Announcements - Bucc Stuff

The June Buccaneer Bowl is this Saturday, June 13, at 10am, at the same location as last time, at the ship's new home in the sky in Tranquility. So far we have five teams signed up, with room for five more.

As discussed after the last one, we've gone ahead and scheduled a one-hour team-finding period before the game begins at 10 so that we'll be able to dive straight into team check and rules and start at a reasonable time. This period between 9 and 10 will be for anyone who doesn't have a team by Saturday morning, as well as for people who are coming for their first Buccaneer Bowl, but anyone is welcome to be there; most of you will just be bored. However, if we end up with downtime during that hour, I'll be asking some warmup questions for anyone who's around. (Performance on the warmup questions will not have any bearing on the Bucc Bowl scoring!) Teams with an opening can also come to scout for a third or fourth player at this time.

ARC bonuses continue to apply. For new players: this refers to avatar rendering cost, the number that shows up over people's heads when you select Advanced >> Rendering >> Info Displays >> Avatar Rendering Cost in your screen's menu. This number reflects how hard SL works to make your avatar visible. If the number is high, you're probably contributing to the lag in your area (there are some HUDs and other attachments that drive up the number without increasing lag, but there's no reason you'd need them at Bucc Bowl). At Bucc Bowl, we give players L$100 for keeping their ARC under 500 and L$50 to be between 500 and 1000. This way, we reduce the lag as much as possible, and you don't need to leave empty-handed, no matter how your team does. To bring your lag down, use low-prim hair and clothing, and go easy on the accessories. The complexity of prims seems to be more important than the number of prims: prims that are complex, like fur or lace, tend to be high-ARC. We'll go over ARC again during the pre-game session on Saturday morning.

Here are the teams we have so far:

Trumpton Trivs: Cully Andel (C), AnaMaria Quintessa, Maelstrom Janus, Stiggs McMinnar

Shi-Razor's Edge: Rekeorb Wezzog (C), Honey Potez, Olmstead Fanshaw, Kay Darkwatch

Voracious Veridians: Browman Griffith (C), Cygnoir Blanc, Leyna Brandenburg, Billy2x Krams

Boomfirecirceschism: Chaddington Boomhauer (C), Shale Nightfire, Circe Falta, Josh Schism

Triviators: Lotus Ceriano (C), Alanna Robbiani, Mako Kingfu, Starla Gurbux

Sometimes we play things other than trivia...