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Well, we don't seem to be doing too badly at all do we!? I'm well ahead of my personal goals as well! I did an all side game run yesterday, was up at 7am to fit in 20 games of YYB for rank points this morning and am YYBing as Roo Island aren't anywhere near as strong as the previous opponents!

I think I'm at close to 50,000 items. I was caught short last year and don't plan to do that again! @jellysundae Sorry! I buy at 10np for 1 point, 20np for 2 point, 200np for 4 point and 300np for 6 point... so I get eeeeverything! I am completely preoccupied by the cup at the moment though... so now is a good time!

Maybe they just want to annoy the rest of us by getting CAPCHAs back in place... But yes... hardly brains of the year here. Although, TNT don't seem to have done anything as of yet... I think normally it's SOTAC, who don't cheat. They are just a squad of triple-quadruple All Star players who randomly pick a team to support. That team usually wins and always gets a podium finish. SOTAC have joined Altador this year. This is a different group.

I missed the big 64:10 win and then bet on a bust day. Have since forgotten to bet... but it was a bust day two days ago and a skip day yesterday, so not the end of the world. The AC has taken over my braaaaaaaaaaain!

I mean, that could be a high school football ref fed up of all the whining parents!

That was by far my favourite!! A well deserved win!

There seems to be a current belief that a group of cheaters have joined LD and that's what's causing the weird as heck stats... I mean, for one I really don't want to see a return of CAPCHA's... there has to be a way to resolve it without that!

First day they had normal win stats. Then Day 2 and Day 3 it's gone completely berserk: I hate to yell foul... but seriously, something seems really, really whiffy about that!!

Scrappy was one of the first players I eliminated for exactly that reason!

I've double checked and it's not score based - it's time based. You have to wait at least 10 seconds before submitting! I'll edit my post.

And congrats on another sweep! You guys are on fire!

Well done you! Faerieland didn't do badly last round either. Maybe it's the underdogs turn to shine!

Well, I've gone to last years thread and discarded the really poor players. Hopefully it pays off!

Oh my, I may have to rethink turning my JubJub Maraquan with the new outfit! That is so cute and absolutely on point! And yes, the new zombie pets are something else aren't they! I'll have to send it through to my foster sister to see if it will tempt her back onto the site. She was active ish until the conversion and then couldn't find anything anymore and got frustrated!

I've been forgetting to bet... oops!

Well, I got the pink avatar! Now either onto the Blum or Grundo I think...

Ouch! Not the Altador Cup you had planned at all then!

Have you had any luck at all? I still can't get YYB to load on my phone and I can't play the simplified version of MSN - my top score is 1000!!! Everything seems to be working (ish) on computer though. I hear there are issues with Mac's - could that be the problem?

Nearly maxed YYB for today as well. I've kinda figured out the steal thing... kinda. It steals when you RELEASE space instead of when you press it. So I now have a 1/4 chance of succeeding instead of a 1/10!!! The player switching has always been annoying. Particularly when there are three players in similar distances and the game flicks between them all madly, meaning you can't move anyone at all! I'd far prefer to just be able to control one character and manually choose to switch to another player, rather than the games rather awful AI system trying to decide for me. GRAH! And yep, I've always been a power up saver as well. Which is more difficult now! The player switching also makes it difficult as I cannot tactically choose to ignore the ball and go for the freeze power up as the game always switches to someone closer to the bleeding ball! Darigan balls are definitely randomised. I've been getting them in by just shooting straight. About one time in five it works. Otherwise it can go diagonally, backwards or just in a random direction! I've been keeping a log of enemy goals so I can post to the Maraqua board. I don't bother with individual game scores as I'll just take yesterdays total goals off the total today. My highest score is also 13. I think I've gotten that twice... maybe three times. I'm averaging 9-10 goals per game though which isn't bad!

I love the colours on number 3!! Mosaic pets are definitely tricky to customise!

You're looking very lonely over here so I thought I'd pop by to say Good Luck! May the force be with you and the odds ever in your favour. Only not too much as I swapped teams and am backing Moltara this year!

The clock seems to be fixed but it's taking time off right after each score rather than the cut scenes. I've managed a top score of 12 in maxing the game today. I won't copy and paste my entire monologue on the flaws in the game, but if you head over to the Maraqua thread you'll find it!

Well, I've maxed YYB for the day for Maraqua and all I can say is the game has gone from a tedium to a complete exercise in masochism!! My 'steal' works about 1 in 5 or even 1 in 10 times. The opponents works every single time. The player switching is just as annoying as it was last year, but is made worse by the lack of stealing as I now have to chase the darn ball and I CANNOT DO THAT WHEN YOU KEEP SWITCHING PLAYERS ON ME!! The robot ball exploding no longer removes 8 seconds from the games timer. The Goal cut scene often freezes for several seconds before allowing me to skip ahead. Any player can now collect the power up things that pop up. Often just as I've scored making them completely bleeding useless. Why oh why can't it be active player only as before? And the new power up is a complete flop, slowing everyone down and making the game drag to unbelievable proportions. My goalie seems to defy the laws of physics and balls go straight through him... and balls can get 'stuck' in the goal meaning you just have to let the timer run down. And to add insult to injury, I'm averaging two Darigan balls a game, plus a Faerie. Now I know that's luck of the draw but COME ON! Like this isn't enough of an absolute nightmare as it is!!! Oh and it wants me in full screen to start, so I'm constantly expanding and minimising the damn game. Some us have to keep at least half an eye on work emails at the same time! Onwards and upwards. MSN time it is!

I can touch the thing. However I can't steal and the opponent can which is mega annoying and completely removes my opening play gambit from use. It also means that when the opponent gets the ball I have no chance of getting it back in honesty because I have to hit the steal button like six times by which point they have moved on!!! The timer isn't losing eight seconds per goal so the games go on forever. The Gooooal cut scene often freezes for an extra second or so as well, which isn't mitigated by the removal of time from the clock. The Darigan ball is acting more like the mutant ball. Yes I get it in more often, but it's completely unpredictable!! I'm at 20 games and already ready to tear my hair out!!! EDIT: I stand corrected - the time is now going as soon as I score rather than after the cut scene. Maybe it's been doing that the whole time and the game just feels like it drags!

I'm glad I checked as when I looked at the rules last week, I thought it started NEXT week!! "The practice round will last until June 1st and the team sign-ups will last until end of day June 6th. This session is then followed by a 26 day tournament schedule that runs from June 13th until July 2nd." http://www.neopets.com/altador/colosseum/rules.phtml Well, my first game of actual YYB is in... and @jellysundae, you were right; the timer isn't losing the 8 seconds per goal is it! It was when I did my practice run!! And I still need to start in full screen even though it's not practice week any longer! EDIT: I stand corrected - the time is now going as soon as I score rather than after the cut scene. Maybe it's been doing that the whole time and the game just feels like it drags!