Blog Fanatics: 2007

Friday, December 7, 2007

Miss Entropia Universe 2008 - Sonne

The bar was raised for this year's Miss Entropia competition, with the superior graphics for clothes, armour and of course the avatars themselves introduced with VU9.0. This was the second beauty contest I have covered as a reporter, the last being He-man 2007, and the difference in graphics quality and the looks that can be achieved made a major impact in the level of competition.

The event as ever was organised by Singular, this year assisted by Moonfish who provided a radio feed and organised the girls behind the scenes while Singular did the presenting.

It was a close fought battle, but when the votes came back Singular announced a clear winner for the coveted title of Miss Entropia universe - Sonja Sonne 1st. Sonne won with a series of bright vibrant yellow costumes befitting the meaning of her name, Sonne, German for sun.

1st place winner

Sadly Violet Vi Neomir was unable to defend her 2007 crown, as with the true spirit of a former beauty queen, she had gone partying with friends and didn't realise the time. So, the title will now pass to Sonne, who was very surprised at her win; "I am so excited about all this! I entered lots of competitions before, but have never won anything." When asked if she plans on defending her title next year, she confirms, "Sure! It will be fun!"

Singular pops a bottle to celebrate with Sonne

Sonne was quick to point out she could not have won without a little help from some people, "A big thank you to Sarah, my colourer of trust, Sorg, my hair stylist, Starman my tailor and of course my society, Entropia Movers. Finally of course a massive thank you to Singular and all the other contestants. I hope this will go on for many years in the future!"

The competition was held in three rounds, Casual, Metal and Swimwear, and I was lucky enough that my screenie program held out long enough to capture all the contestants in each round. So below are the joint second-placed and runners up contestants, all of which I am sure you will agree put on a stunning display!

In Joint Second Place:
Skam

The competition as ever attracted a big crowd and for the second year was held at the catwalk in New Oxford Ox. Whilst the lighting is a little dark, it provides the security of a pretty stable server and I for one experienced no lag what-so-ever, quiet an achievement for so many people gathering in one place, with a number of them changing clothes and armour constantly.

Well, next year I won't be reporting, I have been inspired to enter myself, so see you all there!!!

The World of Firepower is back! Registration for WoF 2008 has opened in preparation for the start of the tournament in February next year. Entries for teams and team members can be made until the end of December in EF's WoF 2008 subforum.

The WoF was conceived by Hurrikane as a grander scale off-shoot to his popular

Festival of Firepower competitions. The Festival of Firepower competitions are
team-based hunting events, the idea being to blast as much ammo as you can at big mobs with weapons beyond your skill range and global more than the opposing teams. The winners of the tenth and most recent FoF, "NoTA Foffing Clue", knocked in 23 globals on Formicacida to claim 161 points during the six hour competition. A full history of the FoF can be found here.

The World of Firepower took the popular FoF idea and made it bigger. In the first WoF, over 200 avatars in teams representing 28 nations battled it out weekend after weekend. WoF globals in the chat window became a familiar sight; nearly a thousand were scored during the course of the tournament. In the thrilling finale, favourites USA managed to hold off fierce competition from Sweden and Romania in order to claim the WoF 2007 title. Apart from glory, the winning team members also won special WoF jackets created by MindArk and Modified EntropiaForum Memberships.

The return of the WoF in 2008 will be even bigger than the original and with over 30 teams registered already there's no doubt it will be the biggest team event in EU's history. The structure will be similar to last year, with teams scoring points by globalling on a range of given mobs in order to beat their opponents and progress to the next round. The biggest change will be the introduction of scoring support teams. In the 2007 tournament, support teams made a huge contribution with activities such as clearing unwanted mobs and fapping the main team members. In recognition of that, the 2008 tournament support teams will be able to score a small number of points for any globals achieved, which will contribute to the main team's score. This will introduce new tactics and increase the size of the WoF considerably by ensuring that anyone who wants to compete can compete!

Other changes include a larger variety boost for globalling on the various creatures in the moblist and a bonus mob. A team (either the main team or support team) can score a one-off 25 points bonus for globalling on the bonus mob which will be difficult to global on. Time to get practicing killing your Rippersnappers, Turps and Diripis!

Registration for WoF 2008 closes at the end of December so get your applications in now! For full details on how to register visit the WoF 2008 subforum. In January, elected Captains will choose their team members ready for the Qualifiers in February. In the Qualifiers, each team will have two hunts and the top-scoring 24 teams will progress through to the first Group Stage. After two group stages, six teams will have reached the Semi-Finals. The Semi-Finals are a straight knockout and require the use of a pilot, leaving the three winning teams to battle it out in the Final.

If you can't muster enough people to form an Earth-nation team, teams Eudoria and Amethera are available for anyone. And with the introduction of scoring support teams, everybody who wants to be involved can score points for their nations as well as helping out the main team. This is in the spirit of the original FoF, and to quote Hurrikane: "If a [support] team of noobs claim the final global that swings the difference in the Final, I couldn't be happier!".

[Header image by WoF artist, J Boy. Second image: Stryker dances in his WoF winner's jacket at the 2007 award ceremony.]

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Heroes Season 2 Episode 6 : The Line

Heroes.S02E06.HDTV.XviD-LOL - 4 files - 5 mirrors

Go to FreeTVdown Homepage or http://freetvdown.blogspot.com

Or go directly to Heroes Season 2 Episode 6 post.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Get Paid while you Play?!

Introducing to you the Entropia Universe. It is also a MMROPG. The Entropia Universe is more than a game. The Entropia Universe is for real. Real people, real activities and a Real Cash Economy in a massive online universe.

Join people from around the globe who use the Entropia Universe currency, the PED, to develop their characters everyday on the untamed planet of Calypso. The unique and secure Real Cash Economy allows you to transfer your accumulated PED back into real world funds.

Online around the clock for decades to come, the Entropia Universe is continually enhanced with new content every month and supported by the Entropia Universe Support Department.

The Entropia Universe is a direct continuation of Project Entropia, which had a 2005 turnover of 1.6 Billion PED (160M$).

To see more click here.
Click here for Entropia Forum.

For those who want to play this, you must meet the requirements so that you can run it properly. Please support my blog so that I can buy a new video card! I really like this game but my video card is killing me from displaying the graphics properly. =)