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Well I don't think THAT is any sort of constructive opinion on either game...

Soooooooo.........call me silly, but we were just wondering what everyone's thoughts here were on this new game called World at War. Y'know......no real reason or anything like that.

We'll be taking a look at it.

Yes, this is a pretty exciting tourney for UF. It's the first for us in allowing cross-clan teams to compete with one another. We do hope to see more clans taking note of the special circumstances of this unique tourney and sing up more 'mixed' teams rather than one team comprised of members of only one clan. You get to do that in Black, TACMAP tourneys, the upcoming Clan Crawls.....so take advantage of this opportunity when you can. That's not to say that this will be the last Horsemen tourney. This will be its own series. BUT there will only be one 'first' one.

I see that you're just not fully understanding the procedures here in UF. That's ok, you're new. If you stick around for the next upcoming evaluation tourney, you will gain access to all kinds of tourneys within this community. Our 'procedure' here, believed to be a little pretentious to you perhaps, is a tried and true chain of events that ensures as much as possible that our community and its tourneys are filled with not JUST the 'most skilled,' but also the most fun and most respected/respectable clans, so that every clan of UF can be certain, win or lose, the clan they're going up against, like them, will win with the utmost honor and humility and will lose with dignity and respect. I don't know how better to explain it so that you will perceive it as being less snooty or hostile.

Both the UF forum and my own Ravenfall forum have fallen victim to some bot invasions, but both forums are set so that an admin must approve the accoubts before they can post, and bot emails are usually pretty easy to identify and then delete without mixing them up with too many valid player email addys.

UF: Black will NOT be an evaluation tourney. It will be a UF Community privileged tourney, for veterans only. And don't worry, there WILL be a UF: EVAL tourney and there are plans for it. And new clans will get a proper evaluation. Not to worry.

Attention UF community...and hold on to your energy drinks. For years now, players and clans here at Urgent Fury have had the opportunity to allow UF to evaluate their clan in hopes of gaining entry into all of the extra tournaments found here at UF. UF: Black has served as this evaluation vehicle for years, and it's proven to be quite efficient. That's about to change, as UF: BLACK is about to transform into a completely different beast of a tournament. Beginning in January of '09, UF: Black will no longer be just an evaluation tourney. It's GRADUATING into its own full-length PS3 SOCOM tournament! UF: Black will become it's own tournament...one that will last for a full 12 months. Now keep up here.... > Every month, beginning in January, there will be a new UF: Black season. The season will last 2 regular season weeks, with approximately 1-1/2 weeks of playoffs. The matches will be played every Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights...2 weeks, 6 matches. As the regular season of all UF: Blacks past were 8 matches total, this is barely a significant change. > All wars, regular season and playoffs, will be 6v6 teams. This allows clans who would also like to participate in any ongoing TACMAP, Ronin, Horsemen or Clan Crawl tournaments to participate in both without suffering too many player shortages. Originally, UF: Black ran with 8v8 matches, so again, the change is minimal. > Every month when playoffs begin, the sign-ups for the next month will begin so that the next month's tourney may begin the very first week of the new month. As always, UF: Black will remain a free tournament to its community and will be open only to those clans who have already participated in at least an evaluation tourney for UF (more on that in a bit). > Standings will be ongoing throughout the year. As you finish UF: Black tourneys by the month, your standings will continue to grow. We will keep these standings on the Urgent Fury website. Clans are NOT required to play month after month for the entire year. You play per month AS YOU WISH, able to opt out of a certain month here or there for your own reasons. Your stats will remain up on the standings until the end of the year, and when your clan decides to jump back into UF: Black, your stats begin to grow again. Your clan can opt to play all 11 regular monthly UF: Black tourneys, or skip every other month, or play three months on and three months off....HOWEVER you wish to participate. Do it at your own clan's pace. > Those clans who finish NO LESS than 5 monthly UF: Black tourneys will be able to stack their stats up in the standings page against all the other clans of the year. Those who complete 5 or more UF: Black tourneys will be able to be eligible for the 32-clan PLAYOFF MONTH in December! Those clans who have played 5 or more UF: Black tourneys AND rank up in the top 32 clans that did, advance into the playoff month in December. December is the only month for the "Grand Champ Playoffs," where as January through November are considered the "regular season," each with their own mini-playoffs for standings purposes, all of which will be revealed when the new Official Rules for UF: Black are released. > Urgent Fury will offer the entire clan who stands victorious at the end of the yearly playoffs a prize for their accomplishment. Again, this will be a free tourney. There is no entry fee required. ALSO, the grand champ clan at the end of the year earns a FREE PASS into as many UF: TACMAP tourneys as they wish to enter into for the entire following year. No matter how many TACMAP tourneys Urgent Fury releases in the following year, that clan will be able to participate in each one, free of charge, and still be eligible for the prize for each TACMAP tourney. All the while, a new yearly series of UF: Black tourneys will begin in that January, and the hunt for a new grand champion will begin. The previous champions have the right to continue on in the next UF: Black as well. > Clan stats for the year will be non-transferable. As in, if your clan changes its name, merges with another, or any other action that causes your clan name to change, then your stats will be reset. > Most important to some, UF: Black will remain a NO BOOM tourney. No grenades, claymores, rockets or grenade launchers. Returning to the UF: Black tourney for the upcoming year will be the use of smoke and flash bang grenades! All the weapon-specific weeks will also go to the wayside, allowing all teams to equip as they see fit for the entire year. The weapon-specific weeks will be injected into the new "evaluation tourney" taking the old UF: Black's place. > There will still be an evaluation tourney for UF, but it will no longer be Black. UF: Black is graduating into its own tournament series, just as important as any TACMAP or other tourney here in UF. The new evaluation tourney will still be NO-BOOM, weapon-specific and still be the "gateway" into the UF community before any new clan can participate in the other UF tournaments. Quality, after all, is still our primary concern. UF: BLACK 6 v 6, 6 wars It don't get more darker and evil than this! SIGN-UPS for the veterans of UF will go up this December! All clans signing up will get the opportunity to participate in the January tour of UF: Black. We will keep the divisions number 8 clans each, so we will make as many divisions as packets of 8 clans allow. If your clan doesn't make it in, February is just around the corner. To better ensure your entry, sign up as soon as the applications are released each month! It's UF: Black ALL YEAR ROUND. Ongoing standings throughout the year will keep your clan tested as much as you would like them to. Whereas you were usually served about 2-3 Black tourneys a year in the past, you're about to get slapped with 11.....and one BADASS month of playoffs! 2009 will not arrive soon enough! (more details will be released as they become available. Official rules for UF: Black will be posted on the forum in the coming weeks before sign-ups) - Urgent Fury Command

I said "may," Shadow....LOL Don't worry, we ALWAYS keep the quality here in UF. You know this by now.

GOOD. We hope we'll be able to accommodate you.

Hello everyone. Nowhere in the rules does it say we will deny anyone who has not yet participated in a previous UF tourney. All we ask for now is how mnay players in your team HAVE played in a previous UF tourney. What we can say is...not everyone may get in, depending on the # of teams that sign up. We would like the tourney to have a good season/playoff structure....8,16,32 total teams for proper scheduling and playoff seeding. We will, of course, try to accommodate as many players as possible, but we CAN say that those teams with more UF veterans on the team will most likely have first consideration. It just proves for a smoother operation for the season. As for your question regarding the supposed ,come play in our tourney but you can't play in our tourney' outlook some of you assume we have in UF, you misnderstand the point. Urgent Fury is able to maintain our level of 'quality control,' if you will, of the clans that come here to populate this community. It's why we don't call this a 'tourney site' as much as a 'tourney COMMUNITY, because just about every clan here can rely on the other to uphold not just the rules, but also proper etiquette in wars. And that type of evaluation and entry comes from our UF: Black tourneys. Feel free to put in your application if you like and just know it would benefit your team more if at least one member of the team IS a UF vteran of some capacity. And welcome to UF.

For NOW, both are scheduled to arrive in January. There is a POSSIBILITY that the TACMAP could be held until Feb., but as it stands now, it's Jan.

Hey everyone.... By now, you're all very familiar with the UF: Black series of tournaments here at Urgent Fury. UF: Black is the long-standing, free evaluation tourney that we run before a TACMAP tourney for the purpose of evaluations for current and incoming clans. It's our means of "quality control," if you will, here within the Urgent Fury community that you all hold so dear. However, the UF: Black tournaments have certainly been relegated to just being the opening act to the "big game," and nothing more. Come January, that's all going to change. The length of the tourney will change. The frequency of the tourney will change. And the ONGOING yearly standings of the tourney will be newly introduced....(so no change there, per se, as it's completely NEW ) More on that soon. UF: Black will still continue to serve its purpose as an evaluation tourney for the TACMAP tourneys here at UF, so that the quality control of our long-running TACMAP tourneys remains intact, but it will become its own, individual entity, if you will, as well. And yes, all year round, it will continue to be a free tourney. We will be making the grand announcement for the layout and schedule of the newly re-vamped BLACK series of tournaments during the kickoff of the PLAYOFF week for the current-running UF: Black tourney already in progress. So just a few short weeks! Come January '09, UF: BLACK 01.01 will be making its debut, with SIGN-UPS for the tourney coming mid-December! Stay tuned! - TOW

Hey there, Splinter..... I did get your PM and tried to reply to your question, but you have that thing going on where, for some reason, this forum does not recognize your clan tag or it does something where I cannot reply to or send messages to anyone whose clan tag starts with a [ and a \ for some reason. I think some of the Hollow Ground guys discovered this a while ago. Just lettin' ya know.

The sign-up section for UF: Horsemen is now up and sign-ups will be taken ONLY UP UNTIL 11-24-08. This gives you just over a week to sign up! Sign-up section: http://www.urgentfury.com/uf_forum/index.php?board=102.0 The Official UF: Horsemen rules are posted in the UF: Horsemen Info Center. There, you will find the unique parameters for war for your 4-man team through regular season and single elimination playoff play. Rules section: http://www.urgentfury.com/uf_forum/index.php?board=88.0 REMEMBER, you have only 9 days from the time of this post to get your team signed up for war! Up for grabs: 4 brand new PS3 Eyetoys courtesy of Forest's Game Bunker.

Oh, let's not get petty over the punctuation and spelling around here.

Undertow - –noun - any strong current below the surface of a body of water, moving in a direction different from that of the surface current. - An underwater current flowing strongly away from the shore, usually caused by the seaward return of water from waves that have broken against the shore. - Track 7 from the debut album of Tool.

Him and HalfCock go drinkin' together by any chance.....?

Ravenfall is hosting its Midnight Mass (like every Fri night) with about 26 people in it here in Central 7. It'll be up til about 3 or 4am.

My predictable favorite part of those who now they're going to create a shitstorm is when they say in a very cookie cutter way '...and I'll probably get banned now but I don't care...' Goodness...... What they don't realize is sometimes is funny to keep the town idiot around for a while.....unless, y'know, he's exposing his penis to people or something.

Wow, Havcock even went this far down the thread list to post on this one too. Boy had some ambition, I'll give him that. ANYWAY, I wanted to bump this thread to remind the clans out there in the UF community about the banner thread here on the forum. Thanks! - TOW

I just watched the ST7 video. I guess I never really knew JUST how much I like that song......LOL It's timeless.

Ooooo, that reminds me. We's gots some Horsemen sign-ups to get ready this weekend! Thanks for the passive reminder. LOL

Thought I'd jump in here. I've posted these elsewhere before, but here are some pics I took of my beautiful city of Chicago. I take lots of pics of my city. I love it to death.

I believe you. And RNG, chill out, ok? Let's ALL simmer down here a little bit?