Congrats - I just got home from work (no fun working this new project) so I missed out :(

Start to finish:



I know Angel Darkhook (taking over for Sam Stormeagle going offline?) finished long long long before me, but had (or still has) enormous trouble posting pictures here...so that team will get a prize if they ever get it posted, I guess.

Thank you all for making the event SO challenging! I think I got last place for my team, but still checking my chat log to see just what happened.

Thank you to all the guilds that appeared at the last moment, pregregistration or not, it was fun. The support was greatly appreciated, no matter what the chaos...

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! Please PM me or post here, where/when/who you want the prize gold to go to.

Looks like only the 1st 5 prizes are taken so far...you may be starting late, but get busy!

Preliminary results:



Amazingly good fun people. Sincere concern and support for BBK taken out of running by the medical emergency.



Awarding prizes: fourth place, second place...

Congrats to a very sucessful event :) and to all the winners of the "heartbreak ridge" V-Day Mass. hehe

Thank you for your kind words Edward. BBK did drop out at the last minute. Our captain's father was rushed to hospital and is very ill. Our prayers are with him.

As are my prayers. I know you've sunk over 100 ships since we last talked (considering you were most of the way there) and as the last officially registered participants that were able to attend, I've amended the winner's list. Let me know who gets the gold (here or via PM.)

nice!
 

Superb Edward !!
Great event turnout , I'm happy for you Mate!

Pretty Polly!!,..,.. fantastic job M'Lady!
Handy Lady to have around should the blasted EITC keep hanging around Tortuga the way they have been! (hmmmm...?)

Many Mcraging did great... Kudos to the Guild's honor!
contrats to Swash II, Agile, Senile & Hostile - Rackat good work gang,..

Most excellent in keeping excitement in the game.


Combatlizzy,.. so very sorry to hear about your Captains circumstances, please send word of prayer support
from ol' Achilles, I am a nobody, but I know the one who knows everybody!... Lord's blessing to all involved in your Captains difficulties.

Thanks guys - I have to agree it was a splendid success. Extremely fierce competition on the waters today. I've a feeling there may be a rematch next month...


I noticed several interesting tactics that were not obvious beforehand. Ships with smaller crews fared far better at a speed and aim. (The ship I was sailing was blinding fast with crew of 2, molasses slow with crew of 8. All my broadsides misses were when large crew was aboard.)

I was also surprised that war sloops fared as well as they did. It was a race after all. Even though I had to stop the war sloop for most targets to take a second, third and sometimes fourth broadsides shot, the ship speed made up the difference. When I've done this in a war galleon, I rarely - if ever - have to take a second broadsides shot...but crawling too slow to the next target makes more of a difference, apparently.

Lastly, I found that with two or more people, calling out the number of ships sunk in crew chat after every ship sunk, helped keep count tremendously. With cannonballs-a-flyin' it is much tougher than one might imagine. I was very pleased to see that nobody brought their ship into port with only 99 ships sunk!

Thanks again to everyone who sailed today! Well done!

Congrats to all!!

wOOt !!! WTG Pretty one !! Great job upholding McRaging's honor . sorry I couldn't be there to assist you. :( Congrats to the rest of the top 5 , well done !

Congratulations to all the winners... and a big kudos to all the participants.

Sounds like everything went great...

I'll tell Carver to put yer rum on me tab fer the day! ;)

No Words!
 

Lizzy is speechless..and that is not an ez thing to accomplish!

winners
 

Wowee what a fab contest and great competitors and a big piratey slap on the back for Ed for doing such a great job at organising us all (especially the late competitors).
I do hope we can do it again, although maybe i'll crew next time :pirate2:

Thank you. Yeah, because of you, the next event may have to require only captains that haven't won before, be allowed to sail. :-) Well done!

Next month's event I think marks the return of the "Ironcup Races" so this type of event will be once every two months, perhaps? I know he has a special SvS race map prepared; waiting only for some rule refinement and a formal announcement, I think.

For the next Edward Lowe, the only real change will be that I'll want all crew captains to show up (with their team members) in their own crew. That way, all extra people (and latecomers) can stand off to the side or something, to get picked or start their own crews. Other than that, the next event can pretty much run itself.

Thanks again everyone! Some residual screenies are laying around if you feel the need to verify that winners received their prizes. One is still pending but will be added to the album when done.