Crowning Champs Day

Greeting my human friends
I've dusted the thrones off ... including the snow for my UK friends!

It's official from HQ that the USA won the November war but who were the heroes and heroines who stormed to personal victory and won themselves a throne.
Challenge Champ ... will jules44 come on up and claim her hi-tech vibrating chair. It's the third time in a row now ... and since the beginning of tournament history only one American has ever managed to beat her. One! I know, amazing isn't it? And that wonderful one is mos623.
But there are other threatening players in the American army now ... I will whisper their names ... Rage ... hammerdjh ... Clamking ... and many more. Jules aren't you a little afraid? Not just a bit?
The top USA player who led the horde to victory was Rage. Now there's an intimidating name!
Can Rage do what mos623 has done? Beat our undisputed Challenge Champ?
Wait ... don't slither off your throne yet either ... for you too are our Mogul Maximus! And our top USA limbo dancer was hammerdjh ... can I feel a pengy prediction coming?
Yes, why not? One day hammerdjh ... Rage or Clamking will claim the Challenge or the Mogul throne.
When? No idea.
Titanasaurus Rex .... it's Deborah for the USA and it's 4 times she's won it now! Our most successful Titan ever ... next comes Qmel with 3 wins. So please ... everyone raise your glass to Deborah. I thought it was going to be timmacg for a spell, it was so closely fought but team orders get forgotten in the race for personal glory.
Our best UK trooper was Doc .. and he came in 7th. Get laying some land mines UK ... 6 out of the top 10 were Americans and they only fielded 10 troops.
Sole Survivor ... now, this Pengy suspects a highly daring maverick is set to start dominating this particular battle. Congratulations Rage! For a relatively new recruit you are making your mark .... that's 3 times you've won it out of the last 5 months. Which makes me wonder ... where has WorldB vanished to? I hope he's okay?
Our top UK Survivor was jules44 ... ah bad luck there but my American friends do seem to produce most champs here? Wonder why that is? Do they have nerves of galvanized steel? Is it some mystery ingredient in Qmel's smorgasbord treats? Or perhaps Piranha hasn't accquired an american fast food palate? All intriguing and vexing questions don't you think?

Ah .. and now we all crane our necks upwards ... and shield our eyes so we can bask in the warm illumination of those glorious troopers who attained the status of .... The Invincibles!

The USA Invincibles
Fear them for they are great!
#1 Rage
#2 hammerdjh
#3 mos623
#4 Clamking
#5 Anton
#6 mike32768
#7 timmacg
#8 Qmel
#9 Schoonie101
#10 j2cp2


Welcome timmacg and Qmel ... new residents ... well old new residents as they seem to frequently return to mortal status and then come back to reclaim their perches.
Congratulations to you two guys (pengy lingo: guys is interchangeble encompasing both genders).

The UK & C0 Invincibles
Fear them for they are great
#1 jules44
#2 miffy42
#3 paper aeroplane
#4 morelli
#5 lg549
#6 markswood
#7 magijoh1
#8 dippo

#9 briarwoodrose
#10 helmar


And welcome to Helmar too ... now that sounds a great viking invader name!

Next ... and last but as regular readers of this blog will already know ... my f avourite bit.
These guys are the ones who improved their ranking in November. The ones I watch, fondly, with a proud paternal/maternal eye. They do not just report for duty each day to run the gauntlet .. they are patriotic fighters who gird their loins and sprint for victory!

Top Mop ..... goes to timmacg! Of the USA! Also Invincible status, ranked #7.


Timmacg#7 USA up 42 ... Absolute Top Mop

moomin UK up 32
Carolinaboy54 USA up 14
Markswood#6 UK up 9
paper_aeroplane#3 UK up 8
Qmel#8 USA up 8

Chip UK up 7
lg549#5 UK up 7
Helmar#10 UK up 6
magijoh1#7 UK up 5
LauraMcC UK up 5
pc377 UK up 5
argentum USA up 5

I say ... it's lovely to see a new name in there too. Well done Carolinaboy54. I rather think my star players for November have to be Carolinaboy54 USA ... moomin UK .. chip UK and argentum USA
And cheers to all you others who improved your ranking ... please pat the player just ahead of you on the back. There is nothing wrong with mutual fan clubs. Pengy approves!

Anton USA up 1
blackprinceUK UK up 1
Clamking USA held rank
Dr_Gas UK up 1
gracie USA up 1
hammerdjh USA up 2
joanne384 USA up 4
jules44 UK held rank
LanaDale USA up 4
MarchHare007 UK up 1
pamelab USA up 2
Quiz_Beagle UK up 2
Rage USA up 2
steve-e UK up 4
suep USA up 1
twosleepy USA held rank
Wetherby_Pond UK up 3
yand UK up 1

Its time for me to jog off to the Mogul smorgasbord and beg a treat from Qmel. It's jacket spuds ... or baked potato ... one of my favourite foods! And when I get full .. well, what inventive missiles! I apologize now in advance for pelting you with them as you fight the great war, dodging and ducking through the trenches.

Results from HQ for November 2010


Hell my friends ... oops, a typo
Hello my friends.
Pengy has a new laptop .. which brings all the joys of getting my flippers to grips with advancing technology ... which is a pity as my ability to grasp it is declining. They say a human's brain cells start dying from the age of 26. Yes .. I like that theory. I will adopt it.
Next stop ... senile dementia.
So .. onto the business of war. Who won? Last month I made one of my infamous predictions ... can't remember what it was ... so disregard it.
The Challenge
USA fielded 33 troopers and snatched a team average of 7421 points = 49.3%
UK & Co fielded 31 troopers and snatched a team avaerage of 7624 points = 50.7%
The UK & Co win the November Challenge by 1.4%
In October the USA won ... in September the USA won.
UK rejoice! Forgot those freezing cold temperatures and snowdrifts! Run outside and shout to the world proclaiming your UK victory... well, on one of the four battlefields anyway but it's a darn good start!
The Titans
The USA fielded 10 troopers and snatched .... brace yourselves, this is shocking stuff ... 7863 pts = 63%
The UK & Co fielded 15 brave troopers and snatched 4626 pts = 37%
The USA won Novembers Titans by ... wait for it ... by .... 26%
Last month the USA won by 18.4%
I sit and silently suck a kipper ... this is penguin diplomacy at it's highest expression.
The Mogul
And diplomatic silence over ... come on UK you've got a load of catching up to do!
The USA moguls nimbly slithered under the 60 second guillotine , winning 2890 pts = 40.6%
The UK & Co moguls shot like lightning under the guillotine , winning 4230 = 59.4%
Total decimation! A fantastic win for the UK & Co army in the November Mogul! By a whopping 18.8%.
Last month the UK won it by 4.8%.
This is what Pengy likes and thrives on! A closely fought war. After a closely fought Challenge ... a massive USA Titan victory and a UK & Co Mogul victory it's all going to hinge on the final battlefield. Yes ... that one .. the toughest one of the lot!
The Survivor.
Come on UK, you need to win this one and win it convincingly ... nothing short of a bloody slaughter will do. I rub my flippers toegther with glee .. ignoring the friction burns in my eagerness.
The USA won 3695 precious bonus points = 48.1%
The Uk & Co won 3985 priceless bonus points = 51.9%
The UK & Co win the November Survivor by 3.8%
Get that box of tissues ready ......
I vigorously rattle my abacus for the overall stats over the 4 battlefields ... be patient ... this is technology at work!
The tissues have a mongram on them.. and it's ... a Union Jack!
The USA win the November war ... by a nano amount ... by a measly half a percent .. or 0.5% for the digitally inclined.
USA = 50.25%
UK & Co = 49.75%
October the USA won by 6%
Sepember the USA won by 9%
November was the closest it's ever been since we had a draw in May 2009.
UK ... no one takes this war seriously, so do not court martial any troopers who deserted the field .. or who went AWOL and took a day or two off. Firing squads aren't allowed.
Oh but it was close ... another few mogul bonus points and who knows ... my American buddies might have been beaten.
I shall make another pengy prophecy .. to supercede the last unmemorable, unremembered one ...
I prophecy that the UK & Co will win this Decembers war!
The USA's reign of terror is doomed.
And now my friends ... i shall scamper over to the Survivor Pit. It's empty but only for today so I shall lower some buckets of kippers down there .... someone has to feed the captives when they arrive.

New Invincibles for December 2010

Valid until 1st January 2011

USA
#1 Rage
#2 hammerdjh
#3 mos623
#4 Clamking
#5 Anton
#6 mike32768
#7 timmacg .. new arrival jetpacked upto Mt Olympus
#8 Qmel ... new arrival on the lofty ledges
#9 Schoonie101
#10 j2cp2

UK & Co
#1 jules44
#2 miffy42
#3 paper aeroplane
#4 morelli
#5 lg549
#6 markswood
#7 magijoh1
#8 dippo
#9 briarwoodrose
#10 helmar ... new arrival in the Great Ones eyrie

Please remember fabulous Invincibles are NOT eligible to play the Titan quiz in December.
BUT
Demoted (Branded Invincbles) evicted from lofty Mount Olympus now CAN play the Titans. So be patriotic ... and scamper over there and ran amok this month

Players who now CAN play in December
USA .. WorldB ... ryaman
UK & Co ... martin cube