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SC2SEA Wrap up #1

Every two weeks or perhaps a month (depending on its popularity) the SC2SEA writing team will be doing a simple wrap up. It will be a concise summary that highlights good posters, the hottest SEA threads, scene news and major tournaments that happened since the last wrap up. This is not the end of June yet, so there is still chance for people to win June achievements by the end of the next wrap up at the end of the month

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Member of the Month Achievements

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In a bid to encourage good posters and welcome new members to our community, we will start to place more emphasis on achievements. Right now there will be two types of achievements that may be given out. Note: Some wrap-ups might not even have any achievements to given away if there aren't suitable candidates.

+ [This Months Winners] +

Quality poster of the Month
The first award is to show appreciation to our quality posters and hopefully encourage others to make such posts too.

New member of the Month
The second achievement is to encourage new posters / lurkers to start posting more. It is not limited by join date, if we notice a series of posts by a previous lurker who wasn't so involved before etc he/she will be eligible for the award.

These awards are not open to existing admins/moderators and you can only win each award once. The winners will be arbitrary decided by the person doing the wrap up, which looks likely to be crAzerk at this point of time, whom is active and very neutral and hence someone whom I feel very suitable to hold this responsibility.

June's New Member of the Month: Ben!

Ben joined the site on the 5th of June this month. He goes by Nova.773 on Starcraft & Ben#1163 on Diablo 3. He is from Brisbane, Australia and is "looking to meet some people and have more people to actively play with in the games I enjoy!" His helpfulness was quickly became apparent and he demonstrates it best in this post "I also have a heap of them (D3 Trial codes) if you have run out and would like the codes to give away to members just PM me and I will part ways with them."

Welcome to our community Ben and congrats on winning June "New Member of the month."

June's Quality Poster: UHF!

Never such a regular poster before, he risked burning bridges for what he believed was right and spent a great deal of his time making really good posts to aid the discussion such as this one which indirectly helped turned the attention of detectives elsewhere, leading them to investigating another possibility of cheating. A fantastic example of a quality poster!

Congrats to UHF for winning the June Quality Member of the Month award.

Other New Achievements have been added and recipients notified. "Elementary my dear Watson" & "Cheese Master". This is how they look together with the updated icons. Much thanks to thegentleman who did all the artwork for it

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Scene Coverage

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System Pod Cast + Hydroid videos will go here when they are up

Sytem's podcast features glade and iaguz as the guests this week.

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Hottest SC2SEA Threads

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AsGChobo & SeoHyeun's Smurfing - Summary and Punishment
MLG HoTS Update
Revenant to Korea
Iris Team House
PiG ABC Interview
Team Immunity announce their first pick ups!

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Tournament Recap

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Regular
Every Monday - wT Weeklies: Last Winner - BalloonSPR wT#18
Every Saturday - BSG Open: Last Winner - RedHaZard BSG#52
Every Sunday - GPDs: Last Winner - ETL.Soundwave GPD#52

Newly Announced Tournaments
ASUS Starcraft 2 Pro-Am by GameSpot AU
State of Origins Begins!
Cheese Shield - Last Winner: SQL.Ninja Cheese Shield #1
KFC Bucket Cup

Major Tournaments
GESC Last Qualifier - This Saturday
ACL / WCS Adelaide Qualifier - This Sunday
FXO SEA Qualifier #1 - This Friday
xGTL - Every week

Did I miss something you would like included? Send me a PM.
Thoughts / suggestions on the types of achievements? What else to include in the wrap up? Post it in this thread!

Quick Comments

	x5_dot:	oooh i like this idea!
	FSBenAD:	Awesome stuff
	TheGentleman:	Fantastic and informative post :)
	Baldie:	Have my virtual babies
	CHoBo(kice):	should include some HoTs stuff :)
	Nemo:	Positive smirkface ^^
	lolwut:	:D good write up
	Zealo:	awesome