For quite some time the Tugby players have had a problem on the Tugby pitch with "out of pitch" players. It usually occurs during a furious scrum when every Tug is fighting for the puck. A player gets accidentally pushed OUT of the pitch. While this does not happen very often, the only fair thing to do was to stop play and restart the point from the beginning. While fair this was also rather disconcerting to the players.
To correct the problem, the Tugby field has now had its sides doubled in size. See picture below. Hope it solves the problem.
We had nine players last Sunday. The results for the day and for the season to date are below.
0 / 2 ALLIE
1 / 3 BURT
2 / 3 CARLA
3 / 4 CAROL
3 / 4 DAGGER
1 / 4 GEM
0 / 4 LYNN
2 / 4 MAYA
4 / 4 YASMIN
I have changed the dates for the Sail for Life Art Auction. I had forgotten about a planned vacation in RL. The Art Auction will begin on Friday May 22nd and close on Sunday the 23rd. Any artists out there that would like to donate a "one of a kind" piece of artwork in a nautical theme are encouraged to contact me. I'd love to have the art collected by May 1st although the latest date would be May 17th. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at NberMedici@gmail.com with your questions.
Some of you may know that I have been involved with the Sail for Life / Relay for Life in Second Life since the very very beginning. I have been trying to help the effort by making videos of various events. One of the most fun events is the ChippenSail event. Below is the video for the event for this year. If you want to see your favorite dancer, use the following time stamps. Many thanks to all these men who participated, the ladies that bid on them, and to Allie Tomsen for organizing the event yet again. Benny did a great job on doing the introductions of the dancers and providing the music. It was GREAT fun!
1:22 Mr B (David Wetherby)
2:18 Chaos Mandelbrot
3:17 "Dutch" Kain Xenobuilder
4:22 Forrest Gibbs
5:10 Fred Uralia
6:40 Greythistle Twine
8:37 Justin
10:37 "Mr. Nibs" Nibor Shoreland
12:31 "Little Wolf" Wolfhard
13:22 Yaz Launim
HOT PUCKS!
On May 24th, I ran a "Hot Pucks" Event for Sail for Life. The basic premise is that a contestant will try to push a "puck" down the Tugby Field with their Tugboat, around a buoy at the far end and return to the start line. A regulation sailing start-line is used to record the time. Believe me, this is much harder than it sounds. I had set out the Sail for Life Donation Kiosk ahead of time for folks to donate when they practiced or just when they felt like donating. The event was fun and even more importantly it raised 29,000 Lindens for Relay for Life.
Thanks to MarkTwain White for this picture of the assembled contestants (the cow was not allowed to compete). A number of people ran the course, some more successfully than others! I had been asked to make the course easier, so I removed the requirement to thread the needle between two buoys in the middle of the field. That was proving just TOO hard for the contestants.
The best time was posted by YouAintSeenMe (better known as Yasmin). Her time of 48 seconds won the day. Carla Eisenhart was the closest runner up with a great time of 54 seconds. It is not a coincidence that these two ladies are also some of the best active Tugby players. Congratulations to both of you and to EVERYONE who participated. The purpose of having fun while raising money for Sail for Life was achieved!
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| Yasmin with her trophy |
March 30, 2014 the Power Boats took a cruise to the new start line in Vipiteno. Until I crashed I took pictures that I posted to my Flickr account. Some of the pictures at the beginning of the set were taken before the cruise started with MarkTwain White and I were trying out the course. Enjoy the pictures and feel free to comment and "like".
Link to the set is HERE.
Nber Medici
Yasmin gave me the following description of the functions of the Tugby Hud and I wanted to share it with all of you. What a GREAT tool!
Please join me in thanking Yasmin!
"Some notes on the Tugby puck rezzer and game controls...
The main controller is in a prim under the center point of the Tugby field, controls are accessed by clicking on a small hud/button on your screen to get a dialog menu from the main controller. Feel free to modify the hud prim to make it larger or change the texture etc, you just need to be able to Touch it and be aware that it changes color when goals are scored.
The device recognizes one user as the Referee with all the control options, other users can touch their hud to get a dialog popup with current game scores. Any users with the Tugby Captains group active will have the option to take the Referee role, this will be announced in a shout but the game state will not be changed.
I shall describe the function of the buttons on the Referee menu...
rez - silently and instantly rez a puck
START! - shouts score & a countdown before rezzing puck
derez - removes the puck
If you are just practicing then "rez" is the simplest option, but for match play then use START! The puck will self-destruct after 30 minutes, and old pucks destroyed before new ones are rezzed.
The second row of buttons are for resetting scores and game types
zero - set both team scores to 0 and unset "Best of 3/5" modes
2of3 - zero team scores and set win score
2of5 - zero team scores and set win score
And note that you can manually adjust the scores via the "[Score +/-]" button.
There are two toggle options
Auto - this option means you trust the goal line detector script and will skip the Referee confirmation of goal
Nudge - give the puck a small random initial velocity as it is rezzed, to mimic human variation in puck placement
That covers the main features, I'm adding minor tweaks & fixes as they occur to me - I just added a rez-to-goal timer, and a "Panic!" button for Players to alert Refs.
Please feel free to try the thing for yourself and let me have any questions, feedback or suggestions and I'll try to make improvements. Whilst the main intent is to assist the Ref this is something for all Tugby players. If it is useful for Nber for the Sunday matches then its just as handy for running impromptu games to for practice and fun. Enjoy.... :-)
Yasmin"
Yasmin (YouAintSeenMe) has been a GREAT help in partially automating the referee's job for Tugby. She wrote a script that when put in the End Lines of the Tugby Field shout when the Tugby Puck collides with them. This helps the referee in that you don't have to peer so closely at the puck all the time. NOW she has scripted a HUD that helps even more!!
The Tugby Hud has a lot of functionality, Below is a screen shot of the referee's hud - below is some text from the first use of it. Yasmin... thank you!!
[2014/02/23 08:08] Nber Medici: shouts: GET READY TO PLAY
[2014/02/23 08:08] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: Score: RED 1 vs GREEN 0 Win score 3 of 5
[2014/02/23 08:08] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: Countdown started: 10 seconds...
[2014/02/23 08:08] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: 5 seconds...
[2014/02/23 08:08] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: 3 seconds...
[2014/02/23 08:08] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: 2...
[2014/02/23 08:08] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: 1...
[2014/02/23 08:08] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: GO GO GO!!!!
[2014/02/23 08:10] Red Goal Line: shouts: Goal!
[2014/02/23 08:10] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: Score for GREEN team
[2014/02/23 08:10] Carla Joy Tracer-Setzer (carla.eisenhart): ✿✿✿ Yeepee ✿✿✿
[2014/02/23 08:10] Nber Medici: shouts: GOD I LOVE THIS YAS
[2014/02/23 08:10] Nber Medici: shouts: SCORE IS ONE ALL
[2014/02/23 08:10] Yasmin (youaintseenme): shouts: *\0/* yay!
[2014/02/23 08:11] Nber Medici: shouts: GET READY TO PLAY
[2014/02/23 08:11] Tugby puck spawner (v0.1): shouts: Score: RED 1 vs GREEN 1 Win score 3 of 5
The game of Tugby has been in Second Life for a very long time...I'll have to check the dates of its first creation by Joepie Korobase. I did the video below about four years ago and Tugby as a game was around for quite some time before that. The video below needs to be updated and when I get a chance I will do that. Come and play with us in lovely Santa Cruz region every Sunday morning at 8 am SLT. Everything you need to play is FREE and the fun and comradeship is also free.
SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Santa%20Cruz/128/128/9
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