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I would like to share a few new things that were implemented on the season and will take place once we return from the 4th of July break we will have next week. There are 2 very important updates that MUST be read by all the season participants, in order to keep everyone on the same page and avoid excuses for certain actions.
Well there are 2 new important updates to the current season that will change the current system and hope for the better in order to keep the players more active and more interested on the season. Well let’s see what we have here. For more information please visit the Forums.

New Rules

• As you can see the schedule for after the break will include 2 matches per week. In order to accelerate the matches I would like to offer the teams 1 full week from Monday to Sunday to play 2 matches. These matches can be played at any time and point during that week according to the player’s schedule. Please be fair, keep the common sense and allow a couple of days or so for scheduling (I would suggest start scheduling the week of July 10 matches during the break week.
• The second change is that any team that forfeits 2 games in a row will be automatically removed from the tourney and not allowed to participate in the following one. This is a reinforcement matter that shows that players that are serious about this one will also be serious about the upcoming Tourneys at Podtacular.com.

Season Prizes

Well here is what you all have been waiting for… The Season Prizes. Let’s see what we have.

First Place

• First place team will participate in a special Podtacular episode with Foo Mo Jive to discuss the team’s best, most impressive and hardest moments of that team in the season.
• Special custom-made custom user bars by Foo Mo Jive with the Team/player name as the Champion of the Podtacular Season.
• A spot in the Podtacular “Wall of Fame” topic that will be created in a near future.
• A special forum tag below your avatar that says Season Champions.
• Any and other prizes (shirts, sigs, anything from the podtacular store, etc…) that other members feel that this team would deserve for such accomplishment. Feel free to award the winning team.

Second Place

• Special custom made custom user bars by Foo Mo Jive with the Team/player name as the Second place of the Podtacular Season.
• A spot in the Podtacular “Wall of Fame” topic that will be created in a near future.

Third Place

• Special custom-made userbars by Foo Mo Jive with the Team/player name as the Third place of the Podtacular Season.

Thank you for your attention to this matter, and hope to see you all trying your hardest to make this season our First and Great season here at our COMMUNITY, Podtacular.com.

-Dialpex
Tournament Director

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Weekly Porridge is the Unofficial Podtacular Comic Strip! It will parody the latest Podtacular happenings and events, and hopefully give you a laugh or two. The negative side of this is that I’m not too good with Photoshop, so the strips won’t be works of art, but they do the job.

And don’t forget to check out the Weekly Porridge t-shirt, now available in the Podtacular Store! Continue reading →

!{float:left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;}https://podtacular.com/files/images/Picture%202_1.jpg!:http://bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=podtacularhumpday This is a proud moment in Podtacular history. Podtacular was posted on the front page of “Bungie.net”:http://bungie.net for participation in the Humpday Challenge! Thanks Bungie for an awesome match and big thanks the the Bungie challenge team here at Podtacular.

“Check it out”:http://bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?link=podtacularhumpday yourself to see how it went! Video highlights and more coming soon. Continue reading →

WE WON! It was an awesome series of games and we all had a blast. The whole thing was recorded, so we’ll have a news story with screenshots sometime soon. It will probably be after Bungie releases their story of the match to respect Frankie’s mad writing skillz. We will probably release video highlights on the podcast feed as well if that’s OK with Bungie. Big thanks to everyone at Bungie and Podtacular that made this happen, and I can’t wait to fill everyone in on the details! Continue reading →

We should be facing Bungie tonight in the “humpday challenge”:https://podtacular.com/?q=node/2739. For those participating or available on standby, here’s the plan. It will start at 11pm EST. The 2nd and 3rd games will obviously start later. If you’re scheduled for those matches, keep in mind you’ll get an invite a while after 11pm. If you’re on the challenge team, you should probably get online to warm up an hour early or so. We suggested playing *Low Hill*, *Counter Strike*, and *1 Flag CTF Fast Lockout with touch return*. Practice those games with others from the challenge team if you can.

One thing I do _not_ want to do is keep Bungie waiting. So if you’re on the 1st string or on standby, I expect you to be ready to accept an invite on a moment’s notice. If it goes over 30 seconds I will already be looking for a replacement. We won’t be waiting for your matchmaking games to finish. If you have any more questions, “let me know”:mailto:foomojive@gmail.com. I’ll be taping the match with a camera on a tripod so hopefully we can make that available on the site. It’s gonna be awesome! Continue reading →

Thanks to HBO, Podtacular has a new home for IRC chat! You can go chat with other Podtacular listeners at:

irc.bungie.org#podtacular

It’s super easy to get in and chat it up. You can connect a few different ways, but the easiest is with the IBO Java IRC Client. Just click the link, type /join #podtacular and you’re in. Another easy way is with the Firefox browser and the Chatzilla extension. Just install it and click the ginormous link above. See you there!

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Looks like some Podtacular staff recently went up against some “Dropshock”:http://dropshockradio.com/ guys and we got our butts handed to us, fair and square. Ouch! Rematch! Game Viewers: “Game 1”:http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStats.aspx?gameID=496618004&player=Dialpex | “Game 2”:http://www.bungie.net/Stats/GameStats.aspx?gameID=496629537&player=Dialpex. Good game guys, and we look forward to next time! More in the forums “here”:https://podtacular.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=869&highlight=dropshock and “here”:https://podtacular.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=867&highlight=dropshock. Continue reading →