Good on ya, Tomt! For organising something AND for giving default intermediate some playtime; the inclusion of crates (and dud mines) gives a different challenge with its own merits. I might join if you need players. I might also contribute a few bucks to the prize pot 

as Bloopy pointed out, in many Western countries it's actually more expensive to execute someone than it is to imprison them for life. I know that seems counter-intuitive, but it's the truth.

   

I thought I recognised ESA, but I've realised I was thinking of ESL, who did a televised Elite tournament several years ago. I suspect this 4-worm normal mini-tournament was cobbled together using players who had come to do speedruns in other games. If they want to do another one next year, people from the online community (TUS, ONL, CWT, FTM) could perhaps travel there to boost it up. I myself would go to London or Manchester, say, but not overseas. A problem however is that playing together on one PC and talking about what you're doing while you're doing it, is not what we WormNetters are used to.

(Edit: the scheme they used was "Tournament")

Bravo 

Maybe some credit should be given to Godmax for being one of the first to discard condoms, in the context of his four-in-a-bed romps (alongside Tobi). Other f@#!ers may have been inspired by him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter

I agree as well. IMO pop(ular) music is like classical music, in that it followed a "journey"; with classical, it goes: early > baroque > classical > romantic > modern; with pop, it goes: 60s > 70s > 80s > 90s. Music-makers build on what went before them, and when they come to the end of the journey, it isn't really possible to continue. The reason we don't get good pop music anymore is therefore the same as why we don't get great symphonies and concertoes anymore.

But we are "old men" (I'm 36) and maybe our minds have closed to new things (video games as well as music). Or maybe we are speaking the truth. Either way, I'm glad I'm a 90s kid and not a 00s kid 

Thanks guys.

Danger: I've installed IrfanView and will try it.

Xan: How would you like me to send the image to you? You could PM me.