As a result of inactivity (and unavailability of their websites), the leagues 'Trix League' and 'Plosileague' had been removed from these sites. Their last respite elapsed.
However, the 'BZSoccer League' was created after the successful 'BZSoccer Tournament'. Let's see if it can tie up to the tournament.

Yesterday, the limit for myBZbuddies has been increased to 80, because it seems some players needed more than 60.

This was the first noticeable change since months. This doesn't mean I did absolutely nothing. I finally did the auto match report for the 1vs1 BZLeague. Furthermore, catay and I were working on a plugin for the 1vs1 match servers that allows:
- automated match report in the moment a match ended
- a message after each official match that shows the change of monthly score and ZELO rating of the opponents
- in-game player registration for the league
- an ordered list of the monthly trophy scores
- an ordered list of the eternal ZELO scores
- an information request for one or more players/callsigns
The last four features can be requested by the players by typing '/ovso <command>'. Try '/ovso' to get a list of all allowed commands.
While catay did the whole plugin, I had to add and change parts of the league site's code and data structure. This way we both had to write >1000 lines of code. :o)

During the last weeks there were some (mostly invisible) bugs that had to be fixed. One of them had been reported by blast/blast007. Thank you.. ;o)
Beside doing bug fixes I also modified the script of the my.bzflag.org stats that displays all players, because Jeff/JeffM/JeffM2501 was looking for a 'web monkey' to filter bots and observers. I wonder when the script will replace the current one.

Since setting up this site and moving more and more BZFlag-related content/features from my origin site to this one, moving the online IRC chat too was a permanent item on the ToDo list. That's done now adn even the given league channels are linked to it. :)

Wohooo,
it was as annoying as always, but finally we ([dmp] and me) moved the domain strayer.de, the subdomains and the websites to a new server. This server has more power and you'll surely get aware of it.

Shame on me...
Beside the update problems during the last days (a non-reproducible bug), I noticed that BZstats' own fallback listserver wasn't working during the last weeks (probably months). This one-line-bug is fixed now.

The Trix League has been added. Let's hope it'll become an attractive and active league.

Tim Riker revived the 1.7 listserver and a game server. The end of BZFlag's 1.7 server era will come, but not today. ;o)
In case you want to get aware of the congeniality of the good old 1.7 version, feel free to install it and try a run. You will be surprised how many changes were done between 1.7c and 1.7g2; like the HUD that looks very similar in the current release.

There weren't real improvements in the BZstats' code during the last months, but it seems to be time to place some log-like comments or news.

For the initial entry you get some common information:
- number of recognized players: 123,554
- number of recognized servers: 17,314
- number of supported leagues: 6
- number of allowed myBZbuddies: 60
- number of global registered site users: 200
- number of hours spent for this site: countless