A Great time was had by all. Hulk Hogan stopped by to party. Live Video, Music, Talk…it was a lot of fun. We’ll do it again soon.

Introducing OSN Survivor 2.0!

Object of the game is to choose the SOI that has the best percentage day change (if everyone is red, it’ll just be who has lost the least)

You can only choose each SOI ONCE

The contest will begin once trading begins on Friday April 10th and run every Monday, Wednesday, Friday until we have just one man standing.

You are allowed 1 free miss, where if you happen to forget to make a pick, you will be given a ‘free pick’ based on alphabetical order according to the last sport that you picked.

Second Miss, you are eliminated..

Members must post their new entries (picks) before deadlines to avoid being DQ’d

Members can PM (private message) me their picks to keep people from copying

No new entries after 8:59AM EST on 4/10/09

The NATION member who has the SOI with the Lowest Day Change will be eliminated. If there are multiple members with the same SOI, all will be eliminated.

Prizes:

IF we get over 30 entries:

1st Place = OSN Personalized Jersey
2nd Place = OSN T-Shirt & OSN Koozie
3rd Place = OSN Hat

First person to get eliminated will receive and OSN Coffee Mug!!

UNDER 30 entries:

1st Place = OSN T-shit
2nd Place = OSN Hat
3rd Place = OSN Koozie

First person to get eliminated will receive and OSN Coffee Mug!!

**Winner will have to PM me with his/hers shipping info so I can get your prize to you. If you do not feel comfortable with this, please do not play.

**Cash Equivalent Can Be taken over prizes — PAY PAL ONLY

If you have any questions, PM me and I will try to respond to you ASAP.

If you have comments on how to run this better or have an idea to tweak it up a bit.. Please wait until this one ends and then we can start a discussion on it.

Thanks in advance to everyone who participates and good luck!!

David Wright hit the market today, 4/7/09 debuting with only 641 shares. He came out of the box on fire, as most people in the forums predicted. He was selling no problem around $20, and at the time of this writing, he has fallen back down into the $16’s. I thought he would end up in the $8-$9k Market Cap at the close of the market today. He is currently at $10,500. What are your thoughts on the short and long term prospects of David Wright? And who is the fine ass chick smashing cosmos on his arm?

And like he never left. In the top of the 5th, with nobody on, and nobody out, Griffey takes a pitch DEEP over the fence in right field for his first home run of the season, in his first game back with Seattle. WELCOME BACK JUNIOR!

Since OSN member Durshar created the first ever 3rd party game in December with TSTL’s “Performance Matters” Contest, everyone has been very excited at a world with 3rd party games created around the OneSeason community. OSN Member Durshar was kind enough to sponsor this contest and was giving away credit in TSTL’s online store, and then he followed that up with the 2nd ever third party game the “All Star Challenge”. After that, Dancenham and his “OneSeason Survivor Contest” became a huge hit. Now, OneSeason Nation member Jayhawks is launching the 4th ever 3rd party game that will debut tomorrow! OneSeasonGames has games coming, OneSeasonPro has games coming. Things have started snowballing and I’m sure you will see tons more games coming out there! Stay tuned for the latest breaking news and info on these games and their lists of prizes! Exciting stuff for the OneSeason community! We will compile a list of these games as they hit the community, complete with prizes and any possible cost these games might cost to play. Thanks to all the developers in the community for creating these games!

Allen Iverson is done for the season according to the Pistons. Will a fire sale ensue? What are your thoughts?

Even his informercial on gun safety didn’t help him.

What are your thoughts?

Great information from a ‘tech’ guy about yesterday’s Deron bug. Yes of course OneSeason tests their changes, but you can never predict what happens when it goes live! Kudos to OneSeason for finding and squashing that bug as quick as they did!

I  manage an IT department for a pretty large outfit.

With that said, I’m not sure what testing mechanisms OneSeason uses to assimilate live trading and a live IPO request, but I’m sure they have something.

In my datacenter, we have a test environment that mimics our production environment (for you techies out there - our test systems are virtual running on VMware ESX Linux). We will constantly run application and server changes in the test environment. Most of the time, if a test runs clean, it will be fine when we flip the switch and go live in production. But, there has been that rare occasion when although test went fine, live production had a problem and the entire IT staff had to scramble. There are some variables that you just can’t account for.

I’m certainly giving OneSeason a mulligan here. Sure, it was frustrating, but being in their shoes a few times I know it’s not a pretty picture when you have a system bug.

Good Insight, Thanks Leprechaun!

Did you guys know you could dress up your individual profile in the OSN forums? You can add photo albums, and all that good stuff. The forums are very complex, and we have barely scratched the surface of what this ferrari of message boards can do. It is like our own private MySpace or Facebook.

See what Deano did here with his profile.
http://oneseasonnation.com/forum/member.php?u=465

I am going to give everyone the month of april to pimp their profiles.

ANNOUNCING THE OSN PIMP YOUR PROFILE CONTEST!

You have 1 month. April to dress up your profile, add photo albums, have some fun. On May 1st, myself and your judges. (OSN moderators) will review all the entries. The top 3 will win prizes.

1st Place-Customized OSN Jersey
2nd Place- New WHITE for summer OSN Tshirt
3rd Place- OSN Koozie

If you already have any of these items, and you win, you can opt for the equivalent credit in Art2Shirt.net.

This contest is sponsored by Bullpup.

Have some fun with this one! Be sure to tell new users about it. Cheating and shady tactics will not only be tolerated, but they will be graded for effectiveness as well.

If you have question on how to do it, ask Deano, he figured it out pretty nicely!

have fun with this one OSN!

OneSeason Pro Announces 3rd Party Games!! SeeTrai is in the chat taking your questions right now in the OSN Live Chat room! More Details and full write up to come. Get inside the OSN Chat room RIGHT now to talk w/ SeeTrai about the announcement! Click here to go to the chat!

Congratulations to our January Contest winners! Each winner will receive merchandise from the TSTL store.

Please email durshar@aol.com for details on how to get your credit!
Huck3 - $25 in merchandise from the TSTL store.
Fordie_onces - $10 in merchandise from the TSTL store.
Cuban - $5 in merchandise from the TSTL store.

Now on to the February contest. This month we will have 3 prizes ($25, $10, $5) so that is 3 chances to win. LeBron James has been chosen the TSTL’s hero the month for February 2009.

James had a another unbelievable month in January. He racked up 3 triple-doubles in 14 games and was really close to a couple others. After it was all said and done he nearly had a triple-double average for the month.

27.5 pts. 9.6 reb. 8.2 ast. 2.1 stl. 1.5 blk.

Honorable mention for the month of January - Chris Paul; without James’ beast-like numbers, Paul would have been the man of the month. Maybe next month, Chris.

Go here for rules.

HERE IS YOUR TSTL HERO OF THE MONTH! GET YOUR SHARES OWNED POSTED ALONG WITH A MATCHING SELL ORDER FOR AN ABNORMALLY HIGH DOLLAR AMOUNT SO THE SPONSOR CAN VERIFY!

REMEMBER, You can always increase your entries into the drawing if you get more than your first submission during the month. A confirmed sell order with a higher amount of shares than the one you have confirmed will override your first submission.

Good Luck and Have fun!

• yukonskiers 4 shares
• wildes12      2 shares
• Vman23       13 shares
• gobstopper  10 shares
• ICE228         2 shares
• iambp          4 shares
• RealityCheck 45 shares

Will Bengals725 show up to defend his crown? $10+$1 like before. Want some? COME GIT SUM!