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[duckiemonster]

[EvilGenius]

[Fiera]

Anyone can join and help out. It's eally a worldwide thing, though we're trying to make the biggest coordinated push in the US, as it is the biggest market and is prime for the takeover.


EDIT TO ADD:
Does NOBODY read the Views?

[poozle]

[achenar]

[EvilGenius]

Here's what Adrian Hon emailed me this morning, on the subject of street teams:

[brat-sampson]

...right.

[rose]

Wow. Just wow.

I was on-board with the street teams concept. I am happy to help publicize this great game and to support Adrian ( and Dan, Wishi, Fi, Adam, Andrea and Michael). But, I think that I will take a pass for now. Maybe later.

[lhall]

[EvilGenius]

That's an interesting rant, Brat-Sampson. Curious that the question, "What can I do to help" is verbatim what I did ask Adrian, not that what I might discuss with him is any of your business. Turns out he is interested in hearing about the experience of player overseas.

There's nothing untrue about my impression of the street team being a US affair - it's just an impression that was wrong. It is thanks to some research and the more civil direction of others that this impression has been corrected. I hardly went over anyone's head - I have been in regular correspondence with Adrian since before this ever came up and the street team is one thing that he happened to explain to me. Neither did anyone that I can recall suggest that you were being "elitist dicks" or "putting the States over every other country in the world." Those inflammatory statements are purely from your own imagination.

It's also fascinating that, despite the ongoing and civil nature of this thread (until your contribution, that is), that you feel entitled to speak on behalf of "everyone" (who I'm "bothering"). And I don't recall saying *anything* against the street team, only that (from reading the View article) I thought this was American. The very next sentence I said I had learned differently and was going to make contact, which I did. Why that should get you so riled escapes me entirely.

Perhaps you should read what has been posted again. I've already posted a number of sentences that are more than a litttle misleading and there is more of the same on the street team forum. I'm not the only one who thought that this was a US-only initiative (check out the post on the street team forum that says the new contest is open to "U. S. people only" - shall I post the quote verbatim for you?). How inclusive is that? Or shall I remind you that the first post on that forum, in the Welcome topic, is from ihall who says, "Welcome to the online home of the Perplex City U.S. street team." Note the name - U.S Street Team. You can't see why people might find this misleading? Your own first post in the Welcome is about mapping where players are: ". . . nice to be able to see where people were and how good a spread we have over these 50 United States." Guess what? Canada, and Mexico, and virtually everywhere else in the world are not part of the "50 United States." The FAQ says, "Our goal is to promote Perplex City on this side of the Atlantic." In context with the other comments this hardly communicates that the whole world is welcome. ihall, in the announcement "Hey! Read Me!! Seriously!!!" said, "If you U.S. people need materials to distribute, e-mail me the following info" Do you see what I see? ihall again, "I'm eager to get started on spreading the word of PXC over the entire United States." If you think after reading all this, and more, that thinking the street team is an American project is a "stupid mistake" then you need to give your head a shake and take some responsibility for not disseminating your information effectively.

It's a good thing Laura Hall is more circumspect in her behavior. She seems to understand plainly that there has been some miscommunication, as does ihall. This thread has been ongoing for several days and many of us from outside the UK and US have been benefitting from the discussion, including clearing up this misunderstanding. How your foaming at the mouth is supposed to useful to anyone is a mystery to me.

It seems your attitude has already dissuaded one player. Do try not to make a mess of this initiative with your intemperate bluster and personal attacks.

ihall - don't worry. It will take more that Brat-Sampson setting his hair on fire to dampen enthusiam for this project, particularly when you and Laura seem sensible I have asked for cards already and will be trying to get my countrymen to participate as well.

After a meeting of the minds with Laura and Brat-Sampson via email, I say enough said. I shall look forward to participating in promoting the same in concert with the street team for the good of all.

[oliverkeers13]

FYI:
Lhall = Laura = Laura Hall

[duckiemonster]

Not entirely sure how this started, but I think it may've been my fault...

America is a nice place to hit cause there's lots of man power available, and the lovely Laura came up with the plan in the first place Us UK bods are already hitting the ground running in terms of spare cards and previous drop experience, so we're helping out.

But WHEREVER you're from, come to the street team site and share ideas, flyers that you've made (there's some beautiful ones at the moment that look like playing cards, superb artwork) interesting card drop tactics and a love of ninjas and pirates.

I promise to love all of you equally, whether from Canadia or China.

[Juxta]

To quote Rose:- Wow. Just Wow.

Laura has driven this initiative for months, and finally now it's coming to fruition. Honestly, just get over yourselves - everyone is looking to get the same thing out of this - help the promotion of the game. It doesn't matter whether you live in America, Canada, the UK or Timbucktoo, it's not a competition.

If you're getting into this for the purpose of anything apart from enjoying yourself and promoting a game which you love, then you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

J

P.S. On a related note - yay Laura! Thank you for personally putting in the large amounts of time which I know it took to get this arranged. You know the rest...

[European Chris]

[chimera245]