Comp: United Rugby Championship
Venue: Hive Stadium
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London	Paris	Jo'burg	New York	Sydney	Auckland
19:35	20:35	20:35	14:35	04:35	06:35

Edinburgh	Pos	Zebre Parma
Wesley Goosen	15	Geronimo Prisciantelli
Matthew Currie	14	Jacopo Trulla
Mark Bennett	13	Fetuli Paea
James Lang	12	Enrico Lucchin
Duhan van der Merwe	11	Simone Gesi
Ben Healy	10	Giovanni Montemauri
Ali Price	9	Tomas Dominguez
Pierre Schoeman	1	Muhamed Hasa
Ewan Ashman	2	Giampietro Ribaldi
WP Nel	3	Juan Pitinari
Sam Skinner	4	Matteo Canali
Grant Gilchrist	5	Andrea Zambonin
Jamie Ritchie	6	Giacomo Ferrari
Hamish Watson	7	Taina Fox-Matamua
Viliame Mata	8	Giovanni Licata
Dave Cherry	16	Tommaso Di Bartolomeo
Boan Venter	17	Samuele Taddei
Javan Sebastian	18	Riccardo Genovese
Marshall Sykes	19	David Sisi
Luke Crosbie	20	Bautista Stavile Bravin
Ben Vellacott	21	Gonzalo Garcia
Cameron Scott	22	Damiano Mazza
Chris Dean	23	Lorenzo Pani

Killer Grips: Anne Maria, Brick, Jasmine, Justin, Millie, Trent
Screaming Gaffers: Chase, MK, Ripper, Scott, Sky
Episode 5: 3:10 to Wildtown
"People have always been drawn to the beauty of the sea," Chris began as the shot opened up on the distant hilly shore of some unnamed body of water, the sun risen but not quite high in the sky. The shot faded into a close-up of a beach laden with dried up shells and starfish, a pine forest visible in the distance; another fade took the scene to a seagull resting peacefully on top of a buoy. The peaceful background music that had been playing shifted into a deeper, more threateningly ominous tune reminiscent of certain shark-based monster movies as a dorsal fin cut through the water in front of the buoy, startling the gull into flight.
The music came to a head, and Chris McLean broke the surface with a chuckle, the fake fin strapped to his head. "But that's not where we were last time! Sky's surfing adventure turned trailer park when a twister ruined her fun. And Brick was stripped bare. Nice pecs, dude!"
"Thanks to Chase's gnarly moves, the Gaffers won the first challenge. Meanwhile, Trent almost drove everyone nutso with his obsessive "nine of everything", while Anne Maria won her team over with her paper mache. Though the 'Taj Ma-Kate' was cool, the next challenge went to the Grips’ ‘Casa Sky’."
"Tied at one apiece, the Gaffers were crowned the watusi winners when Trent "accidentally" twisted an ankle. And Ripper got down, scoring them a Hawaiian-style luau.”
"With only eleven left, which team will get the upper hand? Find out next, on Total! Drama! Action!"
(Theme Song)
The episode opened up on a shot of the sun before the camera panned down and to the right, landing on Jasmine and Millie sitting curled up on a bench under a purple-and-white parasol, mouths hanging open as they panted and looked generally uncomfortable. Another pan showed Anne Maria sitting on the steps of the girls' trailer beneath the canopy, with MK slumped next to her; like Jasmine and Millie, they were panting heavily.
The camera panned over again just as Scott leaned out the window of the guys' trailer. "Hey sun," he grumbled, "who told you to be so hot today?!" He groaned again and flopped forward.
Confessional: Scott
"I'm no stranger to hot and sunny days," Scott explained in the make-up confessional, dripping with sweat. "But that doesn't mean I have to like it, especially since my farm has no air conditioning!"
Confessional Ends
Justin was relaxing on a chair as Ripper laid on the ground next to him. "A fan would be useful right now," Justin said.
"Get… get it yourself," Ripper panted. “Too… too tired for insults.”
The shot zoomed out, showing Brick squatting in what looked to be a kiddie pool and Chase sitting on a wooden bench with his hoodie taken off.
A few sniffs preluded a cut over to Sky, who was sitting by a tree. "I hate having summer colds. Especially when it's a hundred and five degrees hot," she moaned, sniffing a few more times before sneezing.
The scene zoomed out to show Trent sitting next to her by a rock. “Water?” he offered a bottle to Sky. “It's not going to cure your sickness completely, but it will make you sneeze less.”
"It's probably just allergies, but I'll take the water," Sky grabbed the bottle and squirted some water into her mouth.
Confessional: Trent
"If there's one good thing that comes out of this heat wave,” Trent said, “it's that me and Sky can be together without anybody else around.”
Confessional: Sky
"I like that I was able to talk to Trent," Sky told the confessional camera. "The only downsides are that I'm a bit unwell and there's no air conditioning. My gymnastics center is the place to go if you're looking for extreme coolness. The breezy air gives us the courage to perform well."
Confessionals End
A single chanted word began a Western tune as Chris stepped in front of the camera. Only his face was visible; he was squinting, had a toothpick sticking out of his mouth, and seemed to be wearing a cowboy hat. He cocked the hammer of a revolver and fired a shot into the air, startling Brick, causing Scott to bolt upright, and earning a cry from MK as she held her hands over her ears.
"Chris!" MK shouted in annoyance.
"My ears!" Scott added.
"Take it easy," Chris told them, a revolver in each hand. "Guns are loaded with blanks." He blew the smoke off one directly into Scott's face, then spun them on his fingers and holstered them. "Least I'm pretty sure one of 'em is." He laughed, then broke into a cowboy drawl as he walked into the center of the common area. "Since there's no beatin' the heat, we're goin' west this week! There's a town meetin' at high noon! Be there, or I'll drive ya deadbeats outta town!"
Confessional: Jasmine
Jasmine was fanning herself with her hat. “Normally, I'd be as chipper as a squirrel about the challenge today, but not when it's this hot!” she panted. “Australia's an Arctic compared to this.”
Confessional Ends
The scene cut to a close-up of a silver pocket watch in Chris' hand, the minute hand rapidly ticking up to high noon. The host lowered the watch and the camera panned down from the glaring sun to the western set as a tumbleweed blew through the road; it spontaneously incinerated the moment it came to a stop.
"Listen up, pardners!" Chris said, getting the teams’ attention as he closed his watch and stowed it in a pocket. "In any good Western, there are heroes, outlaws, horses, and pretty dames." As he walked, the camera zoomed out to show the castmates had assembled in front of a building and a ladder leading up to some sort of tower. "The hero defeats the outlaw, then rides off into the sunset on the horse."
He stopped in front of Millie, who immediately spoke up. "What about the dame?" she asked.
"None of your beeswax!" Chris answered in a harsh tone that shocked Millie, before laughing and rubbing the girl's head. "Just messin' with ya! They usually hang out in the saloon during the bar brawl."
"If the dames are weak," Ripper said. "Half the time, they're helping the guys with the showdown."
"How not sexist of you," MK shot an annoyed glance at Ripper, who returned the feeling back.
Confessional: MK
“Bar brawls are my favorite part of any cowboy movie,” MK told the audience. “It's funny how the fights start because sometimes, it's because of something stupid.”
Confessional Ends
"All eyes on me!" Chris waved his guns in the air and shot them twice before continuing. "Time for your first challenge! No cowboy worth spittin' at would go one day without saddle practice," he said while spinning and holstering his guns. "Time to saddle up!"
The scene cut to an old and fly-ridden brown horse drinking from a metal bucket. It let out a long, loud fart, and just when it seemed to have stopped it let out another quick toot.
"That's the best steed we could afford?!" Chris asked irately, looking over to Chef who was working an adding machine in a nearby building.
"You want a five-star hotel, and champagne, and caviar for breakfast, hmm?" Chef said through the open window. "I gotta cut somewhere!"
Chris grinned. "It's perfect! Don't change a thing!"
Confessional: Millie
"I love horses!" Millie gushed in the confessional. "I've always wanted to ride one, but my parents always restricted me from doing so since I could get traumatized by their neighs, but I'm a teenager now so that has to change."
Confessional: Chase
"I once sat on a horse that one time me and my family went to the petting zoo," Chase told the camera. "I did get punished for it because there was a sign that prohibited people from getting on the horse. My reading skills weren't the best at six years old."
Confessional: Trent
“Who says a western has to end with a guy and his horse. This is the movies. The guy always gets the girl,” Trent smiled. “Meaning me.”
Confessionals End
"This is supposed to be a challenge?" Anne Maria scoffed as she walked up to the side of the horse.
"Not so fast," Chris interrupted, the shot cutting back to show the entire group. "You cowboys and cowbabes are gonna have to mount the steed from up there," he said as the camera zoomed out slightly to show the railing around the water tower a nearby ladder led up to. "Not there," the host corrected, "waaaaaay up there!" The shot zoomed out once again, showing another ladder reaching up to a diving board suspended high above the set.
"Since the Gaffers won last week they go first," Chris announced as Chase and MK shared a nervous look. "Don't worry," Chris told them, "our unpaid interns have assured us it's safe." He gave a small nod to his right, and the footage flashed back to Chef Hatchet standing on top of the diving board, stomping on the hands of a light-skinned person hanging to the edge of the board, the majority of their body off-screen.
"No! NO! AAAAAAHHH!" the intern hollered as he was forced to drop, landing with a distinct crashing sound.
"Looks safe to me," Chef said with an impish smile and a light chuckle.
The footage flashed back to the present, the camera focusing on the Gaffers, Chris, and the horse that was now standing on a red bull's eye, though still drinking contentedly.
"Hey," Ripper said, "why don't the Grips have to go first if they lost last time?"
"Because I said so!" Chris answered. "And I'm your host," he turned to the camera as a short game show-esque jingle played, "Chris McLean."
Sky sneezed again. “I didn't think much of it before, but now I know I'm seriously coming down with something.”
“We'll help you up the ladder if you want,” Chase said.
“Uh guys,” Trent walked over. “Sky really is sick. You should let her skip this one.”
His suggestion earned him an annoyed glare from Sky. “I'm capable of deciding for myself.”
Confessional: Trent
“Right, forgot,” Trent facepalmed. “She doesn't like to give up.”
Confessional Ends
"I'll be fine. I'm going up," Sky approached the ladder.
"Don't die!" Scott shouted.
“Not helping!” Sky shouted back.
The camera flashed to the swaying ladder before showing Sky pulling herself up to the top. She looked over the edge in order to plan her jump.
“Break a leg, Sky!” Trent cried out off-screen.
Confessional: Sky
“I'm about to plummet a hundred feet, so hearing that from Trent gave me a bit of encouragement,” Sky admitted happily.
Confessional Ends
"The horse isn't going to move, so might as well," Sky said before she jumped. A grin formed on her face as the camera watched her fall from below.
Confessional: MK
MK was busy watching some confessionals on her phone. “After watching the latest confessionals, I figured out that Trent is planning to throw the challenge for his team thanks to Justin.” She put the phone away. “I'll leave this alone if it means that my team won't be up for elimination.”
Confessional Ends
The viewpoint shifted to looking down on Sky as she fell towards the oblivious horse in the center of the bull's eye. Chase, Ripper, and Scott were shown watching in horror. A thud sounded as the scene cut to a close-up of the horse, which widened its eyes and whinnied at the impact.
The camera pulled out, revealing that Sky had successfully landed on the aged steed. "Are you good?" Chase asked as the shot focused on the athlete's face; she looked to have been dazed, and she fell off of the horse and onto the floor.
“Sky!” Trent rushed over to help Sky up, and they smiled at each other.
“Just be careful with my left-” Sky said before Trent grabbed her arm up. “Arm!!” the short girl yelped in pain.
Confessional: Trent
Trent stared at the camera for a few seconds before face palming himself. “Stupid!”
Confessional Ends
Trent helped Sky up by her shoulders as Chris laughed from just off-screen. "That was awesome, Sky!" The view pulled back to show the entire cast, the Grips' logo appearing above the team on the left. "Gaffers: 1; Grips, you're up!"
Sky walked past Trent as she clutched her arm, leading Trent to slump. “It's not like things can get any worse,” he moaned.
The footage flashed ahead to show Trent jumping off the diving board with his eyes closed. A strong gust of wind blew him off-course towards the fence around the landing area.
Jasmine and Justin winced as a crash was heard, and the camera cut to Trent having landed on a wooden fence post groin first and twitching. “Or maybe they can!”
"Glad it wasn't me!" Chris said as Trent walked back clutching his crotch. "Gaffers: 1; Grips: Zip! Scott, you're up!"
The footage immediately skipped ahead to Scott in mid-fall screaming. He then landed on the horse, and despite initially wobbling in shock, he shook it off. "Jackpot!" he cried.
"Way to stick the landing, Scott," Chris told him as he walked up. "Gaffers: 2; Grips: Zilch!" the host announced.
The scene moved to Millie and Anne Maria on the diving board together.
"Are you gonna jump or what?" Anne Maria asked a nervous-looking Millie. "We don't have all day!"
"I will," Millie told her as she looked over the edge of the board. "I just want to get ready for it."
"I'm givin’ you three seconds or I'm pushing you off," Anne Maria warned.
"Wait, you're going to do what?" Millie said, looking back just before Anne Maria shoved her forward. The author screamed as the camera followed her fall, cutting away to show her teammates wincing before showing that she'd landed.
"Wow, I can't believe I-" Millie began to cheer before looking up. "Gotta get off!" she said, her eyes going wide before she launched herself away from the horse and landed on her feet.
Anne Maria then landed on the horse. "Nothing to it," she said and proceeded to get off the horse.
“Why did you shove me off the diving board?!” Millie furiously scolded her teammate.
“I didn't want you chickening out on this,” Anne Maria answered.
Confessional: Millie
“Contrary to the belief, I wasn't going to quit,” Millie confessed. “I just wanted to make sure that I wouldn't land on anything other than the horse.”
Confessional: Anne Maria
“You may be calling me a hypocrite since I didn't jump off the cliff last season, but this time it's different since my tan won't get ruined at all,” Anne Maria claimed.
Confessionals End
The footage showed Chase whooping as he fell. Zooming out, he was revealed to be holding what may have been a pair of old-fashioned women's underwear above his head like a parachute. As he neared the horse, the wind picked up and blew him back up and away; his newfound screams were heard even as the camera focused on Chris and the Grips watching.
"Not the electrical wires!" Chase shrieked just before a buzzing sound and some flickering lights came from off-camera.
"Uh, McLean, are you gonna send someone to help him?" Ripper asked.
Chris began to laugh, but the footage was paused and the camera pulled out from one of the monitors in the control room; Chris was sitting at a desk in the foreground with a piece of paper in his hands and a serious look on his face. "We here at Total Drama Action," he read in an extremely stilted manner, "care about the health, and welfare, of our...," he raised the paper in front of his face, "competitors. Furthermore," he peeked back out at the camera, "no animals were hurt in the making of this show."
Back with the challenge, Justin had specs on while holding up a contract. "Uh, says right here, page thirty-seven of my Gluteus Maximus Modeling contract, I am forbidden from any form of jumping that might strain my, uh... assets," he patted his butt for his teammates to see. "Heh. Sorry!"
The horse was drinking from the now slightly-bent bucket when the scene skipped ahead again. "On a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you think our butts are going to hurt from the landing?" Brick asked as he looked down at the target area with Jasmine.
"Considering that the others come out okay, I'd say 6 decreasing to 2," Jasmine said. "We'll be fine."
"That's all I need to hear," Brick said. "Geronimo!" He jumped off the board.
“The koala says cluck to the platypus for luck!” Jasmine chanted before she jumped off as well, and the camera showed the two rapidly descending from below.
Brick landed in front of the horse while Jasmine landed on the back with a satisfied grin before looking down at her teammate. "Are you okay, mate?" Jasmine asked in concern, getting only a pained groan from Brick.
"Alright!" Chris announced as the camera pulled out to show the teams and their logos again. "The Grips now lead the Gaffers three to two! It's up to you two to break the tie!" he told MK and Ripper as he stepped closer to them. "Who wants to take one for the Gaffers?"
"Ladies first," Ripper said, dragging MK forward.
MK pursed her lips. "No no no. I insist!" She grabbed Ripper by the arm and forced him closer to the ladder. They both soon found themselves at the ladder, and glared at each other before grabbing it at the same time.
"What is with that jacket?" Ripper asked as he and MK climbed opposite sides of the ladder. "I mean, do you ever take it off even when it's hot?"
"I should be asking the same about your shirt," MK shot back before climbing on up. “It's not summer themed as well.”
Ripper continued on to the top of the ladder. "At least my shirt isn't baggy and lame like your jacket," he said.
MK snorted as they walked towards the edge of the platform. "Ripping off my jacket just to show off my body is lame." The techno grinned as Ripper walked towards her, and she tripped him off the platform. Before he fell, though, Ripper grabbed MK by the wrist and took her with him.
They were shown falling and screaming from below, but when the camera cut to the horse their screams ended abruptly before they reappeared on-screen.
"Where did they go?" Sky asked in confusion.
"Not there," Chris said as the shot zoomed out to show him and the Grips. "Waaaay up there!" The shot slightly zoomed out again, revealing that Ripper and MK had gotten caught by their shorts and pants respectively on a weather vane on top of the barn.
Ripper's shorts then began to tear. "Nacho nuggets." MK's eyes went wide as Ripper finally fell with a scream; the camera panned down just as he landed on the horse backwards.
His stunned look rapidly faded into a grin. "Booyah," Ripper said with a cocky grin. "My big weight came in handy!" He then dismounted the horse, turning his back towards the camera and showing his pixelated bare butt to the world.
Chris laughed. "Well, I guess you showed us," he said. "And by us, I mean the entire viewing audience!" Ripper growled and cracked his knuckles at the host, making him dial down his taunting. "Okay, okay. You don't gotta get my dungarees all dusty. Anywho, looks like you managed to tie things up at three a piece!" He began to walk towards the right, and the castmates slowly began to follow him. "To the next challenge, for the tiebreaker, cowpokes!"
The camera panned up as they left, stopping at MK who still hung from the weather vane. "Uhh, you're all forgetting someone!" she said loudly. "One of you will come back, right?"
(Commercial Break)

SITREP 10: UE5, IR, WMR, Testing & More!
Stilton:
Hey Folks!
Finally, another sitrep. It hasn't been without good reason for the long silence in this channel, so let's start at the beginning:

UE5 and OpenXR

In testing, we were met with an ultimatum. We encountered issues with other headsets and inputs, where one headset preferred 'X' framework and the other worked better on 'Y'.
Ultimately, it came down to whether we wished to transfer to OpenXR (the latest VR framework slowly replacing all deprecated frameworks such as OpenVR) or stick to the "deprecated" frameworks on UE4.27. With the future in mind, it did not take long for us to take a leap of faith and transfer to OpenXR as we want to keep developing Geronimo for a long time and don't want to become bottlenecked by some deprecated workflow.
While OpenXR "works" on UE4.27 (the version we used), it's in our opinion not a production ready version and comes with many issues and bugs, while also no longer being maintained for UE4. So, a UE5 project was born, migrating piece by piece back into this new project.
Fortunately, the migrating process went relatively smooth with only some minor issues here and there that could all be fixed in reasonable time.
And here we are, recording new footage from within the Steam build that's running on Unreal 5! There are still some minor things to fix, but all in all everything is up and running as it was in UE4. We have already noticed many improvements that has us very happy with the decision we made, and in testing other users also had a much better experience.

IR improvements

As showcased in the videos, IR lasers and illuminators have been improved from previous versions. There's really not much else to it.

Improved door handling

We got great feedback about our doors, and used this to much improve the door handling. It feels much better to flow through a CQB shoot house now, and handling doors has become a breeze! It's very important to us that we get doors right, as the last thing we want is for them to be frustrating to use in a CQB oriented game.

WMR

Windows Mixed Reality was one of the headsets that gave us quite the trouble, but we're happy to report it's now fully supported and is running well alongside SteamVR as OpenXR runtime.

Testing

Furthermore, we keep receiving valuable feedback about bugs, mistakes and inconsistencies which we are patching almost daily! We will be expanding the amount of testers as we go, but please note that questions for access will be ignored as we pick new testers our selves.

What's next?

Let's share a bit on what's next on our to-do list:

• Character Customization, for once and for all it's time to cross it off our list. The optimizations made a few sitreps ago have broken some items, mostly character items, and we also noticed some incorrect proportions on some items that really need to be fixed. We've created a new, much improved workflow to re-skin these items and create better looking characters. We also have some new items (which we have never showcased yet) that will make it into the game and therefore will also be added this month.
• Weapons. We'll finally have time to cross off items from the weapons list again, which should also conclude all weapon customization items. We are very excited to showcase some of the new weapons and attachments with you all once they're in!
• Virtual stock. While we have an implementation for a virtual stock currently, we plan to improve and iterate on this to create a nice, assisting virtual stock.
• Throwables. Time to add smoke grenades, regular grenades, and all the SFX and VFX that comes with them.

DISCLAIMER

• We are NOT CQB experts, so don't expect proper tactics in the footage we share! (Expect flagging)
• We are transitioning to UE5's MetaSounds, which has broken/bugged out some sounds, hence it might sound a bit strange at times (mostly with gunshots)

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https://reddit.com/link/1cjbspvideo/vemge8jdd8yc1/player
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https://reddit.com/link/1cjbspvideo/c6meljude8yc1/player

Comp: United Rugby Championship
Venue: Stadio Sergio Lanfranchi
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London	Paris	Jo'burg	New York	Sydney	Auckland
13:00	14:00	14:00	08:00	22:00	00:00

Zebre Parma	Pos	Glasgow
Lorenzo Pani	15	Josh McKay
Jacopo Trulla	14	Kyle Steyn
Franco Smith jnr.	13	Stafford McDowall
Enrico Lucchin	12	Sione Tuipulotu
Scott Gregory	11	Kyle Rowe
Geronimo Prisciantelli	10	Ross Thompson
Tomas Dominguez	9	Jamie Dobie
Danilo Fischetti	1	Allan Dell
Marco Manfredi	2	Gregor Hiddleston
Muhamed Hasa	3	Lucio Sordoni
Leonard Krumov	4	Sintu Manjezi
Dylan de Leeuw	5	Max Williamson
Guido Volpi	6	Ally Miller
Iacopo Bianchi	7	Thomas Gordon
Giacomo Ferrari	8	Henco Venter
Giampietro Ribaldi	16	Grant Stewart
Samuele Taddei	17	Nathan McBeth
Juan Pitinari	18	Zander Fagerson
Matteo Canali	19	Scott Cummings
David Sisi	20	Euan Ferrie
Ratko Jelic	21	Gregor Brown
Fetuli Paea	22	George Horne
Taina Fox-Matamua	23	Tom Jordan

I used to read loads of books till 8th grade from my school's library. But the only ones I can remember are:

1. harry potter
2. hunger games
3. percy jackson(and the others)
4. geronimo stilton
5. tom gates
6. diary of a wimpy kid

I took my sweet, sweet time to test it for a while and (at least in my case) VRR doesn't work as it should on macOS
When a game is close enough to the 120 frame rate I've chosen in the GFN app settings VRR works good (bounces around but stays close enough):
Superhot - 120 FPS
The real problem is anything below that. Kingdom Come: Deliverance for example has many frame dips and it goes from 100 to 60 FPS depending on the scene. As you can see VRR in this case simply goes crazy and bounces frequently well above the in game FPS (causing a lot of jittering):
KC:D around 100 FPS
KC:D around 60 FPS
Fallout 4 is even worse, the stream locks perfectly at 60 FPS but VRR doesn't, even if I've set 60FPS in the app settings
Fallout 4 - 60FPS
This "bouncing" of the Hz (especially hitting the max 175) is supposed to happen when the FPS go below the range my monitor supports (48-175hz) but in all this cases we're well within the VRR range so I dont really get what's going on 😅
I've taken a look in the geronimo.log file and GFN seems to detect my monitor's VRR range perfectly:
INFO [OSXAsyncVideoFrameRenderer] {EC96FAC0} - Display 2 "Odyssey G85SB" vsyncInterval: 5715us maxVsyncInterval: 20833us
5715us=174.97hz and 20833us=48.00hz, spot on (even if I'm a bit confused, shouldn't maxVsyncInterval be 174 rather than the minimum 48hz?)
I've tested my setup with other apps and games and VRR works perfectly, for example here I've set the rendering @ 60 FPS and the monitor syncs perfectly:
Using a test app native VRR works perfectly, syncing 60 FPS to 60Hz without bouncing
I've gone back playing with VRR and adaptive sync turned off, for the time being (again, for my setup at least) it's not worth it

Comp: United Rugby Championship
Venue: The Sportsground
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London	Paris	Jo'burg	New York	Sydney	Auckland
19:35	20:35	20:35	14:35	04:35	06:35

Connacht	Pos	Zebre Parma
Shane Jennings	15	Lorenzo Pani
John Porch	14	Jacopo Trulla
Tom Farrell	13	Scott Gregory
Bundee Aki	12	Fetuli Paea
Andrew Smith.	11	Simone Gesi
JJ Hanrahan	10	Geronimo Prisciantelli
Matthew Devine	9	Gonzalo Garcia
Jordan Duggan	1	Muhamed Hasa
Dave Heffernan	2	Giampietro Ribaldi
Finlay Bealham	3	Juan Pitinari
Joe Joyce	4	Leonard Krumov
Niall Murray	5	Andrea Zambonin
Shamus Hurley-Langton	6	Guido Volpi
Conor Oliver	7	Davide Ruggeri
Sean F O Brien	8	Giovanni Licata
Tadgh McElroy	16	Tommaso Di Bartolomeo
Peter Dooley	17	Danilo Fischetti
Sam Illo	18	Riccardo Genovese
Oisin Dowling	19	Matteo Canali
Jarrad Butler	20	Iacopo Bianchi
Caolin Blade	21	Tomas Dominguez
Cathal Forde	22	Franco Smith jnr.
Paul Boyle	23	Enrico Lucchin

For me it's gotta be one of my favorite pitchers and famous mariachi singer, Miguel Gonzalez. He was clutch in our 2012 run, including Game 3 that we should have won.
Tip of the the cap to Gregg Olson and Geronimo Gil.

The "OPM Divas: The Rusical" Challenge Results are in!
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Sasha Velour has won the "Play a round of Ten-Twenty Talon Beki, a Chinese Garter game" Mini Challenge!
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After the challenge, Carmen Farala, Jiggly Caliente & Sasha Velour are declared safe. The remaining queens all step to the back of the stage, leaving the tops and bottoms to hear their critiques.

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ON THE MAINSTAGE...
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DeDe Licious receives negative critiques from the judges. The problem with DeDe as Regine Velasquez was that she wasn't well-equated with Regine, so her persona seemed off. She tried her hardest to make funny movements with her mouth, but it made the actual lipsyncing of her performance seem awkward, especially because she did many things that Regine didn't do. Especially with Regine guest judging this challenge, it's hard not to do well when you can copy her faces. Her pearl runway is also a letdown, with her titty bib getting in the way of a gorgeous pearl wedding dress.
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Hellena Malditta receives positive critiques from the judges. Her performance as Sarah Geronimo was simply incredible, capturing her energy in the performance perfectly. It was like she came alive on stage, having the exact facial movements down and her precise persona both on and off stage. She is a performer who pays close attention to detail because she tries her hardest to capture all her little isms. Her pearls runway is also incredible, opening the clam on the runway to reveal herself as such a beautiful gag that left them stunned.
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Kiki Coe receives negative critiques from the judges. Kiki is doing great when it comes to the runway since her pearls look stunning, dripping in pearls at every corner and looking like a mythical creature as she goes down the runway, dropping all sorts of pearls, looking like the actual clam itself. The issue is that she keeps faltering in the performances week after week. This rusical performance was incredibly disappointing since she had such a strong characterization of Sharon. Still, there were so many spot-on performances that it did nothing for her when she stayed pretty one note.
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Loosey Laduca receives positive critiques from the judges. Lea Salonga wasn't a role the judges thought Loosey would be doing well in, but she did fantastic. From the moment she walked out, the judges laughed at her characterization because the movements of her mouth mixed with her characterization of Lea being a genius move for her to do. She captured so many iconic things about Lea, absolutely impressing them with how hilarious her impersonation of her was. Her runway this week, however, lets them down due to its simplicity, with a simple white bridesmaid dress with pearls.
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Piche receives negative critiques from the judges. Piche is usually such an electric performer that they're unsure what happened. They think that she tried to exaggerate Jaya's moves so much to be funny while still trying to remain Piche enough without letting herself get lost in the character. She never settled into being Jaya and tried to find the middle ground between Jaya & Piche, resulting in a messy, rusical performance, especially with their short segments. Piche is commended for another beautiful fashion runway with this nude pearl illusion, but the pearls wash into her skin.
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Silvanna Della Magliana receives positive critiques from the judges. Silvanna murdered this role. Having to start the show, they knew Silvanna had a lot on her shoulders, especially after two controversially bad weeks. However, she rose above the odds and settled into this auntie performance, making them laugh with her hilarious interpretation of Pilita. They know she's been waiting for a moment to flex her skills comedically, so this was the perfect opportunity. Her pearls runway is also surprisingly good, taking it camp with making herself a fried oyster.

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AFTER DELIBERATION...
WIN: Hellena Malditta
HIGH: Loosey Laduca / Silvanna Della Magliana
SAFE: Carmen Farala / Jiggly Caliente / Sasha Velour
LOW: Piche
BOTTOM 2: DeDe Licious / Kiki Coe
The Bottom Two Queens will Lip-Sync for Their Lives to "Shine" by Regine Velasquez. This is their Last Chance to impress Paolo Ballesteros and save themselves from Elimination. Good Luck, and Don't Fuck It Up!
POLL / Track Record

The results of the Lip-Sync are in!
Princess Poppy and Sylvanna Della Maglianna Lip-Sync to "Glamazon" by RuPaul. Poppy prowls along the stage, bringing her troll look to life. She gives a look around with her horrific face and then suddenly breaks into some disco dance moves, looking ridiculous and having the judges erupt into laughter. Meanwhile, Sylvanna is grooving around like your fun aunt that has had one too many glasses of red wine. As the song progresses Poppy is still doing the same moves from earlier, twerking poorly on purpose as Mama Pao raises an eyebrow. Jiggly says in a confessional that she doesn't understand why Poppy is attempting to go for a satirical performance when that didn't work out for her in the main challenge. Dede states that she is rooting for Sylvanna who is "actually lowkey serving for her age".
Sylvanna Della Maglianna, shantay you stay!
Princess Poppy, you popped off! But ate, you did not. Sorry to burst your bubble. Sashay away... (10th Place)

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Philippines S1x04: "OPM Divas: The Rusical"

Synopsis: The queens pay homage to the female icons of Original Filipino Music (OPM) in the first ever Philippine Rusical. Asia’s Songbird, Regine Velasquez-Alcasid guest judges. (Rusical Challenge).
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Mini Challenge: Play a round of Ten-Twenty Talon Beki, a Chinese Garter game.
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OPM Divas: The Rusical

Contestant	Diva
Carmen Farala	Moira Della Torre
Dede Licious	Regine Velasquez
Hellena Malditta	Sarah Geronimo
Jiggly Caliente	Jolina Magdangal
Kiki Coe	Sharon Cuneta
Loosey LaDuca	Lea Salonga
Piche	Jaya
Sasha Velour	Zsa Zsa Padilla
Sylvanna Della Maglianna	Pilita Corrales

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Runway Theme: Perlas ng Silanganan (Pearl Of The East)
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POLL / Track Record