Life at Holly Kai in Second Life

HKC Points System 1.2, September 2008

After analysing the HKC Points System we have decided to make a few changes designed to create positive community building, bring in new players, and deemphasize cutthroat competition. Never-the-less the spirit of good competiton is still what gets our adrenalin up and we continue to work on developing great competitive play and growth of golf in SL.

We will continue to develop sponsored tournaments and community building including bringing back the awards party dance each month. Wendy will be addressing that issue in the days ahead.

HKC Points (As of September 2008)*

1. Play in Monthly = 25 points (up from 20).
2. Winning points for monthly still apply at the same rate.
(Outright win in A Flight= 16 points)
(Tie for Win in A Flight = 12 points)
(Outright win in B Flight = 8 points)
(Tie for win in B Flight = 6 points)
3. Raise witnessed full rounds from 2 points to 5 points.
4. Leave playing in Mini’s at 10 points.
4a. You can combine a Mini and a full round built on the Mini for a total of 15 points.
5. Remove points for winning Mini’s (down from current levels of 8,6,4,3 pts awarded).
6. Expand the 8 points for teaching opportunities.**

* September Points competition begins at the conclusion of the August tournament.

** For those that would like more opporunties to teach golf at Holly Kai we will make you a Holly Kai Mentor. Holly Kai Mentors have their names and photos available on the HKC Mentor Board next to the driving range. If you are online and have made yourself available then your box will light up and people can send you a call requesting help. If it’s a simple question you simply provide the answer. But if the encounter expands into a lesson teaching session (verified by the purchase of time on the driving range or golf course by the student in the time frame of you post to the board indicating that you taught them) then you can claim your 8 points. Note you need NOT have a Mentor sign on the board in order to teach and claim the 8 points. The offer of the Mentor board is there for those who wish to do more teaching than they can get done by simply hanging around the clubhouse.

That having been said, hanging around the club house is still the BEST want to find golf newbies to whom you can give golf lessons (pick off those newbies before the go over and click on a mentor board, grin).

Congrats to Wilbur Wood who recorded his second hole-in-one in a week (Ocean 9).

There are two big events at HKC this weekend. One is the monthly golf tournament on the Ocean Course. There are two tee times for this event: 10AM and 5PM. Ocean #1 will be the video hole.

The other big event is the posting of the new HKC Points System. The post follows.

Congratulatons to Wilbur Wood who equaled the course record on the Ocean Course with a 28 this past weekend.

Aslo congratulations to Wilbur and and Getme Somme who each got holes-in-one in recent days.

This rule formalizes in the Local Rule section what has been a common practice in SL golf and discussed in a pivotal article on Honor and Etiquette on this web site. The rule is stated clearly in this quote from the mentioned article.

Also, as in real golf we expect that tournament rounds, both mini and monthly be played completely. It is not acceptable to begin a round and for whatever reason not complete the round, only to come back at a later time and continue OR start anew. When you begin a round that is intended to be a tournament round you are honor bound to complete that round at that time. If you crash, you come back. If you cannot return in a timely fashion you are considered to have abandoned that particular tournament.

Congratulations to Getme Somme the 2008 Holly Kai Club Champion who fired a nice 29 to take the Championship at the head of a very talented field. Getme is the first HA golfer to repeat as Club Champion. In Winter 2008 we plan to return the Club Championship to a semi-annual event, so everyone has their work cut out for them.

Congratulations also go our to Wilbur Wood who outpointed an active field to capture the July HKC Points Championship.

It was been pointed out to me that some of you have seen some golfers wearing a Top Ten Golfer title in the past. This is an OLD outdated title we gave out when we gave away the lockers to those who made the Top Ten in Points each month. We did away with that program a long time ago. But apparently we forgot to remove the corresponding titles. That has been corrected.

We are extending the deadline for posting to the new HK Forum to tonight, midnight Saturday July 19. We are still 11 qualified posts short of our goal of 25 posts. If we recieve 11 qualified posts to the forum between now and midnight a free round of golf will be extended to the community. See details in the link below.

In order to post to the new HK Forum you will have to sign up for a free account. The instructions for that are near the top of the main forum page. Note that the email address you provide will NOT be published publically.

It is our view that a viable forum is critical to developing any online community. This is YOUR SL golf forum. Please take advantage of it.

The link to the forum is here.

If the new Holly Kai Forum receives 25 qualified posts between now and midnight SL time Friday I will make this Saturday, July 19 a FREE GOLF day.

Here are the details from the Announcements are of the new HK Forum

The Course Maintenance Suggestion Box can now be found at the HKC Forum here.

I am disabling comments here and plan to migrate the current comments to the forum.

The Holly Kai Golf Forum is now open! We are just getting things going. Our thanks to ZATZAi Asturias who has set up the forum and who will be hosting it on one of her servers. Over the next few days you will see some of the rough edges smooth out (at the moment emoticons don’t display). And the catagories are subject to some tinkering.

One thing you can ALL do to get the Forum off and running with a rolling start would be to make a post on the Introduction Forum. Check it out here:.

Holly Kai Forums

Nber Medici has launched an exciting new program in Holly Kai with the recent grand opening of ART IN THE GARDEN, a new art show and performance art venue held in the lovely Holly Kai Estates sim.  Be sure to drop by and catch the works of French Aquarellist (watercolors) Josephe Galli.

For those of you that missed the grand opening here is a video that gives you a flavor of the event. If you want to see a high quality version of the video (recommended) click on the video screen below then immediately click on it a second time. That will take you directly to the YouTube page for the video where you can select “play in high quality”. Please rate the video and add a comment on at the YouTube page. Comments here are fine, but comments there are read by many outside of SL and those helps to let the world know that SL is more than what the media portrays.