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24-Nov-07
AA Games: GeoClaiming
18-Nov-07
AA Games: Boggle
18-Nov-07
AA Games: Unique Hunt
11-Nov-07
AA Games: Non-AA Stars
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- 24-Nov-2007 : AA Games: GeoClaiming
- All guilds participated in the event! As announced at the start,
claiming counts as participating; controlling is not compulsory.
Just before boot, there was a little orgnization going on on the guild
lines, with the legendary Burnham tunnels getting the most thought. After
Armageddon had shouted this last 1 minute mark, the last words to be
heard were a confused \\"It\\'s not booting\\" - but boot it did, and after
a minute that must have lasted an eternity, the contestants were let
back in. The first captures went to Knights, from Snowfolk.
From the start, Scythe took the lead; barely at first, but steadily
increasing, and topping out at a commanding 2227 (peak and final).
At best, Knights managed to catch up by about 200 rooms in
the latter half, during a coup to overturn Burnham tunnels, but the
difference was still too big to catch and grew back to around 1000
rooms. The Knights finished in second with 1222 rooms (peak and final).
Snowfolk, who kept a steady 100 room difference to Bears for the first
half of the event, suddenly lost the majority of their control to
Knights and Scythe alike, falling below Bears suddenly at the 2 hour
mark. Snowfolk ended up 4th with 215 rooms, after peaking at 570.
The Bears, on the other hand, were steadily eating away at Monk
territory on the last hour, which had the judging Monk GM biting her
fingernails. The Bears finished third with 484 locations, slightly off their 502 room peak.
The monks collapsed to 5th place, finishing with 62 rooms, well off their peak of 239.
Chaos, which gained control of its first room only halfway into the event,
carved its way past Ravens in the last half hour and finished 6th with 34 rooms.
The Ravens lost ground in worrisome amounts towards the end
of the second hour, down to 28 rooms from their peak of 161 and finished 7th.
The Eldar participated with 4 claims, but lost them all by the end of the event, but enough to finish 8th and get the guild on the
scoreboard.
4000 rooms were controlled already at halfway through the event; the increase was slow
from there, finally totalling at 4272 rooms. (Dune rooms were calculated twice in this number.)
Over half the players online were participating in the competition.
After the first hour, 60 players were online, and 40 had claimed - not
quite all of them online at the moment, however. During the event, the
Geographic society gained five new members.
Overall, 54 people claimed. The top claimants were Capet of Scythe (2705), Druenarrii (2063) and Buckingham (1824) of Knights.
The top discoverers were Shinrikyo (546) and Capet of Scythe(433), and Futhark of Snowfolk (353).
The event was definitely a power of numbers. Scythe had 19 claimants, Knights 13, Bears 9, Snowfolk 6 and Monks 3. Chaos had 2 claimants, while Ravens and Eldar had only 1. Size and average efficiency did not correlate directly, however: in average peak efficiency per claimant, Ravens were the busiest guild at 161 rooms controlled, followed by
Scythe (117), Snowfolk (95), Knights (94), Monks (79), Bears (55) and Chaos (17).
Supervising the event was thoroughly fascinating as well, although some
did note that a claiming marathon in 3 hours straight was quite an
ordeal.
The final scores awarded:
8 points: The Scythe Clan
7 points: The Knights of Drin
6 points: The Realm of the Black Bear
5 points: The Snowfolk
4 points: The Monks of Antana
3 points: The Courts of Chaos
2 points: Society of the Raven
1 point: The Eldar
Thanks to Fir for preparing the report (mangled by bytre)
- 18-Nov-2007 : AA Games: Boggle
- With 14 representatives participating, the first AA Boggle Tournament was
always going to be hotly contested. The players were split up into three
groups of 5 (with Wok and Munch graciously playing as non-scoring
participants to make the numbers even.
The contestants were a mix of seasoned, competitive closet-Scrabble champions
and casuals who have only learnt the game in the past week. Understandably,
the 5 elimination rounds saw the seasoned players on each table leave the
novices in their wakes.
The contestant rankings were as follows for the finalists (scores split between the elimination round scores and the score on the final table):
Shinrikyo [Scythe] scored 75 / 39
Druenarii [Knights] scored 70 / 24
Burble [Eldar] scored 71 / 15
Newt [Bear] scored 69 / 11
(Abby) [Knights] scored 60 / 11
Bed [Snowfolk] scored 54 / 7
These additional contestants did not make it to the finals, and scored as follows:
Chikinbrad [Raven] scored 56 in elimination
(Ncmo) [Raven] scored 40 in elimination
(Owitzer) [Scythe] scored 38 in elimination
Rosewarrior [Chaos] scored 20 in elimination
Cosm [Monks] scored 19 in elimination
(Fice) [Monks] scored 12 in elimination
(Valkyr) [Snowfolk] scored 8 in elimination
(Foojinn) [Chaos] scored 6 in elimination
(Wok/Munch) [no guild] each scored 11 in elimination
(Names in parentheses were players whose scores did not count because
the other person from their guild scored higher)
Final scores awarded to the guilds are as follows:
8 points: The Scythe Clan
7 points: The Knights of Drin
6 points: The Eldar
5 points: The Realm of the Black Bear
4 points: The Snowfolk
3 points: Society of the Raven
2 points: The Courts of Chaos
1 point: The Monks of Antana
Thanks to Newt and Dafeon for the report.
- 18-Nov-2007 : AA Games: Unique Hunt
- The Ancient Anguish Games \\"Unique Hunt\\" was an exciting and engaging event.
The Knights of Drin put on a hell of a show collecting some big heavy armours from
classic areas right away and continuing to snag newbie uniques and other
rare finds throughout the event. The Knights ended up with 24 uniques.
Scythe got on their horse after reinforcements arrived, keeping a good pace, with 19 uniques.
Bears and Eldar tied, both getting some niche uniques early. Bear and Eldar both found 14 uniques
Monks and Snowfolk tied with 2 each after an upsetting reset for Snowfolk that ended up
with Knights. Mbebe delved deep into quest areas to get some hard to find uniques
for the Monks.
Chaos and Raven tied at last with no entrants arriving for scoring.
Three notable deaths occurred during the event: Velox got KwaT, an adorable
puffin turned on Marrud, and Cletus\\' revenge ring killed the Bear Halbarad.
The final scores awarded to the guilds are as follows:
8 points: The Knights of Drin
7 points: The Scythe Clan
6 points: The Eldar, The Realm of the Black Bear
4 points: The Snowfolk, The Monks of Antana
0 points: The Courts of Chaos, Society of the Raven
Thanks to Newt for the report.
- 11-Nov-2007 : AA Games: Non-AA Stars
- In the second event in which all guilds were represented, the Non-AA Stars event, the final standings were thus:
In first, The Knights of Drin, with 1875 points by the team of Britomart and Abby. Following closely behind the Knights were the Black Bear, with a total of 1856 points by Levek and Berghal. In third, after some controversy, was the Scythe Clan, with 1763 points gained by Aralik and Telurion. Coming in fourth, Wakko and Marianne scored 1653 points for The Courts of Chaos. The Snowfolk took home 5th for this event, with Valkyr and Calandryll scoring 1378 points. Monks of Antana came sixth, scoring 1223 points by Azaphael and Cosm. Almost beating the Monks were Elfaeril and Aart of the Eldar, with 1217 points. Rounding out the list, in eighth, were the Society of the Raven, with Bunbun and Chikcinbrad scoring 866 points between them.
- 10-Nov-2007 : AA Games: Solo Experience Event
- Much like the three-man party event, the solo event was a 2-hour run to see which guild could garner the most experience by a single player.
In first place: The Knights of Drin, with their champion, Castro: 2,118,200.
Just barely edged out by Castro, in second: The Scythe Clan, and their efficient one-man party of seven, led by Calvin: 2,046,318.
Solidly in third: The Black Bear, represented by Burns: 1,732,630.
In fourth, having maintained that position for the duration of the event, and with the only female competitor: The Snowfolk, represented by Beldaran: 507,526.
In fifth, leading the rest of the pack in a fairly well-contested run: The courts of Chaos and their competitor, Hektor: 399,832.
Following closely behind Hektor and Chaos, in sixth: The Monks of Antana, led by Fice: 370,316.
Not far behind the Monks, in seventh: The Eldar, represented by Aart: 307,857.
In eighth: a representative with no guild, Eru: 112,219.
And finally, in ninth, the first event in which his guld was represented, and giving up 8 levels to the nearest-level competitor: The Society of the Raven, represented by Chikcinbrad: 81,875.
As there is no mechanism for scoring for those of no guild, Ravens will actually score as eighth place for this event.
Total experience earned by all competitors in the 2-hour period: 7,676,773.
- 04-Nov-2007 : AA Games: AA Trivia Results
- Coming in clear last place, Raven, with zero competitors.
Barely beating them, the Eldars Joke and Aart scored a combined total of 120 over the 3 games.
Singlehandedly defeating the Eldar team and claiming 6th for the Monks was Fice, with a combined score of 357.7.
More than doubling their score was the Snowfolk team of Valkyr and Violet, scoring 756.2
...who were pipped to 4th place by the Chaos team of Wakko and Callandor, scoring 843.7
The top 3 were on another level altogether, smashing the 1000 mark, with the Knights coming out third with the score of 1340.2 between Michael and Twiddle.
In second were the Scythe, who simply had no chance of catching up to Marl on his 200 point Kequa question. Aralik and Shinrikyo scored a combined total of 1650.
Of course that leaves Bear the winners of the AAlympics AA Trivia Event, with the team of Marl and Moot scoring the combined total of 1740.97, almost higher than the bottom 5 teams combined!
- 03-Nov-2007 : AA Games: 3 Player Party Results
- Each guild assembled a party of up to three members. They competed for two hours, earning as much experience as possible. Here are the results:
#1. Scythe Clan
Members of the party 4@#$@#$@#:
ShinRiKyo the veteran berserker of the Scythe (good) 553556
Chun the legendary predator of the Scythe (good) 724005
Stretch the great cutthroat of the Scythe (good) 638994
1,917,898
#2. Black Bear
Members of the party h:
Pooh-Bah JuanKa the Unyielding Warrior of the Black Bear (good) 552804
Maker the Savage Warrior of the Black Bear (good) 423738
Burns the Avenging Warrior of the Black Bear (good) 479030
1,456,925
#3. The Knights of Drin
Members of the party KNIGHTS!:
Prince Whiteknight the Valiant Knight and Guardian of the Rose (good) 397671
Prince Regalia the Supreme Knight and Protector of the Rose (good) 368173
Prince Duckman the Noble Knight and Protector of the Rose (good) 383002
1,138,135
#4. The Eldar
Members of the party eldar:
Elfaeril the Epic Battlemaster of the House of Sethic (neutral) 18042
Aart the mystical drakon (neutral) 21680
Joke the Master Campaigner of the House of Sethic (nice) 20774
60,633, 733,443 coins!
#5. Frosty Guild
Members of the party PRESENT:
OmeiKA the frostbitten apprent-ice (good) 14282
Topaz the grand master transmuter (good) 15709
Morask the frostbitten apprent-ice (evil) 14284
44,436
The Courts of Chaos, Monks of Antana, and Society of the Raven did not field teams for this competition.
- 31-Oct-2007 : Trick or Treat!
- Players are running around Ancient Anguish calling out "Trick or Treat!", and getting rewarded for their scary costumes!
- 31-Oct-2007 : Trick or Treat Results
- The top trick or treating player was Mbebe, who trick or treated with 471 unique monsters.
Top five:
471 Mbebe
460 Mynx
416 Arkham
382 Fantine
336 Valkyr
In all, 841 unique monsters and non player characters of a variety of races handed out treats. The young paperboy gave treats to the most people - 53. Over 100 players participated in the event, and it was a great day long event!
- 25-Oct-2007 : Drin Proclaims Bounty on Dragons
- An office has been set up in Nepeth to facilitate the slaying of dragons throughout the realm. King Drin himself has seen fit to place in this office his agent Bartholomew, who is in charge of maintaining the Top Dragon Slayers list. Adventurers can acquire a tool to slice the scales from a dragon's corpse from Bartholomew. However, it is said that the Knights of Drin can slice scales using any bladed weapon.
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