Ok, the first ever Great Egyptian Smoke-Out...
I mentioned the prizes in the newsletter - a decorative Hookah (or an upgrade to an existing Hookah)...
A really cool design. In Tale 3 I'd like to include a number of unusual Hookah designs like this one.
Having a litle bug with the "Most Improved" category.
So first off some participation numbers for this...
359 people participated...
That may make the Great Egyptian Smoke-Out the most attended event ever. I believe the previous record was the Mutton Festival with just over 300 attendees. Somoeone can check that for me.
I've been told that there were 350 Gourmands at the Mutton festival.
Anyway, this one was pretty interesting...
To get a prize for "Most Improved", you needed an increase of just 14 Fumeology points, and I see that a number of new players attained that - congratz to all that did.
The most improved player of all was BabyGrim who increased by an astonishing 184 points. BabyGrim left the #2 player in the dust: Savanhotep had just 126 points increase.
The "Number of Friends Smoked With" category was very competitive...
A note on the above: Since it was only possible to win in one category, there may be some veterans who increased more than that, but won a Hookah for the main category.
Altair won by smoking with 154 friends.
Also receiving top honors were MomMouse (152), Dreasimy (149), Fr0zen(148), Wuqensta (141), Tweetiti (138), Helpmabob (138), and Ingrowthechunder (137)
And Robare (139)
(The reason 9 are listed is because 2 of the above are GMs, and so they don't consume prizes.)
Mistyped Ingrothechunder's name above, sorry about that.
Again, Stone Phoenix for the top 7 will be installed by GMs, and other should have received a "Hookah Upgrade Certificate."
They can be taken to any School of Art and Music, and traded in for a Decorative (Quality 3000) Hookah, or can be used at the School of Art to upgrade any other Hookah in your inventory.
Minimum number of friends to get a Hookah was 102.