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Article: Ill Legend / Image: Ill Legend / Edited: TheJollyRoger <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Join the Community Manager team and the rest of Leadership this Saturday, September 13 at 7:00 PM Eastern for our next Clan Wide Meeting. Saturday, September 13, 2014 12:00 AM Greenwich 7:00 PM Eastern 6:00 PM Central 5:00 PM Mountain 4:00 PM Pacific As always, we will have a question and answer session at the end of the meeting. See you there! <hr width=75%> If you can not attend the meeting in TeamSpeak, you can follow it live on Twitter. Follow us @EdgeGamers </div>

Article: Calestis / Edited: TheJollyRoger & Legend / Image: Legend <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">While many members are going back to school, the Team Fortress 2 Leadership would like to praise how much work and dedication the TF2 members show everyday. Please congratulate these star students on their promotions and awards! <table width=500><tr><td valign=top width=50%><img src="http://webdev.edge-gamers.com/tomssound/eGOv3/rank/eG-rank.png" width=85> fun377 Jonny! Misterboy500 CryptTonite Sleepy Shinx Qwence You Don't Nomi Hyperion Jarred? Twizz_Dandy Garrulous Garbanzo Static Shock the fraggen dragon Desert Patriot A Watermelon TheBrewingArcher OperatorCuddles Arrowdactyl SnEaKy MeDiC XD Colorado...

<div style="width: 550px; text-align: center" align="center"> Our eGO Battlefield Division has some new items to brag about. We now have the #1 ranked Battlefield 4 server in the world. The Conquest "All Popular Maps" server has seen its rank skyrocket over the past month, and they hit the top spot earlier today. Congratulations! </div>

Article: Insomnia Princess / Edited: Leftenent / Image: Legend <div style="width: 550px; text-align: center" align="center">What is your favorite eGO server to play on? What would you do if you suddenly didn't have that server anymore and you had to find someplace else to play? What about when you go to play, only to find the server doesn't have very many players on it at all? This is the premise behind server filling. We do it because we want to kick-start our servers and get more people playing on them. I asked =(eGO)= Gerbil this question, as she leads the FFTF (Fast Fill Task Force Server Filling Team) for TF2 Division. She says, ?Server filling is important because it keeps our servers full and happy and it gives people a...

Article: Insomnia Princess / Edited: Ratfire / Image: Versed <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">EdgeGamers' unique rank structure has existed since the beginning. Though it has seen a couple of tweaks along the way, the structure has generally remained the same, with the Community Managers deciding the community's direction and the Division Leaders and Advisors managing the daily tasks within the gaming divisions we support. Our leadership team currently consists of Advisors, Division Leaders, Community Managers, and a Board of Directors - all of whom work hard to maintain a smooth flow of operations within the community. Click here to read more about how eGO is setup.</div>

Article: Insomnia Princess / Edited: TheJollyRoger / Image: Versed <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> As August leaves, September arrives, and many of our student members head back to school, we reflect briefly on all that has happened last month. The News Team is proud to have kept you up to date with all of these great stories and announcements. Here's a recap of August's Front Page News: Reporting Nuisance Ads - Want to know what to do when you come across a nuisance ad on the EdgeGamers website or our servers? Interview With Spray - A beloved, longstanding member of our community, Spray, has stepped down. Learn more about him in this interview. eGO Battlefield Zombies... The End Is Near with DICE...

Article: Zimmy / Edited: TheJollyRoger / Image: Druid <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> While we are all enjoying our three-day weekends from school and work, the CS Leadership team would like to take a moment to congratulate several members on their exceptional work within the CS Division and eGO as a whole. Congratulations! Event Coordinator Award: CheezyShooter Enfohip Advanced EC Award: ExOH Martyr Recruiting Coordinator Award: ExOH RiKJakir0 Admin Excellence: @rm3d (1v Beyonce BuffHamster Cheezyshooter GreazyMeal Jon the WISE Martyr SevenOh! Slam Fanderbergler Terror Handy Man: Cheezyshooter GreazyMeal MaroonTrex RiKiJakir0 Sam_001 ZER0C00L Veteran 1: @rm3d ExOH ZER0C00L Veteran 2: RoB^E </div>

Article: Insomnia Princess | Image: Legend <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Team Fortress 2 Leadership is very happy to announce a new addition to their team. Please say hello to your new Advisor, Maserati! In more than a year at eGO, Maserati has been an active part of DOD:S, CS Division, OP:X Division and of course, TF2 Division, helping with server filling, event coordinating and recruiting. He has also helped the PSC and was part of the PSC Recruiting Team, using his experience in the different divisions to lead invasions, bringing the various branches of Edge Gamers together though fun events. He is a true testimony to the diversity of eGO and leads not only in words but in actions. Maserati has...

Article: Artimus | Edited: TheJollyRoger | Image: Druid <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> whitemike, one of our newest Community Managers, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. He has deserved this award for a long time and we have been remiss by not bestowing it sooner. whitemike has been a source for technical advice for eGO for years. His expertise informs eGO leadership in that area and helps us maintain a strong infrastructure. We do what we do best because of dedicated members like him. Thank you whitemike!</div>

Article: Caelestis / Edited: TheJollyRoger / Image: Versed <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> Now with a new name, Random, Nerdy, and Geeky, the eGO podcast has recorded a very special episode. Caelestis, iamwute, and Insomnia Princess sat down with Tony “drunkenf00l” Paloma, an employee of Valve who is responsible for some seminal moments in the history of the development of Team Fortress 2, including the release of the Cheater’s Lament, the protest against Golden Wrenches, and the SourceOP community. The four discuss what they have been playing and current happenings at Valve. Click here for the podcast episode. You should also follow the podcast on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. If you're eager to hear...

Article: Wewo / Edited: TheJollyRoger / Image: Druid <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> The Day of Defeat Division has recently hosted and completed its 11th Realism Campaign. The Axis and Allied sides fought each other for the control over Europe, and at the campaign's end, the Allies won six rounds against the Axis, who won only four. The eGO Media Team has released a special edition newsletter detailing the Allies victory over the Axis powers in Europe in DoD Realism 11. Mr_Nicoll and St0rmy have teamed up with the Newsletter Team to prepare journals chronicling the five weeks of war for Europe. Read everything from a reporter's exciting details about the front lines to a Nazi officer's letters to his...

Article: Dead Tom / Edited: Leftenent / Image: Legend <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center"> The Personnel Service Center will be holding an =(e)= Orientation for all new members in the TeamSpeak Server on: Friday August 29, 2014 10:00 PM Eastern 9:00 PM Central 8:00 PM Mountain 7:00 PM Pacific 3:00 AM Greenwich The PSC will have representatives from each division, so all e's, new and old, are encouraged to attend. Additionally, there will be a meet-and-greet held after the orientation to give the new e's a chance to socialize with members of leadership.</div>

<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">C-Whit, a long-time council member and community manager, has decided to step down to concentrate on his real life duties as a trauma doctor. A former Council member of the Day of Defeat Division, C-Whit has tremendously helped the Counter-Strike Division for the past year and a half, reforming many of its programs and groups during a period of trouble for the CS Division. As he steps down to concentrate on his medical profession and other real-life issues, please thank C-Whit for all his hard work. In C-Whit's place, Ric has been promoted to Community Manager of the CS Division. From advising the CS admin training program to leading the division through its ups and downs...

Article: A Nudist Colony / Edited: TheJollyRoger / Image: Cooler Master <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">How would you like to start this fall with a brand-new, free keyboard and mouse combo? Head on down to the Cooler Master Giveaway thread for your chance to win a Devastator MS2K Precision Mouse and Devastator MB24 Ergonomic Keyboard. The contest ends Saturday, September 1, so hurry! Click Here To Support Cooler Master </div>

Article: USCG Hammer / Edited: TheJollyRoger / Image: Legend A message from USCG Hammer <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">As most of you know by now, a beloved, longstanding member of our community has recently retired. We want to take this time to thank The Yeti for all of his years of hard work and dedication to our community. As we say goodbye, we would also like to share some insight into who The Yeti was. The Yeti joined eGO in 2009, and quickly made his presence felt. His leadership, motivation and dedication propelled him up our leadership ranks. In 2010 he was promoted to advisor for our then Insurgency Division. 2012 the Insurgency Division changed directions, and The Yeti lead the way for what...

Article: Legend / Edited: TheJollyRoger / Image: Legend <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">We have received some feedback on our Dedicated Supporter program over the past few weeks from our Leadership and Admin teams and have made some slight adjustments to give users more options and flexibility. Members expressed interest in subscribing to our Dedicated Supporter program to receive in-game rewards such as vanity chat enhancements, access to reputation, setting a joint tag, and other division-specific items. However, even with these perks, members also expressed that they would like to continue supporting eGO by having the ads present on the website, giving an extra revenue boost. To accommodate this...

Article: Insomnia Princess / Edited: Martyr / Image: Bill The Hamster New eGO Servers and Server Changes <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Bill, our hamster who keeps our servers running strong as he spins in his wheel has been working extremely hard lately. With the extra power he has provided us, we have added some new servers to our gaming lineup. Here is a brief re-cap in case you missed any of the recent changes. Planetside 2 of Operation: X now plays on the game's Emerald server after Sony merged the populations of the Mattherson and Waterson servers. Nothing else has changed. The Counter-Strike Division has added a new CS:GO minigames server and all are welcome to come check it out. It currently...

<img src="http://storage.edge-gamers.com/news/events/bfzombies.png"> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Additional Streams: TheRussianBadger http://www.twitch.tv/therussianbadger XfactorGaming http://www.twitch.tv/rivalxfactor ShoSho http://www.twitch.tv/shosho10199 <hr width=500> How To Participate Join the EdgeGamers TeamSpeak3 Server TS3.EDGE-GAMERS.COM <hr width=500> Special Thanks Special thanks to our major sponsor Cooler Master for providing amazing prizes for this tournament. We will be giving away FIVE Eisberg 240L Prestige units with help from RussianBadger, Xfactor, and ShoSho. More details will be given the day of the event. Don't miss out! </div>

<img src="http://storage.edge-gamers.com/news/events/bfzombies.png"> <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Battlefield Zombies - TODAY Join EdgeGamers Organization (eGO) and the developers from DICE on August 15 to fight off the Zombie Apocalypse in Battlefield Zombies: The End Is Near. EVENT TONIGHT Friday, August 15 7:00 PM Eastern 6:00 PM Central 5:00 PM Mountain 4:00 PM Pacific 12:00 AM Greenwich The event will be hosted on the eGO TeamSpeak Server. Participants should join the Battlefield 4 Channel in the Battlefield Division on TeamSpeak before the event begins. TEAMSPEAK3: TS3.EDGE-GAMERS.COM <hr width=500> Attend for a chance to win a Cooler Master CPU liquid cooling unit. We will be giving...

<img src="http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/218620/header.jpg?t=1407863182"> Article: sonicjohnbh / Edited: Ratfire/ Image: Overkill <div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">Strap on your mask and dust off your rifle, a new crime wave is hitting the streets of DC. Overkill Software is rallying the Payday community to honor the third anniversary of the Payday Franchise. They are offering new masks, weapons, heists, and game features for free to the community during what they are dubbing "Crimefest." Crimefest officially starts Saturday, October 18, but between now and then it's up to the community to earn fresh new goodies. How, you ask? Overkill has set a goal of 1.5 million members in the Official...