jujube159

Shenkuu because Japan. lol
If I didn't support them, it'd be Moltara because steampunk and volcanoes.

I joined the Lost Desert team because I like the colors - honestly, I don't actually care if my team wins or not. I'm going to play the games for fun and try to get a decent individual ranking, but I'm not feeling super competitive about it.

Granny, it could very well be that all the items don't fit certain pets.  For instance, I have painted, morphed and zapped my pets over the years and have acquired a whole host of different items for them.  So, when I am customizing my Lenny, her desert items will show up but my pirate draik items will not nor will my desert acara items.  When I go to customize my pink draik, then my pirate draik items show up but my desert Lenny/acara items don't.  Don't even ask me why I put the coconut jubjub watch into my closet, LMBO, as I don't even have a jubjub.  Never did.  (Actually, I think I FINALLY got rid of that, but it was in there for a while).  So yes, you probably have a lot of clothing, but only some will show up as you are customizing CERTAIN pets.  When you switch over, other clothes should show up.  Hope that clears things up a little.  But come to think of it, I do have a LOT of items in my closet as well, and it doesn't seem like they are AVAILABLE to me during customizing, but who knows.  LOL 

Well, I don't know. I had thought maybe that was the reason. I even set the settings to *all*  in customization. I do know though that there are even backgrounds that show up when I go to my closet through my inventory and they do not show up when I go to customize my pet(s). Below are my settings. I have also tried configuring several different ways.
Item View: closet
Source: all
Species: all
Zones: all
The Availability: is greyed out and can not be changed.

Everyone's right about picking their teams. Just go with whichever land, or team roster you find appealing. I've been a Maraqua supporter since the first AC. Last year, they finally made it to the podium! The games DO get tedious and a bit boring after awhile. So I try to find ways to challenge myself a bit more. In the case of Yooyuball, mainly the game I play. I try to see how many goals I can make in a single game. My best is 17-0. But over the last two ACs, I think I've only gotten that 4 times. So now I'm trying to see if 18 points in a game is possible.
I also have developed a habit of taking a screenshot of the scoreboard of every time I score 10 or more points in a game. Not so I can PROVE my scores, unless it's to TNT for getting some kind of submission error. That was HOW it started, but now I mainly do it for my own records. I may not get in a ton of YYB games played, I've only made All-star ONCE, in these many years. But my Goals and Goals per game average is pretty good.
Also, the more goals I score, the more I help Maraqua's forward, move up in the Goals per game Average. There are NO prizes associated with that ranking, but it's fun to try and get him higher. ?

The main thing I dislike about YYB, aside from how long it feels when playing, is Maraqua's goalie. Either he tends to miss the Yooyuball entirely, or he fights the controls and misses.
An interesting trick though, to score a goal WITH the GOALIE. Works best to have a Fire Yooyu, and grab the enlarging power-up. If the goalie has the yooyu and if nobody intercepts his shot, the yooyu CAN fly across the field into the opponent's net. This will count toward the point total IN the game.. BUT, it does NOT count in your ranking stats, neither in total goals, nor does the goalie get a bit of text saying he scored a goal. So it's a pretty pointless trick, but it's kind of fun because it isn't something that you'd think was possible. lol ?

Good luck with deciding on a team. ? And best of luck in the AC in general!

People cheat just because, I guess it's a mindset thing? Some people will and don't understand why others don't, while some won't and don't understand why others do.
This pretty much covers it for me. Each year I fervently hope Shenkuu doesn't get picked by the cheaters (which is, of course, wishing them on someone else ?) but apart from that I know there's nothing I can do about ANY of it so there's no point letting it bother me, so I should just "enjoy" myself. I say it like that because a lot of frustration is part and parcel of any AC. ?
 
There's cheating forum communities out there on the interwubs who participate in the AC every year. All the Neo players on the site will join the same AC team and they use bots to send multiple scores.
I don't think there'll be a majority for the AC, I think the majority of us make a more personal choice for this contest and tend to stick with it though thick and thin. So we're not gonna be much help to you there, lol.
They DO do something, many people get frozen every AC, hopefully most of them legitimately even. Ofc the ones shouting the loudest are quite possibly the most guilty because that's humans for you, but there you go. But TNT will be ready and waiting for the cheaters, how successfully they manage to deal with them remains to be seen. There's always going to be collateral damage in situation like this, if they can minimise that that's the best they can hope for, I suppose.

Yo.... what the heck? ! I'm so far out of the loop I didnt know there were cheaters!??!?  So thats why my Kiko lake did good ? ????? I dont get it. Was there really that much reason to cheat??  A trophy? A few points?  How can you get whole groups to choose to cheat?   Well whatever the majority of TDN'ers  vote for in the poll thats who I am going to represent this year. 

Thank you so much, everyone! I'm kinda glad it doesn't really matter who wins. So now I'll just go by the colors and ?
I was originally thinking Maraqua, but they have all male players!

I think I'm going with Faerieland-I love the colors, the land, and there are 3 female players! 

Thank you so much, everyone! I'm kinda glad it doesn't really matter who wins. So now I'll just go by the colors and ?
I was originally thinking Maraqua, but they have all male players!

I think I'm going with Faerieland-I love the colors, the land, and there are 3 female players! 

This was fun at first, but now it is just annoying.  I don't battle in Battledome. Never have.  I don't want to spend a fortune in NP to get potions, because everyone has jacked up the prices on the components.  They need to wind this up or give the pacifists on Neopets another way to play.