[nirvAnA]

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Contest #1: MLG Dallas Cheerfuls! - ANZ Invasion!

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TheGentleman, Head of the News Team has posted the decision reached by the team based on votes.

With so many great entries it was extremely difficult for the news team to choose winners. Although we would have liked to give all of you keys, we only had 4 beta keys to award. We would like to thank all of you who have taken the time and effort to submit an entry. Even though you didn't win, we hope you had fun along the way and as many of us did viewing your entries.

Congratulations to:

JohnBoah for his submission of mOOnGLaDe riding a roach.

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MythDeath made many excellent submissions but in the end his bad-ass iMMafia won him the key.

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Zaltias uses bold colours and a unique art style to represent our very own protoss iMLight.

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And last but not least, zedest for amazing artistic skill in MS Paint.

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We were also going to give jayaiwhy an award for his excellent artwork of tgun but since the writers team are already giving him a key we thought we'd spread the love around and give someone else a chance.

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To view all the entries submitted, check out our submission thread here!"

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Contest #2: eSport Moments! - Oceanic Memoirs!

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TheCSerps, leader of the writing team has decided on the 4 lucky winners of highly sought after HotS beta keys, based on votes from the writing team.

"Without further delay, here are you winners:

"Starcraft and I" by Jayaiwhy
A very personal account of jayaiwhy's life from what made him pick up the game to his travels in Korea and his future plans working for Quantic gaming. Fantastic read!

My experience with a live e-sport event in Australia at the ripe age of Twenty-Five by sirhcle
A wonderful recap of WCS Oceania by the point of view of a spectator new to the community at his first live e-sport event.

Adopt A Lost Soul by billd_sc2
Simple and sincere, this post was heartfelt and humorous and we can't wait for you to move to Melbourne!

Rap for MLG Dallas by crAzerk (CeeSerps personal favourite)
Ex-Head writer crAzerk who has gone inactive till recently submitting multiple strong entries but this hilarious Rap for MLG Dallas took the cake. He even drums his table and snaps his fingers to make the beat in his rap video!

Congratulations all and enjoy your beta keys! All the writing entries can be viewed here."

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Contest #3: Get involved in with ANZ eSports!

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The Live Draw for our random draw contest will be held live on stream just before Master Cup begins at 5.45PM AEST! Benji will use a program to pick someone at random! If you have not seen the Master's Cup before be sure to check out the best of SEA participate in our most prestigious monthly tournament.

23 September 2012 5:45pm AEST

http://www.twitch.tv/benjisc2

+ [Contest 3 Entries] +

1. Nicolas Russo
2. Michael Lin
3. Maxim Allen
4. Poh Ann DancingSkittles
5. Lim Wei Yang
6. Francisco Reaper
7. Chell Phoenix VoidRay
8. Jason Byrne
9. Bryan Choo
10. Brandon Stevens
11. Thor Collin Andallaza
12. Brady Patmore
13. Hyun Jae 'Harold' Jo
14. Florian Blondeau
15. Dave James
16. Andrew McDuff
17. Andi Wang
18. Jason Nash
19. Andrew Gosney
20. Stewart Mayhew
21. Adam Feddersen
22. Jenna Fromm
23. Jacob Jensen
24. 김석헌
25. Samuel Huang
26. Arvin Raditya Gunawan
27. Benedikt Schlegel
28. Henry Wilson
29. Lyndon Kant
30. Søren F Hansen
31. Lochlann Foster
32. Anthony Head
33. Ben Firestone
34. Jordan Comley
35. Nikolas Lee
36. Michael Biggun
37. Justin Capuno Cuizon
38. Shaun Strong
39. Lloyd Butler
40. Alejandro Urman
41. David Potter
42. Dominic Chong
43. Greg Randall
44. Michael McCulloch
45. Corey Alex Haydon
46. Jeremy Yuen
47. Lachlan Leslie
48. Peter Nham
49. Justin DamnitCallie Ackerman
50. Mykhail Todd Michael
51. David Choo
52. Ben Macdonald
53. David Beaton
54. Darren Lang
55. Jacob Smith
56. Carl Healy
57. Song Chen
58. Christopher Davies
59. Robert Watson
60. Steve Wenham
61. Nic Dixon
62. Mitch Toasty Fernholz
63. Kieran Adam McJannett
64. Mark Fittipaldi
65. Dexter Ng
66. Jeremy Shredderemy
67. Frenzy Sc
68. Ben O'Neill
69. Vaughn Carl Lester
70. Pierce Permenter
71. James Hudson
72. Martyn Cross
73. Freelinking Freeaccount
74. Lim Yuen Hoe
75. David Addati
76. Willie Ong
77. Ben Beck
78. Tobias Hartl
79. Jamie Mackey
80. Chester Lau
81. Pierce Sarmiento
82. Ammon Mirth Bennett
83. Friend Request Sent
84. Peter Neate
85. Samuel Sng
86. Rainier Neri
87. Matthieu Gize
88. Jack Adolph
89. Terrence Slattery
90. Jonathan Mau
91. Ben Driehuis
92. Sasidharan Ravikumar
93. Jacko Wood
94. Trent Davies
95. Matthew Care
96. Frank Li
97. Brett Newton
98. Gevergiz Moghaddas-Babeleh
99. Justin Peters
100. Seamus Watson
101. Andreas Morgen
102. Max Rosenbaum
103. Dylan Giacon
104. Leo Vibe
105. Kieran Logan
106. Paul Anthony Soh
107. NY Saleh
108. Nathan Enriquez
109. Braden Heil
110. Dave George
111. Dylan Williams
112. Nikhil Suresh
113. Justin Joel
114. Daggy Tee
115. Rob Fleming
116. Community
117. Jarod Crowe
118. Lachlan Booth
119. Jacob Mattsson
120. Da Li
121. Jaypee Dela Cruz
122. Jarrod Taylor
123. Poche Hu
124. Daniel Bell
125. Eric Ma
126. Simon Fernleigh
127. Ng Jia Ruey
128. Diane Flores
129. Mikael Koch
130. Official DSO Clan Community
131. Professional Sports Team
132. Fuzzy Wilshere
133. Samuel 'Sammy' Boy
134. Chris Szeto
135. Matt Nash
136. Kiet Ho
137. Peter Marek
138. Karl Churchill
139. Long Ð?ng
140. John Boah

We hope you have enjoyed participating in the contests. Winners will be notified by PM. Stay tuned to for our T-Shirt giveaway puzzle contests created by Dingobloo and paperclip starting tomorrow! Remember, today is also the last day our Starcraft 2 Guide: The Grandmaster Manual is on sale.

Lastly, do support our community by pre-ordering your copy of HoTS from our SC2SEA store - more details will come soon.

Thanks once again to @Blizzard_ANZ for providing us the keys for our giveaway. Thank them too!

[jayaiwhy]

thank you!

I love these contests, I'd love to do more sc2sea related graphics

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	gogo poster!!!!!
	Trinion:	Loved reading your personal blog. And I just realised, I play you multiple times on ladder, and you always beat me :(

[billd_sc2]

Yes! Thank you so much. I have the worst luck with beta invites, this rocks. Looking very forward to meeting more of you!

Anyone know if we have to wait until the next wave for our keys to work from this?

Thanks again!

Edit: Disregard my question. Just got the PM

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nirvAnA:

Not sure, it really depends on Blizzard!

[inFeZa]

grats!

i still think miles's was the best

[crAzerk]

Yay thanks!

And I'm not sure why I'm not in the Facebook contest as I liked the page + post, but o well I won a key already

[FSDarkNemesis]

Dammit! I really need the key Arrrrrggghhhhhhh!!!! No bronze has ever ventured in HOTS yet!

[TACeeSerps]

Originally Posted by DarkNemesis

Dammit! I really need the key Arrrrrggghhhhhhh!!!! No bronze has ever ventured in HOTS yet!

I'm Bronze

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Trinion:

LIES YOU BE SILVER :D

[Trinion]

Congrats all! Enjoy the beta
Missed out this time, but had fun entering all the contests

[ChaynesOre]

Wtf? Really... :-\

I get almost the most response in comments after my submission, started the Aussie team cheerful theme, and lose to a MS paint version of the same thing? Why did I get member of the month?

Kind of lame. Congrats to the winners I guess?

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	Trinion:	Bad luck matey, I liked your a lot :)
	UCRon:	Super unlucky ChayneOre, you were top 4 for sure.
	mGGVISION:	Woah didn't expect this either. Maybe should've been community voted?
	nirvAnA:	I really liked yours too!

[TCPLemminks]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

9.Bryan Choo

So I'm not on the list but you are .
First deny name change now this, why are you being so mean to me T_T

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	lol just for fun
	crAzerk:	yeaaa where's my name!

[x5.NotoriouS]

in after a bunch of people who made their first and last post on sc2sea win the comp and never come back to our site except for to collect their key

edit; not directed at ppl like u crazerk.. but most of the cheerful winners were first posters, just would have rathered the sc2sea keys go out to sc2sea people

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crAzerk:

sup

[nirvAnA]

Congrats to Pierce Permenter and Matthew Care, the two winners of the random draw, as live streamed on Benji's stream today!

Now the Masters Cup begins! Check it out!

[FSDarkNemesis]

Now I'm in a fix. I'm declaring my YouTube Channel Busted unless I make a comeback with HOTS.

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TACeeSerps:

No point acting like a child over it all, it won't make a difference

[sirhcle]

Just got home from work, so only replied to PM just now. Hope I did not delay the process for too long :P

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Trinion:

<3 your entry too :D

[zedest]

Thanks A lot, Really appreciate it

Everyone's entries were so good, sucks you could only give out 4

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Trinion:

<3 Loved your cheerful

[Dox]

Holy **** those cheerfuls are AMAZING. I seriously laughed so hard at the MSPaint one. I have to close it. My stomach hurts. So much laughing. Hahahaha.

Andy on a Roach is ******* sick.

[ToRMaverick]

Well done winners......

How much they worth to you all... cha ching!

[billd_sc2]

I tweeted Blizzard ANZ and jokingly told them to hurry up and process the keys for the winners from sc2sea and they said "@Blizzard_ANZ: "Still waiting on the final few winners before I process them!"

Can't wait!

[zedest]

Originally Posted by billd_sc2

I tweeted Blizzard ANZ and jokingly told them to hurry up and process the keys for the winners from sc2sea and they said "@Blizzard_ANZ: "Still waiting on the final few winners before I process them!"

Can't wait!

When was this? Any idea when we will be able to play :$?

Also any idea of how we will know its been activated?

[billd_sc2]

Originally Posted by zedest

When was this? Any idea when we will be able to play :$?

Also any idea of how we will know its been activated?

They said that to me 11 hours ago now. We may get an email when our account is given access but its entirely possible that we won't, so I would just check your battle.net profile because it'll show up in the list of games as soon as they process it.

[zedest]

Originally Posted by billd_sc2

They said that to me 11 hours ago now. We may get an email when our account is given access but its entirely possible that we won't, so I would just check your battle.net profile because it'll show up in the list of games as soon as they process it.

Refreshing my Bnet account 50 times a day ftw!

[jayaiwhy]

it's most likely that we will receive our keys on Friday

http://imgur.com/P3WV3

This is something I found on reddit, and it indicates that the next wave is on Friday

[zedest]

Originally Posted by jayaiwhy

it's most likely that we will receive our keys on Friday

http://imgur.com/P3WV3

This is something I found on reddit, and it indicates that the next wave is on Friday

I'm not sure how it works, but it sound like bliz gave out x ammount of invites to certain sites, and that was the part of the actual wave of keys, All that has to happen now is Bliz receive the emails of the Bnet accounts of the winners, and then activate it.


Could be wrong though, but after reading billd sc2 said, that's the conclusion i came to :P

[crAzerk]

To contest winners: be sure to post here when yours is activated to inform everyone else! !

[nirvAnA]

haha relax and don't rush them guys!

I sent the 8 names first yesterday but it was sunday for NA. So i was told to send it tomorrow, which is today, which is what i just did! you'll get them soon!

Quick Comments

	crAzerk:	and the award for the Most Complicated Sentence 2012 goes to...
	jayaiwhy:	*drumroll*
	Cyanide:	dafuq did i just read?

[JohnBoah]

Some people from the TeamLiquid and Reddit cheerful contests have received their keys today. I haven't received mine but other winners may want to check just in case!

[zedest]

Originally Posted by JohnBoah

Some people from the TeamLiquid and Reddit cheerful contests have received their keys today. I haven't received mine but other winners may want to check just in case!

Nope nothing yet

[JohnBoah]

Originally Posted by zedest

Nope nothing yet

Seeing as it took the TL and Reddit winner two waves to get theirs, I am getting a worrying feeling we will have to wait until the next wave!

[billd_sc2]

Got my beta email Friday, downloaded the client from my battle.net and I can't login!

Nooooooooo, some silly error that a lot of people are getting it seems: "Your account has no accounts that can be used in this region"

Was really looking forward to playing this weekend too, crap!

[JohnBoah]

Originally Posted by billd_sc2

Got my beta email Friday, downloaded the client from my battle.net and I can't login!

Nooooooooo, some silly error that a lot of people are getting it seems: "Your account has no accounts that can be used in this region"

Was really looking forward to playing this weekend too, crap!

Hmm, so how come someone who won a key in the same beta tournament as megets his beta invite, and I don't? Blizzard really screwing up these giveaways!

[zedest]

Originally Posted by JohnBoah

Hmm, so how come someone who won a key in the same beta tournament as megets his beta invite, and I don't? Blizzard really screwing up these giveaways!

Yeh pretty messed up NGL =[

[Bash]

Originally Posted by JohnBoah

Hmm, so how come someone who won a key in the same beta tournament as megets his beta invite, and I don't? Blizzard really screwing up these giveaways!

if i read correctly, nirv gave them names a few days ago, the most recent wave of invites was also a few days ago.

Patience guys, you'll get it, they send invites in waves, if your name wasnt on the list prior to them processing that wave you wouldnt get it until the next wave, it all takes time and effort.

Chill and practise WoL so you can be gosu @ HotS, ^_^

[zedest]

Originally Posted by Bash

if i read correctly, nirv gave them names a few days ago, the most recent wave of invites was also a few days ago.

Patience guys, you'll get it.

Don't think anyones blaming Nirv, just blizzard been dumb :P

[JohnBoah]

Originally Posted by zedest

Don't think anyones blaming Nirv, just blizzard been dumb :P

Yea not blaming Nirv. I assume he just handed in all the email addresses at the same time. Unless he sent them wrong (Which I doubt) then it is just Blizzard screwing things up

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Bash:

wait until the next wave, they cant instantly add you to a list of thousands the same day they send keys.

[VoxMSI.Rogue]

Wow some peoples responses in here are unbelievable. This was a community competition, not your god given right to get a beta key.

Also, beta keys take time, don't spam PJ or be annoying about it, you will get your key. Remember there are thousands who missed out and you have a key on the way, so be patient!

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Cyanide:

hi DUDE =P

[zedest]

People are just excited dude... Its understandable lol, not a bad thing :P

[nirvAnA]

Hey guys, I know you're all anxious for the keys so here's some more information so you can understand the process better.

In the past, Blizzard gave community sites codes and we just handed them to the winners which they would use to activate their accounts instantly. It was a very simple and straight forward process. I'm not sure why, but this time they have adopted a manual activation approach. The TL and reddit giveaways went through the same process too. So basically we give Blizzard a list of emails and then they manually activate it whenever they choose to. As far as I know, the community managers aren't sure either when exactly the accounts will get activated, as they hand the list to Blizzard HQ the moment we pass it to them.

On the Friday wave, billd_sc2 got his key (and fixed his problem). I'm not sure who else got the email but I sent the list out on Tuesday (Monday in NA) so thought most of you would get it. As someone mentioned earlier, it took two waves for Reddit/TL winners to get theirs. Even for our staff keys a month ago, only a few got it in the first wave, a few more in the second and the rest in the third. BakaInu never got this key, and I do not know why but he's the only one lol!

Anyway I've sent Blizzard another email just in case and will inform you guys of any updates. In the mean time, please be patient, they will come eventually!

[zedest]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

Hey guys, I know you're all anxious for the keys so here's some more information so you can understand the process better.

In the past, Blizzard gave community sites codes and we just handed them to the winners which they would use to activate their accounts instantly. It was a very simple and straight forward process. I'm not sure why, but this time they have adopted a manual activation approach. The TL and reddit giveaways went through the same process too. So basically we give Blizzard a list of emails and then they manually activate it whenever they choose to. As far as I know, the community managers aren't sure either when exactly the accounts will get activated, as they hand the list to Blizzard HQ the moment we pass it to them.

On the Friday wave, billd_sc2 got his key (and fixed his problem). I'm not sure who else got the email but I sent the list out on Tuesday (Monday in NA) so thought most of you would get it. As someone mentioned earlier, it took two waves for Reddit/TL winners to get theirs. Even for our staff keys a month ago, only a few got it in the first wave, a few more in the second and the rest in the third. BakaInu never got this key, and I do not know why but he's the only one lol!

Anyway I've sent Blizzard another email just in case and will inform you guys of any updates. In the mean time, please be patient, they will come eventually!

Thanks for the info, its a great thing what you're doing for the SC2 community, I think people are just eager more than anything haha, I know I check this thread and my Bnet like 50 times a day hahaha, we all know it's nothing to do with you, just waiting on bliz :P

EDIT: I assume that bliz stopped giving out the codes because some people were maybe selling them? IDK just a thought

Edit: yah but bliz are Naive!

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

Thought so too, but people could still make bnet accounts and sell them!

[zedest]

Meh still nothing, Made a ticket asking about it and they said they can't Do anything about it and don't support 3rd party sites, I linked them the FAQ's on there forums where the guy says that they will be giving away a number of Keys to fan sites, and he didn't reply. GG bliz lel

[JohnBoah]

Another wave on invites went out today. Still nothing! Blizz are getting really silly with this now

Quick Comments

zedest:

Really?

[JohnBoah]

12,000 invites went out last night, and we still didn't receive ours! - http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6794710835

I think after over 2 weeks, it's nearly safe to say Blizzard have forgotten about us

[JohnBoah]

Just got my beta invite!

[zedest]

Got mine, Love you guys

[zedest]

Massive thanks to Nirv for not only setting up the competition, but all the effort you put in to actually making Bliz pay up

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Bash:

"making bliz pay up"...... wot