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
20 Million Energy Credits

The scheduling of the May Meet is now OPEN.


Hello All!
Time to schedule the next SotM!

• The leading option is Saturday the [22nd].
  
  The other choices are: Saturday the [29th], Saturday the 15th, Sunday the 30th, Sunday the 23rd, or Sunday the 1[6]th.

If the 15th or 16th is chosen, the scheduling will closed on March 10 in order to give enough notice of the event.

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). The date and time chosen depends ultimately on who wants to participate and who will actually show up.

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 ("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.

I definitely cannot make Saturday the 29th, and I probably will be unable to make Saturday 15th.

Just to clarify, are you referring to Sunday the 16th (not May 11th, which is a Tuesday)?

Copy and paste gone awry again. LOL

NDStache11 wrote:I definitely cannot make Saturday the 29th, and I probably will be unable to make Saturday 15th.

Well, that puts Saturday the 22nd in the lead for now.

NDStache11 wrote:Just to clarify, are you referring to Sunday the 16th (not May 11th, which is a Tuesday)?

Yep! Correction made.

I just got text message from employer today state that I have to work Saturdays in May which is mandatory. Any of Sundays maybe is best option for me.

I can do the 22nd, or 29th. Sundays are no good for me.

i get shot on the 22nd. at least its in the morning though.

Ocie Denver wrote:I just got text message from employer today state that I have to work Saturdays in May which is mandatory. Any of Sundays maybe is best option for me.

Sorry Ocie, Sundays conflict with Stromgold and he gets slightly higher priority under the rules because he is Squad commander for Tactical.

cmdraftbrn wrote:i get shot on the 22nd. at least its in the morning though.

If this is your first shot of two, and you are like me, then you will hardly feel it. The second shot is the one that lays most out with fatigue, etc., and even then usually the symptoms strike the day after not the day of the shot. So the 22nd remains in the lead at this point.

2nd shot. first shot was last sotm lol

cmdraftbrn wrote:2nd shot. first shot was last sotm lol

ooo, well, probably won't hit you until Sunday, based on my experience.

I had some trouble sleeping the night after the second shot. Next day, I developed a slight fever (99) and was feeling fatigued about noon. Thought I would take a short nap and woke up 3 hours later. My other symptom was soreness in the bicep that got the shot for about three days.