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Sarth plus One!

The Obsidium Sanctum run by Sonofprom survived Sartharion and one drake! Nice job, all!

Military Quarter

We took a gander at the Military Quarter in Naxx10 and the first two bosses went down our first night there.

Heroic Patchwerk Can’t Come Out and Play

Phew, this guy hits a LOT harder on heroic. Always fun when your tanks take 25K hits. But we got him down!

Heroic Loatheb Down for the Count

We had a GREAT heroic Naxx run Saturday night, breezed through a bunch of bosses, and took down Loatheb for the first time.

Grobbulus Lying in His Own Poison

It took a couple weeks of work but we got Grobbulus down in Naxx10! Geeze that creature knows how to stink up a room.

25 People Dancing

We successfully danced our way through the Heigan encounter in our 25 man Naxx run this week!

Patchwerk Deconstructed

It was our first try at the Contruct Quarter in Naxx10. Just two tries at the big guy and Patchwerk went down. Woot!

Loatheb Takes a Long Nap

He fought long and hard, made us work to take him down, but doesn't Loatheb look so peaceful lying there now?

Heroic Naxx!

We started working on Heroic Naxx! Our first night we cleared the Spider Quarter and took down Noth. However, our dancing skills left just a bit to be desired....

Ah well, next time we'll get all the steps right and Heigan will roll over and die from the awesomeness.

Archavon the Stone Watcher

Sonofprom got some of us into a group to do Heroic Vault of Archavon in Wintergrasp this last Saturday morning. Boy that rock went down easy!

The Plague Quarter

We've begun working on the Plague Quarter in 10 man Naxx, which turned out to be an interesting place once we got past the slimes and gargoyles.

First boss to go down was Noth the Plaguebringer:

Cap’n, she’s losin’ power!

The internet circuit is in place in the new office, so we'll be doing the server move this week. If we can get everything lined up in time we'd like to do the move on Thursday (1/15), but we may end up waiting until Saturday (1/17). The server could be down for up to 36 hours depending on how exhausted we are after moving (i.e. before we get off our lazy butts and plug it back in). Cheers!

2008 TIA Football Champion

Planned Server Downtime

Please be advised that I'll be moving our office during the first half of January, so there will be an extended downtime of the server, possibly most of a day or an overnight. I'll post a notice here or send it out on the TIA newsletter mail list shortly before we make the move, but it will probably happen on a weekend to minimize the business service disruption.

The good news is we'll be upgrading from the current DSL connection (only 680k upstream) to a 15mbps down/2mbps up business-class connection. Finally you'll get snappy DLs on those WOWfest pictures. Yay! 

Have fun and happy holidays, y'all!

James "Kakaze" Hoiby
Tucson, AZ

Too Many Spiders!

We've begun working on Naxx10 and cleared the Spider Wing on our first night with a complete TIA group.

I love Thundercry's yell in this action shot:

And the Grand Widow Faerlina's body is somewhere behind Thundercry's big huge mace....

Adventures in the Obsidian Sanctum

Always fun to get back to fighting dragons! Satharion has been slain, both in 10 man by a mostly TIA group, and in 25 man with Legendary.

Gotta love this shot of Pro:

2008 |TIA| Fantasy Football Championship

More Mt Hyjal

Off we went to do the Battle for Mount Hyjal again. This time we got the second boss, Anetheron:

Mt Hyjal

We've been having some fun in Mount Hyjal before the expansion hits, and we've taken down Rage Winterchill twice now. Here's a picture: not much left of the guy once you take him down!

Prince Tenris Mirkblood

We'd always wondered about that door in the barracks past the kitchen. It was always locked. What on earth could be inside? How could we open it? We tried picking the lock: no go. We tried blowing it open: that door was stronger than it looked! So we gave up.

But then we heard a rumor, that the door might be open, that something might be lurking inside.... so of course we had to go find out!

We found this guy. So we killed him.

ZA Cleared!

Magtheridon Crushed!

A big thank you to everyone who came with us, especially those from Late Night. It was very exciting to take the big guy down! So here's a picture of Magtheridon in pieces on the floor:

Serpentshrine Cavern

Long had we wondered: why on earth were those naga draining Zangarmarsh? We had explored their slave pens where poor creatures were forced to work, wandered through a underground bog full of strange and dangerous creatures, and seen the making of strange machinery in their vault.

But finally, with the help of brave adventurers from Late Night who had already explored deeper than we, we entered the deepest cavern of all.

Down down down in the longest elevator we had ever seen. How deep was this place? Then we saw the water, teeming with nasty fish. But, as we killed the naga around the pool, the water began to boil, and the fish died. Yet it seemed something still lurked in the center:

D&D Online Division Retires

On May 6th, 2008, |TIA|'s Dungeons & Dragons Online division ran their last mission.  The DDO division came to a decision to end the 2+ year run with the game.  Its always sad when a division comes to a close, but there's always fun memories that the participants can look back on when thinking about the experience with the game.

The DDO division was structured a bit differently than Planetside and World of Warcraft, other MMO games TIA has been involved in.  The basic idea was a once a week structure with certain characters to keep everyone close and keep our adventures the same.  It is kind of a throwback to the way classic pen and paper D&D was done with a weekly meeting.  It worked very well in this case keeping the groups together, although frustrating at times when someone could not make it and rescheduling for the week was not successful.  Otherwise, it was an enjoyable approach to an MMO game that eliminated some group problems
that are often found in the genre.

Special thanks to all the participants who played DDO with the division:

Arkady (TONK SMASH!!)
Davyn
Dr Moocowz
FireEater
Mothfarmer
Prometheus
Quarmal
Zombious

Taking a bit of a trip down memory lane, here's some screenshots.  Click the image for bigger view.

Here's the final results from the first successful Kobold Assault quest, a test of endurance versus a barrage of 200 kobolds!  The mighty barbarian, Uplift (Moo), came through with his promise to "kill at least half" of the enemies by himself!

Soon after this, the other TIA group managed to conquer the same quest, but with less people!

Jumping forward in time, the various groups revised and switched characters around to make adjustments to our overall makeup.  In this next shot, the new power of the Niac's Cold Ray is on display. Sometimes fights are hard and sometimes they're not when Moulekai (Moo) can do a 187, D.O.A.!  (Combat log in the lower right)

But after some time, some of the challenges are not enough.  Then one begins to create their own challenges!  Kemp (Moo) shows off soloing The Waterworks before the "Solo" difficulty settings existed, and at a mere level 3!

Same instance, next quest.

There were always the nights when we all could not meet for various reasons and we would use alternate characters.  Here's Taya (FireEater), Sarariman (Arkady), and Dimitri (Moo) standing at the elusive "Lone Tree" in the Searing Heights adventure area.

Then how can we forget one of the most difficult and easily unique quests we conquered, The Pit!

More final information from our completion of The Pit.

Overall, we had a very fun and enjoyable run over the past couple of years.  For our last quest, we ran through Delera's Tomb, a series of quests with the guest voice DM of the late D&D co-creator, Gary Gygax.  This was a fitting end and a nice cap of a farewell run.  Pictured on the left is Dimitri (Moo), front and center Keltaren (Prometheus), on the right Tayanne (FireEater), and in the back, the mighty warforged paladin, Tonk!

Short server downtime(s)

Hi all!

I'm doing some work on the server rack and there will be a couple of  short downtimes over the next few days, with maybe a couple more shutdowns over the next month. Most will be 5-10 minutes, one or two stretching to 15-30 minutes.

Also, I'll be upgrading the connection on which this server sits from a 1.5mb Down/640kb UP personal DSL to a "real" business-class connection, probably about 2mbps symmetric, but that may not happen for a few more weeks.

It'll be real low latency. Hmm... I could host a game server on that. Hmmm...

The Return to Zul’Aman

A long time ago, a small band of adventurers entered the troll stronghold of Zul'Aman. With difficulty they made their way toward Nalorakk, the bear avatar. Over and over they threw themselves at the beastly troll, but it was to no avail. They retreated, and vowed that one day they would return.

Yesterday was that day.

With renewed purpose, more training, and better gear, the adventurers fought their way back toward Nalorakk.

Gruul Felled With Entropy!

What an auspicious start to our alliance! Entropy and The Insane Asylum (and Knights Who Say Nee) cooperated to take down High King Maulgar and Gruul. Nice job, everyone!

2008 NCAA Tourney Results

2008 NCAA Final Four Update

2008 NCAA Sweet-16 Update

Nightbane Down!

First try and Nightbane was .... even deader than undead? In any case, his burning skeleton was lying on the ground.

2008 TIA NCAA Tourney Kickoff

The First Steps in Zul’Aman

Here we are, our very first venture into Zul'Aman. Nice view down those stairs, eh?

Gary Gygax, D&D Creator, has passed

Gary Gygax died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva, Wis. His wife Gail says the 69-year-old had been suffering from health problems for several years.

Gygax and Dave Arneson developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice eventually was turned into video games, books and movies.

It's considered the grandfather of fantasy role-playing games and has inspired legions of adoring fans. Gygax's wife says he always enjoyed hearing from them.

The Prince is Dead!

Yahoo! Our first night attempting Prince (without Maladomini, thanks guys for last week!) and we got him!

Netherspite down for the Count

The ghostly dragon Netherspite was taken down last night. Only two more bosses to go in Karazhan: the Prince and Nightbane.

Try not to wet yourself

[QUOTE=Solo230]went through junk folder n all[/QUOTE]

Sent a new invite to your cfranklin@harrahs.com account.

[/QUOTE]

got it(finally, dont know why it took so long), thanks

We Closed the Curtains on Shade of Aran

Phew! Finally! We did this one in the nick of time. We killed him just as he berserked and killed us all off, so EVERYONE was lying dead on the floor. Thank goodness for soulstones.

2007 TIA Fantasy Football Champion

2007 TIA Fantasy Football Update

Happy Birthday |TIA|!

Now Who is the Sacrifice?

Imps... imps EVERYWHERE! But Terestian Illhoof still died, in spite of all his little helpers and his Demon Chains.

A Pleasant Game of Chess

I can see why they call this free epics! Nice easy game, we killed Medivh's king (in spite of him cheating) and collected our reward. Awesome!

Curator Down!

Our third night working on him and we got the Curator down! Nice job, everyone.

Our First Encounter With the Curator

There he is: the big bad construct run amok. Last night was our very first attempt on the Curator. We got him to 50% on one try, which isn't bad! Pump up the dps some more and he is going down.

Meanwhile, how many times did I die on the trash leading up to him? I lost count. So enjoy a pic of me and Mothfarmer dead on the floor. Too bad I didn't have Doleamite in that screenshot too. He died about as much as I did!

Ding Dong the Crone is Dead

Had a great run last night: Attumen, Moroes, Maiden and then on to the Opera House. We found this group waiting for us; they weren't so friendly so we had to take em down!

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Got our chance to attend the opera last night. It was a lively performance, many of us got the chance to play Little Red Riding Hood. That wolf ended up getting what he deserved:

Moroes Dead Again!

Woot! I knew we could do it! Finally we can go attend the Opera again.

DDO Group Completes 100th Quest

Football Draft Complete

Moroes on First Try!

Our very first try EVER on Moroes and he ended up dead on the floor. Congratulations to all who were there!

Finally we got the Maiden!

More Karazhan

We ventured into Karazhan with only nine folks on July 13th (you think it being Friday the 13th had something to do with it?) and still took down the Huntsman with ease.

Karazhan!

Last Friday, July 6th, the WoW Division finally entered Karazhan. We took down Attument the Huntsman and the spider boss first try! Below is picture of us heading up the stairs toward the Maiden of Virtue, who sadly kicked our butts. Next time.....!

2007 NCAA Tourney Final Results

2007 NCAA Tourney Final Four Update

2007 NCAA Tourney Sweet-16 Update

2007 TIA NCAA Basketball Pool

2006 TIA Fantasy Football Champion

|TIA| 2006 Fantasy Football Playoffs

Happy Birthday |TIA|!

Fantasy Football Update

2006 TIA Fantasy Football Ready!

Tangleroot Gorge Conquered

They Call Him a Broodlord?

On our very first attempt the Broodlord Lashlayer drops like a rock!  Awesome focus and effort Insane Chickens!

Finally!

Hardwork Pays Off!  Good Job Insane Chickens on another BWL Boss down for the count!

Another One Bites The Dust!

The Forging of Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros

Onyxia and Ragnaros die this weekend!

2006 NCAA TIA Tourney Results

2006 NCAA Tourney Update - Final Four

The tournament is up for grabs by 2 people, Mothfarmer and FreshMeat.

Update of the standings for the Final Four

1 Mothfarmer - 67 of 67
2 FreshMeat - 66 of 114
3 Dr Moocowz - 65 of 65
4 Marut - 54 of 70
5 Bomaye - 53 of 53
6 comatoast - 52 of 52
7 Joshiyama - 51 of 99
8 krug - 42 of 42
9 felaah - 21 of 21

Its a pretty simple scenario this time around since most everybody blew the last games

It all comes down to the LSU vs UCLA game.

If LSU wins, the standings will remain where they are currently and Mothfarmer will be the winner.

If UCLA wins, FreshMeat will win and the championship game is irrelevent in determining the winner.

There are some other side effects in the standings based on UCLA wins.

If UCLA wins vs LSU and loses in the championship vs Florida or George Mason, Marut will move up to 2nd place and Joshiyama will be tied with Mothfarmer for 3rd place.

If UCLA wins the whole thing, Joshiyama will be in 2nd and Marut in 3rd.

So there you have it.  Overall winner will be determined after the UCLA vs LSU game on April 1st.

I'll plan on doing an exclusive interview with the winner and post it for the whole world to see

2006 NCAA TIA Tourney - Round 2

Ok, Round 2 ended Sunday evening and we're at the Sweet-16 in the tourney.  This is where we start filtering out who's got a legitimate shot as the later games are worth waaay more points.

Here's the standings after round 2.

Dr Moocowz - 49 of 161
Bomaye - 45 of 157
Mothfarmer - 43 of 159
FreshMeat - 42 of 150
comatoast - 40 of 156
krug - 38 of 142
Marut - 38 of 82
Joshiyama - 31 of 135
felaah - 21 of 33

Mothfarmer and comatoast have not lost any of their final four picks.  Dr Moocowz, Bomaye, FreshMeat, krug, and Joshiyama have all lost 1 of their final four picks, but they were not chosen to be in the championship.  Marut has lost 2 of her final four picks, 1 of which was chosen to be in the championship, and she forgot to pick a final champion, oops   And lastly, poor felaah has lost 3 of his final four, including both teams in the championship game/champion.

Still a ton of potential points left across most of the board.  Remember at this time last year, Bomaye was leading the pack with 51 points, 10 ahead of 2nd place.  There was also a 3-way tie for last place with 37 points... and one of those in last place ended up winning 

Bottom line is its still almost anybody's ball game!  Games will resume play March 23rd.

2006 NCAA TIA Tourney - Round 1

Interesting round 1!

It still looks to be pretty competitive overall.  Here's the current standings after the round 1 games.

Dr Moocowz - 27
FreshMeat - 24
Marut - 24
comatoast - 24
Mothfarmer - 23
krug - 22
Bomaye - 21
Joshiyama - 17
felaah - 13

A few people took some major hits, but none worse than felaah, losing his champion in the 1st round   You never know you might still get lucky if everything else left is correct.

Good luck to all with the remaining games!

2006 NCAA TIA Tourney Begins

Majordomo Executus Down

This was by far our most successful week in Molten Core to date.  On Friday, The Horde brought down 6 Bosses!  On Saturday we took down Majordomo & had our first ever look at Ragnaros.  Great job to everyone who participated and to Eh and FireEater for putting together a great RAID once again.  Be sure to check out www.thehorde.org for your current DKP standings.  Please be sure to check your point totals for acuracy.  For discrepancies please send an ingame email to Eh or Quarmal.

The Horde Takes on Onyxia!

It was a valient effort, and for our first attempt quit an achievement as we took Onyxia into stage 3 on our 2nd attempt of the night.  Here is a clip of the fight for those who missed it, and for those who want to relive the nights events.

http://www.mrjinca.com/wow/onyxiafight.wmv

The Horde Brought Down Golemagg

Another one bites the dust.  Last Saturday our coalition of guilds known as The Horde brought down Golemagg the Incinerator.  Great job to everyone who participated this past Saturday. 

In addition to Golemagg we had our first look at Majordomo Executus.  It's just a matter of time until he meets the same fate as Golemagg.

The Horde Brings Down Sulfuron

On Saturday night, our alliance brought down Sulfuron on our 1st try.  Great job to everyone, especially those who bowed out so we could get some extra Priests in the fight.  Great job on the strat planning and to FireDevourer for leading us to victory.

We attempted to take on Golemag Saturday night as well, we had him down to 1/4 health, until we lost our tanks.  It was a valiant effort for our first try.  Now we can go into the fight next time knowing what to expect from the fight.  He will go down next time we face him.

Eh also made a nice little video of our Sulfuron fight.  You can down load it here:

http://http://www.twistedfate.org/etienne/sulf.wmv

TIA Fantasy Football Champion

After a tough 2 playoff rounds TIA has its first Fantasy Football Champion, Joshiyama! For the next year he will also be known as Mr. El Joshiyamao de los Football Magnífico!
2nd place Mothfarmer
3rd place Dr. Moocowz

Oh ya and just for Scrynne I had a Cowboy on my team all year Keyshaun Johnson and I even used him for half the season.

TIA Fantasy Football 2005 Update

Down Goes Shazzrah... Down Goes Shazzrah!

What a rally to the end!!!  After 2 failed attempts, The Horde of Kilrogg, an alliance of Agents of Doom, Dark Souls, Los Pollos De La Noche, The Demons Edge, The Insane Asylum and Twisted Fate brought down Shazzrah.  It looked like we were down for the count for the 3rd time, but due to a timely Curse of Doom, by Nahar of The Insane Asylum, Shazzrah went down.  Great job everyone for sticking together and working hard to bring down the MC house!!  Below is a special video I cooked up this evening.

http://www.mrjinca.com/wow/121005MCRaid/MC-Shazzrah-10DEC05. wmv

FYI...Here are some stat reports from the DMG Meter.  They are not super acurate but can give you some idea of how Damage and Healing transpired (Best viewed in IE 6.0+).

Damage Done
http://www.mrjinca.com/wow/121005MCRaid/damagedone.htm

Damage Taken
http://www.mrjinca.com/wow/121005MCRaid/damagetaken.htm

Healing Done
http://www.mrjinca.com/wow/121005MCRaid/healingdone.htm

Healing Taken
http://www.mrjinca.com/wow/121005MCRaid/healingtaken.htm

For DKP Stats, visit:
http://www.thehorde.org

For CTTracker Report (Best viewed in IE 6.0+)
http://www.mrjinca.com/wow/121005MCRaid/MC-Shazzrah-10DEC05- CTTracker.mht

Great Job tonight everyone!!

FreshMeat

The Baron Falls

It took us a couple attempts, but we did it.  Our coalition of guilds brought down the Baron tonight.  Great job everyone in defeating Garr on the first try tonight as well.

Click here to to see the Raid Report (Requires Internet Explorer 6).
http://www.mrjinca.com/catbox/RaidReport120305.mht

Happy 6th Birthday TIA!

Six years is a remarkable accomplishment for an online organization, especially considering that the majority of us have not even met each other in person   There's not too many other gaming organizations out there that can claim to actively be around longer(there are some!), but this mark just shows the type of people we are and why we recruit carefully to share the long-term vision of having like minded people play games together in a friendly and fun environment.  So kudos to all the TIA members, none of it would've happened without all of you sticking through the hard times and enhancing all the good times!

Six years old?  Guess we DEFINITELY have to start Kindergarten now

Here's a l33t cake stolen off the internet from "Ferdinand"

Four Bosses, One Night

Our coalition of guilds raided Molten Core and took on the first four bosses: Lucifron, Magmadar, Gehennas and Garr. All four went down on the very first try. Awesome job, everyone! On to Baron Geddon, where we find out who is "the bomb."

Below is a picture of us approaching Garr, fighting a Firelord.

FireEater

Gehennas Goes Down!

Our amazing raid group took down Gehennas tonight on our third try. We then got a good look at Garr and his 8 guards, but didn't get them yet. Next time he is going to die! Take a good look at him below folks: he is our next target.

FireEater

Halloween in the Molten Core

A coalition led by The Insane Asylum took down Lucifron and Magmadar on Friday, October 21st. Each boss went down on the very first try! Woot!

And since it is Halloween in the World of Warcraft, I turned Moocowz into a bat.

FireEater

Magmadar Dies - WoW

Last night we finally took down the big dog! A coalition of 40 players from the guilds The Insane Asylum, Empire of Lost Souls, Twisted Fate, Shadow and Flame, Agents of Doom and Los Pollos de la Noche entered the Molten Core dungeon in World of Warcraft, fought our way past Molten Giants, Firelords, Lava Annihilators, Lava Surgers, Ancient Core Hounds and Imps, downed the packs of Core Hounds, and found ourselves face to face with Magmadar.

We're not sure what Magmadar has been eating (maybe all those imps?) but man that dog has bad breath. We made Zhakar our warrior stand there and hold Magmadar's head while the rest of us stood WAY back or moved around to the backside. Even so, Mag would often spit at the rest of us, and boy that stuff is caustic! Clearly the dog was not used to people, because he went nuts, fearing us and going into frenzies. Thank goodness the hunters Moocowz and Kamodo had some tranquilizing shots to calm Mag down.

There was nothing for it but to put that dog down!

Here's looking forward to more adventures in the Molten Core!

FireEater

WoW Guild Night, Sep 8

Insane Adventures: Attuned to the Core!

Sunday September 04, 2005

A group of us got together to run a 10 man attunement run for Canible and Fireconsumer.  The run also included Zeemazz, Promtheustp, Cadfael, Mostr, Lodos, Moocowz and Kahreign.   The run was very productive as we were able to help two additional guildie's toons become attuned.  Not only did we accomplish the Attunement, but walked out with some nice loot and executed some nicely strategized pulls.  As rare as it may seem for a BRD run, no on died - and that is even after clearing the bar with no wipes!  Of the notable winnings, Canible won a Ghostshroud from the Seven Dwarves loot, Moocowz won the Wayfarer's Knapsack - a unique 16 slot bag from Ribbly Screwspigot and Cannible won the Barman Skanker from Plugger Spazzering.

Here are the thotbott.com links to some of the notable loot won last night by some of our members:

Ghostshroud - http://www.thottbot.com/?i=7249
Wayfarer's Knapsack - http://www.thottbot.com/?i=17994
Barman Skanker - http://www.thottbot.com/?i=14900

The notable pull of the evening was in the upper bar area.  Facing a elite Firelord and 5 elite paladins in the upper bar area, Kahreign and Cannible eecuted a nicely timed sap pull.  Cannible doesn't use improved sap, and Kahreign does, so we timed the saps to be one right after the other.  Putting two of the elites out of commission while the rest of the group worked to bring down the 4 remaining mobs quickly and effortlessly.  The last time we visited the bar we attempted to clear this spot and wiped 2 times.  This was a great accomplishment for the guild and testament to how we have grown from our experiences in the Molten Core and working together.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the last nights attunement run and for making this event fun and memorable for all involved.  If you have a toon who is level 58 and higher and would like to have him/her attuned to the core or have an opportunity to win some of the phat loot you see here, you can do it in Black Rock Depths (BRD).  We would like to get as many of you attuned as possible, and only need to know your interest.  Please send a tell to one of your officers or post a request for help in our Event Attendance forum.

Thank you and Happy Hunting!
FreshMeat
Guild Membership Coordinator

Email Problems

Attention TIA Members, TIA Applicants, and other forum users.

I realize there's a problem with the forum (you either get a 404 error after posting sometimes or a more descriptive error on a send_mail function sometimes).

I've been working with the server admin to figure out the problem/find a solution.  Unfortunately, its being quite difficult.

So if you are a potential applicant and sent an application... say within the past month, it probably didn't get sent.

WoW is the only division recruiting currently.  If you wish to apply, do your best to email the same info from the application page to FreshMeat, jchotchkiss (at) comcast (dot) net

Apologize for any inconvenience.

If we can't get the issue resolved, I'm going to have to come up with another alternative and may turn forum email notifications off.  I may do that anyway to see if its a quick fix to the forum problem.

comments?

Official TIA T:V Status

Official announcement from the T:V division...

We are no longer recruiting for any potential team rebuild to compete anywhere.  However, we will remain a division for pubbing until further notice.

Only official division event we have that all members are encouraged to go to (as well as the general public) is the official T:V Pub Night every Monday @ 10 PM EDT.

We will always start in our server, Moocowz Mayhem |TIA| (no rules) and go from there.

Thanks all for your cooperation.

-- moo

CS:S Team

WANTED: T:V PLAYERS

  Yep, we need some more people to play T:V with us. If you know anyone please let them know that we are looking!

(asshats need not apply)

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

Happy Mothers Day if there are any mothers in TIA!

TIA NCAA Tourney - Results

The results are in...

1 Dr Moocowz - 141
2 LostSoul - 113
3 Blaise - 107
4 Joshiyama - 106
5 comatoast - 101
6 Mothfarmer - 100
7 Bomaye - 99
8 Furious Girl - 62
9 t00ns - 41
10 Rufus - 0
10 FreshMeat - 0

Dr Moocowz wins the 2005 TIA NCAA Tourney.  I had a chance to speak with Dr Moocowz in an exclusive, post-game interview.

Moo: Dr Moocowz, how does it feel to come out on top of this prestigious tournament?

Dr Moocowz: Well Moo, it feels pretty good.  Usually in these brackets, I'm lucky if I get one of the Final Four correct and my champion is out in the 2nd round.  But this year, I felt I had a pretty good shot banking a lot on Louisville whereas no one else did.  Louisville provided the edge to my victory.  Additionally, I grew up in Indiana, so I know a bit about the Big 10, and to form, they usually choke which is why I bet against Illinois.

Moo: What did you think of the competition this year in the TIA tourney pool?

Dr Moocowz: I think it went a whole lot better than last year.  We had more participants and it just made everything more fun.  I'm disappointed last year's champion didn't even bother to show up, but I'm sure he would've went by the wayside like everyone else!  Hell, two of the people this year saw my name was listed and they just go too sc-sc-sc-scaared to even try!

Moo: What were your thoughts going into the championship game?

Dr Moocowz: What's my thoughts?  What the hell do you think my thoughts were, junior!?  Even though it was a very slim lead in both the actual game and the tourney standings, I had to be like Pee-Wee Herman in a movie theater, I had to hold my own!

Moo: Any final comments to your competitors?

Dr Moocowz: Yes, as champion for 2005, I've given, no no, I've EARNED myself the self-proclaimed title of MISTER El Moocowzo de los Basketball Magnífico!  And if you got a problem with that, you'll have to take me out in next year's tourney!  Its been YOUR pleasure!

- Mr. El Moocowzo de los Basketball Magnífico

TIA NCAA Tourney - Championship

Championship game tonight between Illinois and North Carolina.

Depending on the winner of the game will determine the winner of the pool.

If Illinois wins, Blaise wins, comatoast 2nd, mothfarmer 3rd, bomaye 4th, Moocowz 5th.

If UNC wins, Moocowz wins, LostSoul 2nd, Blaise 3rd, Joshiyama 4th.

Even though deep down I want Illinois to win (since they've never won a championship AND they're in the Big 10), Go UNC (ouch, that felt dirty to say )

Bootcamp

Ritz_ is back and has finally finished everything on his great Tribes 1 Bootcamp map which is now free to the public.

APRIL FOOLS   Sorry I had to, was a great memory in TIA <3

TIA NCAA Tourney - Final Four Update

The tournament is up for grabs by 3 people, Bomaye, Blaise, and Dr Moocowz.

Update of the standings for the Final Four

1 Bomaye - 83 of 131
2 Dr Moocowz - 77 of 141
3 Blaise - 75 of 139
4 comatoast - 69 of 133
5 Mothfarmer - 68 of 132
6 LostSoul - 65 of 113
7 Furious Girl - 62 of 62
8 Joshiyama - 58 of 106
9 t00ns - 41 of 41

Ok, here's the scenarios for the 3 mentioned above to win.

Bomaye - If UNC loses vs Michigan St. and Illinois wins the whole thing, Bomaye will win.  OR if UNC loses vs Michigan St. AND Illinois loses vs Louisville, Bomaye will win.

Dr Moocowz - If UNC wins the whole thing, despite of what happens in the Illinois vs Louisville game, Dr Moocowz wins.  OR if Illinois loses vs Louisville and UNC simply beats Michigan St., Dr Moocowz wins.  Dr Moocowz actually gains more if Illinois loses to Louisville, because it hurts everyone more than it hurts me   Go Louisville!

Blaise - Blaise can only win if Illinois wins the whole thing AND UNC defeats Michigan St.

Those are the scenarios above for the 3 potential winners.  Everyone else can not win the whole thing because any combinations left in the games allows one of the 3 above to win.

However, there can still be some dramatic shifts between 2nd - 6th place.  If Illinois wins the whole thing, Bomaye, Blaise, comatoast, and Mothfarmer will finish ahead of the cow.  If UNC wins the whole thing, Dr Moocowz defeats all, but LostSoul and Joshiyama will take 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

So there you have it.  Winner may possibly be determined after the games April 2nd, and definitely after April 4th.

comatoast should get his box of random shit ready to send to "teh winnar" *hint hint*

Just for the record, even though I need UNC to win, they're the team I like the least of the 4   I like Louisville the best(and actually hope they win the whole thing), followed by Illinois, then Michigan St., then UNC.

CS:S Match Report vs. Team OZ

1st Half -  |TIA|  as Terrorists 9-6

2nd Half -  |TIA|  as Counter-Terrorists 7-6

Final score – 16-12

It was a close match from the start. Win 1 or 2 rounds, then lose a round or 2.
_OZ_ tied it up sometime in the 2^nd half with a good rush as Terrorists.

We would like to thank Team OZ for a fun, respectful and competitive match.

Lastly Thanks to all the members of the CS:S team. Those that played

& everyone on the team that prepared for the successful match.

> >

Eat Meat

CS:S Team Captain

t00ns

CS:S Team Co-Captain

TIA NCAA Tourney Update - Round 2

Update of the standings after Round 1

1 Bomaye - 51
2 LostSoul - 41
3 Mothfarmer - 40
4 Blaise - 39
5 Furious Girl - 38
5 Joshiyama - 38
7 t00ns - 37
7 comatoast - 37
7 Dr Moocowz - 37

Bomaye has a significant lead and is the only one left with all 4 of his final four picks still in the tourney.

LostSoul, Blaise, Joshiyama, comatoast, and Dr Moocowz have lost only 1 final four pick.  Mothfarmer has lost 2 final four picks, but were not selected to go onto the final round.  Furious Girl lost one final four pick, but was her pick to win the whole thing.  And lastly, t00ns has lost 2 final four picks, one of which was the pick for the champion.

So that's the update of the current status and big losses for everyone.  Everyone starts off with a potential 192 points and it goes down as you make bad picks, especially on teams that go further down the line.  The potential points for everyone is as follows...

1 Bomaye - 51 of 175
2 LostSoul - 41 of 153
3 Mothfarmer - 40 of 140
4 Blaise - 39 of 151
5 Furious Girl - 38 of 98
5 Joshiyama - 38 of 142
7 t00ns - 37 of 85
7 comatoast - 37 of 145
7 Dr Moocowz - 37 of 145

so you can see its still quite close with the potential left, but the stakes are much higher and the games are worth more points.  will be interesting to watch in the next round of the sweet 16 and the elite 8.

TIA NCAA Tourney Update - Round 1

Update of the standings after Round 1

Its a 9 way standings instead of 11 because Rufus and FreshMeat are too big of losers to remember to fill out their brackets!  Though we knew Rufus would've lost since Kansas lost in the first round

1 Bomaye - 25
2 Mothfarmer - 24
2 Furious Girl - 24
4 comatoast - 23
4 t00ns - 23
4 Blaise - 23
7 Joshiyama - 22
8 LostSoul - 21
9 Dr Moocowz - 19

slow and steady is the tortoise, teh Moocowz shall make a comeback!

TIA NCAA Basketball Tourney Pool

That's right, getting close to that time of year again   The Hand/Anteros won the pool last year with his "vegas odds" stuff... let's try to dethrone the champion this year and show him the house doesn't always win!

All TIA Members are invited to the tourney pool.  Only rules we have is 1 bracket pick per person.

 

Prize?  There is no tangible prize, but you get the honor and bragging rights for an entire year over your TIA teammates

 

You'll be able to fill out your brackets on Sunday March 13th, but you can go ahead and sign up now.  Hope to have lots of a people involved this year!

 

Details for signing up will be in the private section of the forum.

2005 is coming, are you ready?

TIA Wins First T:V TWL Match!

What a way to kick off the T:V competition with a couple of nailbiters!  [SOW] gave us a hell of a fight and all respect and hats tipped to them!

Match Results
Cavern - 10-9
Arid - 2-2 OT Win!

Cavern was a seesaw battle right out of the gate!  There had to be at least 4-5 lead changes throughout the entire match.  TIA made a lot of good plays to pull that one off and I think its needless to say, but we were all sweating the entire time!   Fantastic first map!

Arid didn't disappoint either.  Wasn't as intense as Cavern, but it still had its moments.  Both teams came firing right out of the gate with similar strategies.  TIA had the lead 2-1 for a good majority of the map, but SOW broke a flag standoff and tied it up!  A few scares after that, but went into sudden death overtime.  Overtime was a real barn burner as well!  SOW made off with the flag TWICE and go it close to their base, but the TIA offense and the defensive chasers made 2 incredibly nice plays to return the flag home!  And of course we can't forget the flag grab by Rufus and getting it most of the way home!  Got killed by a bomber on our flag platform and yours truly picked it up and got the game winning cap!! (thanks for doing the hard part for me, Rufus )

Overall, a fine job by both teams and especially to TIA for pulling out the victory on our first ever T:V match!

Happy Birthday TIA!

Yep, its that time of year again.  Back in late November of 1999, The Insane Asylum was established for Tribes 1.  We've come a long way from that original idea, but a lot has remained the same.

Happy 5th Birthday TIA!

omg... we're going to start Kindergarten this year

The Return of the T2 TIA Classic Team!

To my surprise... I have been asked by many ppl not only TIA but people whos clans have left T2 for T:V, for me to restart our CTF Classic team once again. I have agreed to it!

   We will compete once again in TWL under the Classic CTF 7v7 ladder. Not only are TIA members welcome to play but anyone who plays T2 can apply or ask me for details to join!

   The only thing I ask of all members is that you stay active and participate in practices, scims and matches!!! NO IDLING IN THE ROSTER!

   If u want to join our T2 team, contact me at: gabriel1964@charter.net  

WoW Kick-Off Party for TIA!

TWL Signups

The time has come!  Signups for the TWL T:V ladder are here and we'll look to start competing very soon.  Take a look at our team page to sign up.  Details forthcoming in the forums and email.

- moo

Upcoming T:V Patch

A World of Warcraft is born...

Enter the World of Warcraft

The World of Warcraft Stress Test / Open Beta has begun.  For those of you who have Fileplanet accounts, head on over and get your free CD Key (http://www.fileplanet.com).  The website has been kind of slow so  hurry on up and get in there while the Blizzard is still offering free keys.

Forum/Website Back Up

If you can read this, that means the website and forum are back online 

Made a few minor cleanups during the downtime, including purging the T2 forum section, creating a T:V news icon, and just some other random cleanups and updates(rough drafts of the Tribes 1 and Tribes 2 sections have content now).

-moo

The end of Tribes 2

Website/Forum Downtime

The website and forum will be down on October 30th until ????

The server is going through a relocation and it is unclear at this point when it will be back up, hopefully a few days.

Apologize ahead of time for any inconvenience this may cause and any critical communications will need to be done via email or another communications source (e.g. irc, instant messengers, etc.)

- moo

WOW & TV Betas

T2 Base Practice

Practice Wednesday for the T2 Base Division @ 9:30 PM EDT!

Why 9:30?  Because we never show up on time for the 10, so we'll start earlier

Practice will be geared more towards skill improvement such as the LD/LO practice we had.

BEML Season 11 Round 3 vs SOUP

Upcoming match vs SOUP for the TIA BEML team on Thursday August 19th @ 9:30 PM ET!

Maps and sides are...
No Shelter(x2) - Storm
TWL-Beggar's Run - Storm
TWL-Feign - Storm

Hopefully it will be a fun match for all!

TIA vs RKoD Classic Match

   Date/Time: Friday Aug 20th @ 1030 PM ET

   Team: Reigning Knights of Death  {RKoD}

   Maps: TWL-Quagmire.....  Inferno

             TWL-Abaddon......  Inferno

             TWL-BeggarsRun...  Storm

   Reply with a YES you can play in this match or NO you can not play! thnx 

BEML Season 11 Round 2 vs AC

Upcoming match vs AC for the TIA BEML team on Thursday August 12th @ 9:30 PM ET!

Maps and sides are...
Dangerous Crossing - Inferno
Deadly Bird Song(x2) - Inferno
No Shelter(x2) - Storm

Should be a good match with our friends AC!

TWL Classic Match

      TIA vs |E|

   Date/Time: Sunday Aug 8th @ 930 PM ET

   Maps:    TWL-Frozen........... Storm Side

                 TWL-Pandemonium.. Inferno Side

                 TWL-Drifts............. Inferno Side (tber)

   TIA classic members... if u haven't already, send ur replies of if u can or can not play in this match...thnx

BEML Base Team Starts Season 11

Classic Match vs KY

BEML Season 11 Around the Corner

The start of the next BEML Base Season has been announced.  The start date for the season is August 1st.  The divisions are likely to be merged into 1 division this time, making for a longer season.

The season will probably run until about mid-November.

Looking forward to the upcoming season!

FreshMeat and Ajax Going To Tribal Wars W

Yes,that is right, we will be on hand to represent |TIA| at this years Tribal Wars Lan party in Los Angeles, California.  With our attendance we will also be entered into the Tribes Vengeance Private Beta.  I will be taking pictures and reporting to all the events at T:W:W.

BEML Season 10 Championship Cup - Round 1

Upcoming match vs dRATs for the TIA BEML team on Thursday July 8th @ 9:30 PM ET!

Maps and sides are...
TWL-White Dwarf - Storm
Katabatic(x2) - Storm
Beach Blitz(x2) - Inferno

Should be a good match with our good friends The Desert Rats!

BEML Week 6 Match vs AC

Upcoming match vs AC for the TIA BEML team on Thursday June 24th @ 9:30 PM ET!

Maps and sides are...
No Shelter(x2) - Storm
Quagmire(x2) - Storm
TWL-Feign - Storm

Should be a great match as always between these 2 teams and should put off a nice end to the regular season!

TIA going to TWL Classic CTF 10v10 ladder

The TIA Classic team has now switched from the TWL Classic CTF 7v7 ladder to the TWL Classic CTF 10v10 ladder. We had weighed our options and 10 man is better suited for us.

   So any TIA member who wishes to join our classic team, go to our TWL roster and join. Email one of the leaders or ask one of the other TIA members for the pw if u don't know it.

   All other T2 players wishing to join TIA in this league and ladder, please fill out the classic application to the left (Classic Apply) and click send. One of the classic leaders will get to ur application as soon as possible with a reply! 

BEML Base Allstar Match Season 10 Results

The BEML Base Allstar Match took place on Saturday evening and ended up being very close and intense games!

TIA's Allstars this go around were...

• |TIA|FreshMeat (DarkHaven's Team)
• |TIA|Eat Meat (Squeeg's Team)
• |TIA|GABRIEL (Squeeg's Team)

DarkHaven's team ended up winning the whole thing, but not without going into a tiebreaker map!

(DarkHaven's Score on the left, Squeeg's on the right)

Harvester 1-1
Dangerous Crossing 2-0
Firestorm 2-2
Damnation 3-0

T2TV offline casts are available for download at the following links...

http://www.ac-t2.com/~shoutcast/T2TVCasts/BEML-AllStar-Base- June13-2004-Harvester.t2v
http://www.ac-t2.com/~shoutcast/T2TVCasts/BEML-AllStar-Base- June13-2004-DangerousCrossing.t2v
http://www.ac-t2.com/~shoutcast/T2TVCasts/BEML-AllStar-Base- June13-2004-Firestorm.t2v
http://www.ac-t2.com/~shoutcast/T2TVCasts/BEML-AllStar-Base- June13-2004-Damnation-OT.t2v

Hope you all had fun and thanks for representing TIA!  Your comments and input would be appreciated

TIA vs -i-

   Upcoming TWL classic match vs Impulse -i- on Thursday June 17th @ 10 PM ET

   Maps:   TWL-Os Iris          Storm    TIA Server

               TWL-BaNsHee    Storm    Impulse Server

               TW-DX       Inferno    TIA Server

   * Impulse server choice: f2 Central IP: 69.93.81.106:28000 

   We will have 2 practices... Sunday June 13th @ 10 PM ET and Wednesday June 16th @ 10 PM ET

Tribal War LanParty

I don't know how many of you are aware, but TribalWars.com his hosting a huge Tribes Lan Party.

It's being hosted simultaneously in two locations:

West Coast: Los Angeles, CA

East Coast: Chantilly, VA

For all those who attend and pre-order Tribes:Vengeance, are automatically given access to the CLOSED and OPEN Beta.

There are a bunch of us who live in the LA area.  The cost to sign up for the LAN Party is $65.  Plus you have to bring your own Computer Equipment.

I signed up an will being driving down from the Bay Area... If anyone is interested in Car Pooling (*cough* NEO).  Please let me know!

For more information and to sign up visit:

http://www.tribal-wars.com/tw/default.aspx

|TIA|FreshMeat

Scrimage

Since Moo, is behind...the barn chewing his on his cudd.  I will post this for him...

Scrimage TONIGHT against the DRATs.  9:30pm EDT.

Maps and Specifics to be determined. 

New Feature - News Article Mod

Newest feature on the TIA website is the ability for users to submit news articles!

Took me about a night to get the parts in place... I do see a few bugs, but they'll work themselves out later.

I hope you all enjoy this feature!

I would like feedback as well, thanks!

BEML Week 5 Match vs AGB

Upcoming match vs AGB for the TIA BEML team on Tuesday June 15th @ 9:30 PM ET!

Maps and sides are...
Dangerous Crossing - Storm
Drifts(x2) - Storm
Harvester(x2) - Storm

Should be a great match as #1 takes on #2!