What a day this will be!

The biggest celebration in Dambusters 5 years existence is upon us and I am truly the proudest guild leader of all time to be sat here typing this out.  I declare myself utterly humbled by the way this guild’s members have battled hard to make us (and keep us) together as a fun community over the years.  It is with significant emotion that I continue to be your guild leader and with this day as a marking point in our great guild’s history, we will forge forward and create many more days where people can enjoy being a part of this family.  I’m sure you can sense the satisfaction in me as you read these words but I need to get down to the purpose of this post.  The prize distribution:

Thanks in particular to the stand-out guild members who have gone the extra mile to donate to this prize fund, some more than others but all equally appreciated.  You guys have made this great but infinitely more difficult to distribute these prizes.

TOTAL PRIZE FUND  –  275,000g

• Each year, this guild celebrates it’s inception day with a memorable layout of activities which we can all get involved in.  This year is no different and we will start at 1pm (ST) on Saturday 26th July at the Northshire Abbey in Elwynn Forest and march in RP walk mode as a guild to the Lion’s Pride Inn, Goldshire and onwards to Stormwind.  This march is a celebration of our guild community and a solemn reminder that we have lost a lot of former guild members in the past. Whatever has happened for people to no longer be with us, we will remember the times we spent as friends in the game during this march.  People may have left unwillingly due to real life events, they may have left on good or even bad terms with us but all is forgiven on this day and all our old friends deserve a moment of thought.  You never know, one day some of our old friends may just return!

• We will follow the march with a grand old booze-up in Stormwind’s Trade District where we will happily shout from the rooftops about who we are as a guild and what we represent.  I expect to see you all drop guild standard emblazoned flags and to be friendly with the other members of the server population while we are there.  Please be aware that this is a big opportunity to be trolled by others from the community but I EXPECT TOP BEHAVIOUR and I will remind all guild members thereof again at the time.  You are all fine ambassadors of this guild and I do not want to see any tit-for-tat in tradechat or any other chat formats.  Best behaviour, while getting thoroughly drunk!

• Hard on the heels of the drink-up (and vomitfest) we will all log out and create level 1 gnomes of our choice.  Log in, get naked and stream over to Ironforge, take the Deeprun Tram to Stormwind and again parade in the Trade District.  This event will provide maximum publicity for what is sure to already be a big hit around the server community.  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.  After our lil tea-party in Stormwind, we will bash over to Elwynn Forest and kill stuff as a big group, hopefully even Hogger down in the South-East of the zone.  Please try to avoid levelling of any kind where possible during this event, of course I expect people to inadvertently ding but I don’t want to see level 5 gnomes before we even head out of Stormwind.

• After we are all suitably tired of larking around on our naked gnomes, we will all log into our desired characters for a massive battle royale down in the gurubashi Arena in the Cape of Stranglethorn.  This will be 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.  Bring whatever you want to give yourself a tactical advantage and let the battle rage on!  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.  You are free to watch the remaining battle as a ghost.

MVP

At specific stages throughout the day I will be gathering votes from all guild members which will provide us with a result of MVP (Most Valuable Player) of the year for 2 categories,  Officer and Non-Officer.  Officer and Non-Officer votes will both be provided by all members regardless of rank.  You may not vote for yourself!

Prizes for the 2 MVP votes will be as follows:-

Officer MVP   –    20k + ‘Flag of Ownership’

Non-Officer MVP   –   20k + ‘Amani Dragonhawk’

Total Guild Activity

This guild rewards active members who work hard on their characters.  Altoholism is difficult to track so we will stick to simplicity here and award prizes for the total activity top 20 at the time of the march commencement.  I will screenshot the list at 1pm and prize distribution will be as follows:-

1. 20k + Ethereal Soul-Trader

2. 20k

3. 18,000g

4. 16,000g

5. 14,000g

6. 12,000

7. 10,000g

8. 9,000g

9. 8,000g

10. 7,000g

11. 6,000g

12. 5,000g

13. 4,500g

14. 4,000g

15. 3,500g

16. 3,000g

17. 2,500g

18. 2,000g

19. 1,500g

20. 1,000g

Gnome Party

All who attend the gnome party 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.

Battle Royale

The remaining prize kitty will be distributed between the winner and runner-up.  If a winner and runner-up can’t be decided for whatever reason then Bigticket will decide how to distribute the prizes 🙂

It is entirely possible that the guild may find recruits looking to join on the day because of the server publicity generated.  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.

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.