VP Close stunning training

[Murky]

:h-eek:VP Close stunning training is coming soon!:h-smile:

:biggrin:This is open to everybody, not just CCG members, but you must sign up here to be placed on a team. Please give your toon name and which of the three positions you would like to be: Teacher, Stunner, or Healer. I hope we have enough to run a stinker team, so when you sign up, indicate if you want to be placed with stinky toons who mess around with their gags and speed chat phrases and make everybody giggle.

:h-reyes:How does it go?:h-reyes:

1. First, you must sign up

2. You check back here to find what team you are on, read tips, etc.
3. You get a pm in your box with the secret district info, and a teacher's code
4. You meet your team leader inside the lobby of the VP 5 min. before run time
5. You load with your team and go kill the cogs quickly (sound is fine, stinkies use weenie gags and drop pianos behind lured level 1s.
6. You drive the VP down to the first flat landing area, and hold him there in the middle of that spot for 20-30 minutes of pie torture.
7. You pie the back door and get tips for improvement, you move to front door and pie the front door with further teacher tips, you move to healer and get back to full laugh, and repeat the process again.
8. When the leader drives him to the heliocopter pad, you practice on that flat area another 5 or ten minutes, then you finally drive him over the edge.
9. The run takes a full hour, stinkers take longer since they can't get their gags right when fighting the cogs. The focus of the run is how to stand close to the box and pie the insides while avoiding gear hits, so we spend lots of time practicing that part.

:h-eek: When is it? :h-eek:
Next Saturday, Oct. 27
8:30 pm central

Drum roll please...*brrrm, brrrm, rat-a-tat-tat, cymbols crashing

VP Training Run Teams
* see bottom of post for special instructions

:h-confused:Team 1, stinksalot:h-wink:
meets in the far right corner (elevator end of lobby)

Leader and Teacher: Little Fancy Pedalwhip - Little One
Teacher: Brrlgrrl, Melody Peppercorn or Noisy
Teacher: Choo Choo
Healer:Miss Flip Flipperfoot
Stunner: Toonymomof2, Sadie
Stunner: mildew102
Stunner: gggbutter, Little Dizzy Beaniemooch
Stunner:Chocolate Bunny
*(Let me know if stinkers is not the best location for you)

:h-cool: Team 2 stunning spectaculars :h-tng:
meets in the close right corner (entry end of lobby)

Teacher: Summer Solstice
Teacher: Winter Solstice
Teacher: Doctor Mace
Healer: Fangs Thunderzap
Leader and Stunner: Doctor Zowie BumberCruncher
Stunner: alc127, duke Chip Crunchybumper
Stunner: SPDB, Granny Peanut Dizzybubble
Stunner: Crazy C.J. Crinkledoodle

:biggrin: Team 3 sweetascanbees :h-smile:
meets in the close left corner (entry end of lobby)

Leader and Teacher: KittyMama, Quacklin Rose of Rascal Katts
Teacher: CherryBlossomRawr, Princess Pearl Petalpounce
Teacher: Dream Dancer
Healer: Granny Spunky Twinklemuffin
Stunner: fatewineroses, Carmel Latte
Stunner: Thundercat500, Miss Daphne Dandydorf
Stunner: Marigold Bananascreech
Stunner: Verden

:h-reyes: Team 4 smells slightly :h-eek:
meets in the far left corner(elevator end of lobby)

Teacher: chocoholic1415, Ricky
Teacher: Krissru, Dawn Ask
Teacher: Ladybug Picklemuffin
Healer: Buster Thunderfoot
Leader and Stunner: Scout Mama
Stunner: sem52, Tukool Kat
Stunner: Lady Flappy McPhooey
Stunner: Miss Roxy Bumblebee

:h-tng: Team 5 vp rockentoons :h-smile:
meets in the center of the lobby

Leader and Teacher: Smiles2, Dark Matter
Teacher: Good ol Murky Paddlefink, Irky Mae
Teacher: JC Poppenflap
Healer: melton180, King Bigganberry
Stunner: Frostimom, Miss Petunia Flippernoodle
Stunner: Slippy Fiddlepop, Rainbow Gigglemuffin
Stunner: princesspenny, Princess Penny Bumberpoof
Stunner: Doctor Peppercorn

might not make it, might need a back up here

Back Ups, for those real life emergencies:
meets on the elevated platform by the entry

This team will fill in if needed, or go have their own run if enough:
Teacher: Dawggie
Teacher: CPutnal, Candy Sparkleface
Healer: Big Blue Dog, Big Fireball Fumblebumble
BB the Blue Bear, Cog Destroyer
Lady Freckles, Miss Sqweaky Klean, or Lady Freckles Featherbee
JavaJunkie
DirtnWater, Silly Furball Fuzzymuffin

Princess Fancy Fetherroni

Auntmare's late run (10 pm central)
meets in the center of the lobby

Leader and teacher: Brrlgrrl
Teacher: KittyMama
Teacher: Smiles2, Miss Olivia
Stunner and healer: Buster ThunderFoot
Deputy Rusty Rockenspeed
JavaJunkie, Z.Z. Pepperdoodle or Chocolate Bunny
auntmare, Sow Divine
Back up: Doctor Peppercorn
Back up: Lady Flappy McPhooey

*Special notes
1. District will be pm'd on Saturday afternoon, make sure you have pm space for it in your box.
2. You need merits for this, be sure to check to avoid elevator embarrassment.
3. Please arrive early to find your team leader, do not wait in the pit, go inside to avoid attracting randoms.
4. Don't let your laff get dangerously low, visit the team healer and get pied.

[Summer Solstice]

I'm free to come, put me down wherever.

[Doctor Zowie BumberCruncher]

I need practice learning from the front only. I have the back down pat. So I would like to sign up for some much needed practice. Thanks Murky!!

[Murky]

Thanks for signing up. I have added both of you.

Summer said to put her down "wherever"...are you kidding? I've seen you pie that hole! Good grief, you are one incredible stunner!

Don't worry Doc Zowie, most who sign up hate the front because it gets extra gear streams, so they prefer to stay on the backside. The front is necessary for soloing or "stunning plus driving" which is needed when the team becomes very small...like when there's only a couple of ya left in there.

[melton180]

wait do the teachers have to have a code to secret chat to trainies?

[guggs]

I can bring one of 3 toons. Truman, Newman or Kippy. I'm better off being a healer. I cant type fast enough to help with stunning. Typing fast makes my spelling worse. And stinky is good with me.

Steve

[raiderfanforlife]

Originally Posted by guggs

I can bring one of 3 toons. Truman, Newman or Kippy. I'm better off being a healer. I cant type fast enough to help with stunning. Typing fast makes my spelling worse. And stinky is good with me.

Steve

Hard to type woth hooves? How do you like that?

[guggs]

Originally Posted by raiderfanforlife

Hard to type woth hooves? How do you like that?

Uh Oscar what is a woth hoove. And Ill take my Chiefs over your Raiders. How about a lil beany bet on it?

[Brrlgrrl]

Yay! What a treat to wake and find this thread!
Put me wherever, I am strongest at rear stunning, although I have been getting pretty good at distance TU'ing while at the rear (Isn't that right Purplewhattoontaskareyouworkingonsmirk?)

With enough time and planning, I may be able to make temporary room on a toon. Please sign up either Melody Peppercorn or Noisy for this event, they smell sweet enough to balance out a stinky elevator if we have one.

Will we have enough time to have another CFO marathon before the training? My toons have received mostly beans this weekend...

[Murky]

Originally Posted by melton180

wait so the teachers have to have a code to secret chat to trainies?

I think it's too much to ask them to make 6 0r 7 temporary spaces on their lists, so I'm not requiring that at all.

I'm taking into consideration the feedback from previous runs. The teachers told me they were frustrated that they couldn't say things like, "Step a little more to the left." "Can you see the VP? Did you tab out?" "Want to try the other door? You are doing great!" "Step up when he looks at you." "You are standing too close to him."

If the teachers will take one or two students on their list for just the time of the run, and agree to delete following the run, it will make the training at least twice as effective.

If that's impossible, I fully understand. A lot can be learned by watching. I've seen teachers do a good job using just speed chat. "This way" "follow me"....any other suggestions for speed chat phrases that could be used to tell a trainee how to do it better and avoid the gears?

[Marigold_Bananascreech]

I'd like to work on back stunning. I'm good with pushing and healing, so I'd like a position on the back stunning learning team please!

[Buster ThunderFoot]

I'm sorry, I can't be a teacher for this type of pie-throwing lesson. I'm only good at throwing pies at a distance(If you make a VP lesson for this type of throwing, then I can help you). However, I would like to be a "Heart Happy Healer", since that was one of my posistions during a rotten CCG run.

Happy pie-throwing!

[alc127]

Please sign up my son, Duke Chip Crunchybumper. He wants to learn how to stun better. Thank you for doing this.

[Murky]

Originally Posted by Marigold_Bananascreech

I'd like to work on back stunning. I'm good with pushing and healing, so I'd like a position on the back stunning learning team please!

Thanks for signing up to come and practice. I mentioned the rotation from back to front to healer, then repeat...back stunning, front stunning, healer for laff. It's not rigid, and on each team the time spent on each will vary.

This is another slight change as a result of feedback. Sometimes, a toon stays a long time in one location. There is one spot that is perfect for the beginner...left back tread position. The difficulty is that there is only one, and there are 4 trainees at least on each team, so they want a chance to try it there and have a taste of success.

There is also one spot that is perfect for the toon that plans to solo: front left tread position. When on a CCG run, teamwork is the key thing that brings a quick victory. If we learn all the positions, (as in CFO or CJ) then we can help no matter where we land, and who we are with. The best scenario is with two close stunners in the rear, two in the front, and 4 driving from the front at a distance. To learn to teamplay, it's great to practice from every position, and to even learn to get it in the hole from the most difficult place: the front right tread.

I've found the front right tread is a perfect spot to learn to dodge gears. You might forget about the blue bar being low and perfect and just focus on moving forward when he looks at you. Moving to the right or close in to avoid sprayed gears, and timing your movements so that you can stand real close and not take any hits at all.

If we move counter clockwize around him, the place to go after the difficult right front is the back left...the easiest place of all for close stunning.

[sem52]

I think this is a training session I can actually make. Sign me up for front and rear. I can't get the hang of either. You guys rock. Tukool Kat :biggrin: