All the way to the day MonkeyRoyale closed I tried my best to make sure every tournament had enough players no matter what the entry fee was or what game it was. I joined any tournament in any game as much as I can. I played all those games and I can really say I enjoyed myself. Royal side also had gin50, doms50 and cribbage61 leagues The following games we played at one time or another. But slowly they canceled some of the games due to lack of interest in the games and the cheating by some players especially in pool. MonkeyRoyale had many games that we played on Yahoo. I missed most of them but I went to the last 2 reunions before MonkeyRoyale closed. I also noticed a button for banana rama which is where all players from all over the world who are members can meet in person and play live tournaments. Later on I will let you know where the idea of split tournaments came from. We did not have any flags on our wall except for the ones for TDs. Owners were allowed to do their TD center though. Russ stopped it after few years because it was slowing down the server. League owners were allowed to create their league pages and there there some beautiful pages. Any player who is at least 21 years of age and has the bux can bid. And if they were caught breaking a major infractions than they lost their leagues. Pretty much many leagues got away with many infractions. Some leagues used to wait up to an hour to get 4 players. Since there was so much competition, we had problems getting at least 4 players in our tournaments. The cost was 25 dollars per league and you had to be 21 years of age. I loved hosting all the way to the end of MonkeyRoyale. I had lot of fun and on at least one occasion I ran a 24 hour marathon with just me and themonkeymidget without either one of us sleeping. Back then we had ruby tournaments and those were fun but eventually they did away with them. I was running 50 to 100 tournaments a month. I became famous by titling my tournament Cribs with Bambi. TDs were allowed to put a title on their tournament and create their own pages. I would come to find out that MonkeyRoyale used to be called Ladder Monkeys. My favorite format during training was survivor. I started my training immediately and finished all ten in 2 days. At the time Diving-gal was operation, and we had no league manager in the Jungle, and I added Russ of course. Puffie and themonkeymidget wanted me to get my training done asap because at the time they had 2 TDs. It did not take me long to learn all of them. I was accepted within minutes of applying.īefore I go any further I will post here what all the short cuts for words mean on the internet: Back than you had to do 10 training tournaments. She explained it to me and I agreed to apply. Of course I had no idea what that meant, LOL. Anyways, puffie messaged me and asked me if I would be interested in becoming a TD. I just could not imagine a real person on the other end. The first time I spoke to someone on the messenger I was convinced that I was talking to a robot. She showed me where to download a messenger and how to add people to it so we can chat. Puffie who was an administrator asked me if I had a Messenger and I told her no. My bux were running low after just 3 days of joining and I was about to give u p on the site. I had always chatted in lobby or at the tables. I had never heard of Yahoo messenger for chatting. The first tournament I joined was Cribbage in family leagues. I read all the rules and learned how to join a tournament. A week later I decided to check out MonkeyRoyale and joined them. I wrote down the site and figured some day I would check it out. One night while waiting for players to join my table I saw someone typing about Monkeyroyale. For the most part I never really read the lobby and was concentrating on my game. I did not know anything about all the short cuts of typing but slowly started learning them. I will let you know later how I ended up eventually with the ID Darlene. I created my ID and was playing Pinochle about 14 hours a day. Someone mentioned to me Yahoo so I went to the site and found what I was looking for. I started looking for a site that might have Pinochle because it was my favorite game. I started playing on MSN and played mostly backgammon. I chose that ID because my daughter's favorite movie was Bambi. Most people might not remember me but my original Yahoo ID. I loved the site from day one that I joined in 2003. I am writing this story about MonkeyRoyale, my experience, and my memories. I came to United States in 1977 and I am an American citizen. I do not like my birth name and changed it on here. My name is Majida Ajami, but everyone knows me by Darlene Johnson. I will start this post with a little about me. BUT NOT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING IN THIS FOR ANYONE. THIS BLOG IS ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE AND WHAT I WITNESSED DURING MY YEARS ON MONKEYROYALE.
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