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Hector Blackburn

2006-08-25T05:42:21Z

58.165.119.67:

'''Hector Blackburn''' is one of the [[youth]] who were [[Youth Pull|pulled]] on the 13th of August 2005. He was promoted from the youth squad as an outfielder with '''solid''' [[defending]] and, surprisingly, '''excellent''' [[goalkeeping]]. There were similar players pulled in other countries at the time, but none achieved the same notoriety.

He was a "[[feature]]" of [[Hattrick]] that arose as the [[HT team]] was fixing an unrelated bug. It appears that they failed to properly special-case goalkeeping skill, since outfield pulls should not have significant goalkeeping skill and ''no'' pulls should have ''excellent'' goalkeeping. The bug was fixed within hours of Hector and the other pulls appearing.

Sadly Hector was lost to the Hattrick world when his team Palestinian Freedom was hacked. He was raised from the dead by the HT's, but his fate was sealed when his team was [[cheating|locked]] and became a [[bot]].

[[category:Players]]
[[category:Famous Players]]

Talk:Hector Blackburn

2006-08-25T05:41:57Z

58.165.119.67:

I've taken the time to update his wiki entry with something more sensible, i've also added him to the famous players list. If anyone disagrees with that feel free to discuss it here --[[User:Orestes|Orestes]]

:I've cleaned up the text a bit, and modified a few things for accuracy. Although I've forgotten exactly what the HTs were changing at the time, I'm quite certain that it was an introduced bug, not one that had been there a long time. As noted in the text, it was fixed within hours of Hector and the other player appearing. Also, if I'm not mistaken, he wound up on the team of he who shall not be named, which was subsequently locked (details of which should ''not'' appear in the article). --[[User:Mr Wednesday|Mr Wednesday]] 14:18, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

I've cleaned up the grammar a bit. I'd also like to make the sugestion that features be expanded possibly to include players like bob, homer simpson, etc --[[User:Orestes|Orestes]] 10:15 25 August 2006(AEST)

: You mean [[Bob Sunesson|Bob]] (or possibly [[Bob]]) and [[Homer Simpson]]? ;-) --[[User:Mr Wednesday|Mr Wednesday]] 02:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes like Homer Simpson, bob, and company --Orestes 15:40 25 August 2006(AEST)

== How it happened ==

I think I just remembered why the HTs were mucking around with YPs. There was some sort of a bug that was causing "clone" youth pulls (different names, IDs, countries, but all features exactly the same). When they finally managed to track it down, in the course of fixing it, they created the bug that triggered Hector. Does that agree with anybody else's recollection? --[[User:Mr Wednesday|Mr Wednesday]] 02:43, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Hector Blackburn

2006-08-25T05:40:01Z

58.165.119.67:

'''Hector Blackburn''' is one of the [[youth]] who was [[Youth Pull|pulled]] on the 13th of August 2005. He was promoted from the youth squad as an outfielder with '''solid''' [[defending]] and, surprisingly, '''excellent''' [[goalkeeping]]. There were similar players pulled in other countries at the time, but none achieved the same notoriety.

He was a "[[feature]]" of [[Hattrick]] that arose as the [[HT team]] was fixing an unrelated bug. It appears that they failed to properly special-case goalkeeping skill, since outfield pulls should not have significant goalkeeping skill and ''no'' pulls should have ''excellent'' goalkeeping. The bug was fixed within hours of Hector and the other pulls appearing.

Sadly Hector was lost to the Hattrick world when his team Palestinian Freedom was hacked. He was raised from the dead by the HT's, but his fate was sealed when his team was [[cheating|locked]] and became a [[bot]].

[[category:Players]]
[[category:Famous Players]]

Hector Blackburn

2006-08-25T00:08:10Z

58.165.119.67:

One of the youth that was pulled roughly on the 13th of August 2005, as an outfielder but who had '''Excellent''' [[goalkeeping]] and '''Solid''' [[defending]]. There were similar players pulled in other countries at the time, but none achieved the same notoriety.

He was a [["feature"|bug]] of Hattrick that arose as the HT team was making some modifications to youth pulls. It appears at the time that they failed to properly special-case goalkeeping, since outfield pulls should not have significant goalkeeping skill and ''no'' pulls should have ''excellent'' goalkeeping. The bug was fixed within hours of Hector and other pulls appearing.

Sadly Hector was lost to the Hattrick world when his team Palestinian Freedom was hacked. He was raised from the dead by the HT's, but his fate was sealed when his team was [[cheating|locked]] and became a [[bot]].

[[category:Players]]
[[category:Famous Players]]