Wordman

I recently saw that wordman had got 90 days in the box at exox for unsportsmanlike conduct. Im thinking wtf did u do Richard? Kill an admin? Chopblock a td? jeez. Well since i hate not knowing i asked him and as it turns out he misunderstood the boot rule at exox , they misunderstood him and he got clobbered . He told me he didnt get a chance to defend himself or give an explanation before they boxed him. I know that my opinion doesnt mean a damn thing to any admin of any league anywhere but im gonna give it anyway just because i can and 90 days is pretty harsh for a first offense misunderstanding. If it was me in his position i would think that i was blindsided or ambushed. FREE Wordman50!!!

Wordsteal League at Synergy

Thanks to Dorcas and Nanc at Synergy League for letting wordsteal league use the competitive room during the day. We should be able to get in a few tourneys here and there until mark gets steal going again and the synergy league has nightly tourneys at 11 and 12 for the night owl people out there . I have been a member at synergy for a couple of years, they have a topnotch group and some of the best competition on the wordox scene so be sure to join in their tourneys too. Cya at the tables!

Wordsteal

Posted by phil Gray on the forum

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject: 6 December - update

Mark's former ISP informed him it would take 2-4 weeks to get him reconnected, which is not acceptable to Mark. He is "looking at other options" now, he says. "The site will be working again as soon as I have a working Internet connection for the server." When that will be is unknown at this moment. As soon as we have further word, it will be posted here. So check back, or just try opening the site, http://wordsteal.com. It will come up as soon as it's reconnected. In the meantime, post your most effective "surviving without Wordsteal" solutions on the bulletin board in the Cafe. Thanks. heres the link to forum http://wordsteal.mymesis.com/forum/

Comments

Grrrrr for some reason the comment function is screwed up. If you have comments to add send them to me by email if they wont post. This 1 is from kissthis about the last post on old shep


Ohhhhhhhhhh my, do I have a few things to say!!!!!!!!!!

First off!

Shep cant stand to lose! let alone play a GOOD GAME!!!!! Duh, Azz its a game! Play it or lose it! Shep has always been a poor loser! Always trying to find a loop hole... or a hole to bury his bone at!!! You'd be better at the "BURY ASPECT" the the play to try and find the Loopholes!!!!!!!
Shep, you got me kicked from FSW for what?? Your TACTICS!!!!!! I was a Extremely active TD.... I take GREAT PRIDE in what I did! to have your mouth push me from something I adored! (and you obviosly couldnt do as a TD! cause you NEVER Td!) and ya know what ... I was boxed longer then your puppy licking ass! cause I was a TD!!(as you once where) talk of unfair!!!!!! All because one night I called you off a TD, the next to tell you off in lobby!! Your right I did... I wont say anything different! Because I am who I am! and I'll stand for it! And you know what.. Im not the only one who feels this way..I recived several emails asking me not to leave).I havent and I will not go back to FSW!!!!!! because.... I stand for what I believe! I will not call you a cheat!~ I will not call you anything but a Loophole Freak!!!!!"Give you a hole... You'll dive into it! Just what you deserve!!!!! Are you a TERRIER????????? hm you must be!!!!!
In case this dont post!
This is KissthisAss!!! akak Kissy65

Old Shep (Taking dont like me bite me to new heights)

If the title for this post doesnt say shithead just use your imagination. I went to FSW (which is a cases ladder and not a myleague) today to play in a shrinking pinks tourney. Round 2 i got matched up with Old Shep. The format was clear on top and bottom pinks only and you know me , i got excited and used a middle pink. He gets the cheap win. I won my 3rd round match and while waiting for the td to announce pairs for 4th round Diamond Di the td pmed me and Di has always been very nice to everyone so far as i have ever seen just FYI. Here is what happened.... i saved the chat

Private from Diamond-Di: PERRIN AND SHEP... YOU HAVE BEEN DRAWN TOGETHER AGAIN AS YOU HAVE 2 WINS EACH...OK
Private to Diamond-Di: ok di
Private from Diamond-Di: TY

ok now im cutting out the lobby chatter here is where shep gets in to his act...

OldShep56: I have played Perrin already?????????
perrin: she said we have 2 wins each
OldShep56: it diesn't matter
OldShep56: *doesn't OldShep56: and I had put a brb in, Di
OldShep56: I never saw your pm
Private to Diamond-Di: is he conceding?
Diamond-Di: OK..WILL YOU PLEASE JOIN PERRIN
OldShep56: nope
Diamond-Di: OK FINE... PERRIN WILL TAKE THE WIN
OldShep56: thats a dupe and no way shouldthere be one
OldShep56: and I shall report you
perrin: ty Di for hosting xxx
OldShep56: you're too idle to sort the blue out?
OldShep56: with this many players in, there should NOT be any dupes
OldShep56: so what??? you think thats never happened before?
JoeyTribiani: give it up shep
OldShep56: you give Perrin the win and I will report youJoeyTribiani: tis only a *game* after all
JoeyTribiani: not life or death
OldShep56: Perrin, this is nothing against you. please realise that
perrin: sure whatever
OldShep56: Joey, don't innterefere please
JoeyTribiani: sorry will stay clear
perrin: if it wasnt u would play instead of acting the ass
OldShep56: you're a TD, perrin.. you know what I am on about.. same as I was a TD and know there is no way this should be happening

Anyway you get the picture , he went on and on , i dont feel like cutting more of it out to show here but i told Di to give him the win if it would save her any trouble. Which she did just to shut his miserable old fleabitten ass up. Like that worked for more than 2 minutes lol

All that he managed to do was ensure that i will be back over there every time i look at their schedule and see him in a tourney. Ordinarily i wouldnt bother but Shep isnt ordinary, he is a bullying asshole over there and nothing is more fun than whuppin the schoolyard bully. Even if it is just a game.... I think FSW has been too insulated for too long and they could use a dose of a new arrogant asshole like me instead of the stale lame dickweed that is OldShep so ;-)

wtf is goin on?

After a gard days work today that began at 430 am i get home , pour up a glass of iced tea and head for the pc to get in some laddergames and or a tourney. What i find is not only is steal still down hoyle is also effed up. Steal i can understand being down since its owned by an individual and we have an explanation about it too but at hoyle , owned by a big company you would think they might post a note saying when or what or why. Instead there is nothing which potentially drives more players away to other games and sites. If enough of the remaining hoyle players got together and threatened to leave en mass and boycott all of the companys associated with hoyle ownership maybe the suits would take notice and fix it. Maybe?

Blst From the Past & The Scrabble Song

I had heard that Boggman aka Bogglicious was back in action and i ran across him Saturday at hoyle. He was another tough ass player with attitude and you could usually be guaranteed a tough game with him. He says he has been practising and i hope he hangs around because the more competition we have the better the game is.

A couple of you tube video links here , instead of uploading them u can just click the links here is hip hop scrabble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6C5mhsFi_w
And here is scrabble take that Grandma!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsJSyP--IhU
Funny stuff lol

I had a blast at interleague and synergy last night . Sneaky put out email on how to get in at hoyle and Oxtail made it over , there were some good turnouts with 14 or so players per tourney. IrishLass was over in Soc 1 raising hell too lol. A good time was had by most.
Thanks Holly Melisca And Barb for the fun Tourns.

Cya all at the tables i hope tc

Game Etiquette & Sportsmanship

Wow i really hate to hafta write on this subject but after today i guess i really need to. Unless you are in a tourney playing someone that you absolutely cant stand and never speak too under any circumstances you could have the grace to say gl at the start and gg at the end of the game win or lose. Not doing so makes you look like a turd and for some people that just reinforces peoples perception of you.

Today i played at FSWordox . In a game vs JoeyTribiani aka / Chris Aka Conjunction the format was corner clears only. He thought that meant we could only clear in our own corner so when i cleared in the top beside him and the td told him the rule was any corner he got mad , left the game before it was over and started bitching at the td. When you check the little box that says you understand the rules and then fail to clarify things with the td before you start its your fault there , dumb-ass.

Now in another situation we had Joey again and he was playing OldShep who is an asshole to begin with but thats beside the point . They had issues and had to restart and when Joey kicked Sheps pathetic old ass Shep reported to td in lobby Shitforbrains/OldShep. The td actually laughed about it and i doubt he was called down about it. Like Joey or not that was rude so i congratulated Joey in lobby by saying wtg Joey on beating OldShit. Yeah i can be a rude mfer too. Shep if we ever by some obscure chance of fate meet up please remind me to thump you in your fat head , you rude old shitheel.

Now i pretty much say what i want here but i guarantee ya this much , unless i hate your miserable guts and dont talk to you at all you will get the courtesy of a gl and gg from me in the game. And if you dont return it screw you!!

Now that i have had my rant im gonna go play ;-)

Steal Down :-(

It sucks when steal is down on the weekend. Over at hoyle not much happens on Saturdays. Interleague has a few tourneys but Mummy doesnt get much support from her tds except for the same few diehards every week. Anyway i played there this morning , got to beat Ceedie, and damn girl i forgot how much fun it is to beat your silly ass!!! It was good to see Bluberry Minifrump Duncs and the other hoylers too. Its been awhile since i played regularly at hoyle and its hard to get used to no single s and the old dictionary again. I played at my old home league Extremeox last night but i fell asleep before the Synergy tourneys started which i really wanted to play in. I get up at 4 am every day now and it isnt easy to stay up late. Hopefully i will make it over there tonight for Barbs tourns. Hopefully maybe FSW will have a few mini tourneys this afternoon.
cya at the tables ;-)

Steal Down

Ok the word i got from Phil Gray is that Marks isp screwed up and shut him down and the server will be down until possibly monday.

For updates go here http://wordsteal.mymesis.com/forum/

For those who want to try hoyle and cant get in i recommend these fixes
http://hoylegames.sierra.com/faq.jsp

Need any further info gimme a shout, i will be at hoyle leagues extremeox ,synergy, or interleague while Steal is down or message perrin1967@yahoo.com on yahoo or msn messenger or email me.

Cya at the tables ;-)

This Week

The ladder has hosted around 190 tourneys in the month of november so far so we will break 200 if cases and steal cooperates with us. We also have over 10,000 matches recored now. More and more players are coming in for laddergames too which makes it more fun. The top 10 at the moment has IrishLass at #10 Bronzelonna at #9, #8 is oxtailsoup #7 is red_dawn #6 Ricketytick. #5 is Bambiella #4 is Natssssss coming in at #3 is me #2 is wordman and the new # 1 for the moment is JoeyTribiani aka Chris . Joey says he will play just as much after taking the crown as he did before, in tourneys and laddermatches so anyone looking for a shot at the crown come in to the room and look him up. If you dont i will cause i owe the little fart a beating ;-)
Cya at the tables p.s. Stop watching my effin games!!!!!!!

Stuff

Ok , for new readers and for thecastle, this is an open forum for comments unless i decide otherwise. Right now i allow anonymous comments and comments from people hiding under aliases but thats at my discretion and if a comment is nothing but name-calling with no substance to it, whether the claims be true or false i will remove it if i see fit. After all this is MY blog, i write whatever the hell i want here and if you dont like it go get your own blog. I dont like the idea of someone posting under a fake name really but i can understand it in some cases

Its good to see players that arent as highly rated as others improving their game and getting some good wins. Debbers (bambiella's mom) recently picked up her first 2 wins in the league and Pam got a victory on Dorcas today. Pam caught me for a win a few weeks ago also, so it just goes to show that working hard on your game does pay off.

For those who messaged me about my comment on top ten activity.... never be afraid to ask for a laddergame or a set. Most players will be glad to hook you up and the games will improve you.

Thats it for the moment cya ;-)

League & Stuff

A week until Thanksgiving, a little over a month until Christmas and i am not having any family at my house for anything!! We are gonna go to them this year. Finally!!

OK the top ten for this post coming in at #10 new player& new td is TheBeauty. At # 9 is ShadowyJunior, at # 8 is Red_Dawn at 7 is Redberry and #6 is Oxtailsoup. Coming in at #5 bronzelonna # 4 is Sneaks # 3 wordman #2 is Natssss and I have the #1 title for the moment.

Several players are very happy about the increased activity in the top ten and laddergames between top tenners , Thanks for the feedback keep it coming.
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As oxtail put the term , i have been trying to crosstrain a bit and play some weirdox. It was ok but i still would rather do regular old s rule pinks ok.

thats it for today cya at the tables

Scrabble Asshole

This is pretty funny check it out http://www.yourfleshmag.com/artman/publish/article_657.shtml

This Week

Its been a hell of a week. I took my daughter out for trick or treat Wed night. Last year i had to work so this is the first time i got to go with her. We had fun even with the sensory overload she had going on due to all the monsters out running around. Thursday i had to work from 5 am to 9 pm which is never fun. Friday i had the day off to go to a parent teacher conference. CJ is doing great in school so there wasnt much to report there. Saturday afternoon the inlaws all came over for a cookout down on the creek. In between cooking and eating i managed to kill a liter of Early Times bourbon. Yes i had 1 hell of a hangover this morning lol.

Ok on to the ladder. Everything continues to go well for us mostly due to the fact that i have a kick ass staff running things. A few of our tds have been out of action lately due to things personal or work related etc and we miss them. They know who they are and we hope to see you guys back soon.

The top ten this week has Just_Fancy coming in at # 10 with TheMummykins at #9. #8 is Wordman50 with isitheshoes at # 7 and # 6 is StunnedMullet. rounding out the top 5 is SneakyPete then Shadowy_Niddyz at #4 with me at #3 OxtailSoup at #2 and Natssss on top at #1 . A reminder to top ten players, if you are inactive for 2 days you will lose rank for inactivity .
Thats it for the moment cya at the next tourney or send me a yahoo message if u want to ladder.

Weird Rules

As most everyone knows i hate weird variations in tourneys. I iam not selective about certain formats, i hate them all. I like regular no s wordox and i can tolerate no pinks but thats about it. However I have heard from many people lately that the odd formats give them a chance against better players. Why they would want a tainted win because i screw up and play a 3rd tile in a 2 tile tourney i have no idea but i am going to start playing them. I figure what the hell, i get more games in and more opportunity to put new words into play that i am currently learning. So look out you freaky people im coming to play weirdox

Rated @ Steal

A couple of players have asked why i dont come to rated much anymore and there are a few reasons. #1 on the list.... i have more fun playing friends in laddergames and tourneys in the ladder room. I also dont miss the politics and backbiting in the rated room. I know there are a number of posers in there and they love to talk a big game but you rarely see them put it on the line when it comes to the possibility of losing a few ratings points. If you just want a good time head to the ladder room and if you dont have friends there when you start you will make some pretty quick. We have a kickass bunch of people playing now and it just keeps getting better. Cya at the the tables

Moving On

As much fun as it was trading comments with Dorcas in the last post it is time to move along. Btw Dorcas welcome back to the league ;-) On to business.

It seems that the infamous Redfan73 is back in action and has joined the league. Old Red doesnt like the fast paced games and wishes it was back to the days of 45/45/s . Red, the reason our players like 20-30 sec games is because it makes you think fast and discourages cheating. Good luck learning to play at speed.

MysticStar , our graphics admin has created a Yahoo wordsteal group for the league. Here is the link for that http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Wordsteal/ Thanks Star and a belated Happy Birthday to ya too(((((((Star))))))))

On to league stuff . Laddergames are slowly picking up. I am home most afternoons (except wednesdays) and will play anyone a set. If im not in the room drop me an IM or an email to perrin1967@yahoo.com . If im not available right that second i will get back to you and set a time. Laddergames are the heart and soul of a great league and i hope as we get bigger more people will come in for them. The ladder room uses the same dictionary that is in place in rated also.

I will post on the top 10 and other junk later... im tired Cya at the tables ;-)

Keeping up

Wow , its hard to believe i have been writing here for well over a year, more like a year and a half seeing that my first post was in may 2006. Made lots of new friends and a few new enemies, had a lot of fun playing the game and writing about it and other subjects for my entertainment. Maybe i should reprint what i consider to be some of my classic posts like the ones about the GLH gang that i had so many great games against ( think i finally scared them off lol).

Anyhoo lets take a look at the state of the ladder first , in the past week we have done around 300 matches rough guess maybe a bit more. The Top 10 as of today, coming in at #10 is Shadowy_Niddyz , Just ahead of him at #9 is Spot60(sprot) #8 it is isittheshoes #7 is the feisty IrishLass ....sneaking in at #6 she is sneakypete68 at #5 is Natssssssssssssssssssssssss and her sister jumped her to # 4 thats Redberry coming in at # 3 is Oxtailsoup with me at #2 and on top of the heap is Wordman50. People are getting in some laddergames as they get used to the idea of a league at Wordsteal and we may see activity pick up there as we start enforcing the rules on top players and playing for rank. Thats an item for discussion at the TD meeting.

Good news for me is that finally the sticks/boogerwoods area i live in has DSL available, which i have ordered and it will be active the end of the month! Freakin Finally!!

My Partner , The Spicy One , HollyPeenyo had a good post on her blog about Hoyle and the fact that players just are not going there anymore. To check that out see my links section. I loved Hoyle but i have just as much fun at Steal without my antivirus/antispyware program causing trouble when i go in. I hope some of the Hoylers will come kick it old school style at Steal and try the league
cya at the tables ;-)

Wordsteal support and more

Much thanks go out to Phil Gray , from the very start of the league he has helped out in every way , and now he has added league info to the useful links section of the wordsteal sign in page. To see that go to http://wordsteal.mymesis.com/tourneys/leagueinfo.htm . He did a kickass job and its much appreciated.

As for the league itself lets take a look , top ten , The current champ is Wordman50 followed by Oxtailsoup at 2 me (kes) at #3 the kid Shadowy_Niddyz otherwise known as Junior comes in at #4 at # 5 its the Werewolf of London BigBad Wolfy, coming in at # 6 is Redberry , a big Welcome back to her we missed her! #7 is the shoeman isittheshoes , # 8 is Bambiella # 9 is theMummykins (send her your plump kids) and rounding out the top ten is PamelaKay aka JustFancy. We have put in more than 500 matches since last friday and i also want to thank MysticStar for coming in to handle the graphics admin for the league, she is a kickass graphic artist and we are lucky to have her.

Finally we have tourneys all weekend and should have a bunch of great players in and they will all be lookin to whup some ass.
Cya at the tables ;-)