BCG - BlackCats Games opens signups sporadically

Apparently it's open signup day today. BCG - BlackCats-Games are open.

UtN opens signups for a short while! *Closed* *Open* *Closed*

Up, up!

Combined FLAC and movie tracker Skittles moves up one level to join the likes of HDBits and iTS. Lately it has been very quiet when it comes to info about Skittles. No one knows how many torrents or members there are. And no one knows how to join. Skittles is a bit of a mystery in the torrent world so to speak. But if given the opportunity people would not hesitate to join. No invites or accounts are given away freely. No recruitment threads are to be seen. This means level 8.

Specialized FLAC tracker Pedro's BTMusic is one of the best in the game. The possibility to buy your way in to the tracker doesn't exist anymore and invites are only handed out to uploaders and VIP:s. If you upload music and especially FLAC:s on other music trackers chances are that you'll have an easy time getting invited but if you're a regular leecher and seeder chances are slim.
It's relatively easy to get a hold of an account by the means of trading if you're into that though. Still the demand for BTMusic is growing and there's no change in invite policy to be seen. Level 7 for Pedro's.

LW checking in

Poll is closed. Lossless World makes its tracker level entry. Good thing is that it seems you can't buy yourself in anymore. Bad thing is that staff and respected uploaders have been leaving the place during the last week because of disagreements. Are we watching the rerun of "need-music"? Are new lossless trackers cursed? Don't know. Future will tell.
For now, welcome to level 4.

Hanging loose

Why are more and more invites from GFT hitting the street. The answer is that they are handed out almost freely at GFT. What you have to do is to reach the second user class, where the only obstacle seems to be that you'll have to wait for 8 weeks. But during that time you will download 250 files and seed them for at least four days (which is also needed to advance). GFT is a non ratio tracker so no worries. After this you have reached the user class able to get invites.

A while ago GFT changed the karma bonus points system so in order to gain points you now have to idle in their irc. At almost every given time there are at least 400 people in the irc. But it's still very quiet. Well, for every hour you idle you are rewarded with 5 points. And if you have reached the second user class you can exchange karma points for one invite. You just need to idle in irc for about a week. That's all and that's why more and more invites hit the street and that's why GFT's level rating is hanging loose.

By the way, GFT is one of the top tier 0-day trackers. GFT beats FTN in every possible way so with this great opportunity, if you get your hands on one of those GFT invites. Be sure to grab it. You won't be disappointed.

Changes or misdirections

iTS is one of the higher level trackers and has been specializing more and more in AFR:s and FLAC music lately. A lot of members from "The Rabbit" emigrated to iTS when FTWR fell of the web but the tracker is still fairly small with a small user base. Apparently they need some new blood so iTS has had open invite applications for a couple of weeks (only higher user classes has been able to make applications for potential members in the past). According to some torrenters this should lead up to a level drop. But to this point there has only been around 100 new members joining the ranks. And with such a small user base and still a big demand the tracker will stay put at level 8.

On the other hand. The dedicated magic tracker AOM slips down one level. It tracks about 4000 torrents and have a member base of about 900 members. Art of Misdirection meets a lower and lower demand on the tracker market and people who actually have any real use for the tracker (read magicians) easily join by applying for membership. Level 8 next for AOM.

nCore changes

We've been notified about open signups for nCORE tracker. This massive general tracker has about 80k active torrents and about 130k users. It's been staying at level 4 for quite a while but because of the amount of users, the not so big demand and of course open signups the tracker tumbles to level 2.

A lossless world

We recently had lossless music tracker N-M (Need music) open up and closing down with that looney owner (whatever his name was). Then they changed name to eargasm and for several weeks without any activity the new management decided to make eargasm a music forum (sic!) without any torrents. A week later the whole project was abandoned and eargasm gone. This project was almost as miserable as StN with the great Yocto navigating the treacherous tracker seas.
But now there are new clouds on the horizon. Lossless World is opening up an exclusive tracker with lossless music for the masses.
You can get invited via Pedro's and Waffles and some other places but there are not that many invites going around. So why not put this wanting-to-be-leet-tracker high up the rankings? That's because you can by your way in at https://losslessworld.info/signup.php. And even though it seems there are only two trackers (e's and p's) dealing exclusively in lossless music there are actually a lot more places with vast amounts of lossless music e.g. what, waffles and numerous DDL-forums.