June 2010

GoldToken's Monthly News

to Gold and Platinum members for voting on the Gold Members DB, I am pleased to send GoldToken’s to the winners of GoldToken's Monthly Newsletter - Past Issues Contest!

Please note, in the few cases where there were more than two winners, I made the deciding vote

	January 2011: bill2448	January 2012: laura lee	January 2013: Anonymous	January 2014: laura lee
	February 2011: Tied RabidWolff of the Wolf Pack & bill2448	February 2012: Ken TJ	February 2013: Ken TJ	February 2014: laura lee
	March 2011: bill2448	March 2012: FixitDave	March 2013: dixiegal47 &	March 2014: laura lee
April 2010: jonfunk	April 2011: Ken TJ	April 2012 : bill2448	April 2013: RabidWolff of the Wolf Pack	April 2014: Tied laura lee & cissy
May 2010: Tied cissy & playBunny	May 2011: dixiegal47	May 2012: natasha	May 2013: dixiegal47	May 2014: thebodywall
June 2010: cissy	June 2011: dixiegal47	June 2012 : dixiegal47	June 2013: Ken TJ	June 2014: Tied cissy & thebodywall
July 2010: heyred72	July 2011: cissy &	July 2012: cissy	July 2013: laura lee	July 2014: thebodywall
August 2010: dixiegal47	August 2011: cissy	August 2012: cissy	August 2013 : cissy	August 2014: Tied Ken TJ & cissy
September 2010: dixiegal47	September 2011: cissy	September 2012 : Tied playBunny & cissy	September 2013:	September 2014 : cissy
October 2010: Toybox38	October 2011 : cissy	October 2012: Tied FixitDave & cissy	October 2013: dixiegal47	October 2014: FixitDave
November 2010: Tied playBunny & cissy	November 2011: bill2448	November 2012: cissy	November 2013: laura lee	November 2014: thebodywall
December 2010: WONRHAF	December 2011: marcmandy	December 2012: dixiegal47	December 2013: laura lee	December 2014 : thebodywall

During May, Mecir set up profile comments and photo albums for all members, enabled players to hide their profiles from search engines, and made some adjustments to Whist-related card games to resolve the problem when someone drops out from the game. Be sure to send him a note of appreciation!

In other site news, we have added hundreds of new Name Icons to our icon list for players to select from. Watch the Icon Of The Day for the newest icons up for adoption.

With summer just about here for most of us...if it isn't already, you may find many of your opponents off on vacation. This sometimes causes a few to be upset their games are not being played quickly. Please be understanding and kindly message your opponent rather than take these grumblings to the boards.

Huge improvements are in the works for our HTH games! If you are a Gold or Platinum member, you can help test these features at http://beta.goldtoken.com/.

And remember, summer means fun! Especially on GoldToken!

--Badger

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In this month's newsletter, we have:

• Birthdays & Special Announcements
• Player Appreciation
• Testimonial Of The Month
• Club Announcements
• Tournament News
• Photozone Competition

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Birthdays & Special Announcements

Birthday Wishes:
-- Happy Birthday to Nan54 on June 1st! - From Nancy, { Club }, { Club }, { Club } and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to dingbat on June 1st! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to joannamarie on June 3rd! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to DiGaWiD on June 6th!
-- Happy Birthday to Chris is Untouchable on June 7th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to G_net on June 9th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to katja on June 9th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Barbie on June 10th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to postal-guy on June 11th!
-- Happy Birthday to TN-T on June 12th!
-- Happy Birthday to Honeybear on June 14th! - From { Club }, { Club }, { Club }, The Backgammon Tournament Club, { Club } and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to game_77 on June 15th!
-- Happy Birthday to blondie on June 17th!
-- Happy Birthday to peterjane on June 19th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to wildgeese on June 20th!
-- Happy Birthday to mcinturff on June 22nd!
-- Happy Birthday to Turn-Key on June 23rd!
-- Happy Birthday to GameNut on June 23rd! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Jacob1987 on June 24th!
-- Happy Birthday to LittleTree on June 27th!
-- Happy Birthday to Stealthfire on June 29th!
-- Happy Birthday to WILD-TURKEY on June 30th! - From { Club }


Anniversary & Other Wishes:

-- Happy Anniversary to Badger for 6 great years of owning and running GoldToken!
-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to stanley7 and her husband on June 7th!
-- Happy Wedding Anniversary on June 20th to Nancy and her husband Brad!
-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to Ana and her husband willy on June 24th!

* If you would like to announce any birthdays, anniversaries or other special events coming up for next month, please send GoldToken Support a message before the 25th of this month, so we can give them a shout out in next month's newsletter! (Please keep all announcements upcoming and not belated. Announcements submitted after the newsletter is published, can not be put in after the fact, we're sorry!)

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**Player* Appreciation*

This month GOLDTOKEN would like to send out a to

*EAGLE ONE*

I have been playing at GoldToken for many years now. I was first introduced to GT by a friend called OAD. I am an ex veteran and my favorite game to play is Hypergammon. I am the proud owner of { Club }.

I also work for the site as a Special Tournament Director. I run HTH Tournaments, Marathons and Olympic Tournaments. One of the clubs I run is The Gold Triathlon Marathon Club.

I also set up { Club } for those players interested in playing HTH games. Please send me a message if you are interested in joining.

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Testimonial Of The Month

Brought to you by: *GoldToken* Players

numptieheid

I found GoldToken way back in Feb 2002, quite by accident. I was surfing the web looking for a fun but safe site where I could learn how to play backgammon. I'd tried a few sites which were okay, but from the moment I clicked in here, I felt at home and met some wonderful people who were very patient whilst I picked up the rules of the game and also introduced me to many new games.

A special thanks at this point to Robyn Hode who tried ( desperately ) to teach me how to play chess. I failed miserably much to his amusement but bless him...he persisted. That was 2002 and I still can't play it! I'm not bad at backgammon though these days. so a big thank you to everyone who has helped me lose so many games, ( not naming any names Sky!) I wondered if there is a site award for perseverance?

I treasure the many friendships I have made here. Thank you all for the fun, the tears of laughter, and for generally putting up with me over the years, and here's to the coming ones...

Game anyone?

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Club Announcements:

The Stonehead Stone Games Club is entering our 5th year!
While we have some of the best players in many games, we accept players at ALL levels. Invite any of us if you are interested in joining the most active and most victorious Stone Games Team around. We would be glad to tell you about it.

We have teams in go moku, small go moku, large go moku, pente, golden pente, four in a row, cylindrical four in a row, zero g four in a row, backgammon, and nackgammon. If your club has a team please challenge us! We also have many competitive stone game ladders and monthly internal tournaments. Other games are available and interest determines activity. Contact any of us if you are interested in joining our club.

JerNYC

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I have 2 clubs that I'm looking for new members:

The Classic TV & Music Club : We play wiki games and Auto Tourneys with names of Classic TV and/or Music.

{ Club }: My brand new club. We play all varients of Cribbage. We play Inter-club challenges and Auto Tourneys. No wiki games.

Both clubs are open for anyone to join. If you need any help, just send me a message.

Carol91859

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Photozone News

Brought to you by: FixitDave

Photozone Competition results for 2009 A massive Congratulations to Sea of vapours who got the most points for 2009

How players got their points...

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2009 entries
Month	Theme	Winner	2nd Place	3rd Place
February	Animals	TabbyCat	porkpie1	euro4me
March	Landscapes	TallPaul	MountainMist	aprildiamond
April	Buildings	Specialsteel Kran		TallPaul
May	Moving Objects	Sea of vapours	porkpie1	aprildiamond
June	Transport	MadMike	TabbyCat	wildgeese
July	People	monkeytyper	SarahMills	TallPaul
August	People	Sea of vapours	aprildiamond	SarahMills & firefly
September	Sport	bits of rubble	Sea of vapours	SarahMills
October	Inanimate Objects	TabbyCat	kansaschic	Sara
November	Water	Sea of vapours	CATCHER211	porkpie1 tobalea
December	Close Up	3xtg	CATCHER211 SarahMills

All winning entries can be viewed from the following album...

http://www.fixitdave.hostcell.net/cp/thumbnails.php?album=6

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Points Table for 2009
Player	Score	How they got the points
Sea of vapours	11	1st May, 1st Aug, 2nd Sep, 1st Nov
TabbyCat	8	1st Feb, 2nd Jun, 1st Oct
SarahMills	6	2nd Jul, 3rd Aug, 3rd Sep, 2nd Dec
TallPaul	5	1st Mar, 3rd Apr, 3rd Jul
porkpie1	5	2nd Feb, 2nd May, 3rd Nov
CATCHER211	4	2nd Nov, 2nd Dec
aprildiamond	4	3rd Mar, 3rd May, 2nd Aug
monkeytyper	3	1st Jul
Specialsteel	3	1st Apr
Kran	3	1st Apr
MadMike	3	1st Jun
3xtg	3	1st Dec
bits of rubble	3	1st Sep
MountainMist	2	2nd Mar
kansaschic	2	2nd Oct
euro4me	1	3rd Feb
wildgeese	1	3rd Jun
firefly	1	3rd Aug
Sara	1	3rd Oct
tobalea	1	3rd Nov

Winner of April's theme of Weather was porkpie1 with a great image of a lightening strike.

{ Image: www.fixitdave.hostcell.net/cp/albums/userpics/10001/normal_00ca80659d2d04e1bd4526b4fb790b44.jpg }

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Tournament News

Brought to you by: The Tournament Team

GoldToken would like to send a big *CONGRATULATIONS out to all our recent tournament winners!!!*

• See the tournament sign up page here: http://www.goldtoken.com/games/tournaments?toc=F
• Be sure to join our sponsorship tournaments!
• When playing in tournaments, make sure you read our Tournament and Ladder Rules and Provisions Page for all pertinent rules concerning tournament play.

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Wanted

• Do you have a special story, poem or testimonial you would like to share? How about some club news, announcements or any other special events? Then don't delay, send GoldToken Support your submissions today! We look forward to hearing from you!

** (Please note: All submissions are added on a first come first serve basis.) **