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XLPC ANNOUNCEMENT XLPC RELAUNCH 2021 A new year, a new look. W308 Discord Community has been renamed into XLPC Brew to keep it clear that we are an official affiliate to Sharkbrew. In order to keep operations rolling we have discussed and considered to reorganise our staff team as some of us are having a difficult time to invest sufficient time (Moderator apps opening TBA). Staff changes can be seen below: Dill (XLPC Manager of Sharkbrew) -> Retired Lulu (Moderator) -> XLPC Manager of Sharkbrew Downyz (Moderator) -> Retired Nora (Moderator) -> Retired We will be kicking off 2021 with a renovated Discord server including changes in the layout, design and graphics, and we have already been thinking about potential tournaments with juicy price pools. In the meantime we have also completely reviewed our list of banned users and it is sad to say but the majority have been banned due to excessive toxic behaviour and doxxing (minor and untraceable bans have been flushed). Therefore if you are that someone, or know someone, who is still not able to join our server as a result of a ban, please forward considerable ban appeals to 𝕷ulu#6666 through a DM on Discord including the following: Discord tag (preferably User ID), reason of the ban and why you should be unbanned. If there are any things that you suggest that should be changed, feel free to drop us, Rash, Lulu and Abd, a DM on Discord. What's to come Rumors have come back about that many clans have opened +/- 50 combat. Due to this ongoing demand, we will also be gearing our Discord to the 50s scene. ALL combats will be around 50cb. A pro to starting at 50 combat is that it is easy to start with. Accounts at this bracket do not take long to make, and are easy to recruit. Although we’ve changed our name from W308 to XLPC Brew, our mission to increase wilderness activity and Clan Wars activity will always remain constant. XLPC has always be a great place to nurture, and find new talent. (Most recently, Terror from last XLPC season that decided to go LPC) As mentioned in changes, we'll be sponsoring a huge CWA event, and give the winner a ton of GP, Awards. This means we set up a bracket, if we got enough signups that wants to participate. Also we're reviewing the WCOTM / COTM template, there's a poll running in the Discord to change this to a league, to keep the hype going every week. A more detailed topic will be announced when the poll passes. Participating in any events If you want to participate in events, and tournaments that's coming, we suggest you to join the Discord, and we'll make a role for your clan/team. You can contact 𝕷ulu#6666 about this, and will provide you a template that you can fill in, with your member list, Discord, clan name, and your rank. We want the community to be involved in the growth and try to maintain the success of F2P, if you've got any thoughts or questions, we'll be answering them in a private message.

On behalf of the Sharkbrew rank team, I would like to extend our season greetings to the entire community. Stay safe, take necessary precautions to protect yourselves and the people you care about and have a Merry Christmas!

^^ From jewpac Please make sure you are not idling in servers that may potentially break discord's TOS

RSBL Trial Delay Sorry for the delay as I had IRL work to deal with. I am targeting RSBL launch for the month of december. Seasonal Awards 2021 Many thanks to FI Fear`Alex and Jamz for helping with the sig. As you may noticed, the new COTM/WCOTM sigs have seasonal emblems on them, this design is a facade to our goal of adding a competitive seasonal aspect to the monthly award. The seasons would be pegged towards the northern hemisphere as vast majority of our players live in that region. Key changes: COTM/WCOTM/RSBL league table will be simplified to show the immediate rankings of clans wthin that season Forums will contain a seasonal ranking table of the top 5 clans Towards the end of the reason, top 5 clans would then compete in a round robin tournament for a seasonal award and prize money. I'll be releasing more information in the coming weeks regarding this seasonal awards alongside forum/website updates COTM Tiebreaker Proposal To encourage more clans to take up p2p as the tiebreaker fight type, we would like to offer the change of only allowing oldschool weapons to be used for the tiebreaker fight type; i.e. toxic/surge/nms staff are banned. What do you guys think?

Monthly RSBL While RSBL is defined by tournaments with mega prizes that occurs occasionally, sharkbrew hopes that we can bring something to the table by encouraging continuous RSBL events through the use of a monthly league system that incentivizes steady action that also rewards and recognizes newer clans to the scene. How does it work? There are 2 separate leagues, F2P and P2P For each event topic you post, your clan group receives a number of points, at the end of the month, our system will calculate who has the highest number of points earned in that month and announce you the winner! Starting time: 1st day of the month, 00:00 EST Ending time: last day of the month, 23:59 EST All topics must be posted within that time period or they will not be counted Prize P2P: 50m, a customized clan sig, and forum avatar recognition of your win F2P: 50m, a customized clan sig, and forum avatar recognition of your win As activity picks up, we will be increasing the GP prizes accordingly Rules/Ranks involved A rule topic will be posted later. If you have any questions please feel free to dm the following ranks: @IMK @Obli @D96 How do I participate? First ensure you have a clan group here: https://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/clans/ Finally post your event topics in the designated area over here in the 'Main Community' section: https://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/forum/346-clan-warsrsbl/ Be sure to tag it as "RSBL" in the prefix We shall start counting RSBL topics posted on and after the 8th of sept 00:00 EST

New Ranks Welcome to babysitter club @D96- main scene @UncleRash- pure scene Unretiring Rank Welcome back @IMK who will be leading the main scene

Currently clan groups are being created here: https://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/gc/ Unfortunately we have noticed a good number of clans who participate in multiple activities, i.e. pure/main clan <-> RSBL, or simply have an cwa main unit. Thus with this problem, it isn't particularly fair to solely label a clan. Henceforth, we will be migrating everyone to the IPB club feature which allows for compound clan naming types. This club feature also allow clans to easily add their icons that would show up in post view <------ Dear clan/team leaders, please recreate your groups accordingly here: https://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/clans/

COTM declaration system Is a clan dodging you? You can now publicly declare a fight against them! Be sure to read the rules https://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/forum/452-cotm-declaration-system/

Thanks to @Sybrenwho pointed this out to me RSBL With the increase of cwa topics posted by main/med/zerk clans, we would like to give back to the main community by introducing a modified format of the popular RSBL. This version of of the RSBL copies the existing COTM format for pure clans and would consist of the following(subject to feedback): Monthly award with a small prize(50m++) Sig for winner Top 3 Clans/Teams with the most number of wins will slug it out for a 3 way tiebreaker fight League table that shows win/losses of all participants How Do I Enter? Create a team/clan group here: https://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/clubs/ be sure to select "RSBL" in the clan category We will launch this system starting from 1st Sept if we see a sizable amount of interest

A few years ago one of our Mediators "ubermensch" took some time off/away from runescape due to some personal irl matters. He has returned and found time for sharkbrew aswell as clanning in general. We welcome him back as a Mediator! wb @ubermensch

Congratulations to APEX For winning the sharkbrew mini tournament! These are the final standings for the tournament as it has now come to an end. Here is your winning signature. Prizes were as followed 1st - 120mil 2nd - 50mil 3rd - 30mil I will be contacting ranks from Apex, Fatality and Supremacy regarding making the payment. APEX have also made a winning video as well please enjoy!

Topic Points I have introduced a feature that would automatically show how many points your topic received/your opponents lost for either WCOTM/COTM This means Rage received 6 elo points whilst BP lost -2.25

New Ranks A new rank called "Babysitter" has been introduced to Sharkbrew. This rank allows us to expedite and turnover rank applications at a far quicker rate than promoting individuals directly to gatekeeper. Whats the difference between Gatekeeper and Babysitter? Babysitter only have limited moderating permissions on forums and discord, this is because they are regarded as a new ranks who may not be fully versed in the rules and moderation system and would need time to warm up to our structure. How do I apply? Make a topic here: https://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/forum/220-apply-to-be-a-sharkbrew-rank/ How long would it take before my application gets processed? We aim to do promotion rounds at a monthly frequency Without further ado, congratulations to: @Brian` @Chain @Obli @Dizzy @Grey Wolf @Cardi

On behalf of the Sharkbrew rank team, we like to wish all Americans a Happy 4th of July. Whilst this has been an extremely difficult time due to covid, we hope that all of you will take care of yourselves both physically and mentally Don't forget to mask up and keep 6 ft social distancing if you have to go outside

With reference to this topic: It is necessary that sharkbrew implement steps to protect our users in the event they accidentally breach discord TOS in the heat of the moment, therefore we have implemented a bot that deletes messages that, if reported, may potentially cause your discord account to be flagged or banned by discord. If you like a word to be added to the list, feel free to reply to this topic, or DM any of the sharkbrew ranks on discord.

XLPC Wilderness Clan of The Month Wilderness Team of The Month Points System How It Works: WCOTM is a competitive F2P incentive for XLPCs to further increase WILDERNESS activity by promoting daily action. WCOTM will work under a point-based system which will REQUIRE you to post topics for every wilderness event on Sharkbrew forums. Each topic constitutes points for the respective type of event. Points will be racked for ONLY wilderness action, clan wars will not be included and will not have its own bracket. On a week-to-week basis, W308 Mods and SB Staff will be keeping track of these points and whoever accumulates the most in the category will win the award for the month. **Important for teams below **We are currently trialing Teams. If we don't receive at least ONE topic from at least 3+ competitive teams in the first 2 weeks of release, then we will null WTOTM award and keep it only clan** A few examples of PAST signatures: Wilderness Scoring Verified Official Weekend Trips; +2 Points Weekend Clan Opt min; 20 Weekend Team Opt min; 10 Verified Unofficial Midweek Trips; +.5 Point Midweek Clan Opt min; 15 Midweek Team Opt min; 7 Verified Player Kill Run-In's (PKRI's); +1 Point PKRI Clan Opt min; 15 PKRI Team Opt min; 7 We would like to promote as much wilderness PVP activity as possible. Areas in the wilderness, along with PVP WORLD multi-based spots may constitute for points. Partially win or partially lose, we would like to see a spike in XLPC-based activity. For wilderness topics to attain verification, there must be evidence of action against well-established PURE XLPC clans/teams. This can be shown via screenshots & videos. You may only get 2 topics verified per day; ie 1) Midweek or Weekend AND 2) PKRI, one for EST and one for GMT. PKRI Rules You may only receive points for 2 set-up PKRIs verified per week. PKRIs vs the same clan will count once for the week to avoid farming for points. If a 3rd party crashes a set-up PKRI, crashers may receive allotted points given a proper topic. **For PKRI's, there MUST be evidence of action via logs or text against the established clan.** An example can be seen below: If failure to provide the evidence of action via logs or text against the established clan, then you will receive a deduction of -.5 in points. General Wilderness Rules 1 ) If a clan is seen and verified with the use of mains, their standings and current points will be deducted a subtraction dependent on the type of wildy event in points. If no topics are posted, clans may still dispute the use of mains during a PK trip. These can be disputed between ambassadors. 2 ) Teams AND Clans must PK in their own respective capes ACCORDING to what's posted in the list of current teams/clans in W308 discord. Failure to wear their own cape for a single instance during a trip will result in 0 points. If it can't be helped that another entity wears your cape for a duration of the fight, then that entity with YOUR capes will be receive the punishment if topic posted. Disputes Disputes may be done via forums, or Discord PM. They MUST have valid evidence behind claims and disputes using screenshots, videos, logs, etc. Disputes may only be made 12 hours after release of disputed topic. A dispute template will be provided. Tie-Breakers Because the chances of points being exactly the same are slim, we will only entertain a tie-breaker idea when the month ends. Tiebreakers will be decided between 308 staff.

The staff team has noticed an increasing, and worrying trend of individuals and clans threatening to dox or threatening the real life of players. DOXXing is a criminal offense in many countries and, it has resulted in real life implications where DOXXers have gone to jail https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/07/serial-hacker-doxxer-and-swatter-sentenced-to-two-years-in-prison/ or even innocent lives were ended as a result of mistaken identities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Wichita_swatting Whilst our community thrives on its competitiveness, I urge all clan ranks and community members to advise and remind their fellow team member that we should keep all shittalking in-game related. Not only these activities cast a dark shadow on our scene, which deters new players from coming in, actual lives can be ruined as a result. -------------------------------------- If you are a victim of doxxing, document all electronic logs, save them and report them to the police. Due to the cooperation of ISPs and law enforcement, it is nearly impossible to stay anonymous anymore

Just a quick FYI discord is appears to be clamping down on such typical clanning flame banter... As annoying as it is, sharkbrew discord may have to take additional steps to further protect the accounts of our users

Unfortunately a topic was posted today describing clan ranks threatening their members against leaking. As much as leaking your own clan locs for gp is reprehensible, using doxing as a threat for in-game related misbehavior should not be tolerated by community members and clans. Not only does these threats reflect badly on your clan, but these sort of behavior would make pure clanning unappealing to new recruits who may want to adopt Pure clanning. If you are a victim of such threats, feel free to drop a DM to any of Sharkbrew high ranks. In the past we have helped people mitigate some of the fallout that could come from Doxing. Furthermore, if you are being threatened with DDOSing, do learn how to protect yourself by reading this https://www.sharkbrew.com/wiki/Ddos_Mitigation_%26_Protection We hope that entire community can put aside differences to discourage these sort of behavior

A while back, I was DM'd by Rot Matt demanding that I make sharkbrew a ROT minion site, https://pastebin.com/aN4biTFb Since then, 3 of my hardworking ranks were forced to step down because ROT threatened to leak their real life information. This is same playbook they used in their own scene a while back, sowing discourse in the community while inching forward to claim the community pedestal for themselves. Sharkbrew will not bend to any clan who wishes to jeopardize our stance of neutrality, and we shall be taking additional steps to ensure the safety of our users on this site.

First off we would like to thank LY,IO,Rage,Apex,FOE and Fatality for participating in our F2P Tournament! Unfortunately our final fight (Apex Vs. Rage) can not happen as our competitors couldn't complete the fight due to interference from malicious foreign influences. We would like to congratulate Apex and Rage on making it to the final! Thanks @FLOWERand @Monifor hosting the Tournament! Rage and Apex have elected to donate the winnings to those who need toilet paper and hand sanitizers

Discord: https://discord.gg/AZ8mx9k

Spying/Leaking This is a reminder that DMing users on sharkbrew discord to leak or spy is a bannable offence. If you receive DMs such as this: Please forward it to any of the active Gatekeeper/Mediators/Counselors/Overseers to have them banned from Sharkbrew discord

Break Due to his IRL commitments, Break would be taking a back seat and has retired for the time being. As one of our oldest ranks on Sharkbrew(2016), Break's contributions has positive far reaching effects, and that the many of our pioneering systems, like WCOTM and COTM, that he had helped support are still in use today. As our Discord manager Break had also helped Sharkbrew transition from IRC to Discord. During his active tenure, Break was one of our most active and loyal high ranks. On the behalf of the team, I wish Break the best in his IRL endeavours Peace @Break

Prize Pool : 150m Confirmations: FI: Yes Apex: Yes LY: Yes Damage Outcasts (IO + DC): Yes Rage: Yes FOE: Yes Zenith: No Supremacy: No Rules: - Server: F2P - Min. Opts: 30v30 - Style: Round Robin - Knockout Rounds - 30v30 Min (If one clan pulls below 30 it's up to the other clan to sit below 30 as they don't have to), Map chosen by the defending clan and R3 is PKRI (Default Plateau) - If both clans pull 30+ and want to do for example 40v40/50v50 they can so and it will count as long as both clans recognize it as a tourny fight (if one clan disputes the logs will be asked for) -Any form of cape switching will result in a redo of the round to the clan that does it if they win - Points scored based on sets TLDR (Win) = 1 Point (Loss) = 0 Points) - DDOS claims etc doesn't matter to us, if you have internet issues fix it before the prep - Invites Off, If someone participates with one clan then goes with another the clan that brought the invites will have auto loss of the prep Start Date: Tuesday Feb. 25 End Date: April 3rd (If your preps aren't wrapped up by then, it will default to Friday, April 3rd and if your clan has more then 1 prep to finish SB Staff will assign them dates to be fought as we might come across rival clans not wanting to fight each other) Finals: Assuming 1-3 clans all have tied points they will fight it out for the final, simple https://challonge.com/sbf2ptourn