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Monday, October 19

• All day: Official opening of The Liberty Gala

• All day: Opening of Defender Tapestry event

• All day: Defender Games Sign Ups Open

• 8 PM EDT (12 AM UTC): Evening Games - Among Us

• All day: Opening of Card Collection events

Tuesday, October 20

• All day: Opening of Card Collection events

• All day: Opening of Character Contest

• 1:30 PM EDT (5:30 PM UTC): Evening Game Series - Cards Against Humanity

• 10 AM EDT (2 PM UTC): Defender Games Sign Ups Close and Teams are Assigned

• All day: Defender Games Team Name and Team Flag contests and Team Captain elections begin
  

Wednesday, October 21

• All day: Why We Defend panel hosted on Discord

• All day: Start of TIC Nation Creation Contest

Thursday, October 22

• All day: Conga Line visits Spiritus's Discord Server -- Potato Cook Out

• All day: Beginning of Security Council Events

  • 6 PM EDT (10 PM UTC): Highlighting the Importance of the Security Council AMA with Kuriko

• 8 PM EDT (12 AM UTC): Evening Game Series - Skribbl.io

• 12 AM (4 AM October 23 UTC) [Major Update]: Defender Games Game of Telephone begins

Friday, October 23

• 12 AM EDT (4 AM October 24 UTC) [Major Update]: Defender Update Training Open House

Saturday, October 24

• All day: Conga Line visits The Union of Democratic States's Discord Server

  • 6 PM EDT (10 PM UTC): Among Us Game in UDS Server

• 12 PM (4 PM UTC): Defender Update Training Open House

• 12 AM (4 AM October 25 UTC) [Major Update]: Defender Games Detag with Chasing

• 1:30 PM EDT (5:30 PM UTC): Evening Game Series - Werewolves hosted on The Liberty Gala's Discord

Sunday, October 25

• All day: Conga Line visits 10000 Islands's Discord Server

• All day: Announcement of Defender Family Tree

• 12 AM (4 AM October 26 UTC) [Major Update]: Defender Games Detag with Chasing (begins before the pile-off)

• 12 AM (4 AM October 26 UTC) [Major Update]: Defender Games Pile-off begins

Monday, October 26

• All day: Release of Numero Capitan's Essay "The Early Days of the South Pacific - Defending, Democracy and Security".

• 12 PM (4 PM UTC) [Minor Update]: Defender Games Individual Triggered Jumps Contest

• 8 PM EDT (12 AM UTC): Season 1 Anime Daisuki Pull Event

Tuesday, October 27

• All day: Begin discussion for Defender Awards

• 9 PM EDT (1 AM UTC October 28): Evening Games - Among Us

• 12 AM (4 AM October 28 UTC) [Major Update]: Defender Games Individual Chasing

Wednesday, October 28

• All day: Conga Line visits The South Pacific's Discord Server

• 12 PM (4 PM UTC) [Minor Update]: Defender Games Individual Triggering Contest

Thursday, October 29

• 11:59 PM EDT (3:59 AM UTC October 30): End discussion for Defender Awards

• 8 PM EDT (12 AM UTC): Evening Game Series - Skribbl.io

• 11:59 PM EDT (3:59 AM UTC): Card Collections Due; Winners Poll Opens

• 12 AM (4 AM October 30 UTC) [Major Update]: Defender Games Pile-off Ends

Friday, October 30

• All day: Defender Tapestry entries close

• All day: Defender Family Tree entries close

• 12 PM EDT (4 AM UTC October 31) [Major Update]: Group Detag Run

Saturday, October 31

• All day: Conga Line visits The Order of The Grey Wardens's Discord Server

• 12 PM (4 PM UTC) [Minor Update]: Defender Games Team Detag and Chase

Sunday, November 1

• All day: Announce winners of Character Contest

• All day: Release of Defender History Panel as a Dispatch

Wednesday, November 18

• Reveals of artwork for Character Contest winners

• The Conga Line: The Conga Line is an effort to allow Gala guests to visit other regions' Discord servers and meet their people. Please be kind and courteous while visiting.

• Character Contest: Design a character and we'll draw it!

• Defender Games: Take some time to come compete against your fellow defenders, try out new things, and have some fun during update with challenges and games! These games will be broken up into 3 different components: team, individual, and regional as well as be hosted during both minor and major, depending on the day. This should allow the maximum amount of people to participate and provide a wide variety of experiences of what defending looks like.

• Defender History Events

  • Defender History Essay: Numero Capitan has written an essay about defender history that will be shared as part of the event.

  • Defender Tapestry: A visual representation of defender history, the Tapestry will sew together the timeline of the Regional Sovereignty cause, aiming to represent each organization the way they wish to be remembered.

  • Defender Family Tree: The Defender Family Tree traces the history of defender mentors and mentees.

• Evening Game Series: On some evenings, we'll be hosting a casual game on our Discord which anyone is welcome to join!

• Trading Card Events: Using the NS Trading Cards feature, we'll be hosting three collecting contests and a pull event. Two collecting contests will focus on defending -- one on collecting defender switchers and another on collecting influential defenders. Another contest will focus on creatively compiling cards obtained from packs opened during a detag run. And finally there will be a pull event for Season 1 Anime Daisuki. As always, there will be trading card rewards.

• Why We Defend panel: The Why We Defend panel will focus on outlining a call to arms for defenders and defending in NationStates.

• Nation Creation Contest: A fun way to play an issues-focused game competitive, the TIC Nation Creation Contest involves ejecting the bottom ranking puppets in each daily World Census Report ranking until a winner can be crowned!

• Advocating Defender Values in the Security Council: This will include an instructive essay/Q&A from the most prolific Security Council author in history Kuriko followed by a group effort to write and pass a WA Security Council Commendation for a prominent defender.

• Defender Awards: A classic!

Don't want to use Discord but still want to participate in The Liberty Gala? Here are the events that are easy for you to participate in!

• All of the Trading Cards events

• The Nation Creation Contest

• The Defender Awards will be hosted on the NationStates forums