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The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 09 May 2017, 18:36
by Mr_Bramboy
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Hey everyone!

The RO16
After yet another exciting weekend, sixteen participants have managed to fight their way out of the RO32. Haven't been keeping up with the competitive scene? You can watch back the entire tournament in this playlist. Four series have already been scheduled, so make sure to check out the stream schedule down below. We hope that everyone is enjoying the tournament thus far and we are looking forward to more great games!

The stream schedule can be found here

Forum Badges
A few months ago, we announced that we would be working on forum badges. Today, we've released the first batch of these badges: donator badges. You will unlock higher tiers of this badge for donating more. See the table below for the exact amount needed per badge. Currently, all badges have been granted using info from February 2016 to the present. If you donated before that or if you believe the donation amount shown is off, please contact us! Please note your donated amount might be off due to currency exchange (i.e €5.00 donated ≠ $5.00 donated)

Thanks to @tilanus for these magnificent badges!

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Second Chance Tournament
Just like during the last tournament, we are hosting a second chance tournament again. The rules are largely the same, with the exception of the new veto rule, which was also present in the main tournament. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept of the second chance tournament, the second chance tournament is, as the name implies, a second chance to win the tournament. You may only sign up for the second chance tournament if you participated in the main tournament and if you did not get to the RO32. You can sign up until Sunday.

Sign-ups can be found here

Media Team Applications
Applications for the media team may still be submitted until June 4th. If you missed the previous news post, you can find more information here

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 09 May 2017, 18:43
by musketeer925
FYI to whomever created the graphic:
Most common convention for USD is to put $1000, not 1000$.

Badges are exciting!

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 09 May 2017, 19:56
by godzillaking
Cool! I am so happy to donate money for these tourneys. It sure is fun to watch.

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 09 May 2017, 20:29
by giveuanxiety
Sweet badges

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 09 May 2017, 23:06
by edeholland
giveuanxiety wrote:Sweet badges


Would look great on your profile for sure

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 09 May 2017, 23:26
by giveuanxiety
haha ya I have been planning on donating a little back to esoc during the tour streams. I did donate a little bit to various streamers already, like aiz, tls, veni. Gotta take care of the small crew of aoe3 streamers that keep things exciting during the off season and during slow times first.

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 10 May 2017, 15:15
by deleted_user0
wtf is this

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 10 May 2017, 17:39
by edeholland
somppukunkku wrote:wtf is this


You get a badge for donating tournament games by losing on purpose :flowers:

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 10 May 2017, 18:27
by bobabu
Where's my badge? :P

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 10 May 2017, 19:25
by Mr_Bramboy
bobabu wrote:Where's my badge? :P

If you could PM @n0el your e-mail he'll sort it out for you :)

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 10 May 2017, 20:40
by amiggo1999
Damn this makes me wanna get one as well, good job guys! ^^

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 12 May 2017, 00:40
by _H2O
Thanks everyone for all the hard work. First round of badges are awesome.

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 12 May 2017, 23:46
by Zutazuta
I demand a recount!

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 12 May 2017, 23:56
by Forjustice
I wanna sign.but I got into ro32.sadness by my suck.

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 13 May 2017, 00:08
by Gendarme
miggo9919 wrote:Damn this makes me wanna get one as well
That's the whole point. 10/10 marketing from ESOC team.

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 13 May 2017, 05:22
by purplesquid
Gendarme wrote:
miggo9919 wrote:Damn this makes me wanna get one as well
That's the whole point. 10/10 marketing from ESOC team.

Could not have said it better myself! Just an all around great idea that was (from what I can see) perfectly executed

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 13 May 2017, 05:30
by deleted_user
Well I don't want my badge. Can it be removed?

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 13 May 2017, 07:48
by pecelot
UCP -> Profile -> Edit badges
Mr. Hipster :ugeek:

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 13 May 2017, 09:24
by JakeyBoyTH
pecelot wrote:UCP -> Profile -> Edit badges
Mr. Hipster :ugeek:

We should share a badge for best smilie use :love: .
:grin: :o :flowers:

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 13 May 2017, 16:31
by musketeer925
JakeyBoyTH wrote:
pecelot wrote:UCP -> Profile -> Edit badges
Mr. Hipster :ugeek:

We should share a badge for best smilie use :love: .
:grin: :o :flowers:

Sounds like it might be a bit subjective...

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 13 May 2017, 18:23
by Gichtenlord
I actually dont like pecelots smilie usage :hmm:

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 13 May 2017, 18:40
by pecelot
:sad:

On topic: great idea with these badges, I already donated some more just to earn another coin under my avatar despite the fact I hadn't had that in plans! :flowers:

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 14 May 2017, 05:40
by crjensen4
Good Idea using badges.

I take it you have only counted donations to Noel's paypal?
And I take it that "live" donations are not counted?

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 14 May 2017, 06:45
by Vinyanyérë
crjensen4 wrote:Good Idea using badges.

I take it you have only counted donations to Noel's paypal?
And I take it that "live" donations are not counted?


Live donations do get counted! But we run into a small entity resolution problem where it's not necessarily easy for us to link someone's Twitch user to their ESOC user, meaning that we aren't counting some donations that we should be. Let us know if you think that this applies to you.

Re: The RO16, Forum Badges, and the Second Chance Tournament!

Posted: 14 May 2017, 06:50
by deleted_user
This applies to me

Thanks!