Privateering Contest Results
 

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We're pleased to announce the top Privateers for the Hoist Your Colors Privateering Contest. Thanks to all the Privateers who took up the flag for Garcia and Pierre.

Here are the winners:


Top 100 Unlimited Access
Members

Winners receive an Official, Limited-Edition, Privateer's License and Official Pirates Online baseball hat.
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*Prizes may vary from images shown.

1. Tommy Two Times
2. Dead Aim
3. Merik The Mighty
4. Chili Rainbow
5. Elizabeth Blueslipper
6. James Plunderhawk
7. Rose Darkcutter
8. Tom
9. Captain Deathskull
10. Maria Treasurehound
11. Victor Robeld
12. Samo's Outcast
13. Kat O'paine
14. Theodore Logan
15. James Seafury
16. Charlotte Darkshot
17. Wraith
18. MistErio
19. Rasputan Dreamweaver
20. Irate Pirate
21. Chacal
22. Justbelieving
23. Johnny Warmenace
24. Nobody
25. Superjim Jones
26. Monkeybusiness
27. Jeremiah Pugwash
28. Mikhail Skulls
29. Vin Squidmorgan
30. Darkskull
31. Chris Fireskull
32. Jade Seaeagle
33. Blue-Demon
34. Ironsmythe
35. Pacific Thunder
36. Li Bluemorris
37. Bafia
38. Davy Redflint
39. Slick
40. Richard Bladefury
41. Chesty Puller
42. Dog Stormbreaker
43. Johnny Redfury
44. Dog Sharkrat
45. David Warbeard
46. Peggy Leg
47. Charlotte Squidstack
48. Leon Pillagekidd
49. Evil Little Troll
50. Molly Seafury
51. Edgar Seacastle
52. Wild Rose
53. Jackash
54. Trinity Warhazzard
55. John Sunburn
56. Invincible Warlord
57. Angel Darkhazzard
58. Amelia Ironbones
59. Mark Sharkbones
60. Darkfury
61. Molly O'bones
62. Black Sand Bert
63. Will Deckbane
64. Black Ice Beard
65. Jason Seaskull
66. Rachel Truebreaker
67. William Hulleagle
68. Solomon Darkhawk
69. David Plunderbeard
70. Thomas Squidmonger
71. Lovable Angel
72. Grace Heartcutter
73. Eva Jewel
74. Stella Blackheart
75. Angel
76. Olzar Revin
77. Bartholomew Crestsilver
78. Lil-Rat
79. Jade Firesmythe
80. Ironshot
81. Dark Jane
82. Roger Redbeard
83. Sureshot
84. Davy Stormfury
85. Vash B
86. Mary O'Jane
87. Kate Mcmartin
88. Dog Firemonk
89. Kat Firebones
90. Bill Mcgull
91. Sand Devil
92. Solomon Truemenace
93. Themgrind
94. Meg Squidbones
95. D Vicious
96. Leon Burnbane
97. William Shipwalker
98. Will Sharksteel
99. David Swordbreaker
100. Francis Firehawk


Top 100 Basic Access
Players

Winners receive an Official Pirates Online baseball hat.
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1. Edward Edgemenace
2. Remy Lebeau
3. Squidcutter
4. Charles O'rage
5. Angel Lockkidd
6. Robert Goldsteel
7. Long Ben
8. Roger Stormhawk
9. John Mcfury
10. Jim Sharkshooter
11. Dog
12. Mark O'steel
13. Billy Warmonger
14. Will Goldwalker
15. Dog Sharkhayes
16. Irish Pirate
17. William Hawk
18. Jack Plunderhound
19. Cedric Bladesong
20. Robert
21. Chris Warswine
22. Jade Hexeagle
23. James
24. Hollywood
25. Player V
26. Giuseppe
27. Jack Wildwrecker
28. Swashbuckler
29. Ronald Rohald Dalh
30. Joseph Stormwalker
31. Catherine Stormsteel
32. Eric Sailsilver
33. Fernando Pottinger
34. James Gunhazzard
35. Johnny Firefoote
36. Brady
37. Edward O'vane
38. Davy Hookeagle
39. Daarthvader
40. Bill Daggerwash
41. Joseph Badkidd
42. Isaiah Warhawk
43. Simon
44. Jack Stormshot
45. Shawdow Healer
46. Jake Blacksmith
47. Catherine Heartbreaker
48. Bartholomew Badkidd
49. Jack Sharkbones
50. Kyria Kiedes
51. Jack Bladecutter
52. William Bladesteel
53. Captain Dragon Beard
54. Edgar
55. Hyperfox
56. Will Pondmalley
57. Davy Ironskull
58. Emily Darkmorris
59. Samantha Seaeagle
60. Jack Cannongrim
61. Benjamin Darkgrin
62. Pheobe Halliwell
63. Captain Kalm
64. Sarah Treasurestealer
65. David Diether
66. Mike
67. Davy Greasebeard
68. Mark Gunmartin
69. Johnny Riggrim
70. Jade Lockmorgan
71. Brayan Cooll
72. Daggarrr
73. Basil O'dougal
74. Jade Daggerhazzard
75. Thomas Bladewrecker
76. Joe Mcflint
77. Bart Cannonshot
78. Jackel Bloodbath
79. Stefan Skull
80. Simon Lockhound
81. Benjamin Shipstealer
82. John Lockbreaker
83. Rose Goldskull
84. Charles
85. Jason Mcwallace
86. Goth Kidd
87. Captain Crusade
88. Alex Helmshot
89. Jeffrey Seafury
90. Greybush
91. Sarah O'menace
92. Davy Ironskull
93. William Stormwrecker
94. Nathaniel Plunderhawk
95. James Wildbreaker
96. Brick
97. Eric Swordskull
98. Geoffrey Warmonger
99. Will Fireeagle
100. Batista

Congratulations to everyone who won.

I recognize one name, wonder if its our Edward Edgemenace!! WTG Edward.

Yeah, that was me. Thank you!

Wow, I knew I did really, really well, but #1? Wow. Goose bumps.

Ok, NOW I get to pick on ya! LOL :D The man who thought he'd never see the leaderboard from all the Glitching actually comes in 1st Place....

Congrats dude... you deserve it :D

Congrats to everyone, and WTG Ed! :)

Wow must you post the entire list O_o lol anyway CONGRATS! to whom ever won :)

Wow, two threads for this ;) hehe

Grats Again Edward!

Gratz Ed
I see how this is no fair
One of my friends let another friend borrow his ship and was stayed out for 3 DAYS and all he did was launch his boat and STILL won.

I also see some glitchers and also saw they also only included boat owners.
Wish i won :mybadki6:

Davys on the list too WTG DAVY.

Theres so many Davys hehe

Including 2 Davy Ironskulls (obviously a popular repeated name)!

Congrats Davy. Whoever you are!

Edit: Congrats Davy Redflint!!!!

Congrats to all the winners! :D

Davy Redflint! Grats Hun!

Wow, I gotta read that list again!

How bout this...if you're here on POF, and you're on that list, come congrats yourself so we can all High-Five ya!? ;)

Wow i'm on there o.O lol i didn't want to win i was only helping out my guildmaster! i was only a gunner i didn't know that counted. :laughks2:

Interesting.
Per the posted rules as they were interpreted by most, it didnt.

Not to demean the win... but im thinking they threw all the names in a barrel and drew names.

Hey... even if ya'll won with luck? HIGH FIVE!!!!! How much for the hat? j/k

contest was open to everyone ...
 

... captain or not. this made it fair for even those that didn't have a titanic type ship :dancetl6:

I believe it has to do with number of hits you got against other boats. I never took a boat out and was just a gunner and got 78th on Lil-Rat. Our higher ones on the list were out shooting and sailing for all 3 days.

I think this is more fair since the crews got recognized for all their hard work too.

Yeehaw! all the efforts were worth it! congrats all:buds:

Trying to think of a witty response - I just fall short! Perhaps I can best sum up the contest weekend by saying "glitched against the glitchers!"

It is good to see some reward for all those hours getting sunk over and over again. The occasional wins I had added up, evidently. I wish they had shown the relative points earned - I know I bounced around many different servers that weekend. So it would have been nice to know what the final tally was.

And actually, now that I think about it, will they have an SvS leaderboard with these same types of tallies? Or will they just make this a monthly (or quarterly) event?

Checking in DisneyXD to see the skill point allocations of all the level 40s at the top of the lists is enlightening! Apparently, some smaller guilds build up player combinations: player A with rank 5 full sail, player B with rank 5 ramming speed, player C with rank 5 wind-catcher. A combination like that, lets a war sloop chase down my light sloop in a faster-than-possible manner, by switching drivers. Blisteringly clever!

"/grats" to everyone that played - I recognize (or think I recognize) about a dozen names on these lists. A very exciting (but sometimes wildly frustrating) experience! I can feel Dr. Zepper's Miracle Cure losing its efficacy already...

Think i must have been counted when i babysat my guildmasters ship while he slept so we didn't lose the score lol! i guess there is upsides to time differences ay :) I recognize a lot of names now i've had a good luck, congrats all!

Most of the top 10 cheated I bet. If Disney ddn't know about that glitch then.. thats so unfair god..
Anyways congratz Edward Edgemenace and everyone who didn't cheat on your prizes!

I wish they had explained the rules better. If I had known being a cannoneer on a ship would have made me eligible I would have tried a bit harder to participate.

I wish they had explained the rules better. Better? I wish they had explained them. Period! :-)

I just got off the phone with Disney customer service (I tried online chat tech support first - they sent me to customer service...sigh.) They said the hats will be sent out in six to eight weeks. (!) The e-mail address I have on the primary account is ignored - the e-mail address on the linked account that I signed in on, to play during that weekend, is the one they will send the request for mailing address to. (I'm sure at least 99 other basic-member access players have that same question!) Since I used "spamgourmet.com" throw-away addresses for all the registrations, I had to jump through some hoops to make sure I don't drop their e-mail automatically.

This hat will make a nice Christmas present, anyhow. If you see any on e-bay in the next five weeks, you can be sure it is a fake.

Congratulations!
Isn't Davy Redflint a member of the POF too?
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Aye! Welcome back Davy! And congratulations!

The glitch you are talking about here was fixed a while back before the privateering contest. When people switch to try to use the next person's full sail or whatever was used by the first, it will show that it is recharging.

As far as the winner must be cheaters, the top winners were out all three days and worked their tails off playing.

Actually, the reason I said it was so clever, is because they DO wait for things to recharge "normally" - they just trade off wheel so that the person with rank 5 <whichever is now recharged> takes the wheel and does it. When it is spent, they trade off to the next driver. A passes to B passes to C. The result is that their ship goes faster than it possibly can go. It isn't a "glitch" at all, just painfully good planning and coordination. Doubly painful when they sink me!

I agree with ratcat, those that made the top 100 list worked hard for it. I know for a fact that those from our guild that made the list, did it without the use of any glitch or cheats... We worked the contest as we do all tasks, we did it as a team. :plunder: And if working as a team/guild is cheating, I for one would be proud to be considered a cheater. :ss_pirate_ship:

Edward Edgemenace first I would like to say congrats on your placing in this contest! Quite a feat I must say as i know what i went through to place. In reguards to what you are talking about here it is possible that there were some players that used this tactic to accomplish their score. Me personally i can assure you that I was the sole driver of my boat. The reason for my victory is placed soley on the hands of my Guild!! I know many admit to it but I can say with confidence that i am part of the best guild in this game. I was in game for the entire weekend and think i got around 6 hours of sleep since the begining of this event. Members of my guild worked in shifts on the cannons and assisted me in reaching a score that surpassed 600,000 points. It shows as 14 additional members of my crew made it into the top 100 and 4 of us including myself were in the top 8! I just want to say I admire all of you that have posted here and offered up congratulations to all the victors as each and everyone of the 200 players the placed deserve it! I would also like to say that i am ashamed of those who automatically assume that just because people win a contest that they MUST have cheated. They accuse honest hard working ppl of being dishonest with out even asking them what they did or what the game plan was that they implemented to accomplish their tasks. I am a proud member of the Pirate community and have been sinnce beta 1. And for any one to accuse me of cheating when they do not even know me is insulting and only shows what kind of a sore loser they really are. being that this is my first post on this site I would like to appologize if i have come across as being a gerk or hostile in my response to some of the posts in this thread. Edward Edgemenace I am in no way directing any of this, other than the congratulations that are rightfully yours, at you. This rant is nothing more than a carry over from the last night of the contest when a boat load of pirates accused me of being a cheat based soley on my score and even called in a second boat load of ppl to attempt to humiliate me and my crew. They soon found out why my crew had acquired such a high score as we sunk each of their bots 10 times consistantly with out us sinking once. the worst part is they didn't even have the nerve to appologize, they just reported me as a cheater. again I am sorry that I have used this opertunity to rant about this. I am simply tired of ppl that attempt to tear down ppl's accomplishments.

Gratz Tommy Two Times on 1st place! You really deserved it. I saw some boat have auto repair then finally one of the other boats and and I rammed it together and sunk it :) Its not fair how people who cheated get real life prizes and they cheated! Once again gratz to everyone who DIDN'T cheat.

And the Registered Winner appears :D First a welcome, and second a congrat to you and your guild members for your sucessful win :)

Edward of course had major concerns about the winners and their wicked abilities (and with just cause... I'm sure the entire list of winners is not innocent) but I am glad to see the top players on the list be ones of hard fair play :D

Congrats to you both :)

aye i gunner most of the time sail a little, but we did have a nice score till we got booted. didn't expect to be in the top 100. nice, congrats to the other winner.

Congratulations, Tommy Two Times! There is no doubt in my mind, that everyone that placed in the contest at all, lost a considerable amount of sleep, just to be in the running!

Welcome too, to POF. These forums are normally very friendly - I hope you can find a niche here that you can appreciate. I appreciate your cleverness and dedication, which earned you that number one victory.

Most people here, consider "repair-while-sailing" to be a cheat, as well as many other tactics that are possible within the game. I know I do. So I do regret having used it some of the time, that weekend. Other cheats, such as triple-thunderbolt or 360 degree cannon or 15 second lockup, the driver can't even know about. The driver's crew mates might be doing what other people consider cheating. It is very hard to guess what the real situation is, for any particular boat.

Should anyone feel bad, if they discover afterwards that they had improper help? No. It is what it is. The contest premise was on it being an uneven match in the first place. No one worried about cheating could have entered the contest without prior knowledge that many unfair glitches would be in use.

It is an important "life" lesson, that any victor will always be accused of cheating. Whether they were or were not, whether it was possible or not, they will still be accused. It is an exercise in ethics, to deflect those accusations only when they are not valid.

It is an even better lesson, that if you and your close group of friends are having fun playing a game, you can ignore the critics. If the critics are getting to you, take a five minute break, then come back with your focus being to have fun while ignoring them.

Tommy, again, congratulations! I know I can hardly wait 6-8 weeks for that hat!

Was happy to be able to get my guildmates, Irate and Tommy over here to let them say in their own words about the contest. I am glad we sunk those people that last night. They would call us cheaters, told us they reported us over and over, and harrassed us instead of just privateering.

Wanted also to congratulate the other gunners, James Seafury, Rose Darkcutter, Peggy Leg, Black Ice Beard, Molly O'Bones, and David Plunderbeard for making the list. Our aim was to help Tommy as much as we could since it was his dream to win the contest.

I would just like to say TY again to all those who have offered congratulations. I have heard from mant a pirate that this forum was a great place to make friendships in game. I have been meaning to join for months now and due to many issues both in game and in person i have been unable to do so. Again I would like to appologize for being snappy in my first post. I do not take the cheating accusations against me as personal but it does in a way include those assisting me, and that is what makes me upset about it. Those that helped me worked just as hard and desrve credit and praise and I will always defend them as I know they would for me. Having said that, in my mind it is a done deal. I will move on to more positive comments in my posts as that is the type of person i am. I am very glad and excited to be a part of the forum now and look forward to meeting and talking to many of you in the future!

Congratz to all the winners, particularly the 1st place winners and those that assisted them.

Bravo to Tommy for his posts as well. Welcome aboard!

:buds: Welcome to the forums Tommy! and Big Congrats to all the winners and to all the sailing mates i know i've been on crew with that made the list. Woot woot! :12_1_138:

plunder on, Grace Squidkidd :piratewheelgo2:

Congrats Tommy! I was speaking to Dead Aim a couple of days ago, he said he never cheated either. But our guild ship was sitting out there for the whole weekend as many others were, which is hard enough work changing shifts to keep it floating, and it definately should be rewarded. Also, the captain of the ship needs to sleep some time right? And when that happens, you can't use the svs repair glitch anyway.