June 2010

GoldToken's Monthly News

Thanks written on a blackboard to Gold and Platinum members for voting on the Gold Members DB, I am pleased to send GoldToken’s Congratulations 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 Thumbs up
January 2011: bill2448January 2012: laura leeJanuary 2013: AnonymousJanuary 2014: laura lee
February 2011: Tied RabidWolff of the Wolf Pack & bill2448February 2012: Ken TJFebruary 2013: Ken TJFebruary 2014: laura lee
March 2011: bill2448March 2012: FixitDaveMarch 2013: dixiegal47 & Goldtoken SupportMarch 2014: laura lee
April 2010: jonfunkApril 2011: Ken TJApril 2012 : bill2448April 2013: RabidWolff of the Wolf PackApril 2014: Tied laura lee & cissy
May 2010: Tied cissy & playBunnyMay 2011: dixiegal47May 2012: natashaMay 2013: dixiegal47May 2014: thebodywall
June 2010: cissyJune 2011: dixiegal47June 2012 : dixiegal47June 2013: Ken TJJune 2014: Tied cissy & thebodywall
July 2010: heyred72July 2011: cissy & Goldtoken SupportJuly 2012: cissyJuly 2013: laura leeJuly 2014: thebodywall
August 2010: dixiegal47August 2011: cissyAugust 2012: cissyAugust 2013 : cissyAugust 2014: Tied Ken TJ & cissy
September 2010: dixiegal47September 2011: cissySeptember 2012 : Tied playBunny & cissySeptember 2013: Goldtoken SupportSeptember 2014 : cissy
October 2010: Toybox38October 2011 : cissyOctober 2012: Tied FixitDave & cissyOctober 2013: dixiegal47October 2014: FixitDave
November 2010: Tied playBunny & cissyNovember 2011: bill2448November 2012: cissyNovember 2013: laura leeNovember 2014: thebodywall
December 2010: WONRHAFDecember 2011: marcmandyDecember 2012: dixiegal47December 2013: laura leeDecember 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. Thumbs up

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/. Dancing

And remember, summer means fun! Especially on GoldToken!

--Badger




In this month's newsletter, we have:
  • Birthdays & Special Announcements
  • Player Appreciation
  • Testimonial Of The Month
  • Club Announcements
  • Tournament News
  • Photozone Competition



Birthday cakeBirthdays & Special AnnouncementsOffering gift

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


Anniversary & Other Wishes:

-- Happy Anniversary to Badger for 6 great years of owning and running GoldToken! Offering heart
-- Happy Wedding Anniversary Bride Groom goes out to stanley7 and her husband on June 7th!
-- Happy Wedding Anniversary Bride Groom on June 20th to Nancy and her husband Brad!
-- Happy Wedding Anniversary Bride Groom 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!)



**Player* Appreciation*


This month GOLDTOKEN would like to send out a Thanks written on a blackboard 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 }. Smiling

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. Thumbs up




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?




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. Thumbs up

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. Smiling

JerNYC



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. Smiling

Carol91859




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...



2009 entries
MonthThemeWinner2nd Place3rd Place
FebruaryAnimalsTabbyCatporkpie1euro4me
MarchLandscapesTallPaulMountainMistaprildiamond
AprilBuildingsSpecialsteel KranTallPaul
MayMoving ObjectsSea of vapoursporkpie1aprildiamond
JuneTransportMadMikeTabbyCatwildgeese
JulyPeoplemonkeytyperSarahMillsTallPaul
AugustPeopleSea of vapoursaprildiamondSarahMills & firefly
SeptemberSportbits of rubbleSea of vapoursSarahMills
OctoberInanimate ObjectsTabbyCatkansaschicSara
NovemberWaterSea of vapoursCATCHER211porkpie1 tobalea
DecemberClose Up3xtgCATCHER211 SarahMills

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

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

Points Table for 2009
PlayerScoreHow they got the points
Sea of vapours111st May, 1st Aug, 2nd Sep, 1st Nov
TabbyCat81st Feb, 2nd Jun, 1st Oct
SarahMills62nd Jul, 3rd Aug, 3rd Sep, 2nd Dec
TallPaul51st Mar, 3rd Apr, 3rd Jul
porkpie152nd Feb, 2nd May, 3rd Nov
CATCHER21142nd Nov, 2nd Dec
aprildiamond43rd Mar, 3rd May, 2nd Aug
monkeytyper31st Jul
Specialsteel31st Apr
Kran31st Apr
MadMike31st Jun
3xtg31st Dec
bits of rubble31st Sep
MountainMist22nd Mar
kansaschic22nd Oct
euro4me13rd Feb
wildgeese13rd Jun
firefly13rd Aug
Sara13rd Oct
tobalea13rd 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 }



Tournament News
Brought to you by: The Tournament Team

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







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  • 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! Smiling
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