It's been a while since our last one, but the X-Worms Style Contest returns, on Dec. 28th, 20 GMT. Warmer has been in a state of decline for a long time now, but I know there must be some people out there who want in on this.

If anybody doesn't know what this is, check out the explanation: http://wormolympics.com/t645. This tourney is a remnant of WN's past, the early years when wormers were mostly judged on warming ability. Come enter and have a chance to join the prestigious list of style contest winners: me, Flex, Fudo, Ownless, Ryan, Anubis, Knight, Dulek, Dark, and Ropa!

I've just finished something of a tutorial to teach people (including myself) about the exact causes for animal jumping; animals being sheep, skunks, moles, cows, old ladies, and salvation armies. It's pretty in-depth, and if there's one thing you should remember from it, it's definitely the height of that ceiling in the Narrow Area Behavior section.

http://worms2d.info/Animal_Jumping

Reading this will save people serious pain when it comes to animals. You'll be able to more clearly see beforehand what kind of routes are possible/impossible for an animal to take, and where the animal is most likely to go. There is also an amazing replay at the end, brought to you by Deadcode.

I'm extremely grateful to Deadcode, who helped me get many of the facts right that I couldn't possibly observe just through testing, and Cybershadow helped me a bit earlier on too. There may still be some minor inaccuracies, but I'll mention when anything changes.

Dario shows us that special weapons don't matter, he might as well have had mole ;0

The nice part about these games is that we continually turn the advantage around on each other. My SD playing was weak, but aside from that it's pretty good stuff.

TEL game needs to be removed; I guess I forgot to report in the right order, Dario needed to report 1 game then I needed to report 3.

Zippo reported a tus classic league match we never played, and he even commented on it, though he apparently left me to make the complaint. Presumably trying to get people's attention that he beat me at TEL ;0

Hey guys, I recall Chicken saying he wanted to do playoffs Thursday the 26th, aka tomorrow. Judging by that playoff thread we don't want to waste time arguing back and forth, we just have to come up with one or two specific dates and times when we can do playoffs.

I'll be around tomorrow, should we propose trying to do it then, around 20 GMT or something? Or sometime this weekend? I'm around all the freaking time, so it doesn't matter too much to me.