The lack of an active match coordinator has caused a problem with keeping matches running to schedule.
I took on this role when our last one stepped away but now with work and travel I am away 12 hours every work day and juggling my duties as a sole parent presents some challenges which makes it difficult to find time.

Winding into the new year I will make an extra effort to push for one more league tournament and then asses it all at the end of that. I will also be calling for the last of the matches to be played and forfeiting teams that look like they have dropped off

My first focus however is to getting the new site up and running on the new server and recovering as much data as possible. Most people will not see this post as the dmoain has already been pointed and we are now just awaiting the delegation to go through which takes about 3 hours, from that point on the Arena will be offline for about a week

Hope to see you all out the other side
FireHorse

After several unexplained server shutdowns last night the Arena suffered hardware failure and the database was corrupted. I am in the process of restoring the site from an earlier backup of the database but there may be some data loss

Given the age of the server it is likely we will continue to have problems, therefore I am migrating the Arena to a server in the USA and am taking the opportunity to upgrade the site as well. Eventually I will try to resurect a copy of the old site as close as possible as it was which can be accessed under old.triviaarena.com as the new system will not support the Arcade :(

ETA for these changes is about 2 weeks so I will aim to have the last Inter-Continent match played on the new server on Saturday the 26th (Sunday 8am AEST)

We will commence the Battle of the sexes on the weekend of the 4th of December which will run until mid January

I will post more information and links as they become available

Thanks for your patience and understanding

FireHorse

It is a shame that participation is dwindling as much as it has this past year. People don't hardly come to the world matches or the guys and girls matches anymore.. It is true they aren't advertised as much as they used to be through E-mail.. so most don't know about them, but like Nasty said that is what the calendar is for.. I just don't have time to E-mail my team and make sure all the times are correct every weekend.. unfortunately.

As far as the league matches.. I am disappointed and frustrated. I had a great team at the beginning of the season, but because it was taking so long to schedule a match with another team, I lost a player or two. I found replacements for them, and once again had a great team. I thought we were all getting the season underway again. It has now been almost 3 months since my team played a match, Because we are once again having to wait. After 3 months, how can I expect my team to have the motivation and enthusiam to continue playing when circumstances have also caused me to lose motivation and enthusiasm in coaching. This season started in March and it is almost the end of the year and the holidays are coming up. People are busy and obviously don't have time to sit and play trivia during that time of the year.

I can't say for sure that my team will be available or still motivated to play after all of these months. If that is the case I feel that it is only fair to call it quits for the entire C grade this year and give everyone a first place trophy..if need be. I have tried diligently all season or year rather to keep my team interested but when no games to play, how can you? As the other teams, my team worked hard to get where they are this season, but real life does come up after so many months. I don't ask my team to commit for a year, I ask them to commit for a season that I thought would only last a few months.. as I'm sure other coaches do as well.

The season or the grade could forfeit and I would be fine with it now.. Either way, I will not be coaching in the future.. There seems to be little point.

Blue

There has been a Worlds game every weekend for the past 5 or 6 weeks, did you get to those?

Players need to check the match calendar (this isn't necessarily directed at you Linda), there aren't as many coaches spoon-feeding the matches to you all anymore! If you want to play then look out for the matches. :)

If you are referring to the regular season then I really feel that there is little point trying to continue or ever attempting another one. The interest just doesn't seem to be there. Is it time to call it a day?

If I'm wrong then ten people will pop up and correct me, I'm waiting.....

What happened to everything? Hoping someone checks in. I'm sure if there were trivia up and running we'd be here playing. Cheers!! Sunny

Sorry for not replying sooner, however I was too busy watering my garden. You will be pleased to know they grape vines are coming along well and I've grown a massive pumpkin.

Thanks,
Pebs (the budding viticulturalist)

hi figgers,
glad im not the only one that was thinking this.. lol... thanks for responding and the feedback.. Hopefully things will start to pick up and that we can all move onto finals very soon!

Blue

Hey Bluers;

I just headed in here to start a thread about the games not getting booked and i see that you have already started one!!

Way to go, I totally agree. All our matches are done and we are sitting on pins and needles waiting for the finals. Really sucks that you have lost some players. That is inevitably the outcome if no matches are played. People lose interest in trivia and take up farming.

Any way that I can help?

Cheers,
Redd

GO CANUCKS GO!

Thanks for responding Sun...Glad to have feedback to my post.. hopefully something can be done to speed up the season!