September 2009

GoldToken's Monthly News

As early fall brings welcome chilly mornings, we are much more apt to login to play our games more often. If you would like to be a greater part of GoldToken, and have the time to do so, perhaps this is a good time to volunteer for one of the many projects happening around the site. Players are especially needed to run contests on the boards and write news articles for the newsletter. If you have any ideas that you feel could be used on the boards, please send them to GoldToken Support.

GoldToken's 2009 Olympics are well under way! With ten teams, and well over 450 players, this will be GoldToken's largest Olympics yet! The official games will begin the first week of December. There might even be a few contestant slots open, if you haven't signed up yet. Write to Peg, GoldToken's Olympic Committee President, if interested.

Don't forget to vote a minor off the board on the { Board: El Dorado - Survive the Lost City of Gold and Win! } contest. Other new discussion board games can be played on the { Board: Peg's CrossWords }, , { Board: Word Rhymes } and on the Change One Letter DB's. They are open for all players and have been very popular already! Guests welcome!

*EAGLE ONE* has been soaring high with multiple HTH tournaments and running The Gold Triathlon Marathon Club, GoldToken's new competitive endurance gaming event. If you are interested in testing your gaming fitness in a competitive tournament involving several gaming skills, it is the club to join! New marathon's are starting daily.


Sing like no one's listening, dance like no ones watching, and play like you can't lose! Happy September everyone!

--Badger

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In this month's newsletter, we have:

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

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Birthday Wishes:

-- Happy Birthday to Little Angel on September 1st!
-- Happy Birthday to kiwiyeti on September 2nd! - From The Friendship Club
-- Happy Birthday to nanners on September 3rd!
-- Happy Birthday to Sushi Warrior on September 3rd!
-- Happy Birthday to Megababe on September 3rd!
-- Happy Birthday to disterdis on September 3rd!
-- Happy Birthday to BlueEyedGoddess OTWP on September 3rd!
-- Happy Birthday to ken on September 7th! - From your wife nadia maria
-- Happy Birthday to Deb - From { Club } on September 7th!
-- Happy Birthday to Hamsarnie on September 8th!
-- Happy Birthday to Rosesncards on September 8th!
-- Happy Birthday to Nargada on September 10th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to cdc11 on September 11th! - From { Club } and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to dustmuffin on September 12th!
-- Happy Birthday to Brendans Grandmom on September 13th!
-- Happy Birthday to China_Blue on September 13th! From The MasterClass Club
-- Happy Birthday to VBeginner on September 13th!
-- Happy Birthday to Bluejay on September 14th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Donald on September 15th!
-- Happy Birthday to Philliesfan 915 on September 15th!
-- Happy Birthday to NEUROTIKA on September 16th! - From { Club } and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to babken on September 18th! From The Backgammon Tournament Club and The MasterClass Club
-- Happy Birthday to BILLYBILL on September 18th!
-- Happy Birthday to Carol91859 on September 18th!
-- Happy Birthday to Grover on September 20th! - From { Club }, { Club }, { Club } and The Friendship Club
-- Happy Birthday to Blue Warrior on September 21st!
-- Happy Birthday to jgbrunelle on September 22nd!
-- Happy Birthday to lorrilee on September 22nd!
-- Happy Birthday to marybryant90 on September 24th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Moms Danny Boy on September 24th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to NightWishes on September 25th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club, { Club }, { Club } and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Nicodemus on September 25th! - From The MasterClass Club
-- Happy Birthday to rockdude on September 25th!
-- Happy Birthday to nisqually on September 26th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to bomoan on September 26th! - From { Club } and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Ana on September 26th! - From The Friendship Club and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Oh No Mr Bill on September 27th! - From The Backgammon Tournament Club and { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to Vern on September 28th!
-- Happy Birthday to Freddie on September 28th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to nadia maria on September 29th! - From The Friendship Club, { Club }, The Renegades Gaming Club and Lorraine of the Renegades
-- Happy Birthday to dolphinsrock on September 29th!
-- Happy Birthday to Silkwood on September 29th! - From { Club }
-- Happy Birthday to JTOhio on September 30th!
-- Happy Birthday to sweetblue on September 30th!
-- Happy Birthday to hoot on September 30th! From { Club }


Anniversary & Other Wishes:

-- Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary goes out to Cherokee Girl and her husband!

-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to sallyp and her husband on September 1st!

-- Happy Wedding Anniversary goes out to Gail_M and her husband on September 2nd!

-- Happy 35th Wedding Anniversary goes out to nightingale and her husband on September 6th!

-- Happy 45th Wedding Anniversary goes out to GeorgiasGrandad and his wife on September 29th!

-- Happy 19th Wedding Anniversary goes out to ken and his wife nadia maria on September 29th!

* 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*

firefly

My "sis", firefly and I have known each other for a long time. She is the most trustworthy and kindest lady anyone could ever know. I believe we first met at IYT back in 1998 or '99, but it could have been here at GoldToken. Regardless, it was instant best friends from that day on. Time sure flies when you enjoy someones company so much!

firefly came into the Mods with me when I purchased GoldToken back in 2004, and has always been the calm one in our management group, ever ready with a kind word for anyone in need.

Because firefly was my dear friend, Chad recommended that I turn the sites graphic creation over to her at that time. She has been GoldToken's graphic artist ever since! She has worked wonders with various features of GoldToken's development, including how we manage the site and the boards.

I desired to add a war game for GoldToken, but didn't want to do the same variation of Stratego all the other game sites do. So when I went to visit firefly at her home in the UK in 2007, we planned the basic layout of our new Xiphias games. She was the major designer of the game, including rules, etc. Our original name for the game had been Meteor. But thanks to firefly's investigative research, we discovered the name had already been taken. Thus, my lone credit to the game is it's name.

firefly has been the major backbone of our Grabble game and has been entirely responsible for it since the beginning. She also helped Mecir design the new site layout and game pages.

But thats not all. firefly created our Jiggle words - How to create them J~~~~I~~~~G~~~~G~~~~L~~~~E~~~~R letters, and last but not least our widely popular that we all love so much.

My dear friend is a music teacher by day, a graphic artist & game creator by night. Truly a marvelous and integral part of GoldToken!

firefly for all of your hard work and creativity at GoldToken!!! We really appreciate all you do!

Badger

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Testimonials Of The Month

Brought to you by: *GoldToken* Players

Autumn

I am such a fan of GoldToken. It is such a part of my daily routine and I find it a good way to relax and let go of some stress. I was looking back and can't believe I've been here for eight years already. Wow, time really does go by quickly. When I first started playing here, the site was relatively new and there were a small amount of people playing here. I was playing backgammon at another site and someone there told me about this great new site. I tried it and have been playing here since. It's my favorite game site.

I love the way the site is run. Everything is so accessible. I have met so many great people here and have developed some off line friendships as a result as well. I enjoy chatting with people all over the country and all over the world. I find that fascinating. The people that play here are really great. I plan to continue enjoying GoldToken for a long time to come and would highly recommend this site.

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monkeytyper

I came to GoldToken after reading a Discussion Board on IYT. I was new to the internet and with my trusty WEBTV decided to see what everyone was talking about. I learned how to play backgammon here and started to love it after many wood tokens. Then I started to meet new friends here and there. I decided to buy a membership and kept increasing it up to a platinum, couldn't get enough, LOL.

GoldToken passes many pleasant hours for me, I couldn't ask for a better hobby. I have become friends with a few on here, and this summer for 4 days and nights in June squirrel and myself were graced with a visit from heyred72 from Florida and Callie from Oregon! It was great meeting my extended family!

The past 7 1/2 years I have spent on GoldToken have been the best and it keeps getting better with all its improvements!
GoldToken

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Stealthfire

I joined GoldToken after my parents and uncle, tango2, evan and Reonn . I saw them play on GoldToken and I got very interested. My nickname here was first Maddy. After some time I changed it to Stealthfire. My mum tango2 nicknamed me that.


I have enjoyed GoldToken from when I joined, on the 16th of January 2008. And also new friends with everyone making GoldToken a better place. Its the best website ever!

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Club News & Announcements

Brought to you by: CATCHER211

{ Club } had it's 7th Anniversary on August 28. We would like to thank our members for making { Club } a very special place to call HOME!

We are very proud of { Club } and our members!

Honeybear and Nancy

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Tournament News

Brought to you by: joannamarie

Hi all!
I will be doing things differently in this section so be sure to check to see whats new! I have also changed the way that the Site-Run Tournaments are being run so feel free to drop me a note to let me know what you think! Don't forget to send in those Club tourneys too. See my profile for all the info you need to set them up!

New tournaments are found here: http://www.goldtoken.com/games/tournaments?toc=F . When playing in tournaments, make sure you read our Tournament and Ladder Rules and Provisions page for all pertinent rules concerning tournament play before you sign up.

Also, there are HTH Tournaments that are run at different times and different days of the week. Keep your eyes open for them! More players + fast play = more fun!

GoldToken would like to send a big CONGRATULATIONS out to all our recent tournament winners!!! Check them all out here: http://www.goldtoken.com/games/tournaments?toc=C

Thank you for participating in our site tournaments!

-- joannamarie

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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.) **