Saturday, May 10, 10:00 am central
11:00 am eastern, 8 am pacific, 4 pm London, 5 pm Paris, 11 pm Hong Kong
How's it go?
*We race through the cogs (stinkers take their time and goof around with gag selections) We hope to extend our practice as much as possible on the crane part.
* Happy hoppin' goonie stompers will protect craners and fill the room with treasures. These can be people who usually crane and want to learn to stomp better or experts who want to help other people get a chance at learning to crane. (Let me know if you are just learning to stomp so I ballance the team for success and place you with experienced players.)
* Craners can be people who have never craned before or people who would like more practice. This is an opportunity to get the wildly swinging crane under better control. We'll take as long as possible to destroy the CFO so craners get time to practice moving safes to other players, throwing goons, removing helmets with great safe tosses, and gaining confidence.
* Teams are usually made up on Friday, and I try to ballance the elevator load. You'll meet your leader at a designated place inside the CFO loading lobby, and follow the leader on the elevator. You can exchange codes via pms if you want with the leader or one of the stompers, who can give you tips. There's not much time for typing, but sometimes it's been helpful. The team lists will be posted so check in this thread for your team assignments.
* It's been helpful to read all the tips before the run, if it's your first time, or you've never been successful on the crane before.
On Saturday, the team leaders will pm the secret district and any tips they have or sf codes (if they choose) to their team members. (I can't choose a district early, since I don't know which district Disney will fill with randoms and turn green. We want an EMPTY district.) We'll gather in corners of the CFO lobby surrounding each assigned team leader. We come early, and meet inside (wow! that's different!) and when the leader says, "let's go" the team goes up and on the elevator. We don't intermingle the teams, we load one at a time, so we keep the ballance of stompers and craners intact. The first team to have all signed up members circling their leader gets to load first. Yes, they've been known to board before the designated time, because everybody was present (Wow! another unusual non CCG difference!) If the teammates forget to come for the run, the back ups fill in for them, so the team won't have difficulty with the cogs or goons.
Some Tips:
Best way to control the wild swing is to pull the crane back over your head and redirect it at the goon. Move forward straight at the goon with the magnet (control key) down, and then when you have it, pull straight back again and move forward toward the cfo's head.
If it releases with a soft "pfft" noise and bounces off his chest without hitting his head for points it means you released too soon. Just pick it up again and pull all the way back again, aim the crane overhead arm, and get a run at it. Next time release later...maybe even imagining that you'll hit him in the eyebrows or hair line. If he sits, it might sail over his head, but that's ok. Maybe they need more goons on the other side. There will be another out of the box soon.
Many grab their safes and put them in easy reach for when he gets dizzy (on a training run, we don't hit him with safes when he's dizzy.) It's nice to practice passing them too, because the most dangerous CFO battles are lost when the safes accumulate around a craner and he gets a helmet that nobody on a crane is able to remove (since they can't reach any safes to remove it with.)
Please don't let a safe sit in front of the door because goons self-explode when they come out.
Please keep an eye on your laff so our stompers don't feel the need to use a unite. There ought to be plenty of treasures laying about the floor since the stompers who signed up are incredibly tallented. Step off the crane and refill once in awhile. Don't worry, you can have your crane place back; nobody will take it.
Anybody have any further tips to add?
Ok, now that you understand what the training run will be, it's time to sign up here: (Please clear your schedule so you can keep this important appointment and not let your team down.)
1. Murky, toon will be Egor
2. Little Fancy Pedalwhip, toon will be Prince Zany Megazilla
3. Frostimom, toon will be Miss Petunia Flippernoodle
4. Slippy Fiddlepop, toon will be Rainbow Gigglemuffin, request stinky team and Loopy Bumblequack to be placed on his team
5. BumblebeeBubbles, toon will be Bumblebee Bubbles, practicing stomper
6. melton180, toon will be king biggenberry
7. coolzach1994, stinky team (let us know later which toon has bux)
8. Brrlgrrl, after coffee she'll recognize her toon and let ya know who's coming.
9. weaselbee, toon will be Granny Violet McBrains (practice stomping)
10. Super Grama, toon will be Super Grama (practice stomping)
11. Dawn Ov Anudae, toon will be Dawn Ov Anudae
12. gggbutter, (needs coffee and banana muffins nearby)
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1. Silly Rainbow Funnygoose, toon will be Silly Rainbow Funnygoose
2. keela, toon will be Little Crazy Fuzzybee
3. Loopy Bumblequack, toon will be Loopy Bumblequack, stinky team, place with Rainbow Gigglemuffin
4. Queen Roxy, toon will be Queen Roxy
5. Zooblestink, toon will be Doctor Spike Zooblestink
6. Poodleberry (season ticket holder)
7. SmallBlueRabbit, toon will be Good Ol' Fangs Thunderhopper (move to back up if confirmation isn't in by Friday)
8. Captain Chipper Gigglepop, toon will be Captain Chipper Gigglepop
9. streetervs, toon will be Queen Cranky Pedalflapper
10. Prof. Jellyroll McBee
11. poohbearaz, toon will be Sir Lionel Wildtoes or Prince J. C. (place with weaselbee)
12. Lollipop Dizzyswirl, toon will be Doctor Lollipop Dizzyswirl
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Meet near the doors, inside the lobby
1. anonimous, toon will be Miss Zany Thunderhopper
2. Captain Pickles Weaselchomp
3. KittyMama
4. Yume eiei (was gonna let us know later if she could come)
5. Smidky the sweetest
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:Team 1
Meet in the far right corner of the lobby
Dawn Ov Anudae team leader & stomper
Murky, toon will be Ego, running all over the lobby checking on all the teams, stomping
BumblebeeBubbles practicing stomper
Bluesky, toon will be Ellie May?
Craner: poodleberry
Craner: Captain Chipper Gigglepop
Craner: Prof. Jellyroll McBee
Craner: biscuit01
:Team 2
Meet in the front right corner of the lobby
Little Fancy Pedalwhip, Super Magnolia, team leader and stomper
Prince Zany Megazilla, stomper
Melton 180, King Biggenberry, stomper
Captain Pickles Weaslechomp, practicing stomper
Craner: Silly Rainbow Funnygoose
Craner: Keela, Little Crazy Fuzzybee
Craner: Queen Roxy
Craner: Zooblestink, Doctor Spike Zooblestink
:Team 3
Meet in the front left corner of the lobby
Frostimom, Miss Petunia Flippenoodle, team leader and stomper
Weaslebee, Granny Violet McBrains, practicing stomper
Dawggie, Princess Daphne Sparklemuffin, stomper
Super Grama, practicing stomper
Craner: poohbearaz, Sir Lionel Wildtoes or Prince J. C.
Craner: streetervs, Queen Cranky Pedalflapper
Craner: Lollipop Dizzyswirl, Doctor Lollipop Dizzyswirl
Craner: red kitty, Little Daffodil (first time in CFO, 86 laff)
:Team 4
Meet in the back left corner of the lobby
Brrlgrrl, Noisy Furball Megascreech, team leader and stomper
gggbutter, Little Dottie Beaniemooch
Slippy Fiddlepop, Rainbow Gigglemuffin, stomper
Coolzach1994, blubber? stomper
Craner: Loopy Bumblequack
Craner: smvb, Crazy Soup Gigglechomp
Craner: small blue rabbit, Good Ol' Fangs Thunderhopper