There's a nice window after St. Paddy's day in March that would be perfect for a March Mayhem bracketed elimination tournament. Start with the Sinister 16, Evil Eight, Fearsome Four, and finally the Thunderdome to determine the winner. 4 rounds of battles with each team getting 500 tickets and 50 lives (either total, or refreshed to max each round), taking a maximum of 24 hours and 45 minutes per round, followed by a day to restack and regroup. 7 total days for the bracket to play out, plus normal time for signups, voting, and planning.
All in all this year seemed a bit more fun to play and watch than last year, but that's mainly due to smaller core alliances and not due to any admin changes. A lot of teams have gotten the chance to fight to stay in the competition, instead of the 1vAll steamrolls that happened last year. Not sure what changes can be done to ensure that the steamrolls don't return.
I'd like to add on to this as it seems I might have the same issue as Jekar.
I woke up a few days ago for my morning dumps, opened up Safari on my iPhone, and when I clicked into the gym the page kept reloading over and over again very quickly. I was able to solve it by switching into a different Safari tab and opening Torn there. Now for the past few days I've had captchas to deal with. I don't have TornPDA, nor any scripts installed on my phone, it is completely stock Torn.
Nothing has changed with my PC setup, no additional scripts or outside resources with API keys used on top of the normal TornTools, YATA, Torn.report, and Healsey's Egg Navigator that I've had setup for a while now. Other than increased activity during CT I can't think of anything other than the bugged Safari reloads that could've triggered this increased scrutiny.
If you could take a look and compare our cases it may lead to a bug that needs to be fixed with either Torn, Safari, or Apple iOS.
22:31:40 - 23/12/25 You created a Parcel containing 5x Erotic DVD, 1x Ecstasy, 4x Xanax 22:31:56 - 23/12/25 You wrapped a Parcel with Christmas Wrapping Paper turning it into a Christmas Present 22:37:45 - 23/12/25 You sent a Christmas Present to ******* with the message: Merry Christmas from your not so secret Santa! Make sure to read up on Happy Jumps in the forums if you haven't done one yet.
My Secret Santa has gone AWOL, but I'm more disappointed that I didn't receive a thank you from the 23 day old that got a nice HJ package. Maybe they're a traditionalist and won't open until Christmas morning.