ShamrockOneFive Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) Greetings all! I'm very pleased to announce the return of Sturmovikfest in 2021! This year marks the second year of the Sturmovikfest festival and will be slated to take place starting Sunday, April 25th until Sunday, May 2nd. This week long festival is a community driven event featuring multiplayer fly-in events on servers world wide, special events, and more! There may even be a few surprises along the way. Let’s celebrate one of the best combat flight simulation series in history! What is Sturmovikfest? This is an online festival organized by the IL-2 Sturmovik fan community to celebrate all things in the series. How does it work? Throughout the week of April 25th, servers, squads, streamers and more will be running events and fly-in's to check out new multiplayer servers and old favourites alike. Last year helped propel new servers to the top of the list and saw fantastic events such as the mass formation fly-over and Project R racing. How can I help? Last year was incredible! The community came together and came up with events, festival skins, streams and special YouTube videos and more. I hope this year will be the same. Throw your support in any way you can by attending events or contacting me with your event plans. I'll do my best to get the word out and show off your support on the festival page. I can't wait to see what we come up with this year! Event information Get more information including the schedule, supports, badges and more on the Stormbirds.blog Festival Information Page. Online Schedule (tentative/work in progress) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AbC7LXOBKqStvQhFytawlZ-VgwhqBbeZy5j7HtFF5K4/edit#gid=0 Edited March 25, 2021 by ShamrockOneFive 29 8
=LD=dhyran Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 Hiho ShamrockOneFive Great News! pls check PM S! dhyran
Stoopy Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 WOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Count me in again same as last year! Thanks S15! ??????
ShamrockOneFive Posted March 24, 2021 Author Posted March 24, 2021 2 hours ago, =LD=dhyran said: Hiho ShamrockOneFive Great News! pls check PM S! dhyran Sounds fantastic! I have just replied. 3 minutes ago, Stoopy said: WOOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Count me in again same as last year! Thanks S15! ?????? Wonderful! Great to have your support!
ShamrockOneFive Posted March 24, 2021 Author Posted March 24, 2021 20 minutes ago, =13NVO=Eeafanas said: Can the tanking community participate in this event? Yes please! I'd love to see as much Tank Crew (and Flying Circus) get involved too! Let me know what your ideas are and we can add it to the schedule.
Leon_Portier Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) Tank race tank race Tank Rally, multicrew with co driver Edited March 24, 2021 by [N.O.G.F]Leon_Portier 1
Jason_Williams Posted March 24, 2021 Posted March 24, 2021 Fantastic! Great job as always Shamrock! Jason 1 2
ShamrockOneFive Posted March 24, 2021 Author Posted March 24, 2021 1 hour ago, [N.O.G.F]Leon_Portier said: Tank race tank race Tank Rally, multicrew with co driver This sounds fantastic! 24 minutes ago, Jason_Williams said: Fantastic! Great job as always Shamrock! Jason Thank you Jason!
ShamrockOneFive Posted March 24, 2021 Author Posted March 24, 2021 1 hour ago, =13NVO=Eeafanas said: Sorry for some mistakes, I am writing from Russian to English through a translator. As stated above, you can add races, shooting on the move (in first gear), artillery fire at 6-7 kilometers (for the SU-122 and SU-152), one observer is used for the correction on the U-2vs. Fight "wall to wall" 15 tankers against 15 tankers on the T-34 STZ / UTZ and Pz IV, respectively, on a flat and large field. Self-propelled anti-aircraft guns will also come out soon, and you can think of something for them too. for example, shooting at a distance of 1500 meters. Well, anti-aircraft guns against anti-aircraft guns! I am the head of the regiment = 13HVO =, it consists of 8 people, we can take part in events. Sounds like good fun to me. Let me know what your scheduled event times are, what server they are happening on, and I will add them to the schedule!
ShamrockOneFive Posted March 25, 2021 Author Posted March 25, 2021 Hi all! I've added a link to the Google Doc schedule. It's very patchwork right now as things come together, however, I've already started to slot in some events. A few things will move around and we'll not doubt have to do a little juggling so all of this is preliminary for now. If you have something you're planning, let me know and I'll see how I can fit it in!
Stoopy Posted March 25, 2021 Posted March 25, 2021 I see some fly-ins on Combat Box which is great, however do you know if they're planning to have another Air Race event like last year? Th races I was able to participate in where a hoot!
CanadaOne Posted March 25, 2021 Posted March 25, 2021 Stormbirds remains my one-stop shop for flightsim news. Good to see another festival. 1 1
ShamrockOneFive Posted March 25, 2021 Author Posted March 25, 2021 (edited) 59 minutes ago, Stoopy said: I see some fly-ins on Combat Box which is great, however do you know if they're planning to have another Air Race event like last year? Th races I was able to participate in where a hoot! Various server groups have been in touch and are planning events. What's up there is very preliminary so stay tuned for more. I don't want to steal any of their thunder when events get announced! Also, I'm hoping that we can get a mass formation event scheduled like @JimTM did last year. That was outstanding and a ton of fun. Also requiring a lot of organizational skills. Edited March 25, 2021 by ShamrockOneFive
JimTM Posted March 25, 2021 Posted March 25, 2021 (edited) 26 minutes ago, ShamrockOneFive said: Various server groups have been in touch and are planning events. What's up there is very preliminary so stay tuned for more. I don't want to steal any of their thunder when events get announced! Also, I'm hoping that we can get a mass formation event scheduled like @JimTM did last year. That was outstanding and a ton of fun. Also requiring a lot of organizational skills. I think there's a subtle hint somewhere in that message. I'll try and cook up a mass of something. Looking forward to another great Sturmovikfest! Edited March 25, 2021 by JimTM 1 1
kestrel79 Posted March 25, 2021 Posted March 25, 2021 Love the Stormbirds site. It's like a IL2 Friday Dev update, every day for every flight sim! I'll try to join in for this year. Looking forward to some large bomber or strike group missions online with other people. 1
BlitzPig_EL Posted March 25, 2021 Posted March 25, 2021 (edited) Who knows, maybe I can get the BlitzPigs to show up on an open server instead of just flying on ours for a change... Oink oink! ? Edited March 25, 2021 by BlitzPig_EL 1
Stoopy Posted March 25, 2021 Posted March 25, 2021 1 hour ago, ShamrockOneFive said: Also, I'm hoping that we can get a mass formation event scheduled like @JimTM did last year. That was outstanding and a ton of fun. Also requiring a lot of organizational skills. I'll be there in my P-38!!!! ? 2
ShamrockOneFive Posted March 25, 2021 Author Posted March 25, 2021 1 hour ago, JimTM said: I think there's a subtle hint somewhere in that message. I'll try and cook up a mass of something. Looking forward to another great Sturmovikfest! Might have been a bit! You made the mistake of doing such a fantastic job last year! I'd consider it one of the signature moments of the whole festival. It'd be great to repeat! 1 1 1
JimTM Posted March 26, 2021 Posted March 26, 2021 @ShamrockOneFive, I notice that the event schedule is a bit off: Friday May 1 -> Friday, April 30 Saturday May 2 -> Saturday May 1 Sunday May 3 -> Sunday May 2 Cheers! 1
Raptorattacker Posted March 27, 2021 Posted March 27, 2021 (edited) Hawker Tempest MkV versus Focke-Wulf 190D9 in STURMOVIKFEST Official Colours!! Both skins and last year's planes (P-51D and Bf109 K4 - see below) can be downloaded on HSD Get 'em early and avoid the rush!! Edited March 27, 2021 by Raptorattacker 3 1 2
Raptorattacker Posted March 27, 2021 Posted March 27, 2021 Just a quick mess-around I did with some of the footage from the above video to promote this year's STURMOVINFEST. It's not what I intended to do ultimately but I just thought I'd stick it up anyway being as I did it!! Anyway... enjoy the music... 3 1
Stoopy Posted March 27, 2021 Posted March 27, 2021 Very cool. Raptorattacker! Speaking of videos, here's one for anyone who's thinking of attending some of these events but didn't last year: 4
ShamrockOneFive Posted March 27, 2021 Author Posted March 27, 2021 5 hours ago, Raptorattacker said: Just a quick mess-around I did with some of the footage from the above video to promote this year's STURMOVINFEST. It's not what I intended to do ultimately but I just thought I'd stick it up anyway being as I did it!! Anyway... enjoy the music... Very trippy! I like it 2 hours ago, Stoopy said: Very cool. Raptorattacker! Speaking of videos, here's one for anyone who's thinking of attending some of these events but didn't last year: That's a great video showing off what the formation event was like! Thanks for putting that together! 1
ShamrockOneFive Posted April 3, 2021 Author Posted April 3, 2021 Hey folks! We have plenty of interest this year in the festival. I've just updated the schedule with more events. Once things settle down a bit more I'll start to do time and time zones for each event and start to solidify the schedule. If you've reached out to me and haven't heard back or you heard back and I haven't done something yet.... please let me know! The brain is a little fried recently and it's been hectic! I'm not trying to ignore anyone
=LD=dhyran Posted April 13, 2021 Posted April 13, 2021 & 334th_Virtue and =LD=dhyran with Il2 League crew would like to invite you to the TOP DOG 2 vs 2 volume 2 The Event is part of the opening Sunday of STURMOVIKFEST 2021! Top Dogs 2vs2 Tournament 25.April 2021 at 17:00 GMT ( Sunday ) Planeset is : P39 or Yak 1 or 109F4, will be drawn on the briefing Registration via this discord server. https://discord.gg/8ZZAXWtzyf at the registration channel Last registration 18.April 2021 Grab a Wingmen and be part of the Sturmovest Opening Sunday! Top Dog event skins https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dqQ_2JB8DWGOATrMDJnoOGByzpsJXyiP?usp=sharing GOGOGOOOOOO! Register your seat and be part of the action! Snappy Salute 2
ShamrockOneFive Posted April 20, 2021 Author Posted April 20, 2021 Hey folks! Quick festival update. Lots of events are starting to run their sign-ups now for the festival so be sure to check those out. I'm working on solidifying the schedule now and inserting all of the timezones so that it's a bit easier to manage to find the right event based on your proximity to one of several timezones. I'm looking forward to joining in on as many of these as I can!
ShamrockOneFive Posted April 21, 2021 Author Posted April 21, 2021 The schedule continues to be refined! I've done some work on it tonight to get the first couple of days sorted out and things are really coming together. In-case you missed it... the mass formation event sign-up is now underway! This was great fun last year and it'd be great to have lots of individuals and squads represented. 2
ShamrockOneFive Posted April 25, 2021 Author Posted April 25, 2021 Good morning everyone! Sturmovikfest Day One is here and I'm excited to present to you all of the great events happening today and throughout the week. https://stormbirds.blog/2021/04/25/sturmoikfest-day-one/ I'll be signing on to the mass formation event later on and then jumping into the Flying Circus Sunday furball on the Jasta 5 Flugpark server before finally hopping on Finnish Virtual Pilots sometime tonight! 3
ShamrockOneFive Posted April 26, 2021 Author Posted April 26, 2021 Yesterday was a blast! Thank you everyone for making it as much fun as it was. There was a mass formation, a jam packed Flying Circus server, and just about every other big server in the community was hopping with players. Love to see that! Here's a recap of the day's events: https://stormbirds.blog/2021/04/26/recapping-the-first-day-of-sturmovikfest/ And news about what's coming up tonight: https://stormbirds.blog/2021/04/26/sturmovikfest-day-two-2/ 3
=LD=dhyran Posted April 27, 2021 Posted April 27, 2021 (edited) Gentlemen, as part of the Stormovikfest the Topdog 2 vs 2 shoutout was held on Sunday! Voices from the paticipants: That was really super cool, great event, great guys, great fights! Can’t wait for the next one, and OH BOY the 4v4!!!! Thank you all very much, especially the organizers! We continue to grow as HOTDOGS! 1 A Snappy Salute to =LG=Blakhart & =LG=Flogger winning at the finals vs =LD=dhyran & =LD=Marv.s95 Here is a super nice impression of the semifinal match, how adrenalin pumping it can be, challaging, close and super fun: 334th_Virtue and =LD=dhyran with Il2 League crew would like to thank everyone took part Snappy Salute! dhyran Edited April 27, 2021 by =LD=dhyran 1 1
super-truite Posted April 28, 2021 Posted April 28, 2021 Thanks for organizing this @ShamrockOneFive ! There was some new people on Advance And Secure thanks to the SturmovikFest. And thanks for the nice article! 1
=RS=Stix_09 Posted April 28, 2021 Posted April 28, 2021 sadly all the event times are GMT evening , so will not suit many in the southern hemisphere
ShamrockOneFive Posted April 29, 2021 Author Posted April 29, 2021 7 hours ago, super-truite said: Thanks for organizing this @ShamrockOneFive ! There was some new people on Advance And Secure thanks to the SturmovikFest. And thanks for the nice article! Thanks! It was good fun on there! 7 hours ago, =RS=Stix_09 said: sadly all the event times are GMT evening , so will not suit many in the southern hemisphere It's definitely a challenge to organize a global event. The Unprofessionals is based in Australia and had fly-in times early on that were suitable for Asia Pacific. I haven't heard about any other events for the festival they do run regular events on their server. Worth checking out!
ShamrockOneFive Posted May 3, 2021 Author Posted May 3, 2021 Hey folks! I'm putting together a recap and a cinematic trailer to try and capture some of what happened over the course of this week. I have a long list of people to thank that I'm preparing but I wanted to generally put the word out here to everyone as well. Thank you for helping make this happen! Thank you for participating, supporting, and generally being the awesome community that you are. This week was fun! It was tiring too but it was fun! 4
JimTM Posted May 3, 2021 Posted May 3, 2021 Thanks a bunch for organizing the event Shamrock. I had a great time courtesy of the event organizers, mission builders, server admins, skin makers, and, finally, everyone that took part. 2 1
ShamrockOneFive Posted May 4, 2021 Author Posted May 4, 2021 Hey folks! I put together a short recap of the week's events here with a ton of screenshots: https://stormbirds.blog/2021/05/03/sturmovikfest-2021-thank-you-and-recap/ I'm working on a cinematic that will probably come out by next weekend that should serve as a nice recap as well. 5 3
Jason_Williams Posted May 4, 2021 Posted May 4, 2021 Thank you Colin for putting on another great Sturmovikfest 2021!! The team really appreciates the event and your hard work. And thank you to ALL who participated this year. Great job once again! Jason 3 4 3
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