While CS continued a slow but steady growth, we began rewriting from the ground up. Work commenced on Cyberscore 2 which would make navigation easier, include chart groupings, a user to user messaging system, and serve you freshly toasted crumpets every morning.
In a somewhat unusual display, CS2 was previewed ten months before launch. The new blue look got its first public airing in January 2003.
In the meantime, Wario Ware got added. Suddenly, Cyberscore was getting coded a lot slower and used a lot more. The original history recorded this as the day our server "exploded". Of course, this was purely metaphorical, and nothing actually blew up.
(Until we added Double Dash!!)
Cyberscore 2 launched 19 months after Cyberscore first hit the webwaves. November 8th saw blue and white become the new red and black, and it's a scheme which has persisted ever since.
Around this time, XHTML was starting to gain credibility as the right way to design websites. Picking up on this, Mikky began to feel the temptation to redesign the site - again.
January 2004 was a big month in the history of CS. Not only did we finally reach 10,000 visitors in a single month, we also hired help! A team of volunteers stepped forward from the forums to help moderate things on the site, and their sterling effort continues to this day.
After hitting 50,000 records in February and 100 games in March, CS2.5 then, would launch in June 2004. Fully XHTML compliant and tableless where it mattered, it was no coincidence, perhaps, that we hit 50,000 visits just one month later.
It was to be the final iteration of Cyberscore on that database. Almost immediately, talk began of Cyberscore 3. The database was beginning to show its age and things were starting to run a bit slowly. We agreed that things needed to be done and announced that the next version of Cyberscore would feature a completely new database structure.
September 2004 saw us hit 100,000 records and 5,000 users. 2005 began with more milestones - 100,000 visits in one month (February), 150,000 records (March).