I've finally fixed the grand champion point system.  Here’s how they are calculated now…

1st – The “Best Champion” (best champion cat in the breed) will get points for each champion in the breed that it has beaten. If there are 11 champions counting itself, it will get 10 points. If it is the only champion it will get 0 points.

2nd – Any Champion or Premier placing in the top ten (or five) Bests in Show will receive points towards Grand Championship or Grand Premiership. The highest placing Champion or Premier will receive one point for every benched Champion or Premier defeated. The second highest placing Champion or Premier will receive 90% of the points awarded the highest placing Champion or Premier, third highest 80%, fourth highest 70% and 5th highest 60%, etc. In all cases, fractional points .5 and greater will be rounded to the next higher number.

(yes, that’s a copy/paste because it’s hard to say)

We're also going back and recalculating points for shows held after 9-22-06.  Any cats that have unearned championships will be able to keep them unless the owner requests the opportunity to earn it properly.

Offers on Showdog and Showcats now properly expire three days after they are made.

We have fixed an idiotic problem in transaction logging that has increased the speed of logging transactions by 32 times.  This was the root of the original sessions issue, the rest of the problems came from me trying to fix the issue without knowing what the real problem was.

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Sessions WILL work by 1AM tonight.  I will stay up to watch them and make sure.

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We have setup the system to properly refund unrewarded show payouts after the show runs now. For example, if a payout is added for Winners Dog in a show where no dog earns Winners Dog, the sponsor now gets the payout back properly.

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Due to the recent session issues, show sponsors getting paid for some back shows, $50k in unearned show awards getting refunded, and the usual economics of the site, salaries will be low for a few days.

All subscribers have had their sessions/salary setting reset so they can switch to sessions if they wish.

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Removed the admin account from daily salary calculations.

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Users are now reset to 5 sessions/1 salary five days after they drop to basic.

In case you are wondering what the dog shirts look like, we got our Pugs to pose last night...

All Sites

Fixed a couple dozen very minor errors that typically only came up when people tried to get too smart with the URLs or linked to invalid URLs from chat/forums.

Showcats and Showdog

I think I've fixed an issue that came up every now and then on stud approvals when the dog/cat has been removed from stud before being approved.

Showcattle

Fixed the problem that prevented some features sales from being setup due to excessively long sale names.

Well, after Laura was given a clothing stipend to buy stuff, I figured it was time for me to try out our CafePress merchandise.  I ordered a few sweatshirts, a golf shirt, and two dog t-shirts.  I have no clue if the dog shirts are going to be the right size, I ordered larges for our two 17 lb Pugs.  The little dog on the site said it was a 10lb dog and the medium was pretty tight on him.

Long story short, I'll finally post some pictures of what I look like when we get the merchandise in.