			       REVELATiON  2
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                     ---=====( In This Issues )=====---
                                                       
                1>- Introduction        4>- Interviews 
                                                       
                2>- Scene News          5>- Group Report
                                                       
                3>- Articles            6>- Closing Statement
                                                       
               ---=====( Introduction to Revelation )=====---

	Okay welcome to the new Revelation 2. Yes, name is 100% biased.
	We seem to have a lot of people enjoying the magazine. I'm glad
	to hear that. We still *really* need people to do articles and
	interviews. Talk to me on EFNet. - DIAM0ND

                       ---=====( Scene News )=====---

	Game Groups-

		<*> DiViNE released Gun Metal "FINAL" today. With the gayest
		pre I have ever seen. It was a damn circus. Couriers getting
		disks of the release on theirs HQs beating out the pre'r on
		like 70% of it. Also a screw up before the pre even started
		with dirs being made on DVN HQs by non-DVN members.

		<*> Also keeping with DiViNE. They made a lot of statements
		about PDM being crap by releasing a beta. And good ole DVN
		is here to save the day. The Hole couldn't even hold all the
		crap and betas they released. Need I mention Monster Beta
		Madness or the oversized CIH Commander? I think not. Rule #1
		with a track record like yours, don't bag on other groups.

	Utils Groups -

		<*> No news this week...

	Cracking Groups -

		<*> No news this week...
		

	Courier Groups -

		<*> New group started, or is that old group restarted. Well AOD
		is in action. With exRiSC people and a few others. Morbid, Fain
		Geno, X-Frog and others make the all-star line up. Isn't AOD and
		all these couriers from rocky or failed courier groups and/or
		rocky or failed couriers themselves? Well they seem to have gotten
		off to a good start this week on sites. Maybe two wrongs makes do
		in fact make a right.

	Couriers -

		<*> mgd has left DiMENSiON for reasons he has asked that I not
		disclose to the public. So you keep on guessing and I'll have
		have fun knowing.

		<*> Several new people have joined Motiv8 this week. Just as has
		happened before, most left or are close to at the end of the
		week. What have we learned? Don't make promises you can't keep.

	Sites -

		<*> MF had picked up VGN sometime this week or a while ago. Well
		whenever they got it I missed it. Anyways, they're on it now.

		<*> Last week IC dumped RAZOR USHQ in favor of CLASS USCHQ. At
		this time I have no clue why. Maybe the lack of releases. Well
		RAZOR also picked up DL as HQ the same week. So they look to
		be doing fine with that.

		<*> New site up. ADDiCTiON or ADN for short. Still awaiting three
		9Gb SCSI harddrives on order. And a change in daemon. It is up now
		if you'd like to get added. Revelation WCHQ is the only affil so
		far. PARADiGM, MANiFEST, etc were possiblities last I heard. Top
		traders only will be added. If your not on the best, your not one
		the guys on the userbase.

                <*> WOC is still not up. I've lost all hope.

		<*> A new E3 NL site should be up by the time you read this or soon
		after. Its already got Revelation EHQ affil. CLASS, DOD, BLiZZARD
		and a few others were also possiblities. I was hoping it would be
		up now, but configuration problems have delayed it.

		<*> Prime Mover, or PM for short, a highly respect US site with
		Revelation, Reflux, Siege and Blizzard as affils has gone down
		permeantly. Seems the box owner got fired from his job, at this
		time the reason is know *not* to be related to running a site.

		<*> DWH has picked up the SiEGE USHQ affil after PM's demise.

		<*> TWH picks up MASSiVE WHQ affil. Adding to the Reflux HQ spot
		they also recently acquired. On the downside, MASSiVE just got
		done releasing a 64 disk clipart nuke. Not the best when they
		just got a site as nice as TWH for an affil.

		*** NOTE: Unlike Sky, I prefer not get my news from TCA ***

                      ---=====( Site Weektop )=====---

	New site rankings. Some sites are down for good. Others are getting good.

	I added this part which lists all ranked sites and their affils. This may
	not be 100% accurate and if you find anything wrong message me. I may add
	other nonranked sites later, but I doubt it. Anyways I hope you enjoy it.

	One last addition was the alltime group and courier scores. If their is a
	change in a sites X ranking it will not affect alltime. This bit is added
	up using previous issues of RVL2 with the Top 30 and Top 15 sections.

		SiTE RANKiNGS:

			  3X> E - ET - FS - HOL - STH - TWH
			  2X> DL - FF - IC - MW - ROC - TDR
			  1X> DWH - LA - MD - MSV - PL - TT

		SiTE AFFiLS:

	ADN = REVELATiON WCHQ
	DL  = DiMENSiON USHQ - XFORCE USHQ - MANiFEST USCHQ - RAZOR HQ
	DWH = EQUALiTY USHQ - CORE USHQ - HiD USHQ
	E   = DiViNE WHQ
	ET  = DEVOTiON WHQ - PARADiGM WHQ
	FF  = DEVOTiON HQ - RC HQ - PFT CHQ
	FOS = RiSC HQ - DOD GHQ - UCF EHQ - RAZOR 1911 GHQ - BACKLASH WHQ
	FS  = DEVOTiON HQ - PFT WHQ - GRS WHQ - CLASS WHQ
	HDS = DiMENSiON WHQ - RiSE WHQ - PFT WHQ - MANiFEST WHQ - CLASS CHQ - TRG WHQ
	HOL = RiSC HQ - XFORCE HQ - DSi HQ - RADiUM HQ - REFLUX HQ
	IC  = DEVOTiON USHQ - SiEGE WCHQ - TRPS WCHQ - CLASS USCHQ
	LA  = RiSC HQ - DOD HQ - RAZOR HQ
	MD  = NGT USHQ - RSR USHQ - FALLEN USHQ
	MRG = REVELATiON EHQ
	MSV = DEVOTiON HQ - PREMiERE HQ - BLiZZARD WHQ
	PL  = PREMiERE HQ - DSi HQ
	PM  = REVELATiON USHQ - SiEGE USHQ - BLiZZARD USHQ - REFLUX USHQ
	ROC = EQUALiTY WHQ - XFORCE CHQ - FCN EHQ - CORE WHQ - DSi HQ - DiViNE MHQ
	STH = VENGEANCE WHQ - SiEGE HQ
	TT  = DEVOTiON HQ - PFT HQ - CORE HQ
	TWH = EQUALiTY EHQ - SHOCK WHQ - NOBLiEGE WHQ - CORE EHQ - MASSiVE WHQ - REFLUX HQ
	 

				WEEKTOP SCORES

	,------------------------------------------------------------.
	| RANK - COURiER NAME - GROUP - POiNTS - SiTES WEEKTOPPED    |
        |------+--------------+-------+--------+---------------------|
        | #001 - Kruzin       - MNM   -  192  - All of them, I think |
        | #002 - TC           - VGN   -  180  - E/FS/HOL/MW/STH/TWH..|
        | #003 - Garoto       - DEV   -  169  - E/ET/FF/FS/IC/MSV/MW.|
        | #004 - Stix         - DMS   -  131  - E/ET/FS/HOL/IC/MW/TDR|
        | #005 - Sneeze       - DEV   -  125  - DL/ET/FS/IC/MW/STH...|
        | #006 - Godbless     - NGT   -  108  - E/FF/FS/HOL/MD/MW/STH|
        | #007 - Darkman      - AMB   -  107  - ET/FF/FS/IC/STH/TDR  |
        | #008 - MrPumpkin    - DMS   -  078  - E/HOL/ROC            |
        | #009 - MoonSabre    - DMS   -  068  - ET/FF/IC/MSV/ROC/TWH.|
        : #010 - Toadie       - AMB   -  065  - E/FS/MSV/ROC/STH/TWH.|
        . #011 - mgd          - IND   -  063  - FF/FS/STH            |
          #012 - X-Frog       - AOD   -  052  - E/HOL/MW/ROC/TWH     |
        . #013 - pyx          - AMB   -  039  - ET/HOL/MSV/PL/STH/TDR|
        : #014 - Slammar      - IND   -  036  - ET/FS                |
        | #015 - kj           - RVL   -  031  - IC/MD/TWH            |
        | #016 - mad          - IND   -  031  - ET/FF/IC/STH         |
        | #017 - sacX         - MNM   -  028  - DWH/PL/ROC/TWH       |
        | #018 - Basec|w      - NGT   -  025  - HOL/MSV/MW/PL/ROC    |
        | #019 - Officedog    - RiSC  -  018  - MSV/MW/PL            |
        | #020 - Pixie        - EQL   -  015  - TWH                  |
        | #021 - xRex         - EQL   -  014  - ROC/TDR              :
        | #022 - Xavier       - DMS   -  012  - HOL                  .
        | #023 - Skully       - M8    -  012  - TWH
        | #024 - GregK        - RVL   -  011  - MD/TWH               .
        | #025 - Insanity     - PHX   -  011  - DWH/MD               :
        | #026 - Norseman     - DEV   -  011  - ET/FF                |
        | #028 - Brain        - RiSC  -  011  - E/FF                 |
        | #027 - Dizzy        - EQL   -  010  - DWH                  |
        | #029 - Shitman      - PHX   -  009  - DWH                  |
        | #030 - Xtremist     - DMS   -  009  - PL                   |
        `------------------------------------------------------------'

	,------------------------------------------------------------.
	| RANK - GROUP NAME - TOP TRADER - POiNTS - SiTES SUPPORTED  |
	|------+------------+------------+--------+------------------|
	| #001 - DEVOTiON   -  Garoto    -  305   - FF/FS/IC/HOL/MSV.|
        : #002 - DiMENSiON  -  STiX      -  302   - E/FF/FS/HOL/STH..|
        . #003 - MiLLENiUM  -  Kruzin    -  226   - E/ET/FS/STH/TWH..|
          #004 - AMBiTiON   -  Darkman   -  211   - ET/FF/FS/IC/STH..|
        . #005 - VENGEANCE  -  TC        -  180   - E/FS/HOL/STH/TWH.|
        : #006 - iNDPENDANT -  mgd       -  171   - ET/FF/IC/STH/TWH.|
        | #007 - NGT        -  Godbless  -  141   - E/FF/FS/MD/MW/STH|
        | #008 - AOD        -  X-Frog    -  052   - E/HOL/MW/ROC/TWH |
        | #009 - EQUALiTY   -  Pixie     -  050   - DWH/ROC/TDR/TWH  |
        | #010 - REVELATiON -  kj        -  045   - DWH/IC/MD/TWH    :
	| #011 - RiSC       -  Officedog -  029   - E/FF/MSV/MW/PL   .
	| #012 - PHOENiX    -  Insanity  -  021   - DWH/MD
	| #013 - MOTiV8     -  Skully    -  016   - TDR/TWH          .
	| #014 - RTS        -  dlgr      -  010   - DWH/MD/MSV       :
	| #015 - None       -  None      -  000   -                  |
        `------------------------------------------------------------'

				ALLTIME SCORES
		(Note: User alltime is not done yet, group is)
	,------------------------------------------------------------.
	| RANK - COURiER NAME - GROUP - POiNTS - SiTES WEEKTOPPED    |
        |------+--------------+-------+--------+---------------------|
        | #001 - Snap         - EQL   -  274  - All of them, I think |
        | #002 - Roller       - MNM   -  199  - E/ET/FS/HOL/STH/TWH..|
        | #003 - Sneeze       - DEV   -  111  - E/ET/FF/FS/HOL/IC/STH|
        | #004 - Stix         - DMS   -  100  - DL/ET/FS/HOL/IC/STH  |
        | #005 - Officedog    - RiSC  -  93   - E/FS/HOL/IC/PL/STH/..|
        | #006 - Baseclw      - NGT   -  92   - FF/HOL/IC/PL/ROC/STH |
        | #007 - Kruzin       - MNM   -  84   - FOS/HOL/PL/ROC/TT    |
        | #008 - SacX         - MNM   -  69   - DWH/FOS/FS/PL/ROC/TWH|
        | #009 - Aldog        - fATE  -  66   - MSV/STH/TT/TWH       |
        : #010 - Bizzy        - RiSC  -  60   - DL/E/HOL/ROC         |
        . #011 - mgd          - DMS   -  56   - FS/IC/STH            |
          #012 - Moonsabre    - AMB   -  55   - FS/FOS/PL/TT/TWH     |
        . #013 - godbless     - NGT   -  51   - DWH/E/FF/FOS/IC/MSV/.|
        : #014 - roc          - VGN   -  46   - DWH/E/FF/HOL/STH     |
        | #015 - Diamond      - RVL   -  41   - DL/DWH/IC/PM/TWH     |
        | #016 - Darkman      - AMB   -  40   - DL/ET/FS             |
        | #017 - Slammar      - M8    -  28   - ET/HOL/IC            |
        | #018 - Unkept       - INT   -  28   - HOL/MSV/ROC/TWH      |
        | #019 - Lester       - DMS   -  27   - E/FS/LA/MSV          |
        | #020 - Shitman      - PHX   -  26   - DL/DWH/PM            |
        | #021 - dthangel     - fATE  -  21   - PL/STH               :
        | #022 - silentjoe    - DMS   -  20   - IC                   .
        | #023 - En4          - MNM   -  18   - FOS                   
        | #024 - Shock        - IND   -  18   - ROC                  .
        | #025 - Serialkil    - ESP   -  17   - MSV/PM               :
        | #026 - Dizzy        - EQL   -  16   - ROC                  |
        | #028 - Fusionnet    - IND   -  16   - TT                   |
        | #027 - Xavier       - DMS   -  15   - ET                   |
        | #029 - Eyedee       - IND   -  14   - TT                   |
        | #030 - Psyber       - MNM   -  14   - DL/ET/LA             |
        `------------------------------------------------------------'

	,------------------------------------------------------------.
	| RANK - GROUP NAME - TOP TRADER - POiNTS - SiTES SUPPORTED  |
	|------+------------+------------+--------+------------------|
	| #001 - DiMENSiON  -  STiX      -  1138  -                  |
        : #002 - DEVOTiON   -  Garoto    -  1130  -                  |
        . #003 - MiLLENNiUM -  Roller    -  1083  -                  |
          #004 - EQUALiTY   -  Snap      -  792   -                  |
        . #005 - RiSC       -  Morbid    -  434   -                  |
        : #006 - NGT        -  Godbless  -  425   -                  |
        | #007 - AMBiTiON   -  Moonsabre -  494   -                  |
        | #008 - VENGEANCE  -  TC        -  329   -                  |
        | #009 - iNDEPENDANT-  Grad      -  325   -                  |
        | #010 - REVELATiON -  Diamond   -  286   -                  :
	| #011 - fATE       -  Aldog     -  95    -                  .
	| #012 - MOTiV8     -  Slammar   -  76    -
	| #013 - PHOENiX    -  Shitman   -  70    -                  .
	| #014 - RTS        -  Toadie    -  52    -                  :
	| #015 - ESPRiT     -  Serialkil -  37    -                  |
        `------------------------------------------------------------'

                        ---=====( Articles )=====---

			No articles this week

                       ---=====( Interviews )=====---

			No interviews this week

                      ---=====( Group Report )=====---

	A while ago someone critized me about not having the balls to talk bad or
	otherwise about a group in this section. Well this is not NWR. My report
	has a different purpose. It is not here to make fun of any group. I made
	this so group leaders may read it and see what they could do to improve
	how good they are doing. The main hope of this section is to help couriers
	and group leaders. So do not tell me I don't have the guts to bag on people.

		GROUP NAME: AMBiTiON
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #04
		GROUP ALUP: #07
		GROUP RANK: #06

	Toadie, which they picked up from RTS a while ago, has done some nice couriering
	for them. Darkman also got a lot of points this week, putting them where they are
	now. Saw a bit from pyx as well, but I really doubt we'll see this much action
	from AMBiTiON next week.

		GROUP NAME: AOD
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #08
		GROUP ALUP: #XX
		GROUP RANK: #XX

	If X-Frog didn't do his lil 52 points I would have never know they were back. I
	dunno about this group. Everyone in it is from a failed or failing group. Not the
	best if you ask me. They'll probally prove me wrong, which will be good.

		GROUP NAME: DEVOTiON
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #01
		GROUP ALUP: #02
		GROUP RANK: #01

	Garoto the courier and Sneeze the pre'r. That's all we ever seem to see from DEV,
	maybe the occasional Norseman pres to. Well it seems to be all they need, this
	two man team made Devotion the #1 group in the scene, this week, let's see if
	this will keep going or what.

		GROUP NAME: DiMENSiON
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #02
		GROUP ALUP: #01
		GROUP RANK: #02

	As usual STiX leads the pack putting up the most points for DiMENSiON, MrPumpkin
	and MoonSabre did their fair share this week as well. The loss of mgd kept them
	from #1 weektop and #1 group. If they can get Xtremist doing anything in the 40+
	point range they'll easily get both number one spots.

		GROUP NAME: EQUALiTY
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #09
		GROUP ALUP: #04
		GROUP RANK: #04

	What the hell happened? Lucky for EQL a site OP did some couriering and got them
	15 points. Snap, Shock and xRex also did a bit. Not much tho. How much they rely
	on Snap is really showing thru this week.

		GROUP NAME: ESPRiT
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #XX
		GROUP ALUP: #15
		GROUP RANK: #15

	Only in here because no other group has knocked them out of alltime. Never see
	any ESPRiT traders anywhere. They said they were dead once, shoulda stayed that
	way because I doubt they will ever do anything more than what's going on now.

		GROUP NAME: fATE
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #XX
		GROUP ALUP: #11
		GROUP RANK: #13

	Completely gone this week, not a single point by anybody.

		GROUP NAME: iNDPENDANT
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #06
		GROUP ALUP: #09
		GROUP RANK: #10

	MGD joins in the IND fun this week.

		GROUP NAME: MiLLeNiUM
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #03
		GROUP ALUP: #03
		GROUP RANK: #03

	Hoorah! Look at Kruzin go. He scored an excellect 192 points this week making him
	the number one courier. Saw some action from sacX and sitez too. Roller seems to
	be gone for good. They better keep Kruzier, because: no Kruzin = no MiLLENiUM.

		GROUP NAME: MOTiV8
		GROUP TYPE: COURIER
		GROUP WKUP: #13
		GROUP ALUP: #12
		GROUP RANK: #12

	Join for a week and leave the next, hard to rate these guy's stats.

		GROUP NAME: NGT
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #07
		GROUP ALUP: #06
		GROUP RANK: #07

	Basec|w has slowed down quiet a bit. Godbless is the only thing keeping them going.
	Each week I say this, which is kinda funny, they are in the exact same spot as MNM.
	If the loose Godbless, they're done. Really have their only points coming from him.
	I added MD to ranked sites, which really helped them out a lot, only did this since
	PM went down.

		GROUP NAME: PHOENiX
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #12
		GROUP ALUP: #13
		GROUP RANK: #11

	Same three guys every single week. Insanity, dolt and Shitman. Never see anyone
	else out couriering for PHX, atleast not on the ranked sites.

		GROUP NAME: REVELATiON
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #10
		GROUP ALUP: #10
		GROUP RANK: #09

	Diamond has been idle for the past two weeks. Which has really hurt these guys.
	KJ got came to the rescue and got some nice points. Nothing real super, gonna
	need an ejection of turbo-boost or they go bye-bye.

		GROUP NAME: RTS
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #10
		GROUP ALUP: #
		GROUP RANK: #14

	A little work by about 4 or so couriers got them a measely ten points this week.
	They are gonna need a lot more than that to stay around in the scene. I'd still
	suggest getting some more RTS guys on the ranked sites listed above.

		GROUP NAME: RiSC
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #11
		GROUP ALUP: #05
		GROUP RANK: #08

	Lost morbid to AOD. Officedog not doing what he used to in DeMoN, nothing from
	Lethal this week ethier. So basically RiSC is screwed again, going no where.
	I doubt we ever see these guys come back.

		GROUP NAME: VENGEANCE
		GROUP TYPE: COURiER
		GROUP WKUP: #05
		GROUP ALUP: #08
		GROUP RANK: #05

	Ehh, courier group? More like TC with a kickass name next to him. He really rocked
	the sites this week. Getting 180 points, but it's this way every week. We either
	see roc or tc trade. I'm starting to wonder what all those other names in the info
	are for, hmmm...

                    ---=====( Closing Statement )=====---

	I said this in the Intro and you obviously saw the lack of articles
	and interviews. Therefore we need people to do this stuff for us.
	So if you can help out in anyway, including collecting weektops, as
	we missed a few this week. Please talk to me right away! - DIAM0ND

 [ISSUE #4][RELEASE: 09/01/1998][CREATOR/SENIOR EDITOR: DIAM0ND][EDITOR: BIOHZARD]
