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Always fond of navel-gazing, the blogosphere has been discussing why there are so few new MMO bloggers these days. I see a lot of calls to make a better community. However, I don't really see why new bloggers need so much hand-holding. The previous generation managed just fine without artificial "communities", just by linking and writing steadily.
Here's my theory:
The current generation of bloggers grew up and moved on to more important things. The next generation which should have replaced them is functionally illiterate.
I am exaggerating for comedic effect. But I do think that there is a difference between the previous generation (late 20s, 30s) and younger people. A generational gap between people who came to the internet after elementary school, and those who have grown up with the internet. Young people seem to have real problems with long form writing.
I don't know why this is. Perhaps it was the experience of actually writing material out by hand. Or perhaps that before the internet, one had to read books, so there was an assumption that written material should be longer than 140 characters.
To look at it another way, the teenage experience of my generation's internet was Livejournal, where people composed long angsty screeds. The current teenage experience is a picture with a caption that is marginally funny.
That's my theory. MMO blogging is dying because the young players--who should be the new bloggers--simply don't write content of moderate length anymore.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
The End of MMO Blogging?
Always fond of navel-gazing, the blogosphere has been discussing why there are so few new MMO bloggers these days. I see a lot of calls to make a better community. However, I don't really see why new bloggers need so much hand-holding. The previous generation managed just fine without artificial "communities", just by linking and writing steadily.
8 comments:
- Christian said...
In defense of the young people who aren't blogging, there is a difference between they "simply don't write content of moderate length anymore" and that they CAN'T write content of moderate length anymore.
- 2:30 AM, July 18, 2013
- Vespers said...
I think you also need to take into account the fact that there are a lot of people vlogging about MMOs, and that vlogging in general is something which is much bigger with the younger generation, and which, unlike blogging, shows no signs of slowing down; there are more people starting new vlogs on youtube every day.
Video is also a format which lends itself well to talking about games, given the ability to talk over frapsed or live-streamed gaming. Probably a large part of why there are fewer new bloggers is because vlogging comes more naturally to the younger generation of gamers.
- 2:39 AM, July 18, 2013
- Redbeard said...
Well, there could also be the problem where they have to spend a lot of time at work writing large amounts of documentation. I know that as my writing time at the job has increased, my output has dwindled....
- 3:35 AM, July 18, 2013
- Electrolux said...
I remain unconvinced the literati would hold this troll post up as an example of writing of high calibre.
- 4:12 AM, July 18, 2013
- Hagu said...
Somewhere Russian novelists are rolling over in their graves at blogging being equated with "long form writing."
This is clearly good news. Can you imagine what they write? /shudder
- 6:59 AM, July 18, 2013
- Vicki and Stephen said...
Saying that they're "functionally illiterate" does kind of sound like an old person shouting "get off my lawn" :)
I think Vespers is right - the younger generation is much more into vlogging than blogging. I don't think it's something we can berate them for, it's just how things go - technology is changing. Perhaps we need to change with it :)
- 8:29 AM, July 18, 2013
- Rohan said...
@Christian, the line between "can't" and "don't" is fuzzy. Writing is like a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. If a generation does not write regularly, it is a lot closer to the "can't write" side than is comfortable.
@Electrolux, it's not really about quality. That was the point of Livejournal. 99% of everything posted to Livejournal was terrible. Heck, most of my writing is pretty terrible. It's about the act of writing, choosing to write, even if it is of poor quality.
@Hagu, On the other hand, no one writes an entire novel in a day. I've probably written a novel's worth of material in the last few years. I think that a regular blogger's total output would compare favourably to a novelist.
- 9:37 AM, July 18, 2013
- Nelson said...
The folks who'd be blogging today are instead livecasting their gaming sessions or making YouTube videos. There's an enormous amount of detailed video content out there, something us oldsters absolutely couldn't do a few years ago.
- 3:36 PM, July 18, 2013

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MISENHEIMER, N.C. Pfeiffer University placed five scorers in double figures hitting 11 triples on the night as the Lady Falcons scored an 88-52 victory over St. Andrews in Conference Carolinas womens basketball action on Monday night. Brittany Cox (Winston-Salem, NC) led all scorers with 19 as Pfeiffer improves to 10-12 overall, 9-7 in league play. The loss holds the Lady Knights winless at 0-21, 0-17.
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I believe that Blizzard spends a disproportionate amount of resources on endgame content. The number of people who will see the Black Temple or Sunwell is a tiny fraction of the playerbase. The amount that this fraction pays in subscription dollars does not cover the cost of content produced for them, or the amount of customer support they use.
I also believe that these resources are being spent well. That it is important to retain the hardcore, to create content for them and keep them in the game. It is my belief that the hardcore have many beneficial effects for an MMO. They provide a spectacle for the other players, are the engine which drives the economy. They serve as aspirational models, and players that everyone knows about.
The hardcore act as hubs in the social network of the game. Without the hardcore, the world would seem emptier, and the network that binds people together, keeps people playing, would fray, and I believe the casuals would fall away.
So if the above is true, let us consider the impact another aspect of WoW: Paid Server Transfers.
The hardcore seek out the hardcore. They want to progress, and the best progression is found with like-minded people. And because they are the hardcore, they are willing to pay the fee to move to a different server. High-end raiding guilds recruit across servers. There are servers where the hardcore have congregated, which boast multiple Illidan-killing guilds. Servers like Mal'Ganis or Korgath.
This Elitist Jerks thread is an example of the situation. The majority of high-end guilds are on PvP servers. The hardcore on PvE servers would like to be able to transfer to such servers. And the phenomenon magnifies itself. If some of the hardcore leave the server, it becomes harder for the remaining hardcore to succeed, making it more likely that they too will transfer.
But what happens to the old server when they do transfer?
If the hardcore are nodes in the social network of the server, removing the nodes damages the network, and will eventually causes casuals to leave. And remember that the hardcore will consolidate themselves on a few servers. For every server the hardcore flock to, there are five or more servers being abandoned by them. Casuals will not pay to transfer servers. If the social network of their server is too badly damaged, they will simply leave the game.
On the other hand, if the hardcore are not hubs in the network, if the server will happily survive without them, then you really have to wonder if spending all those extra resources on the hardcore is worthwhile. Wouldn't it be more profitable to cater to the customers who don't require as many resources to satisfy?
Paid Server Transfers allow the hardcore to consolidate themselves on a few servers, damaging the many servers they leave behind. Blizzard needs some mechanism to push the hardcore in the opposite direction, to cause them to spread out. In the past, overcrowding and server stability was one of the main forces opposing the drive to congregate. Unstable servers caused Death & Taxes to move to Korgath, revitalizing that server. But as Blizzard's technology improves, it is less likely that unstable servers will push the hardcore to spread out.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
The Consolidation of Talent
I believe that Blizzard spends a disproportionate amount of resources on endgame content. The number of people who will see the Black Temple or Sunwell is a tiny fraction of the playerbase. The amount that this fraction pays in subscription dollars does not cover the cost of content produced for them, or the amount of customer support they use.
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- Dajay said...
I must say I agree with you, having migrated three times and considering to migrate in a few month, when my druid will be 70, on the most PvP-oriented server of France, EU-Archimonde.
I've migrated in the past on EU-Ysondre to be part of the Peacemakers, one of the top-french PvE guilds. It was really a fantastic experience at this moment. It was during the Naxxramas period, on my server there was at the moment no guild killing C'thun and barely two boss killed in Naxx (Razu / Anub). I was desperate founding a good guild recruiting druids and I wanted to reach higher level. When I arrived on Ysondre, I was crazy at seeing the number of really good PvE-teams and I found the perfect one for me. I must say that I spent my best raiding days on this server, up to now, thanks to the server emulation and the crazy number of really good players.
If I wanted and had the time to do a 5/7 days raid schedule, I would definitly play on those kind of emulating-servers.
- 2:33 AM, October 25, 2007
- Alex - aka Firelight said...
If blizzard were to stop creating High-end Instances like BT or the Sunwell, then where should they spend their time? creating more disapointing content like the new village in Duskwallow Marsh? Its tiny! 2 huts and a flight path!
I had imagined it to look like the villages the Steamwheedle cartel have built in Tanaris, or Winterfall.
As someone who was raiding at 60, but only say ZG, MC and Onyxia, i was sad that i never got a chance to see BWL or Naxx, but i loved TBC.
Now being on an RP server, the best guild on our server have only just cleared Lady Vashj, and are working through the Eye. But our progression seems quicker than i experianced before. Maybe becuase i'm in a good raid guild (6th Alliance guild on the server)
Will we make it to BT? or the Sunwell? Maybe! who knows what the future holds...
Personally if was in a raid guild like Nilihim (spell check please!) I'd be pretty bored of the TBC Content already... killing the same bosses over and over and over is boring...i love that at least once every couple of weeks we're trying something new. This is what keeps me playing the game.
I've never played an MMO Before WoW, and to be honest i've tried some of the others since i started, and i wasnt impressed. Blizz have cornered the market here it would seem. And thats for a good reason...they are good at what they do! People bitch and moan about their clasess, but if you were all happy all the time, you wouldnt have anything to moan about! And thats all part of the fun of this game!
So i guess what i'm saying is this:
Blizzard Carry on! You're keeping me happy!
- 2:35 AM, October 25, 2007
- Michael said...
Well one thing that might get the hardcore guilds to spread out is adding more "once per server events". Especially something like "complete such and such crazy long raid quest and add +3 stam to guild tabard of whoever completes it." Might guilds be tempted to move to soft servers? I think so. Or maybe something inconsequential like Guild tabard makes you look like a skeleton pirate when used. If this happened once per server, power guilds might be inclined to spread over different servers.
- 4:28 AM, October 25, 2007
- Syrien said...
Maybe outdoor bosses had an effect on this in the past as well? Too many hardcore guilds on a server and you won't get to kill them. Of course this only matters if the outdoor bosses are difficult enough/drop good enough loot.
- 5:24 AM, October 25, 2007
- Doeg said...
Perhaps Blizzard could engineer cross-server instance and raid groups modelled on the cross-server BG tecnology already in place.
- 5:27 AM, October 25, 2007
- Doeg said...
Perhaps Blizzard could engineer cross-server instance and raid groups modelled on the cross-server BG tecnology already in place.
- 5:27 AM, October 25, 2007
- Megan said...
The same goes for PVP, BG and Arena. There are 2 main Battlegroup clusters that are widely held as the best for US pool of players, BG6 and BG9---I've seen comments like "a 1800 Rating in BG9 is like 2000 Rating in another cluster".
As this reputation keeps circulating, the hardcore PVP'er who is interested in making his/her name known or wants to test skills/ability against higher competition, might just transfer.
- 9:09 AM, October 25, 2007
- Piper said...
I have to disagree that hardcore raiders are aspirational models. Perhaps to those that are inclined to raid and make WoW a job, but for those of us that are more casual (for all the reasons), at say, working on Kara or even getting into Kara, all of that endgame content is one of frustration.
Frustration that there is so much endgame raiding content at the 25 man level that can't be reached by the bulk of the player base. More 10 man instances for bulk of the paying customers would be better. It should always be more 5 mans than 10 mans than 25 man instances. Or perhaps 10 man is normal and 25 the heroic equivalent. That would at least all Blizzard to continue their policy of recycling (understandably) content.
Frustration on how it destroys the smaller guilds. Endgame-oriented (I won't say "good" because endgame is not always synonymous with good) players leave for the bigger guilds which continues a deadly cycle of maiming smaller guild progression.
Frustration knowing you'll never get your tier 4 set because Blizzard idiotically put some of the tier 4 stuff in 25 man instances. More paths to some of this stuff would be nice. Giving people a chance to obtain items is a Good Thing for the entire game. The current arena model is a good example. If you lose you'll still get the gear, it will just take you longer than a winning team. (The change for arena 3 is a step in the wrong direction.)
All of that said, I do agree that the hardcore can be important. They are, generally, influencers which is important outside the game server. The thing is to make sure that keeping the hardcore interested doesn't create a have vs have-not situation. Too many have-nots and WoW dies as the casual player will go elsewhere or simply leave the MMORPG market altogether.
- 10:51 AM, October 25, 2007
- Taueth said...
For Piper:
Hellfire Citadel: Ramparts, Blood Furnace, Shattered Halls.
Coilfang: Slave Pens, Underbog, Steamvaults.
Auch Crypts: Mana Tombs, Auch Crypts, Shadow Labs, Sethekk Halls
Arcatraz: Botanica, Mechanar, Arcatraz
Five Man Instances in BC: 13
Level 70 Five-Mans: Six, seven if you count Sethekk Halls. 13 if you count heroics.
10 Man instances: Karazhan. One
25 mans: Gruuls, SSC, the Eye, Black Temple. I suppose you could count Mag, HLK and Doomwalker. Four instances, three world bosses. Seven.
Right now we have seven regular five-mans, and 13 heroic instances. Let's call that 13 level 70 five-mans.
One 10 Man
And seven 25 mans.
Honestly, right now? The only thing I see a lack of are 10 mans. Right now Blizzard has almost double the amount of five-man content that they do 25 man.
If 25 man were the heroic equivalent, I guarantee people would be jumping guilds as well for that heroic gear. I don't think more 10 mans would solve anything in regards to players leaving guilds. The maximum number of players allowed for a raid instance dictates how raiding guilds will form. More 10 mans won't change anything unless 10 mans become the new raid cap. If people are willing to leave a guild for more progression, such as leaving a 20 man guild (Zul'Gurub and AQ20) for a 40 man guild , they'll leave a ten man for a 25 man as well. Size is relative.
There are already more five-mans than 10 mans, and people leave for the Kara guilds. They'd rather have the one than the thirteen. So, how would making more 10 mans than 25 mans fix the issue? People would leave later, but they'd still leave. :)
- 11:55 AM, October 25, 2007
- Dazanna said...
I have to respectfully disagree with Piper, especially in regards to the arena loot system.
I know many casual and hardcore PvP players despise it, but WoW is at its heart based around the endgame raid. The best loot, the sets that actually match (so your character doesn't look like a hodgepodge of colors from hell), the entire idea of guilds; everything focuses towards 40 (now 25) man raiding. Tigole made the choice to have WoW focus on large group efforts (raids) rather than PvP or small groups (most likely as a result of his EQ years). And that is the way it is structured. It may not fit everyone's playstyle, but no game ever does.
I really do think high end raiders add a lot to the game. Even if its something as little as seeing someone walking around in full tier 6, those kind of things add flavor and a sense of community to the game. It also, just as Coriel said, gives people something to shoot for. I know way back when I was in Kara I could not wait to get into SSC and start wearing tier 5.
I personally think that the "skill drain" that goes on in WoW is a result of having too many servers. In the beginning of WoW when Blizzard was still learning to use its new hardware and software they couldn't fit many characters onto each realm, and that resulted in the need to create large numbers of realms to handle the huge number of people playing. Three years later they've optimized their system and can fit many more players on the same server, resulting in a spread out population that could easily be consolidated. If you scroll through the realm list almost every server is medium population or lower. Even Korgath, the Mecca for PvE raiding in the American realm system, is a lowly medium population.
In the end I thing server mergers would fix a lot of the problems plaguing dying servers (like mine was until very recently). And I still have yet to see a good reason why PvE --> PvP transfers are not allowed.
- 2:52 PM, October 25, 2007
- Anonymous said...
I don't necessarily see the top-end raids as something bad. Sure I was angry about Naxxramas, and how it took them a year to make it and nobody ever got to see it. But they're remaking Naxx into an instance everyone can see in the next expansion.
Sure I'll never get to see Hyjal or Black Temple. But those things are there to give the raiding playerbase something to do, they aren't designed for me. But remember the days when it seemed that every other patch released a new instance you'd never go to? Blackwing Lair followed by AQ40 followed by Naxx? Nowadays, they released Black Temple and say they're only going to release one more top-end raid instance before the next expansion is released. In the meantime, the stuff they're adding for those of us who can't go to those places is huge!
I am personally very much looking forward to ZA. My current guild has most of the bosses in Kara on farm but there simply aren't enough people right now for Gruul's. The badge drops in 10-mans will definitely help bridge the gear gap as well. Can I imagine a day in the next year or two before the next expansion is released that I'll finally start raiding SSC or The Eye? Sure I can! It's a goal to strive for.
Nobody on my server raids anything higher than The Eye (that I know of). So sure, it's like the higher instances exist, but nobody goes there where I am, so what do I care if people on other servers do? Sure Blizz spent time on them that they could have been spending on more 5-10 man content for me, but I think they're doing just fine on that front as well.
- 3:31 PM, October 25, 2007
- Galladan said...
I have to disagree with Piper too.
Why do you get frustrated over not geting some set of virtual goods?
You make your own choices. You don't want to make 25-man contents, then live up with it and don't get frustrated because you cannot obtain that loot.
There are many ways to obtain good gear in this game nowadays: reputation grind, heroic dungeons, PvP, crafted. Find your own way and get it.
Personally, I don't PvP and I couldn't care less about the rewards that are offered there.
It seems that some people want to see everything. You must understand that the game has to cater to a very different set of people, so there must be contents which is available only to people with different tastes to yours.
- 4:55 AM, October 26, 2007
- Doeg said...
As one who was around for WoW 1.0, I have to say that endgame loot distribution between raids, PvP, and crafted goods is *far* better now in TBC.
Put another way, before TBC the best loot - by far - was ONLY accessible to raiders, period.
And I also have to agree that for the small guilds, the heroics and 10-man Kara are far more accessible than WoW 1.0 20- or 40-man raids.
And another nice touch is the split in PvE and PvP gear; in November and December '06 when the raiders descended on the PvP scene they dominated it because of gear and coordination. But now with better PvP gear and the Arena, I don't think that would happen again. PvE raid gear no longer transfers to PvP like it did in WoW 1.0
- 5:37 AM, October 26, 2007
- Athryn said...
I think that there are actually plenty of "casual" players that are willing to transfer servers, and who do all the time. We've had about 10-12 people server transfer to join my guild from other servers. Sometimes people just like a change of scenery, and you don't have to be a raider to want it.
- 10:23 AM, October 26, 2007
- Anonymous said...
Coriel - love the blog, you are generally right on target, but today I think you're mistaken. The high-end guilds do not provide aspirational models or social hubs in any significant fashion, because unless one is himself hardcore and just farther back in progression, one has never heard of them.
Just like only a fraction of players will see Sunwell, only a monetarily insignificant percentage of players can name the elite guilds on their server. I can only name a couple, and only because I've read the official forums and had one (one!) guildie make reference to a couple once. And I'm more hardcore than the average player - I'm in Kara, and I want to get into 25-mans and to BT someday. And I guarantee that most of my guildies in Kara (and obv. the lower-level ones) are totally unaware of who has the best progression on our server.
Take my wife - she has a level 65, a 40, a 32, and a bunch more alts. She plays for several hours every day, and knows what to do in an instance well enough to do it, and to be annoyed at bad players. I doubt she can name any guild on our server other than the one we're in.
Everyone reading this blog is already pretty hardcore, as are the people talking about prgression on the forums. The majority of the people paying Blizzard $15/month have no idea who the endgame guilds are, don't care, and thus don't aspire to be like them.
I don't even aspire to be them; yeah, I want to see BT, because I want to see it ALL; if endgame raiding stopped at Gruul's, I would simply aspire to that instead. They don't have to make the content almost inacessible in order to make people aspire to it. I used to aspire to hitting 40 and getting a mount, even though everyone gets one.
- 11:01 AM, October 26, 2007
- Samownall said...
True for most points but paid server transfers arent just for the hardcore - i myself transferred for shorter arena times :)
samownall wow 2.3
- 12:59 PM, October 26, 2007
- Augustian said...
Meh, personally I don't care that much about 25mans. Its in 5-10mans, quests and PvP is where the game sits for me. That's why 5v5 and 3v3 arena is so enjoyable.
Them:WOot we killed Illidan!
Me: Ok? You killed a pre-programmed boss fight that is more or less analog and not very creative. During this time, you pressed a total of 3 buttons, moved around a little bit, made your healers exhausted and pissed and gained a cute little epic. Whoo!
I'm not saying that 25mans are pointless, but on the grand scale of social networking, its much easier and cheaper to get much better results on the small level.
- 3:36 PM, October 26, 2007
- Vaerlin said...
My 2-cents.
The raid content in TBC is much more hardcore than it was back at 60. The grind to get all the gear and keys to enable your guild to progress to the next instance and the amount of farming required once you have completed one instance to gear up your guild... is insane.
My old guild got just fine through all end game content excluding Naxx (only did one boss) and the last 2 bosses of AQ40 before the expansion dropped and that was on a 9-12 hour a week raiding schedule. Fairly casual from what I could tell.
They've addressed alot of these issues with removing attunement requirements. ZA and the new heroic badge drops + gear will allow guilds to better get into TK/SSC... Huge! This would have been great at TBC release!
Alas, it's too little too late.
Arenas were horribly unbalanced at release and have tipped different directions, but never really leveled out as everyone expected. Min/maxers found this advantageous and "fun" as they could spec/gear/class a "perfect" team and dominate. Casuals balked at having to reroll just to get a spot on a successful team.
Once the casual player got to 70, got bored of the BG grind, got heroic keyed, completed Kara, maybe downed Mag and Gruul... They realized that they had little time to learn the new TK/SSC encounters. They still had to farm the aforementioned instances to get gear (not unusual) but Kara is LONG and certain class/item needs ONLY drop in Kara and a replacement/alternate wasn't available until Black Temple... They soon realized that 9-12 hours a week doesn't cut it for fast progression.
The "hardcore" PvE is the heart of WoW. They lost many raiders with TBC (long grind, poor itemization, lack of class identity for some, buggy encounters, slow progression). Raiders may come back with the changes... they may not. But Arenas won't save WoW (seriously? Dueling in an MMO? Go buy Dawn of War or BF2 or TF2 or Halo 3 etc... objective based BGs are fine and make sense in an MMO).
The end game is fun and challenging, but currently too time consuming with too slow of progression. 2.3 will change that alot. But it may be too late for many. My server certainly has suffered...
- 4:32 PM, October 26, 2007
- sam said...
@ anon. I think you missed the key point here. I started out on cenarius. It was well established and had several good raiding guilds at least on the alliance side. The guilds really started a great community. Even the people that didn't know who the guilds were still followed the "community rules" because that was the way everyone else did things. And for those who did care the guilds were a great "quasi" government because they talked among themselves and if someone was a ninja or a complete jerk they'd find a glass ceiling when they started apping to the guilds. Most of those players left when server transfers became available.
Just before BC I took a server transfer to blades edge. It was a huge let down. The community sucked, there was no community pride just a bunch of people who'd felt "put down" by thier old servers, or guilds that had transferred thinking it would be easier. Within 3 months a huge chunk of the talented fun players went back to thier old servers. They then reported on progression lack of ques etc and even more left. The server just continued to suck more and more.
Whether you love or hate the hard core raiders they are the organizers and socializers by want or need and tend to have more impact on the server community than the truly casual players.
- 10:56 AM, October 27, 2007
- Chris Tobin said...
One way to diversify the end game raiders onto different servers might be to bring back titles for PvE content.
If you are in the raid that is the first to kill a boss on your server you get an appropriate title. From first kill until whatever appropriate kill number that seems right get some sort of title.
How many times have you seen a guy walking around Shat with the title 'Scarab Lord'? Make PvE titles hard to get and very limited and the hard core guilds will diversify servers.
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Another missing option is Samhain. Many neo-pagans, and particularly Wiccans reckon that the new year starts when the god dies and is reborn at (hardcore) the second moon holiday (esbat) after fall equinox or (mainstream) at Hallowe'en.
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For three straight years the Knights have made it to the quarterfinals and for three straight years that's as far as they have gotten. This season, King's hopes to finally get that quarterfinal win and advance in the state tournament.
"Sure the coaching staff and the team definitely want to get over that hump," said King's coach Jim Shapiro. "In all reality, our theme this season has been get to 1-0 every week. Take it one week at a time. This is another chance to compete and the kids know the objective is to go out and go 1-0 this week."
Once again, the Knights will face a familiar opponent for the second straight week. In 2011, King's defeated Hoquiam in the first round of the state tournament. Last week, the Knights defeated the Grizzlies 28-13 in a rematch to set up a showdown with Montesano, the same team that knocked King's out of the playoffs last season with a 35-13 win.
"I think both games last year and the year before were real competitive," Shapiro said. "We had some turnovers last year that cost us. It's kind of a crapshoot. I think it'll be a pretty even match on Saturday."
King's has been matched up against Montesano for three consecutive postseasons. The Knights defeated the Bulldogs 35-20 in the first round of the 2010 state tournament, before losing to Montesano last season.
Shapiro says seeing Montesano so often, makes the two teams quite familiar with each other.
"Their system is pretty much the same from the last couple years and so is ours," he said. "Their personnel has changed, and some of the names, but so have ours."
Despite the rivalry with the Bulldogs, Shapiro was quick to point out that there is no "bad blood" between the two teams. He said they both respect each other, and are looking forward to playing a good, clean game and shaking hands at the end.
"There are teams where there is some bad blood, or bad attitudes," Shapiro said. "But Montesano, every time we play them has been great games. They're real clean. Always shake our hands and meet with us at the end."
King's will once again look to quarterback Billy Green. The leading passer in the Cascade Conference showed his mobility in last week's come-from-behind win over Hoquiam, rushing for 72 yards and two touchdowns.
The Brigham Young University commit also completed 20-of-30 pass attempts for 232 yards and two more touchdowns.
"We're very excited," Green said after last Saturday's game. "They got us last year, so we want to come back strong. It'll be a good matchup of two very strong teams."
The game, being played at Stewart Field in Aberdeen, is a home game for Montesano. That, coupled with wind and rain in the forecast, may alarm some coaches who run a spread offense with lots of passing.
But not Shapiro.
"Most people look at a spread team and say, 'Man they're in trouble when it's windy out,'" he said. "But our team uses more short yard passes. I'd love for it to be dry…but the reality of it is both teams have to play in it. Both teams have to hold on to the ball."
In their matchup last year, the Knights had two critical turnovers in the red zone that cost them.
Shapiro says his King's team isn't nervous for the game, or worried about past quarterfinals. He's excited for another classic King's-Montesano showdown.
"As a coach, every game's different," Shapiro said. "I think I'm more excited for this game than anything else. The kids are excited. I don't think there's a nervousness about them.
"It's Montesano. It's King's. It's the quarterfinals. It should be a track race."
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- Joyful said...
Looks like you've got a lot of great party ideas!
- January 09, 2012
- Jen R said...
Perfect...simple and frugal is great...there is way too much of the extravagent party pressure out there already...get the kids to appreciate the simple now and set them up for life
- January 09, 2012
- Hazel said...
Sounds like a great party!
My children are a bit older than yours and over the years I've tried to balance the frugal/simple/green/no bags of plastic tat with not making them too different to everybody else.
I hate the party bags full of junk that will get lost or broken after a couple of hours and have done similar bags to yours.
One year I was organised and knitted all of DD2's friend wrist warmers in cream acrylic from my inherited stash with a bit of fun wool at the wrist edge (basically a rectangle you sew up leaving a gap for the thumb, so v quick to knit) and they were a big hit.
DD1 had a cooking party when she was about 9 (they made cookies and decorated the cake I had covered in butter icing) and their take-home gift was a cookie in a jar mix I made. (Ordinary used large jars- no Mason or Kilner jars!) Every mother commented positively about them; it's my plan for DD2's next party!
My children are all winter babies, with 2 very close to Christmas, so we often have an official 'Half-birthday' to spread things out and so they can have requested parties such as 'At the Strawberry Farm', which will be in June here.
- January 09, 2012
- Justin leon said...
Melody looking very beautiful.
Many congratulation to her and also to you.
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- January 09, 2012
- owlfan said...
I have boys, so the crafty ideas don't go over quite as well, but have similar feelings about parties. One idea which went over really well when my boys were elementary aged, was making marshmallow blow guns. We let each boy make one out of PVC pipe and decorate with colored electrical tape. Then they played games with them - try to shoot your marshmallows into different point boxes. Then the toy and a fresh Baggie of mini marshmallows was their goodie bag. We found instructions to make them online, then simplified a bit. We did build and paint footstools one year. Perhaps the biggest hit was when my oldest's birthday was right before Easter one year - I hard boiled a dozen eggs for each kid and they dyed eggs and then hunted for plastic eggs in the yard. I hid them once, then they rebid multiple times. I could not believe that out of 6 guests, only one had ever dyed eggs before!
- January 10, 2012
- Stitchin' time said...
What a great party!Simple dress ups is always fun. I've had crafty afternoons with my older 2 children (now adults) and their little friends and we made paper windmills http://www.shivacharity.com/windmills.html then they ran around the yard to make them turn as it was a still day. Made for great afternoons in school holidays.
- January 13, 2012
- Andrea said...
My daughter turned 11 last month. She had 4 girls over and we had a cooking party. With my guidance they cooked maccaroni and cheese (the homemade kind), broccoli, carrot sticks, and chocolate chip cookies from scratch. Fun for them, easy for me. While some shredded and stirred others did some holiday themed crafts. Everyone had a good time. It's probably best to do this with only a few children.
- January 13, 2012
- Anonymous said...
Used large cardboard boxes are a great hit for boys. Pick them up at white good stores and put them in the yard. Give them paint and material to decorate boxes or just let them organise and build what they want.
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MARS HILL, N.C. Pfeiffer University jumped back in the pool for the first time in 2011 dropping a pair of close decisions at Mars Hill on Saturday afternoon. The men fell short 150-112 while the women ended up on the wrong side of 157-101. Both teams did combine for 11 event wins during the meet.
The individual day got started with a Samantha Maness win in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Maness out-touched her Mars Hill opponent by more than four seconds. On the mens side, Charlie Melesh notched the first victory of the day in the 200-yard freestyle winning by more than three seconds.
Kim Benton and Jillian Kniffen would score back-to-back first place swims in the 50 backstroke and 50 breaststroke in front of George Moreno went back-to-back on his own scoring wins in the 50 and 100 free.
Past the halfway point of the day, Haley Carter would notch her own individual win in the 100 breaststroke while Melesh claimed a more than 28 second win in the 500 free. Kniffen would secure the final solo win of the day in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:20.59.
Both the men and women registered relay wins in the 200 free to round out the afternoon. Carter, Benton, Shelby Carrion and Kniffen bested Mars Hill by .09 seconds while Patrick Porter, Moreno, Mark Franz and Edwin Torres did the same by just .02 seconds.
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MISENHEIMER, N.C. Using a 57-35 rebound margin while getting a double-double out of Kelley Godbout (Matthews, NC), visiting Coker College rolled to a 10-point, 75-65 victory over Pfeiffer University in the Conference Carolinas womens basketball season finale on Friday night. The Cobras improve to 11-15 overall, 11-6 in league play and will travel to North Greenville for the league tournaments first round on Monday night. The Lady Falcons see their 2011-2012 season end at 13-13, 8-9.
Coker shot an impressive 56% from the field in the first half bolting out to a 45-34 halftime lead. Within the games first 6:59, the Cobras found themselves up 13, 24-11, after a lay in by Godbout. Pfeiffer would get it to as low as seven on a Brittany Cox (Winston-Salem, NC) three with 5:51 to play but a pair of Godbout baskets coupled with one each from Jasmine Evans (Birmingham, AL) and Jessica Cohen (Ladsen, SC) pushed the intermission advantage back to 11 for the visitors.
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Lau would lead all scorers on the night with 17 points for the Cobras followed by Godbouts 16 points and 16 boards. Cohen concluded with 13 while Evans and Jasmine Alston (Sumter, SC) each recorded 10. Coker shot 48% overall in the win while holding a commanding +22 rebounding advantage on the boards to go along with 12 blocked shots.
Cox was one of three Lady Falcons in double-figures dropping a team-high 15 while Jodie Lemons (Madison, NC) scored 13. Shelley Reese (Brown Summitt, NC) contributed with 10 playing her final 35 minutes in a Pfeiffer uniform. Pfeiffer shot just 31% in the loss that saw a 24% clip take place in the second half.


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Chapel Hill - DeMario Grier led all scorers with 29 points but it wasn't enough as Pfeiffer fell to the University of North Carolina by a score of 140-101 in an exhibition basketball game Saturday before a sellout crowd of 21,750 at the Smith Center.
DeMario Grier led all scorers with 29 points, all of which came in the second half. Grier was 0 for 6 from the floor in the first half, including 0 for 3 from three-point range. However, in the second half, Grier made 7 of 12 from beyond the arc and 10 of 16 field goals overall.
The Falcons led 9-8 before the Tar Heels went on a 19-0 run, sparked by eight points from Hansbrough and four from Wright. Carolina shot 59.5 percent from the floor in the first 20 minutes and built a 70-35 lead at the half.
UNC extended the lead to as many as 55 points in the second half at 125-70 with 4:26 to play. The Falcons out-scored the Tar Heels 28-15, in the final 3:55 as the teams combined to score 136 points in the second half (70-66, Carolina). The Tar Heels shot 64.4 percent and the Falcons made 52.2 percent from the floor over the latter 20 minutes.
Derek Moore (18 points), Thomas Carr (12) and Logan Call (10) joined Grier in double figures for Pfeiffer.
Hansbrough, who was 10 for 13 from the floor, was one of eight Tar Heels to score in double figures. Wayne Ellington (19), Danny Green (16), Ty Lawson (15), Brandan Wright (12), Deon Thompson (11), Alex Stepheson (10) and Marcus Ginyard (10) also scored in double figures for Carolina.
Coach Roy Williams on Pfeiffer, "I said it earlier- you have to enjoy watching their competitiveness, how they kept playing. It wasn't just us. They played hard match-ups. Tyler's having to guard a guy 25-feet from the basket and there's no post player so it's a little unusual to what we're going to play, but I liked their club. They competed for 40 minutes, and we competed for about 30.
"First and foremost the the folks at Carolina are first class. We were treated incredibly well by everyone. I was incredibly proud of our guys for their competitiveness through a great deal of adversity. We lost our point guard Robert McGriff to an eye injury early in the game. We had four guys in serious foul trouble in the first half and we had 20,000 folks in the building that were not on our side. It was just an incredible experience and our players played so hard against a much, much, much bigger team. Coach Williams does an incredible job with such a talented team, getting them to play so unselfishly! We executed as well as we ever have offensively but had a difficult time stopping them and just got massacred on the backboards! Logan Call was very good tonight and took it right at their big posts. Thomas Carr had an excellent game in every facet. He was 4-7 from three but did so much more. Derek Moore stepped up and had a big game and Robert was a warrior playing most of the game with an eye that made it almost impossible to see! DeMario Grier had a phenomenal comeback in the first half and gave us a great spark! Foul trouble and the injury made it impossible to play defensively the way we wanted to. We only pressed full court a handful of possessions and we had lineups on the floor constantly that had never played together. we regrouped at halftime and played much better. We scored 66 points on North Carolina in a half, I am not sure many teams have done that!"
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Following this line of reasoning, how can there be any "self"? If we are all equally part of the universal awareness, then is there really any "me" to be aware of "you"?
There is more awareness in the universe outside of me and you.
Humans are equal, but animals are not.
[quote author="Bad_Conduct"]Because you are aware of me, and you are equally a part of it. I need to worry about what it will take to keep you alive because you are human. You deserve to be alive. Other people will try to take your life from you, your money, your wife, your house, for their own personal gain.
[quote author="Bad_Conduct"]Because when you hurt someone, directly or indirectly, you only justify reasoning to be hurt yourself.
[quote author="Bad_Conduct"]Go have your gay sex all you want. I don't care, just don't be offended if someone unknowingly calls you a fag, faggot.
Nothing unknowing about it, except your total, utter, complete, perfect unknowingness. So much for the self-f*cking awareness of the f*cking Universe.
You're unequal to the task, BC. You are f*cking unequal to the task. You complain about people trying to pull you down when they can't elevate themselves. Stop worrying about other people, BC. You're driving yourself crazy. You don't have to worry, BC, you're as low as it is possible to go. You can't fall off the f*cking floor.


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"Preparing the "target packages" is the first step in a process that the Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency are taking in preparation for, and in advance of, any orders from President Obama and his top civilian and military advisers to carry out action against those determined complicit in the attack on the United States Mission in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi.
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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A 31-year-old Antioch man apparently drowned near Camp Richardson off Lake Tahoe's South Shore Saturday after jumping off a boat and being unable to make it to shore.About 1:30 p.m. Asish Janardhan got out of a boat he was driving near the pier in front of the Beacon Bar andamp; Grill and entered the water with another passenger, said El Dorado County Sheriff's Lt. Pete Van Arnum.Janardhan was about 100 feet from the pier and intended to swim to the beach, Van Arnum said.About halfway to shore Janardhan began waiving his arms. The remaining passengers in the boat were initially unsure if he was in trouble or joking, but knew something was wrong when Janardhan dropped below the surface of the water, Van Arnum said.The passengers were unable to get the boat started. Employees from the Beacon and El Dorado County Search and Rescue volunteers who were training in the area entered the water and brought Janardhan onshore, Van Arnum said.He received CPR on scene, but was pronounced dead after paramedics took him to Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe, according to the sheriff's spokesman.Authorities believe Lake Tahoe's frigid waters contributed to Janardhan's inability to reach the beach. The passenger who left the boat with Janardhan remained near the vessel and showed signs of being affected by the water's temperature, Van Arnum said.An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.
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