[spytty]

Hello Wassers!

There's no getting away from it (unless you're in complete denial), the forum is a lot quieter these days with fewer debates to really get involved in. We have been reduced to regular discussions about Welshgit's holidays and donkeys who donk the donkslayer!!

This is not a rant as overall Wass is doing OK. Wasspoker is up and running with plenty of regular games and the Live Events are superb but there is a danger of resting on these achievements.

The Rake Race has been fun but all it has proved is that only a select number of Wassers can win, in the first two months the top three was the same both times so it's not truly an open competition.

The lack of members in the chat room is also a shame, we used to be all over that place and I've only seen token gestures to try and rekindle the interest.

I did offer to run a competition around the Olympics whereby we had a different game every night and medals were handed out to the top three finishers, those placings would contribute towards a medal table based on the BRL teams with all non-BRL players counting towards a Unified Team. I didn't get much support with the reason being that there was already an Olympic promotion on the Merge network, well that promotion is pretty much the same as the Rake Race where a lot of the steps are just unachievable.

It was really a shame because I believe doing it would have created a buzz around the forum again, something I think is desperately needed to the point that I would have invested a lot of time in it and put myself on the line again.

Wass is a business and working for a Blue Chip company myself I appreciate that making money is the main objective but I want to pose a question to those in charge.

Where is this business going?

As I mentioned earlier Wasspoker and the Live Events are superb but we are seeing fewer and fewer new active members coming in, numbers in BRL are dropping all of the time and the forum and chat room are dying a slow death.

Are you sticking or twisting?

Simon