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<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">When Sunday, August 21, 2011 5pm EST 4pm CST 3pm MST 2pm PST Time Zone Converter Rush Game Mode Comparable to Call of Duty's "Search & Destroy", the Rush game type focuses on taking out several objectives over a series of checkpoints throughout a map, with two objectives per checkpoint. One team defends the objectives as the opposing team attacks and rushes forward. Attackers have a limited number of reinforcements to complete the mission. If the attacking team runs out of tickets before the objectives have all been destroyed the defending team is the victor. Game Play & Scoring For this tournament, teams will be comprised of 8 players (two squads). Teams will be...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Notch is officially a married man, and we thought we?d celebrate by giving one free copy of Minecraft to everyone who buys the game! How does it work, you ask? Well, if you buy a copy of the game (not a gift code), you get a free gift code added to your account. You can see the gift codes you have by going to your Minecraft profile Tell your spouse/lover/friend/acquaintance/stranger to go to the redeem page and enter the code, and within minutes you?ll both be punching trees and installing texture packs together. Have a great weekend, everybody! Source: The Word of Notch </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">A Day of Defeat: Source divisional meeting will be held on Sunday, August 14. Time: 9:00PM EST 8:00PM CST 7:00PM MST 6:00PM PST 1:00AM GMT Time Zone Converter There is a one hour time limit for this meeting with an expected 15-30 minutes of Q&A afterwards. Please join us in Ventrilo to get all the latest news from DoD:S Leadership! Ventrilo Server Information: Host: voice.edge-gamers.com Port: 29272 Password: No password currently set. </div>

Valve Announces Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO) <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Next Gen Console, PC, and Mac Release Targeted for Early 2012 Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO). Targeted for release via Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade, and Steam (for PC and Mac) in early 2012, CS: GO will expand upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched exactly 12 years ago (CS beta 1, August 1999). CS: GO features new maps, characters, and weapons and delivers updated...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Due to unfortunate circumstances, the hard drive failed, we were forced to restart the map. We lost certain databases that helped protect our server and player built objects. For fairness and to ensure that nothing untoward happens we decided to start fresh for everyone. For those who wish to still use the map we will make it available for download in the near future. We, the Strategy Leadership, wish to apologize for any inconvenience and ask that you bear with us. </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">There have been a lot of issues that have passed this last month with the website domain owner, and we believe the domains should be returned to us, the original owners. Due to not recovering our originally owned domains, EdgeGamers moved to Edge-Gamers.com. Approximately one week ago, EdgeGamers leadership reached out to the community and asked for assistance with our upcoming legal fees. The community as a whole stepped up to help immediately and was incredibly generous with their contributions. Your support is greatly appreciated and will be a key factor in ensuring EdgeGamers' continuing success as the world's #1 gaming community. As a small token of our appreciation...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Who would have guessed it? The Strategy Division is adding another game to our repertoire. Former Strategy Game Of The Year: Company of Heroes Company of Heroes is a World War II Real Time Strategy game where you compete for resources to annihilate your opponent. Build bunkers. Build tanks. Upgrade your infantry. From satchel charges to snipers, this game has it all. The Company Of Heroes forum is located here within the Strat Division forums. This is a great place to discuss the game, share tactics and talk about anything else related to Company Of Heroes. In addition, we have dedicated channels on our ventrilo server specifically for Company Of Heroes. If you don't...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">A recent hunting expedition to the Storm Peaks has gone terribly wrong. A zeppelin has been blown off course and crashed. Help us find them and you will be greatly rewarded. Rewards First: 1000g, Special Events achievement, and 3 Event Tokens Second: 200g, and 2 Event Tokens Third: 100g, and 1 Event Token When: Thursday August 11th, 2011 Times: 3:00 PM PST 4:00 PM MST 5:00 PM CST (server time) 6:00 PM EST Where: Players will be summoned Meet up in Ventrilo and in-game at least 15 minutes prior for an event explanation. For more information on the Event Token prizes read here. </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Within the next few months The Old Republic will be coming out, and leadership wants to know how many of you will be supporting this game. We would also like to take a moment to hear what Old Republic activities people would like to take part in. With this in mind, we are calling a meeting for anyone who is interested in supporting this game with Edgegamers. When: Saturday, August 6th, 2011 7:00 PM EST 6:00 PM CST 5:00 PM MST 4:00 PM PST 12:00 AM GMT Where: EdgeGamers Ventrilo Server There is a one hour limit for this meeting with an anticipated 15-30 minutes of Q&A. All are welcome to attend. </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Choose to be a Jedi, a Sith, or from a variety of other classic Star Wars roles, and make decisions which define your personal story and determine your path down the light or dark side of the Force. Along the way you will befriend courageous companions who will fight at your side or possibly betray you based on your actions. Together, you will battle enemies in dynamic Star Wars combat and team up with other players to overcome incredible challenges. Join us. Your personal Star Wars saga begins in Star Wars: The Old Republic.</div> <iframe width="500" height="314" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/tnsnbhwTmAw?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <table...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">We are proud to announce the opening of a new map on the popular eGO Minecraft server. It's a Wild West server, so you'd best be a watchin' yore backs pilgrims. Can't reckon what's worse, back shootin' polecats, the weather, the desert, or the varmints. So buy yore self a poke o' grub, a new rope, and a bright shiny pick axe and mosey on down the trail. This is also a survival map, so most of the rules for normal maps do not apply. We will still observe our standard eGO server rules; but besides that, the point is to simply survive. Server IP: mine.edge-gamers.com </div>

<table width="300" border="0"><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;height:30px;font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;">Distinguished Service Award</td></tr><tr><td style="width:90px;vertical-align:middle"></td><td style="text-align:center;width:210px;vertical-align:top;"> Skippy </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;height:30px;font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;">Admin Excellence Award</td></tr><tr><td style="width:90px;vertical-align:middle"></td><td style="text-align:center;width:210px;vertical-align:top;"> Lungbuster Silent Ghost Megs A Tagger Rorschach </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;height:30px;font-weight:bold;font-size:14px;">Handyman Award</td></tr><tr><td...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">The thunder you hear in the distance is no storm. The heavy treads of Steam Tonks rumble once again as our members engage in free for all combat in the arena. Mortars shall fly, landmines shall be placed, and only one will remain. First Place: 1000 gold WoW Special Events forum achievement 3 Event Tokens Second Place: 200 gold 2 Event Tokens Third Place: 100 gold 1 Event Token When: Thursday August 4th, 2011 3:00 PM PST 4:00 PM MST 5:00 PM CST 6:00 PM EST Where: Players will be summoned Meet up in Ventrilo and in-game at least 15 minutes before the event starts for event explanation and to get your hands on a Steam Tonk Controller. For more information on the...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Due to not recovering our originally owned domains, EdgeGamers moved to Edge-Gamers.com. There are a lot of issues that have passed this last month with the domain owner, and we believe the domains should be returned to us, the original owners. Please help EdgeGamers with their legal fund by making an extraordinary donation to cover legal costs. Any individual that donates towards the legal fund will be given a unique award. This award will only be available for a short duration. Please include in the donation that it is going towards the "Legal Fund".</div> Donate now to the Legal Fund. <div style="border: 1px solid #a0a0a0; background: #fedfa1; width: 100px...

A clan-wide meeting will be held Saturday, July 30th. Time: 9:00 PM EST 8:00 PM CST 7:00 PM MST 6:00 PM PST 2:00 AM GMT Time Zone Converter There is a one hour time limit for this meeting with an anticipated 15-30 minutes of Q & A after Council and Division Leader comments. Please join us in the Ventrilo meeting room to get all the latest news from eGO leadership. <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input name="cmd" value="_s-xclick" type="hidden">Please help support EdgeGamers legal costs. Donations will receive an exclusive award that will only be available for a limited time. <input name="hosted_button_id" value="5LS7AW7RFHD7A" type="hidden"> <input...

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">No doubt you have seen the front page polls regarding Half Life 2:Death Match over the past few days. Well, the FPS:X Division has heard the call for the game, and we are pleased to announce that we now have a HL2:DM Server. Server IP: 208.43.76.152:27015 If you do not already have Half life 2: Death Match, you can get the game for free if you have an Nvidia or ATI graphics card. We hope to see all of you on the server, and thank you for continuing to support EdgeGamers. </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">EdgeGamers will now be reached by a new website URL: www.edge-gamers.com When accessing the website, please use this website address only. Help us spread the word by telling your friends in game and through social networking (#edgegamers). More information will be given at this weekends Clan Wide Meeting - Saturday @ 9:00 PM EST <hr width=500px> <iframe width="500" height="314" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3AJpFJ3t45M?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Join Kingback and Ill Legend tonight for a World of Warcraft livestream. Watch as they play through parts of the Cataclysm expansion and level up new goblin characters highlighting the starting zone quests. The live broadcast will be posted here at 9:00 PM EST for everyone to watch. <hr width=500px> Do you have WoW? Join EdgeGamers on the Laughing Skull server. Server & Guild Information </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">TF2 Leadership would like to thank Sequel Sentry and Activate on their Dedication to the TF2 Event Coordinators, and would like to congratulate them on earning the Advanced Divisional Event Coordinator award! Please congratulate them and spam their in-boxes! </div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">There now is an additional url that can be used to access the eGO website. www.edge-gamers.com is active at this time. Use it if you have trouble getting to the forums via any other method. </div>