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In years of olde we periodically celebrated our grand oceans in tournaments of skill. Tournaments of all sorts and with all prizes against all manner of folk, both scurvy and fine! Such events have not been seen or even spoken of for ages... until now. Without further adieu, I'm happy to announce Midnight's first ever Grand Tournament!

Event details and times will be finalized over the next few weeks!

[size=18]March Madness Familiar Events
Tedv's Unknown Swords Tournament!
Familiar Drinking Tournament!
Sailing Bake-off!
Wallpaper Wonders!
Carpentry Bake-Off!
Solo Ship Race!
Literary Contest!
The Grand Sword Finals!
The Grand Drinking Finals!

[size=18]March Madness Calendar

Weekend 1:
Friday March 11
9:00AM Sword Tournament - Prize TBA (Qualifier S1)
Noon Drinking Tournament - Skull Dagger Prize (Qualifier D1)
5:00PM Tedv's Unknown Sword Tournament - Win a Familiar!

Saturday March 12
10:00AM Drinking Tournament - Win a Familiar!
2:00PM Trickykid's Weekly Sword Tournament - His/Her Outfit Prizes (Qualifier S2)
9:00PM Drinking Tournament - Interarch Maps Prize (Qualifier D2)

Sunday March 13
7:00AM Sword Tournament - His and Her Black Bandana Prizes (Qualifier S3)
11:00AM Whitefire's Weekly Spades Tournament - Round 1
Noon Andyp's Weekly Treasure Ship
1:00PM Sailing Bake-off - Win a Familiar! (Jobbing begins at 12:30PM)
6:00PM Drinking Tournament - A month of Whisking Potions Prize (Qualifier D3)

Weekend 2:
Friday March 18
Deadline: Wallpaper Wonders - Win a Familiar!
Noon Sword Tournament - Sloop Prize, called the "" (Qualifier S4)
8:00PM Drinking Tournament - Male Green Rag Outfit Prize (Qualifier D4)

Saturday March 19
8:30AM Drinking Tournament - Cutter Prize, called the "Pale Alewife" (Qualifier D5)
Noon Dorel's Murder Mystery!
2:00PM Trickykid's Weekly Sword Tournament - His/Her Outfit Prizes (Qualifier S5)

Sunday March 20
7:00AM Sword Tournament - A month of Whisking Potions Prize (Qualifier S6)
9:30AM Solo Ship Race - Win a Familiar!
11:00AM Whitefire's Weekly Spades Tournament - Round 2
Noon Andyp's Weekly Treasure Ship
7:00PM Drinking Tournament - Bandana Rainbow Prize (Qualifier D6)

Weekend 3:
Friday March 25
Deadline: Poetry Contest - Win a Familiar!
1:00PM Sword Tournament - Female Purple Rag Outfit Prize (Qualifier S8)
6:00PM Drinking Tournament - Bid Ticket Assortment Prize (Qualifier D7)
9:00PM Stick Tournament - 100 Sticks Prize (Qualifier S7)

Saturday March 26
9:00AM Grand Sword Finals - Win a Familiar! (Qualifiers and Alternates Only!)
Noon Drinking Tournament - His/Her Black Boots Prize (Qualifier D8)

Sunday March 27
9:00AM Grand Drinking Finals - Win a Familiar! (Qualifiers and Alternates Only!)
11:00AM Whitefire's Weekly Spades Tournament - Round 3
Noon Andyp's Weekly Treasure Ship
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Tedv's Unknown Swords Tournament!
Date: Friday March 11
Time: 5:00PM registration open, 6:00PM tournament start
Format: Bo3 and everyone uses an Unknown Sword designed by Tedv! The exact pattern may or may not be released, wait and see!
Prize: A Lime Octopus!
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Drinking Tournament!
Date: Saturday March 12
Time: 10:00AM
Format: This will be a Bo1/1/4/6 match.
Prize: A Maroon/Yellow Parrot!
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Carpentry Bake-Off!
Date: Friday March 25
Time: TBA
Format: TBA
Prize: A Monkey of your choice!

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The Grand Drinking Finals!
Date: Sunday March 27 (Qualifying tournament date/times TBA)
Registration Time: 8:30AM
Event Time: 9:00AM
Prize: An Octopus of your choice
Format: All Qualified Players (See Qualifiers) must register with Ajax before the event (see registration times) so that we can get a list of participants together. Latecomers will not be admitted. All participants will be jobbed into Ajax's crew and will board one of his ships for the duration of the finals. After being disqualified, participants are welcome to stick around to watch, but will be asked to keep quiet for those still competing!

Qualifiers: From the 11th through the 25th, we will be holding eight different qualifying drinking tournaments, placing in one of those is your ticket into the final familiar rounds! The top two winners from each qualifier will be guaranteed admission and the two runner ups will be alternates. Alternates will fill in for missing or redundant winners with priority given to those who qualified first (i.e. alternates from D1 have priority over those from D2, D2 over those from D3, etc.) If only one alternate can be chosen from a qualifyer, the two alternates will play a Bo3 standard set to determine who gets priority.

Finals Format: There will be three different parts to the finals with scores being wiped after each part. All drinking games will be the standard 1/4/4 settings.

]Part 1: Three rounds of a Swiss style tournament with double elimination, one game per set. Eight players advance.
]Part 2: This part will be a Round Robin with 1 game per set. Players will be ranked based on total games won/lost and any ties for 2nd place will be resolved at this time with a Bo3 set. Top two players advance.

]Part 3: Bo3 match between the top two players, winner takes home a familiar![/list:u:f34d321a89]

List of Qualifiers:


+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|     First      |   Second     |  Alternate   |  Alternate   |
+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
|1:*Haruko       |*Arualga      | Blkdragon    | Rochelle     |
|2:*Stevolopolis |*Kallista     | Raiva        | Bladen       |
|3:*Aaliyah      |*Diesalot     | Dorien       | Slicer       |
|4:*Fronsac      |*Paradise     | Hatchetback  | Evilgohan    |
|5:*Dorien       |*Mitos        | Ninjaguy     | Blkdragon    |
|6:*Mousebeard   |*Johncorsair  | Dorel        | Parka        |
|7:*Lamoran      |*Hatchetback  | Risen        | Basher       |
|8:*Spyglass     |*Croyalis     | Piplicus     | Rangery      |
+----------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+

Please post results from Qualifying tournaments so this list can be updated!

* - denotes a guaranteed slot in finals (assuming they're on time!)
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Wallpaper Wonders
Date: Due March 18
Time: 11:59 pm PST
Prize:

Format: Create a Puzzle Pirates desktop wallpaper, 1280 x 1024. The image can be in any style, but must convey Puzzle Pirates. All artwork must be original.

Post links to entries, with your pirate name and a 150 x 120 thumbnail, in the entries thread.

Grand prize winner receives a parrot familiar.
Runners-up get a portrait painted with Edward.
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Any info on the Literary Contest yet?

BTW, thanks for the Bo1 on the drinking tourney. I'm sure there'll be a ton of people showing up. Bo3 would be insanely long.
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Smartemis, the temptress wrote:

Drinking Tournament - Male Green Rag Outfit Prize
Sword Tournament - Female Purple Rag Outfit Prize

When I recover from shock, I'll let ye know how I feel.
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Nemo wrote:

Format: Create a Puzzle Pirates desktop wallpaper, 1280 x 1024. The image can be in any style, but must convey Puzzle Pirates. All artwork must be original.

I.. I think I love you.

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I think that I'm unsure
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... o'a lub there is no cure fer.

We three shouldn'a be allowed t'post in a row.
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Oh. Wow.

That is all I have to say.
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I already knew this before....but....*dies*

i love you artemis!

EDIT: hmprh =( i might be gone during the last week....

damn spring break plans!

/em schemes on what to do =(

EDIT2: Afer reading Tk's post below i have become sad...
I was too busy thinking about week3 and my spring break to remember the finals, papers, and projects that are due in week 1/2 of this month of true madness. $#&*

i hate this game.....

bah what am i saying, i love it =(.
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Yeah, quarter system strikes again.

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Artemis wrote:

Tedv's Unknown Swords Tournament!
Prize: A Lime Octopus!

...

Lime. Octo.

And I have no hope of ever winning a sword tourney...

Whoever wins better name it Kang.
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Whoever wins better name it Kang.

I vote for Kodos. :)

Woah! This is quite a few events here. I'll start on my wallpaper contribution right away.
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AND the Sailing Bakeoff is on the same day I fly home from Spring Break. Who do I have to bribe to get it scheduled as early as possible in the morning?
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Looks like I'll have to be playing a little more Puzzle Pirates in March :)

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Don't worry Oorlian. When I win the sailing monkey I'll be sure to let you hold it every so often ;)
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Ok, with multiple oceans now, we have a bit of a problem.

Will doubloon players have a chance to compete for familiars?

Will subscribers that have choosen to play on colbalt be competing? Will duplicate tourneys be run there? For SF or drinking, this might not be important -- for SF, just get an OM to magik up a duplicate of your other ocean sword. For duty puzzles, you can't just start up a cross ocean alt because of differing puzzling boards.

Will familiars be transfered to the other ocean?

For things like "Design a wallpaper" -- can I choose which ocean pirate will be receiving this? Maybe I want it on a doubloon ocean instead of a subscriber ocean -- maybe I'm not a subscriber.

Have I given you enough headaches yet?
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LongJohnGrey wrote:

Ok, with multiple oceans now, we have a bit of a problem.

I think this is what yer lookin' fer, mate.

Artemis wrote:

Without further adieu, I'm happy to announce Midnight's first ever Grand Tournament!

And I think this is what Artemis is lookin' fer.

Artemis wrote:

Without further ado, I'm happy to announce Midnight's first ever Grand Tournament!

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Prize: A Lime Octopus!

I just had a heart attack. A lime octo would be a dream come true.
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LongJohnGrey wrote:

Ok, with multiple oceans now, we have a bit of a problem.

Okay, I'm not official word or anything (haven't even spoken to anyone about it so don't even know really), but my guess is that there won't be much in the way of Events the first few months of an Ocean's opening, give them time to get on their feet and establish themselves first.

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Most familiar tournaments are handled by players. So LJG, better get cracking ;D.

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Can the wallpaper be animated?
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Ask that question here.
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LongJohnGrey wrote:

Some things about multiple oceans

The oceans are completely separate so events run in one ocean will remain in that ocean, prizes and everything. Nothing will ever be transferred between oceans. We don't want you to do it and we won't be doing it ourselves.

For now assume any events listed will be done in the midnight ocean and with prizes given out only in the midnight ocean unless otherwise specified.

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No bilging bakeoff?! Outrageous ;_;

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boo for bilging
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Ships were not generously endowed with bilging stations... it would take forever at a snails pace.

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