Weekly Report #16 – Submission date: December 18th 2011

Introduction

Welcome to this week’s Gamma Report of awesomeness...or something...

The Fleet has been a bit quiet since the TC Flight Competition ended. And it ended well for us, as we manage to keep our second place with brilliant participation and scoring in the last round, especially because of COL Zosite’s appearance, but also with everyone else who participated throughout the comp, and did their job well in the last round!

An analysis of the competition final standings shows that we were the squadron that had the most participants (6), with Delta Squadron right behind (5). Also we were, by far, the squadron that had the highest scores in the competition (9), against only 2 from Delta. So, why were Delta victorious? The answer is quite simple: four out of five Delta members submitted all missions in every week, while Gamma only had one every week, and three in the last one. This was an excellent effort on their part, and is deserving of our recognition. Congratulations, Delta!

Congratulations as well to Epsilon Squadron, who did an amazing job with only two active pilots, managing to stay only 28 points behind us. Beta and Alpha stayed behind a little, but their efforts should be recognized as well. Congrats!

Reminder: applications for Flight 2 Leader are being accepted. Requirements for the position are to be active in all competitions this squadron takes part. I don’t require Flight reports, but you’re free to do it if you want to.

Until the end of December, the only assignment is to fly TIE-TC 240: Survival. Clock is ticking, get to work!

News

* Delta is victorious, Gamma achieved second place!

* Gamma has the best pilots, but needs to work as a team to succeed!

* Flight 2 Leader position is open for applications!

* Assignment for December: TIE-TC 240!

Activity Reports

COL Daniel Bonini
FCHG Rank: Centurion (2248 points)
- Achieved individual first place overall in the TC Flight Comp!
- Discussed mission issues
- Usual CMDR activity
- E-mail activity
- Message Board activity

LC Mark Schueler
FCHG Rank: Optio (1733 points)
- No activity

CPT Viper
FCHG Rank: Optio (1560 points)
- No activity

CPT Crsepe
FCHG Rank: Legionnaire (408 points)
- No activity

LC Tempest
FCHG Rank: Tesserarius (1012 points)
- Discussed HS issues
- E-mail activity

CPT Dante
FCHG Rank: Knight (294 points)
- No activity

CM Impulse
FCHG Rank: Aquilifer (596 points)
- No activity

COL Zosite Konstyte Styles
FCHG Rank: Imperator (6264 points)
- Achieved top scores in the last round of the comp!

COL Viper Pred
FCHG Rank: Tesserarius (1389 points)
- Flew TIE-Free 259 for TC Flying Comp week 4 – 1 mission!
- Flew XvT-Free 207 for TC Flying Comp week 4 – 1 mission!
- Flew XWA-Free 126 for TC Flying Comp week 4 – 1 mission!
- Discussed old times
- E-mail activity

Competition Center

* TC Flight Comp – Ended!
From the SOO: With a duration of 4 weeks I will post an XvT/XWA/TIE Free mission to complete within 7 days at the beginning of every week, with points awarded for participation, and bonuses for high scores and squad participation.  The rules have already been looked at by CMDRs and a few minor changes have been made to bring you this shiny new polished version...

Pilot file submitted = 2 Points per pilot
Submitting Files for all 3 Platforms (per week) = 3 Point (Bonus)
Highest Score for Platform (peer week) = 3 Points (XWA/XvT/TIE) (Bonus)
50% Squad Participation (per week) = 2 Points (Bonus)
100% Squad Participation (per week) = 4 Points (Bonus)

Weekly Award: - IS-GW for Highest Score per Platform
Final Award:      - IS-PW for Pilot scoring 2 or more Weekly Top Scores
                           - IS-GR for every participating member of winning squadron
                           - IS-SR for every participating member of runner-up squadron

Winning squadron will be awarded the honorific of "TCCOMs Own" to be held until next competition.
Winning CMDR will be awarded the honorific of "Wing Commander" (not the position, but as a "Senior CMDR" title)
Not the most complicated comp idea in the world, but I hope we will see some activity generated.

Submissions of pilot files will as usual be to CMDRs, with CMDRs sending me their personal files.  I will update a scores table on this e-mail group and the MB every week, and announce the next weeks missions the same way. 

Scoreboard:

* Master's Mighty Mission of the Week! – Redux
Start Date: February 28, 2011
End Date: December 30, 2011
Participants: So we must begin our long journey... Towards the lands of Awesomeo... Towards greatness....
Awards: Highest scorer after 4 rounds will win a IS-BW Any pilot who scores higher than me after 4 rounds will also receive a IS-BW. Medals only available to pilots within Gamma Squadron. Any entries from other pilots are welcome.
Description: In an effort to promote good missions, lots of medals and good old competitive spirit each week I’m going to nominate a free/battle/map. After four weeks (end of each month) the scores will be totaled. Highest scorer will win a medal as well as any pilot who beats my own score.
Comp Admin: COL Daniel Bonini (replacing COL Master)
Stats
This month’s assignment: TIE-TC 240

* The Black of Black
Start Date: February 28, 2011
End Date: December 30, 2011
Groups involved: Honor must be paid. With blood... With sweat... With tears.... Become the greatest... or fall forever...
Awards: IS-BR end of each month.
Description: Pilot of the Month type competition. Winner will be decided based on (but not limited to) activity, awesomeness and worth to the TIE Corps.
Comp Admin: COL Daniel Bonini (replacing COL Master)
Stats

* 9 million bicycles
Start Date: December 31, 2010
End Date: December 30, 2011
Groups involved: TIE Corps, Dark Brotherhood
Awards: IS-PR for TC, Cr-D for DB
Description: There are 9 million bicycles in Beijing... Well, there used to be. As rumour has it, this rock will hit 7 BILLION people in 2011. So here’s a crazy comp: kudos and shinies and everlasting bragging rights to whoever gets closest to the date he newspapers report 7 billion. Take a shot now :)
Comp Admin: HA Anahorn Dempsey

* 2011 Ace of the TIE Corps
Start Date: December 31, 2010
End Date: December 30, 2011
Participants: TIE Corps
Awards: IS-PW/GW/SW/BW
Description: As usual - whoever flies most missions in 2011 wins.
Comp Admin: HA Anahorn Dempsey
Stats

Quotes of the Week

1 – FA Jarek La’an: “Delta should probably be relieved that it took 3 weeks for Dan to tempt Zosite from whatever cave he hides in :P”

COL Viper Pred: “Indeed, if Zos hadn’t had problems with his PC, he would have wiped the floor with those Delta boys :P”

GN Gilad: “My agents did a good job keeping him in that cave until this week :P”

Next time, we will be stronger... (sounds like a Call of Duty Team Deathmatch defeat message :P)

Dark Lord of the Week

The highly prestigious title of Dark Lord of the Week is only given to the person who has most advanced the success of the Squadron, amused the CMDR, or slipped me the most $5 notes in a brown paper bag. This week's winner is:

GN Gilad, the honorific Wing Commander!

Ewok of the Week

Yub Yub!

Every story has a hero, every journey has a first step, every Fleet has a pilot who's about as much use as an ashtray on a speeder bike. This weeks's Prize Ewok is none other than:

Inactive pilots!

Gamma’s Roster

Gamma Squadron - Long-range support
Message Board - http://eh.stryfe.net/viewforum.php?f=130
Motto - No motto
Base - ISDII Hammer
Site No site established yet
Banner No Banner yet.
Nickname No nickname

Flight 1
1) COL Daniel Bonini
2) LC Mark Schueler
3) CPT Viper
4) TBA

Flight 2
1) TBA
2) CPT Crsepe
3) LC Tempest
4) CPT Dante

Flight 3
1) CM Impulse
2) COL Zosite Konstyte Styles
3) TBA
4) COL Viper Pred

Conclusion

The lesson we can learn from this fleet wide competition is that we do have the best pilots in the fleet, but we still need to realize that teamwork is also important, as it made Delta victorious. I hope that in the future we can achieve that kind of team effort, from which we’ll be a very difficult squadron to beat.

Next report will be released on Christmas!

Respectfully submitted,

CMDR/COL Daniel Bonini/Gamma Flight 1-1/Wing I/ISDII Hammer [CNTR] [Officer 4th]
IC/GOE/GSx2/SSx2/BSx4/PCx20/ISMx21/MoI/MoC-DoC-PoCx2-GoCx3-SoCx4-BoCx23/IS-PW-PRx2-GWx20-GRx12-SWx46-SRx23-BWx86-BRx40/LoC-CSx6-Rx4/DFC/OV-10E/CoB/CoLx6/LoAx2
{IU:C/TC, WM, ICQ, CBX, LIN, IBX, HIST, SM/3, IIC/1}
{IWATS:TM/1/TM/3-MP/1/2-AMP-XWAI-BFM-TT-XTT-CTW-WPN-XWAC}