Midnight blockade history

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This is a brief history of blockades in the Midnight Ocean. Blockade winners are indicated in bold. All blockades without defenders (uncolonized) or a Brigand King are sinking. All blockades with a player defender and player contenders are non-sinking unless noted otherwise. All dates represent the day (in PST/PDT timezone) that the first round began. Only official contenders and defenders are listed. Contenders' allies are not listed, nor are unallied defenders.

Before release 2004-12-11, blockades ran a maximum of 12 rounds. A contender needed 7 rounds to win the island. Once it became mathematically impossible for any contender to win, the blockade ended. For example, if the defender won 6 rounds, the blockade was over.

Starting release 2004-12-11, blockades run for a maximum of 5 rounds. A contender needs 3 rounds to win the island.

Key
Image:Contender.png Contender
Image:Defender.png Defender
Sinking
Non-sinking
Brigand King

2004

April 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
April 29 0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - The Jolly Company

  • First island to be blockaded.
1 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Tyr's Own

 


May 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
May 1

  • All blockades started on this day were completed in two parts due to server problems.
  • Wrasse was blockaded by of doom and Innuendo, but the blockade was aborted after the server crashed.

6 - Defender - Vilya

2 - Contender - Hell's Outcasts

  • First blockade of a colonized island.
  • First successful defense.
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Looterati

 
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Eccezionale

 
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Imperio

 
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - of doom

 
May 5 0 - Defender - none

6 - Contender - Rudder Hell
6 - Contender - Bloody Seas

  • First blockade to go the full 12 rounds.
  • First blockade to have two contenders.
May 7 ? - Defender - none

? - Contender - Ayliv
? - Contender - Rudder Hell

  • First island to be blockaded twice.
  • Papaya was closed for blockades for six months after this.
May 8 0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Cold Steel

 
1 - Defender - Vilya

7 - Contender - Midnight Armada

  • First successful blockade of a colonized island.
May 15 0 - Defender - Vilya

7 - Contender - Crimson Tide
1 - Contender - Nyx's Scions

 
May 21 0 - Defender - Vilya

3 - Contender - Equinox
7 - Contender - Black Sails

 
May 28 6 - Defender - Looterati

0 - Contender - Tyr's Own

  • First blockade of a player-controlled island.


June 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
June 3
Winter II
Artemis' Revenge
3 - Defender - Midnight Armada

0 - Contender - Brew Works

  • Sinking blockade.
  • Blockade ended after three rounds.
  • Brew Works was disbanded before the blockade started.
June 25 6 - Defender - Vilya

0 - Contender - Mercenaries

 
0 - Defender - Vilya

7 - Contender - Equinox

 


July 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
July 17 0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Rogues' Pact

 
July 23 6 - Defender - Tyr's Own

1 - Contender - DOOFIS

 
Jorvik III
6 - Defender - Looterati

0 - Contender - Tyr's Own

  • First island to be blockaded three times.
6 - Defender - Cold Steel

1 - Contender - Pirates of Roundtable

  • Sinking blockade.
July 24
Eta I
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Silver Dawn

 
July 31
Epsilon I
Fun blockade
? - Defender - Vilya

? - Contender - various

  • War chest was only one PoE.
  • Regardless of scoring, Vilya was guaranteed to win.
  • Due to technical difficultes, the blockade was finished at Gaea.


August 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
August 7 0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Widows and Orphans

  • First outpost island colonized.
August 8 0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Ragnarok

 
August 13
August 14
Xi I
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Crimson Tide

 
August 15 6 - Defender - Death's Banner

3 - Contender - Free Turtle

 
August 21
  • Park I and Oyster II were timed to run simultaneously.
6 - Defender - Eccezionale

0 - Contender - Ship for Brains

 
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Midnight Armada

  • First time that one flag has owned two islands simultaneously.
Turtle III
0 - Defender - Death's Banner

7 - Contender - Turtle's Own

 
August 23
August 28 6 - Defender - none

2 - Contender - Widows and Orphans

 
August 29 6 - Defender - none

3 - Contender - Royale Fortune

 


September 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
September 3
September 4
Endurance I
Tedv's Grudge Match
0 - Defender - Goths

7 - Contender - The White Tree

 
September 11 5 - Defender - none

1 - Contender - Tyr's Own
1 - Contender - Trans-Atlantic Empire

 
September 15 5 - Defender - none

0 - Contender - Heros of Midnight
7 - Contender - Blood Eagles

  • First island to be won in the twelfth round.
September 17
Park II
6 - Defender - Midnight Armada

0 - Contender - Buri Armada

 
Winter III
6 - Defender - Midnight Armada

0 - Contender - Buri Armada

 
Oyster III
6 - Defender - Nidiata Dei Draghi

1 - Contender - Nidiata Dei Buri

 
September 18 0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - of doom
0 - Contender - Midnight Horizon

  • First time that a flag has controlled two previously uncolonized islands.
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Trans-Atlantic Empire
0 - Contender - Tyr's Own

  • Tyr's Own dropped a war chest moments before round four began.
September 23 0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Lunar Bin

 
September 25
Nu I
0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Epic
0 - Contender - The Pirate Mafia

 


October 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
October 2
0 - Defender - none

0 - Contender - No Homers
1 - Contender - Ruby Phoenix
7 - Contender - Carpe Noctem

  • First blockade with three contenders (excluding Epsilon I).
Nu II
6 - Defender - Epic

2 - Contender - Saga

 
6 - Defender - Trans-Atlantic Empire

3 - Contender - Trans-Pacific Empire

 
October 9 6 - Defender - Trans-Atlantic Empire

0 - Contender - Sea The Constellation

  • First island to be blockaded four times.
0 - Defender - none

2 - Contender - Allied Foundation
7 - Contender - Water Sleeps

 
October 16 0 - Defender - none

0 - Contender - The High Seas Bounty
0 - Contender - Chaotic Crimelords
7 - Contender - Fear and Loathing

 
October 21
October 22 6 - Defender - Trans-Atlantic Empire

0 - Contender - DOOFIS

  • First island to be blockaded five times.
October 23 0 - Defender - none

7 - Contender - Boochin Katfish
3 - Contender - Skulls and Sticks

 
October 24
Remora III
0 - Defender - Blood Eagles

7 - Contender - Allied Foundation

  • First island to be taken from another player-controlled flag via blockade.
October 29 6 - Defender - Black Sails

1 - Contender - Scallywag Syndicate

  • Sinking blockade.


November 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
November 6
Papaya III
2 - Defender - none

0 - Contender - Technicolor Armada
7 - Contender - Don't Panic

 
1 - Defender - Black Sails

7 - Contender - Scallywag Syndicate

  • Sinking blockade
  • First large island to be taken from another player-controlled flag via blockade.
0 - Defender - Fear and Loathing

7 - Contender - Dream Reapers

 
November 9
Eta II
0 - Defender - Silver Dawn

0 - Contender - Silver Dusk
7 - Contender - Merciless Exploit of War

  • Sinking blockade.
  • Silver Dawn reciprocated only Merciless Exploit of War's declaration of war.
November 13
Gaea II
2 - Defender - Vilya

7 - Contender - No Homers
0 - Contender - Warriors of the World

  • First time that all available islands have been under player control (excluding when only Emperor and Byrne were available). Gaea was available for twenty-nine weeks.
November 20
Alpha I
Fun Blockade
6 - Defender - Vilya

0 - Contender - Cereal Killers

  • Regardless of scoring, Vilya was guaranteed to win.
November 21
6 - Defender - The Jolly Company

1 - Contender - Ayliv

 
6 - Defender - The Jolly Company

0 - Contender - Free Tinga

 


December 2004

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
December 11 3 - Defender - Avalon

0 - Contender - Put Up or Shut Up

  • Sinking blockade.
  • First blockade with a maximum of five rounds instead of twelve.
December 19
Zeta II
3 - Defender - of doom

0 - Contender - Scallywag Syndicate

 
December 20


2005

January 2005

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
January 4
January 8
Tinga III
3 - Defender - Of Convenience

1 - Contender - Running with Scissors

 
January 9
Zeta III
3 - Defender - of doom

2 - Contender - Scallywag Syndicate

 
January 15
1 - Defender - Of Convenience

3 - Contender - Running with Scissors

 
January 17
January 22
Orca II
3 - Defender - Widows and Orphans

0 - Contender - The Midnight Sun

 
January 26
January 27
January 29
Nu III
3 - Defender - Epic

0 - Contender - Notorious Fandango

 
January 30


February 2005

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
February 6 3 - Defender - Allied Foundation

0 - Contender - Notorious Fandango

 
0 - Defender - Final Stand

3 - Contender - The Midnight Sun

  • Final Stand disbanded after the war chest was dropped, but before the blockade started.
February 12
Zeta IV
0 - Defender - Bloodmoon Immortals

3 - Contender - Lost Legacy

 
February 19
Orca III
3 - Defender - DeathDrakkar

0 - Contender - Fusion

 
February 26 3 - Defender - The Jolly Company

2 - Contender - Avalon

  • Sinking blockade.
2 - Defender - Ragnarok

1 - Contender - Black Sheep Brigade
2 - Contender - Notorious Fandango

 
February 27
Gaea III
3 - Defender - No Homers

0 - Contender - Carpe Nox

  • Sinking blockade.


March 2005

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
March 13
0 - Defender - The Midnight Sun

3 - Contender - No Homers
2 - Contender - Notorious Fandango

  • Sinking blockade.
  • The Midnight Sun reciprocated only No Homers' declaration of war.
3 - Defender - Looterati

0 - Contender - Scallywag Syndycate

  • Sinking blockade.
3 - Defender - Carpe Noctem

0 - Contender - Scallywag Syndycate

  • Sinking blockade.
0 - Defender - Lost Legacy

3 - Contender - Carpe Noctem

 
March 14
March 19 3 - Defender - Scallywag Syndicate

0 - Contender - Harbingers

 
March 29


April 2005

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
April 2 3 - Defender - Seraph's Nightmare

0 - Contender - The Uprising

 
April 7
April 9 3 - Defender - Elysian Fields

0 - Contender - Blockade Practice

 
3 - Defender - Scuppering Seven Seas

1 - Contender - Raptus Regaliter

 
April 10 1 - Defender - Looterati

3 - Contender - Scallywag Syndicate

 
Guava III
1 - Defender - Rudder Revolution

0 - Contender - Booty Grabberss
3 - Contender - Booty Grabbers

  • Sinking blockade.
  • Rudder Revolution reciprocated both declarations of war.
Cleo II
3 - Defender - Boochin Katfish

0 - Contender - Dark Judgement

 
April 16 0 - Defender - Allied Foundation

3 - Contender - Death Before Dishonor

  • Sinking blockade.
0 - Defender - Scallywag Syndicate

0 - Contender - Saga
3 - Contender - Looterati

  • First island to be blockaded six times.
  • Scallywag Syndicate reciprocated Looterati's delaration of war shortly before the third round, making it a sinking blockade.
April 17
Spring III
3 - Defender - Avalon

0 - Contender - Notorious Fandango
0 - Contender - Excalibur

  • Excalibur dropped a war chest before the third round, and Avalon reciprocated the declaration of war, making it a sinking blockade.
April 23
Byrne III
3 - Defender - Tyr's Own

0 - Contender - Midnight Armada

 
Gaea IV
Event Blockade
3 - Defender - No Homers

0 - Contender - Yes Homers

  • Yes Homers was disbanded immediately after the war chest was dropped.
April 30 3 - Defender - Avalon

0 - Contender - Imperio

  • Sinking blockade.
0 - Defender - Booty Grabbers

3 - Contender - Unholy

 


May 2005

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
May 1
Eta III
0 - Defender - Merciless Exploit of War

3 - Contender - Scallywag Syndycate

  • Sinking blockade.
May 3
May 8
  • Eta IV and Jorvik VII were timed to run simultaneously.
Eta IV
1 - Defender - Scallywag Syndycate

3 - Contender - Silver Dawn

  • Sinking blockade.
Jorvik VII
3 - Defender - Looterati

1 - Contender - Notorious Fandango

  • First island to be blockaded seven times.
May 16
May 23
May 26
May 28 0 - Defender - none

3 - Contender - Avalon

 
Jorvik VIII
1 - Defender - Looterati

0 - Contender - Water's Edge

  • First island to be blockaded eight times.
  • Sinking blockade.
  • Blockade was terminated after one round by mutual agreement of the flag monarchs.


June 2005

Date Blockade Flags & Scores Notes
June 2
  • The palace at Cnossos crumbled due to non-payment of taxes. The island became uncolonized.
June 3
June 4 0 - Defender - none

3 - Contender - Raptus Regaliter
1 - Contender - Dead Parrots Society

 
1 - Defender - Unholy

3 - Contender - Notorious Fandango

 
1 - Defender - Looterati

3 - Contender - M A D

  • First island to be blockaded nine times.
  • Sinking blockade.
June 10 1 - Defender - Vilya

3 - Contender - BRC

  • Sinking blockade.
June 15
June 18 3 - Defender - Don't Panic

0 -