Muppetry in Motion - December 08 edition

'Muppetry in Motion'

December 2008 - Edition


Hello all MWG members, well thought it was about time I got around to writing the first MWG clan newsletter, as such its gonna be quiet a biggie so get yourself a brew and pull up a chair!

To start I think as its newsletter numero uno a little bit of a history lesson is in order so:

The Muppets with Guns (MWG) were formed from the ashes of Ordinary Aged Gamers and Smokin Aces. They merged together and created this amazing clan.

The Clan formed with only 5 members but has gradually hunted down other Muppet Lovers and brought them back home.

The Muppets Clan is a fun clan that plays for the joy of playing together with other Muppets. We do play with the other alien clans and we do play some serious games and clan matches but mostly we like to play games with real Muppets.

The Muppet Council consists of a Muppet Five Pointed Star setup. The Muppet Council is TheMightyBoosh, Malfius, Dongziller, Alteregofilter and Lemony Vodka.


Firstly a little clan news from the opening to present day I’ll start with promotions and leavers:

Promotions

Council
Alteregofilter
LemonyVodka

Senior members
Stu
LAM1808
Ozzy0308
Robafet

Clan Members
Alexisonline
III Bennett III
Hodgy21
oO Snipe UK Oo
Sammiad
Scarlet Kisses
N11 Shane
Webby126
Weirskynet
Gazzamataz

Congrats to one and all


Trialists (good luck all)
BigUglyFreak
Bushy Boi30
Eyetrip
Frogpubs
R E S P A VV N
The Flashmonkey
TL63

Leavers

Well saying goodbye is never easy so it saddens us all to see the following members leave the clan recently

Vibrating Egg (Get well soon mate)
Ju123 (all the best from MWG for you and your new family mate)

Also come back all you muppets we haven’t seen in a while on the forums and on live, we miss you all


Competition News

UNO

Okay lots to catch up on here, firstly well done to everyone who took part in the UNO competition we held recently, was much fun and I hope everyone enjoyed it – winner of the GOW2 first prize was mr boosh, well done mate. Participants were – themightyb00sh, Dongziller, Scarlet Kisses, AlterEgofilter, LAM1808, Robafet, senseihredder, Vibrating Egg & LemonyVodka5

Gears of War 2 – Wingman

The gears of war 2 wingman league is now underway - the participants currently taking part are:

R E S P A VV N, Webby126, Vibrating Egg, Robafet, MIK3F, TL63, Commander x uk, LemonyVodka5, Themightyb00sh, Sammiad, Ozzy0308, Sam Skywalker, LAM1808, III Bennett III, AlterEgofilter, Dreri, N11 Shane, High Priest X, Malfius, Dongziller

The table is still wide open and could change shape very quickly. The current leader is R E S P A VV N with a big helping hand for Limited Ammo who actually played the first week of the comp to get the points - lol, will the pressure tell on the young pretender? Only time will tell!

All fixtures to be played every Wednesday night and a xmas break will commence after week 2 fixtures (10/12/08) and restart after xmas, keep an eye on the forum to find out when

Worms

OK the worms league is due to commence this Sunday night 14/12/08 at 7/8pm – if you’ve signed up please be on Sunday night and you’ll get an invite

FIFA 09 Ladders

OK if you check the squadrons area you’ll see that mr boosh has been a busy boy and in the process of setting up a fifa 09 ladder league, rules can be found on the forum, if your interested pop over and pop a post in the sign up thread now.

Clan Match Results

Ok a quick round up of the clan matches we’ve played to date and results

17/08/08 - MWG vs. NE - COD4 - (6-0) - WIN

15/09/08 - MWG vs. NE - COD4 - (5-1) - WIN

19/10/08 - MWG vs. BOX - GOW - (1-1) - DRAW

20/10/08 - MWG vs BOX - FIFA 09 - (2-3) - LOSS

28/10/08 - MWG vs. BOW - COD4 - (4-0) - WIN

31/10/08 - MWG vs. DOG - COD4 - (4-3) - WIN

SUMMARY

COD4 - Played 4 - Won 4 - Loss 0 - Draw - 0
GOW - Played 1 - Won - 0 - Loss 0 - Draw - 1
FIFA 09 - Played - 1 - Won - 0 - Loss - 1 - Draw - 0 :

Clan Key

NE - Northenders
BOX - Brotherhood of X
BOW - Brothers of War
DOG - Death or Glory

A big thanks to all the clans we have played they’ve all been top friendly clans and I hope we get some matches again soon in the future.

Battle of the Muppets

The battle of the muppets V Die soft recently took place on COD4 and it pains me to say the council were undone by the Servs loosing 3 rounds to 2 making it a serv revolution once again. From the recent poll mr ROBAFET was voted MVP for the battle performing valiantly and really upping his game for the battle. Well done to all that played was great fun and Hodgy was on his usual lethal form! All those who missed out keep your eyes open for the battle of the muppets VI coming soon on the forum, but be quick the places go fast.

Squadron recruitment

The squadron section is now up and runnin folks and recruitment for lots of different squads is now under way. This feature is basically for anyone who wants to play a game in a team as a clan match or just for fun that isn’t one of the 3 main clan games (ie COD4, COD:WAW & GOW2). Currently there is a FIFA09 squad run by boosh and a Rock band squad run by alex, if interested please pop on the thread and join in. Coming soon will be a Halo 3 squad run by Dongziller and maybe a UTIII squad also run by Dongziller. Any member can start a squad on any multiplayer game of their choosing, so what you waiting for? Get to it.

Main Clan Games and nights

OK there seems to be some confusion surrounding the official clan games and nights so I’ll try and clear that up for all you muppets out there. The official clan games are
Call of Duty 4
Call of Duty World at War
Gears of War 2

Basically this means on the clan practice nights – every Thursday and Sunday night we will play one of these games as a clan and we will play the majority of our clan games on these titles therefore it is recommended that clan members try as hard as possible to have these games in their collections so they don’t feel left out. The game played every Thursday and Sunday will be rotated to try and make sure no one feels excluded from the group.

Game Retailer affiliate

OK I have managed to get the MWG an affiliation with the online game retailer shopto.com. For everythin bought through the links on our forum we get £1 to spend on competition prizes! Yay! Our current total is ‘drum roll please’ £3! So we could do with a bit more please

Visit this thread on the forum for the links
http://muppets-with-guns.heavenforum.org/mwg-bargains-freebee-s-voucher-section-f7/shoptocom-for-all-your-360-and-gaming-needs-official-affiliate-t2573-15.htm#32869

shopto can be found here

http://www.shopto.net/


Friends of Friends feature

Well had a few peeps say to me recently Dong your so good lookin how do you do it and I say i use the MWG Friends gamertag to make use of the friends of friends feature so even when my FL is full as long as I’m on the MWG friends friends list I can make sure I can get in contact and invite all MWG members to games so I’m all stress free! You too could be this good lookin – just add MWG Friends to your friends lists

XBOX.com recruitment thread

Callin all muppets please visit our thread on xbox.com here -->> http://forums.xbox.com/8/22670948/ShowPost.aspx#22670948 and just make a quick post daily to make sure we stay on page numero uno of the clan section so peeps get to see it, thanks

Clan Vacancies

Ok chaps we have a few staff vacancies/roles we are trying to fill, please take a look and let us know if you can help us out, cheers


A clan match organiser - Stu/DM/Dong
These people are responsible for going out and arrangin clan matches against other clans and responding to any clans that come on this forum with a challenge


A HR type person/Clan Promoter - Dong/Ego/Robafet
This role consists of, bumpin the xbox.com recruitment thread, welcome any newcomers to the site, adding them to their friends lists and arranging a clan get together on any game the newbie suggests


Clan Practice Night Organiser - Dong
This role is basically setting up the thursday and sunday clan practice nights which consists of setting up the poll in arrange a game, hosting the lobby and making sure everyone who says they want to play and is on gets an invite


Games reviewer - Alex
This role entails doing a quick review on various 360 game titles both new and old


Web site developer - Ego/anyone can contribute to the content
This role is the development of the MWG website - http://muppets-with-guns.com/ - Ego is the main man here but sure he wouldn't mind some help in terms of content to put upon there


Newsletter - Dong
This is basically writing the monthly clan newsletter, more details to follower after i've done the first one


News Poster - Stu/Alex
This role is simply visiting gaming news sites on a daily basis and posting up any relevant news in the 360 news thread for clan members to read and discuss


Internal Comp Organisers - DM/Dong
This is setting up internal comps like battle of the muppets, wingman league, etc. As this is a tall order i will limit this to just me and boosh for now

preferably lookin for 2/3 people per position


Member of the month

Ok all that news is a long slog but as it’s the first one it shouldn’t be that long again next month, so time for some fun! Member of the month this month is ME!! Yes sir Dongziller, why you ask? Simple I’m doin this newsletter to a tight deadline and no time to interview anyone else lol next month will be a proper one and I’ll even do a poll for peeps to vote for their candidate

Name – Dave
Location – Cheshire, UK
Gamertag – Dongziller
Previous Gamertags – MoNkEyBoY 007UK, Smokin Munkey
Consoles you own – Xbox360, PS3 & Wii
Favourite Game – COD4, it has it all big guns, great maps, you move as fast as stu in a pie shop and possibly the greatest FPS multiplayer game of all time.
What kind of games did you play as a kid? – Sonic seems to stick out in my mind, remember goin round my cousins as a nipper and playin sonic the hedgehog on the megadrive and watchin video nasties and transformers the movie (cartoon version with 80’s hair rock sound track). Then one xmas my folks got me a megadrive and I hammered sonic, columns, road rash and others. Moved on to the PS1 and 2 and played various titles and then a lengthy spell on Football manager on the PC for many a good year before succumbing to the 360 and my first forray into online gaming. Before LIVE I was a very casual gamer - the odd game here and their very rarely finished a game, but when I got on live and discovered forums I never looked back. Made some great mates and made some enemies but I’m glad I plugged my 360 into my router that day back in then.
What kind of gamer are you? – I think im the angry gamer (ask any muppet member! lol) but I do like a giggle and when I’ve gotten over the fact I’m as much use as a cock flavoured lollipop I enjoy my gaming and definitely the sociable side. Also has to be said I’m a self confessed gamerscore whore, anyone wanna boost?
PS3, 360 or Wii? – 360 hands down, where I know most people and can really enjoy the sociable side of gamin that the other two formats just cannot compete with.
Favourite Muppet? – The 2 old geezers, not sure of their names, make me laugh my bollacks off though, probably because they remind me of me on LIVE!
Favourite Football Team? - The Mighty Liverpool FC, Stevie Gerrard is a leg end
Favourite Tipple? – Magners cider or any lager really, can do shorts but only towards then end of the night

Well I think that wraps up the first MWG newsletter quiet nicely, lots of info contained in this issue which I hope you find useful though I realise very text based, next month should be a little better. Just a few acknowledgments, big thanks to the following peeps:

Mr boosh – excellent job on forum layout, graphics and competition organising mate big thank you for all your efforts I know each and every muppet appreciates all the work you put in
Ego – great job on helping me and boosh run this parade and top work on the website mate, keep up the good stuff
Stu – Cheers for takin on the clan match organising fella really does take a weight off me and boosh and we really appreciate it mate.
Lemony/Malfius – Cheers for helping the council run smoothly and helping with ideas to keep the clan fun and fresh for everyone.
Alex – Nice job on the reviews fella, great great work
All muppet clan members – this place is nothing without you all, thanks for posting on the forums and signing up for the comps and clan matches we appreciate it we really do
Forum members – thanks for supporting us by posting on the forum and playin in the game nights we love you all



ANY SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE CONTENT/IMPROVEMENTS PLEASE PM DONGZILLER

Awesome job matey, good read and all that.

Member of the month is a little interesting, aha. Good work though bud.

fantastic and well done a good read and iam sure will help make the clan a even better place to get to know and find out more about whats going on..

Good report.news letter there Dong mate, nice summary of the past few months in the clan.

One thing mind, you've missed one important thing, me off the Senior Clan Member list, you doughnut :2111:

dont think i have mate! should have gone to specsavers

Top Banana

that was a good read dong, well done!

Dong,

you've also missed off FocusZetec from the clan members list.


come on fella get a grip man ;-)

focus isnt a clan member or tialist that i know of mate hes a forum member at the moment

my mistake matey, thought for some reason he'd had a poll put up to vote him in before I got back online LOL

confusion, another sign of old age mate LOL

Interesting read. Good work. How about a rookie of the month compo? I'd vote for me!

Good idea Frogpubs...

Firstly let me say that was very well written and the monthly newsletter is a big addition to the clan.
Also id like to say to Mouse that you have done a fantastic job with the look and organisation of the clan and forums which in itself is a hard task as clans these days last as long as king size fag so a big pat on the back there m8.
I no Dong doesn't do much but i suppose he good to have here as he makes everyone else goodlooking.................only kidding m8 lol and after the SA you have really turned it around and made a success here m8 so massive respect.
You may no i stepped down from admin due to health reasons and time restrictions on live but i do hope to return to the clan one day,don't no when but hopefully it won't be long.......

So Hail to the Muppet clan............

Egg mate thanks for that...

Your always welcome back as well...

only kidding m8 lol and after the SA you have really turned it around and made a success here m8 so massive respect

cheers mate, we've come far from the SA split and original MWG forum collapse to where we are today. Makes me proud to be a muppet and great to be in an active clan and not a stagnant little forum *cough*C4G*cough*

TBH I go on a fair few clan sites and everyday it surprises me that most sections on here have at least 1 post a day.
I go on other forums and they have 30 confusing sections and last post goes back a few days or more sometimes...

Not saying the forums are perfect, it could still do with a little redesign and clean up but maybe we'll do that next year when its not so hectic and busy.

And as much as the council do a lot of work, all the Muppets/forum users, pop on every now and then for just a view and sometimes a post which is what matters the most.
I know not everybody posts but the views statistics are fab on here as well...

Its a great pleasure to be around so many good gamers, even though I've not been on much recently its nice to know that if I went on I'd have a tonne of other fun guys to play with...

much appreciated...

*cough*C4G*cough*

lmffao you little tinker...........how true though and never a wise word spoken

Brilliant piece of work chap.

Have to say - once again as I've said it before a few times - that I kinda lucked in to the muppets when it was kicking off and I've not stopped going on about it since.

Great ethos.

Great atmosphere.

Great bunch of guys. (sounds like I'm turning to the dark side!)

Long live the Muppets

lol, they picked you up in a bar lemony i reckon! you were here before me

Technically they picked me up of the floor of a random bar!!

Dong mate added a Muppetry In Motion Banner...
Hope its ok just threw it together quickly.

lol nice mate

I didnt see my gamertag anywhere Dong, am i not a trialist or anything like that =(
I might have to go jump off a cliff or something...

But great job Dong with the newletter i love it

Last months james...
You'll be in Januarys amte

lol yeah was last months mate, this months to come out very soon