Deputy Grand Master Report: 4

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Deputy Grand Master Report: 4

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Greetings everyone and welcome to my Cyber Monday report. I am a big fan of Cyber Monday, namely because Mrs. Sarin is busily purchasing me a new desktop because my 2008 Alienware has finally given up the ghost. Beyond that, I'm looking forward to knocking this report out and updating everyone on some of the good work taking place across our club.

This report will include updates on:

  • Recruitment Tribune: Praise + Stats
  • GJW Planning Document + Scoring
  • GJW Fiction + Recap
  • Congratulations
  • Conclusion

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Recruitment Tribune + Stats

On 24 October 2014, we appointed Yacks as Recruitment Tribune. Since this time he has revitalized our social media accounts and brought us in line with what a 2014 era club should be doing. To say that Yacks has made an impact on our club in the Social Media arena would be a massive understatement. He and his merry band of helpers have taken dead accounts and turned them into DJB production machines. Here are a few details, just from our Facebook account.

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This chart shows our weekly overview from Facebook. As you can see, we are up across the board in all stats. This trend has been ongoing for five consecutive weeks.

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This chart shows our post likes since 24 October 2014. First, it is pretty obvious that our "likes" have consistently increased over Yacks' tenure. Second, that peak is 45 likes in a day. Not too shabby.

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Finally, this chart shows our most impressive stat, reach. That peak shows that a DJB post reached 661 unique individuals in one day. Awesome.

Yacks has put forth tangible and impressive work across all of our Social Media accounts and his work on Facebook is just the tip of the iceberg. I encourage everyone to give him a little pat on the back and thank him for helping our club expand its horizons.

GJW Planning Document + Rules

On 7 September 2014, the Grand Master and I submitted a GJW planning document to the Independent Units for review and commentary. Over the past three months the document has grown from a couple of pages to 13 full pages of likes/dislikes/ideas/commentary. I'm happy to say that each Unit has submitted to this document and everyone has had their voice heard (Special Props to Tal for responding first).

The Indy leaders have offered up a series of ideas on competitions: Battleplans, puzzle competitions, unique graphics events for hand drawn and computer, video creation, song creation, run-ons, and a mix of ladder based gaming events utilizing core platforms. While we can't promise that all of these events will make the competition, we can assure everyone that their voice has been heard and we will work very hard to accommodate a wide range of good ideas.

The GJW rules are presently being staffed by Mav with help from Jac and Val. These rules will be presented shortly to the Indy leaders for explanation, tweaking, and final revisions. Once again, the name of the game is letting everyone provide input with their concerns and thoughts. Unfortunately, at the end of the day the rules will make some units happy and some other units less happy. Muz gets paid the big bucks to make the final call, but it will be a call that takes into account the majority of our club.

More to follow soon.

Fiction + Recap

There will be a DJB Fiction update prior to the GJW that quickly recap the last two years of Vendetta and introduce a POV character that will take us through the end of the GJW. The singular POV decision was made after receiving some feedback that indicated highlighted key members was an awesome idea, but it also resulted in a mess of a story. Your feedback has been received and I've shifted fire (I'm flexible, for realz).

This shift and a host of other Sarin related issues have delayed me slightly, but the fiction is finishing up. It will go to my trusty proof readers (Mav, Shadow, Muz) and will then be published for the club at large. As of now, the story will start with a recap, provide fictional purpose to the Dark Crusade/Fading Light, and introduce the cause for the GJW. There are going to be a few little twists and surprises. I'll do my best to keep the writing tidy and precise. Regardless, there will be a TLDR that accompanies the fiction for those of you who hate my writing or just hate reading :p

We are also going to see the promised supplementals, because...well, things get a little interesting with our DC.

Congrats

  1. Congrats to Val, Xen, Yacks, Wally, Omega, and Liam on their "Best Reports Evah" awards.
  2. Congrats to Farrin on the SB!
  3. Meleu on the Grand Cross!
  4. DS on the Grand Cross!
  5. Howie on the Ruby Scepter. In case you did not know, if you look up the award, it is actually a picture of Howie's face. Howie does great work with new recruits and this was truly a well deserved award.

Great work everyone on your ranks and accomplishments!

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A bit of travel, a bit of holidays, a dying computer, and a bit of Dragon Age, GTA V Next Gen, and Assassins Creed Unity has kept me a little under the mIRC radar over the past few weeks. My apologies, but solutions are coming and addictions are fading. Beyond that, I'm hammering out the fiction and blowing deadlines to my proof readers. I'd like to thank Jac/Shad/Mav for their patience and comments. Shad also stealth moved some data on the wiki for me, and that was greatly appreciated.

Look for GJW rules soon and then prepare for the War after the Holiday Season. Muz also highlighted some potential December changes that will be a major impact to our character sheets. Hopefully we include some other character development avenues for our membership.

Lastly, yeah, I watched that teaser 150 bazillion times. I'm good with the saber and optimistic about the storyline. Although...that droid looked a lot like the World Cup football. Thoughts?

As always, I'm available via mIRC (Sarin or Pravus), email ([Log in to view e-mail addresses]), whatsapp (ask), and g-chat.

I'm jelly about the computer.

And yay for the fiction update! I need to catch up on everything the last two years...

The first step is admitting you have a problem

Disney probably got paid off by Qatar to put the football in the Movies.

a recap of the last two years of events????

Oh great, now I can get ridiculed again for losing the Predominant .

I just hope I do well enough to make it to EQ2. don't want to want like last time, nearly 5 years, to get to EQ1.

Mumbles about the Predominant again

Excellent report, Sarin, thank you for the updates. Looking forward to the story progression and for what is to come. Exciting stuff.

Also, that saber hilt is still atrocious. #preach

Really, the quality of stuff that the Facebook admins are sharing has improved noticeably. I actually share regularly now.

I see what you did there Yacks :P

Thanks for the report Sarin, but...where's the pie chart? :P

Also, wuts ur whatsapp plz? Pic4pic :)

I knew there was a joke about Star Wars/Fifa/Qatar.

Well done :P

Ugh, gotta love pattern charts. Good report, boss man!

That is some fine Social Media-ing.

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