More on league

The league, www.myleague.com/wordsteal is different than what most expect from an ox style league. Being that we have many players from the uk , europe and around the world styles clash. I feel that the mix is much broader than it ever was at hoyle which makes for some unique problems. The graphics arent as good as hoyle , the site www.wordsteal.com is privately owned also and that brings another set of rules that are different. The site owner is continually upgrading and i like features he has added such as the no pinks feature and the new dictionary but getting the dictionary to the ladder room will take time as he fixes other issues/bugs. I plan on having a mixed group for admin team with people representing both uk and usa to take care of issues as they come up. Please bear with me as we get organized and the kinks will eventually work out .Thats it for now i hope to see ya all there ;-)

Another good day

Wordsteal league had 87 matches and gained 5 new members today. Not bad at all i say! Hope it continues to do well!! Cya at the tables

League News

The new league, www.myleague.com/wordsteal is shaping up nicely. We had 60 matches on the ladder today and while most were tourney matches there was a few ladder matches on there too. Staff now includes me and dreamluver as the first admins and greasegravy as an htd and redberry is kicking ass as a new td. We hope to add more tds even if all they can host is once a month. Looks like Ricketytick got by Guns_n_Roses today to take the #1 title belt, we will see how long he can sucessfully defend it with a growing list of challengers after the belt. I have a 930 pm tourney set up for the 4th of July and im sure the other tds will do what they can.

Guest shots

A player had the idea that i should open this to guest posts. He didnt want to do 1 but i said ok. If you have something to say to the wordox/wordsteal world (and people do read the drivel i write and talk about it or so i hear) whether it be signed by you or just anonymous type it up and send it to me and i will post it. Dont want me to know who ya are? go get a new email addy at yahoo or google. I will post your guest shot for the people to read. All 6 of them ;-) More than that im sure but all it takes is 1 to spread the word.

The following is part of a post a player put up in response to a post i made here http://markbyers.com/forum/ in the bugs and suggestions section asking for an invite button.

"I've asked a few people if they would like to join me for a game but they decline because they say I "scare" them. If they don't feel comfortable playing me for whatever reason, then that is their right. I don't ridicule or call them names in the lobby or write bad things about them in a blog. "
Well CutiePi or whichever name you are using today I am so very proud of you for not ridiculing people. I wish i could rise to your level but it just makes me sick to see players with high ratings that reject comparable players wanting a game then play someone rated 500 points below them just to get 1 more ratings point on their tally. Gee who the hell does that at wordsteal???? I will continue to write ridicule call names or do whatever i can if it shames even one player into taking on quality opponents.

Why i bitch about the game, The league etc

A player asked me recently why i spend so much time bitching and complaing about ox and wordsteal on here. As i have said before if people can call scrabble an indoor sport i can call ox/ws an indoor sport if i want to. Now that we have established that ox/ws is a sport that i have by the way spent a number of years competing in i get easily pissed off when people abuse my good nature when competing against me in my sport or otherwise do things in the game or lobby that i want to rant about here. Now on to the league at WS.... thanks go out to Phil Gray and Shiloh for their help allowing us to advertise and even have a league. Hopefully we will continue to grow and have fun. Cyas

The New League

The league had a good start with 9 people playing in the first tourney which was won by Guns-N-Roses. The next tourney , today at 1 pm est will be no pinks. We have more than 20 members so far and im sure it will expand. Dreamluver has signed on as an HTD and she brings a couple of years experience as an admin and td to the league. Also signed on is GreaseGravy who is an experienced nutcase as well ;-) Welcome to the league

The New League

Thanks to everyone that has joined so far. The league addy is www.myleague.com/wordsteal and we will play in the ladder room at www.wordsteal.com . First tourney is today at 6 pm est and please give us a shot if you want some good tourney action with no bullshit and active players.

Important Announcement

Once again i am back in the league business. The addy for my new league is http://www.myleague.com/wordsteal/ and the tournaments will be held at http://www.wordsteal.com/ in the ladder room. The ladder room is on the room list. It is strictly a tourney league unless the admin (me and any staff i add ) determines that a formal challenge is in the interests of the league. the first tourney is Sunday June 24 6 pm est. I hope to see yas there! P. S. I need willing tds and admin staff. if anyone is interested please by all means email me.

Hoyle at Wordsteal

Its good to see that Hoyle players are coming out to wordsteal. I believe that people can enjoy both products. However if you are from Holye and someone happens to accuse you of being a ringer because you (Spot and others lol) just whipped their sorry ass tell them that you are an experienced player from another site and ask them if they want another beating like the one they just got? They will either play you again or crawl off whimpering , either way you can be proud of your Hoyle background while meeting greeting and beating players from all over the world. Wherever you play have fun and raise some hell !

Posers at Wordsteal

Another gripe session about Wordsteal. I along with a few other players have noticed that at Wordsteal there are a number of players with ratings of 2000 and above that come in and sit in the room and rarely or never play. Want an example? Ok here ya go!! A player named MarkPisces comes in saturday with a win/loss record of around 398-4 and a rating of about 2400 which is a nice rating. This sad sap proceeds to sit in the room and do nothing for 3 hours straight. I asked Rickety about him and he told me he asked the guy to play once and the asswipe replied "I am too good for you". This isnt the first time i have seen this guy come in and parade his rating without playing but every time i see him or one of the other jerks there (and believe me there are several) do their poser routine it pisses me off to no end. Im done ranting for now cya!

Extreme

The Extreme Icon (me) made it back to competition in the Asylum (social room 2 ) today. There was a nice turnout for the tourneys and i managed to win 2 of the 3 i played in. After taking an initial beating or two from Bluberry i managed to bounce back and salvage a bit of skin and pride and take her out for the count ;-)
The leagues are in terrible shape attendance wise from what i saw in the standings today. Maybe people will come in out of the heat and start playing more often. I plan on trying to get the word out to some of the wordsteal players that there are tourneys to play in at hoyle, who knows maybe even a few of the posers over there will come out.
Shine up them #1 rank belts , im coming for them!

Return to Hoyle

My first tourney in months took place at Interleague and i had a GREAT time. I ended up losing to that rascal Junior but i whupped Ceedie so bad she tucked her tail between her legs and ran off before the game was even over. Also a shout out to Barb for hosting at Synergy late last night, Thanks Barb it was great fun!

Bored

Im bored with Ox again so just to shake things up a bit i rejoined Interleague today. I might actually even play there too. I feel the hissing and booing but i dont care , like me or not you gotta deal with me :-) Cya at one site or another!

Rescue Me

The new season of Rescue Me started last night and the show is as funny and dramatic as ever. I am looking forward to the full season. The actor who plays Franco said in an interview to not get too attached to any one character this season so its probably going to be one hell of a wild ride this time around. I cant wait until next Wednesday.

A Day in Kentucky

Made it back to my homestate for a visit yesterday. I took my daughter CJ to a small amusement/waterpark in Bowling Green Ky called Beech Bend park. Its an out of the way little place but its quite nice. It has a number of rides geared towards smaller children and stuff for teens and adults as well. They have a nice waterpark too and the kid had a blast. They let me take her on the WildMouse which is a spinning roller coaster and after that all she wanted to do was ride the fastest rides. They had a large water ride with 2 big drops and she made me ride that 1 with her about 20 times. A fun day in the Bluegrass State.

Stackers

Speaking of pet peeves.... Stacking is part of the game but geez i hate playing someone that focuses solely on stacking my words at the expense of their own game. Case in point the game i am in at this writing i led off with tut, the other player tried to stack not on top of it (<---not paying attention at all , just trying to grab a stack) and lost a turn. every play this player made was aimed at stacking on my stuff. I run into this one dimensional playing style quite often. Ugh!

I Get It

I finally understand why people at wordsteal hate ringers. You work hard , build up a respectable rating, play anyone who wants a game (i do anyway) and along comes some asshole with a new name and in this game skilled or not you cant win every game so you take a beating on that hard earned rating to someone who has a name with a respectable rating already. Why these people cant stick with one or 2 names is a question unanswerable. I will continue to play the ringers, assholes that they are but like i said i do understand the hatred and continuing rejections for games by established players when one of these jerks comes along.

Idiots

Saw a player with 45/45/s/o pinks ok set up and i said to myself what the heck, i havent played pinks ok in a long time. Players name was Ginny3, maybe a nice person , maybe friendly with many people, had a nice rating too and after this post you too may wonder how she earned it. First time pinks were open i cleared and she typed LOL. I let it go and cleared again a few mins later and got another LOL. I asked what she was laughing at and she replied that she wanted to see if i was a pinker. I replied that if the options allow it , youbetcha i am and she replied "lame". I told her that the site we are on offers no pinks (duh) and cracked the whip once more for the win. With a 2120 rating you would think she might know this(duh again). Why in the hell someone would option pinks allowed and then bitch about me clearing has only 1 explanation. IDIOT!!!

UFC 71 & more

Chuck "the Iceman" Liddell lost to Quentin "Rampage" Jackson in the first round of the main event . It was a huge knockout that left me and everyone else stunned. So Rampage is the new light-heavyweight champ. On to wordsteal....
I find it funnier than hell that some people want to play me, others want to parade their rating in the lobby, and ringers .... oh boy they come after me quick. As soon as one gets a new name bam!! As for the paraders, gimme a fucking break, win or lose you dont impress me, if you even have the guts to play. Get off your ass and bring it on. Thanks to those players that day in and day out bring their best shot and actually compete instead of playing anagrams and showing off their rating in the lobby. Good Day.