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Khitomer Awards and a New Admiral

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What an anniversary month we have had! While it’s been a great time of celebration and reflection for our fleet, you might also have heard about our very own USS Firebird cleaning up at the recent Khitomer Peace Awards (2026 Q1). Well, here’s the total haul:

Congratulations to Malcom, Rhiana, and the rest of the Firebird crew for an outstanding performance and for being recognized by a premier external organization with these well deserved honors!

We are also pleased to announce that Michael Intermeezo will be promoted to Vice Admiral, assuming the newly created position of Chief of Operations effective August 1st. In this role, his primary responsibility will be leading our simulations to help them maximize their potential. Intermeezo previously served as Commanding Officer of the USS Chuck Norris, where he did an amazing job guiding the crew through highly imaginative missions.

We are thrilled to welcome Vice Admiral Intermeezo to the staff as he helps our fleet continue to become everything it can be for our members. And congratulations again to the USS Firebird!

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Awardapalooza 2025

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The 2024 Tournament of Simulations (aka ToS) were finally announced last month, and continuing our long tradition of excellence, IDF took home four more awards! Congratulations to the Captains and crews of the USS Wayfarer, USS Firebird, USS Washington, and USS Sunfire. In fact, the USS Wayfarer was the #2 overall sim for the entire tournament! Well done!

Outstanding Star Trek:

Excellent Star Trek:

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In addition to the ToS awards themselves, Ken Gillis and Shran dh’Klar were awarded Ongoing World Community Honor (OWCH) medals for judging at three different Tournaments. We also completely missed that Kevin Riker won an OWCH after last year’s Tournament. Thank you very much to all three of you for your continued selfless service to the community. Without you and others like you, ToS simply wouldn’t be possible.

A gold medal featuring the Ongoing Worlds alien mascot holding a globe, hanging from a green and silver ribbon, representing the Ongoing Worlds Community Honor award.

It turns out that we actually have even more awards to announce from last year as the USS Wayfarer and USS Montana shared the 2025 Q2 Outstanding Post Award from the Khitomer Peace Awards, which are sponsored by the Khitomer Conference. Congratulations to both games!

But wait, there’s more! The Simming League announced just yesterday that the USS Firebird was one of five winners of the most prestigious 2025 Simming Prize! Congratulations and well done to the entire team over there on the Firebird–your excellence and commitment to our craft is apparent to us all! Here is their citation in full:

“With an amazing cast of characters and top-notch host to match, the Firebird has blazed a trail of simming excellence for multiple years in a row, including winning the top overall prize at the most recent Tournament of Simulations, in addition to receiving extensive awards from their home fleet. The players complement each other perfectly, building on their existing culture and lore with new and inventive ideas in seemingly every joint post, which are a joy to read.”

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If I haven’t missed anything else, we’re now fully up-to-date on community awards. But please do, keep the awards coming and make me write more blog posts about them!