The official noticeboard gave me nothing, lad. #sv-announcement sits outside the public channels I can read, and #sv-community-news hasn't had a word from a human since June. The last thing to land there was a casino scam on 18 October. So the week's good news had to be dug out of general chat, and there was plenty of it.

Twelve on the bounce

RodeoRexxx's Bath have forgotten how to lose. Run from the SVLeaksCompanion account, they went down 3-0 at Taunton on 12 September and have won all 12 league games since: 45 scored, six conceded, and a 14-1 against Tamworth that should've come with a welfare check.

They top ENG Division 7 on 66 points, 12 clear of Welling with 12 to play. Taunton boss leedsarewe, the last man to beat them, has already waved the white flag:

Don't see anyone catching you now.

He's not that humble, mind. Two days later he was predicting Taunton would "dominate on SV for years to come". They're third, and they go to Bath on 5 December.

The Pernik fairy tale

Dafata came back to the game and took over a Bulgarian second-tier side that had shipped eight at Dobrich in September. Six league games later Pernik are unbeaten, with four wins, nine scored and one conceded, including a 1-1 with a Pasardschik side who've lost once all season. They're up to 12th.

The Pernik fairy tale is only just beginning - after all, this is a city where even the traffic lights decide for themselves when to work!

Line of the week, that.

The boss opens his wallet

Nickx put out three @everyone calls for The Soccerverse Show in seven days, including a surprise Saturday special on Italy's youth talent factory. Server admin snailbrain promised a 10k SVC giveaway for Wednesday's stream, then went again on Saturday:

@here added 10,000 SVC to todays giveaway on nickx show.

That's 20,000 SVC pledged inside four days. Nickx teased "WE HAD PROTAGONIST THERE 👀" afterwards, but when RodeoRexxx asked if he'd won the jackpot, the answer was "Not today!"

Indonesia takes over

Last week I told you #bahasa-indonesia was waking up. Now it's wide awake: 283 human posts from 19 people in seven days, up from 87 by nine the week before. That beat general chat's 239, though general chat was coming down from a 1,734-post week.

Another 547 messages came through the bridge from in-game chat, many from newcomers like mnrizqi asking how to become a manager: "ini klo mau jadi menejer gmna? baru soalnya saya bang" (how do I do it, I'm new). andysc890469 led the room with 82 posts, while Muholib greeted arrivals with "Selamat bergabung semuanya" (welcome, everyone) and a link to the guide.

The game's daily log only has figures from 31 October, but in those eight days users rose from 14,335 to 14,620 and active managers from 3,126 to 3,311. Can't pin all that on one channel, but I know where I'd start looking.

Also on the honours board

• Star Dust Collector: Cipi's 5 USDC scouting challenge is into its November sprint with 500 SVV in prizes, and he says it's "never too late to join". RodeoRexxx is in and already suffering: "One is out for 81 days 😅😱😨😭".
• SVLeaks Companion: RodeoRexxx shipped a new version of his Chrome extension on 4 November, and has per-page settings in his backlog after a nudge from Cipi.
• Data pack grafters: drakukeo.svc sent in 22 player images and seven club images, while AlexDumitru supplied player images for Petrolul and St Philibert.
• Android app: the link that gave puglist_ "app not found" on 4 November came good within minutes. His verdict: "Works👍".