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Oct-3-2006 12:26

Registration is NOW being accepted for the October 10th beta test of the Dart Leagues in the AVL ("Arch Villain League").

I need 36 volunteers total to test everything, with the following stipulations:

2 sets of 6 detectives from the same agency (6 Hitchhikers & 6 Sirens, for example)

4 sets of 3 detectives from the same agency (3 Omega, 3 Blood & Dagger, 3 Fat Kitten, 3 SMRT Investigations, for example)

2 sets of 3-man teams regardless of agency affiliation

6 testers who will be teamed up at random.

If you are interested in learning about the AVL or becoming a Beta-Tester, please go to:

www.liquidkourage.net/sleuth

for more information.

If you have already talked to me about being a beta-tester, please PM me for your favlidation code.

Oct-6-2006 19:08

***UPDATE***

Looks like the Open Division is filled, with one full team and enough people to make the other 3. I will be randomly grouping the 9 people who registered for Open Division without a team, and will post those teams tomorrow.

We have 3 full teams for inter-agency division from the following agencies: Blood & Dagger, Oasis, and Eye Spy (who still needs to come up with a team name). I need one more team for this division, so if an agency could assemble 3 detectives for it, I would be very grateful.

As of right now, we haven't had a single entry for the in-house division. I can't say I'm surprised since that one requires 6 detectives from the same agency compete against each other. If I don't get at least 6 entries in the next 48 hours, I'm just going to pull that division from the beta test, and possibly from the league in general.

Other news... fixed some small errors in the stats page, especially for newly-registered detectives. Everything should be correct now...

And I've started work on the Dart League manager page. There is a sample available to see at
www.liquidkourage.net/sleuth/avdbhq.html
Please take a look and let me know what you think...

Once again, 1 team spot open for inter-agency, open division pairings coming soon, and for the love of Ben someone PLEASE register for the in-house division! :)

Oct-6-2006 21:06

The sample link doesn't seem to work Serges?

Oct-6-2006 21:38

http://www.liquidkourage.net/sleuth/avdlhq.html

Ok guys looks like serges wasn't paying attention when he put the link up. this is the link for the page he wants you all to look at

Oct-6-2006 21:50

COUNT ME IN!

Oct-6-2006 23:26

Amanda, if enthusiasm was all that was needed, you'd be great! However, you need to be a subbed member, capaable of doing AIs on your own. I don't think even the most successful sleuther could do that on her first day. But I have a feeling the League will be around when you are more experienced and capable of participating. Feel free to join then! Happy Sleuthing!!

Oct-7-2006 02:34

This Just In...

I have grouped the 9 people who registered for Open Division without a team together into 3 teams.

It wasn't done *entirely* randomly... I did it so that each team will be "captained" by a Mod/Editor. The captain of each team has one responsibility: choose their team's name and PM me with it by Monday at the latest.

THE TEAMS:

*Secret_Squirrel*, Arabella Parker, kagome_70

*Greyling*, jasNmushu, Eagle Eye Flo

*calalta*, Rosamund Clifford, Sleuth Sindy

If there is a problem with the groupings, please PM me and let me know.

Oct-7-2006 13:17

It has been brought to my attention that the team distribution put together multiple players who have never done a villain hunt. So in the interest of balance, I'm making the following change to the teams.

jasNmushu is now on calalta's team.

Rosamund Clifford is now on Greyling's team.

Sorry for the inconvenience... and these teams are now permanently set.

To review what the team groupings are:

*Secret_Squirrel*, Arabella Parker, kagome_70

*Greyling*,Rosamund Clifford, Eagle Eye Flo

*calalta*,jasNmushu, Sleuth Sindy

Oct-8-2006 14:14

***UPDATE***

The matches have been set! I have taken all the teams that have registered and paired them off in their respective divisions.

OPEN DIVISION:

Wolf Pack vs. River Rats
(Secret_Squirrel's team) vs. (Greyling's team)

INTER-AGENCY DIVISION:

Blood & Dagger vs. The Villain Squad(OASIS)
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly(Eye Spy) vs. ???????????


That's right. We still have one open team spot for inter-agency division. This spot needs to be filled ASAP by 3 people from the same agency.

To that end, I am offering 50 AVL experience points FREE to the first full agency team to sign up. That may not sound like a lot, but the experience point system in the AVL is much different from Sleuth's. So please, if you're in an agency that hasn't joined the AVL yet, get 2 friends together and SIGN UP!

Also, for those who ARE registered, the site has grown a little more. You can now see details on all active AVDL matches from your stat page... just click the link under "Personal Status: AVDL" to view. The links on that page don't work yet, so don't bother... :)

That is all. 34 hours and counting!

Oct-8-2006 15:56

For those who can't remember the AVL web address, and don't feel like surfing through this post to find it, Ben has graciously decided to link to it in the Sleuth Community Pages!

Oct-9-2006 04:05

20 hours to go until beta... and a ton of work still left to do.

After I get some sleep, my whole day is going to revolve around getting the AVL site set up enough to run these beta matches.

If weird things start happening to the AVL site during the course of the day, don't worry... it's most likely me making some last-minute changes.

Arch Villain data WILL be updated again just prior to beta launch, and will be updated as often as possible during the matches... in other words, if your info doesn't update automatically, rest assured that it will soon and any delay won't affect the results of the competition.

There are a few beta-testers who are currently in hunts. I suggest you either finish them by midnight or (God forbid) fail them on purpose in order to be eligible for competition.

THERE IS STILL ROOM FOR ONE MORE INTER-AGENCY TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We have a poor poor Eye Spy team with no one to compete against. Here's the final ruling on that. If a FULL team does not sign up for this spot by 22:00 TODAY, Logan Creed, my double (Christopher Leroy) and I will be compelled to fill the last spot.

A lot of you have a lot of questions still. I will be in Sleuthchat(www.nikkie.org/sleuthchat/chat) every waking moment of the day today. Please ask anything you need to in there, as I don't actively watch for PMs when I'm working on the site.

I would like to try to set up an informal meeting for beta-testers at 19:00 today in sleuthchat. I understand that with the global nature of this game, I can't expect everyone to be present for that, but those that can please try to make it.

As always, if anyone has any questions, get in touch with me.