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THE BROKEN LINE BEST game ever on the Internet and I'll never be the same. The game/contest lasted about 3 1/2 months, from October til Jan. 15th, 1997.
Over 40,000 players were registered, all trying to win the 5 vehicles offered to the top 5 players.
There was a chat area in the game called 'The Pitstop'. It was broken into a few different rooms, but the the die-hards among us slummed at 'The Breakdown Bar'. Here we were in competition with each other , trying to rack up the most milage points by rescueing stranded players who had to come to the pitstop to ask for a tow etc. I met the most terrific people playing that game.
Competition or not, this game brought out the best. My now good bud Bev (Stu2dogBev in the BL game) scored the highest actual miles in the game. Not too shabby when you figure over 40,000 were playing! Not to be outdone, (well, ok..but only by Bev), I came in with the second highest mileage. Our good pals Suze (AKA HwyCruzer) and CS (CSteeves) were somewhere in the top ten or twenty.
Five of us had the great good fortune to meet last Summer at my place in Boston. Bev came all the way from Washington State (compliments of some round-trip tickets she won for coming in first place in the msn Netwits game); Suze drove up from Atlanta in her Cruzer and CS and Tj drove down from upper Mass. We may have broken a record for number of Mudslides consumed, but that hasn't been verified yet. I took Bev and Suze on a Boston tour and we even got to the Vinyard one day. If anyone out there EVER finds ANYTHING even remotely similar to The Broken Line Game, please..please..please.. let us know, will ya?
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