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Join us for the Saturday Night Meeting! One lucky winner will win an eGO T-shirt (size XL). One aDVISOR level member and above will win a Turtle Beach HeadSet!. You must be present at the meeting to have a chance to win! Times are: We are going to have a meeting Saturday Night (November 1, 2008) at: 9:00 pm Pacific 10:00 pm Mountain 11:00 pm Central 12:00 am Eastern 5:00 am London Main Topic: EVENTS If you want to put in your two cents or try to get a jump on the competition then show up! Things we will not address: most of the stuff from last meeting. In Ventrilo. Ask Questions. Hear answers. Win a T-shirt? One Advisor level member and above will win a Turtle Beach HeadSet. Joining the winners circle from last...

EdgeGamers INS server is now ranked #1 After opening at 79, it zoomed up the ranking until it became the most popular INS sever in the world. This lead to the opening of the second server which is also rising like rocket. Good work over there! So good infact that INS is now an official Division of eGO and has it's own tab. Check out the sweet INSURGENCY TAB! You know you have reached the big time when you got your own TAB! Also, lets give a big eGO welcome to the INS development team which frequents our servers and forums. Welcome Home!

The Beast is a Beast! In Other News: KALT SAVED! Apparently one of the Big Shots at D-Link loves our Kalt Server. He asked us to do what we could to save it from the chopping block. The executioner was able to stop his swing, but it was close?.very very close. All you Sewer Rats out there better thank D-Link for saving your favorite server. Now, get it full......

Turtle Beach announces that it has shipped a headset to DJ's Wife! Be sure to thank Turtle Beach for giving away a headset at the last meeting by clicking on their link above and checking out their awesome array of headsets and sound cards. For years, Turtle Beach has been the standard in gaming gear. They love us, so lets love them! Join us for the Friday Night Meeting! One lucky winner will win an eGO T-shirt (size XL). One eGO level member and above will win a DLink Router. Be there or be square! You must be present at the meeting to have a chance to win! Times are: We are going to have a meeting Friday Night (October 24, 2008) at: 9:00 pm Pacific 10:00 pm Mountain 11:00 pm Central 12:00 am Eastern 5:00 am London Main...

Check out a Live stream from one of our servers. This is a Test OFFLINE Insurgency Server #2 is now running. 72.233.91.37:27016 <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="263" width="320" id="jtv_player_flash" data="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_player.swf?channel=edgegamers" bgcolor="#000000"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.justin.tv/widgets/jtv_player.swf" /><param name="flashvars" value="channel=edgegamers&auto_play=false&start_volume=25" /></object><a href="http://www.justin.tv/edgegamers" style="padding:2px 0px 4px; display:block; width:320px; font-weight:normal; font-size:10px; text-decoration:underline; text-align:center;">Watch live video from EdgeGamer's...

EdgeGamers Fragging With D-Link We will be hanging out and gaming down with the D-Link HQ. Our plan is to drink as much of their free coffee as we can and then test out some routers and get our GameFuel on! See if you can catch JohnT tomorrow morning at 10am Pacific. We will be hitting quite a few servers and seeing what kind of mayhem we can cause! D-Link Xtreme N Gaming Router This is a remarkable piece of equipment and every hardcore gamer should consider the D-Link DGL-4500 router. Did we mention D-Link allowed us to give one of these sweet routers away this month! D-Link Xtreme N Gaming Router Review <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rog7w9pT21Y&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param...

Everyone is encouraged to take a picture with your eGO apparel and post it in the following thread: If you are too shy, put the article on a sister, friend, kid or animal. Be creative! Orders are still being taken. Donations of $30 ($40 outside of the U.S.) gets you a T and it's $50 ($60 outside of U.S.) for a hoodie. All funds go to keeping the finest punk free servers in the world up and running. The sizes we have are: small, large, XL, 2XL and 3XL. Sorry, all mediums are gone. Show the world your eGO pride! Thanks to Natalie for modeling and=(e)=? Joe [Taiwan] the photographer and =(eGO)=? S.Luke [Taiwan] the leader from the [Taiwan] crew!

Play Testing Many Thanks To: Wintermute BuckPrivate Jehuty GardenGrove Dominion Artimus MasterofPuppets JohnT YeaaahToast RyMo Jeebus Omniblast for participating in Vavle's playtest of L4D. Ask anyone on the list what they thought of L4D and of Valve. The most awesome game and company in the galaxy.

Please welcome the new TF2 eGO's! Black Cat BlackMesaSouth Captain Calle Goretex I-Die-Often Nittany Patrick Bateman II Phixx Soupy Subtle_Turtle Tattis Teddybear of death ThunderPwny Wolfe Cr@sH Mr. Dogma[/B]

Weekend Goodies We are proud to announce the opening of two new servers! Steam has added support for mods, and EdgeGamers is taking full advantage of it. Please welcome Insurgency Insurgency (INS) is a total conversion mod for Valve Software's Half-Life 2, powered by the Source Engine. INS immerses the player in an intense online combat experience. Set on the modern battlefields, Insurgency simulates infantry combat that encourages the use of teamwork and tactics to close with and destroy the enemy. Totally free, only Half-Life 2 and Steam required Chain of command - Commanders assign objectives and give waypoints Morale - Morale scoring system to set high value on teamplay Reinforcement waves - Unique reinforcement wave...

TURTLE BEACH FINDS ITS =(eGO)= Turtle Beach is proud to announce an on-going relationship with EdgeGamers. Saturday Night Meeting October 4, 2008 9:00 pm Pacific 10:00 pm Mountain 11:00 pm Central 12:00 am Eastern 5:00 am London In Ventrilo. Ask Questions. Hear answers. Win a T-shirt? Royal Rumble immediately afterwards!

Are you in So.Cal? Want to spend an afternoon at Valve? We need four (4) play testers for next week. Please pm JohnT if you are interested. It will be during the afternoon so you will probably have to take a half-day off. You must be 18 or older to go. PLEASE CONFIRM BY PM THAT YOU ARE GOING ON TUESDAY BY MONDAY.

T-Shirt and Hoodie Sightings A huge shipment of the new eGO T-Shirts and Hoodies went out on Saturday and many of you have already received them. Everyone is encouraged to take a picture with your eGO apparel and post it in the following thread started by Thunderhorse {A|R}: http://www.edgegamers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=49585 If you are too shy, put the article on a sister, friend, kid or animal. Be creative! Orders are still being taken. Donations of $30 ($40 outside of the U.S.) gets you a T and it's $50 ($60 outside of U.S.) for a hoodie. All funds go to keeping the finest punk free servers in the world up and running. The sizes we have are: small, large, XL, 2XL and 3XL. Sorry, all mediums are gone. Show the world your...

TURTLE BEACH FINDS ITS =(eGO)= Turtle Beach is proud to announce an on-going relationship with EdgeGamers. They are going to be supplying =(eGO)= with three X-52 headsets a month for the next six months! For those few of you who have not heard about Turtle Beach, they are one of the original companies to support pc gamers with awesome sound cards and headsets. More on the headsets they are giving =(eGO)= Turtle Beach? Unleashes the Ear Force? X-52 True 5.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headphones Elmsford, NY, 01/05/2007 -- True 5.1 headphones featuring 40mm surround drivers arrive in a brand new 'Ergonomic and Acoustically Enhanced' design. For more info on Turtle Beach visit them HERE Please welcome them to the EdgeGamers Family...

NEW LEADERSHIP FOR TF2! PurpleNurple - Division Leader DJSatanswife - Advisor Tiddy - Advisor Naad - Advisor Please welcome back xRomanticDeathx - Advisor as well Everyone congratulate these guys and get ready for more promotions! We're going to be promoting over 50 eG's this week! It could be YOU - so make sure to visit the website often! Also, don't forget to verify your admin on MAUL because time is running out.

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Switching to MAUL Those admins who have not verified their steamid with MAUL will lose their admin. http://www.edgegamers.org/forums/maul.php Sign up now or you will be crying later. MAUL is our new admin system. You have to verify with it to maintain your admin.

Welcome to to eGO Ahhhh Firsts. How we love them so. Often imitated and never equaled. Isn't it nice to be with the trend setters? Pioneers? Yes you are. Here is a small list of our firsts and achievements: 1. first with the "free admin model" 2. first with the two level admin system 3. first with Admin school 4. first with a ventrilo guide 5. first public gaming community with t-shirts - season 1 6. first public gaming community with t-shirts and hoodies - season 2 (should arrive next week) 7. first public gaming community with open meetings averaging 200 attendees 8. first public gaming community to average 3 servers in the top 5 servers for over a full year 9. first public gaming community to not only offer multi-server...

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Switch Goes Alpha! Rouge Sniper has been working on Switch for several weeks now and has gone live with the Alpha version of the map. There is some serious play testing needed. For those of you who do not know the map "Switch," it is a very popular DoD Classic map. It is like a combination of Flash and Donner. You will love it! Thanks to the TF2 division for giving up a server to host the DoD map! We will need help play testing it so if you are in vent or in game, please heed the call for help! 24/7 =(eGO)= SWITCH ALPHA EdgeGamers.org =HLstatsX= The IP is: 72.232.197.27:27015