The 12th Fleet: Starbase Valhalla

YOU are Invited to
The Fleet-Wide Squad of the Month Meet!

By order of the Council of Admirals, after completion of the competition portion of the Meet, there will be a drawing at this month's SotM for:

PRIZE GIVE-AWAY
10 Million Energy Credits

The scheduling of the October Meet is now OPEN.


Hello All!
Time to schedule the next SotM!

• The leading option is Saturday the [19th].
  
  The other choices are: Saturday the [26th], Sunday the 20th or Sunday the 27th.

Note, if the choice is Sunday the 27th then the time will be an hour earlier in Europe which will be going on to normal time (i.e., off of summer daylight savings) that morning.

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 competition and prize give-away in the first half-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.

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 TFO queues, and just hanging out together on Discord. We are a casual fleet, and participation in any portion of SotM is optional.

Rules for Competition: The winner of the competition is determined by attendance during the first 15 minutes of the meet ("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.

I work the weekend of the 26th and 27th. I will available on the weekend of the 19th and 20th.

Zoltan417 wrote:I work the weekend of the 26th and 27th. I will available on the weekend of the 19th and 20th.

Thought that might be the case. Turns out I have a conflict until 6PM Eastern (22 UTC) on the 26th myself. That puts Saturday the 19th in the lead.

I should be free on the 19th as well.

Your Squad Needs YOU!
Saturday, October 19 at 21:00 UTC
(i.e., 10PM BST, 5PM EDT, 4PM CDT, 2PM PDT)

Squad of the Month meet is SATURDAY!
Attendance is a big part of scoring the winner. Don't let your squad go down without a fight!

By order of the Council of Admirals, after completion of the competition portion of the Meet, there will be a drawing at this month's SotM for:

PRIZE GIVE-AWAY
10 Million Energy Credits


The Meet will convene on Discord in a channel labeled "Squad of the Month" at the time set forth above.

Rules for Competition: The winner of the competition is determined by attendance during the first 15 minutes of the meet ("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.

After the competition we will have activities for the remainder of the evening, including: prize drawing, challenge match PvP, build advice, teaming up to cruise the queues, and just hanging out together on Discord.

Hmmm, interesting. Strom's first SotM since his return and he wins the 10 million lol. Kidding, congrats!! Also congrats to the Vipers for winning SotM.

Hopefully, I will be able to make the next one.

Hatch wrote:Hmmm, interesting. Strom's first SotM since his return and he wins the 10 million lol. Kidding, congrats!! Also congrats to the Vipers for winning SotM.

Hopefully, I will be able to make the next one.

Ha ha! Well now, you see, um... what had happened was, ... I just got lucky.

There's a first time for everything I suppose.

Stromgold wrote:Ha ha! Well now, you see, um... what had happened was, ... I just got lucky.

There's a first time for everything I suppose.

Well, in any case congrats sir and welcome back!!

Stromgold wrote:

Hatch wrote:Hmmm, interesting. Strom's first SotM since his return and he wins the 10 million lol. Kidding, congrats!! Also congrats to the Vipers for winning SotM.

Hopefully, I will be able to make the next one.

Ha ha! Well now, you see, um... what had happened was, ... I just got lucky.

There's a first time for everything I suppose.

lies.

it was all rigged. lol