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Races close on Mondays at 9PM EST! Our Next Sale Begins: January Y22.
02/05/23 We're almost ready to kick off the New Year here at Final Furlong! The New Years Sale is still OPEN for bids - lots of ponies needing homes! As well, we're hoping to close January Week One races by MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6. However, if we need to extend closing date so more people can get entered, just let us know in the Discord. In addition to getting your pages ready, don't forget to use your bonus points if you'd like!
01/29/23 Congratulations to KENREN for winning the Y21 Breeders' Cup Betting Contest! You've won a breeding reserve to FIFTY DREAMS (Firestone Stud) and 2x 2 furlong extensions + 5 bonus horse points! Lolly finished 2nd, and Cruisey finished 3rd.
12/08/22 The Breeder's Cup Betting Contest will make a return for Y21!!! It'll be a little bit different because of the new points system, but get ready for some end of year fun 😄
11/21/22 Entries for the New Year Sale are now open! We know it seems a bit early, but with life things we're going to need time to make sure things are right lol. Please follow the link here: https://final-furlong.proboards.com/thread/2304/y22-new-year-sale
08/20/22 Judging has been the basis for issues for a long time - taking too long, drama regarding results, bias, etc. Kenren has attempted to put a points system together that keeps the spirit of our system while streamlining and standardizing the process. It's a lot to take in, but once you get in the swing of it, preparing pages with these points takes way less time than doing a layout change lol! If you have any questions, please post them in the judging-help channel on Discord for now. If anyone needs help with anything, please let an admin know! We would like to give everyone one week to get things settled, and then we would like to run July Wk 2 using this system closing 8/27/22 (or earlier if everyone is ready). If it works out, we would like to run two game weeks per RL week to get things moving! Thank you all so much for being her!e
07/27/22 To start July off fresh, we've been playing around with a new theme for Final Furlong! Make sure to check out 'Sonorous' under your profile ❤️ Feel free to use whatever theme works best for yourself. We can't wait to get back to racing!
07/21/22 it's official! We're back! It looks like June Wk 4 was almost fully judged, so make sure you get that updated if you hadn't! We will plan to close the next week (July Wk 1) on Thursday, August 4th. This close day may change, but it's not a bad place to start! For now we'll be doing one game week per RL week to get back into things. Please remember that starting the second half of the year, 3yos can compete against older horses without automatic lower placements.
As an aside, because this is fairly sudden after a whole year, we will not be allowing reclaims on horses for members not currently active for a few months. We will readdress this going forward if needed. Thank you all for understanding!
07/08/22 GO answer the poll ❤️ https://final-furlong.proboards.com/thread/2232/ff-restart-poll
Given we've had a couple of people missing race weeks here and there, the staff thought it would be appropriate to have a poll to see how people are faring with the accelerated schedule! While it's nice to move more quickly, we'd hate to lose anyone just to keep up speed. Please respond to the poll, and feel free to comment as well if you'd like!
I personally struggle sometimes to keep up, especially at the beginning of the month, and sometimes my schoolwork gets sidelined for schedules. But I've been making it happen so I'm okay either way :)
Personally, I'd rather skip a week or be unable to enter fully here and there than return to going slower. I see the times when I'm too busy to enter as a good way of slipping in short breaks for my horses.
My only worry with the current schedule is that getting all my personalities done on time might be a struggle, but with no more required workouts I think it should be manageable.
I really like the faster schedule. Admittedly when I was sick I did have some struggles there, but I made it through. I can see how life can sometimes give us a tough time now and then, but I think we're all good at helping enter and record for people if they need some help from time to time.
One thing we could do is slip in a break week, say every 4 racing months. We already break at the end of Dec., but we could edge in a week after the end of April and August, that might help people work on foals, racing schedules, personalities, etc. and provide a bit of a breather.
Post by S u N f r O s T ~ on May 25, 2020 5:59:24 GMT -5
I was actually going to suggest something very similar to what Isa has said - maybe slip in a little one-week break every so often so that we still go fast, but it's more balanced? We could do a break after every three months - so March Week Five can be run over one week, then June Week Four, then September Week Four, and then of course December Week Four over one week with perhaps a second week built in for wrapping up the year (January Sale, award nominations, retirements, personalities, etc.).