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<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">This month for our giveaway we will be giving one awesome individual a $100 Newegg gift card. So what do you need to do to win it? Write us a story! First, you need to pick your favorite Council member. Then, using only 200 characters write us an extremely brief and funny story about them. If you go over the character limit, The Yeti will personally disqualify you with his fists. Here is a story made by Machine Gun Rush to use as an example. "Once upon a time, a strong young man named Ill Legend found a lemur in his pants pocket. He proceeded to name the lemur Ric. Ric was an especially skilled bowler. He won the eGO bowling championship." >> Post Your Story Here << </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">In recognition of the time, leadership, and hard work these members have contributed to eGO, the Call of Duty Division would like to acknowledge the following members with the Distinguished Service Award. Krome For your dedication to the CoD Division and eGO as a whole. We appreciate all your efforts particularly in the area of admin training. @ppl3p! For your dedication to the CoD Division and eGO as a whole. We appreciate your efforts particularly in the area of events. Endiment For your dedication to the CoD Division and eGO as a whole. You have been a mainstay in the division and the community for a long time, and led the recruitment team during their best two...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Attention social media nuts! eGO now has an OFFICIAL Facebook page that is managed by our Council team. Be sure to give us a LIKE so you can get updates on what's happening in eGO. Facebook.com/egogamers </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">The Battlefield Division would like to invite all eGO members to our divisional meeting on April 3. We will be discussing leadership and server changes, as well as where we would like to take this division moving forward. The meeting will be taking place on our Ventrilo Server and there will be time for a Q&A afterwards. We encourage everyone to attend, especially if you are a part of the BF Division. Date: Wednesday, April 3 Time: 9:00 PM Eastern 8:00 PM Central 7:00 PM Mountain 6:00 PM Pacific 1:00 AM Greenwich (April 4) </div> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: right; padding: 5px" align="right">Article By: ThundrRok Edited By: Ratfire Images By: Druid</div>

<img src="http://storage.edge-gamers.com/news/tf2/tf2_textlogo.png" width=500> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">The Team Fortress 2 Division would like to recognize all the hard-working members who have received a promotion. Our congratulations to all of you! Take the rest of the week off, you've earned it. <table width=500><tr><td valign=top><img src="http://webdev.edge-gamers.com/tomssound/eGOv3/rank/eG-rank.png" width=120> VaporishAnt TheJester ComfortablyLomb Smitty2213 AOC SporkGladiator The Great Space Butterfly HawaiiHunter Festive Captain Japan Puke-N-Snot Weathermen Why so serious? NetherApprentice SuperGamer087 Adeptus Astartes GunslingerXiX Johnny Zero Prankenstein OOber Dubkips Steakknife...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">April first arrives and you know its always bound to be a crazy day. Hundreds of you gamers fell into Council's prank this year (you can't say you didn't) in which we opened up the Council forum for all to view. Don't be too upset about it, even the majority of your Leadership fell into the joke as well. We just wanted to thank everyone for all of the good laughs of course. You should also be happy to know that the Medal of Shame will be a permanent addition to the awards list, everyone who has been awarded it will keep it forever. What was your favorite April Fools' prank this year outside of eGO? PS: We have gone ahead and reverted everything back to normal.</div> <div...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">In recognition of his continual, unyielding efforts to help the Counter-Strike Division prosper, his work fostering the growth of the division, his ability to lead by example, and for stressing the core values of eGO, CS Leadership & eGO Council are honored to present Zimmy with the Distinguished Service Award. Your countless contributions have not gone unnoticed. Thank you!</div><div style="width: 500px; text-align: right; padding: 5px" align="right">Article By: Cwhit Edited By: Ratfire Images By: Druid</div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Join Council and the rest of the Leadership team March 30th at 6:00 PM (Eastern) for our next Clan Wide Meeting. First, hear from Council about what has been happening from the top of eGO, and then grab updates on our divisions from our Division Leaders and Advisors. Saturday, March 30, 2013 6:00 PM Eastern 5:00 PM Central 4:00 PM Mountain 3:00 PM Pacific Leadership wants to hear from you! As usual, we will dedicate 15 minutes for Q&A at the end of the meeting. We encourage all of you to bring any of your questions as you will have leadership members from each team available to answer them. <hr width=75%> If you can not attend the meeting, you can follow it live on...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">The Personnel Service Center is hosting a 24-hour recruiting drive in an effort to increase our recruiting numbers for the month of March. Throughout this contest, we are looking for enthusiastic recruiters that are willing to put in the time to help eGO. Every member recruited brings you one step closer to winning one of three prizes: Payday The Heist Red Faction Armageddon Train Simulator 2013 1st place will also be rewarded with the PSC Event Winner Achievement. The sole purpose of this contest is working towards meeting our monthly recruiting goal. The contest will begin at 12:00 PM Eastern on Friday, March 29 and will run until the next day, finishing at 12:00 PM...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">A long time ago, there was a lost, baby Yeti roaming the forest and looking for a place to game. As he wandered the dark forest alone, he stumbled upon the world of EdgeGamers. This particular Yeti has been with us for over 3 years and has helped us build what we call the Operation: eXperiment Division. With his leadership, dedication, foresight, tenacity, patience, calm under pressure, perseverance, devotion to gaming, and cache of aspirin by the computer desk during ARMA events, eGO is destined for a brighter future. Council has asked Yeti to step up and take the top spot for the Division along side DigitalDJ, and he has accepted the task. We have every faith in his...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">The Counter-Strike Division would like to invite all eGO members to our divisional meeting this Thursday night. We will be discussing recent events, leadership changes, and where we would like to take this division moving forward. The meeting will be taking place on our Ventrilo Server and there will be time for a Q&A afterwards. We encourage everyone to attend, especially if you are a part of the CS Division. Date: Thursday, March 28 Time: 8:00 PM Eastern 7:00 PM Central 6:00 PM Mountain 5:00 PM Pacific 12:00 AM Greenwich (29 March)</div><div style="width: 500px; text-align: right; padding: 5px" align="right">Article By: Zimmy Edited By: Ratfire Images By: Druid</div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Submissions close this Sunday! Want to draw a bald guy's profile? Add a beard and the Sydney Opera house to that picture, and you could win our $100 contest for MS Paint. Our monthly giveaway for March has just kicked off, you can check it out in the General Forum. This month we will be giving one individual $100 to spend on any games they like on Steam. Check it out!</div> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: right; padding: 5px" align="right">Article By: Ill Legend & The Yeti Edited By: Artimus & The Yeti Images By: Ill Legend</div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">The desire to be promoted within eGO is understandable. Possessing the drive to be a leader and even to climb to the top of the roster is admirable. But if what you really enjoy doing is running a division, then you don't want to be on the Council. In brief, Divisional Council Reps are responsible for putting together a team to run a division and for providing the answers to questions that the Council may have regarding the division. Their focus is to reward and motivate, and when needed, to assist with making decisions for the division. An effective Council member should always be available, but he/she shouldn't be needed to make every decision for a properly functioning...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Have you recently had trouble finding a slot on our BC2 and BF3 servers? If so, we're reporting that we're not quite so unhappy about that. We'd love for everyone to always be able to connect to an eGO server in any game, but the recent surge in support for our Battlefield Servers is something we also want to celebrate. The servers have been given renewed life under the watchful eye of 2sl0w and Battlefield's Division Leaders, LilShortstuf and ThundrRok, along with their dedicated leadership team of: Music jtipton KILLERCANKILL Skagnatti Major_Shrapnel Their strategies have paid off in a big way, resulting in skyrocketing server rankings. Congratulations to our BF...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">We members of the CS Division would like to wish everyone a happy St. Patrick's Day! We hope you are all wearing green, because you're in for a pinch. CS Leadership would like to announce our St. Patty's Day Promotion List and send our congratulations to all of our newly promoted admins. Keep up the great work! <table width=500><tr><td width=50% valign=top><img src="http://storage.edge-gamers.com/news/css/e-eG_promotion.png"> ACID RAGE Alfonse cookieman617 CoolGuy98 DksaNn Dr. Walrus DunkinDonutss Hilltopper-253[medicated] Intux Nielsen Peanut from Counter-Strike PledgeToDeath Positive Contact SleepBeef SwiftFlame Sylar ^kitten^ zed:absolution</td><td width=50% valign=top><img...

<img src="http://storage.edge-gamers.com/news/misc/march_madness2012.png" width=500> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Calling all college basketball nerds! Who will be this years bracketologist? March Madness is here and that means it is time for our annual bracket tournament. Put your college basketball knowledge to the test and compete against your eGO friends. We are playing for bragging rights folks, so give it a shot. Check out the MARCH MADNESS forum for more information. I look forward to kicking all of your butts! </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">eGO VS. Reddit - 32 Man BF3 Scrim! <img src="http://static.cdn.ea.com/battlelog/prod/emblems/320/517/2832655391300744517.jpeg?v=1320601317.94" width=100> After a victory against FIST and a loss against Rebel Regiment, eGO will take on the behemoth Team Reddit in a 32 v 32 scrim. Reddit has a long history in Battlefield and is among the top two teams in the 32 v 32 bracket. As this is a 32 v 32 scrim, we need all available members to sign up so that we may adequately compete with such a successful competitive group. Time Sunday, March 17, 2013 3:30 Eastern 2:30 Central 1:30 Mountain 12:30 Pacific Map type Conquest 64 Map Selection Kharg Island, Strike at Karkand, Grand...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">?Mono a Mono? The Call of Duty Division will be running a CoD4 1v1 Top Gun Tournament on Saturday, March 23. For each match, there will be a random weapon and random map chosen. (Example: a random generator will choose the mp5 and the map Crash and both players will have to play with the mp5 while on Crash). The person with the highest kill count at the end of the 8 minute time limit gets to advance to the next round. There will be prizes for first and second place, and members from any division are welcome to participate. If you have any questions, please message @ppl3p! or C-Rams. More information and a participation sign up can be found in the CoD Division...

<img src="http://storage.edge-gamers.com/news/misc/hamster.png"> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">We have some great news for the world of squares and cubes, I mean Minecraft. Our Minecraft server is now running on some better hardware! We should be seeing a significant increase in server performance and stability with this upgrade. Here's some inside information on how we made this upgrade happen: Bill, eGO's four-legged friend, powers the dedicated box that our Minecraft server runs on. Spray, the Chief Technical Officer, is the man in charge of feeding Bill every morning at 6 AM. Spray fills Bill's food bowl with a helping of Cap'n Crunch, which gives Bill the energy he needs to run on his wheel through...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Daft Punk shows us his awesome observatory. If you would like to be featured in our eGO Cribs series please visit this thread. <iframe width="500" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_8wTJ5pquZU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: right; padding: 5px" align="right">Article By: Dead Tom Edited By: JollyRoger Images By: Ill Legend</div>