The first BOTE was held in 1998 and the FEN team dominated that first game , (
check for yourself) until there was no one else left alive in it. And we're not talking about how FEN took someone's planets or something stupid like that. We're saying there was no one else left in a ship when you did the CLV. The team was CEO'd by Monday, consisted of Hosem, Cruncher, Maverik, Budweiser, and Macahan.

Zoobar and Maverik came up with the idea originally on a place called Keynet many many years ago, they had many late night battles where they would stay up photoning each other (Maverick usually nailed Zoobar 2.5 out of 3 times...(according to himself)). Then, several years ago they brought it up again on Fament one night. For the record Zoobar and Maverick came up with all the original rules and ideas of how they wanted the tournament to run, the requirements to get in, etc. etc. They then proposed the idea to Gypsy since he was (still is) one hell of a promoter, he had a web page which had a large viewing audience, and he also had access to a mbbs board.

Gypsy basically took it from there, doing all the publicity, he took care of the game settings and all the registrations, which worked out great since Zoobar and Maverik both wanted to play in it. Gypsy deserves a lot of credit, it probably wouldn't have happened without him, the idea and theory was Zoobar's and Mavericks.

Mavrik  is not claiming ownership of some stupid tournament game. However, Maverick didn't want to see the idea of something which was supposed to be held sacred, above all other tourneys trashed by a couple people who just want to hold another tournament. The game was supposed to be an invitation only tournament to which any BBS who had TW could send a team of players representing their respective BBB's. How they came up with their team was totally up to the individual BBS, democracy, monarchy, no one really didn't care, just that each BBS only got to submit one team. It was originally by design supposed to be a tourney for the best of the best, where you weren't necessarily playing with the players of your corp, but where you united with your enemies to give your home board the honor and fame it deserved. This probably sounds pretty stupid, but it was supposed to be an honor thing, not many people get that anymore.
Now you have an idea what BOTE is and where it came from and why we are holding it annually.


1998
Game hosted by azi.com with Gypsy as gameop
Winning team : Team FEN
CEO : Monday
Members : Budweiser, Cruncher, Hosem, Macahan, Maverick

1999
Game hosted by outlaw.net with Budweiser as gameop/sysop
Winning team: Due to early termination of the game by the sysop on theoulaw.net BBS No single team could be declared as winners it was a draw between team eclipse and team mpb. No other records where kept from this years game.

2000
Game hosted by fament.com with Hosem and Monday as gameops and Macahan as sysop.
Winning team: Mission Nighthawk
CEO : Nazwes Chaiwind
Members : Cyberhawk, White Knight, Saiyan, Halogen, DJSasso

2001
Game hosted by fament.com with Macahan as gameop
Winning team: Players decided to declared the game tied between Coastgames and The Chicken Coop
Coastgames : illusion, Tweety, Dr. Bad, Dark_Knight, Might Mouse, Kemper
The Chicken Coop : timborulz, Cherokee, Freejack, Ryukin, Master Time, Hudini

2002
Game hosted by fament.com with Macahan as gameop
Winning team: Hardcoded
CEO: Dr Bad
Members: Kemper3, Hollywood, Gravedigr, the Reverend, Tweety

2003
Game hosted by fament.com with Macahan as gameop
Winning team: Game BBS (Corp 4)
CEO: Blue Adept
Members: Phoe6e, Nudo, Big12ozhog, Angus, Reaper


2004
Game hosted by thestardock.com with EleqTriziT as gameop
Representing Vulcan’s Forge: Ghost Ryder (Captain) Incubus Cy Jax Lore Draco Garnock
Representing TW-Cabal.com Dopey, Happy, Sleepy, Grumpy, Doc, Bill Gates
Representing Tw Killers Alexio, Bone Collector, Spyhunter, Hollywood, Deepthroat, Blue Adept
Winning team: Alexio, Bone Collector, Spyhunter, Hollywood, Deepthroat, HHH

2005

2006

2007
Game hosted by runwawayproton.com with Runaway Proton as gameop
Winning team: Due to early termination of the game by the sysop no single team could be declared as winners.
Teams: UTW, ICE9, Vulcans Forge, The Reverend, My Tradewars, Traherns's Tavern

2008: No Game

2009: No Game

2010
Hosted by Runaway Proton, Banged 8/7/2010, game duration 9 Days
Winning team: Corp Kraaken (Kewlbreeze, Parrothead, Shithead, Hollywood, Zep, Caretaker)
Other Teams Boo!, UTW, & Iceland

2011
Hosted by Runaway Proton, Banged 12/1/2011, game duration 44 days
Teams:  iSilver Surfers (Silver Wings TWGS), Team Kraaken (Vids World), and Ground Zero (Chaos)
Winning team: Draw between Team Kraaken and Ground Zero
Members: Corp 1 (iSilver Surfers) T0yman (CEO), Cruncher, Xanos, Epicenter, and T.R. Edwards.
Corp 2 (Ground Zero) TheButcher (CEO) BigD, Locutus, Farley, and The Bounty Hunter.
Corp 3 (Kraaken) CareTaker (CEO), Kewlbreeze, Zep, Orion, and Baz.


Can anybody fill in the blanks?


RP
Runaway Protons TWGS

Previous BOTE Tournament Winners
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