A mere 9 days ago, we, a valiant team of Australians, declared War on the entire Steemit Planet.
Our mission:
"To corner the flow of STEEM and conquer the world!!"
Our battle plan was revealed:
- WE will dominate you in color challenges.
- WE will destroy you in daily challenges.
- WE will obliterate you with our pretty flower photos.
- WE will astound you with our historical and geographical knowledge.
- WE will amaze you with our Australian culture.
- WE will resonate upon you with our music, literature and theatre.
- YOU will submit to our foods, our creatures, our oceans, our architecture and our wide brown land.
In the nature of true 'Aussie sportsmanship', we granted the World a 10 day 'armistice' to rally troops in defense of their nations.
Whilst most of the world surrendered to the creative genius that is 'TEAM AUSTRALIA', a few partisan communities did arise - vowing to defend their homelands from a 'Speedo and Thonged' Aussie attack.
These brave national teams are:
- Team Philippines.
- Team USA.
- Team Britain.
- Team New Zealand.
With just over 24 hours to go until the battle begins, the official STEEM WARS 'Master Arbiters' @crypto-investor, @galenkp @ryivhnn have taken up their observation posts ready to judge and commentate.
The 'International Red Cross' has now dispatched operatives and medical personnel to the nominated landing zones, along with medical supplies and rations.
And finally, I, SirKnight, have my new 'Aussie Green & Gold - Suit of Armour' back from @bearone the Blacksmith, fitted, polished and shining:
Thank you as always Arly - I absolutely love it!
So now there is only one thing left - publish the STEEM WARS: RULE BOOK AND SURVIVAL GUIDE - Annexure 1.
Unless we chat otherwise - see you all in approximately 24 hours for the commencement of... STEEM WARS!
End.
SirKnight
SECRETARY TEAM AUSTRALIA.
STEEM WARS: RULE BOOK AND SURVIVAL GUIDE
- The STEEM WARS are set to commence approximately 1 minute past midnight on 1 July 2017 AEST
- This is the time that the first 'Battle Cry' is made by me.
- A new battle will be initiated approximately every 24 hours for 10 days, at which time the outcome of the Wars will be known.
- Each battle will be a unique steemit challenge (like daily colour challenges - only heaps better).
- Battle outcomes will be determined by:
-- The number of 'Hero Standards' (entries) per team.
-- The quality of the 'Hero Standards'.
-- The number of votes, resteems and STEEM each 'Hero Standard' earns; and,
-- The reports of the 'Master Arbiters' - there will be major bonuses for those 'Hero Standards' which take out 1st and 2nd places in minds of the arbiters.
Based on the above data I will provide an ongoing updates on the war efforts. - TEAM AUSTRALIA - is attacking on 4 fronts - so we need at least 4 times the number of entries as any other nation... so don't get complacent.
- Be as creative as you like! The more creative the better!!
- 'Hero Standards' can be in any form you like - pictures, video, music, reports, jokes, cartoons, memes, captions, art, sculpture - whatever you, 'the Hero,' can think of.
- And, never forget what you are fighting for:
YOUR HERO STANDARD
'Hero Standard' formatting is imperative for the success of your team. The 'Hero Standard' post format should be as follows and based on the 'Battle Cry'.
Heading: (Lower case) Steem Wars: Day 1: (short title): Team ??
Footer: Hero Standard by: Name, Rank, Serial Number
Tags: steemwars (your country team) [no further tags please - don't want you getting in trouble with the 'Steem Cleaner']
Example:
SirKnight's 'Battle Cry' is:
Day 1 - "Knights in shinning armour take to the field!" (short title: Armoured Knights)
My header for my Hero Standard would read:
Steem Wars: Day 1: Armoured Knights: Team Australia
My footer might read:
Hero Standard by: SirKnight Private 007 (be creative)
And the tags would be: #steemwars #teamaustralia
And this is all there is too it.
Get limbered up and your creative juices flowing, because it is going to be a STEEMing 10 days.
The final point I will make is this - get in and support your team mates with up-votes, replies and resteems! But never forget we are Aussies and Steemians - and as such we also applaud the hard work and performance of our opponents - so be sure to upvote, reply and resteem them to when the occasion warrants it.
I am... SirKnight... and once again a huge thanks to @bearone - the best marketing executive a Team Secretary could ask for.
Be sure to check our her blog and her latest STEEM WARS posts and up-vote!
https://steemit.com/steemwars/@bearone/are-you-ready-for-steemwars
https://steemit.com/teamaustralia/@bearone/steem-wars-aussie-gold-edition
Looks like I'm going to have to pull up the employee manual at work and make an addition to the "Paid Time Off" section. "Employees will be eligible for up to 10 paid days off work if selected to defend our nation's socio-digital reputation and honor on a decentralized social networking platform."
haha @swenger ...good luck with that...and bring beer when submitting the request. :-D
I'm also the Human Resource director, so I might be able to get it squeezed in there. ;)
lol...then consider yerself self inducted...silly bugger ya ;-)
interesting
Unless you have judging criteria mine is basically going to be anything that makes me want to draw XP
I'm doing pre-war warmup sketchies atm, they'll be posted soon hopefully (racing clock again I'm about to get dragged away XD).
That criteria sounds perfect to me. Very excited for what you have installed for us R. SK.
I just posted the pre-war sketchies. It will likely be vaguely along those lines.
America will win. Because we can title our posts color challenge entry and be done while aussies keep looking for the extra U in colour to finish their entries. Extra milliseconds will save the day for the donut eaters vs the kangaroo crowd. Just gonna call that win now.
We shall see my fellow Lord - we shall see!
hahaha...not take'n sides but that was frig'n funny!
Timmys for everyone!...just send me yer co-ordinates...and no...I AM NOT a spy...trust me...
~smiles fer miles~
another canadian, eh? i guess we just roll over to whoever wins?
@icanrant...sokineye...hmmm...whatever works eh? Keep'm thinking they can just take us anytime...and deciding it's a nice place to visit for the month between winter and black-fly season...what they no-see-um they no mind'm...hey everybody...Canadians love tourists!
Almost as much as the invisible flying...crawling...burrowing bugs...'n that's just in your face.
~peace out...in~
Pfft... We have a massive head start on all those competitions. As I type this it is already Friday here. I could upload my Friday entry now. It's only out of politeness that I wait for America to catch up... You're always trying to catch up... :)
Everything tastes better with "catch up" in america, land of hot dogs and greasy fries and burgers!
Touche :)
Hahaha, SirCork you are on fire!
It's been a big day for me today, 500 follower milestone and rep 50 (act 51) in 15 days from reg till now. So yeah, Im a little bit high on steemit life. Sorry if I derailed your comment area! :D But it's a fun room to play!
Nice sledge Mark, keep up the good work! SK.
Haha Thanks SK :) We Aussies have to remember that our sledges need to be a bit more gentle than usual. If we sledge our opponents the way we sledge each other then there will be a lot of offended people ;)
Very true Mark - we Aussie's are truly a different culture when it comes to sledging - though this guy @sircork of the US is giving it a fair crack! I'm openly impressed. SK.
LOL! Great response. The American laziness in dropping unnecessary vowels from words will be our secret weapon.
American Laziness has ALWAYS been our secret weapon. This is why the modern world has such wonderfully innovate breakthroughs from American science. Such as the following:
Drive through fast food - An absolutely miraculous gift to the world from America!
Movies made entirely from CGI - A boon to the lazy entertainers, actors and actresses of the entire planet, no more work, just movies bearing their names!
Google maps. I mean FFS, we wouldn't even realize there WAS a rest of the world in need of fast good and computer generated films without Google maps!
I'm sure you see my point. Superior laziness, (for you Aussies, I "suppouse" that translates to"superiour" !) is the way America will win! Because we will probably just outsource winning to Team Philippines anyway, right? Somebody decide quickly, because I've got to run through McDonald's real fast and then get back to my xbox before the next match starts! And I left my electric sofa seat warmer turned on when I left so I am in a hurry!
Lord have mercy... I spat out me tea when I read this.
"we will probably just outsource winning to Team Philippines anyway, right? "
😂😂😂😂😂
Hilarious wasn't it - we need to find a job for this @sircork character. This is the funniest set of replies I have read here at Steemit.
I was really counting on somebody catching that joke. I thought it was the highlight of the whole thing haha
Well you sure got a laugh from me! That was gold. I got nothing on that 👍👍
i am not sure i can top it either. Lol sometimes the magic just happens.
I thought Google maps was all CGI of an imaginary place! That other part of the world must be out past the McDonalds, because I have never seen it. Seems like a lot of unneccesary work to go there, rather than have it brought to you.
Chinese and Pizza delivery! Ah yes. Sometimes my lazy mind forgets how lazy it can actually be, that lazy mind of mine!
LMAO - you are hoot SirCork.
Another great rallying cry. SK
I'll be coming for those foreign Upvotes Aussies.
Look out for another TremendosPercy story.
Be prepared to hand over your booty to
@tremendospercy
Then I can safely assume you... @tremendospercy ...are in charge of mergers and acquisitions?
Very informative post & lesson for all steemians !
Upvoted your post and resteem.
A well constructed reply my friend.
A more generous response than I could have mustered @SirKnight! I would see such peasants out through the castle door, were it my kingdom. We do not consume spam in my land!
Hahahaha - again! On fire!
I can't stop myself! :D
I have no idea what I'm doing here.
I can neither confirm nor confirm that I know any of the following information.
(short title)
Rank, Serial Number
@swenger calling for backup, I need an info strike at this location.
I just had a flashback to better days, sitting in the living room watching Hogan's Heroes! That was before I learned of the dark hidden side of Bob Crane. Oh well, still a timeless show.
I still don't know my info for this thing. Im in steemit.chat and dm'd you just now and im also in discord pal/minnowsupport and steemgigs if you are in either.
Just a heads-up for USA participants, this is 10 AM tomorrow!!! 10 AM Eastern time in the US on Friday.
Synchronizing my chronometer now and moving into position.
oic...this is my wake 'n bake time...I'll actually be able to witness the Shock 'N Guffaw
SO...which channel?
...no link then it didn't happen
Approx 3.75 hours to launch status green. Synchronize your chronometer.
lol...I should be asleep. I have a client who's got company coming for the long weekend
...but...I don't wanna sleep!
Can't miss this...so where's the best viewing bunker? anyone got a spare VIP tag?
Sleep is for the weak, and I think I slept last week.
Leeeeeet's get ready to Ruuuuuuummmbbblllleeee! (Said in my best Bruce Buffer voice.)
Hearing the voice now Swenger! Not long to go.
i think i have to come back and reread the rules 2morow again.......thanks heaps for that...i can prepare myself now for the battles...
i hope it wont give me sleepless night or two :)
Hope you are rested Urs - not long to go now.
yes mate.....cant say rested..overview a second crew who came to our house to finish up and fix stuff up....its like a mad house here at the moment...you cant leave them alone.myself mountining ceiling fans and LED lights up....im very busy.
but no worries,i wont let you guys down here....
Get some, bring it on.
Not long to go now SB. Did you join the steemsilvergold guild by the way - I have - reckon we will find it interest. If you haven't checked them out and you do - tell them I sent you mate. ; ) SK.
Thanks mate, Yeah signed up about a week ago, Looks like it might turn out to be a pretty good idea. Cheers
I've been diving the deep end of Steemit...check'n for unforeseen trouble...thought I'd resteemed the Decllaration...damn. Got a lot of catching up to do...resteemed!
This should do nicely @sirknight thank you.
Had a kind enough offer to join the Americans...but you know my role in alla this friendly fire fest...I'ma gonna watch...'n take notes...perhaps set up some interviews from behind the lines...y'know...during a lull in the lols. ;-)
So, you'll just be watching the others at war and taking notes? This must mean you're French? :D
L O frig'n L No...not that there's anything wrong with that...just failed miserably when the Canadian pubic school system rolled out French immersion.
No worries...I'd already pronounced that I approve of this kind of war in the Declaration...and with that...my self appointed "official" duties ended.
I'll be keep'n an eye on you Sir Cork ;-)
...btw...I'm of Scottish heritage...from both sides of my parents...from the time before it was called Upper Canada...Niagara region...Big Thunder territory.
~peace out...in~
I actually typed "French or Canadian" I kid you NOT! But I backed out Canadian before hitting submit, because you guys DO go to war with our side now and then, and your sniper as far as I know, now holds the worlds record longest shot kill, beating even OUR best guy's record. So you and the French are nothing alike when it comes to warring!
Funny thing...I kicked my sergeant's butt with scoring on SMG training in boot camp...with his weapon or mine...and he couldn't figure out how I could have such clean groups with the Enfield ...yeah that long ago...20% of the time and totally fracked the rest of the time. I know why though...and that's all that mattered to me.
And yeah...Canadian's are committed kick assers...after a couple/few shoves. ;-)
@sircork adds this up in his head.
Enfield rifle.
Canadian army
That long ago.
So this was like last Thursday?
And was it because of trigger control and holding that bastard down as it ripped?
:P
heh...yeah I'm 17 all over again with this line of think'n ;p
as I recall...once you're done do'n the hairy eyeball squeeze...not pull...nuth'n to it other than pick'n up the pieces that fell on the ground...reassemble...reload...'n assume the position again...recoil was never an issue...as far as I recall...Thursday was a shiteload of Saturday nights ago...by my reckoning.
OMG - you are a scream... are you sure you are not the Court Jester SirCork?
It's entirely possible, my liege, that I am whatever keeps my cranium farthest from the guillotine...
You on steemit.chat?
when I remember to open the tab. usually im in discord all the time
Ambassadors can battle for TA or home team Cryptologyx - I am well aware that there might be double agents, even triple agents among us. SK.
Off with my head!
Let's hope not - but if it has to be that way.... ;)
Just for the first few days of the The Great Steemit War
Stick it on a pike...for safe keeping...I've got a weeding gig...in RL
I'm extra sad I'll miss the first salvos...but just as glad as I am sad to be paying the rent on time this month. ;-)
ummm.....didn't know this was going on, I am new to steemit, I guess that I would have to participate with teamusa,.....I must say that I find it amusing!
For sure lymorgan - trust me... Team USA need all the help they can get. Just ask @sircork. SirKnight.
We need no help. In fact I've just put the entire forces up in a local Holiday Inn Express. I'll be handling this on the way over there and joining them for coffee by 10:15 AM EST. I figure it will take me about 20 seconds to find Team Australia just by looking down underneath everything. Once I locate their stronghold, I will simply expose them to a case of XXXX Gold 12.5% and once the effects of my chemical weapon take hold, i shall simply smear vegamite stolen from their mess kits all over their vehicle controls. Unable to firmly grasp the now quite slippery controls in their chemically induced stupor, I will just walk away. The effects will wear off after the war has ended and they will all find that they have somehow driven and parked in each others front lawns. But aren't sure how to get back to their own homes. Thus we have then reduced our opponents to primarily the TEAM Phillipines group, which poses a major threat, since they have long since infiltrated our tech support centers and taken them over and they have written much of our software as well, while posing as remote allies in friendlier times.
But I can handle that too, because I can simply go to Elance.com and replace their Army with cheaper TEAM India contractors who are generally unable to read our command code, as they have not yet learned to interpret the encoding behind of our top secret affirmative and negative head bobbing signals. We've managed to obfuscate them so that this team tends to interpret them backwards.
With TEAM Australia derailed and fighting off XXXX Gold chemical agents, and TEAM Phillipines replaced with TEAM India for a lower cost with less ability to intercept our head nod code, that doesn't leave much of a mess to clean up. Since the American's are lazy, this is optimal for us, as most can sleep late and the others can knock off work early. It's casual Friday after all. War or no war.
Once Ive applied the XXXX Gold agent, and placed the vegamite super sticky lubricants on their vehicle controls, and outsourced TEAM Phillipines to TEAM India, I will simply return to the Holiday Inn express field base myself, as I should still be able to catch the free breakfast buffet and be on time for "Ripping Good Cars In Half featuring top mechanic Bob Bigbeard" on the Speed channel at 11am EST. Tough day, but i got this. Everyone else, just save me some donuts and coffee at the base.
Syncronize your chronometers. I'm moving into position now under cover of blankets until daylight.
Oh yes, TEAM Canada. We have actually secretly already aligned with TEAM Canada and arranged for frequent orders to arrive from Commander Horton, who has promised there will be coffee and donuts in every remote base and supplement them by airdrop as an army marches on it's stomach. They will also be providing most of the medic's supplies in the form of the countries biggest export, cannabis. This will have to be provided through ground supply lines via secret trails established in the forest near Michigan, and North Dakota USA.
Our biggest threat is TEAM UK, I suppose, because if they can get their 1974 Mini started, they could theoretically bring their entire armed forces to bear on us with their most advanced form of troop carrier finally online after that lorry incident in the car park in Cardiff last spring. But we only need our K-Bars for combat as their unique military constraints do not allow them to use firearms as that is against the London Convention. Also, General Piers Morgan appears unable to command much of anything, especially, anyone's attention, including that of his own countrymen. That threat has already been assessed as fully neutralized.
Any questions, Gentlemen?
Hahaha - funny stuff SirCork - I trust you have packed enough fun and frivolity into your rucksack to last the entire 10 days of STEEM WARS - see you there!
Ruck sacks are for suckas. I will be arriving in body armor by Tommy Hilfiger and carrying only what I will need. a bottle opener, a can opener, a smart phone with elance saved as a favorite and a small field issue water bong. For medical emergencies. Should the brits arrive in the mini, i will simply allow them to spot and follow me, where in I will lead them to a 4 way intersection. As their computers are only programmed for roundabout navigation on the metric system, the american 4 way exchange should make short work of them as well.
you got me hyped sirknight! this is gonna be fun!
You bet turtler!
Awww my pleasure SK :) I cant believe we're finally here!! Ok well 1 more day but still!!! Best of luck to all the teams!
Reckon the Cry will go out 10-11 tonight our time - has to be 1 July in NZ by then.
Sweet! I'll keep an eye out for it.
Nice blog
Thanks Blacklily - hope to see you at STEEM WARS.
Beware Canada!
What I wrote using this tag was related to number 4, things related to history. People said I used the steem wars hash tag incorrectly but I was on the 4th topic, history related stuff.