The Results Are IN, sort of
 

Before I post the results of yesterday's all day GLOWFESTRAVAGANZA, I have to tell you all something.

You all amaze me!
This guild is the greatest bunch of pirates, players, and friends that I have ever seen. I'm proud to be a member with you.

I watched throughout the day yesterday, and tried to keep track of everything that was happening. I saw players drop everything in order to help a fellow guildie reach a goal, or to go watch someone make a major glow, or to heal, or just generally support each other. I saw so many people take up the challenge, and I never thought when I posted the guild event that so many of you would be so dedicated to not only making it, but to totally blow it away.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU!!

The Challenge
To have a certain number of pirates in the guild level up, or Glow, in the following categories:
Notoriety - I challenged to try for 23 pirates to level at least one level
Cannon - I challenged that 5 pirates level in each of the rest of the categories
Sailing
Cutlass
Pistol
Doll
Dagger
Grenades
Staff

Ideally, it would have taken a minimum of 63 glows to meet the challenge.
I also said that if anyone made the Top 100 in either Poker or Black Jack, it would count as a glow in any category.


I'm sorry to say that Disney has let us down. DxD isn't showing any results for all that we accomplished yesterday!

Here is what I am best able to estimate from the postings here and things I saw ingame. (Yes, I was trying to take notes.)

Notoriety -- At least 15 different pirates levelled up in notoriety yesterday. At least 30 Notoriety level increases.
Cannon -- At least 12 different pirates and at least 20 cannon glows.
Sailing -- At least 13 different pirates and at least 19 Sailing levels were gained.
Cutlass -- At least 17 different pirates levelled and at least 24 levels were achieved.
Dagger -- Identifed 8 pirates and 10 glows for Dagger.
Doll -- Minimum of 9 pirates and 12 glows.
Pistol -- At least 17 different pirates and a minimum of 22 levels.
Grenades -- At least 7 pirates levelled and 15 levels accomplished.
Staff -- We can verify 4 different pirates who levelled up one level each.

Special congrats to Kat O'Hara for Mastering Sailing - level 25 and especially to Beth for Mastering Grenades, Level 25. (4 level 40 pirates ,and this is her first to Master Nades, WTG Beth!)
Also, Unbelievable as it may seem, BUG had a total of 43 glows on 5 different pirates!!!! RICHARD had 32 total glows on 4 different pirates. HAWKE had 16 different glows on 4 different pirates. SPANKY had 16 total glows on 2 pirates. (Makes my 11 glows on 2 pirates seem puny.)

I got this from the postings here, and from watching ingame. I'm sure there are a bunch that I don't know about, and that haven't been posted here. I also can't even begin to guess about anyone making the Top 100 in Poker, Black Jack, Enemies Defeated or Ships Sunk. I will keep trying to get info from DxD throughout the day. If I can get better info, I will post it.

Just by this tally, The Dueces Wild members achieved, at a minimum, 156 glows yesterday!!! Truely amazing! Thank-you all for the participation, and WOOT to all of you!

(The next time I post a GM Challenge, I'm gonna make it HARD!)

DXD IS stuck on Tuesday. I sunk one ship on one pirate that day as sort of a bookmark. Here is what I got:

Kid Heartstealer
Cannon 24
Cutlass 17
Pistol 17
Doll 17
Dagger 17
Staff 17

Anne Esthesia
Noto 9 & 10
Cannon 8
Sail 4 & 5
Cutlass 5
Pistol 5
Doll 4

I didn't do anything on the other new pirate but instead brought Kid Heartbreaker on 2 times to help smaller pirates on Cannon and Sail. Those pirates had at least 7 Noto glow, 10 Cannon glow and 9 Sail glow.

Aww, there goes our reputation again! (And I agree with you 100% Bas!) :laughks2:

Seriously, we did all that? Wow! To me days like yesterday are what make Pirates great. It's not the updates, not the quests, the story, or any of that. It's the pirates themselves. It's the solidarity of people across the country, around the world, sharing something they love with friends. Does it really get any better than that? To me, yesterday is all about what it means to be a Duece!

Got my own special thanks too. Thanks Benjamin, for standing around with me in the catacombs while I plowed through 2300 grenade points. And to anyone who dropped what they were doing to go provide an assist.

Man it's great to be a Duece!

Last I saw bug was working staff with jade which would've gave us 5 for staff making goal. EK, Fallyn, Kat, Laurel, and Jade

Enrique,
I didn't have EK's staff glow. You had some when I wasn't around. Can you post a list for me?

I didn't have all of Kid's either, so what he posted was helpful and is going to change the numbers. Thanks for updating me Kid.

Anyone else? Tandy, Blue, Rachel, anyone? I'm still hoping that DxD updates. I really wanted to be able to post the results straight from them. I'm sure that there were glows that happened on some of the non-POF players that we won't ever see posted here.

We may get over 200 glows for the guild for the day by the time it's all available. (I wonder if a single guild ever got 200 glows in a day before?)

And Sven, we know that you're a team player. (Just haven't figured out which team you're on. Logically, it would be the Penguins, but....)

While I'm here:

I propose that next week we just kinda kick back. Any Master glows, Boss Battles, or anything else someone wants to post up is fine. Other than that, plunder party and guild help.

Down the road:

I still have a couple of games we haven't tried, and we can revisit Bumper Boats one night. We never did do the Ship Tag game from three weeks ago. So there's a few things for the next couple of weeks.

I've been talking with Jess about Scavenger Hunt #4. Tentatively 3rd or 4th Wednesday in September.

I've been saving a few things up for a 300th member party, whenever that may happen.

Still tracking the guesses for when the guild will hit 200K ships sunk.

And, don't forget to sign up one pirate each for the month-long best "Piratin'" contest for September. (Listed in it's own post.)

Last item:

Hawke, It's not fair to quote things that I say when I'm sufferin from knee pain meds combined with guild night event hangover. I take it all back, and I'm keepin our ill-gotten reputation intact.

New Pirate Tappa D'Mornin' -
Notoriety - 4
Sailing - 1
Cutlass - 2
Pistol - 1

Tetis -
Dagger - 1
Doll - 1
Cannons - 1

Kat O'9 -
Grenades - 1
Staff - 1

I'd have done more for the cause, but that whole "married to Sven" thing means I lost access all night, too.

Thanks Zilly,

There's 13 more glows that I didn't have in my list.

Know what that kind of med can do. Had them before myself. Mix that with guild night euphoria and you're liable to say anything! :pirate2: An why not admit it, we really do have the best guild in the Caribbean!

Might just be the excellent GM ya know...

These are all the glows I had

E.K. Rais
Noto lv38
Cutless lv22
Pistol lv22
Doll lv22
Dagger lv22
Staff lv22
Cannon lv24
Sailing lv24



Murat Rais
Noto lv16
Cutless lv8
Pistol lv7
Doll lv9 and lv10
Dagger lv7
Cannon lv11
Sailing lv7

I would've used all 4 and got several more glows but I had to work at a time I don't usually work

HUZZAHS to Dueces Wild. Glow Fest 2009 rocked out loud.


I know Blue was able to sneak in and get a few glows before midnight PST. I am not sure how many he eeked out so he will have to post those. Tandy Landd had 5 weapon glows( doll, cutlass, dagger, pistol, cannon) and a note glow to level 14. I ran out of time before I could earn 250 points on my teeny light sloop. But next time!

Great fun and a great idea. Can't wait to see the final results. Dog pile on Purv in game for a group hugs session. LOL.

TY, Enrique and Tandy for posting your results. I didn't have most of EK/Murat's and none of Tandy Landd's, so this is definitely going to push us over the top. I'm sure we have more than 200 glows for the day!

I'll give an update score once I get power back.

And I have to go back and modify the original score post to add Spanky to the list for special grats. 16 glows on two pirates ties Hawke for 3rd most.

DxD STILL hasn't done an update, and I'm willing to bet that they totally skip Wednesday with the Thursday data. The RATS! er, Mice!

Didn't have time to look back to see if Tandy posted a pic.. but here's a glow of
Kat .. the Master Sailor


http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h2...nShot007-1.jpg

Congrats to all who mastered during this event!!

REGARDING THE NEXT SCAV HUNT...

Please..please.. please not the fourth week of Sept. I will be in travelling... work related convention (and I don't have a laptop).

Last update to the Guild Night GM Challenge for the Glowfestravaganza.

DxD is still showing the results from Tuesday, not Wednesday. I'm sure the lag is due to them putting effort into the update on Test, (or else DxD is just plain screwed up!) but they really hurt our scoring for this event. By the time they catch up, they will skip Wednesday altogether.

I went through all the postings and my notes, THREE times, (OCD, remember) and this is what I came up with for totals.


Notoriety -- At least 21 different pirates levelled up in notoriety. At least 40 Notoriety level increases.
Cannon -- At least 18 different pirates and at least 26 cannon glows.
Sailing -- At least 17 different pirates and at least 25 Sailing levels were gained.
Cutlass -- At least 24 different pirates levelled and at least 32 levels were achieved.
Dagger -- Identifed 14 pirates and 17 glows for Dagger.
Doll -- Minimum of 16 pirates and 20 glows.
Pistol -- At least 24 different pirates and a minimum of 29 levels.
Grenades -- At least 8 pirates levelled and 16 levels accomplished.
Staff -- We can verify 8 different pirates who levelled up one level each.
(These are all CONFIRMED.)

I'm posistive that there are some still missing. I don't have any info on some of the players. That is what I was counting on DxD for. I'm also sorry to say that we will never know how many made the top 100 for Poker, Black Jack, Enemies or Ships.

But, here it is;
AT LEAST -------> 213 total glows for the day!

I sincerely doubt that any one guild has ever done this before. (Kinda doubt anyone ever tried it before.) (Really doubt anyone was OCD enough to try to track it.)
Again, Dueces Wild ROCKS!

Also updated post from yesterday to include Spanky in the top glowers listing. He tied Hawke for third most glows.


WTG DUECES!!!


Just because I'm devious that way:::

The very first guild night after the new release hits open, the guild night event is going to be cave races! No one will know their way around, and will get lost inside the tunnels and dead ends. Muuuuhhhhhahahahahhahahhaha

Such a great group of people here, i swear!

Hope i can make the next guild night event ... am still waiting for the new ISP to straighten up my connection to the game. Am really getting frustrated by this.

Just in case you want to be OCCD, Blue had glows in - cutlass, pistol, dagger, doll, staff.