Flag Raid

System: Odia
Station: Corvus Hold, Odia M-14
Flag Widget: 1cu of Random item that takes 3+ cus of space
Time: Alternating with the Deneb Runon Saturdays, either 5pm or 9pm Eastern.

NOTE: Any ship and any weapon is allowed. Also, the only other rules at the moment are:

Rules:

1) No leaving the Odia M-14 sector
2) No attempting to imitate the Flag widget with a different item.
3) ANY firing in Odia M-14 before or after ANY round (but not during) counts as disqualification. If a referee gets hit, or worse blown up, the offending pilot is out. This includes deploying mines between rounds.

Participating pilots are split into two teams by the judges, depending on nationality, faction standings and amount of available pilots. The teams meet up outside the station, within a reasonable distance of it. The Flag is dropped in the ice cluster. Once the judge calls Go, the event begins. The objective is for a team to work together to grab the Flag and dock successfully with it. The team that successfully does so earns a point. To confirm that the pilot did indeed dock with the Flag, the pilot will undock on the Judge's call and drop the Flag. Any other result then an un-interfered good drop punishes the offending team with a negative point. The best score out of five rounds wins.

Prizes: 100,000 credits and a determined amount of items, depending on the item, per pilot on the winning team OR a flat 200,000 credits. 100,000 credits to each pilot on the losing team.

Any participant that sweeps all scores for the winning team gets access to 2 Hive Positron Blasters or a Hive AGT on TOP of their normal prizes.

Item packages:

Sniper's package - 4 Advanced Railguns and a Ultra Charge Battery
Miner's package - 2 Advanced Mineral Scanners and 4 High Density Beams
Positron Package - 4 Axia Accelerated Positron Blasters and 2 Mega Positron Blasters
Mech Package - 4 Repair Module Mk2s and a Ultra Charge Battery
Battery/Equipment Package - 2 Batteries of your choosing and 4 Weapons/Equipment items
Equipment/Weapons Package - 6 weapons/equipment items of your choice.

Erie Ones:
Omega 0
iry
Athran
Niki

Yellow Dogs:
Screwball
Mick
Ecka Stenck
Alex Lynch

Guest starring: the CLM pirates
MysticRogue
Bidi Baba
TheBlackFlag
firsm

The CLM pirates decided to spice things up by making the game harder for both teams. At first, Niki was part of their "team", but when an Itani pilot had to leave, and then another, he joined the Erie Ones.

The pirates pulled such nasty stunts as jumping the teams upon launching, haunting the cluster, and placing lightning mines around the Flag. The fighting got firece, and once the pirates held off both teams for five whole minutes. Nevertheless, Mick scored twice for the Yellow Dogs, and then Omega 0 scored to give hope to his team. Hopes that were dashed, alas, by Screwball. So the Yellow Dogs win 3-1, and then the traditional after-event stationwar took place.

Enuff said.

That was a great event. Thanks for running it Joyce, and thanks to everyone that participated.

Some highlights not mentioned above:

CLM hiding the real cargo widget in a small nebula of Gov Blasters.

Athran pretending to have the widget to distract us from the real carrier. We didn't really believe it, so Mick and I both went after Niki while Ecka chased Athran to be safe. Unfortunately, Omege 0 really had it and managed to dock, so the ploy still worked.

Also, for those who think things got too imbalanced between the teams, keep in mind that Alex Lynch was pretty much level 1 across the board and still learning the ropes.

I'm also pumped because after losing a couple of 3-2 matches, my team finally won.

Aye , good fun for a Saturday evening . I suppose we should thank Corvus for letting us make such a mess of their sf....

cheers

Ecka