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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

We've upgraded the forums to 4.2, which will definitely serve us all well. We're still doing a lot of upgrades and changes right now. Some of the functions aren't going to be fully functional atm. If you see anything wrong let us know. The bright theme will be disabled and later removed. We have installed a darker theme and will keep modifying it as we see necessary. I hope you all like it. Let us know if you have any ideas on improving the community, the theme or anything in general. We're discussing a lot of changes to Sharkbrew, COTM and WCOTM. We'll keep you updated.

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.

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

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

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

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/

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

We have recently begun adding new staff members to the team that will be helping us focus further on Community Development and Community Event Planning. Both have expressed a desire to get further involved, so please give them a warm welcome! @cxntrxl, Representing Irrelevant Outcasts. @oliver, Representing APEX. We are still looking for several other individuals, so if you're interested, we highly encourage you to fill out an application! Thank you.

Background: Majority us getting older with IRL commitments- the good old days of spending 4-6 hours a day recruiting instead of playing the game is a chore that many of us don't wish to be burdened with. This problem is further aggravated by recent decisions by Jagex to implement updates that hurt the clanning communities even further, i.e. destruction of the xlpc scene, removal of BH, removal of DMM, and so on. Sharkbrew would like to try and help making recruitment easier, and possibly bring fresh (and talented) blood to both the PvP and Clanning community PvP ELO league Ideation Topic The objective of this writeup is to demonstrate our intent with the ELO League. We want community's feedback and suggestions before we implement this however. https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/93ad98/colosseum_elo_pvp_arena/ Many of the ideas has been taken from the various PvP colosseum league suggested to Jagex over many year, so credits to the ^^ authors Our goal is to build an ELO table that tracks and ranks the skills of PvPers at various categories, for example: Starting off, we will be catering to the pure tribrids/NHers first before expanding to the main scene. How does do you compete in the league? League rankings are tied to the player's sharkbrew account, so players are free to use any number of runescape accounts to participate. Said accounts would have to be approved before they can be used to compete however. Player challenge each other either on forums or ingame(with picture proof) with agreed gear set(to be proposed) Fights are best of 3 and can be conducted in duel arena, wilderness or PvP worlds Winners simply upload the screenshot or video evidence* of the fight to the PvP portal If there are no disputes, the fight is automatically logged to the system after 48 hours * While video evidence is not mandatory, it would help in the case of disputes What are the League categories? Pure Tribrid We are going to start with 1 category for now, but we would like the community's suggestion on future categories Are there any brackets? We would need suggestions on how to implement a tier/bracket system so that this League isn't just a race to the top. I would prefer if there was a way to discriminate between skill levels of participants to make this system more inclusive What are the rewards? Rewards hasn't been fully decided yet, but off the top of my head, if we are looking at 3 brackets, the top pvp from the Elite, Intermediate, Beginner can be sponsored to a tune of 70-100m every 2 weeks I believe that everyone of you on this forum have a stake in this project, and if we can execute this to its fullest potential, it can greatly benefit all our communities. Sharkbrew need your suggestions, please take the time to carefully think about what you want to see in this project.

Hey, Community I have been away for awhile and I’ve been busy with life. I have decided to step down from Sharkbrew and ultimately interact with the community minimally. I have decided to focus on project irl and put my 100% in those. I had fun times within the community and getting to know some of you made my experience a unique one. This is a Community is a unique one in where we all have our own individual goals within this game but at times will get together if we have a common enemy. Our community has its moments where it rather starve each other due to personal issues with certain ranks in clans or for gain. The ups and downs are what kept myself going. It was interesting to sit down with a lot of you about these issues. You guys allowed me to help host community events and settle some differences between several clans. I appreciated that and it made some differences within the community. Thanks a lot to those who helped Sharkbrew for the better. A lot of things are still being brought together by Sharkbrew Staff Team. Be mindful and respect them. They’re here to help you. I will be on Discord and if you absolutely need for me to help you with something Runescape related or even IRL related. Feel free to message me. Stay cooperative with the community. A lot of this message is all over the place as I wanted to make sure I did this before I went completely inactive. Be good to each other and be happy with you do within this game and outside of it. Cheers, Kim

The current clan/team roles on discord are sorted by the number of points you achieve on the ELO table, with the inclusion of officially recognizing mini teams and giving them their own ELO table, it does not make sense to allow unofficial teams to continue to have their discord roles while other official teams are having events and putting time and effort contributing to the community. Therefore, the countdown has started, any unofficial team/clan who has not registered to the ELO system and conducted 1 event will have their roles deleted from Sharkbrew discord by the 15th of Jan 2020. You may find out how to enter the ELO system by clicking on the following links:

Break was involved in an argument in discord that devolved into a cesspool of IRL insults. This behavior is not condone by our staff behavior guidelines and as an overseer of the site, he should known better. As a result this behavior he has been temporarily demoted for 1 week. As moderators with access to tools to ban/mute/kick troublemakers of the community, Sharkbrew Ranks are required to hold themselves to higher accountability with regards to their behavior and should not stray the line that constitutes any method or mannerisms that may compel them to use their powers on users as a result of their own behavior. This doesn't mean our ranks shouldn't be able to have fun though- we allow our ranks to involve themselves in flamewars- as long as they don't use their powers or compel/bait members into breaking forum or discord rules.

Community Advisor Rank As I am nearly complete with the homepage, I will be reintroducing the tracking of clan wars and wilderness events on the home page: The main goal is to showcase your clan, with secondary objectives of demonstrating the activity of the pure/main clanning scene to the rest of the community. I will elaborate on our strategy in the near future, but without getting sidetracked too much, We would like to introduce a new rank initiative. @Community Advisor We always try to maintain a fair balance of ranks from different clans in the Sharkbrew rank team. This unfortunately has the side effect of not being able to hear suggestions or perspective from talented community members. Furthermore, as our rank team members are getting older, majority of us have moved on from this game or are not as active as we used to be. This is a detriment as we are not in tune with the issues plaguing the scene. Thus I am introducing this new rank to help us better connect with the community to learn pressing issues that need addressing. You can find more details here: Anyone can apply, and as long as they meet and maintain the requirements, they would be ranked up.

VS Dates & Times F2P EVENT: December 6th *Friday* TIME: 4:00 PM EST // 9:00 PM GMT P2P EVENT: December 13th *Friday* TIME: 4:00 PM EST // 9:00 PM GMT TEAM USA: https://discord.gg/ujbV2s2 TEAM EU: https://discord.gg/G2mbRDk If you like to be a caller, let us know to be given the rank. We will select 3 callers by doing a poll. All 3 callers shall each receive 5m for each fullout won Extra information: Event will be held in discord, and to participate in this event you need to post your runescape name in the #post-rs-names channel Location: Clan Wars Worlds: TBA F2P Teamcapes: TBA CC: TBA be sure to have your RSN tied to your sharkbrew account via your profile page @Member@Veteran@Kingpin

At the time of writing, people with amazon prime accounts, you can subscribe to one twitch channel for free. The owner of said channel will receive $2.5 a month as a result of your subscription, and thus I urge all clan leaders to make a twitch channel for your clan and ask members with amazon prime to subscribe to your channel-if they haven't subscribed to anyone yet. This allows you to effectively earn additional $ that could be used for clan operations while also costing your members nothing. Do this fast as I don't believe amazon will keep this offer up for too long. There is a channel in discord where you can advertise your channel, and I will be creating a forum section here shortly as well Furthermore, you can also use your channel to stream your clan's preps/events and -potentially- get a couple of recruits. P.S. Credits to IR titans for this idea

@Kyehas been promoted to @Mediator Kye has been around for quite a while and has put in extensive amounts of work on tournaments and new things we're putting forward in the upcoming months. Congratulations Kye! Sorry for the late sigs, but here they are! Credits to @Leninfor the GFX! @Gatekeeper @Overseer@Counselor

Good exposure for your clan Hit him up! Hes also idling in SB discord - Abyss#9080

WCOTM/COTM Wilderness clan of the month & Clan of the month is finally back! Our primary mission with relaunching these 2 systems is to reward clans for participating within the community, and hopefully we can also give your members something to look forward to at the end of the month. The topics and the content you post will eventually be used by our marketing team to advertise the activeness of our community to other social media websites like reddit and twitter- our ultimate goal is to create a positive feedback loop where the activity generated by our clans will result in more users willing to trial out clanning, which in turn generates more activity within the scene thanks to the larger player base. The prize money has been sponsored by our community sponsors, I hope you all will take this opportunity to check them out on the right of the forum index page. How do WCOTM/COTM work? 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 How do I participate? First ensure you have a clan group here: https://www.sharkbrew.com/community/index.php?/gc/ Next check that your clan group is listed in the ELO league: https://www.sharkbrew.com/?/league/clans Finally post your event topics in either the wilderness of clan wars section. WCOTM - All midweeks and weekend events count COTM - Only preps, FTXX, Fullouts count What is the criteria for winning? WCOTM Earn the most number of points within the month to win. If there is a tie, we shall organize a clan wars event that partly mimics the conditions of a wilderness fight COTM The top 2 or more(if there is a tie) highest scoring clans(regardless of points difference) shall engage in run off round robin standard 1 def pure prep. The fight type would be decided by the clan with higher points What are the rewards? The winning clan shall receive: WCOTM A signature depicting their win Medal awarded to all members in their clan group 30m RSGP COTM A signature depicting their win Medal awarded to all members in their clan group 40m RSGP- COTM gets more due to the mandatory run off prep What are the rules? We reserve the right to disqualify clans who attempt to game or cheat the system, this includes(and are not limited to): Reusing old fight pictures Farming clans for wins Due to the relative poor health of the scene, we hope that everyone respects each other and plays fair, but if needed, we may take necessary action based on the advice of other clan leaders.

Mini Teams While this is not the first time Sharkbrew has tracked mini teams, this time around I was approached by Moni and H_88 a while back indicating their intentions of bringing the mini team scene back to life and how they want to interweave both the clan and mini scene to form a symbiotic relationship. Mini Teams ELO League From 1st Dec, Sharkbrew is tracking all minis by mini teams. We hope with this system, we can encourage more pures to gather a few of their friends to participate in this competitive league. To deter obsession of losses, we will not be advertising the team's loss, only the number of wins as shown below: As minis events tend to outweight that of pure clans, I have fast tracked the promotion of H_88 and he will be handling the mini teams ELO league. In the coming days I will announce the monthly prize money for the top mini team in the league

VS Rules 1. To participate this event, you have to write your Runescape name in the #post-rs-names channel. (EU or USA server) 2. Add your RSN, to your Sharkbrew account via your profile page 3. Accounts must be 1-25 def (we will not allow higher) 4. 1 Def gear cap (only exception: Adamant gloves) 5. Don't mass highlight members or ranks during the events 6. No Excessive Spamming & Trolling And most important if you post dox links, there will be zero tolerance, and you get perm-banned. TEAM USA: https://discord.gg/ujbV2s2 TEAM EU: https://discord.gg/G2mbRDk be sure to have your RSN tied to your sharkbrew account via your profile page @Member@Veteran@Kingpin

Community Sponsorship Sharkbrew originally dropped our sponsors at the behest of the JMods we were trying to work with to get us the necessary fixes to existing game content that were killing the clanning scene, and new updates that could help us. Unfortunately, Jagex basically showed us the middle finger and implemented a bunch of updates that didn't fix the core problem of PvP and PvP Clanning. While we had to operate with hands tied behind our backs, reddit and youtube were abound with ads from pservers, and gold farming sites. .... ... no reply after that Monthly ladder prizes -Many thanks to @Juicyfor securing the sponsor- I would like to thank our first sponsor whose ads you shall see on discord and forums soon. Come 1st of December, we shall launch COTM/WCOTM for pure clans, a league system for mini war clans and NH pkers. Unfortunately for the main and zerk teams, the staff team still needs to consolidate a strategy for the scene, so we are skipping that for December. Tentative prize money(set to change) would vary from 30-60m a month for each winner.

Regarding recent events and discussions related to the conduct of one of our staff members, we have agreed that a temporary demotion for @DilLis the appropriate action to take in addition to educating him on what is and isn't considered appropriate conduct for staff members to engage in. While it is apparent that there has been a significant amount of concern trolling and exaggerated outrage regarding the situation, it is our opinion that Dill did cross a line with his conduct. While we do allow staff members that participate in community/clan activities to engage with community banter, we cannot allow the use of disparaging, obscene or hateful language in any fashion. We will be using his brief period of suspension to re-align him with our goals for this team, and the wider community. Please note that any attempts to bait Dill for his recent suspension will result in action being taken against the offender(s). This only serves to create further negative discourse and will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Thank you.

The number of preps/fullouts has been on a steady decline and opts of said events has been going down too. Sharkbrew would like to encourage more clan war events and one of the ways we feel we can help is to recognize 2v2+ preps where multiple clans team together for an event. Coop preps Considering the fairly successful 3v3 event that was hosted by @Jamz, we would like to take the opportunity to recognize and reward clans who are willing to work with each other to organize more events in clan wars. Thus, I have added a new fight category to the ELO system From today onwards, all official 2v2+ preps will be recorded into the system. Each clan must have a reasonable number of members in the fight for it to count. Scoring 0.4 points per round won is awarded to the winning clan's topic Losing clans will not lose any points or have any losses added to their clan wars record In order for your clan points to be awarded, you must post your own topic. We believe that cooperative preps can help nurture alliances, spreads the risk of a loss, and exposes clan members to higher opt fights that are rarer these days. Bear in mind that while benefits are plentiful, leaders of new clans should be mindful of other clans who may use these events as opportunities to poach members or recruit turncoats ELO points decay We will be introducing the elo points decay for the wilderness activity section of the ELO league. If your clan hasn't done 4 midweeks and 2 weekend trips, you will receive a point decay on the following Monday. I will make announcement with finer details in the coming days with regards to this system

Promotions Unfortunately work on the wiki has slowed down and we honestly need all the hands we can get at this time. Our immediate objective is to create a central portal of up to date guides for anyone new to pvping and clanning, thus I have arranged the rank structure and promoted 2 capable people to execute this change @Eeveeto Counselor - She has done excellent work with the community moderation team, created the current set of rules, and has helped detoxify the forum community- thus I am confident in her abilities to lead and manage. I pleased to announce that she accepted my request to lead the wiki team and I honestly can't wait to see what she has planned in store for the wiki team. @I Rep Dutchto Gatekeeper - When we announced the wiki update some time back, he was one of the first individuals to sign up to the wiki moderation team, since then he has been contributing articles without our supervision, however in recent weeks, he has indicated he wanted to contribute more, so lets welcome him! --- There are still outstanding promotion application topics which I have not gone through yet, we are still looking for people and I plan to do an additional general promotion in coming weeks Wiki Any updates to the wiki will now be published to the campfire channel of discord. This is to advertise said changes to the page and encourage community engagement In the coming days I will be doing a rewards system where you get sharkpoints for editing wiki pages Clan leaders Jagex will be opening up a registration form where they would fly you to cambridge to share your ideas on how to improve clanning, keep an eye out for the announcement newspost on the OSRS site and I hope all of you register to share our many ideas to them! https://jagex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_77HF8PVueAjybLD