Reborn 2018 Winter Revel-- reintroducing classic events and new ones!

[Amethyst]

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Hallo lovelies!

It is nearly that time of year again! Those of you who have been with us long enough to earn your Veteran tags know we've had a long standing tradition (going on seven years!) of holding two community-wide discord parties. It's been a few years too many before this one since I've been more directly involved in their organization, so I'm happy to jump back in and make a splash. As many of you know from earlier this year, our annual summer party has been rebranded to the Summer Social event... and the feeling we were left with after that one was that it had gone over quite well. So, we're giving a similar treatment to the timing and planning of this one was well. 

Ergo, we'll be reintroducing the annual holiday party as the Reborn Winter Revel!

 

The Winter Revel will be held on December 22nd this year, from 2pm to 1am EST, or 7p to 6am GMT +1. Grab your coffee! Or egg nog. Or whatever it is you hooligans drink.

 

 

This year's Winter Revel marks new beginnings through return to old traditions! Back in the wee days of 2007, Reborn was just a very teeny offshoot community from a place called MonkeyProductions, a now humble site that would appear all but dead to the untrained eye, but one that has maintained a legacy of winter events for well over a decade. Several of our Main Events this year are direct calls to my favorite activities from that old nest. Read on for descriptions of each one!

 

Main Events

• Members of the Year
  • This one might seem self explanatory, but MP always has a zany twist on it. Sure, there is the boring, plain old Member of the Year... But you'll also be voting on numerous other categories like Meme of the Year, and determining just once and for all just who the Smelliest Auth of the Year truly is. There will be dozens of categories so the playing field is large, varied, and a little bit out of control. 
    The categories will be announced on 12/15, and voting will be open to all users on 12/21! The results will be announced throughout the party, complete with banners for each winner so stay tuned even after the ballots are in!
• Resolution Buddy Pairing
  • Okay, so New Years' Resolutions aren't for everyone, and neither is this event. Nevertheless, the new year is a new opportunity for growth, and for those of us seeking to improve ourselves, there's no sense in passing it up. Still, isn't it unfortunate how few people actually stick to their resolutions? Too often they just fall by the wayside forgotten for all time. 
    So we're trying to fix that.
    In this new event, we'll be asking for everyone's resolutions well in advance, and come the party, each person will be partnered up with a new pal and the intent to help keep each other on track for each other's goals through out the coming year! We'll open call for resolutions and partners on 12/18, and announce the pairings at the party based on who has the most compatible goals to help each other out. From there on out, the work is up to you, but at worst you make a friend, and at best you make strides together!
• Secret Cyber Santa 
  • An old tradition of our own that's fallen by the wayside in favor of more casual exchanges in the last few years... The Secret Cyber Santa is a chance for users to offer whatever they can give over the internet that might bring a smile to the faces of others. This could be some spritework, a drawing, a song, or whatever else one can work out to transfer through solely digital methods! Gift cards and other monetary things are allowed for the generous, but this is not expected to be a primarily financially-based event so set your budgets and expectations accordingly. 
    Participants will prepare their gifts or plans therefore and come to the event where they'll then be paired up person by person to trade their items. It's okay to hold off on making a drawing, for instance, until hearing what the person you receive at the party actually wants as one! Just be sure to make it in good time afterwards and be considerate to everyone else's thoughts and energy!
• Lie Alive Snowdown
  • This one is a totally brand new tournament event based on the famous 2-truths-1-lie get-to-know-each-other game... but this time we're taking the classic icebreaker to a breakout single elimination tournament! Your knowledge of others or your total anonymity could be your greatest weapons. Can you sift through the confusion, find the solution, and lie your way to the top of the chain and emerge the sole solstice survivor? A prize awaits whoever makes it to the end!
• Winter Wondertrade
  • Another recurring ruse from previous parties, we'll be encouraging a wondertrade tirade all day long from everyone in the community and out of it! We'll kick things off with a full set of custom moveset event Pokemon, so trade in to trade out and get those Pokemon circulating! With all non-legendary Pokemon and then some now in the game there's no telling what you might get! 
• Super Secret Santa
  • This one's another leaf out of MP's book. It's always been a tight-knit community, and part of that has been thanks to the trust and generosity they show to each other each year through this event. The chief difference between this and the Secret Cyber Santa is that this one is on full stakes! Participants will be expected to spend their own money (suggested price range no more than $25 USD or ~ £/€20) and must be willing to share their addresses with the event coordinator, and whomever happens to be selected as their Santa. 
    Because of the more delicate logistics of this scenario, we will be putting some limits on this event:
    • Due to shipping costs, only users in the US and the EU will be accepted. We will be running one ring of the game in each of those two locations.
    • To reduce risk of dropped gifts, only Veteran users on the forum may participate. 
    • We will be capping the entries at around 15 players for each region.
  • Unlike Secret Cyber Santa, this will be taking place largely before the party, and throughout the party we'll encourage everyone who took part to take pictures of what they've gotten and share who gave it to them! But that means the timing beforehand is pretty tricky:
    • A sign up thread will be posted on 11/23. Sign ups will be open for 5 days only! 
    • In order to sign up, all participants will need to provide their address and a wishlist to the event coordinator!
    • On 11/28, Santas and Secrets will be assigned. Please don't dally in getting the gifts! You'll get your target's wishlist too so knowing what to get should be no trouble!
    • As a recommendation, please have your gifts sent out by 12/7! We'll encourage you to provide shipping receipts to us just so there's no confusion about whether something was actually sent or not.
    • Then on the party day, we can all share what we got! Provided everything has shipped in time. If anyone ends up not receiving a gift for some unholy reason-- don't worry-- we'll cover you. No Santa left behind.

 

Game Room

• Taboo
  • A new addition to Reborn's party game's repertoire from a twist on an old, classic game! Players will be given a keyword as well as a handful of no-good words, and have to make the other players guess their keyword in a limited amount of time without tripping over the no-good ones! If you're not careful, we might just eliminate words altogether. We'll have two showings for this game, one for the EU crew, and one for the NA.
• Queen's Game
  • The Reborn Party staple, best described as Truth or Dare without the Dare! King's Game is making a permanent retirement from our official party game line ups, but this one is here to stay for the winter season. It's been run for years, and everyone who's played it knows-- what happens in Queens' Game stays in Queens' Game.
    ...Unless you use it as an edge over your opponent in Lie Alive, but hey, that's on y'all.
• Super Smash Ultimate Tournament
  • The much-awaited game is coming out just a couple precious weeks before then, and thanks to the go-getterness of a certain Go-dot, we'll be wasting no time kicking up a tournament right on it! Dust off your mains or fire up your new picks, these melee match-ups promise to provide a top tier brawl to the bitter end!

 

And the usual...

• Mafia, Hunger Games, Cards against Humanity and BGO are all fair game for any user who wants to rally the forces of darkness to them, and we'll have that Ring-Jinglin' Music going all the live long way.

 

All in all we're looking to serve up an evening you won't want to miss out on! Whether you stay for the whole shebang or just a few hours, come by and say hi, or get your holly jolly smack down spirit on! 

 

It's all coming together on December 22nd!

 

 

 

[andracass]

first

[GenEric]

oh man i cant wait to miss this event

[Lord Drakyle]

If you must know this 'hooligan' drinks Unholy Tea with two teaspoons of crushed hope and dreams. I'm undecided if i would involve myself in these 'revels' that you lesser beings engage in.

[Chrixai]

Interesting! I could get with this

[Candy]

Egg nog is my fave drink~ can't wait for Xmas season (yes I know you can drink it anytime, but what's the fun in that? )

I'll prolly miss this cause I'm going back "home" and so I'll likely not be able to get on the internet for more than 5 mins at a time.

But heck, I might luck out and participate in the next Summer Social  anyhow, have fun y'all~

[Tacos]

I might... actually be free for this.  I’m excited to actually participate in a seasonal party, considering it’s been quite a while.

[ZEL]

lía is the smelliest auth we don't need a voting for this zzz

[Swampellow]

3 hours ago, ZEL said:

lía is the smelliest auth we don't need a voting for this zzz

Idk we will have to see whether it ends up being Az or Lia.

 

we should also do one for former auth :^]]

[Shamitako]

>resolution buddies

 

You have reminded me that I still haven't achieved my resolution from this January. Curses

 

I'm in a suspiciously good mood this winter, so you might actually see me show up if Thanksgiving goes well

[Wendel]

Woops the only thing I'd be interested in doing and I'll most likely not have Switch internet until next year cause money :x

[Arcinblade3]

oh hell yeah, i might finally be free for the entire thing! Definetely chalking that in the calendar, so it seems like it's gon' be a long day for me

[Tacos]

19 hours ago, Swampellow said:

we should also do one for former auth :^]]

I showered at least twice since I was auth I swear

[Flaccidic]

I am the only one who understood nothing about this

[Starry Knight]

How is cards against humanity done? I'm interested in playing possibly

[Autumn Zephyr]

Out from the floorboards, xe doth climb~

To escape xyr disappointment this Christmas time~!

Because xe didn't get even a single gift~

Xe'll be attending the Revel to get their fix~!

 

Ah, sorry, not quite sure what came over me there. Anyway, I'm always a fan of stuff like Lie Alive, and Cards Against Humanity is usually a good time for all, so I think I'll hit those booths up when tomorrow comes. Guess that means I'll have to actually show up in Discord beforehand, huh? 

[andracass]

@Starry Knight There's a website for cards against humanity, and games are just kinda organized by people at the party.

@autumn zephyr If you join the discord server now you can vote for member of the year stuff!

[Shanco]

Hey everyone! I'm back yet again - although this time, I'm not in charge of the ever-so-dramatic Jack Frost + Snow Queen affair.

I'll be running the Super Smash Bros Ultimate tournament! So here's how it's gonna go down. It's a 1-vs-1 double elimination tournament where you play in a first-to-2 (or best of 3) set against your opponent. Grand Finals, however, will be first-to-3 (best of 5) instead, though, so the title is gonna take some work to nab!

 

These are the rules you'll want to set for your matches:

- 3 Stock, 7 Minutes

- Spirits, Items, FS meter are all set to OFF

- Stage hazards are preferably off, but can be used if desired

 

Stage Striking is also used here. It's a bit confusing, so I've modified the rule a bit for more clarity.
- Before the first game of a set, the stage is chosen from one of the five starters. To do this, each player chooses two stages that they do not want to play on (stage bans), and the stage chosen for the first game is what's left. In the event that, for some reason, these stage bans overlap, the player with the lower seed will choose from what's left. Check the Challonge bracket for your seed number; the bigger your number, the lower your seed (outside of the top two or so, it's going to be mostly random seeding anyway).
- After the first game has been played, the three counterpicks are now available to be chosen in addition to the starter five. Whoever won the last game chooses two stages to ban, and the last game's loser gets to pick from one of the remaining six. This repeats for each game in a given set after the first.
 

The legal stages are as follows: (hazards off)

• Starter: Battlefield, Final Destination, Smashville, Pokemon Stadium 2, Yoshi's Story
• Counterpick: Town & City, Yoshi's Island (Brawl), Unova Pokemon League
• You may go to any stage not listed here as long as both players agree on it.

Your tournament matches may be recorded for posting to YouTube at a later date if desired. If you'd like that, make sure you let me know so I can accommodate time to host the lobby.

If you need assistance setting up your own lobby, DM me on Discord (Abbey Street#4993).

If you have a challonge account, you can pre-register for the tournament here. This is also where you can see the tourney bracket.

Best of luck to everyone!

[Amethyst]

we are up and running! come play with us on this server!!

 

https://discord.gg/tnPQgzc

[Shanco]

Half an hour left before signups for the Reborn Smash Ultimate tournament closes and the tournament begins...if you want in, just let me know! (Preferably by pinging me on Discord)

 

https://challonge.com/ul1li73d