And we're open!

Update!

All stations have been reserved!

What does this mean?

Your line operators will be in touch with you to get your GA links.
The deadline for submissions is the 11th at 23:00 UTC.
We need to get them so we can fill in the sheet and then generate all the train links!

Thank each and everyone of you who signed up or helped bump the thread, or encouraged us, etc.

Special Thanks to all the Line Operators!

Without both sets of people, we couldn't make this happen :D

-humbled by the participation-

If you're just seeing this now and still want to contribute, contact me directly. Extremely Limited Options Available

So now, it's time for... the Berlin train system... the tariff zone which operates them is known as the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg... ehh... we'll go with:

Let's Train! Berlin S+U Bahn Linien Netz: Ich bin ein Berliner Edition!

For the past couple weeks, I've been spear-heading a new event to be hosted by Let's Train. First, we had the London Underground, and then at the beginning of this year, we had the 2k16 Bundle Dump Express. If you know anything about me, you know I spent time abroad, and fell in love with Europe while studying abroad.

There are two main network systems that make up the majority of the train systems in Berlin.

The U-Bahn short for Untergrundbahn had its named copied by the S-Bahn (formerly known as the Stadt-, Ring- and Vorortbahenen).

These two networks make up 334 stations that people use to get around the capital city of Berlin. However, just like with London there are overlaps due to connections. This makes a total of 480 stations for GAs. There are 10 U-Bahn lines, and 15 S-Bahn lines (though some of the S-Bahn lines are deviations from a main line).

Now, we've already started making GAs and at this time some lines are totally fully by line operators. However, we still have 225 available spots for people to sign up for.

Wait, what do you mean sign up?

• Yeah, we saved spots for everyone to contribute!
• Click on one of the Signup Doodles, you can enter your name, and check off as many or as little stations as you want.
• If you have questions, just ask, and any of us will be glad to help :)

Here's a map of the Network: Berlin S+U Linien Netz

You have until the 11th of April to signup for your stations and create GAs, contact your line operator and give them the links and station names.

The lines to sign up for and who to contact once you've signed up are as follows:

U-Bahn Signups

S-Bahn Signups

Rules for contributions:

• All Giveaways must be Invite Only
• No region restricted GAs
• Giveaways must start no later than April 14th at 12:00 UTC <-- UTC Converter Link
• Giveaways must end on May 1st at 12:00 UTC <-- UTC Converter Link
• Level is up to you. We encourage lower levels so more can participate, but ultimately it's your call.
• SGTools is not allowed for Main Stations (see note below)
• Bundled or nonbundled games are fine, but we encourage nonbundled if possible
• Blacklists are allowed - Just leave the drama out of the event please.
• (i.e. don't signup for a line where you know the operator has you blacklisted, or you have blacklisted.)

Don't want to use the UTC converter links? You can use these GAs as an example.

Want a script to handle it for you? Sets correct time and date, invite only, and sets to level 1. Berlin Script by Per3zat

That being said, can you link other GAs to the train? Absolutely!
We encourage it. For example, I personally may make a few offshoots from the train, that have something to do with my time in Berlin (which may or may not contain a puzzle).
Do you need to do that? Absolutely not. However, if you want to make a SGTools protected Giveaway, this would be the way to do it.

Once we have all the giveaways created the Line Operators will contact you to give you description text to copy into the top of your giveaway descriptions.

The 12th through the 14th is when we are hoping to get all the descriptions back to you... after that we'll check all the GAs and make sure the links are all correct.

We are looking to have the official opening start the 17th of April at 12:00 UTC.

A special thank you goes out to Per3zat for encouraging me and supporting my desire to help set this up and recruiting people.

Another belongs to jbmccune for dealing with my endless questions to help design the backend allowing all the volunteers to easily do their jobs.

Thanks to Sinovera for fixing all my silly mistakes and helping with some links I was too tired to handle myself.

And finally, I would like to thank all the people who so quickly volunteered to be Line Operators and are volunteering their time and energy to help make this happen!

On a personal note, I took a break from SG to take care of some personal matters and I can now officially say I'm certified to Teach English as a Foreign Language! Time for me to get going and get myself abroad again!

I don't think I should be "Thanking" Budgie for this... I asked her for advice... she said we needed an "I want you" Poster....

And this is what she gave me.... goes to get clippers to clip her feathers

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