Vs. System.org

Last week we mentioned briefly the project going on over ‘Vs. Corps’.  This week we’d like to touch on that a little more.  The idea is to make Vs. Corps an archive for all things Vs.  At least all things pre-vssystem.org.  Near the end of UDE’s production of our beloved game.  There was a revolution of sorts.  Blogs popped up all over the place, offering more Vs. content in one week than any one of us could ever hope to read.  But then, that fateful announcement came, and content dropped off the map.  Everyone hovered around the forums for a while to see if this game would have an afterlife.  Luckily, we’ve survived a year now, and we’re doing pretty well.  Tournaments are still being hosted, decks are still being constructed, friendships have been forged, new formats invented, and much more.

But what about all that old content that flooded our RSS feeds and filled our ‘favorites’ side-bars?  Each month it gets harder and harder to find that content as search engines like Google and Bing put it lower on their ‘relevance’ lists.  Much of that content would be invaluable to new players trying to get a handle on the game.  For the rest of us, there’s the nostalgic factor.  No one will ever get sick of going back and reading ‘Breaking Ground’ or ‘Deck Clinic’ articles; and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

So an archive became necessary.  Currently, we’ve been putting up all available Metagame.com articles.  The site no longer exists, but some of the articles can still be found on web.archive.org.  Here’s a link to the last remaining Metagame material: http://web.archive.org/web/20070622040514rn_1/metagame.com/vs.aspx?tabid=67

Notice that when follow that link, many of the articles cannot be found.  For that reason, we’re making a call out to the community.  If you have access to any of the missing content please let us know!  I know a lot of Metagame authors still visit these forums; perhaps they still have the original articles on their hard drives.

Also, if you ran a blog when everyone was jumping on the blog-wagon.  We’d love to archive your material too.  Obviously blogs like The Lost Hemisphere, The Hero Blog, and Full Body Transplant have evolved and will continue to be around.  But many of our blogs (including, at one point, Vs. Corps) became stagnant and died.  Every blog that is transfered over will still retain its individuality, and authors will still get their due credit.  In fact, we’re willing to give anyone access to the site who wants to help with this effort.  This truly should be a community project, since this is our community’s history.

Vs. Corps has also received a facelift for this endeavor.  There’s a new ‘Category’ bar on the left that will allow you to pick an author or website that’s in the archive.  If you go there now you’ll find that there are over 20 authors and/or sites that you can click on.  Many more will be added over the next couple months, so check back often.  You’ll also notice that you can click on specific months/years on the left side.  This allows you to relive Vs. System’s history in the exact order that it all happened.

So, a quick recap.  We need three things from the community:

1. Access to any content that may still be available from Metagame.com
2. A list of people who want their ‘dead’ blogs transferred to the archive
3. A list of people who’d like to help with this process

Thanks in advance, and enjoy!

Cliff and Squire conquer this weeks hot topics, and about 90 minutes get into more of the MFA review. Beware the rise of the Cliff-Bots!.
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Today’s update is all about the ‘Fantasy Set’ section of the Vssystem forums. It makes sence then that the following information comes from our Fantasty section moderator: Shadowtrooper. He announced a while back that he was working on an Official Fan Set Handbook. The very existence of this handbook was welcomed by many, but an affront to others who were worried it would stifle their creativity. I think the latter group will be very relieved to find that the Handbook does nothing of the sort. For the uninformed, the Handbook is simply a loose set of guidelines that need to be followed in order to have your Fantasty Set submitted for Council approval. A ‘Council Approved’ stamp simply means that your set is eligible for tournaments that use the community’s ranking system. We should clarify that you’re still welcome to create Fan Sets that do not conform to the Handbook guidelines, and you can still use them for online play. They will just not be eligible for the ‘Council Approved’ stamp, and therefore will not be eligible for our online ranking system. Read the rest of this entry »

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