Squad of the Month -- August 26 at 19:00 UTC (8PM BST/3PM EDT)

[TheWildcat]

Sunday the 20th or Sunday the 27th would be best for me.

[Amicus]

Sunday the 20th or Sunday the 27th would be best for me.

Afraid Sundays are generally out because we have officers who cannot make them, but we keep them as options for the unusual situation that those officers have conflicts with showing up at all.

[Amicus]

Scheduling has been open now for over a week. Two squad COs had a conflicts with the initially proposed date, but could make the initial competition portion of the meet on that date. Those CO's and others had conflicts with the optionally proposed date. A preference for Sunday options was voiced, but we have regularly attending officers with longstanding conflicts on Sundays. Therefore, the date of the meet will be:

Saturday, August 26 at 19:00 UTC (i.e., 8PM BST, 3PM EDT, 2PM CDT, 12AM PDT)

The scheduling of this month's meet is now CLOSED.

[ginchner]

Well again as I will not beable to attend whether Saturday or Sunday as I work and never make it back in time to join in so I am out but I am hoping everyone has a great time!

[Amicus]

Your Squad Needs YOU!
Saturday, August 26 at 19:00 UTC
(i.e., 8PM BST, 3PM EDT, 2PM CDT, 12PM PDT)

Squad of the Month meet is THIS COMING SATURDAY!

Attendance is how we score the winner. Don't let your squad go down without a fight!

RENDEZVOUS
Earth Space Dock ("ESD")

For those who like to gather in game at the start of the event, this month we will be gathering at ESD.
The exact spot at ESD will be determined at the time. This will take the place of the customary gathering at our Fleet Space Station. The gathering in game at a public location is to show off our fleet label to the STO community.

As always, the Meet will convene on our Discord in a channel relabeled "Squad of the Month" at the time set forth above.

PRIZE GIVE-AWAY
After completion of the competition portion of the Meet there will be a drawing on Discord for:
20 Million Energy Credits

What is Squad of the Month?
The Squad of the Month ("SotM") meet is a monthly fleet event which starts with an inter-squad attendance competition to determine the Fleet's Squad of the Month. The competition is followed by group activities which may include: special events and prize giveaways (see above); a challenge match PvP, teaming up to cruise the TFO queues, build advice, and just hanging out together on Discord. We are a casual fleet, and participation in any portion of SotM is optional.

Rules for Attendance Competition: The winner of the competition is determined by attendance during the first 15 minutes of the meet (the "grace period"). The squad with the most members logging into the Discord channel during the grace period wins. However, if any squad shows up with its full membership during the grace period but still does not have enough numbers to win the competition, then the result will be a tie between all squads with their full membership attending and the squad with the largest number of members attending. If there is a tie, then the winner of the competition will be determined either by dice roll (".roll" using the Security Bot on Discord), or by any other method agreed upon between the tying parties (e.g., PvP match, trivia question, etc.). Any method other than dice roll for resolving a tie, must be approved by the convener of the meet (normally me) as being swift enough to be resolved simply without taking up the whole meet or leaving the winner undetermined beyond the end of the meet. The winning squad gains the Squad of the Month trophy to display in its squad forum until the next meet, and each member of the squad whose attendance contributed to the victory is awarded an SotM ribbon.

[Amicus]

Congratulations to Tactical's Gamma Squad ("Vipers") for winning the Squad of the Month meet for August 2023! Gamma won with an attendance victory, by mustering five of its members during the initial grace period. Honorable showings were made as follows: MACO's Bravo x2; Section 31's Archer x2; and Engineering's Alpha x1.


A prize of 20 million EC from our Fleet Bank was awarded based on dice roll among attenders with the prize going to:

AshBlaster

Kudos to all who participated in those and other meet activities including: initial competition; prize giveaway; grand pvp matches (space & ground); another record breaking run of Borg Disconnected (Elite) (score 3872 ); cruising of advanced and elite TFO queues; build advice; and/or hanging out on Discord that went on until after 9:00 PM Central Time; including as follows:


AshBlaster
Capledbetter ("Thomas")
Cmdraftbrn
Jem_389
Kohdan
MegatherionX
N5XTR ("Joel")
NDStache11
Rodnny
Shadowgil316
Stromgold
Sysil
TheWildcat
Vitralis

[Kuvak]

Vipers rule! Congrats one and all!