The 6th Annual Proudmoore Pride Parade is at noon server time on Saturday June 19, 2010!
Last Dance!This is the last year we'll proudly parade through the Barrens in the same way we usually do each year for Proudmoore Pride. Join us for one last traditional trek before Cataclysm changes it all forever. Read below for the contests, schedule, route, and tips for an awesome online Pride!
The Parade RouteWe are following our classic parade route this year. We start off by putting the camp back in Camp Taraujo as our starting point this year. Pre-party starts at 10:30 am! Mimosa anyone?
The lead float will leave from Camp Taraujo in the Barrens at noon sharp to head north toward Crossroads. The other floats will depart behind it every 40 seconds or so, so arrange to meet your float folks IN Camp Taraujo to have your group picture taken, and line up for float departure.
The parade will continue north from Camp Taraujo toward Crossroads.
Our Alliance friends will be arriving from a jog from Theramore to meet us just southeast of Crossroads, then we all head to Ratchet to board the boat, which we traditionally crash . After we've shipped everyone to Booty Bay from Ratchet, join us on the aquatic dance floor for dancing, frivolity, Azeroth's Next Top Model, a craft fair, and photo ops!
The FloatsCreate!
Tainters are invited to create their own float concepts based on humor, respect, Taint and/or GLBT history, amusing memes, or just pure randomness. You must register your float concept with Bigheadben via email at bigheadben at gmail.com. The registration deadline is Wednesday June 16. We encourage flippancy and frivolity and creativity, but ask that everyone refrain from using potentially offensive or inflammatory float titles. If you have questions, include them in your float enroll email to Bigheadben.
We'll be announcing float concepts so keep an eye on the News and Taint forums for calls for marchers! We'll also have a contest for best float as determined by user vote with fun prizes. See more about our contests below.
The float leader is responsible for organizing the float, assembling participants, enrolling the float correctly, communicating with the Pride Marshall aka Bigheadben, /s promoting the name of the float and encourage viewers to vote online for the best float.
IMPORTANT: If you are NOT a current member of the Taint or Stonewall and would still like to enter a float, feel free! Enroll your non-affiliated float at www.proudmoorepride.com!
The ContestsContest 1: Whatever Votes Your FloatMuch like real life Pride celebrations, we'll be breaking up our parade into distinct floats and are having a contest to encourage Tainters to create their own float concepts, the most popular of which will be determined by a post-Parade vote online.
Center your concept around a race, a class, a profession, a popular meme, an amusing Taint in-guild joke, or whatever you think will get the most giggles, cheers, and most importantly, votes. Taint Officers are scouring Azeroth for awesome prize packages, so start planning now!
To enroll, in the email to
bigheadben[deleteme]@[deleteme]gmail.com, include
a) the proposed name of your float
b) any explanation/description if necessary, why this float, etc
c) the Float Diva. only one! give the exact toon name that will be in charge of your hot mess float this year. this is the POC for all things related to this float
Contest 2: Azeroth's Next Top ModelA post-parade contest: Strut your stuff for our judges and claim the catwalk as your own! Individual Tainters are invited to create a short, inventive, clever runway routine to amaze and impress onlookers, and our celebrity judges, to become the Spreading Taint's Top Model. We'll be using the "gangplank" at the bow of the boat extruding from the Booty Bay Inn as our catwalk. Start practicing now!
If interested in entering the contest, please email
bigheadben[deleteme]@[deleteme]gmail.com with your name, your Taint forum name, and the race/class/level/name of the toon you are entering.
This contest starts on or around 12:45 so be prepared to be there, lookin' fiiiiiiiiine!
ProudmoorePride.com!We've launched a site dedicated to Proudmoore Pride this year that includes info for both Horde and Alliance folks. Thanks to the Stonewalls studs who helped put
www.proudmoorepride.com together.
Our Guest Guild - Tainter Tots!We are encouraging you to invite friends from other guilds, other servers, and friends who've never played WoW before. We're using our old, much-beloved guild for tiny Tainters, <Tainters Tots> as our guest guild this year. Please ask your friends to look for Belletrixx on the morning of, for an invite and summons, if necessary. If at all possible please encourage your friends to make it to Camp Taraujo under their own steam, if they can.
We've stocked the Tainter Tots bank with fireworks, booze, and other party paraphanalia. Bring your own poppers.
Music for the MassesWe're providing six hours of celebration tunes this year, one hour for every year we've been doing this crazy ass shizzle. Thanks to the Stonewall DJs for providing classic, campy, dancey music to move us.
Tips for an Awesome PrideNo Pvp please! We traditionally have a heckler or two, and this year should be no exception. Do not engage in PvP during this event please.
LAAAAG! It is gonna happen. You can help by lowering your own settings and either refraining from, or only judiciously using, big sparkly AOE effects.
If you have questions or comments, as always I can be reached at
bigheadben[deleteme]@[deleteme]gmail.com. Thanks to everyone, especially our Stonewall friends, for helping to make this an awesome party this year.
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