You can write about anything related to TO or TX.

Soon 20k posts, can’t wait for it!

It can be longer than 10 lines. No, you can not submit more than 1 entry.

yes, you can resubmit your entry.

They are not worried about 2nd league situation, but they do have some plans for 2nd league. Ranking cups are not in their plan. They will probably come up with something new, I am guessing new tournament.

Yes, my mistake. 1st should be AABBA and 2nd can be CCDDC (you are allowed to do 2nd stanza in AABBA).

You will have to write 2 stanzas, each with rhyme scheme of AABBA.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen! Today I have special article for you all, in which I will be asking burning questions to our EN community admins. So without wasting any time, let's get to it. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ @CooperO Hey, I'm @CooperO, one of the forum administrators. I've been doing this for about a year now and it's been a great experience so far. It's quite different from my other interests, which are animals and woodworking, but hey, I'd say they make for quite a nice mix. Russian community now has new and advance forum, are there any future plans for EN forum? There are plans for the English community forum to be upgraded to the newer forum indeed. However, as you might remember, all the topics on the Russian forum were lost, so it was fairly easy to move to the new forum. That isn't the case with the other community forums. I can't tell you when this forum will be upgraded. What do you think about tanki in general. Many are leaving this game, what will it take to return to glory days? If you ask different players what they think are the glory days of TO, chances are they will all give a different answer. In my case, 2012 was my favorite year in the game, because everything was still new for me. I could learn new things, advance through the ranks, look forward to getting that desired piece of equipment and so on. After being here for so long, I've reached a point where I don't really have to discover or accomplish anything anymore. Occasionally I do still enjoy a battle though, but you won't see me playing on a daily basis. As for what's needed to return to the glory days, that's a tough question. I think the most important part is to set a realistic and well defined goal to work towards. Without that, the game won't really go into a certain direction and most likely won't be able to hold a solid player base. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ @skeletorXVIII Before we get started I would like to thank you and your team for organizing Parkour survival challenge. It was successful and joyful as well. So many players wants to know about future of parkour survival challenge, is it coming back anytime soon? Also tell us about Parkour Survival, who came with it? First of all thank you for having me. Parkour Survival 2018 was certainly a experience of highs and lows. We learned a lot and definitely still like the concept behind Parkour Survival. But you will not see the contest again in the near future, as we have planned different Parkour contests, including Master of Parkour, which we will help to organize. We do not want to abuse such a great concept as Parkour Survival and let it have some time before taking it out again. Let's move on to the great Team we had during the contest. All of you surely know @SwiftSmoky, although he left the team after the second challenge due to creative differences, he was a great help and the creative mind behind the first and second challenge and the concept overall. Our front man was @Ninja, who took quite a beating answering and arguing with the players in the forum topic and in PMs. He also judged a huge number of entries, helped us developing the challenges from the third on and in general was a great help in the contest.The same goes for @Torben_BoS, he helped with pretty much everything, dealing with players, judging entries and creating the challenges from the third onward, although his tasks extended to administration.We should not forget about @Ghost_Animators, @Jaaames and the random Indian commentator for the first challenge, they were the production team, preparing the challenge videos and artwork for the contest. My task, although I helped almost everywhere, was mostly administering the team and building, using and maintaining the infrastructure for the data. Basically once all entries had been judged and it was time to get the survivors, I developed scripts to automatically select the survivors. Sometimes judges entered false data, in those cases I had to correct the data. (If the survivors were late, it was mostly because of me, as I had to correct multiple data sets. To conclude with the last guy, our German organizer @II.Salvator.II, he took care of the German community during the contest, preparing translations and helping German players. Please tell us about current on-going events in tanki and also future events which are under work. Time to speak about the present and future. At the moment we are working on Parkour contests, but as we do not have a parkour expert in our team (@Nikk is currently not available), the development has slowed down. Parkour is still a priority for us, so if you are a Parkour expert and want to see more regularly Parkour contests in the game, feel free to apply for the contest organizer position. We have something huge in the pipe and aiming for a release in July, so stay tuned! Our goal is to run one Parkour contest per month with some break between them. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ @SuperNick95 First of all I would like to congratulate you for successful EN CC, you and your team did fantastic job on organizing it. Let’s talk about current eSports situation. People are criticizing on-going duet master tournament because of the rule which state and I quote “Gladiator owners will not be able to keep the paint unless they win the tournament, briefly if you have gladiator and do not win the tournament you will not keep the paint any longer once the tournament is over”, please explain the reason behind this new rule. First of all let's get the facts straight: the rule about paint removal is not new. It's been here for a year already (since Domination Series 2). Why did it make the headlines now, I am not sure; do not forget in Domination Series it was about both Acid and Gladiator, this time only for Gladiator. Anyways, the reasons behind this choice are numerous, I saw the comments on the topic regarding how this is "unfair" and "discriminating", but we do not mean to be unfair to anybody. Simply, the paint is a trophy. If the paint is specifically linked to a tournament format, like Prism or Impulse, it is obvious that you will lose it, unless you conquer it again in the next season of the tournament (but generally we do not hold tournaments so close to each other, and the paint simply expires according to tournament rules). If the paint is more common like Acid or Gladiator though, you may still own it when another tournament with the same paint as a prize is launched. In this way you are not really competing for the paint, like other players in the tournament, because you already have it. So if you do not win never mind, you still have the paint from the previous tournament, but if you win, you obviously can't have two paints at the same time so the prize is kind of wasted, while it could be given to another (almost) equally good opponent. This process, where you risk nothing but may still take away award paints, is not healthy for eSports. Just think how the people getting second and third would see a paint they almost could grab disappear in front of their eyes to a player that already had it!! That would be a real injustice. So, if the player with the award paint wants to play in the tournament, he has to earn his paint again, otherwise it will be removed and given to a stronger player. If the player wins though he can keep it without any problem, having shown once again he's the strongest. And please do not forget that with this rule you will lose the paint only if it's the same of the tournament's prize: you wouldn't lose acid for a tournament with gladiator. With this I mean that we do not think we'll be giving the paint to noobs just because they never won it before: we are sure the paint will be awarded to masters of plasma weapons, outstanding eSports players. 2nd League only has 2 clans in it, are you guys planning on filling it up with new clans by having Ranking Cups again? About second league: the situation is unfortunate. A lot of clans closed and we were left with this situation just after the international championship. However, we didn't want to fix it immediately, and decided for now to focus on other projects and different kinds of tournaments, to create more interesting contents for the community. Obviously, as soon as the dust settles down, we'll get back to clan to find new valuable elements for the second league. Ranking Cups however is not what we have in mind for this purpose. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ @Maf Hello and welcome Maf! Thank you for joining us here today. Let’s get straight to our discussion. How did you like newly released match making update? Does this fix problem of unbalanced non pro battles which were dominated by druggers and clans? Before the update, I had a lot of hopes for matchmaking, thinking it will solve all current problems. After all, developers did spend over a year working on the update, so surely the thing they came up with should be great. The system was disappointing at first, but it seems like this was mostly due to unexpected bugs, as well as people getting Legends and Recruits into the same group, making it seem like ranks balance was gone. At the moment I am satisfied with how matchmaking works. I do dislike the inability to choose maps, although nowadays there are barely any maps I really dislike, so having maps randomised isn't a big issue. On the other hand, being able to join a brand new battle within 5 seconds is a big step forward and makes my experience a lot more convenient. I do occasionally have to wait in queue longer or end up in a half-finished battle, and balance isn't always great (probably around 70% of the time it's decent), but overall I think it's a solid improvement over the previous system and a massive improvement over what we had back in 2015. Druggers and clans still occasionally dominate and I have seen multiple cases of two separate groups of clan members being put into a battle against a team of non-clan players, so in that sense MM doesn't always seem to work as intended (unless the non-clan players were also in two groups). Can't say anything about MM on low ranks, as I only played it at Legend. On scale of 1-10 how much do you rate it? On a scale of 1-10, probably a 6. If I also count the potential improvements they should have made to PRO battles in the same update (which they didn't), then a 3 or 4. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ @Winner_Of_Turkey My name is Oğuzhan and I'm from İstanbul, Turkey. I started playing Tanki in January, 2010 with a friend. Became helper at the start of 2015, since then I am doing my best to help to community. Most players don’t know about your job so please explain your job to us and also tell us about current on-going facebook events and future facebook events. Our job has similarities with other helper positions, helping players when they need assistance, but on Facebook. Most people doesn't use game forums, because it looks complicated for them. They choose to contact via social media platforms, which is where we show up! They send a PM/leave comment on our post about their problem, we ask for more details if needed, then we guide them with links about the problem and what to do, till it gets resolved. We make content to entertain players, they can see the latest artworks, community videos or an info about TO that they didn't know about. We also have weekly contest where you can win promo codes with different prizes in it. On special celebrations such as new year or birthday we give away promo codes. We are planning to have different kind of contests in the future, so make sure to follow. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ @Flexoo What are your future plans for Hindi, French, and Arabic newspapers? They are inactive and even when they were active, there were not many readers. Right now, we want to integrate rest of the writers from French and Hindi papers into the English paper. Possibly, we will publish articles from these writers in their own language as well as in English to raise their views. So the readers will have an option to read the articles in international English as well as languages that are spread only in certain countries and regions. What the future holds is a mystery, though. The player numbers are lower as opposed to few years ago so we do not have as many views and reporter applicants in these smaller papers. We will see what changes will mobile update bring. Maybe with some increase in player numbers we will be able to promote these smaller papers again and get new blood. What do you think about newly released Drones? Have you tested them? What are you positive and negative thoughts about them? I did not have a chance to try the new drones yet as I am quite busy in real life right now so I can only judge them based on the reviews from the second hand. I heard they can be quite powerful, but on the other hand, the batteries that charge them are expensive as well as the micro-upgrades for drones. We will see how it will affect the balance in a long run. Also, what do you think about new modules update? I am really happy about the new module update. It's far easier to work with just 14 protections that you can assemble the way that suits your preferences and gaming style. The old system of dozens of protections was archaic so I am glad Tanki took a step forward. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Thanks for reading! I hope you all have enjoyed it. I will see you next time with another article, until then, be safe and have fun.

Welcome tankers! Most of us have done some poem writing sometime in our life, mostly during our school time, but have your teachers taught you enough to beat your fellow competitive tankers in poem writing contest? Let’s find out. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tankers, in this contest you will be writing a limerick poem on Tanki Online or Tanki X. You can write about both TO and TX in same poem. There is no restriction on the tone of the poem - it can be funny, emotional, loving, angry, etc. Those who don’t know much about limerick poems, I have a formula for them. Formula: 5 lines Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme. Lines 3 & 4 rhyme. Rhyme Scheme: AABBA Rules: No plagiarism. No use of abusive language. Poem must have at least two strophes, 10 lines. Send me your poem in PM, do not post it in this thread. Do not break rule number 1, 2, 3, or 4. If you do, it will result in disqualification from the contest. Prizes: 1st Place: 45k crystals + 3 days of Premium 2nd Place: 35k crystals + 2 days of Premium 3rd Place: 20k crystals + 1 day of Premium 4th and 5th Place: 15k crystals Consolation Prizes: 10k crystals Deadline: 28th July, 2018 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Best of luck to all participants!

Hello and Welcome my fellow tankers! I hope you are enjoying crazy Tanki life and also hot summer days. To cool things up I have special guest for you all, who is not only skilled player but also has cool personality. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome , formerly known as Governor! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Welcome Governor! Thanks for joining us here today, Please tell our readers something about yourself. Hello! My Name is Phil, I live in Germany and I'm 19 years old. Tell us about your early tanki life, how did you begin? I started off playing casually in early 2012, but I've always been using Hornet Railgun so I was pretty good with it, and then eventually I got picked up by the most successful German Clan at that time, Old Stars. Awesome start! Could you tell us about your eSports journey; how did it begin and what have you accomplished so far? With a few of my Clanmates from Old Stars I registered for the first season of MoS Trio without even thinking of any success, but we managed to win, so I got my first ever paint there, Gladiator. That success gave us motivation to take part in big tournaments, so again I gathered some friends and we signed up for ToF Dream Team, in which we also managed to succeed and take the 3rd Place with a loss against Team Pointers. After that I joined HZD, which I left after 1 season because of some inconsistencies. With AK I managed to win DS2 and take the famous Acid paint. Sadly, AK closed after DS2 and I was looking towards joining a new clan, but that's when Assertive brought me into my current clan, Penguins. With Penguins I managed to win Gladiator in a recent Clan Championship and we already started preparing for other tournaments such as the EN CC, in which we were the ones to win the new Prism paint. That didn't cause us to lose our focus though and we still kept training daily to prepare for MoS, which is the most popular tournament alongside CC in tanki right now. We knew that we prepared very well and that we could achieve alot more than others might expect from us, which turned out to be true and we took the first place against the old champion of the first season of MoS and managed to win the Impulse paint as well as Gladiator again. That's great! You have clearly been successful ever since you started your eSports journey. So, let's talk about the legendary Starladder time: were you part of StarLadder? If so, then tell us about your experience with SL. Yes with Old Stars, but no achievement there worth mentioning. How and when did you became part of best EN clan ever, AK? My friend told me that AK would be back soon and I was asked to join them, so I gladly accepted that opportunity and joined them. I also met @CriminaL_LyF and @Lankbouv there, which are my clanmates till this day. (@Lankbouv is no longer member of Penguins, this interview was done before @Lankbouv left PenGs) Now you are playing for clan Penguins, currently hold two precious paints: the newly added Prism and recently won Impulse. How do you prepare your clan for greater success, please tell us about that. Training is the most important thing and it helps to have a schedule. In those trainings you need to find your weaknesses and try to eliminate them in order to improve. PenGs especially has a great clan atmosphere which I haven't experienced in any other clan ever to that degree, so I think that also helped us to develop good teamplay and communication. Any advice to new clans and new eSports players? Don't give up and expect to achieve a lot right at the beginning. Train a lot and don't care about other clans, just focus on yourself and work on your mistakes as well as on weaknesses, and it'll pay off. A good example is the EN CC, in which many clans showed a great performance and proved that hard work at trainings pays off. Awesome! Would you like to add anything else? I just like to thank few friends who I have met throughout my journey in Tanki: @C_JlIO6oBbIO, @Westpalm, @Advice, @WiTh0uT.RuLeS, , @Lankbouv, @CriminaL_LyF, @FinalStage, @Assertive and many others. Well, it was my pleasure to work with you Governor, by the way can you tell me why did you decide to change your name and what does your new nickname mean? Just curious to know :P Yes, To4HbIu_cTpeJloK was my nickname before I changed to Governor, it means something like "accurate shooter". Thank you for having me here. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Thanks for reading, I hope you all enjoyed the interview! I will see you next time with another professional tanker, till then adiós!

Can I have Mo Salah Paint pls?

Perfect timing.

I’m sure players will appreciate this.

All the winner? wait, how many teams actually won this tournament?

amount of dedication tho... :o

Shout-out to @HoLy_RuLer for pictures.

This will definetly help grow tanki!

All I can say is may God give strength to those who lost their loved ones in this tragic incident.

Namaskar Doston! Aasha hai ki aap sahi salamat ho aur tanki ka pura anand utha rahe ho. Aaj mein aap sabhi ko iss lekh ke dhvara bataunga ki kaise wasp ke saath aap khatarnak aur saphal attack kar sakhte hai. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Shuruvaat karte hai, #1 Protection module, Apni protection module aacha sa lenna aur sahi vala bhi. Aeisa na ho ki defender ke pass twins hai aur app fire, freeze, aur isida vala protection lekar unpe humla bol rahe ho. Toh joh defender ke pass turrent hai uska protection aapko lena hi hoga agar saphalta pana chahete hai. Ek salaah hai aapke liye, jyada tar defenders twins, freeze, aur smoky ka istamal karte hai, kyunki twins mein reload ki koi jhan-jhat nahi hoti, freeze se attackers freeze ho jaate hai aur smoky ki reload speed tez hai aur damage bhi bohot jyada karti hai. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ #2 Jump marke flag lena Agar dushman defender bada sa hai toh aap usko dhakka marne ka toh soch bhi nahi sakhte. Isliye aap ke pass ek hi upaye hai, dushman ke upar se flag leke bhaag jana. Agar aap Rio mein khelte hai toh aapko pata hi hoga ki kitna aasan hai red team ke liye upar se chalaang marke blue team ka flag lekar bhaag na. Par aap yeh sabhi map mein nahi kar sakte. Toh baki sabh map mein aap kya kar sakte hai? Aapke pass ek hi upaye hai, parkour karke. Jab aap dushman ke karib ho tab aapko hawa mein shot kare aur ussi vakt thoda sa tank piche karke aap aapne tank ko aage se thoda uncha kar sakhte hai jisse dushman tank ke seer pe chadh sakte hai aur flag le kar bhaag sakte hai. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ #3 Hide and Go (chhup ke hamla kare) Aapki takat hai aapki raftaar, toh iska istamal sahi tarah se kare. Aur aapki kamzori hai aapki heath jyoki dushman titan aur mamoth ke mukable bohot hi kum hai. Agar ho sakhe toh chhupke chhupke unke base mein jaiye. Aapko koshish karni hai ki aapki heath puri ho jab aap dushman flag ke karib poheche varna dushman ke liye aasan hoga aapka katal karna :P. Aur ek baat, ho sakhe toh aap dushman titan yah toh mamoth ke piche se flag lekar bhagiye kyunki titan aur momoth ki kamzori hai raftaar aur aapki takat hai aapki raftaar, isse aapko aasani hogi dushman base se bahar nikal kar flag cap karne mein. Ek saalah, Aap apne kisi saathi ke tank mein ghus kar aap flag le sakhte hai. Is trick ke liya aapko jab aap respawn ho rahe ho tab aapko pura respawn nahi hona hai aur turant kissi saathi ke andar chale jana hai. Aur aapko dushman flag ki oar badhna hai. Jab aap dushman flag ke karib poheche tab aap bahar nikal kar flag ko utha kar bhag sakhte hai aur aapke saathi dushmano ko rok kar rakh sakhte hai aur aap dusre saathiyon ki madat se flag cap kar payenge. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ #4 Driving Skills Iss game mein aur real life mein driving aachi honi bohoot hi jaroori hai. Real life ke baare mein toh aap samajte hi honge per chalo baat karte hai Tanki mein driving ki. Kyunki aap wasp use kar rahe hai toh aapki raftaar thodi bohot tez hongi toh aapko aachi driving aani jaroori hai varna aap dusre khiladiyoon ke saath aur sabhi imaraaton ke saath takra jaenge aur isse aapka vakt zaya hoga. Dusri baat, mines se bhi bach ke rahena mitron. Agar aap uske upar aagaye toh aap phat bhi sakhte hai yah toh palat bhi sakhte hai. Kripaya driving karte samay aankhe chaudi aur dimag khula rakhe. Apne attack ka rasta aisa chuney, jaha pe zyada open space ho aur aapke aur enemy flag ke bich me ek obvious rasta na ho. Obvious jagh-ho pe log mine karte hain jisse aapko bachna hain. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ #5 No fight Please (bohot ladai nahi karni) Dushman aapse kumsekum 2 guna jyada takatvar hoga. Kyun ladai karke vakt zaya karna hai? Aapka kam yehi hai ki kissi tarah flag leke bhag jaye aur cap kare. Kissi dushman ke muh nahi lagna hai aapko. Haan agar aapke pass pakki khabar hain ki dushman kumzor hai aur aap usko asani se maar sakhte hai toh zaroor maar dale aur baad mein flag le. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ #6 Mine when leaving (mine gira ke jana hai) Agar aap Flag leke bhag rahe ho toh kripiya ek mine aapni tanki mein se gira dena. Pehle toh, kyunki mine ka koi cooldown nahi hota, woh aapni marzi ka malik hai. Aur dusri, agar dushman ki health kum hai toh woh mine pe aakar phat jayega, yah toh woh mine dekh leh toh woh ruk kar uske baju mein se jani ki koshis karega, isse aapko thoda jyada vakt milega apne base mein pohachne mein. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Toh doston aasha hai ki aapko mera yeh lekh aacha laga hoga aur kuch naya seekhne ko mila hoga. Ab fir kabhi mulakat hogi ek aur naye aur taaza lekh ke saath, tab tak ke liye alvida!

All newspaper sections has been merged into 1 (Tanki Online Newspaper).

Both articles are in Hindi. -_-

10 seconds only! will be even more challenging and interesting now.

Oh I get it. You are removing exp from private battles because you want to eliminate all those fights which happens within clans just because one player end up having less score than others. hmm... very nice of you. ;)

will think about it.

Congrats Iranians.