Just a quick post to tell everyone that the episode 314 and 315 titles are….*drumroll*

“The Boiling Rock, Part 1″ and

“The Boiling Rock, Part 2″

Thanks to Dongbu Feng for the reveal

Yay! Tonight in the Dongbu Feng chat, the Avatar Interfansite olympics was announced. If you weren’t there, sucks for you. Read the rest of the post for details.

Basically, a bunch of major Avatar websites are going to put together teams for a “friendly” interfansite competition. Each team will consist of 15 to 25 members. The sites participating so far are:

Distant Horizons, Airbender.Net, Dongbu Feng, Gyatso’s Temple, Flying Bison, Blue Spirit Gal, Kataang Forever, and myself.

Here’s a lowdown of the rules:

• Sites participating will need 15 members (with a max of 25) submitted to webmaster@avatarolympics.net by January 10th. We’re still accepting sites as well, and any site that can get the required number of competitors is eligible.
• The Olympics will take place from January 14th (opening ceremony) to February 15th (closing ceremony). Also, to be clear, this is NOT based on Avatar’s season 3 return, because there is not date yet, don’t mistake the 15th for the day that the show comes back (though that would be cool!)
• Fandom teams will be accepted for those who do not make the Fansite teams. Fandom and Fansite teams will compete in pretty much the same events, but their standings will be separate. Essentially the Fandom teams compete against other Fandom teams, and the Fansite teams compete against the other Fansite teams.
• People can only join one team. Also, they cannot be on a Fandom team and a Fansite team, only one.
• There will be many activities in which people can earn points for their team, including fanart, writing, video and scavenger hunts. Full details of the events will be available soon at the official site. There will be some live events, but those will be announced in advance and only a certain number of participants from each team will have to be there.

If you have any questions, contact Jake of Dongbu Feng.

If you want to be on the team for this website, just e-mail me

Again DOTBS The Invasion did not air! Instead Nicktoons aired The Puppetmaster as it was (if you’re reading this on Wednesday) Halloween . I’m not going to keep guessing when it will air as I do not want and angry mob forming every time I get it wrong . Although, I am almost certain this time that part 1 is airing on Saturday and part 2 on Sunday. Happy Halloween!

The Book 3: Fire Volume 1 dvd is now available for purchase. It contains chapters 1-5: The Awakening, The Headband, The Painted Lady, Sokka’s Master, and The Beach.

Sadly Day of the Black Sun: Part 1 The Invasion did not air in the UK . Instead nicktoons aired The Awakening again. Though on the bright side it seems it will be airing on Wednesday at 4:00pm and there will be 1 new episode a week .

Just a few updates that have surfaced over the past few days, but I haven’t been around to post -

Turbonick has a 1 minute, 3 second long preview of The Beach up, check it out if you feel like it.

Newsarama recently interviewed Mike and Bryan, beware of spoilers.

Animation World Magazine posted an interview with Mike DiMartino, and although he mainly talks about what has influenced Avatar, the Avatar Live Action movie, and other things, it’s still a pretty good read Not much Season 3, so for those of you who like being spoiler-free, you’re pretty safe.

The second installment in the avatar video game franchise went on sale yesterday. You can view lots of information, screenshots, and other things on the official website.

If anyone wants to submit a review of the game, it would be much appreciated

You can now add a countdown to the next episode of Avatar on your Google homepage by clicking on this link. Woot! I don’t know how or if it will update when each new episode airs.

There is also just a plain countdown file here if you’re interested.

Or, if you’re really weird (like me ), there is a book 3 countUP available here, keeping track of how much time has passed since Book 3 premiered.

I recently figured out how to rip the Avatar DVDs to my video iPod. If this sounds cool to you, click on “Avatar on your iPod” near the top of the left navigation. If you have any problems with my instructions, email me via the feedback form. Enjoy!

Edit: Speaking of iPods, Avatar is absolutely dominating the iTunes Kids TV category. Its three episodes are the #1, 2, and 3 downloads individually, and its three seasons are the three top season downloads. Check out a screencap of that here. Avatar Season 3 is currently the #8 overall top download for whole seasons on iTunes. View that here. Also, “The Headband” is the #25 most downloaded single episode, and “The Awakening” is #42. Congratulations to Nick, Mike and Bryan, and the whole Avatar crew!