YOU are Invited to
The Fleet-Wide Squad of the Month Meet!The scheduling of the October Meet is now OPEN.
Hello All,
Time to schedule this month's Meet!
The leading option currently is Saturday the [20]th.
The other choices are: Sunday the 28th, Saturday the [27]th, Sunday the 21st, Saturday the 13th, and Sunday the 14th For the 13th or 14th to be viable options, the decision would need to be made by Sunday the 7th or 8th (respectively) to allow for at least five days notice before the Meet.
Scheduling Rules:Post your scheduling choice in a reply below. Note that
dates you say you cannot attend are more important than the dates that you say you prefer in deciding the date of the meet. We are trying to get the highest turn out of all squad members for the first hour. Thus, if 5 people prefer a date but 1 more can attend only on another date, then the date on which 6 can attend will win even though 5 of the 6 preferred a different date. It is assumed that you can attend all the date options, unless you clearly state otherwise in a post below or have communicated that fact to me directly.
Extra weight is given to the votes of squad captains, squad XOs, and anyone who is actually committing to showing up at a time (as opposed to "maybe" showing). Scheduling depends ultimately on who wants to participate and who will actually show up. In order to get the maximum turn out from US and European members, our starting time is traditionally set on a weekend at
10 PM in UK (which in winter is the same as GMT/UTC), but the time chosen depends on who is committing to be there.
However, if the Meet is held on Sunday the 28th, then the time for European members will be one hour earlier than usual (though still at
9 PM UT) because Europe goes off the summer-time clock that day.
What is Squad of the Month?The Squad of the Month ("SotM") meet is a monthly fleet event which starts with an inter-squad competition to determine the Fleet's Squad of the Month. The competition is followed by group activities which may include: build advice, challenge match PvP, teaming up to cruise the PvE/PvP queues, and just hanging out together on TS. We are a casual fleet, and participation in any portion of SotM is optional.
Currently we are experimenting with the competition being based purely on attendance, but with PvP still included as an option for ties and as part of the post competition activities. (See
Changing Squad of the Month Rules.)