The Dark Brotherhood has benefited from an outstanding year of new leadership emerging from our ranks. These new leaders have utilized their real world skills and applied them to the business of making the Dark Jedi Brotherhood a more exceptional place to be. Of these new leaders, none are more deserving of a promotion than our Fist, Sith Battlemaster Valhavoc. Since assuming the duties of Fist, Val has worked tirelessly to communicate our club's gaming objectives, provide transparency on his decision making process for selecting new games, and improve gaming systems. Val's recent work resulted in faster CF turn around, new systems within the Dark Brotherhood website for gaming staff, and the updating of CF reward tables to ensure fairness concerning effort to reward ratios.
Val is truly an exceptional member and leader within the Dark Brotherhood. He is level headed, funny, and capable of handling crisis situations with poise an elan. We are lucky to have him within our club and even more lucky to have him commit to serving on our Dark Council. Val, thanks for all your work and dedication!
GM Pravus, Voice of the Dark Brotherhood
Seven months ago Valhavoc was an Aedile of House Qel-Droma. In the time since then he served as Quaestor before moving into his current position as Fist of the Brotherhood. Among the many things he has accomplished in his current position include: rebuilding the DB's TOR guild, managing all the July gaming events for the Dark Crusade, rebalancing the CF award rate for Diablo 3 and TOR operations, and large variety of of other tasks. He worked closely with James to ensure that the gaming portal built into the new website met the needs of the Fist staff and the club as a whole.
The results of his work are easy to see, even for someone who is not a very active gamer in this club (like me). The awarding of CFs has rarely been smoother. The number of games and gaming platforms that are supported for activity in the club is expanding. And it is under Valhavoc's leadership that this has taken place.
Thank you for your leadership, ideas, and service, Valhavoc. Congratulations on your promotion!
Kalen Aquillarum, Master At Arms of the Dark Brotherhood
Once upon a time, members would be promoted just for getting appointed to a position on the Dark COuncil. Having the nerve and the moxy to get nominated was enough for many to consider them worthy of these higher ranks. Nowadays, things are a bit different. We choose to let people earn their ranks with actions, not just the promise of action.
Valhavoc came into a mess. Although his predecessor had done many good things in his tenure, they were all but washed away by the circumstances that led to his retirement. This left a lot of work to be done. Gaming servers had to be sourced and hired. The rites of combat and even the awarding schemata needed to be adjusted, balanced, fine-tuned. Valhavoc dove right in. He didn't make sweeping declarations or come up with grandiose plans... he just went in to fix what needed fixing. His adjustment from clan life to Council life has been solid. He's embraced the culture shift and the differences that come witht he territory, and he's made himself not only the subject matter expert, but also an indispensable part of the team. Not just as a contributor, but as an advisor, and a voice of reason when dealing with hot tempers.
I looked up Valhavoc's dossier a little while ago. He is marked as a Battlemaster, an Equite 2. I am frankly surprised that he hasn't already been promoted. I recommend that this be remedied as soon as possible. He's been performing at a high level, and I suspect that if he continues, the Brotherhood will gain mightily from his stewardship of gaming and whatever else he may seek to improve.
Val, please accept this promotion as a token of our appreciation for what you do. Thank you.
Muz Ashen, Dark Lord of the Sith
I have had the pleasure of hiring many outstanding and talented members for key positions throughout the club. I have to say Valhavoc has been one of the most impressive and successful Dark Councilors I have ever seen. Val has stepped up to all the pressure and responsibility therein and not just met the challenge, but exceeded it.
In the past there has been a tendency for Dark Councilors to become stagnant in their positions. We sometimes forget that Fist is about more than just gaming. Voice is about more than just writing. So on and so forth. We sometimes forget to push the boundaries of what the last occupant of the position did.
Not so with Val.
Val took up his new position and immediately recognized the potential for improvement, expansion, and innovation. One of his most recognizable achievements immediately upon taking the office were the improvements to the way we award Clusters of Fire. Overnight, Val greatly reduced the turn-around time for awarding these important Gaming achievements and simultaneously increased the fairness by which they are processed.
He has also explored and implemented new games and platforms for Gaming competitions at all levels. Recognizing the importance of mobile connectivity, Val has run a number of mobile-based gaming events to explore the potential of this increasingly critical means of interaction with our membership. These events have been very popular and are sure to become a new standard activity for the club.
As well as ushering in the new, Val has gone back and revisited the old. Immediately upon taking office he was faced with the problem of securing new servers for some of our staple games such as Jedi Academy and Jedi Outcast. He undertook the financial burden of this duty without so much as a word and also personally resolved the many technical glitches that resulted.
He has also begun an ongoing revision of the sometimes nebulous and confusing Rites of Combat. Val continues to work on all this while supporting the colossal Dark Crusade Vendetta with well-received gaming events, scoring, tracking, and a great deal of help outside his Gaming purview. He has made that process far easier and more fun for the rest of us involved and is almost always the first to report his scores.
If Valhavoc was impressive at the House and Clan level, I can personally attest to him being even more impressive at the Dark Council level. I can see plainly now why Val rose so far so quickly. It has been a pleasure to have him on the DC with us and I look forward to what is yet to come from the office of the Fist.
Val, please accept this promotion on behalf of a grateful Brotherhood.
Raken, Deputy Grand Master
Raken, 2013-10-11 19:25:11 UTC