In case you didn't notice. Quol restarted his server and quol 5157 and 5158 are back up!

Thank you, Quol!

Please note a new entry on the whitelist allowing for patches which change the teleporter fog color to something other than the default yellow, as long as the transparency is not affected.

Yvaika is now referee!
Congratulations....welcome to the work of posting matches ;)

Red-der had an idea how we could maximize the fun around here.

Everyone knows the problem..there are 2, maybe 3 teams online and you have no mate. What to do? Go offline? Leave your team and join another? Play a funmatch? Maybe.. But what if you could play an official match without your regular teammates?! What if everyone was part of two big teams (A/B - Red/Purple) in addition to your regular team?!

Well, it's too much to type..so please check out the details of red-der's proposal and post your opinion: http://forums.bzflag.org/viewtopic.php?f=103&t=18415

The GU-Admins are open to changes, if it's worth the effort and brings benefit to the league.

Winter Rikers 2013
NORTH AMERICA WINS!
Congratulations to both Riker teams for the great fun today had by all, players and obs alike.
First match: 3-1 goes to North American team
Second: 4-2 Europe comes back.
Third and final: 3-1 North America.
Riker replay for bzbg: port 5161

Thank you to captains, orbit and zelgadis and co-captains Yvaika and monster for putting together great teams. Hard to pick out just 10 from all of gu. You did a grand job.

Last but not least, many thanks to server owners: ahs3, Blast, Chestal for all their time and effort in putting up these special servers!!!!!!! Without you guys.....
We owe you alot for all the fun we get playing bzflag.

Hi all,

The GU League website will be down for approximately 30 minutes starting at 2pm UTC today (19th Dec) while we carry out some essential maintenance ;-)

Edit: done!

Thanks!

Yes! There will be another Riker Cup.You may keep your schedules free for January 12th, 2013.


- Date: 12th of January, 2013
- Time: 20:00 GMT

- Captains:
- N. America: orbit and Yvaika
- Europe: Zelgadis and Monster


http://forums.bzflag.org/viewtopic.php?f=103&t=18346

For the next few months, GU League will accept matches as being official, even if the teams do not have the same number of players playing in the match, provided that all players agree beforehand. Subbing and '2 in' allowed ONLY IF ALL PLAYERS in the match agree. To be clear, if the question of a sub arises or 2 players want in and an existing player objects then they have that right to disallow a sub or 2 in.
This proposition is intended to allow weaker players and newer members to still have a chance of winning and enjoying the league, while providing a challenging opposition, with all the excitement that brings, to the more seasoned and skilful players.

GU looks forward to your feedback.

For feedback and/or questions use this thread: http://forums.bzflag.org/viewtopic.php?f=103&t=18238

Congratulations to the North American team for winning the Summer 2012 Riker Cup! North America won the tournament in the first two matches, 3-1 and 3-2. Thanks to all for an enjoyable tournament!

ahs3 has put his gu servers back up:
Public hix ffa bzbattleground.com: port 5156

match servers: bzbattleground.com:5157, 5158
Replay: 5159

Just a heads up: ahs3 will tolerate no nonsense on his servers. Forewarned is fairwarned!

Rikers is coming on August 11, 2012.
Match time: 2100 GMT

Captains:
North America: Constitution, klavier
Europe: brad, hurricane

The match yesterday, June 25, 2012, between [Forest Force] (Brad/ Epic Rooster) and The Friendly Guys (Jim/red-der) was the first ever 0-0 happening in GU League. It was the 26,255th match played since 2005-01-23, so it took GU 7 years and 5 months to get that result.

Chesval Tourney in memory of Murielle and Surftank
Saturday, June 30, 2012
see http://forums.bzflag.org/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=18085&p=162937#p162937 for details as they unfold.

It is with great sadness to inform you all that Murielle passed away after a 2 yr battle with leukemia.
Muri loved bzflag! She had a charm and wit, along with a talent for coding and she will be missed!
Words cannot express our sadness.
bisous Muri from all of us!

GU League Facebook group!
http://www.tinyurl.com/guleaguefacebook

This group was formed in an effort to spur activity in gu league and to bring the community together on yet another platform.

request membership!

After much deliberation and players' requests, 20 min matches will now be an official option! 2/3 points (of 30 min matches) awarded for 20 min.
Please be sure to state match length when you report a match to a referee.
Thanks

Last Tank Standing
LTS on zaphod's Ocut map.
when: Friday, the 13th. 9pm gmt
where: ahs3.openleague.net 5191

Lots of fun if lots of tanks show up.

The player red-der has been promoted from referee to cop.

Hello,

I'm happy announce to u that my Server's destroyer.guleague.org is up-to-date now.
The servers can found under:

destroyer.guleague.org 5157 | Match Server #1
destroyer.guleague.org 5158 | Match Server #2
destroyer.guleague.org 5159 | Replay Server


Greetings
Destroyer

While most of you were unwrapping presents, carving turkeys, or perhaps accidentally running into small children/woodland creatures with your sled, a super-duper-extra-secretive-secret-stealth-unicorn-operation was going down behind the scenes. A group of GU League veterans were in the process voting on the Top 50 GU League players of All Time.

The poll was conducted and organized by me, rhapsody, and required each member of the voting committee to submit their own "top 50" lists in order. The voting was based solely on skill and teamwork. Although sportsmanship, humility, and friendliness are very important personality traits, the aim of the list was to present the most skilled players in the league. The final list is a result of the combined Top 50 lists of 16 members (8 from North America, 7 from Europe, and 1 from Australia).

Points were assigned to each position on each individual top list, and weighted appropriately. 1st received 350 points, 2nd received 290 points, and all the way down to 50th place received 5 points. The total number of points each individual player received resulted in their position in the final Top 50 list. If two or more players ended up with the same number of points, a coin was flipped to determine which player placed above the other (there were only two ties between players, both in the lower half of the list). The final list was originally planned to be a Top 100, but most agreed that a Top 50 would be much tighter, accurate, and definitive. The list may not be perfect (no list is, really) and may have left out players that deserved a spot, but we feel that it's about as good of a representation of the history of the league and its players as we're going to get. *Drum roll*

Top 50 GU League Players of All Time

1. orbit
2. krisfeidt
3. grand slam
4. Red Baron2
5. Zelgadis
6. dexter
7. brad
8. slime
9. Red Baron3
10. 4morebeers
11. plasma kaz / beanpole
12. Saturos
13. R3lax
14. Janis
15. snick
16. doc holiday
17. dax
18. Lil Dog
19. Wayney
20. Sphere / Fade
21. benji 13
22. mania / Destruction Boy
23. Kenshin
24. skit
25. The Doink
26. TheRisingSun
27. NTH
28. Carnage
29. ducatiwannabe
30. Iggy
31. SAMY-{100%}
32. Gabriel G
33. hiya
34. lucky tank
35. klavier
36. The Red Baron
37. Leo.
38. dvb
39. red-der
40. hurricane
41. Joss
42. Grace F
43. rhapsody
44. Asmeouuus
45. Odysseus
46. Legend_13
47. Destroyer
48. Foo / Mucho Maas
49. Silent Assassin
50. Mopar Madness / Davechi04