pro the IML matches are all best of three.

There's another triple header over in Hockey Zone this Sunday. The action starts at 8est when Phasers take on Slashers. Next up is table-topping Creasers who play Blueliners at 9est and the final game sees Rabid Tumbleweed against darkslayers at 10est.

Things are hotting up in Warzone with the new season of WZL closing in. The latest WZL pre-season scrim will take place this Sunday at 8est in ?go league. League op zerosouls as also announced scrims through the week too on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10est. A Euro-friendly time is also close to being scheduled. Remember these games are open to anyone to come and play. Also, if you haven't already, don't forget to register for the new season of WZL.

Over in Powerball the draft tourney is going from strength to strength. Last week saw the biggest sign-up yet and this Sunday we should have enough players to expand from fours teams to six. Sign-up's open up from 6.30pm EST for anyone who wants to play. Just follow the instructions on the welcome message as you enter the zone. The draft will start at 8.30 with the first round of games starting at 9est.

As usual we finish with a reminder about the latest RZJPL event, even though it's not strictly a weekend event. 9-Volt seems happy with the arena settings and is now working with Underlord on updating the bot. The event will start at 9est this Tuesday with Running Zone rules - that means there's a flag timer.

Don't forget you can add your own Subspace event using the comments.

Filed under: Premier League

A big round in Prem this Sunday with the Pro and IML playoffs starting. Here's how all the games match up, along with the MR point spread:


Pro League Round 1 Playoffs

Assassins vs Starseed @ 3pm (Ass by 2.0)

Unhallowed vs Creation @ 4pm (Unh by 5.0)

Poke Her vs BIA @ 4pm (even)

Llamasery vs The Dark @ 7pm (llamas by 1.5)


IML Round 1 Playoffs

Fly-NDeath vs IMLlamasery @ 3pm (llamas by 3.0)

Nightwatch vs Prospect @ 7pm (even)


AML Round 13

ReDS-AML vs BENCHERS UNITE @ 2pm (even)

SkyRakers vs Fly-NDie @ 4pm (FnD by 1.0)

Warlords vs StarFire Academy @ 7pm (SFA by 1.0)

All times are in EST. Just a reminder that all the playoff games are best of three. Game 1 will start at the scheduled time, game 2 will start 15 minutes after game 1 has ended and game 3 (if needed) will only be played if both captains agree. If not then the deciding game will be played the following week. You can keep track of all the last Prem news on the Premier League website.

Filed under: Hockey Zone

Here's how the week's games have gone down in RSHL:


Creasers bt DreamTeam 7-4
1st star: n/a
game stats

DreamTeam bt Creasers 2-1
1st star: n/a
game stats

Execution bt Blueliners 4-3
1st star: D.Hasek (Exe) 11sv
game stats

Hmm? bt Phasers 2-1
1st star: A_Pac (hmm) 1sv
game stats

DreamTeam bt Slashers 2-1
1st star: vase (DT) 2a
game stats

Rabid Tumbleweed bt Breakaway 6-5 (after shootout)
1st star: n/a
game stats

Hmm? bt Janitors 10-2
1st star: n/a
game stats

MISConduct bt darkslayers 5-4 (after shootout)
1st star: Slayer X (MC) 2g, 1a
game stats

Here's how the standings look:

Team                W   L   T   PNTS  GF  GA
--------------------------------------------

Creasers            6   0   3    15   39  21
Execution           7   1   0    14   41  24
Hmm?                6   0   2    14   40  24
Rabid Tumbleweed    6   1   0    12   42  23
DreamTeam           6   3   0    12   27  28
Breakaway           5   2   1    11   39  20
Slashers            4   4   0     8   26  30
Misconduct          3   4   0     6   39  27
Phasers             3   5   0     6   32  36
darkslayers         1   7   0     2   20  34
BlueLiners          1   7   0     2   20  47
Janitors            0   8   0     0   14  65

The schedule for week's 8 & 9 were released this week so here's how all the upcoming games look like:


Week 7

Sun Oct. 15th at 8 PM - PH @ SL
Sun Oct. 15th at 9 PM - CR @ BL
Sun Oct. 15th at 10 PM - DS @ RT
Mon Oct. 16th at 9 PM - Exe @ MC
Tues Oct. 17th at 9 PM - BA @ hmm
Tues Oct. 17th at 10 PM - BL @ JT
Wed Oct. 18th at 9 PM - DT @ Exe
Wed Oct. 18th at 10 PM - PH @ CR
Thurs Oct. 19th at 9 PM - RT @ SL
Thurs Oct. 19th at 10 PM - BA @ DS

Week 8

Sun Oct. 22nd at 7 PM - CR @ MC
Sun Oct. 22nd at 8 PM - RT @ PH
Sun Oct. 22nd at 9 PM - hmm @ DT - Make-Up
Sun Oct. 22nd at 10 PM - BA @ BL
Mon Oct. 23rd at 9 PM - JT @ SL
Tues Oct. 24th at 9 PM - PH @ DS
Tues Oct. 24th at 10 PM - BL @ hmm
Wed Oct. 25th at 8 PM - DT @ MC
Wed Oct. 25th at 9 PM - BA @ SL
Thurs Oct. 26th at 9 PM - RT @ JT
Thurs Oct. 26th at 10 PM - Exe @ DS

Week 9

Sun Oct. 29th at 8 PM - PH @ DT
Sun Oct. 29th at 9 PM - JT @ CR
Sun Oct. 29th at 10 PM - hmm @ Exe
Mon Oct. 30th at 9 PM - RT @ MC - Make-up
Wed Nov. 1st at 8 PM - CR @ hmm
Wed Nov. 1st at 9 PM - Exe @ BA
Thurs Nov. 2nd at 8 PM - MC @ BL
Thurs Nov. 2nd at 9 PM - RT @ DT
Thurs Nov. 2nd at 10 PM - SL @ DS

Don't forget to check out Center Ice for all the latest league and zone news.

Filed under: Premier League

After all the fun and games of the make-up round, and Prospect finally matching up with CRV and SFE, the IML playoffs start this Sunday. Prospect lost both of those games so that means CRV and SFE get the top two seeds and a bye into the semi finals. This Sunday the #3 to #6 teams face-off against each of in a best of three series to try and join them.

So here's how the Vorbometer sees the first round the playoffs in IML and this week is brought to you by the worst resume ever.


#5 Fly-NDeath vs #4 IMLlamasery
(reg season: 6-2 llamas)
I'm tempted just to take what I wrote about Pro llamas in my predictions yesterday, copy & paste it here then search and replace 'Pro' with 'IML'. On the looks of things there's no real difference between the two llama squads. Both of them seem ready made for the playoffs as that's the style they've always used: tight, passive, lobbing, carving out a winning score and then defending it. The last three games llamas won all went to OT and only once during their whole season did a game go to 12 kills (12-4 over LI). Everything tightens up in the playoffs. More so in single elim than best of three, but even then everything slows down and pilots will not look to force anything as they don't want to make a mistake and get eliminated. Llamas play like this all the time.

There are two notable differences between the Pro and IML llamas in my view though, one positive and one negative. The negative is the lack of depth the IML llamas have. Unless they get a good showing they may have to rely on players like tenken^, Wado Kai and a seriously out of shape plumpy for long periods in matches. It's not very often llamas give you an obvious target to focus on, but with this roster you can get some good match-ups in the #3 and #4 slots.

The positive though is their top players. Llamas are not supposed to have stars. They're suppose to be the ultimate in 4v4 teamwork and play games while resting heavy objects on the backarrow key. But with bushes and Exactman llamas can actually appear aggressive at times. I know, an aggressive llama, who'd a thunk it? If they get into any kind of trouble on Sunday they know that bushes can engage the forwardarrow key and make something happen.

On the other side with have Fly-NDeath, who are the lukewarm water of the IML playoff squads this season. Everyone has been focused on the fight at the top between Prospect, CRV and SFE for the top two seeds and a first round bye and the fight at the bottom between NW, ReDS and FC for the final playoff spot. Meanwhile FnD has just sat in the middle, ignored by everyone. I hope they know they have a game on Sunday.

Thinking back I don't think I've actually think I've seen FnD play this season. Is everyone sure they even exist? I know they were in AML last season, but I haven't seen them play since. This is starting to make sense. There is no such squad as Fly-NDeath.

Vorbometer: IMLlamasery in two games.
Key players: bushes, Exactman (llama)
Watch out for: Fly-NDeath. Watch out as much as you like, you're not going to see them.


#3 Prospect vs #4 Nightwatch
$$$ Game of the Week $$$
(reg season: 12-6 Pros)
The main event of the evening and quite possibly the highlight of the entire Premier League season as DeathKnight's playoff adventure begins. And ends. There's a few things going in his favour this season though, or at least for this round.

First of all Prospect are playing Nightwatch. Even if DK does collapse Prospect have more than enough ammunition to handle NW. Second is the fact that this round is best of three and not single elim. All of DK's best meltdowns have taken place in one-off games. Finally there's a pretty good chance that DK will get through this round unscathed and save up all his chokage for the semis. However it plays out here's few things to watch out for:

1. The DK Thor

Nothing more needs to be said. This move is famous throughout the civilised world and can pop up at any moment. The classic DK Thor though is just after a death when he fires it as soon as he respawns at nothing in particular.

2. The Warbird

The 'OMG I just died and I need to sc to a ship I haven't used all season in the squad's most important game' move. Also a classic ZDX move, but with him it's usually warbird, to weasel, to spider. With DK it usually happens on his last life when his brain has completely stopped functioning - a bit like when he's having sex with his wife.

3. KILL! KILL! KILL!

The choke is well set in now and the only way DK can crawl up out of this pit of suckitude is to get a kill and get it fast. Even if it means he has to use all his rockets one after the other, even if it means he has to use all his reps one after the other, even if it means he has to gun-duel all four of the other team at once, even if it means he has to go 0-3 inside five minutes in the attempt, even if it means .... oh =(

4. "What do you expect, look at the rest of Prospect"

Now we're getting into comedy gold territory. By now DK has choked out and he's up in the spec freq explaining to the rest of us exactly what we just saw with our own two eyes. You see, I didn't choke at all. I played the perfect game. It was my team-mates who let me down and my captain hasn't got a clue. We would of won IML if I wasn't surrounded by retards. In fact, I never wanted to play for Prospect at all. That's why I threw the game today. Btw, anyone starting a new squad next season and is looking for a weasel? I have great regular season stats.

5. "IT IS YOU WHO ARE THE BALL LICKERS!"

If there's anything better than DK going to spec after choking out to trash his team-mates who let him down, then it's DK going to spec after choking to absolutely unload on anyone and everything - specially the opposition. The best example of this I can remember was when Victimise knocked out Blitzed. DK went ballistic during the game, tried to give away all our aliases, but got them wrong and talked an endless amount of shit to the spec freq. To make it even better once the game was over he totally changed his tune and tried to pretend he didn't care. I wish I still had that spec log, but it's long gone. There is this from ScoreMaster, but that's just the tip of the DK imploding iceberg.

Now I'm not saying all this is going to happen on Sunday, but DK wouldn't be DK if he could get through a playoff game without a little of that going on. Keep your eyes peeled.

Vorbometer: Prospect in three games.
Key players: Inno (Pros), Covert Agent (NW)
Watch out for: The Five Levels of DK Playoff Choking Hell.

Filed under: Powerball

After last week's cancellation after the first round of games week 4 of the tourney was played out in full and there was no server problems. Again the number of sign-ups increased and there was two new captains. We're very close now to being able expand the tourney from four teams to six. After my whining on the PB forums the sign-up window was opened earlier, at 6.30pm EST, to allow players to register in PB then go on to Warzone to play in the WZL pre-season scrim and then come back when the matches in PB started.

You can see how the draft went here. For those of you keeping score at home here's where I've been picked in every draft so far since week 1: 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th. This can't be a coincidence, this whole tourney is a huge conspiracy against me =(

The tourney didn't go completely smoothly, there was a problem with the drafting. Stag forgot to close sign-ups once the draft had started and two people (Javelin and I can't remember the second) added themselves during the middle of the draft. Unforeseen ending up drafting them both and had them removed from his team. So unf went into the games with a much weaker roster than the other three teams. Here's how the results went:


Imperfection: 3-0 (5-3 vs unf, 7-1 vs snow, 5-3 vs life)

Life: 2-1 (3-2 vs snow, 7-3 vs unf, 3-5 vs imp)

Snow: 1-2 (2-3 vs life, 1-7 vs imp, 6-0 vs unf)

unforeseen: 0-3 (3-5 vs imp, 3-7 vs life, 0-6 vs snow)

The less said about the unf/snow game the better. A large chunk of our team just gave up - and not when the game was out of reach. They gave up as soon as Snow's team scored the first goal.

There's still a few glitches, but the tourney is getting bigger week by week. Last Sunday saw the return of Snow and Hagetaga to Powerball. A few more weeks of this and we should be ready for a full league.

If you want to play next week just show up. Sign-ups will be open from 6.30est to 8.30 est, just follow the instructions on the welcome message to get registered. The draft will start at 8.30est and the first set of games will kick off from 9est. Remember the number of squads is always dependant on how many people sign-up. So even if you're like me and get drafted late you'll still get to play (I've shown to every tourney so far and started every game). For more info check out Powerballzone. If there's no news on the front page go take a look on the forums.

Filed under: General News

Chaos head sysop Passplay (The Chaos sysop that's OK to like) has been in full-on Bob Geldof mode recently looking for more donations to fund the MasterRater/Bot server. Just a few bucks from each of us who plays in there will cover it, the server costs about $180 per month to run. I've managed to play this game for the best part of six years now and have never paid for anything - I didn't even buy the original game CD - so it's probably time I put my hand in my pocket and I suggest you do the same.

I was talking to Passplay last night and he said that by far the majority of donators are from Chaos, not Prem. We need to step it up, we can't let Sneakerz win. If every Prem player paid just $1 that would keep the server running for about three months. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, give a man a fishing rod and he'll say 'WTF, how can I eat a fishing rod you retard?'. Something like that anyway.

You can find more info and where to go to donate on this page.

Filed under: Chaos Zone

So what happened to Sneakerz after he he went postal on CF on Sunday and all the feedback from it since?

Well if you say he got banned himself for abuse of his powers then you don't know Subspace politics very well. If you say he didn't get banned but was taken off Chaos staff and lost his powers then you really don't know Subspace politics very well. If you said he was demoted from being a sysop to a mod then you seriously have no clue about Subspace politics. If you think that a ban, loss of all powers or a demotion is a little too severe for a first offence so he got a temporary loss of powers - say for a week - then I guess you just started playing this game today and have no clue how things work around here.

Sneakerz is still around (he was in spec in RZJPL last night) and he still has all his powers. GG staff.


I guess Chaos needs a facilitator on it's staff so badly he can get away with all kinds of shit without any repercussions.

Filed under: Premier League

There's two ways you can look at this season of Pro League. The first is that it's been a colossal waste of time, we had to sit through the whole regular season just so Assassins and Unhallowed could face each other in the final round to decide the top seed and the playoffs will be just as boring as it's obvious that it's going to be an Unh/Ass finals so why not just play the ProBowl now?

I like to go with the second option. Yes Ass and Unh dominated the regular season, but we still got to see Cloud implode as Sterling's captain and watch ZDX rocket around the map like an out of control North Korean nuclear missile. When it comes to the playoffs expect some fireworks too. It's rare that they unfold as the seedings would suggest, it always seems that one of the lower ranked teams makes a run. There's less chance of an upset with all the matches being a three game series, but don't expect them to be a procession for Assassins and Unhallowed.

So here's the return of the Vorbometer for round 1 of the Pro League playoffs, which this week are brought to you by Vin Diesel, the early years. SCRAMBLE FOOT TO FOOT.


#2 Assassins vs #7 Starseed
(reg season: 8-4 Ass)
We all know how good Assassins are - defending two-time champions, won four out of the last five titles and are captained by Mop who has appeared in ten of the last eleven ProBowls with Ass, Intrepid and Final, winning nine. So what are Starseed's chances? Their regular season game was close. It was tied after 30 minutes and Ass didn't take over until Reaem was knocked out to make it 4v3 and even then SS played strong and didn't get targeted out.

Starseed have one thing going for them, their dueling skills. That won't help them offensively: most out-and-out duelers tend to hit the line on their own, get isolated and targeted out (See: Marley, Bob.). It well help them defensively though. People like Reaem and Bobby Dentist don't get flustered when they're under fire. They do have two fairly big things going against them however. First of all for Starseed to have any chance of winning they have to show their best four and play the perfect game for three full matches, while all Ass have to do is start any four from their roster and expect to dominate.

The other thing going against them is the result of the Ass/Unh game. Mop is going to be pissed and he's not going to want to mess around here. He'll be looking to mop up (geddit?) SS and move on to an expected rematch with Unhallowed. If there's one thing worse than facing Assassins in the opening round of the Pro playoffs it's facing a motivated Assassins in the opening round of the Pro playoffs.

Vorbometer: Assassins in two games.
Key players: Mop (Ass), Bobby D (SS)
Watch out for: Sneakerz banning Dingo for having frosted hair.


#3 Llamasery vs #4 The Dark
$$$ Game of the Week $$$
(reg season: 4-3 llamas)
If there was ever a team built for the Pro playoffs it the alpha llama tribe. In fact they've been playing Pro playoff style since their AML days. Now they get to put all that practice into effect. Look at their regular season record. They played five overtime games and won them all. This is not a squad who are going to be intimidated by making their Pro playoff debut this Sunday.

It's been a disappointing end to a promising season for The Dark. They won seven of their first eight games and looked like being on the same level as Assassins and Unhallowed. But they've lost their last three games by a combined score of 14-36 and have stumbled into the playoffs. Llamas are not the kind of team you can play yourselves out of a losing streak. They will just not give you anything obvious to focus on, or thow a couple of easy kills your way to build your confidence up with. I can't see The Dark's losing streaking ending on Sunday. It's going to be tight and inevitably it will be decided in overtime, but in the end the llamas will march on fairly comfortably.

Vorbometer: Llamasery in two games.
Key players: Mortok (llamas), Miner (TD)
Watch out for: Sneakerz banning Odin for not being mathematically consistent to all Pro pilots in his rankings.


#5 Poke Her vs #6 BIA
(reg season: 9-6 PH)
As I said at the beginning of these predictions there's always one team that comes out of nowhere in the playoffs and this season it's going to be BIA. Brothers in Arms had a terrible start to the season. Their roster looked weak and they went 0-3 in the pre-season then dropped their first two regular season games. Picking up 9-Volt saved their season, he's been their best player by far while getting Dantos and Anamalech on their roster has given them some depth. Their make-up round win over The Dark last Sunday shows that they are a team in form and are a team no-one will want to play.

Poke Her are a hard team to read. They've been inconsistent through most of the regular season, although it seems that they usually win when BrokeStatus shows and lose when he doesn't. They have won their last three games, but since those games were against Creation, Exultant and Fuel don't read too much into it. I wouldn't call PH a one man team, but they come pretty damn close. If Designator and Slimster can give Three some support and CL can get his weasel into gear then they can match BIA's starters, but I just think BIA are coming into this series with much more confidence and will come out winners after a struggle. I can see this series playing out like BIA's whole season: PH take game 1, but BIA slowly improve through the matches to take games 2 and 3.

Vorbometer: BIA in three games.
Key players: BrokeStatus (PH), Anamalech (BIA)
Watch out for: Sneakerz banning BrokeStatus for starting all three games in a weasel when he said he'd play the whole season in a terrier.


#1 Unhallowed vs #8 Creation
(reg season: 12-3 Unh)
Creation are the anti-llamas. If there was ever a team who are built to suck in the playoffs then this is it. You could take the time to explain to ZDX about how important patience is in a playoff match, how it's the specials-count that will dictate the flow of the game not kills and how the result will be decided in the final five minutes not the first five minutes. Unfortunately by the time you've gotten all that typed out ZDX has already died twice and used all nine of his rockets.

The result is never going to be in doubt here, but game 1 will be worth watching for ZDX alone and his usual rocket first ask questions later playing style. At least Charlie Brown occasionally questioned himself when he tried to kick the football and ended up flat on his back again, ZDX never changes style no matter how many times it fails. Not that that's a bad thing, what other reason is there to watch a Creation game?

Game 2 won't be as fun to watch though, because as soon as ZDX goes 0-3 he's going to quit. Enjoy it while it lasts. At least Savage comes out of the season with a $50 profit after winning the first WDT. what other Pro league captain can say that?

Vorbometer: Unhallowed in two games.
Key players: Nova (Unh), Nel(Crea)
Watch out for: Sneakerz banning the whole zone because .... well because he's a power-hungry cockgobbler. What other excuse does he need?

Filed under: Premier League

Lots of stuff posted today for Pro and IML after the final regular season games were played in the make-up round yesterday:

Odin has put up his final Pro pilot rankings which you can find here.

The Buster Report returns for a one-off special where Ghostbuster picks his IML season MVP and dishes out some awards.

Mr Smooth also dishes out a few IML awards of his own over on CyberDyne. He also writes an excellent summery for every squad, recaps the season and finishes off updating his player and squad stats. You can read the feedback to them here.

Filed under: Chaos Zone

Remember this log I posted late last night? I got it from a thread Maeniel started on the Prem forums. By this morning the threads (he posted it on the AML, IML and Pro boards) had been deleted. Since then people keep starting threads about it and then the threads get deleted. Benji has tried to get round it by adding the log to his forum sig. After reading it you might be surprised that the Premier League staff would have any problems with the log as they come out of it looking pretty good - standing up for a wrongly banned Prem player.

The people who have problems with it are the Chaos staff, or the people who are upper staff in both Premier and Chaos like Mizerie (Chaos sysop, Premier League sysop and owner of the Premier forums. I'm not saying he's the one who's been deleting the threads, I'm just pointing out that he's a Chaos sysop, Premier League sysop and that he's the owner of the Premier League forums). This log highlights something that isn't supposed to exist: Chaos and Premier staff don't get on.

Sneakerz isn't pissed because another staff member lifted the ban. Sneakerz is pissed because a Premier League staff member has interfered in a ban he made in Chaos pub. We don't like your type coming in here and taking our jobs.

It's no surprise that someone like Sneakerz has so much power in Chaos. The zone has always had a pretty fucked up staff doing pretty fucked up things. Remember the suiciding mess? Remember when the Chaos reset stats were King? Remember the Chaos secret mod? (it was either Passplay or SuG, I can't remember which one now). How fucked up does a zone have to be to have a secret mod flying around?

I have a lot of respect for Passplay, he's one of the best sysops in SS, but there's a lot of weird people in Chaos and it's no surprise this kind of shit goes on in the background and it comes as completely no surprise to me at all that any public discussions of these problems gets shut down.

Chaos is the biggest SVS zone by luck. They don't really deserve the power over SVS players they currently wield. In the long term I would like to see - as I keep on saying - a combined SVS zone run on ASSS. That stop the public spawn holding all the cards and all SVS zones can share their population in one zone, but all still keep their zones independent and on the zones list. In the short term moving Premier League out of Chaos wouldn't be a bad idea, with Warzone being the obvious place.

It won't happen of course, not because of what's good and not good for Premier League, but because of what kind of impact it will have on Chaos. Why should the Prem staff have to put up with a power abusing moron like Sneakerz just because people like Mizerie hold all the cards? What exactly do we owe Chaos? What have the Romans ever done for us?


*Edit*

Just taken a look at the forums and all the threads concerning this have been deleted again. Mizerie has started a thread of his own however and written this:


You can read the thread in full here. I get the feeling this one might be a stayer.

Filed under: Premier League

Here's how the games went yesterday and a look at how the playoffs shape up in IML and Pro after the make-up round matches:


Pro League Make-up Round


BIA bt The Dark 12-6
MVP: Euripedes (BIA) 3-1
LVP: Blink (TD) 0-3
Game time: 36:04
box score - game log

Starseed bt Fuel 12-1
MVP: Reaem (SS) 5-0
LVP: Ra (Fuel) 0-3
Game time: 18:37
box score - game log


Pro Playoffs Seeding

#1 Unhallowed
#2 Assassins
#3 Llamasery
#4 Poke Her
#5 BIA
#6 The Dark
#7 Starseed
#8 Creation


Round 1 Playoff Match-ups

Unhallowed vs Creation
Assassins vs Starseed
Llamasery vs The Dark
Poke Her vs BIA


IML Make-up Round


Secret bt Striker 1-0
Striker no-showed


CR Virgins bt Prospect 3-1 (in OT)
MVP: Steve_Zissou (CRV) 2-0
LVP: Inno (Pros) 0-1
Game time: 49:08
box score - game log

StarFire Elite bt Prospect 7-5
MVP: Divine (SFE) 2-1
LVP: Polizei (Pros) 0-2
Game time: 45:00
box score - game log


IML Playoffs Seeding

#1 CR Virgins
#2 StarFire Elite
#3 Prospect
#4 IMLlamasery
#5 Fly-NDeath
#6 Nightwatch


Round 1 Playoff Match-ups

Prospect vs Nightwatch
IMLlamasery vs Fly-NDeath
(SFE and CRV have byes to the semis)


AML Round 12


StarFire Academy bt Fly-NDie 12-8
MVP: FoxTrot (SFA) 3-1
LVP: Deathonline (FnD) 0-3
Game time: 37:34
box score - game log

BENCHERS UNITE bt SkyRakers 12-5
MVP: a terrier (BU) 4-0
LVP: Falling Upstairs (SR) 0-2
Game time: 33:59
box score - game log

ReDS-AML vs Warlords
result n/a

I'll come back and update the ReDS/WL result once it's been added to MR. I'm guessing the reason it's not up already is that at least one of the squads (probably WL) no-showed. Expect the full week 13 schedule on the blog at the end of the week once all the times have been scheduled and there's enough predictions on MR to make the point spreads. All the playoff match-ups are best of three and at least two games have to be played on Sunday, so this week's scheduling round might well be like the old days of manually scheduling between squad caps.

You can keep up with all of this weeks events on the Premier League website - although most of the action will be taking place on the Prem forums.

Filed under: Premier League

I've slacked on these in the last few weeks as I've been more interested in watching NFL games than online internet asteroid games lately. I managed to grab a few yesterday though, here's what I got:

Filed under: Logs

Sneakerz bans GiG for one day for bypassing the obscene filter in Chaos pub. ChronicFlash removes it as all he's supposed to get is a silence. Sneakerz throws a fit, demands the ban be re-instated. CF refuses. Sneakerz bans CF, then removes CF's banG. Passplay get's a phonecall. Sneakerz end's up as a smoking pile of ash. Fun stuff.


C 6:Sneakerz> ok, who lifted the ban on GiG?

C 6:Maeniel> another person u didnt want to ?ignore?

C 6:Sneakerz> a person that bypassed the filter

C 6:Sneakerz> ok, well no answer means I re-instate it
C 6:Rost> it was CF
C 6:Rost> but if he didn't i would have
C 6:Rost> that's a shutup offense, not ban
C 6:subhawk> well only a few ppl can lift your bans
C 6:ChronicFlash> ya i lifted it

C 6:ChronicFlash> for one, how was he supposed to know the filter wasnt working sneak?
C 6:Sneakerz> Rost, did you read the ban? or just lift it?

C 6:ChronicFlash> i read it
C 6:Sneakerz> CF
C 6:ChronicFlash> and lifted it

C 6:Sneakerz> it is working

C 6:Sneakerz> but bypassing it by typing 1 letter per line
C 6:ChronicFlash> it was working you mean?
C 6:Sneakerz> and I will re-instate it now
C 6:Yeodan+> yay tongue.gif
C 6:ChronicFlash> how can you ban sombody for 1 day without warning ?
C 6:Maeniel> because he abuses as he sees fit
C 6:ChronicFlash> and i dont even like the guy, its just a matter of being fair.

C 6:Sneakerz> easy, everyone in the zone got a warning when the filter was placed
C 6:Maeniel> like underlord b4 him

C 6:Mr>$M00TH> what filter

C 6:subhawk> gg kickin our ass today yeo...tongue.gif

C 6:Yeodan+> i sucked
C 6:ChronicFlash> regardless, if he abused dosnt deserve a 1 day ban, even PP wouldnt let me do bans like that sneak.
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> we got iml at 4?
C 6:ChronicFlash> a !shutup at that

C 6:Rost> put him on shutup, not a day ban jesus
C 6:ChronicFlash> yep

C 6:ChronicFlash> sneak
C 6:ChronicFlash> dont go there man
C 6:Sneakerz> I went there
C 6:ChronicFlash> you know dam well you cant ban him for that
C 6:Sneakerz> yes, I can

C 6:Sneakerz> lift it again, and I will ban you
C 5:Reaem> hi
C 6:ChronicFlash> dood, you cant ban him for that on first offence

C 6:Rost> or i'll ban you for abusing powers
C 5:Reaem> give me the bia game
C 6:ChronicFlash> lol, ok lets get preschool
C 5:Reaem> pls

C 6:Reaem> cant we all just get along
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> agreed

C 6:ChronicFlash> sneakerz you are out of line here.

C 6:Maeniel> not when sneakerz thinks he can do whatever he wants

C 5:Yeodan+> yeah, i agree with cf, he should get a shutup or a warning, not a ban

C 5:Mr>$M00TH> wrong chat
C 5:Yeodan+> !
C 6:ChronicFlash> theres no way in hell he gets a 1 day ban for first offence.

C 6:ChronicFlash> no way in hell.
C 6:Yeodan+> yeah, i agree with cf, he should get a shutup or a warning, not a ban

C 6:Sneakerz> let me put it simply for both of you, I don't give a shit what you do in prem, but touching a ban I place on someone in pub is outside your power base, now leave it the hell alone

C 6:ChronicFlash> as zonewide security i wont allow this to happen.
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> first offence of what

C 5:Caerbannog> but the shutup bot wasn't working!
C 6:Rost> dude, it's a shutup ban offense, not a full ban, he has 2 matches to play today

C 6:Mr>$M00TH> move the games to another zone smile.gif

C 6:ChronicFlash> its getting lifted regardless

C 6:Sneakerz> so pub is supposed to bow down every time one of the prem pilots breaks the rules?

C 6:Rost> dude, the point is, it's a fucking shutup ban
C 6:ChronicFlash> dood, are you not hearing me? nobody gets a 1 day ban for first offence

C 6:ChronicFlash> personal bans i wont allow

C 6:Sneakerz> care to go again CF?

C 6:ChronicFlash> dood, did you just kill me?

C 6:ChronicFlash> lol

C 6:Maeniel> since when do we allow 10 yr olds to be sysops ?

C 5:Polizei+> wow sneakerz is a homo sad.gif
C 6:ChronicFlash> now you just got childish man

C 6:ChronicFlash> you just *killed me
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> now i remember why i had a fight with him in the first place
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> smile.gif
C 6:Sneakerz> yes, yes I did
C 6:ChronicFlash> you know that was a big mistake ,right?

C 6:Rost> wtf sneakerz
C 6:Sneakerz> nope, next time you lift it, I remove your bang and let pp decide to give it back
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> so what did he get banned for?
C 6:Rost> jesus christ

C 6:ChronicFlash> lol
C 6:Maeniel> im posting this entire chat

C 6:freakmonger> wow..where has miz been?
C 6:ChronicFlash> lol sneakerz, you just *killed me
C 6:Rost> sneak, stop abusing
C 6:Maeniel> miz actually defends this idiot ?
C 5:Reaem> what what did he get banned for
C 5:Yeodan+> wrong chat maeniel tongue.gif

C 5:Polizei+> for racials
C 5:Reaem> oh bypassing the filter
C 6:Sneakerz> Miz has enough respect not to touch a ban without talking to the op that placed it Maeniel
C 5:Rost> i'm just gonna keep lifting it
C 5:Reaem> i saw that awhile ago
C 5:Yeodan+> bypassing the filter thingie

C 6:ChronicFlash> ill say this once more, nobody deserves a 1 day ban for racials based on first offence, im lifting the ban, you ban me, then thats your loss.
C 5:Polizei+> he told me he just miss typed the n word
C 5:Reaem> it is kind of stupid to ban someone for bypassing the filter
C 5:Reaem> but yeah

C 6:ChronicFlash> oh nvm its been lifted allrdy.

C 5:Mr>$M00TH> who's "PP", the head op of chaos?
C 5:Polizei+> it's kinda stupid to even have a filter
C 5:Yeodan+> passplay
C 5:Yeodan+> zone owner
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> oh yeah
C 5:Reaem> how do u figure
C 5:Reaem> the filter has cut our zone bans by about 90%
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> chaos has a racial filter?

C 5:Caerbannog> yes
C 5:Reaem> its the best thing to happen to this zone

C 5:Polizei+> funnu thing is gig has passplays phone number
C 5:Reaem> lol

C 5:Rost> hahaha, he's talking to me

C 6:ChronicFlash> we have lifted that ban based on banhistory and a spectator that seen what happen.
C 5:Rost> (Sneakerz)>look, bypassing the filter is NOT a warning, and if you read the damn ban you'd not that c-bot is down, which means a shutup is worthless
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> rost, is there iml at 4pm or should i go watch x3

C 6:Sneakerz> CF, try lifting it again
C 5:Rost> striker vs secret
C 6:ChronicFlash> btw who's got this logged?
C 6:Sneakerz> oh wait, you can't, nevermind
C 6:Frowzy+> .?logbuffer cf you newbie
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> is the prospect-sfe game still at 7pm?
C 6:Rost> cf is lifting it, i am
C 6:ChronicFlash> i havnt lifted it yet, rost has been

C 6:Rost> stop being an abusing fucktard

C 6:freakmonger> rofl @ sneak removing BanG ops

C 6:VersionBot> WARNING >> Player 'Sassenach' attempting to use an unauthorized client version (0.38).
C 6:ChronicFlash> lol sneakerz
C 5:Reaem> rost
C 6:ChronicFlash> you just removed my bang
C 5:Reaem> can I have the bia vs td game
C 6:ChronicFlash> hah
C 5:Rost> hi
C 6:Sneakerz> I'd remove Rosts too if I could

C 6:Rost> i'd ban you for abuse if i could
C 6:ChronicFlash> yep, i guess you want your powers removed lol
C 6:Reaem> everyone calm down
C 6:Reaem> there is only one way to settle this
C 6:Maeniel> its been nice having u as sysops sneakerz
C 6:Reaem> a duel in a duelbox
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> agreed jp
C 6:Maeniel> not
C 6:Reaem> i will duel on rosts behalf
C 6:Reaem> sneakerz u get a dueler

C 6:Reaem> and we will duel for the ban
C 6:ChronicFlash> sok, this is his last round of abuse
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> i will duel on sneakerz behalf
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> ez clean
C 6:Rost> lol
C 6:Reaem> ok
C 6:Reaem> go duel
C 6:Maeniel> rost wins
C 6:Reaem> do u agree to this sneakerz
C 6:Reaem> it is the best way to handle this
C 6:ChronicFlash> PP wont even favor you in this position sneakerz, i have no idea what you are thinking.
C 6:Reaem> smoothly
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> yes?

C 6:Reaem> i think it is everyones best interest to let me handle this with a duel

C 6:Reaem> and winner gets his way

C 6:Mr>$M00TH> reaem, you know you can't solve all of life's problems with a duel right

C 6:Reaem> sure u can
C 6:Reaem> smile.gif

C 6:Mr>$M00TH> is that what you tell your wife when you are argueing about what to have for dinner?

C 6:Reaem> its just a matter of whether or not u decide to do it that way

C 6:Sneakerz> CF, as I said, niether of you have any right to touch a ban placed by a pub mod
C 6:CrazySexyCool> thats how he won his GF

C 6:Mr>$M00TH> lol
C 6:Yeodan+> i think this is obvious, half the staff saying it's not a ban, one sysop saying it's a ban...
C 6:ChronicFlash> i do, im zonewide security
C 6:Reaem> I won my wife in a duel tourney

C 6:ChronicFlash> i have a full right sneakerz
C 6:Sneakerz> CF, as far as I know, you are nothing in pub

C 6:Reaem> sneakerz is right u guys cant remove his ban

C 6:Reaem> but, the ban is also stupid

C 6:Reaem> so ur both being ridiculous
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> as senior zone helper, I think I have a valid voice in this.
C 6:Reaem> just stop fighting
C 6:Reaem> and duel over it
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> after all, I am a senior and a helper
C 5:Reaem> I thought the duel thing was a good idea
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> help me help you

C 6:Rost> if it's something stupid like this, and it effects premier, i have the right to step in
C 5:Reaem> i guess they dont want to
C 6:ChronicFlash> lol ok sneak if thats what you think...

C 6:Sneakerz> how bout the 2 of you come to the arena I am in
C 5:Reaem> anyhow rost can i have the bia game
C 6:Maeniel> reaem a duel solves nothing.. plus this is a bigger issue than the ban itself now
C 6:ChronicFlash> we'll see what happens
C 6:ChronicFlash> end of convo
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> don't go to his arena
C 5:Rost> sure Reaem
C 6:Reaem> its not a big issue at all
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> it's a trap
C 5:Reaem> ty
C 5:Reaem> <3> u guys are making it way bigger than it is because youre all pissed off
C 6:Maeniel> only person that is mad is sneakerz
C 6:Reaem> and cf
C 6:Reaem> and rost
C 6:Maeniel> and now he is removing bang
C 6:Maeniel> from cf
C 6:Rost> i was mad for a bit, i'm calm now tho
C 6:Maeniel> and is abusing his powers
C 6:Mr>$M00TH> i think cf & rost are more pissed off than they are mad
C 5:Rost> smooth, do you have iml at 4?
C 6:VersionBot> WARNING >> Player 'Rabiez~' attempting to use an unauthorized client version (0.38).
C 6:ChronicFlash> as zonewide security, i will not allow anybody be banned for 1 day over racials on first offence. obviously the ban was made on personal reasons.
C 5:Mr>$M00TH> yeah i'll take it
C 6:ChronicFlash> and no im not pissed.
C 6:Reaem> well, I was trying to help, and I think a duel to resolve the issue would be fair

C 5:Rost> k, thanks smooth
C 6:Reaem> but i guess u guys dont want to:(
C 6:Reaem> afk eating dinner
C 5:Yeodan+> poor cfel, now he can't ban ppl sad.gif
C 5:ChronicFlash> lol
C 5:Maeniel> that means i can ban CF !
C 5:Maeniel> weee
C 5:Yeodan+> nah

C 5:Yeodan+> unless you have bang

C 5:Reaem> i think I have bang
C 5:Reaem> prepare to be banned cf

C 5:Yeodan+> lol
C 5:ChronicFlash> lmao

C 6:VersionBot> WARNING >> Player 'Rabiez~' attempting to use an unauthorized client version (0.38).

C 5:Yeodan+> we'll miss you cf, bye
C 5:Reaem> sad.gif
C 5:ChronicFlash> sad.gif


The log is from Maeniel, who spammed it all over the Prem forums.


*Edit*

Maeniel's Prem posts have all been removed, probably by Mizerie. Just as well I posted it here.

Filed under: General News

From now on I've decided to wrap up the week's posting with a look at what's going on in SubspaceLand over the weekend - or at least the SVS part of it. So if you're like me and the only thing you have entered in your diary this weekend is to watch Terrell Owen's return to Philadelphia this is the ideal post for you to find something to fill the gaps. Nothing is really happening on Saturday, but a jammed packed Sunday starting with Premier League.

Pro and IML are in the make-up round before the playoffs start. The games in Pro won't really effect the seedings for the playoffs, but it's a different story over in IML. This round is all about one team - Prospect - who play the other two topped ranked squads CRV (6est) and SFE (7est) in two very long awaited games going on what's been said on the forums (for example this, this, and this).

The big game in AML is BU vs SkyRakers (3est) which will decide who sits at the #2 position in the table in their own right behind the table-topping Fly-NDie, who play SFA (2est). In all there's eight games due to be played in Premier League on Sunday running from 2pm to 7pm EST in ?go 4v4a - ?go 4v4e in SSCX Chaos/League SVS. Check out the Premier League website for more info.

Over in Hockey Zone there's a RSHL triple header for all you internet space hockey nuts. Janitors will be looking for their first win of the season when they face off against MISConduct at 7est, then Creasers have a chance to go top of the table if they beat DreamTeam at 9est. If Creasers do take the win Execution have the chance to take their #1 spot right back when they take on Breakaway at 10est. All the action will take place in ?go rshl in SSCE Hockey Zone. To keep abreast of what's going on in HZ go to Center Ice.

The WZL pre-season scrims continue with a new time. This week they will start an hour earlier at 7pm EST. These games are open to anyone. Just come to ?go league in SSCX Warzone CTF a few minutes before the start time and hop in. Expect to see a lot more wz vets showing with the new time and the announcement today that player registration is open for season 15.

The reason the time was changed was so that it didn't clash with the PB Draft which will try to get over the problems of last Sunday. Sign-ups start at 7.30pm EST and are open until 8.30pm (although I'm trying to get that window widened) for anyone to play. Just enter SSCX Powerball and follow the instructions on the welcome message to get yourself listed. The draft will then start at 8.30pm and once the teams are set the games will be played from 9est in ?go pbleague1 and ?go pbleague 2. The team sizes are set up to make sure everyone who signs up gets drafted and gets to play.

Finally - and stretching the title of weekend events to it's limit - a reminder that this Tuesday at 9pm EST in ?go rzjpl in SSCX Chaos/League SVS will be the latest RZJPL event hosted by 9-Volt as he continues to tweak the settings in preparation for a full league.

If I've missed anything, or if you want to add your own event, use the comments.

Filed under: General News

I just noticed today that we've been getting a few hits from The Freak Show, a new blog by freakmonger. I've been on a couple of squads in the past with freak and he's good people, even if he has forsaken his SVS roots to become a sysop in Metal Gear CTF.

As well as the usual personal blog stuff it looks like freak is going to vent his spleen on life as a super zone staff member if his latest post is anything to go on. I've added a link to it on the sidebar, go check it out.

Filed under: Warzone

Season 15 of WZL is now open for player registrations. Head over to wzctf.net and get your name down. You may need to register on the site first.

Meanwhile week 3 of the WZL Pre-season scrims will continue this Sunday in SSCX Warzone CTF. These are open to anyone to come in and play and are not squad-based yet. The starting time has been moved back to 7pm EST this week so it doesn't clash with the PB draft event.

Filed under: Premier League

Here's how the schedule shapes up for all three Premier Leagues, including the point spread from MasterRater:


Pro League Make-up Round

Fuel vs Starseed @ 2pm (SS by 5.5)

BIA vs The Dark @ 5pm (even)


IML Make-up Round

Secret vs Striker @ 4pm (even)

CR Virgins vs Prospect @ 6pm (Pros by 2.0)

Prospect vs StarFire Elite @ 7pm (Pros by 2.0)


AML Round 12

Fly-NDie vs StarFire Academy @ 2pm (FnD by 2.0)

BENCHERS UNITE vs SkyRakers @ 3pm (even)

Warlords vs ReDS-AML @ 6pm (ReDS by 6.0)

All times are in EST and all games will be played this Sunday (Oct 8th) in SSCX Chaos/League SVS. For all the latest info check out the Premier League website.

Filed under: Hockey Zone

Here's how those little skating shapeship teams have been getting on on the 2d space ice:


Phasers bt Janitors 6-2
1st star: n/a
game stats

Execution bt Creasers 4-3 (in OT)
1st star: Nine (Exe) 2g (GWG), 2a
game stats

MISConduct bt Slashers 15-5
1st star: Ho (MC) 5g, 3a
game stats

DreamTeam bt darkslayers 3-1
1st star: n/a
game stats

Execution bt Phasers 6-5
1st star: Thrill (PH) 3g, 2a
game stats

Hmm? bt Rabid Tumbleweed 3-1
1st star: n/a
game stats

Breakaway bt Janitors 12-2
1st star: n/a
game stats

Slashers bt Blueliners 5-2
1st star: n/a
game stats

Phasers bt MISConduct 5-3
1st star: Thrill (PH) 1g, 3a
game stats

After all that the standings now look like this:

Team                W   L   T   PNTS  GF  GA
--------------------------------------------

Execution           6   0   0    12   36  17
Creasers            5   1   1    11   31  15
Rabid Tumbleweed    5   1   0    10   36  18
Hmm                 4   0   2    10   28  21
Breakaway           4   2   0     8   30  13
DreamTeam           4   2   0     8   19  19
Slashers            4   3   0     8   25  28
Phasers             3   4   0     6   31  34
Misconduct          2   4   0     4   34  23
darkslayers         1   6   0     2   16  29
BlueLiners          1   6   0     2   17  43
Janitors            0   7   0     0   12  55

There's obviously a problem in the standings with tied games - I don't think there's actually been any ties so far this season. I take the standings from Center Ice and I'm sure they'll fix the problem eventually. Here's how the schedule looks for the next couple of weeks:


Week 6

Sun Oct. 8th at 7 PM - MC @ JT
Sun Oct. 8th at 9 PM - CR @ DT
Sun Oct. 8th at 10 PM - BA @ Exe (Make-up)
Tues Oct. 10th at 9 PM - Exe @ BL
Tues Oct. 10th at 10 PM - hmm @ PH
Wed Oct. 11th at 9 PM - SL @ DT
Wed Oct. 11th at 10 PM - RT @ BA
Thurs Oct. 12th at 8 PM - MC @ DS
Thurs Oct. 12th at 9 PM - JT @ hmm

Week 7

Sun Oct. 15th at 8 PM - PH @ SL
Sun Oct. 15th at 9 PM - CR @ BL
Sun Oct. 15th at 10 PM - DS @ RT
Mon Oct. 16th at 9 PM - Exe @ MC
Tues Oct. 17th at 9 PM - BA @ hmm
Tues Oct. 17th at 10 PM - BL @ JT
Wed Oct. 18th at 9 PM - DT @ Exe
Wed Oct. 18th at 10 PM - PH @ CR
Thurs Oct. 19th at 9 PM - RT @ SL
Thurs Oct. 19th at 10 PM - BA @ DS

You can keep up to date with all the latest zone and league happenings at Center Ice.