Scenes From New Year's Eve 2016

On the night of December 31, Second Life bade farewell, or cursed good-riddance, to 2016, and rang in the new year of 2017. Different communities and locations had their own parties and celebrations.  From the Sunweaver's Goblin Cave, to the Furry Fashion Lounge's "Lem n' Ems" event, to the "Prim Drop" in Bay City, there were plenty of events.

Read the story in Events.

Press Release: 50 Years of StarTrek At T-1 Radio

Join T1Radio's Space Cadets Madelyn Majestic and Fuzzball Ortega as they
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Star Trek!

Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans and lifeforms from all over the Galaxy will party for 4 Hours

Bring your own Romulan Ale, Vulcan Port and the like!

Set your Phasers to PARTY and Beam to LEGENDS Classic Rock for the Best Star Trek Celebration on the grid!

L$1000 Best Star Trek Character Contest  (6p-8pm)

T1Radio  - The Galaxy's Favorite Classic Rock Station

Saturday September 10, 5-9PM SL time


Arinultra Cay (198, 65, 29)

www.t1radio.com

Press Release: RFL 2016 Wrap Up Party on Aug. 14

                                             *+.*+.* 2016 Wrap Up Party *+.*+.*
                                
                                                   Sunday, August 14, 2016
                                                      9:00am slt - 1pm slt
                 
                                                              
One More Party For Relay!  Join Your 2016 Committee as we gather to Celebrate and Thank Each and Everyone of the Best Relayers in the world for all your hard work, and dedication and for making Once Upon  A Cure a Success!

The following awards will be handed out at the Wrap Up Party:

Team Fundraising Club Awards - To Teams Who Moved Up A Level Since July 17 Relay Weekend
Top Team Convio (Website) Fundraising  1,2,3
Top Individual Convio (Website) Fundraising 1,2,3
Convio Website Participation Award 1,2,3
Top Team Fundraising Award- Overall 1,2,3
Beacon Award - Team
Beacon Award - Individual
Change Makers Award - Team
Change Makers Award - Individual
The Spirit Of Relay Award - Team
The Spirit Of Relay Award - Individual
Swag Raffle Drawing

We will be announcing the 2017 Theme and have a few other surprises in store!

Our pre Wrap Up party starts at 9am. Followed by the awards and Wrap Up event......then....even more .... ... with live singer Geo Rocks at 11am followed by a 1 hour dance party!

All music, award presentations and the Wrap Up event will be streamed live via the Official Relay For Life Of SL Radio broadcaster, T1Radio.

If you are arranging a listening party of your own, or cannot make it to the awards, you can use the following links to hear the music / events: 

http://t1radio.serverroom.us:8242  (in your land)

http://tunein.com/radio/T1-Radio-s113797/    or    www.t1radio.com  outside of SL

Main Location: Relay dAlliez (128, 19, 23)

A listening location for overflow will also be located here:
American Cancer Society (72, 113, 21)

Requested Attire:   Relay T-shirts and jeans / skirt  - let's keep the load on the sim to a minimum.
Please detach all huds (dance, game, roleplay, hair, shoes, clothing etc), if your clothing, shoes or hair has a resize script then please remove the script or put on different clothes, hair, shoes. Turn your draw distance down to 128 or lower, set your quality to Medium if you need to for this time period, turn your particles to 50 or lower, set your Max Avatars lower if needed .  Remember, you control your own lag.  Your computer processing speed is the majority determinant for how you experience an event. Adjust YOUR settings and things will improve. But we can all help each other out by doing the simple steps above with our huds and clothes.

We look forward to seeing you at the party !!     

Reader Submitted: Scenes From the Relay

Prettykitty Gumbo sent over several screenshots from the Relay Weekend. One was of the Second Life Coast Guard team's members standing at attention during the Luminaria hour.

Taken at RFL Embrace, sitting on one of the purple couches.

 Taken at Team Ragtag's camp at RFL Cure, the Pikachu Pokemon someone placed as a whimsical tribute to the popular "Pokemon GO" game that's been all the rage lately.

Also taken at Team Ragtag's camp at RFL Cure, a couple tiny avatars take a seat.

Taken at the T-1 Rado location at the media center area, Prettykitty's on another couch with a friend.

Announcment: The Return of "Relay Rap"

We're Back!  The Relay Rap Preseason Special

Are You Ready for The 2016 Season? Of T-1 Radio's Relay Rap?

"Once Upon A Cure" is around the corner. Team registration for the 12th RFL of SL starts Mon. Feb 1st.
It's a new season with new perspectives and new ideas. Hear it ALL on Relay Rap.

Sunday Jan 31, 3:30 pm SLT

Legends Classic Rock Club & Boardwalk, Arinultra Cay (196, 10, 27)

GoSpeed Racer, Trader Whiplash, Speak on Rising Cost of Internet Radio

Music by radio has been with us for many years. When computers and Internet came to be, it was possible to play music over streams over the web. When Second Life came to be, each sim had the ability to have a certain station as background music. But are some of these stations in danger of being silenced? At the beginning of the year, new regulations concerning the operating costs of licensed stations inside the United States went into effect. The result is for smaller radio stations there, including many licensed streams in Second Life, running them has become much more expensive.

Read the article in Extra.

Ringing In The New Year Across Second Life

A number of places across Second Life held events to say goodbye to 2015, and ring in 2016. One place was "Eiffelicious" at LEA7.

Dozens of residents attended the party under a replica of the Eiffel Tower made by Regi Yifu. But when yours truly dropped by, a few of the guests there were a little, less than pleasant to others.

A much friendlier event awaited those at "T-1 Radio's 11th Rockin' New Year's" at the "Legends Pier" at the Arinultra Cay sim. Trader Whiplash, best known for his music events for the Relay for Life, played for the crowd from 7PM SL time to Midnight SL time when 2016 officially arrived on the Grid.

A number of noted Relayers would appear there as well at different times in the night.

A number of communities held their own events. New Babbage had their event, which began as England was ringing in 2016.

There were a number of pictures in the background of noted people and events across the year. The DJ also proved flexible, when seeing someone in a squirrel avatar playing the song "Squirrels." Though some avatars were more appropriate for a Steampunk event.

New Babage wasn't the only Steampunk-themed place to have an event that night. McLaglen Noonan Museum Garden at Caledon Cay had a smaller one. Cynthia Farshore took this picture at the tail end of the event.

And the Sunweaver/Angels community would hold their own event at the Happy Vixen beach club in the Purrfection Estates. Although the event was touted as no formal attire required, many felt the most appropriate outfit they could have on was a gown or suit.

DJ Akea played the tunes for the first half of the event from 6-8PM SL time. from 8 to 10PM, DJ Rose spun the music. And at 9 and 10 PM, the Sunnies celebrated as the New Year was rung in on the East Coast and the Central US time zone respectively.

Other places had their own events. The ROMA sims had an event earlier in the day as 2016 was rung in across Europe. Luskwood called off it's New Year's Eve event due to Shady Fox's illness, though the Pony sims would have an event in honor of Ponyland, which went offline late that night (more about the event later).

Happy New Year Second Life

Bixyl Shuftan

Scenes From The Relay: The Microkitty and "The Hair"

Before  the Relay Weekend, there were a number of pre-weekend parties that took place over the course of the week before. This included the night before, Friday July 17, of which at 5PM a party started at T-1 Radio's camp at the Relay Track.

 Among those present was Fuzzball Ortega, the lycan sheriff of Steelhead, and the head of Team Steelhead Salmons, whom had his signature "The Hair" with him, which he had gotten years ago to honor a challenge, "the wackiest, wildest, hair around."

"The Hair" is a massive hairpiece, with a ballroom with small figures built in. But was it too small to keep out the smallest avatar in the Relay for Life, Lomgrem Smalls? He decided to try and find out ...

Nope. Lomgren could fit right in the miniature ballroom of "The Hair." Getting inside the lycan's actual head, well, that was another matter.

Stay tune for scenes of the Relay Weekend.

Bixyl Shuftan

*Note: the last picture was taken by Lomgren.*

At the Avi Choice Awards, Or Maybe Not

Yesterday at 3PM, the 2013 Avi Choice Awards took place. Trouble was, one needed tickets to be allowed in the four sim area at the Christmas Expo where it took place. And yours truly hadn't quite remembered to get one. So was watching them from an auxillary location at the beach docks near where T-1 Radio is located. one could watch it on the screen there, or on a HUD provided at the docks. The event was also broadcasted on T-1 Radio. Treet TV, which has broadcasted many events on Second Life live, wasn't showing it this time.

The show had a few glitches, such as one of the hostesses not rezzing, and at one point the computer handling the broadcasting crashed, showing the Windows startup screen, followed by a "please update your Firestorm." Despite these glitches, the event was viewed by over 600 people at times, and attended by over a hundred at the Expo region. The list of winners at http://avichoiceawards.com/ has not yet been published.

Thank you for those who voted for me in the "best blogger" category.

*Update: the list of winners has been published*

Bixyl Shuftan

Scenes From The Relay For Life Christmas Expo

Today marks the final day of the Relay For Life's Christmas Expo this year. For ten days, the event in which over seventy merchants put up items to sell for charity, and numerous DJs provided music for events have taken place. So it's the last chance to drop by to enjoy the scenery and events, such as the announcing of the Avi Choice Awards today at 3PM. To see what awaits you there, the Newser has taken a number of screenshots of the Expo grounds.

See the pictures in Events.

Avi Choice Awards Tonight

Tonight at the RFL 2012 Christmas Expo, ay 6PM the Avi Choice Awards take place. Second Life Newser is among the finalist for best newsletter/magazine, and the Steelhead community is also eligible for several awards. If you can't be there, you can listen in on T-1 Radio: http://www.t1radio.com/.