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15xl's *Edit* Way fewer than 15 now :( 15 Hoodies left! 20 T-Shirts! The are going fast. The only way to get one now is to donate to the server fund! 50 bucks (60 if outside the USA) for hoodies, 30 (40 outside U.S.) for shirts. All sizes are XL. All donations go to help keep the servers alive. So please donate early to get your eGO gear and often to keep the servers up and running! We can no longer guarantee that you will get a hoodie or a tshirt with your donation. The last hoodies and tshirts will be on First Come First Serve basis.

The Avalanche and Donner IP's will be changing! This is hot off the presses folks. Just in from Kendle and Deacon. Due to some server managment issues, we are going to have to move Ava and Donner to one of our new modern boxes. We do not really want to make the change because Donner has been the number 1 ranked server in DoD for the past year and Ava, the number two ranked server for the past year. But, due to the box getting old and some server managment changes, Kendle and Deacon have made the change. The upside is that we will shut down a box and save over $100 a month. It will also run smoother since it is moving to a modern quad-core server. With the Roll Call PM, I have received over 20 PM's from e's who have been...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! We ended this year like we began it: as the greatest gaming community the world has ever seen! Once we recover from all the New Year's Festivities we will write up a good end of the year report. Until then HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Military Service Ribbon Renamed In an effort to recognize the contributions made by everyone who sacrifices for their country, whether in the armed forces or other worthy professions, we have renamed the Military Service award to the National Service ribbon. The following is the official description: "Awarded in recognition of this member's service to his or her country in the armed forces, firefighting or law enforcement. May also be awarded for other types of service not mentioned here, to be determined on a case by case basis." USCG HAMMER handles this award. If you feel you deserve it, please contact him via PM.

DO NOT GIVE YOUR ACCOUNT TO ANYONE FOR ANY REASON! There has recently been a rash of people complaining they got their Steam account hacked. The hacker uses an eGO friendly name and asks to borrow your account to play a game. He then gets your account and changes the password and email account. Then he uses your account to ask someone else for their Steam password to play a game he does not have. And now he is changing the password on the next account....... Here is a HINT: offer a guest pass

Twas the night before Christmas, when throughout every house, All the leadership were working, with the click of their mouse; All considerations made, and handled with care, The promotion list was ready, a majestic affair; The members were all home, searching through threads, While visions of banning punks danced through their heads; JohnT in his hoodie, and Kendle in shirt, Would post the new list, a front page alert; When in 2fort there arose such a clatter, They sprang into RCON to see what's a matter; Three players with each an outrageous score, But what they saw would inspire them more; One lonely e trying to keep peace, Ensuring they would be dealt with, their hacking would cease; Both JonnT and Kendle knew what they...

1st Place (winner of a D-Link router) with 54 points Herr 2nd Place (winner of a Turtle Beach Headset) with 51 points Grasshopper 3rd Place (winner of an eGO hoodie) with 50 points d: uv ajeD 4th Place (winner of an eGO t-shirt) with 48 points col.Hl2master Congrats to all our other finalists: Adilor BlackMesaSouth blizzie Ceo.Inferno Crashman Crazywolf Darkelfa FrankVader3 FrazarMan foxhound Jeebus K0nk0n KilledWithStyle kuNai Levharius Nstg8r Paladin PeterGriffin PhlxX pmac rattus22 Sir_Evilhunter stormtropper95 ThunderPwny Victory Xosniper Thank you to all our participants and everyone who helped make this tournament a great success!!!

COD Top Gun Tournament Where: 24/7 Crash Server 72.232.196.163:28930 When: January 3rd 7:00PM Pacific 8:00 Mountain 9:00 Central 10:00 Eastern 3:00am GMT The COD Top Gun tournament is held once per month and is designed to show who the baddest gun of the west is. We're going on our 3rd month of the tourney and the plan is to change up the format a little each month to keep it fresh. Top Gun for January will be 2 vs 2 (bracket style), and will require participants to sign up. Only EdgeGamers Organization members will be allowed in this one, meaning all =(e)=, =(eG)= and =(eGO)= from any division are invited. The winners get an eGO t-shirt and this customized avatar to put next to their name, proudly announcing that they are the...

Christmas Break Friday was the last day school for many of us until the New Year! We hope your term papers, final exams and holdiay parties went well! For the college kids returning home for the semester, please at the very least, unload the dirty laundry for your mom. Remember, it is Christmas! Stay warm, get some hot coco and meet us in the servers! After all, if you leave your room, your mom might ask you to fold that semester's worth of laundry you have been saving for her.

"Signifies members who go far above and beyond their normal duties to serve their community. Who's contributions enhance EdgeGamers in invaluable ways." This rare award is granted only after much thought from the entire Council, and when it is clear to us that the member is deserving of such a high award. The awarding of the Medal of Honor is our way of thanking those, who without their contributions, EdgeGamers would not be what it is today. Thank you: Booster 44 Magnum Eire.32 Congratulations! Look for more MOH's in the coming months.

Naughty or Nice? This email was accidently CC'ed to the EdgeGamers news room: This means there is a big promotion list. When will it go live? Before Christmas? On Christmas? Stay tuned. PS. I hope those on the banned list gets coal in their stockings! For those of you who have been nice, maybe you will find one of these:

Call Of Duty 5 Servers Are Here On a shiny new dedicated box, we present to you two new servers The first one is a Power Up 32 slot server in a free-for-all deathmatch. The second server is 32 slot Team deathmatch. Add these to your favorites and see you ingame. Power Up! Deathmatch 67.228.175.240:28960 Team Death Match 67.228.175.241:28960 If you have admin on COD4 you will have admin on COD5. Connect tonight (Dec 13th) on the POWER UP server and you will get your admin right away.

New TF2 Advisors AceVeres Beast Capn Christ Cicatriz Ducttape Hardhat Iceman Jehuty Mental Buga RESPAWN Tattis Trykael yay! :)

Left 4 Dead Wins Best Game Of The Year 2008! EdgeGamers.org is proud to announce that Left 4 Dead has won the =(eGO)= Game of the Year Award. We looked at several games for GOTY, but L4D won hands down. Once again Valve swings for the fences and knocks another game out of the park! Innovative game play, teamwork, ease of install, hours of playtime and general over all awesomeness make this the must have game of the year. Unlike many other gaming companies, Valve?s games are not one run through games. Games like CounterStrike, Day of Defeat, and Teamfortress2 offer months and even years of enjoyment instead of the usual one play through and then you are through games of most companies. L4D takes up where Valve left off with the...

Garden to the Rescue! There was quite a hubub yesterday as INS rolled out an update that knocked out the #2 and #3 ranked INS servers in the world. Compounding the issue was that it was Kendle's wife's birthday! That knocked Kendle out of commission as he promised his wife he would do nothing eGO related and concentrate on her all day long. He promised that he would not even send a TXT msg from his crackberry and to ensure he would keep promise; his wife confiscated his crackberry and kept it in her purse! So with servers down and INS players nearly in an open revolt demanding their servers, Kendle knew he could only turn to one man. One man and one man alone could save us! Garden. But how could Kendle get the root password to...

Christmas Gifts handed out at the Ventrilo meeting to: a DLink Router powered by GameFuel to BlackMesaSouth a Turtle Beach Headset to Purple Nurple and an eGO Hoodie to Carmine We hope you all enjoy these Presents from eGO and eGO's sponsors! More presents from eGO for the Holidays: We are going to have a BIG promotion spree in the next week or so. After that it won't be until mid January or later until we work on another one. The winner for the UBERCLOK will be drawn on January 31st or shortly there after. We still have plenty of hoodies and tshirts for the holidays if you want to gift one to someone. $50 in the USA will get you a hoodie shipped to anyone you want, $30 for a tshirt. Add $10 to ship it to another country. All...

Please welcome the following additions to eGO leadership: Team Fortress 2 - Division Leaders djsatan djsatanswife tiddy Insurgency - Advisors Captain Wes Nero Be sure to fill their inboxes with congratulatory PMs and keep your eyes peeled for exciting changes in their respective divisions. <hr size="1" style="color:#9E9D9D" width="50%"/> Also, be sure not to forget about eGO's first official tournament! <div style='width: 450px; text-align: center;'> EdgeGamers Organization is proud to announce the start of the Ultimate Soldiers Team Fortress 2 Tournament. Open to all registered members of our community, the tournament will test your skills as a soldier in an exciting battle for many great prizes! Prizes: 1st place...

Got Awards? Everyone who has the responsibility of giving awards out loves the job. The problem is, some of you are not getting the awards you deserve. With so many members, it's not difficult to overlook someone. Artimus gives out the donators ribbon. To do that, he has to determine who it is that actually donated. If the EdgeGamers login name, or player name, has not been included by the donator, he has to cross-reference the email address on the PayPal notification with the eGO database. This only works if the same email address was used for both purposes. So please, include your game name with your donation so we can recognize your contribution. If you don't have an award that you think you should have, please contact an...

Day of Defeat Server Changes A new dedicated box has been put up to replace the old, buggy, slow machines that Strand, Flash, and Kalt were on. That pesky "Invalid User ID Ticket" has been eliminated. Plans are to give that old box the "Office Space" printer treatment! Strand is now located at 72.233.123.3 Click here to connect to Strand now! Flash is now located at 72.233.123.4 Click here to connect to Flash now! Kalt is now located at 72.233.123.5 Click here to connect to Kalt now! Please add these servers to your favorites OFFICIAL MEETING SATURDAY NIGHT December 6, 2008 In Ventrilo 9pm Pacific 10pm Mountain 11pm Central Midnight Eastern There will be three free drawings at the meeting giving away ONE...

A Heart Warming Story A beautiful, true story by PurpleNurple: Last night, an eGO invited me to his private server to test some cool maps with him for scrims and stuff. Well, an e from my list followed me. He jumped in the server, saw only 6 of us there and the weird map we were playing and immediately jumped out. He STEAM messaged me and it went something like this: Sheogorath: That's not an eGO server PurpleNurple: No, we are just testing some maps. We'll only be a few minutes, come back and test with us Sheogorath: We aren't allowed in non eGO servers At this point, I was a little worried that someone had misinterpreted some rules. PurpleNurple: Who isn't allowed Sheogorath: We are not PurpleNurple: Who said so? Sheogorath...