ANN: Afterwind News Network

Hey, viewers, Mathdino here, the only self proclaimed unofficial Afterwind journalist dinosaur of mathematics!

We aim to provide fair and balanced coverage of Afterwind politics and sports. We're the best political team on Afterwind! The place for politics!

Our staff list is as follows:

Mathdino- Head of Afterwind News Network, general journalist and interviewer.
Tony Kornheiser- Evening reporter
Spart- Opinion columnist/commentator
Usernames- Head camera operator/Journalist
PresidentBatman/SovietBatman/WinterAnomaly- Advice columnist
Acquiesce- Fortune Teller/Horoscope reader

We still need a morning reporter and talk show hosts (opinion statements on players, events, updates, etc). All staff members are expected to report on important coalition wars and 1v1 tournaments when I'm not there, and write down interesting quotes to share with the community.

All interviews are posted here.

The Afterwind Presidential Election is nearing an end, with Fruit winning 11-5. Unless Baller and Nate get a large amount of voters in the next few hours, the Fruit campaign is expected to win this in a landslide.

However, our sources are reporting a very interesting statement from SD Fruit:

Σημείωση:

[pr] Anonymous: So what is the power ratio in yours and hdrakon's campaign?
[pr] Fruit: All power goes to Serbia.

This seems to highlight some amount of distrust in the Fruit/Drakon campaign. Fruit has stated that he is using hdrakon1 as his army, yet doesn't seem to be willing to give drakon any power if they get elected. Here is another exchange by another one of our reporters:

Σημείωση:

[pr] Anonymous: Do you take bribes?
[pr] Fruit: Yes! Most of my campaign funds are provided by corporate interest.
[pr] Anonymous: So, if I was to work for a certain company would your campaign help us with a little financial donation?
[pr] Fruit: Yes of course.

Fruit's campaign isn't one of the cleanest, clearly. One wonders what other shenanigans his people are up to.

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On another topic, the Grand Finale of the 3rd Afterwind 1v1 Tournament Spring/Summer occurs on August 20th, at 14:00 EDT, and 20:00 CEST. See this page for details: http://afterwind.com/forum/topic.php?topic_id=3365

We will provide fair and balanced coverage of this highly important event. Who will prevail? German beta trooper VRIL, at 13th place in the community, or Croatian moderator and street team member Caulerpa, with over a thousand won games? Tune in in four days to watch the event. Lastly, a comment on it by professional SRB player Barrymore:

Σημείωση:

Barrymore: I can confirm that whoever gets Turkey will win the 1v1 final.

FINALLY! I've been waiting for a legitimate Afterwind News and I would contribute if I weren't already busy.. Please don't fail okay?

Nice

I can confirm that whoever gets Turkey will win the 1v1 final.

Γραμμένο από Acquiesce, 16.08.2012 at 14:43

FINALLY! I've been waiting for a legitimate Afterwind News and I would contribute if I weren't already busy.. Please don't fail okay?

inb4 u worked for Real AW News. (Which I brought back cos now is supplied with SP Funds from rank 9.)

POLITICS


Just one hour ago, the voting for President of teh Afterwinds closed. It resulted in a landslide victory for Fruit, with 59% voting for Fruit, 35% for NateBaller, and 6% (1 voter) for the last minute choice of Gardevoir, with his running mate F.Sultan Mehmet. This was not included in the official ballot, however. General consensus was that Gardevoir was not fit to be president, and their campaign had one supporter- Inquisidor.

Many, however, stated that none of the three candidates was fit to be POTAW, such as professional player Stomach Ulcers:

Σημείωση:

Stomach Ulcers: Fruit is evil, Nate is a liar, and Gardevoir is mentally retarded and shouldn't be alive.

Fruit attempted to declare himself Supreme Ruler, but it was pointed out that the voting had simply been closed, and inauguration had not yet occurred. Fruit promptly wrote up an inauguration speech, and ANN has an exclusive preview of his speech:

Σημείωση:

REMOVE KEBAB remove kebab
you are worst turk. you are the turk idiot you are the turk smell. return to croatioa. to our croatia cousins you may come our contry. you may live in the zoo....ahahahaha ,bosnia we will never forgeve you. cetnik rascal FUck but fuck asshole turk stink bosnia sqhipere shqipare..turk genocide best day of my life. take a bath of dead turk..ahahahahahBOSNIA WE WILL GET YOU!! do not forget ww2 .albiania we kill the king , albania return to your precious mongolia....hahahahaha idiot turk and bosnian smell so bad..wow i can smell it. REMOVE KEBAB FROM THE PREMISES. you will get caught. russia+usa+croatia+slovak=kill bosnia...you will ww2/ tupac alive in serbia, tupac making album of serbia . fast rap tupac serbia. we are rich and have gold now hahahaha ha because of tupac... you are ppoor stink turk... you live in a hovel hahahaha, you live in a yurt

tupac alive numbr one #1 in serbia ....fuck the croatia ,..FUCKk ashol turks no good i spit in the mouth eye of ur flag and contry. 2pac aliv and real strong wizard kill all the turk farm aminal with rap magic now we the serba rule .ape of the zoo presidant georg bush fukc the great satan and lay egg this egg hatch and bosnia wa;s born. stupid baby form the eggn give bak our clay we will crush u lik a skull of pig. serbia greattst countrey

video format: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x-sHrQmDv8

It will be interesting to hear this speech on inauguration day, whenever that is.

NateBaller, of course, was not pleased when he came online:

Σημείωση:

Mathdino: You lost.

NateBaller: No, I won. What are you talking about? Do you not remember? I make the rules. Each NateVote counts for two silly.

LilDGoinIn: Nate'u lost

NateBaller: No sorry. I am rightful ruler of AW.

Inquisidor: wtf do you smoke

Fruit: How does it feel to lose again?

[pause]

NateBaller: Please re read my original post, each one of my votes counts as two. Again, I don't make the rules, I just enforce them. The rules are made by god, but only I can hear him. You were a tough opponent Fruit, I give credits. But in the end, the people just loved me too much. My first act of presidency will be to nuke Serbia.

Fruit: My first order as elected supreme dictator is to assassinate NateBaller, and deport BallerNate to Kosovo, our new maximum security prison.

Fruit: [pr] NateBaller: You won because of trolling and Acqui tried to be serious.

Fruit: NateBaller admits my victory.

NateBaller: You won the popular vote; we go by an electorial system unique to afterwind. It is the system we have in place, and it is too hard to change.

Spart: We have yet to count the absentee ballots.

NateBaller: Fruit won the popular vote which counts for nothing.

Fruit: I win military superiority and popular vote. AW is mine, and you are dead, please change your name to DeadBaller.

Spart: Nate...what's stopping Fruit from overunning your regime with his hdrakon army?

Fruit: Obviously, when the army of hdrakon invades, nothing is left, Including innocent civilians. I don't want my people to die.

NateBaller: Your face when all mods are NateBaller secret police sleeper agents.

Spart: Not much of a secret if you tell us.

Fruit: Your face when Pinheiro, head mod, is hdrakon1.

NateBaller: Your face when I am hdrakon and I trolled you to gain power for myself xaxxaxa ISRAEL STRONG.

[conversation devolves into trollfest]

The part after the transcript was difficult to make out, but it seemed that the general opinion of the voters is that a reelection should occur. Fruit, of course, vehemently opposed this. The details of this will be determined at a later time. Opinions were very different as to who won, so an unbiased third party seems to be necessary here. An interesting part of the conversation was the reminder that Pinheiro is in fact, hdrakon1. This leads us to more questions: Who is this man? Are we all hdrakon1? Is he dangerous to the Serbians, or could Serbia easily take him down? An investigation on hdrakon1 must be started. Fruit's opinion on the power of Israel is as follows:

Σημείωση:

Fruit: I am a man of the people, the Serbian people.

Mathdino: What about the Israeli people?

Fruit: Israeli people are independent of greater Serbia, a reward for their efforts as a great ally. Macedonia will be granted this same reward.

Mathdino: But I thought all power goes to Serbia.

Fruit: Yes, no power goes to them, their only reward is independence. But then again, why would they need power after Serbia has taken the world?

I will leave our viewers to develop an opinion on this. After all, we report, you decide.

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GOSSIP

We'll end this column with a bit of gossip on the streets of Afterwind. A few juicy tidbits below:

Σημείωση:

[pr] ~Acquiesce: sry no cw now DALMATI CONFIRMED FOR FEARING SERB WIZARD

Σημείωση:

Spart: TopHats is a noob.

Spart: He cannot even wall Rome.

Spart: He lost to Naval Commander Switzerland with IF Germany!

TopHats: ?

TopHats: [pr] Spart: JUST GO WITH IT!

Σημείωση:

John F. Kennedy: CAN I BE SUPREME DICTATOR THATS LOWER BUT STILL HAVE EPICNESS

John F. Kennedy: [pr] Inquisidor: [pr] Fruit: i know JFK is a noob.

John F. Kennedy: U DARE SAY THAT U BASTARD

Afterwind News Network, people, with the only news that's fit to print!

Considering this is a news thread and that it has become fairly popular, also implying this thread actually voices about important topics like the 1v1 tourney. This thread should be moved to the General Discussion forum.

I enjoyed the gossip part, rest was rather retarded. But then I guess newspapers have to deal with what they can get. After all, they wouldn't just make stuff up, right?

Post by F.Sultan Mehmet

I have read comments...it is not warm racist people.Turks in the game there are now 300 registered and %80 english dont know.

If Turkish patch apply becomes a member of more than.

look dudes,im dont know english im not understanding upgrades description,strategy description,scenario description,FORUM description,description medals description. This is a basic need.

ivan and amok please turkish patch bring.


There are 280 Turks aw now. and %80 dont know english (me)


this is necessary



[pr] avatar: F.Sultan Mehmet: hi kanka

[pr] F.Sultan Mehmet: hi bro

[pr] avatar: F.Sultan Mehmet:panda sultan hehehe

[pr] F.Sultan Mehmet:im not panda im 89kg 182sm high

[pr] avatar: F.Sultan Mehmet:you look like panda

[pr] F.Sultan Mehmet:Avatar sup or ignore

[pr] avatar: F.Sultan Mehmet:sup or ignore? sup?

[room]F.Sultan Mehmet:my father in life hamburg

[room]devil: hehehehhehehehehe

[room]avatar: heheheheh iam in life hamburg

[room]F.Sultan Mehmet:avatar ignore

sultan make mistake and put macedonian flag to his acaunt picture he wanted avatar to be his friend again,but proud patriotic kaptain tuncbay became angry because sultan betray turks nation and hack his acaunt remove macedonian flag with turk flag and kick all members from euroasian coalition and change sultan name to tuncbay win.

[pr] tuncbay win: hi kanka tuncbay hack my acaunt i report him
[pr] avatar: tuncbay win:lol how he find you are password?

[pr] tuncbay win:not sure

[pr] avatar: tuncbay win:heheheh no more in life euroasian coalition


[pr] tuncbay win:no hugosch say ivan wil give beck in life coalition

Coalition War News

Earlier today, two of the top coalitions in Afterwind entered into a coalition war. The war pitted Dalmati vs Empire SRB. Both coalitions were undefeated going into the match, and both were determined to walk away victorious. But...for Empire SRB, it was not to be. The Dalmati team of Abdulla(Ukraine), VRIL(Spain), and Acquiesce(Germany) handed a sound defeat to the Empire SRB team of Fruit(United Kingdom), Ironail(Turkey), and Aristosseur(France). After the match, I caught up with Ironail and heard his thoughts on the was between the two coalitions.



Spart: Hello there. I am with Afterwind News Network. Would you mind answering a few questions about your match with Dalmati?

Ironail: Sure, fire away.

Spart: What are your thoughts on the outcome of your match with Dalmati?

Ironail: I'm disappointed. I played badly in my 1st round and then after week 5. I also followed my boss's advice and it was a bad idea.

Spart: Ironail: What was his advice and why was it so bad?

Ironail: I'm a very aggressive player, offensively playing. I took Imperialist Turkey as he ordered me to. I hate Imperialist.

Spart: So, you think your choice to listen to your boss may have cost your team the coalition war?

Ironail: Probably. I think they played ok but I'm also disappointed at Fruit. He shouldn't have gotten capped by Spain like that. Overall, I think they outplayed us.

Spart: One last question if you will, do you think Dalmati's win makes them the top coalition in all of Afterwind?

Ironail: Yeah, in terms of team-playing in Europe. I still believe Empire SRB has all the best players…or at least, most of the best players. I'm actually quite good; I just need to work on my Europe openers and strategy/country combos.

Spart: Alright. Thanks for the interview. We at ANN appreciate your time.

Ironail: You're welcome. G'night.



And that is all for this edition of Afterwind News Network. Keep tuning in if you want to hear more on what's happening in the Afterwind community!

POLITICS

Due to the general ambiguity of the recent election, and the fact that no one can seem to agree who was elected, ANN has begun a new election with two more candidates, and this time, the candidates cannot decide the rules. Go here for details: http://afterwind.com/forum/topic.php?topic_id=4994



COALITION WARS


In the world of coalition wars, Syndicate defeated Stalins Martians, after recently losing to them twice in the past, while losing to the newer clan, The A-Team.

In the former match, Syndicate had Millennial as SM Spain, Mathdino as SM Ukraine, and LaBandaRoja as IF Germany. Stalins Martians had the lineup of Dbacks as IF UK, xn0ize as GC Italy, and Col. Chamberlain as Imp Turkey.

At the start, Ukraine, Germany, and Turkey did fairly standard expansions, while UK rushed Paris, and Italy put all of its troops in Austria. The next turn, Italy fought for control of the northwest Balkans, Spain prepared to rush Italy, and UK gained a foothold in Benelux. Turkey attempted and failed to take neutral Serbia, and Ukraine lost an invasion in heavily defended Austria.

By the second reinforcement turn, Spain had capped Italy, Paris was nearly compromised, Turkey failed to rush Ukraine, and Germany and UK held their home country cities fairly well. Eventually it had ended in a crushing defeat for Stalins Martians.

When asked what caused the outcome of the CW, Dbacks (UK) responded "[pr] Dbacks: Tbh, Turkey." Col. Chamberlain (Turkey) did not respond to questions.

The commentary on the A-Teams huge victory over Syndicate... will be released at a later time! Here's an image:



Oh, and Empire SRB/Byzantia/Revolutionaries/Rainbow Power/IRONAIL GOES CAMPING beat Sons of Anarchy. It had Aristosseur/Fruit/Barrymore. What did you expect?

GOSSIP

And we end this report with some quotes:

Σημείωση:

[pr] Ronald Stevens: nooooooooob

[pr] Guest74688 [Mathdino]: Hello, Ronald. I'm Mathdino.

[pr] Ronald Stevens:

[pr] Guest74688: You just randomly call rank 2s noobs in the lobby?

[pr] Ronald Stevens: this was the first time

Σημείωση:

SalchichaGrande [TheScorch]: I like how ANC steals news from ANN. Why no ANBC?

LilDGoinIn: ANN be stealin r jobs boy. I will mek better news den dem.

Σημείωση:

[pr] Allah: Well Math and Spart are the fucking same thing ^^

[pr] Allah: Oh and btw you're LDK too right?

Ann? Lol.

Allah = AlexMeza, and wtf about LDK?

Spart and Mathdino are the same so I say you hire another person to replace Spart's Place.

Γραμμένο από Guest, 18.08.2012 at 03:15

Ann? Lol.

Allah = AlexMeza, and wtf about LDK?

Spart and Mathdino are the same so I say you hire another person to replace Spart's Place.

Alex trolls. Do not listen to anything he says.

The Tony Report:

Today, I'm bringing a special report.

For those that don't know potlimitomaha, he's the most annoying person I've ever met and the community agrees. I decided to unmute him when he joined my game I made. I wasn't surprised when he spammed 'alliance' and told me to start my game when we only had 5 people (world game). Even before the game started, he wanted the game settings changed to [9 players, 5 minute turns]. Then when it started, he sent everyone an alliance as usual. I declined of course, but then, as he usually does, keeps sending an alliance until he either loses or leaves the game.

Suddenly at around turn 15, my heart was broken. I felt like the world would end. H..he said he put me on his enemy list. I couldn't believe it at first. I thought I was in a dream, but it wasn't a dream. It was reality. It was all because I DIDN'T ACCEPT HIS ALLIANCE. Can you guys believe that?

Nearing the end of my game, FX IS FX (who was Africa), was about to kill potlimitomaha (South America). But before Africa could kill SA, the most funniest thing I've ever heard pot say was "I'm leaving, and I would've won as well." My sides went out of this world when he said that. Eventually pot left the game and I chuckled.

That's it for The Tony Report. Goodnight.

POLITICS

As the end of the election days near, tension is growing between supporters of the four candidates. At the moment, NateBaller and BallerNate have no votes, and Mr. Baller appears to have left Afterwind. In third place is Winter and V-dog, with 8 votes. Fruit, and the now banned hdrakon have 16 votes, and the leading candidates, Gardevoir and F.Sultan, have a whopping 35 votes.

One must wonder, of course, whether people are voting choice 4 because of Gardevoir, or F.Sultan. If Sultan were to run himself, how many votes could he get? On the other candidates, Fruit's clan, SRB, is pulling off a last ditch effort to vote for Fruit en masse. However, Fruit's problem is that he simply can't get many votes outside of his circle of friends and clanmates, and many players simply dislike his running mate.

WinterAnomaly is fairly new; most of his votes appear to come from his coalition, and his running mate V-dog's supporters. NateBaller... we have no idea why NateBaller is failing so bad. Not even WBL is voting for him. In fact, most people who originally voted for Baller switched to Gardevoir the second time around.

It appears that it will be difficult for the other candidates to beat Gardevoir and F.Sultan. I caught up with Gardevoir earlier today and asked him some questions, read the interview at the Afterwind News Network Interviews thread.

COALITION WARS

Empire SRB recently broke A-Team's winning streak, giving them their first loss in a very close game. It was Fruit as GC France, Houdini as Imp Turkey, and FumbDuck, aka Arbitrator, as Germany, against eagles8539 as GC Spain, Usernames as SM Ukraine, and cherse1 as Italy.

A lot happened during this round; the short version is that Fruit initially failed and was capped by eagles, while Houdini and Usernames were engaged in a long battle for the east, in which Houdini came out victorious. Houdini capped Italy, while eagles capped Germany, but Houdini was able to save Germany and steamroll West Europe with large stacks of infantry and tanks.

An interview with Arbitrator and spectator Acquiesce is below:

Σημείωση:

Mathdino: So Arb, what do you think caused the early advantage of A-Team?

FumbDuck: Fruit not getting UK. They were both GC, and eagles got the attack. Luck, I think.

MD: Which led to Fruit's capping, and yours near the end, correct?

FD: I think Fruit was expecting eagles to be SM. But yeah, I was only ever in there to hold ground. I took UK and Italy at crucial moments though.

MD: Acquiesce, what seemed to happen early on in the east?

~Acquiesce: Houdini made a slight mistake early on in the east by trying to rush Kiev. Usually, a Ukraine would be able to take advantage of this because he would be GC and have the versatility attacking power required. However, Usernames was playing SM, and Houdini quickly learned from his mistake. For the rest of the game Houdini kept baiting Usernames into stacking Kiev while taking all of Usernames important cities. Houdini's taking of Poland was critical; essentially he bankrupted Ukraine, and was able to make an easy cap before eagles could get a hold of the west.

MD: Interesting. What was Italy's role in all this?

Acq: Italy played well with what he was given but played far too defensively

FD: Houdini and I were both pushing him out of the Balkans; his idea was to block both our expansions. But we pushed him out and effectively bankrupted him by reinforcements. This led to me capping him, and giving Houdini breathing room.

Acq: He was easily pushed out because he spent a lot of time defending Rome

MD: And lastly, what could Italy and Ukraine have done to prevent the loss?

FD: Ukraine's expansion was poor tbh, and he went into defense far too quickly.

Acq: To prevent the loss Ukraine could have better expanded and spent less time defending.

MD: Alright, thanks for answering my questions. I'll write up a report and post it tomorrow.

Unfortunately, no pictures were able to be taken. Also, not too long ago, Sons of Anarchy gave A-Team its second loss. No reporters were on the scene, however.

TOURNEYS

The 1v1 Summer Tournament Grand Finale of VRIL vs Caulerpa is in 7.5 hours. IF I'M NOT THERE, WHICH I MAY NOT BE, ONE OF YOU NEEDS TO DO THIS REPORT.

GOSSIP

More quotes, many resulting from conversations about the election:

Σημείωση:

Macedonian_King: DA VI EBAM MATER NA SITE HHEHEHEHE PREVEDI SEA BE DA A EBAM SESTRATI DA A EBAM SENI SIKEIRM SULTAN

F.Sultan Mehmet: pls english. i dont know turkish. sorry

Σημείωση:

FumbDuck: gardevoir supports gay marriage

Σημείωση:

Dbacks: chess is back and playing 1v1's

Mathdino: OH NO CHESS IS BACK

Σημείωση:

V-dog115: Gard/Sultan...I think I'll shoot myself

And no, I'm totally not Spart. Don't listen to Alex and LDK when they tell you the surprisingly compelling evidence that I am the rank 9 alt of my clan leader. Seriously, newscasters NEVER lie. Ever. Trust me on this one.

Tournament final is tomorrow, not today. So, in 31.5h and not 7.5h

Γραμμένο από Mathdino, 16.08.2012 at 14:19

We still need a morning reporter and talk show hosts (opinion statements on players, events, updates, etc). All staff members are expected to report on important coalition wars and 1v1 tournaments when I'm not there, and write down interesting quotes to share with the community.

Morning Reporter is obligated to change their name to Soledad O'Brien and title all their posts Starting Point.

Γραμμένο από Barrymore, 16.08.2012 at 15:06

I can confirm that whoever gets Turkey will win the 1v1 final.

THE PROPHECY

"some other guy"

you break my heart Math

ANN POST LIES FUCKING LIES
i don't have prem so no way i could be IF

Hey guys, sorry I haven't been posting here or been really active at all lately. I've been really busy, ("Begin literature paper" takes higher priority than "Write news report for online game) but I promise I'll get back to you guys soon. Cheers!

I think it's other way around.... anyone here who doesn't agree with me?

Go Gardevoir!!!

Yo yo yo everyone!

Batman/Winter/Soviet/Whoever the hell he is, is our newest employee! PM or PR him ingame for advice, and he'll post his response on ANN! Note: Advice requests can be anonymous if you choose to retain anonyminonyinmyty.

His profile is here; he changes his name too much.

Batman is best member of ANN tbh

Γραμμένο από Dbacks, 04.09.2012 at 01:43

Batman is best member of ANN tbh

THIS IS FOR NEWS ONLY you trolll

Γραμμένο από DURRHUNTER, 04.09.2012 at 06:51

Γραμμένο από Dbacks, 04.09.2012 at 01:43

Batman is best member of ANN tbh

THIS IS FOR NEWS ONLY you trolll

THIS IS NEWS you idiot, news that one of the 'normal people' thinks batman is best member of ANN and that he should be president of the world

Γραμμένο από Dbacks, 04.09.2012 at 08:02

Γραμμένο από DURRHUNTER, 04.09.2012 at 06:51

Γραμμένο από Dbacks, 04.09.2012 at 01:43

Batman is best member of ANN tbh

THIS IS FOR NEWS ONLY you trolll

THIS IS NEWS you idiot, news that one of the 'normal people' thinks batman is best member of ANN and that he should be president of the world

Ain't I already?

Γραμμένο από WinterAnomaly, 04.09.2012 at 18:07

Γραμμένο από Dbacks, 04.09.2012 at 08:02

Γραμμένο από DURRHUNTER, 04.09.2012 at 06:51

Γραμμένο από Dbacks, 04.09.2012 at 01:43

Batman is best member of ANN tbh

THIS IS FOR NEWS ONLY you trolll

THIS IS NEWS you idiot, news that one of the 'normal people' thinks batman is best member of ANN and that he should be president of the world

Ain't I already?

No, we must usurp Gardevoir-Sultan administration.