Thanks to everyone for taking part, some really really good entries this week!
1. Nootjepaps
2. TWU
3. Jeff C
I feel like I may have miscommunicated a bit in the original thread so thought I'd mention it here...
5XVT said:
Joa, I did try and think of something for the 5th birthday but struggled to find a ruleset that would work - and although its 5 years here there are a lot of people that have been competing a lot longer than that. Maybe someone can work something out for next week?
What I meant by this, is not that I don't think that its worth celebrating the new STBB Forever website/forum, as that definitely is amazing that the team/mods etc were able to continue something that was important to a lot of us. I appreciate each and every member and the team/mods that give up their time and funds to make this what it is today.
I had also forgotten that the 4th birthday was celebrated so was an STBB 'tradition' - maybe the calendar would help as Joa said as I barely remember last week, let alone a year back. (edit: I just looked and I didn't come back to entering until the week after which is why I didn't know about year 4 - I didn't take part from #581-#818)
The point I was trying to make, but probably poorly, is that although its new home is here, the battles themselves have been going on since Feb 2007 (if not before) so its the 17th (!) birthday in February 2024 which is an amazing achievement in itself too. There are even some OG's from this era still active.
I just saw it as this is week #871 and because we continued the numbering from the old message board then #001 was the birthday... I hope that makes some sort of sense as I don't want to upset or offend anybody.
As said above, appreciate you all!