Altador Cup Lore Preservation Post
Ah, Altador Cup lore; there is a lot of it, it is messy and most egregiously - its preservation is in a less than a stellar state. For TNT it's hardly been a priority and as a result it has been up to us fans to try to keep whatever information we can. This post will be a collection of my contributions towards this effort.
I'm hardly tech savvy, just a single woman armed with the wayback machine, the printscreen button and stubbornness. In an ideal world I would be able to give you every press-release and blurb for every team from AC 1 til now (AC: the grey year as of time of writing), but with my current tools and leads that sadly is not the case and for that I can only apologise. Below will be a collection of links to other posts I have made in my effort to catalogue all this information. Consider this a master post of sorts (the teams being ordered numerically rather than alphabetically), but firstly; time to clarify some terminology. What is a blurb? A team blurb is the written description of the team that you would get upon clicking their icon on the sign-up page. These have existed since the very first Altador Cup.
What is a press-release? Press-releases are short pieces of writing that they started doing in the lead-up to AC 6. These are often done in the style of a reporter writing an article or doing an interveiw of a team player and so forth. These are done before the Altador cup itself starts and is thusly different from the blurbs.
What is a "sunnyneo blurb"? To put it simply; telling the difference from blurb and press-release can be difficult. Even more so when my main source of post-AC 6 information - the Neopets fansite Sunnyneo - also fails to differentiate the two. When I label something as a "sunnyneo blurb" its basically me saying "I cannot tell which category this one falls under"
What is Pinkpt? Pinkpt is an old neopets wiki that is - as of time of writing - currently unavailable. I started collecting these as they were the only way to read some AC 1 info. While I eventually managed to recover all AC 1 blurbs and player info I still find these to be valuable if only for comparisons sake. Side note: since many of these are old they may not be up to date when it comes to things like player transfers. For the sake of visual cohesion I will be keeping players of the same uniform together even if that player currently plays for another team (i.e Timu's page will be under AL even though she currently plays for SK) These are the instances where I have been unable to recover neither blurb nor press-release and thusly those years will not be shown in their respective posts. The missing info is: KI 4, KD 4, LD 15, RI 4 and TY 18.
Be it the lore enthusiasts, the fanfic researchers or just the plain old curious - may this information serve useful to whomever may need it for whatever reason.
(Please check the pinned post on my blog for part 2 that includes the last 3 teams + some bonus AC 1 info)
Part 2 because Heaven Forbid I get to have things nicely organised
UPDATE: The links should work now, but I had to remove the links to the AC goal poses to get it to post. Hopefully it should all be functioning properly now
UPDATE 2: Thanks to altadorheadcanons I've been able to add more press-releases + properly categorise some more. Huzzah!
UPDATE 3: Almost all the Press-releases for AC 6 & 7 have been uncovered! (AL 6 being the missing one).
