Thank you anab, I will remember the eSports news team fondly, you ran it well and it's a shame you never made admin in your time. I'm sorry that I missed your goodbye message until after you'd left; it's sad to see another great leave and I wish you all the best in future ? Nice try, but I'm not @Venerable adios, but i'm still not changing the discord profile pic ? Yeah, hopefully it has been left in capable hands. Thanks for the comments guys, as I think I said in Lose's leaving topic, I remember both of you contributing well to the AWC, and looked forward to your works for a good read - I wish you both the best. I am indeed the last EN reporter left as a helper, but Sabry and Dynasty were both FR Reporters and now are GT/SM admins respectively. As for medal of merit, I'd like to think so, Marcus hasn't replied to my messages in a week now so who knows. Cheers man, I was going through some special battle pics and found an iconic one of you with rail M0 in an XP/BP, hope you enjoyed over the years, best of luck with everything! Yeah, I do miss events but sometimes I suppose you need to accept what is now gone ? Partly I didn't much enjoy matchmaking, partly it was fun being a unique rank in a game where everyone else is legend. Mainly it just became like a symbolic thing; Marshal was the highest rank when I started the game, it sort of felt fitting/a tribute to my history to close the chapter in my life that is Tanki by hitting that final rank. (I also think that since FederalBureauFBI was the first FB admin(?) and I was the last, it started and ended with a marshal rank hehe) Tbh neither did I, but I suppose life moves on and one must move with it. Hope you're doing ok now in your post-helper career and everything is going amazingly well. Oh my WORD does it look good - been a very long time waiting ? And it's pronounced "case-dfff" (and so kais/case for short)!

And then I suppose I have to ping a few people, but I'll leave it to the comments to keep the post clear To the amazing Newspaper team To eSports All the amazing Event Helpers, organisers (Poot @Pout, jutska @jutska, emra @emrakul, @Legendarni, as well as annoyingly named @chinufire & @chinufire1 - and most of all nat, my beautiful co admin @natrolite Obviously all of the many people who have in the SM team, far too many of you to @ all of you but NB to luci, sabry, hugo, niko, Edu, Zack (sorry it went down how it did man), and aqw, as well as all the Elves and everyone else. I will also be hosting my final rankup / community photoshoot this Friday, 14th March at 18:00 UTC - all welcome, tho priority will go to friends I'm afraid.

I started the game way back in 2011, off the playground recommendation of a school friend of mine - who has of course long since quit the game. I played for long enough to unlock Shaft at the mighty rank of WO4, and then quit because my Intel Celeron laptop could no longer handle the game. I popped in briefly over the years, watching Starladder and playing very occasionally, before a proper return in 2016. I joined my clan Happy Dragons in October 2016, and had a very happy/spammy few years with them, contributing to the third largest topic on the forum before getting our clan topic locked by SuperNick for being too active… Much love to the crest, it was an honour working under and alongside you, and thanks for the recs for my helper apps haha. As you can tell, I will probably mention a few names, apologies if you feel missed out, I’m writing this in one unhinged bout of word vomit and if I’ve forgotten you I swear it was unintentional - but I guess unhinged word vomit is unsurprising given my first ever position - Newspaper reporter. TTC wins and organising the AWC Tournament gave me the chance to join under the watchful eyes of Flex & Viksrall, alongside true legends of the forum like yis and twee, and I took the AWC under my wing, giving budding young writers a fresh place to start, fostering many people who would later become my colleagues. About a month later, I joined as a discord mod, back when it was still an unofficial position, spearheaded by Torben, Hex, Nives, and Optic (the unsung hero). - but more on that later. In 2019, I joined the eSports News team by accident - I thought I was just helping out with some proofreading, and then out of the blue Marcus announced that I had passed my candidacy (and immediately before he announced it I guessed the announcement was for someone else entirely!). I met so many amazing people there too; I created the public side of the server, ran the short-lived esports news show, and wrote/proofread hundreds of articles. I briefly tried out for Commentator, and somewhere out there is a 1v1 between Greg and someone else that Esmail & I commentated from back in 2019/20. I was one of the founding members of the proofreaders team, I sent the first message in the channel on 30/04/2020 - didn’t realise even that had been almost 5 years… There’s a very high chance that if you’re reading something in the game, I’ve contributed to it, especially the Katakana paint, which was originally planned to be called Hieroglyphics before it made it through me and that amazing team. I’ve been SM admin since Jan 2020, and have been honoured to take the mantle of the server over that time. So many people I’ve seen come and go, and I hope that you’ve all made friends or at least enjoyed your time under my tyrannical rule - but see #discord-news in the server for a proper goodbye there. Perhaps my favourite time of all was the year or so that I was an Event Helper. I loved every member of that team so much, and I will always remember all the calls we had, yapping constantly with each other, while knowing that we were bringing so much joy to the community as well. I worked my way up to admin, and even briefly ran the team solo, and fighting for my life in STG or Save the Princess (and later the joys of sitting in spec watching my colleagues struggling to do the same) was easily the peak of my long career. In what I’ve now been told is the sunset of my career, I’ve spent 18 months as a wiki editor, contributing my TTC-winning game knowledge to hit 469 edits, and leading the GT team - for which my greatest contribution was allowing Sabry to flourish to his full potential.

Happy Christmas all! - Santa kais ?

All I'm gonna say is that I remember both of you being extremely capable authors, and I'm surprised to find out you were both so young doing it - I hope life has treated you both well since the closure of the Newspaper/AWS, and continues to do so xx

Happy holidays all! Here's to another great year ? Best wishes, Fran xoxo

On behalf of the Social Media team, I hope you all have a very merry Christmas all, and a happy new year!

spooky

Good luck!

People who bought multiple bundles received multiple prizes - this wasn't meant to happen. 209 people had already opened the extra containers, their accounts have been blocked to prevent them from spending anything extra, and they will be unblocked once support has gone through and removed the extra prizes. People who received extra rewards but hadn't opened them yet have already had them removed and will be unaffected.

Dub. Crusader and paladin XTs from skin conts ?

I know I'm uh... a bit late to this, but hey ig that's how I roll. I remember you first appearing in the AWS, dropping occasional masterpieces to break up the monotony of other typo-filled, broken-story pieces submitted. I always looked forward to yours. I know you were young when you started, but I had always hoped to see you in the reporter team at some point - pity that isn't even the case for us anymore lol. Good luck with everything, you're a smart kid so I'm sure it'll all work out.

Makes no difference to me... I guess the best reply is ?

Merry Chrimmas and a happy new yr P.S. come to events pls

Congrats to @Heavenly_Demon, @Legendarni, @rubi_GTO, and @Hugoslav on becoming official events candies ?