A few words from the Yucata.de 2022 Summer MediOcrelympics and opening snapshots.

I'd like to acknowledge that I'm standing here on Whadjak Nyoongar country. The Nyoongar people have worked, travelled and played on this, their land, their boodja, for over 40 000 years. We pay our respects to them and to their Elders,  past, present and emerging and appreciate the contribution that they make to the community. Hello, I'm leeece on yucata.de and I'm here to talk to you about the Summer 2022 MediOcrelympics, which, if you're reading this, should be about to, or already be open, courtesy of Chairperson Kamba. 

Some of us might remember the day that a past yucata.de user jamied proposed 'The First-Ever Non-Official Yucata Olympics of Mediocre Gamers back in 2018. I had the honour of being asked to be the official Spokesperson for the event and while I was (and in every subsequent MediOcrelympics) been enthusiastic about the role, I pretty soon got weary of typing out the entire title.

So I contracted it to MediOcrelympics and jamied embraced and propagated the term. Perhaps he too was over typing out the original term. Zzrxes was instrumental in the creation of both the MediOcrelympic emoticons currently employed, thank you. Putzibram and his loyal lemmings were a tremendous help with marketing. The Decentdecade Dirigible became a firm favourite during the games and medal ceremonies, and my rent-a-crowd got interested too.

Since then the MediOcrelympics has been embraced by many Yucatans and has been run in one form or another by other hardworking people, the most recent being our very own Kamba. The 2022 Summer MediOcrelympic Games has had a huge response. In fact at time of writing we can boast over 210 entrants, all of them with Trueskills under 1101. It makes you proud to be average! 

Thank you to Kamba - he'd like me to extend an extra BIG thank you to all his helpers 5erBande, bubba2x, guimeli, Kerstinee, Midgardwanderer and zumHeuriger. They have all worked so hard on this tournament, and my thanks go to all past and future tournament wranglers. 

A big thank you to all past and present and future MediOcrelympians!

Enjoy some images from the opening ceremony brought to you by my crack team of photographer, rdmasters. He is incidentally the Chief Engineer of The Decentdecade Dirigible and we might be lucky enough to interview him later!

It was very exciting when we reached 200 participants in the 2022 Summer MediOcrelympics! The Captain of the Decentdecade Dirigible had previously declared that an Immelmann Manoeuvre would be attempted should we reach that number and we did. Below you will see the results!

Have some not too bad games everyone and see you at the after game bbq!