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This is a kind of essay about how sissyfight is a continually evolving game with three versions: sissyfight2000; sissyfight2001 and sissyfight2002. If I'm right, you'd better wade through it if you want to know what's in store for sissy this year!!

           Sissyfight 2000: Year of the Playground

   Sissyfight in 2000 was a game that revolved around events on the playground. People discussed how to play it, how to win it, how to make friends and be popular, glosseries on sissyfighting lingo, appropriate playground etiquette and early intellectual argument concerned the psychological effect of sissyfighter names and facial features. Getting a weekly or all-time ranking position, or achieving a high win percentage, was at the heart of most sissy's enthusiasm for the game at this time (although sissies like the Bob33333 gang were well-loved on the playground for taking the game in the opposite direction: always losing, albeit on purpose).

   Sissyfight in 2000, therefore, was a game where most players were judged in gaming prestige terms on their skills and grace on the playground first, all other factors second. (In fact, factors like board writing skill or attributes of person behind the player were barely considered at all by majority of players). Respect, in sissyfight2000, by and large was won on the playground.

   Thus, the early sissyfight message boards (RamonaQ's board and this board) were initially servant to the events of the game on the playground. Discussion that filled these early boards was most often connected to events that had occurred on the playground; what potentially could occur on the playground; or analysis of playground activity. "Cloners", "multisessioners", "instant messengers" and "pottymouthed" (scubaSTEVE) players were at the centre of early controversies. These involved many scandals (Audrey Horne, Chukkkkky, Suzanne) which, combined with other issues of dispute, led to players to reflect on the nature of the playground game's ethics (helping to set foundations for the Honor Code) and its point system (Elita).

   In Sissyfightv2000 scores and disputes were often settled arbitrarily on the playground. Disrespect for other players was regularly expressed through the cloning of them. Multisessioning also become a significant problem as the year progressed. This came about particularly to break constraints of the unfair point system, which basically biased time spent playing over skill of players involved. Multisessioning was important and rampant because a place on the rankings tables was seen as the holy grail of prestigious achievements in sissyfightv2000. In response to revisionist and discontented activism many "old school" players fought to guard their acclaimed ranking positions and formed "cheater-hunting" groups and "self-protection" rackets. On the boards they dismissed any need whatsoever to change the sissyfight points system, and usually referred to all the disruptive elements as the result of an influx of "newbies", not the game's point system itself. On the playground multisessioners and "pottymouths" (variously defined) began to get harassed in an organised manner

   Partly in response to the system and "old school" elite activity, on the fledgling mass boards revolutions sprouted up (Gramsci) and the very beginnings of Clan movements could be seen: both which sought to improve the lot for individual players with respect to their gaming lives on the playground. By the autumn of sissyfight2000, however, the game on the playground was in a bad state. Many sissies often wrote on the boards of being "absolutely sickened" by growing disputes over the nature of the game, the cloning and multisessioning within it, and particularly over suspicions of highly-ranked "cheaters" and "cloners" (e.g. citygurl=dum). By the end of sissyfight in 2000 the players were divided: many of the "old school" said the game's glory days were passed, problems with the server looked never ending and antagonised everyone, and the playground was getting more corrupted than ever according to many of the more revisionist and newer players.