Rikers Summer 2012

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Rikers Summer 2012

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Rikers coming soon! Date TBA

NA captain: Constitution

Euro captain: brad

stay tuned for details.
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Yay Can I be on The NA team? What time is it?
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Rikers is a tourney of 10 skilled NA vs 10 skilled Euros.
Teams are chosen by the captain & co-captain (co-captain is chosen by the gu admin captain) for their own team.
Invites are sent via pms on bzbb, gu site, email or by invite on bzflag itself.
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Aww I guess not is their subs?
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Yes, there are subs, but this is not as "casual" an event as something like the ChesVal. Teams choose the strongest players of their respective nation; we play to win! But it's still all in good fun, of course :)
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Oh ok so, Constitution ( for me ) If a player cant play the whole thing a sub will be added? By the way how many games are in the Riker Cup?
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In general, the 10 players chosen are verified to meet that schedule and only under emergencies is some well-known observer is rushed in to play. Sometimes things happen mid match also, which causes a similar result. Generally both teams choose at least 12 players or so to ensure someone will be there in case to quickly sub in.
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Rikers is 10 v 10, yes. But the Riker teams are composed of a larger number of invited players to allow for subs. Last year when I captained the NA team, I believe we had 16 confirmed invited players, iirc.

It's the best of 2 out of 3 matches played one on a Euro and one on a US server. If 3rd match is necessary, winner of 2nd match chooses the server. If at end of 2nd match there is a tie, then winner of 1st match chooses the server for 3rd match.
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Try to Lose the 2nd match it will be a lag wars!
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Need to check your geography, ABGC.
Neither New Zealand nor Australia are North America or Europe.
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Cant wait and hopefully Euros actually have a challenge for us. :lol-old:
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Go America!!!!
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We caught Europe sleeping last Rikers, hopefully it's a closer match this time around.
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Do the Riker cup @ 3:00 AM for Euro :P
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Sweet. Hopefully there is a resurge of activity this month, specifically some of the veteran players.
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If anyone is up for making it, I would like to host an image on Planet MoFo's billboards to promote this event, as well as to congratulate the winning team afterwards. Everyone and their brother sees our billboards, would ne nice exposure, and help recruit your teams, perhaps.
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The Riker Cup is scheduled for August 11, 2012 at 2100 GMT. Captains are Constitution and klavier for north america, and brad and hurricane for europe.
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Noooooo Hurri That can't be right he is one of da best!
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that's kinda the point of rikers
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I know but now we are gonna lose sooooo many times. Go Europe!!!!!
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US Riker server: Tx.bzexcess.com. Port 1337

Many thanks, blast
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North America won the cup in two matches, 3-1 and 3-2. Thanks to all who participated or were otherwise present!
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Good Game Europe. Nice Defence and attack! Good luck for next time! :)
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Dang it, I missed it!

Hope you had fun. :)
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