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Title: Elements Community Newsletter: September 2018
Post by: DoctorC on September 05, 2018, 02:41:35 pm
Real quick: Apologizes for being quite late. Me and my brothers have had our schedule... reworked. Drastically so. Many thanks for mathman101 for helping us doing pretty much the whole thing. Show him some love for us, will ya?




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September 2018
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Trials have finished. Take a moment to congratulate the New Masters (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/trials/12th-trials-announcements/msg1279856/#msg1279856)
Table Of Contents:
PvP Events (#post_PvP)                         Competitions (#post_comp)
Weekly Tournaments (#post_tourney)           Leagues (#post_league)
Forum Games (#post_games)                     All Over the Place (#post_allover)
Staff Changes (#post_staff)                     New Members (#post_new)
                     FCM Interview (#post_FCM)
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  • The 12th Trials have come to a conclusion. Check out each of the Final Battles (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/trial-final-battle-results/) to see how each new and returning master gained their colorful title.
    • :aether Aether's New Immortal Leader is worldwideweb3
    • :air Air's New High Flying Ace is Manuel
    • :darkness Darkness' New ShadowLord is TheonlyrealBeef
    • :death Death's New Undead Kingpin is rob77dp
    • :earth Earth's New Underground Tunneler is Kalinuial
    • :entropy Entropy's Returning Chaos King is iancudorinmarian
    • :fire Fire is reigned by the burning power of STANDIN
    • :gravity Gravity is reigned by the heavy forces of STANDIN
    • :life Life's returning Jungle Jumping Alpha is Mr Muffin
    • :light Light's new holy and divine grace is dawn to dusk
    • :time Time's new _________ is kaempfer13
    • :water Water's returning Wet Wonder is JonathanCrazyJ

  • Three Man Team PvP continues into the 4th Round (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/three-man-team-pvp/three-man-team-pvp-8-round-4/) with only 5 teams remaining. Of the 5 remaining teams 2 have aether affinity and 2 have darkness affinity, watch and find out if that 5th team can make it through while being the odd man out.

  • The World Championship of Elements has been confirmed not to start until January (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pvp-world-championship/pvp-world-championship-2015-new-qualifying-system/msg1279894/#msg1279894) instead of in October has been done in previous years. Go now and play a few tourneys and some League games so give yourself a better chance at qualifying for the World Championships this year.


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  • Designing Cards in not a card design competition but an art competition named Definitely a Card Design Competition (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/competitions/art-competition-definitely-a-card-design-competition-(voting)/) brought many new designs for the cards in elements. Wyand pulled out a win with some beautiful aesthetics he made.

  • Doom has covered the world with these terribly devastating cards designs in the Doomsday Device (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/competitions/card-design-competition-doomsday-device-(voting)/) Card Design Comp. Congratz to ARTHANASIOS on designing a terrifyingly awesome card that stole the competition.

  • Has the previous competition got you down and depressed with all the doom? Never fear as there are heroes around the corner wanting to aid the world with their amazing talents, in the Haphazard Heroics (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/competitions/card-design-competition-doomsday-device-(voting)/) writing competition. Go write a stupendous saving story while there is still time for submissions.

  • Stay in touch with the competition section by signing up for the Competition Mailing List (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/competitions/competitions-mailing-lists/)! It will guarantee you getting notified whenever there's a new competition going, so you can begin right away!

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  • Two ways to split three types of quanta is what August 5th's Tripendency (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/tournament-archive/weekly-tournament-august-5th-tripendency-unupgraded/) was all about. Congratz to deuce22 on claiming first place.

  • 49 cards are all you will need when it comes to the 7x7 Speedbuilding (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pvp-tournaments/weekly-tournament-august-11th-7x7-speedbuilding-upgraded/) tournament on August 11th. Congratz to ji412jo for winning the first place prize.

  • Spirals, number sequences and this weeks tourney all have something in common. August 19th's Math Warrior (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pvp-tournaments/weekly-tournament-august-19th-math-warrior-unupgraded/) was a tourney where all cards must cost quanta with a Fibonacci number. Congratz to serprex on sequencing a perfect prime of decks.

  • When the TO's struggle with bans balancing they turn to the community for assistance. In the August 25th Community Choice (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pvp-tournaments/weekly-tournament-august-25th-the-community-choice-unupgraded/) tourney the community voted on which cards to ban. Congratz to Vindilos on selecting the correct decks to provide a first place victory.


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  • Leagues 2/2018 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pvp-league/elements-pvp-league-22018/) have kicked off to a strong start so far. With only about a month having passed 25 players have already joined with 12 of them already qualifying for potential prizes. Vindilos, CactusKing, and rob77dp lead the top of the charts, go now and play some games to see if you can beat them to the top.

  • Are you starting to get bored of the regular unrestricted meta? Take your chance at the Weekly Featured Rules (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/pvp-league/weekly-featured-rules-63397/), and play some exciting new decks with a little more thought and strategiccreative building.

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  • ji412jo has sparked a little bit of life into the Forums Games section this month with another rendition of FG Says (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-games/fg-says-4-by-ji412jo/), a game where False Gods bring you puzzles and riddles to solve. The game just ended, with CleanOnion being the sole survivor of the fourth round!


All Over The Place!

  • ARTHANASIOS has brought us a prediction about Team Light (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/religion/the-prophecy-of-team-light/msg1279549/#msg1279549) in War 12. Do you agree with his thoughts, or will you go against his ideas?

  • Stargazing can bring some beautiful sights if you can see the skies clearly and from a nice location. Take a look in the Stargazing / Astronomy thread (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/science/stargazing-astronomy/msg1278335/#msg1278335) for some nice pictures from our own members, as well as some fun discussions about stars and constellations.

  • The NLW team would like a few minutes of your time to help bring you a better NL in the future. Please take a moment to fill out this quick survey (https://goo.gl/forms/K5iAQjywtiELl0f33) we have created to help better understand what parts of the NL you like and what else you may want to see. If we gain enough responses and some really creative ideas, we will try our best to add your idea into a future NL.

  • Do you have any other idea for what can be featured in here? Feel free to PM us about what you think deserves a special spotlight in the community Newsletter!




Staff Changes (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?action=staff)



  • With War coming up soon, Warmasters are needed to help organize and run this event. Apply now (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-news-and-announcements/now-hiring-warmaster-66297/) for your chance to help out this amazing event!




Tea Time with Higurashi


Below is a portion of the interview:

Favorite music genre?
Well, it used to be psytrance but now I mostly listen to retrowave, and mostly hardcore at that. Vulta, GosT, some VolkorX, Toxic Avenger, Danger, a bit of Dance with the Dead, etc.

If you could change one thing about the game, big or small, what would it be?
I'd remake the game in Unity and find an active developer who zanz would be willing to hand it to. This would kick things off with the release of 1.4 and traffic would skyrocket.

What's the story behind your username?
Higurashi is a type of cicada in Japan whose name means...

Find this answer and many more in Higurashi's official interview (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/elements-council/featured-community-member/msg1275784/#new)

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New Members (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/board,367.0.html)
Here are the members who posted in the Introduce Yourself (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/introduce-yourself/) board within the past month. Just click a certain name to be redirected to the corresponding introduction post. Don't be rude, say hello to newcomers! ;)
  • str8ocastr (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/introduce-yourself/introductions-about-myself/)
  • maxy123 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/introduce-yourself/discord-grou/)
  • Old_Toothy (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/introduce-yourself/introductions-and-felicitations/)



  • Top image
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  • PVP Events
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  • Competitions
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  • Tournaments
    https://www.deviantart.com/chaos-draco/art/Xtreme-Champion-Tournament-promo-428247315
  • Leagues
    http://la-marca-del-este-rpg.wikia.com/wiki/File:Fantasy-warrior-weapon-army-armor-sword-arms-shield.jpg
  • Forum Games
    http://www.boltonlams.co.uk/whats-on/1934/table-top-games-horwich-library
  • All Over The Place
    https://healingcircleshouston.org/event/childrens-lego-healing-circle
  • New members
    https://giphy.com/gifs/kitten-request-box-1ZA5e8R43fDkk


Many thanks to all readers for reading ;)
Title: Re: Elements Community Newsletter: September 2018
Post by: Submachine on September 05, 2018, 06:35:38 pm
A neat newsletter! Thank you both Doc and mathman for doing this.

edit: I think the interview link points to the Lunaris interview. Also for the readers, one news is that Zyardran posted a farewell topic that month. (I think it was that month.)
blarg: mathman101,Wyand,ARTHANASIOS,deuce22,ji412jo,serprex,CleanOnion,ddevans96,kaempfer13,worldwideweb3,DoctorC,Vindilos,Naii_the_Baf,Submachine,Higurashi,Virgo,Yobelttab,Mazza_RC,pinatbater123,Happi,Quadrastic,jellyfishking,TJStephan,azurephantom100,dade8,xTheLostSinner,veronike,ooglyman,Old_Toothy,immortal feud,FR0007