TOW-19

No. 12 men to start. 1st round yields 6 winners. 2nd round yields 3 winners. Someone now has a BYE.

Attention UF Community, Due to the large amount of BYES that went on in the first RONIN tourney in an effort to allow everyone eligible to enter PLAY in the tourney, we felt that the action of the first was a little stunted. Too many byes allow for too many players to advance without warring. Some will appreciate the help in advancing while others think that waiting for an actual match sucks...while others will wonder why they couldn't be lucky enough to get placed in a BYE match instead of the other guy. In an effort to even the playing field as MUCH as possible, we're going to make the brackets for both RONIN tourneys completely EVEN. Meaning, whether the bracket entertains 8 players, 16 players, 32 players or 64 players, the bracket has to be completely evened out and filled, so that there are NO BYES. Because of some numbers in the sign-ups surpassing one point currently (SOCOM's passing the 8 mark and CoD4's passing the 16 mark) but not filling enough for the next point, we're going to conduct a random draw for the players that signed up. The first sign-ups chosen by an online randomizer to fill the bracket suitable for the number applying will be the participants of this current RONIN. We realize that this will exclude some players as well as lower the total amount of entry donations, but in all fairness, we want a COMPLETE bracket tourney, not one riddled with free rides to those trying to make it to the final match. A GOOD WAY TO REMEDY THIS is to prod your clanmates and friends for some more sign-ups. We're going to keep these open until Monday of next week. On Monday, players will be randomly selected to fill the appropriately sized bracket and your PM regarding the PayPal link will be sent. Wars will begin the following week. We're sorry that we may potentially have to exclude anyone in the fun here but, in the grand scheme of things, we just want to make sure the tourney IS fun for EVERYONE involved. Just a few more sign-ups for the SOCOM RONIN would mean we could get a full 16 bracket in. The COD4 bracket, currently at 24 I think, will need a little bump in order for everyone to be involved in a 32-man bracket. But we'll see what the rest of this week and the weekend brings. Thank you. - TOW

Glad you enjoyed it.

Someone help me out here. What the heck is a PSN "card?"

Some people have asked me in the past, after they get to know what I do when I'm not doing UF, and Ravenfall, and teaching, and writing, and project managing, and playing volleyball and looking for the little man that watches me sleep at night, just how much sleep I get on average? Thinking about it today, I was also wondering, as we're all a community of GAMERS here who usually wile away the evening hours trying to shoot one another, just how much sleep YOU get on average. I know that the "healthy" recommended amount is about 8 hours, but in today's fast paced society, we're all becoming too familiar with knocking sleep back a bit in order for us to finish the last bit of that project or that chore or....that sandwich. ;D So, how much sleep do YOU get on average per night on a weekly basis?

When that's all there is, it can be a wonderful thing. ;D

Poor, confused little girl......

Metallica has enough good songs to put into one game, but their newer stuff sucked.... and ultimate-guitar is where i go for all my tabs It is a great tab site isnt it.. I love Ultimate-guitar. May have to check that out. Thanks for the tip!

That was harsh, man. I guess it's just our darn luck that Sniper and I have never had accounts on the CT forum so we can keep slinging the mud as well. Hopefully everyone here still reading this has seen what "UF is about" because, y'know, the thread will be deleted. I guess we're just about keeping the mechanics of one race team out of the garage of the other race team. We never thought that one person could simply NOT get this mentality. Why do I keep using these smileys on this post!?

Thanks for letting me know. I'll contact Sniper and see why they haven't been getting archived. Thank you.

We should actually incorporate "trunking" for disputes between CRs who can't talk their way through a situation. LOL Throw them both into a trunk, turn up Mariah Carey REALLY loud, and then drive around the block a few times. Two CRs enter, one CR leaves. ;D

Yeah, but they put camo paint on his butt and gave him a gun......so it's a macho guy's ass. That makes it better. Right? ;D

Have any of you guys SEEN this cartoon on Cartoon Network yet? I was just told about this.....it's messed up! It's just an ass....being a badass! http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c3921ae826f5011ae96ea9340045

Where were those rules written....the Bayou?

Then all they need to do IS do it on their OWN. Havoc, YOU know what I'm talking about here so make sure none of your boys pops off at this statement. Run your tourney....good luck with it....but run it on your OWN.

To all those on the fence....tomorrow night, Wednesday, is the last night Urgent Fury will be taking in applications for the upcoming second tour of RONIN with a pre-ordered copy of SOCOM: Confrontation awaiting the winners. If you know of fellow clan members who had intentions of joining on the action, give them a friendly nudge to remind them that sign-ups close tomorrow night. Thank you.

You're welcome and thank YOU for kicking ass IN it!

Did you just title this thread in Vulcan or some shit?

POT PIE, bitches! TURKEY! (No, this wasn't a glorified drug reference)

You just got on my last nerve.

If this poll in some way was supposed to reflect upon the recent deleting of a thread, so be it. Everyone needs something to occupy their time. Point is, we have a very strict rule here on THIS forum regarding Urgent Fury posts and posts about/pertaining to other tourney sites. Simply put, when Urgent Fury was a young little toddler, even then, we did not whisper the UF name on other tournament sites (cuz, well...there WEREN'T a lot of them) or anything like that. We started from the ground up. We started in the dust and through the years of hard work, dedication on both the part of the creative team here as well as the clans that come to it, we made our own little sand castle here. But we did it on our own. We keep to this practice up to this very day. We don't spam (either blatantly or covertly) other tournament forums with news of our tourney and we don't use the PM systems of other tourney sites to advertise our tournament. Sniper and I do not even have accounts at these various other entities. Simply put, we're too busy and focused HERE to care too much about what goes on out THERE. But just recently we have KingJunk posting up some Davinci-Code-Crap about embedded letters signifying Chaos Tactics in his post. We have Havoc putting up some pity party post about him leaving which invariably links to WHY he's leaving which invariably links to his newfound glory at his new post at Chaos Tactics as part-owner or however they're doing things there. Pity party as in, I did NOT say nor give him the impression that he was unwanted here at UF. What I DID say was nothing short of advice from one guy who has been running a tourney for a very long time to another guy who wants so badly to start...and that is, FOCUS ON WHAT YOU ARE DOING SO THAT THE PRODUCT YOU'RE CREATING IS -WORTH- SOMETHING. It was advice for his own success, not so that we can finally be rid of someone or his clan. HE chose to put up some bullshit about the McDonald's/Burger King comment as if that were some slap in the face I gave to him or something whereas I was simply comparing two entities....both making the same damn thing and offering it to the public, but you don't see McDonald's managers poking around behind the counter at a Burger King or vice versa. He decided to put some negative slant on it as he typed it so that we looked horrible for elbowing him out of UF....which we HAD NOT. The advice I was giving him was for HIS benefit, as I, Sniper and UF don't benefit or lose ANYTHING with him coming or going to wherever his desires are taking him. I told him that he SHOULD be playing in his own tourney instead of creating one there and playing here. Why? As I told him, like any good chef, when you cook something up, you stick the spoon in and take a sip to make sure what you're serving up to everyone passes your own standards. I don't get to play in every match of these tournaments, but I try to play in a few because that, along with feedback from the community, is how we keep our tourneys here fresh and functioning. Again, ADVICE for the guy that likes taking the pity train out of town instead of just holding his head up and getting to business on his new venture. So we ask about censorship? Censorship, plain and simple, is at the mercy of the establishment. ANY establishment. Every house has rules. Your neighbor asks you to take your shoes off before you walk on the carpet. Church asks you not to swear in the house of God. Great America asks that you line up single file for a ride instead of pushing and shoving. You're not allowed to openly threaten the President of the United States of America. When the plane is landing you are to stow your tray tables and fasten your frickin' seat belts. And here at Urgent Fury, we simply ASK that references to other tourneys not be made here in our house. It's not that we're trying to CENSOR your mind from knowing that other tourneys are out there. For chrissakes go FIND them! You have CT....BoH....some messy Dv8 tourney......hell, GAMEBATTLES. They're out there and we INVITE you to go check them out. We're not here saying that they don't exist and we're not hoping you don't KNOW about them. CHECK THEM OUT. Every informed consumer shops around. We're not afraid of what you will find. Some will like it there better than UF, some will find that UF has everything they need in a tourney. So go ahead....we'll be here if you decide to come back. But what we ask this for is that we do not do their advertising FOR them. Urgent Fury doesn't advertise on their forums, so we don't need them advertising on ours. We work hard to get the word out in our own ways, and MOST of those ways have to do with game-to-game contacts while playing online. We let our product speak for itself and not try to lure clans that are already happy somewhere else to come take a look at UF. We don't do that, we don't WANT to do that. It's not even a politically correct thing we're forcing ourselves to do. We simply just don't DO it. I have one hell of a dirty mouth on me where about every 5th word out of my mouth at a bar is a curse word. Censorship would KILL me. LOL However, I know WHEN I can say things, HOW to say them and to whom I can say them. I do this out of respect and politeness. I know my surroundings and I respect the rules of the house. It wouldn't hurt so much to have others do the same from time to time. I do not like censorship, but I recognize its importance in the world. Anyone who says "fuck censorship" on every level, facet and situation in life is simply ignorant. My two cents on the matter of censorship, the Havoc and *S* situation and anything else this was potentially alluding to. And for the record, I voted for "depends on the situation."

Feel free to discuss.....just no bashing please.

It's another StreetSweeper POLL! "The poll can get your wife pregnant!" LOL

Sign-ups will be closed on the 27th (Wednesday) and at that time we will find out whether or not we'll run this second installment of UF: Ronin for both the SOCOM: CA and CoD4 titles. UF is looking for at least 16 players in each game bracket. We'd really like to avoid the massive byes that were given out the first time so that everyone plays for their prize. Remember, we're giving away pre-ordered copies of SOCOM: Confrontation to the winner of each bracket....and this past summer's Ronin tourney winners will NOT be able to participate. SOCOM: CA still needs to reach 16 sign-ups. CoD4 has over 16 sign-ups (of which 16 is all we will take) but we can certainly bump it up to a 32-man bracket if more sign-ups show up. So if you have clan mates that are interested in this competition, let them know to come on in.

It's still good to see members of the Community here diggin' on the pub crawls.