Our German community manager Mariya Trusevich and financial manager Vitaly Mikhailov are fond of snowboarding. By the way, the ski resort that you can see on the pics below is located near the city of Gubakha, which also served as an inspiration for one of maps in Tanki Online (guess what its name is).

Please check your PM, I've sent you all the information.

2 240 pieces of paper are in that glass. As 2 240 players signed up for the tournament. Germans had 419 pieces of paper. Russians had 14 796.

The time has come! We've selected players that will take part in the Battle of Rusty Barrels. English tandem: - K_A_R_I_M_1_7 - sgg2013 - geraldfvv - substitute Russian tandem: - cmept_bcem_u_bcerda - kypuLLa - dimonchelo - substitute German tandem: - Skyburger - alibozkurt - henico - substitute The battle will be streamed live at our cybersport channel at 4 pm (UTC+0) on January 31. And now, when you know names of all the participants of the superfinals, enter the game and buy one of two paints, "For Developers" or "For Players".

17455 pieces of paper. Tomorrow we'll randomly choose 6 of them for the Battle of Rusty Barrels, 2 from each community! Stay tuned!

Dear players! You can finally sign up for the Battle of Rusty Barrels on the special site. Hurry up, we accept applications till 8 am (UTC+0) on January 26.

If they are good, then yes. No, English only. Yes, it can be arranged. You can use test server. Yes, you can. Good question, most likely it will be the Free Topic category. It's not, if you guide wins and it has copyrighted music, we will be limited in using it on our sites and resources. It doesn't matter. The contest is held separately in 3 communities, so yes, the winner will be chosen from this community only, common practice from now on. You can, but chances of winning are microscopic in this case. You need to make 1 video. In 1 of 4 categories. It must not be longer than 5 minutes.

We've had our consolation flag closer to the end, this one felt like 10 flags in any other battle. Thanks to everyone who supported us!

Up to you. Obviously the ones with voice-over have more chances of winning.

Here you can discuss the "TO Video Guide" contest and ask any questions you have.

Tankers, it's time to announce winners of the Tanki Online Video Guide contest! Here they are: The best guide on turrets — @Valletta Prizes — 100 000 crystals, 200 of each supply and a T-shirt and mug with the game's logo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZgmpcbk6FA The best guide on hulls — @Raphael2 Prizes — 100 000 crystals, 200 of each supply and a T-shirt and mug with the game's logo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJMFqqEQ0g The best guide on parkour — Prizes — 100 000 crystals, 200 of each supply and a T-shirt and mug with the game's logo. The best guide on free topic — @domxxe65 Prizes — 100 000 crystals, 200 of each supply and a T-shirt and mug with the game's logo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5qQk5X7-m4 And finally, the best guide of them all is the one by @Valletta Prize — Gigabyte Aivia OSMIUM gaming keyboard. Also, the following players get consolation prizes of 40 000 crystals. @Frazman @SneakySnake10 @gazatron30 Well done, tankers!

Andrey Lagunov, our system administrator, is a passionate fan of hiking and caving. He's been to several big caves of Perm Region in Russia, including the well-known Kungur Ice Cave.

I do. Thank you for your support!

Removed all the unnecessary comments. Please, discuss things that are not related to this topic in other threads, or simply use forum PM. Thank you for understanding.

Tankers! Crystals have just been sent to all the participants mentioned in the list we posted above. However, we haven't managed to add crystals to the following accounts, as there are no such users in Tanki Online: 1_result.res 22Goddfather beni6565 cirimenall Jaketedy jps11 @Juzzix1 keena1999 @lrvkking Must9 patoaberto radoalabala Ryanglea (supyo) tig-mr tm.SALO_HA_3ABTPAK@yahoo.com If any of the above mentioned nicknames is yours and you see that it is spelled wrong, please send me a PM. Thank you for taking part and see you on the battlefield!

Our programmers Aleksey Khusainov and Maksim Osin spend their free time playing cards, but not the ones you are all used to. Maksim and Alexey are fans of Magic: The Gathering. If you've never heard of it, you definitely need to check it out. More than 20 years of history, regular tournaments, thousands of fans all over the world... epic. So, now we all know that there is some magic in Tanki Online.

Some guitar, some cycling, nothing special ;)

The group stage of Rusty Barrels is over. The last battle took place yesterday. The following developers will face each other in semifinals: - Maksim Khusainov (Kasim) and Semyon Kirov (semyonkirov) VS Dmitry Konovalov (Heyga4Huk) and Dmitry Drozda (drozd) - Anton Bragin (antonio) and Ivan Repin (Kellyn) VS Evgeny Malov (Impale) and Stanislav Manturov (Thecr) Both battles will be streamed live today at 4 pm (UTC+0) at our cybersport channel.

The choice is made! According to results of the voting, Hornet, Viking and Wasp came first, second and third. It means that from 5 am (UTC+0) on Friday, January 24 to 5 am (UTC+0) on Saturday, January 25, all modifications of Hornet are available at a 50% discount. Viking is sold 35% cheaper while Wasp costs 20% less. The discount runs for 24 hours. Make sure you enter your garage from 5 am (UTC+0) on Friday, January 24 to 5 am (UTC+0) on Saturday, January 25 and get yourself several hulls at bargain prices.

Dear players, we need your help in choosing the discount. Take part in the voting and determine which hulls will be on sale this Friday, January 24. The hull that will get the most votes will be available at a 50% discount, hulls that will come second and third will be sold 35% and 20% cheaper respectively. The voting is held in all 3 communities of Tanki Online — English, Russian and German. All the votes will be summed up. Results will be announced on Thursday, January 23. The discount will run for 24 hours, from 5 am (UTC+0) on Friday, January 24, to 5 am (UTC+0) on Saturday, January 25.

By this moment 19 out of 20 battles at the group stage are over. Group A There's a real intrigue going on here. We already know one tandem that will take part in playoffs. It consists of Dmitry Konovalov (technical support) and Dmitry Drozda (technical support). They won 3 battles, the 4th one resulted in a tie. The second pair of developers will be known on January 22. 4 programmers will fight for the way to semi-finals: Dmitry Koryagin and Vitaly Levykin vs Anton Bragin and Ivan Repin. The first tandem has 2 wins and 1 loss, the second one managed to get 2 wins and 1 tie. Group B All the battles are over and we already know names of 4 semifinalists: - Evgeny Malov (technical support) - Stanislav Manturov (technical support) These guys won 4 battles by a huge margin. The second tandem that will take part in playoffs is (rather surprisingly): - Maksim Khusainov (community manager) - Semyon Kirov (community manager) We lost 1 battle, and won 3 others. Stay tuned for more info on the tournament!

Hey, tankers! We are starting a series of short articles about hobbies of people that work in AlternativaPlatform. Here we'll be posting pics of the developers alongside with short description of what they do in their spare time. Sounds interesting, doesn't it? Community Manager and video blog host Maksim Khusainov is a good shot not only with Ricochet or Thunder. One of his numerous hobbies is airguns. His current weapon of choice is a 5.5 mm EdGun Matador R3M that has already fired more than 2500 shots! You can read about hobbies of other devs under the spoiler.

As I previously said, if you are sure that you did everything right, PM me a link to your Twitter profile, we'll look into it.

As it has been said many times in many places, crystals will be sent on January 23.

If you are not on the list, you posted less than 3 screenshots or did it too late, check the UTC+0 time zone and most likely you'll see that the contest was already over by the time you posted your pics. If you are sure that it is a mistake, PM me the link to your Twitter profile.