Despamber Celebrations!

First topic message reminder :

For the entire month of December I will be running a competition, the object of which is to increase your TGD Elite Member Points. How do you do that? Simple - you spam your way there!

At the start of the month, either on the 1st or just before I will note down the TGD Points of each competing member, and then I will do the same at the end of the month. The member with the largest gain in TGD Elite Member Points will win him/herself a prize!

As it's a month long competition (and it's Christmas time!) I feel kinda like one prize isn't enough, so will be dishing out a few from the Waggly hoard across a different range of [as yet unconfirmed] categories. These may be things like largest gain in a day, funniest post, best review. Maybe I'll even throw in a booby prize for the lowest gain!

Prizes may range from XBLA & DLC codes, retail games, retro gaming goodies, DVDs and whatever else I find in my cave of goodies. Think I have some little PS3 goodie codes too. The more interest in this competition, the more I'm likely to throw in. [if anyone else fancies throwing anything into the prize mix feel free to let me know!]

Rules
- Post as much as you can over the course of December.
- Competition open to old and new members.
- Members can join in part way through the month if they miss the start, and we will start counting from the day they first post.
- The term 'spam' is used loosely - posts still need to be largely on-topic.
- Learn how to maximise your TGD Elite Member Point score by reading this thread.

If you would like to be part of the competition (and please do - you have nothing to lose), please reply to say so and I'll add you to the list.

Members Joining In (and their starting TGD Points as of 01/12/13)

• Waggly Bean - 3167
  
• GrahamOfTheDead - 6695
  
• Colne Crusader - 6290
  
• Tricky34 - 7334
  
• KENT HAMMER - 15042
  
• minkey_monkey - 8227
  
• Leigh36295 - 5893
  
• Markav - 4731
  
• Fatboy Geezer - 609
  
• stubbymite - 5321
  
• RabidHellBunny - 4955
  
• Tenlo - 7303
  
• Lighthouseman - 4607
  
• harry haddack - 2632
  
• chrism1066 - 2964
  
• TitChz - 303
  
• Ba5sett - 4573
  
  

1 week down! Here is an update with new total TGD Points:

• Waggly Bean - 3241
  
• GrahamOfTheDead - 6735
  
• Colne Crusader - 6332
  
• Tricky34 - 7379
  
• KENT HAMMER - 15119
  
• minkey_monkey - 8287
  
• Leigh36295 - 5934
  
• Markav - 4795
  
• Fatboy Geezer - 619
  
• stubbymite - 5349
  
• RabidHellBunny - 4961
  
• Tenlo - 7330
  
• Lighthouseman - 4693
  
• harry haddack - 2649
  
• chrism1066 - 2976
  
• TitChz - 303
  

Comparing these scores with the starting ones, the current leaderboard of TGD Point Gain for December stands at:

1. Lighthouseman - 86
   
2. KENT HAMMER - 77
   
3. Waggly Bean - 74
   
4. Markav - 64
   
5. minkey_monkey - 60
   
6. Tricky34 - 45
   
7. Colne Crusader - 42
   
8. Leigh36295 - 41
   
9. GrahamOfTheDead - 40
   
10. stubbymite - 28
    
11. Tenlo - 27
    
12. harry haddack - 17
    
13. chrism1066 - 12
    
14. Fatboy Geezer - 10
    
15. RabidHellBunny - 6
    
16. TitChz - 0 (just joined the comp)
    

So current standings put Lighthouseman in first place, KENT next up and me in third (not that I'm going to give myself a prize!).

The competition is still fairly close, and with three weeks still to go everything could change! Don't forget to check the link in the first post to see how to earn the biggest TGD Elite Point gains!

Also, I'll remind you all that there will be a few additional brackets for winning prizes, so don't give up if you're trailing too far behind - your activity may still net you a prize anyway.

Keep up the fine work waggly!

Is it too late to join the party ??

TitChz wrote:Is it too late to join the party ??

Nope not at all, I said in the first post people could join in at any time during the month! Got some making up to do though, although it won't be too hard to beat Bunny on her current gain of 6!

Will add you to the list and note down your current TGD Score.

O! YEH! O!YEH 'M NUMBER ONE.  

Wow, thats a good effort Lighty!

Fatboy Geezer wrote:Wow, thats a good effort Lighty!

It is, but it could all change!

I'm late but count me in! Sounds fun  

Ba5sett wrote:I'm late but count me in! Sounds fun  

Nice one, added you to the list. You have some spamming to do to make up for lost time!

Aye sir, will do   

Look like Waggles is gonna win his own competition.   

Na

Lighthouseman wrote:Na

What does sodium have to do with anything?

GrahamOfTheDead wrote:

Lighthouseman wrote:Na

What does sodium have to do with anything?

Haha!! Tea Splurt!!

Happy New Year, and good spamming all!

I have just taken note of all your scores (so no insomniacs can cheat!) and will post a proper write up tomorrow morning when back on the laptop.

Good luck all! lighty went on the spam offensive today so we will see if he has come out top of the table!

OK, here are the results for the whole of Despamber:

• NAME - STARTING TGD POINTS - ENDING TGD POINTS
  
• Waggly Bean - 3167 - 3520
  
• GrahamOfTheDead - 6695 - 6917
  
• Colne Crusader - 6290 - 6572
  
• Tricky34 - 7334 - 7500
  
• KENT HAMMER - 15042 - 15334
  
• minkey_monkey - 8227 - 8381
  
• Leigh36295 - 5893 - 5972
  
• Markav - 4731 - 5042
  
• Fatboy Geezer - 609 - 707
  
• stubbymite - 5321 - 5432
  
• RabidHellBunny - 4955 - 5015
  
• Tenlo - 7303 - 7379
  
• Lighthouseman - 4607 - 4986
  
• harry haddack - 2632 - 2701
  
• chrism1066 - 2964 - 3002
  
• TitChz - 303 - 409
  
• Ba5sett - 4573 - 4640
  

With this in mind, the gain for each person is (in order of highest):

1. Lighthouseman - 379
   
2. Waggly Bean - 353
   
3. Markav - 311
   
4. KENT HAMMER - 292
   
5. Colne Crusader - 282
   
6. GrahamOfTheDead - 222
   
7. Tricky34 - 166
   
8. minkey_monkey - 154
   
9. stubbymite - 111
   
10. TitChz - 106
    
11. Fatboy Geezer - 98
    
12. Leigh36295 - 79
    
13. Tenlo - 76
    
14. harry haddack - 69
    
15. Ba5sett - 67
    
16. RabidHellBunny - 60
    
17. chrism1066 - 38
    

Congrats to Lighty for spamming his way to first place, a real valiant effort! I'll be contacting you shortly for your prize selection, then I'll contact Markav, KENT etc. Then I will assign any special awards, and finally I will post up a list of what everyone has won.

Thank you to everyone who took part!

Well done super Lighty. Well deserved. He's entertained us very well this past month! But I reckon he forefeits any prize as he said his farewells yesterday!!    

Hats off to you Waggles for arranging this.   

Well done Waggly mate, great comp. You put so much effort into these things!
Beat the Clone again   

Markav wrote:Well done Waggly mate, great comp. You put so much effort into these things!
Beat the Clone again   

Crash Course 2!!

Colne Crusader wrote:

Markav wrote:Well done Waggly mate, great comp. You put so much effort into these things!
Beat the Clone again   

Crash Course 2!!

You can have THAT one.......fucking game lol

Thanks Waggles a great effort.

Shame Lightly left us last night though   

Good effort on the comp everyone.

I did alright considering. Has lightly actually left?   

Colne Crusader wrote:

Markav wrote:Well done Waggly mate, great comp. You put so much effort into these things!
Beat the Clone again   

Crash Course 2!!

Talking of which... are you and Jevil going to finish that tourney??? You're well overdue and I don't want to randomly draw the overall winner!  

KENT HAMMER wrote:
Shame Lightly left us last night though   

I am sure it is just some sick joke...

Well done all

Waggles. I should have mentioned this before but i keep hoping we can sort it before now.

Jevil and I have been trying to party up, but our nats must both be strict as we have been unable to get into the same party or game lobby.

I simply cant remedy my router as its a Belkin, which are notorious for being problematic with xbox live. It seems to have gotten worse.

I have done everything to try and remedy it but cant, and i have a cisco networking qualification. I'm gonna have to buy a new router basically....

So. Ultimately. I may have to concede. Jevil has been more available than me ultimately so i don't mind.

Might just try and collar him for one more attempt this week.....

Colne Crusader wrote:Waggles. I should have mentioned this before but i keep hoping we can sort it before now.

Jevil and I have been trying to party up, but our nats must both be strict as we have been unable to get into the same party or game lobby.

I simply cant remedy my router as its a Belkin, which are notorious for being problematic with xbox live. It seems to have gotten worse.

I have done everything to try and remedy it but cant, and i have a cisco networking qualification. I'm gonna have to buy a new router basically....

So. Ultimately. I may have to concede. Jevil has been more available than me ultimately so i don't mind.

Might just try and collar him for one more attempt this week.....

OK, give it a go and see what happens.