Well, today i played my 500th game on FUMBBL.

The game itself was good. Good opponent, some chatting, a few specs cheering, and, incidentally, some success for the team that advances to smack's semifinal.

But before that 500th game, were 499 other ones, since... really recently, i joined in may only. I had played roughly 50, maybe 100 tabletop games before, spread on many years (since 1995 if i remember well). I feared online play would be not-as-cool-as-tabletop... but here's what i found :

- Many, many fun coaches which make the online experience very human ;
- Even more good coaches, that i learned a lot from ;
- Tried a lot of races i had never played, played dozens of matches with the same team, which is very unkikely in small tabletop communities ;
- A wide variety of choice and events, small and major tournaments, 145 club, blackbox, and lately bb7s ;
- Excellent fluff, stories, statistics, blogs and fun facts on teams and players ;
- Even a small community of french-speaking fumbblers (those guys who /boo and /cheer madly when one of them plays a tournament match)
- Learnt to have fun with LRB6 and even to enjoy playing against the-famous-skill-combination (that can be really enjoyable if the coach is not completely silent / artificial intelligence like).
- And, yeah. The only drawback is : those few matches where the oppo does not want to chat and/or limits his output to "hi gl hf (... 32 turns of silence ...) tfg cya". But that's not happening so often to me.


So, as a conclusion... Wow, I'm a notorious geek, but before stumbling upon Fumbbl, i never thought i could get so addicted to one site. Thanks to all those who contributed to achieve this!




... Now, looking for the 501th. Yeah !