1. This week, I did a competition review. This involved tallying up the number of competitions that the various clans, houses and battleteams have run. The top clan in this case was Naga Sadow with 15 competitions for the period. Some people argued with the methodology I used. In some cases, competitions weren't counted because of the script I wrote to export the data. In other cases, however, the competitions were simply not submitted to the form or were not approved because of a lack of correct details. In this case, it's basically your own fault. It's been made clear that all competitions should be submitted and awards must be listed, and these awards must be appropriate.

2. Work on the vendetta will be starting up again this week with the return of Sharad. However, this doesn't mean anyone can say "Well, I'm not going to do anything because of the vendetta coming out". It could be ready in a month or in 6 months.

3. The education phase of Project Thallium will commence soon. The core to this will be a "leadership" course, targetted at Battleteam leaders, laying out their powers and responsibilities, as well as procedures and good practices. Hopefully, this will create a generation of educated and skilled battleteam leaders, and will have a flow-on effect up the command chain.

4. I've more or less taken over responsibility for the upkeep of the DB site/code/database, so if you have any ideas, suggestions, etc for improvements or new functions, let me know via email.

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DJP Astatine (Krath)/DGM/Dark Council

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