-Coming to the end of the month this week, we have a number of significant news anouncements. Most noteworthy, though, is that the Challenge flew a grand total of 1084 missions in the month of April!! That's an incredible number, and certainly surprising for what is traditionally a slow month in the TC. You would be hard pressed to find any other ship who could compare to that amount of flying, and indeed we were responsible for over half of the total missions for the entire Battlegroup. The most credit for that grand total though, goes to Typhoon Squadron, who provided the vast bulk of that number. And of Typhoon Squadron, the most credit goes out to CM TK-9780 and LT Katherine Cantor Flyer, who flew 324 and 310 missions respectfully. That's an *amazing* performance by both of them, and I will be more then pleased to award them something rather special very soon :)
-As such, it should come as no surprise that Typhoon Squadron is this month Squadron of the Month, and CM TK-9780 is this month's Pilot of the Month. Congrats to all Typh pilots for an amazing job done this month, continuing your domination of the PotM award as well as finally pulling away with that SotM award :)
-In comp-related news, our Grey Wolf comp got eaten by the BGCOM, who decided to turn it into a TCBG vs ASF comp. Unfortunetly, the ASF, due to immence cowerdiance on their part, turned town the comp. They claim it to be due to IS, which evidently means they are incapable of walking and chewing gum at the same time, or are just, in fact, terrified of being humiliated by a obvious superior force such as ourselves.
Therefore, in a bit of a change, I've decided to move on challeging the SSD Avenger to a competition. The Avenger is two wings big, but I do not believe that will at all prove a detriment to our ability to crush them. Because the Avenger is the entire ATF, we'll be facing off against an entire Battlegroup... and let's face it: that's hot. They also have the option of turning down our comp because of "IS", but hey, if they're that cowerdly and rightfully afraid of us, there's just not much we can do. But we'll see if they're up to the Challenge regardless.
-In more ship-related news, adamant-half-nudist SL Dark Darklighter was promoted to Lieutenant, and Prost did activity in the way of an IWATS course. He claims to have been drunk and have no memory. I do not doubt him.
-This week, mine and Impulse's IMC-match frees were released to the fleet. Check them out! They're TIE-FREE 252 - The Promotion Party of AD BubbaX(mine) and TIE-FREE #253 - Save the Alcohol(Impulse)
-Tommorrow should signify the return of WC LC Coranel Both from Texas. We hope :P
-This week's #TCBG meeting proved to be entertaining when only Chal officers and Immortal officers showed up, causing LC Chris McCollum to provide news about the Relentless's recent accidents and deaths of new recruits, as well as ImmWC Spearhawk's Colossus report detailing a sighting of the Colossus largely believed to actually just be a weather balloon. Trivia was on Imm and Chal officers, and won by our own TorCMDR LC Chris McCollum.
-I was awarded a SS this week by the TAC office for finally reaching enough beta points that they had to give me something for wasting my life away there ;P Was pretty nifty and rather unexpected, so yay :)
TCBG Weekly Trivia Meetings in #TCBG/Challenge Meetings in #wing_x - Each week at a set time (6pm EST Sundays), all members of the TCBG are invited to attend a weekly IRC ship meeting in #TCBG, where one session of trivia or other IRC-based events will be held. An IS-GR to any member who wins the most weekly trivia in a month, IS-SR to any member who wins at least two, IS-BR to any member who wins one week. Also, an IS-SR to the member with the highest attendance (who actually participated in the meeting, didn't just idle). Afterwards, a short meeting discussing the events of the ship will occur in #wing_x.
This week's Trivinator: LC Chris McCollum!
Last week's Trivinator: LT Debric of the Immortal
1st week's Trivinator: LC Coranel Both!
Pilot of the Week/Month - Every week Cor will choose a pilot to be pilot of the week. Then at the end of the month, I will choose one of them and declare them the "Pilot of the Month". The PotM will recieve a IS-SR, while the remaining PotWs will be given IS-BRs.
This month's Pilot of the Month: CM TK-9780
This week's PotW: LT Katherine Cantor Flyer!
Last week's PotW: LT Katherine Cantor Flyer
3rd Week's PotW: CM TK-9780
2nd week's PotW: LT Katherine Cantor Flyer
1st week's PotW: CM Dulcatos
Squadron of the Month - Every month I will declare a squadron the squadron of the month. The CMDR will be awarded the IS-SR, and any member he believes helped his squadron achieve that award will be awarded an IS-BR.
April 2005 Squadron of the Month: Typhoon Squadron
March 2005 Squadron of the Month: Inferno Squadron
-A lot of resigning and appointments today. First off, congrats to the following officers for the following new positions
VA Pickled Yoda - Ops
AD Gilad - LO
VA Gidda - ASFBGCOM
RA Crimsonfury - Grey Wolf COM
MAJ Aurelius Erasmus - Wing XVIII WC
The following positions are now opened, and details about applying for said positions can be seen on the TC News page
ISD Intrepid COM
ISD Colossus COM
IWCOM
Prefect
-The IMC match this week got delayed till next week. Yay IMC!
Thunder
Total Missions: 0
Medals: 0
IWATS: 0
Typhoon
Total Missions: 328 (It's *amazing* numbers like that that won you guys SotM! I hope to see it to be a continuing trend as well :))
Medals: 1
IWATS: 1
Inferno
Total Missions: 24
Medals: 3
IWATS:
Tornado
Total Missions: 4
Medals: 0
IWATS: 1
Tempest
Total Missions: 5
Medals: 6
IWATS: 1
Command Staff
Total Missions: 0
Medals: 5
IWATS:
Medals
FL/LCM Impulse/Tempest 3-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BW
FL/LCM Impulse/Tempest 3-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BR
FL/LCM Impulse/Tempest 3-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - MoT-gh
FL/LCM Impulse/Tempest 3-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BW
FL/CPT Rover/Tempest 2-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BW
FL/CPT Rover/Tempest 2-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BW
FM/LT Katherine Cantor Flyer/Typhoon 2-3/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BR
FL/CM Great Griffin/Inferno 2-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BW
FL/CM Great Griffin/Inferno 2-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BW
FL/CPT Dujhod/Inferno 3-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BW
WC/LC Coranel Both/Wing X/ISD Challenge - IS-BR
COM-TCT-TCS/VA Locke Setzer/ISD Challenge - IS-SR
COM-TCT-TCS/VA Locke Setzer/ISD Challenge - MoT-gh
COM-TCT-TCS/VA Locke Setzer/ISD Challenge - MoI
COM-TCT-TCS/VA Locke Setzer/ISD Challenge - SS
IWATS
FM/LCM Prost Varsis/Tempest 3-3/Wing X/ISD Challenge - AIM (100%)
CMDR/LC Chris McCollum/Tornado/Wing X/ISD Challenge - WPN (95%)
FM/LT Katherine Cantor Flyer/Typhoon 2-3/Wing X/ISD Challenge - HTML/1 (90%)
High Scores
CMDR/CPT Daniel Bonini/Tempest/Wing X/ISD Challenge - FREE-TIE #155 - 1 (high)
CMDR/CPT Dirty Vader/Inferno/Wing X/ISD Challenge - TIE-TC #222 - 5 (high on m1, m2, m3, m4, m5)
FL/CM Great Griffin/Inferno 2-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - FREE-TIE #252 - 1 (high)
FL/CM Great Griffin/Inferno 2-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - FREE-TIE #253 - 1 (high)
FL/CPT Dujhod/Inferno 3-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - FREE-TIE #250 - 1 (high)
FL/CPT Dujhod/Inferno 3-1/Wing X/ISD Challenge - FREE-TIE #115 - 1 (high)
FM/LT Katherine Cantor Flyer/Typhoon 2-3/Wing X/ISD Challenge - XvT-DB #11 - 7 (high on m2, m4, m6)
FM/CM TK-9780/Typhoon 3-2/Wing X/ISD Challenge - BoP-FCHG #1 - 6 (high on m6)
FM/CM TK-9780/Typhoon 3-2/Wing X/ISD Challenge - BoP-FCHG #2 - 8 (high on m4)
FM/CM TK-9780/Typhoon 3-2/Wing X/ISD Challenge - BoP-TC #23 - 6 (high on m5)
FM/CM TK-9780/Typhoon 3-2/Wing X/ISD Challenge - XvT-TC #98 - 4 (high in m2, m3)
FM/CM TK-9780/Typhoon 3-2/Wing X/ISD Challenge - XvT-TC #108 - 5 (high on m2)
FM/CM TK-9780/Typhoon 3-2/Wing X/ISD Challenge - XvT-TC #112 - 4 (high on m2)
Well, so we come to a close for the month of April. A fun month, certainly, but as you've been reading from the reports, I'm looking to get us involved in a comp against another ship and have some fun crushing them as we show them why we're the best ship in the TC. Congrats again to Typhoon for such an amazing performance this month. My hopes are they'll continue to do well, but I also hope to see another squad give them some more competition for the month of May ;)
Respectfully Submitted,
COM-TCT-TCS/VA Locke Setzer/ISD Challenge
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