This is one of the fastest large size ops that I’ve been a part of, being spun up in the late night on Sunday, July...
Originally shared by Raul Swain (RLupus)
This is one of the fastest large size ops that I’ve been a part of, being spun up in the late night on Sunday, July 26. Our friends FoxFactor and SixtyFiveRoses were coming in from Montana and we were talking about getting FoxFactor his gold Illuminator badge, since he was only ~30k MU away. MuscledCarrot offered up a field he had drawn previously, one guaranteed to massively overshoot 30k MU. When our Montanans arrived, we found out that SixtyFiveRoses actually only had 11k MU to her name (Montana fields are light on MU), and that our own SeafoodQueen only had 8k MU! The plan extended quickly to not only throw this 17 layer monster for check, but to do it for check plus two more times! A team was quickly assembled, stacked with experienced solo fielders, and buckets of anchor keys were farmed. The throw team was assembled and MU goals were hashed out.
Op day came (Wednesday, July 29) and the clearing team came out and very efficiently cleaned out the many blocking links. Since Snohomish County leans heavily Enlightened, most of our clearing was of green links and at least 22 ADA were used. The clearing teams didn’t need any of the extra time I had built into the schedule, and were actually done early. With everyone on site and lanes clear, we made the decision to throw all 17 layers out of Arlington at 22:30 and hope there was no Smurf...well, resistance. The linking went quickly and was complete with 15 minutes remaining to the 23:00 checkpoint. I was trying to count the MU numbers when I got a call from Mamagreen “Hey, we’re pretty sure we can throw this again before check! Tell the base agents to blink the field! DO IT NOW, we’re almost back at the start point!” If the throw team was willing to do it again and risk missing check, I sure was too! One ADA and rethrow of the base later, triangles were walking up the spine again, completed a scant two minutes before checkpoint. The throw team turned around again and, after a quick blink of the other anchor after checkpoint, threw the triangles for a third time. The entire operation went off without a hitch and everyone throwing badged. FoxFactor and BeKoolio even pushed the Baked Alaska gigafield guys out of first place in Romeo 13! The fields stood for an hour before being knocked down by @Shazabi and @Jtweety1.
MU gains:
DiveGuru (base link thrower) 133,070 MU
BeKoolio: 994,000 MU platinum badge
Mamagreen: 1,002,631 MU platinum badge
FoxFactor: 805,806 MU gold badge, platinum badge
SixtyFiveRoses: 342,884 MU silver badge, gold badge
SeafoodQueen: 336,000 MU silver badge, gold badge
Overall, this field was planned and executed within 75 hours by an excellent team of agents, who all did amazing jobs! Everyone deserves acknowledgement for the wonderful jobs they did:
Planner: MuscledCarrot
Operator: RLupus
Throw team: FoxFactor, SixtyFiveRoses, BeKoolio, Mamagreen, SeafoodQueen
Anchor prep and lane clearing: BountyHunter23, DiveGuru, Lindow1, NetrunnerX, NoBadKarma, SoulessWanderer, TallVanillaChai, TheRocketGirl, Trinity996, VietOne, XrystalBall, XrystalBsLady
So Long And Thanks For All The MUs!
-RLupus
This is one of the fastest large size ops that I’ve been a part of, being spun up in the late night on Sunday, July 26. Our friends FoxFactor and SixtyFiveRoses were coming in from Montana and we were talking about getting FoxFactor his gold Illuminator badge, since he was only ~30k MU away. MuscledCarrot offered up a field he had drawn previously, one guaranteed to massively overshoot 30k MU. When our Montanans arrived, we found out that SixtyFiveRoses actually only had 11k MU to her name (Montana fields are light on MU), and that our own SeafoodQueen only had 8k MU! The plan extended quickly to not only throw this 17 layer monster for check, but to do it for check plus two more times! A team was quickly assembled, stacked with experienced solo fielders, and buckets of anchor keys were farmed. The throw team was assembled and MU goals were hashed out.
Op day came (Wednesday, July 29) and the clearing team came out and very efficiently cleaned out the many blocking links. Since Snohomish County leans heavily Enlightened, most of our clearing was of green links and at least 22 ADA were used. The clearing teams didn’t need any of the extra time I had built into the schedule, and were actually done early. With everyone on site and lanes clear, we made the decision to throw all 17 layers out of Arlington at 22:30 and hope there was no Smurf...well, resistance. The linking went quickly and was complete with 15 minutes remaining to the 23:00 checkpoint. I was trying to count the MU numbers when I got a call from Mamagreen “Hey, we’re pretty sure we can throw this again before check! Tell the base agents to blink the field! DO IT NOW, we’re almost back at the start point!” If the throw team was willing to do it again and risk missing check, I sure was too! One ADA and rethrow of the base later, triangles were walking up the spine again, completed a scant two minutes before checkpoint. The throw team turned around again and, after a quick blink of the other anchor after checkpoint, threw the triangles for a third time. The entire operation went off without a hitch and everyone throwing badged. FoxFactor and BeKoolio even pushed the Baked Alaska gigafield guys out of first place in Romeo 13! The fields stood for an hour before being knocked down by @Shazabi and @Jtweety1.
MU gains:
DiveGuru (base link thrower) 133,070 MU
BeKoolio: 994,000 MU platinum badge
Mamagreen: 1,002,631 MU platinum badge
FoxFactor: 805,806 MU gold badge, platinum badge
SixtyFiveRoses: 342,884 MU silver badge, gold badge
SeafoodQueen: 336,000 MU silver badge, gold badge
Overall, this field was planned and executed within 75 hours by an excellent team of agents, who all did amazing jobs! Everyone deserves acknowledgement for the wonderful jobs they did:
Planner: MuscledCarrot
Operator: RLupus
Throw team: FoxFactor, SixtyFiveRoses, BeKoolio, Mamagreen, SeafoodQueen
Anchor prep and lane clearing: BountyHunter23, DiveGuru, Lindow1, NetrunnerX, NoBadKarma, SoulessWanderer, TallVanillaChai, TheRocketGirl, Trinity996, VietOne, XrystalBall, XrystalBsLady
So Long And Thanks For All The MUs!
-RLupus
Absolutely outstanding. Congrats. So beautiful
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