Diane
The two teams were taken by helicopter to the island of Castillo. My team were dropped off in the water to swim ashore on the south west of the island. The other team were taken to the north where they had to scale some cliffs.I was stunned to find myself in the same team as Jim Melton, Judd Spitzer and Lane Smith, names I recognized as leaders in the Mac Guild from their postings and reviews. The four of us were ranked in the top 6 of the MacGuild membership. Although our other members, Patty Maloney, Jim Haney and Rick Davis, were names I didn't instantly recognize, I was sure the team had been dealt the best possible hand.
The first task was for each team to elect a leader, choose a name for the team and then announce the team to the MacGuild mailing list in some way that would generate the maximum number of replies without explicitly requesting replies.
The last thing I expected was to be elected tribal leader by the others. One of us set up a Yahoo group which we used to keep track of all the email. There was an atmosphere of intense panic as we threw around ideas for the tribal name and the posting to the mailing list. Eventually we were first to post our submissions - that we were the Clan MacLion and we needed volunteers to join a focus group to help out on a future version of OS X known as Lion. And this was when the fun really started.
I may have been leader in name, but when it came to initiative there was nobody to beat Judd. When our adversaries, now known as the iOftheTigers, tried to get replies to their posting by including a broken URL for iofthetiger.org, Judd immediately bought the URL and put up a spoof website for them. I acted quickly to secure the equivalent MacLion URL before they could retaliate. The icing on the cake was to set up a CafePress store with merchandise such as t-shirts and boxer shorts. Bill eventually intervened and we returned the URL to the iOftheTigers. They set up their own website and CafePress store using a beautiful logo of a tiger eye with a shiny black apple for a pupil. To this day I still wonder what on earth the Tigers must have thought of this merciless if humorous onlaught.
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