Here we are Dambusters, 6 years in the making and what a journey it has been!  We have seen some amazing things over the years and we have only become stronger and better progressively as time has gone by, using the firm foundations we have laid as a community that ensures we embrace new members and encourage people to play the game the right way.

As your guild leader, it gives me great pleasure to still be here pouring out the superlatives to describe this guild and all our members.  The work we have done gives me the opportunity to host a culmination of events in celebration of what you have achieved in the past year.  Again, many thanks go to the guild members who have helped to make our prize fund so generous this year.  Everyone has played their part but there are a few exceptional Dambusters who boosted the prize fund as always.

PRIZE FUND  –  400,000g

• Throughout the duration of the day, there is an ongoing selfie competition.  Take your own opportunity to create the perfect selfie moment during the course of the day.  Qualifying entries MUST have a guild banner somewhere in the selfie but the location and content is otherwise completely up to your imagination.  A decision on the winner will be made by myself by Sunday at the latest after deliberation.  Please email selfies to bigticket@dambusters.eu

• Every year, The Dambusters celebrates it’s formation date with a raft of activities for everyone to join in with.  This year is no different and we will start at 12pm noon (ST) on Saturday 25th July at the Hero’s Rest Inn, Stormshield. We will proceed to drink the bar dry and when there is no space floorspace left uncovered by beer vomit we will hit the streets of Stormshield!  RP mode marching to celebrate the guild community and as a solemn reminder of former guild members from the past.   You never know, one day some of our old friends may just return!  I want to see guild banners everywhere and I expect friendly behaviour with the other members of the server while we are there.  BE AWARE that this is a big opportunity to be trolled by others from the community but I EXPECT TOP BEHAVIOUR as noted in this blog post and I will be reminding all guild members about this.

• After we have remembered old Dambusters enough, we will create level 1 gnomes and bring them to Stormshield (I have Pettysue sat at the gnome start point waiting to provide portals for everyone).  Get naked and feel free to mingle with the Stormshield patrons.  Feel free to be warm and friendly to others who ask about what on Earth we are actually doing but the primary goal is the feel-good factor that lil gnomes will offer as we all dance about like idiots together.

• Next up we will log our desired characters for a massive guild battle royale down in the gurubashi Arena in the Cape of Stranglethorn.  We will have a total brawl where everyone will land on a countdown and commence warfare, no grouping at this point and it’s every man for himself until the last Dambuster is standing.  When dead, release and run in but DO NOT resurrect.  You are welcome to return to the arena as a ghost but no resurrecting as you will affect the outcome of the fight.  After the first (likely short fight) we will team up in pairs that I will decide for reasons! and do it all again in our teams.

• After kicking each others’ butts in the arena, we will proceed to kick our own butts over in Dalaran. Our annual ‘jump off the tallest platform and see how close to Bigticket’s guild banner we land‘ event will be short and silly but fun and a nice reward awaits the winner.

• DAZZLING ROD  Dodgeball game should be fun.  But first, lets make sure everyone has the item.  We will stream down to the Ironhold Harbour and make sure everyone has their toy from the chest in the East Tower, then play dodgeball on scene and probably all the way around Tanaan, dodging balls and probably killing mobs along the way.  I would like this event to extend to us basically just smashing around Tanaan as a mob, breaking people and generally owning the place.  If we end up with a strong enough team then I would like to Go to Throne of Kil’Jaeden and kill Kazzak or assault the horde base Vol’mar.

• LOTTERY – Everyone who attends the day’s event will automatically be entered into a draw which I will conduct at the end of the day and there will be a guaranteed prize pot of 100k.

MVP

Voting has already started and is well underway for the accolade ‘Most Valuable Player’ of the past YEAR for two categories,  Officer and Non-Officer.  All Dambusters may vote one of each regardless of your rank and for any reasons you can think of.  Please ensure any remaining votes are in during the day so i can count and announce the winners.  Any personal message to me will do, via WhattsApp, in-game mail or whisper.  You may not vote for yourself!

Prizes for the MVP votes will be as follows:-

Officer MVP   –    20k + ‘Landro’s Gift Box‘ + Blizzard Store Mount, pet or helm of the winner’s choice + Coalfist Gronnling mount

Non-Officer MVP   –   20k + ‘Landro’s Gift Box‘ + Trading Post Garrison Auctioneer + Coalfist Gronnling mount

Selfie Competition Winner

–  Vial of the Sands + 20,000g

Gnome Party

–  1,000g each

All gnomes will get  1,000g each, this could be up to 40 people if we get an amazing guild turn-out.  As with last year, I expect people to join as the day goes on which will mean that some miss out on parts of the day and of course you only get a prize if you attend the event. Please check your gnome’s mail box afterwards because last year I received returned mail 30 days later.

Dalaran Jump Winner

–  Vial of the Sands + 10,000g

Gurubashi Arena Winners

–  10,000g for solo winner

–  10,000 each for team winner

LOTTERY

–  100,000g

1. 30,000

2. 25,000

3. 20,000

4. 15,000

5. 10,000

It is entirely possible that the guild may find recruits looking to join on the day because of the server publicity generated.  If so, please send them to the guild website to apply as normal.  I hope the recruitment staff (and other officers concerned) will be on hand to process any applications, however newly joined guild members on the day are not eligible for any prizes.  Bigticket and alts are not eligible for any prizes so please do not vote for my characters 🙂

Hope you have a great day guys, you deserve it!

/Salute

Any errors of calculation or judgment, please notify me by email (bigticket@dambusters.eu) or by whatsapp if I’m not available in-game.