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Two Contests to Kick Off March
Posted by ceolstan on Mar. 5th, 2008 - 5:49 AM
March brings us two very different contests to kick off the month.

Second Basin Screenshot Contest
Arhurt has the Second Basin Screenshot Contest. This contest is perfect for people who wander the beautiful world of Guild Wars. Now is your chance to share with others the kinds of oohs and ahhs you find yourself making. Categories include:
  • Action Shots: Shots involving characters overcoming adversity.
  • Landscapes: Shots focusing on the landscape itself.
  • Character Portraits: Shots that tell a story about a character or group of characters.
  • Unique Category: Skales: Shots that use lizard-like monsters known as skales. Shots can use action, landscape, character or any combination--as long as the focus is upon the skales.


Deadline for Submission: March 14. Please see the original post for submission guidelines and a timeline for judging.

First Basin Amatz Basin Challenge Mission Contest
PvE Coordinator FunkyJam has announced the Amatz Basin Challenge Mission Contest.

What: A contest to see which Basiners can get the highest score on the Amatz Basin Challenge Mission

When: Starting NOW...yep right now as you are reading this...and ending on Saturday, 3/15/08 at
12pm PST / 1 pm MST / 2 pm CST / 3 pm EST / 8 pm GMT / 9 pm CET / 7 am AEDT / 9 am NZDT

Who: Teams going for the high score may consist of AB Guild members, non-AB Guild members, heros and henchies, but prizes will only be awarded to members of the AB in-game guilds.

This is a great opportunity for our players looking for a real challenge against which to match themselves.

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Alliance Battle Contest: Winners Announced
Posted by ceolstan on Feb. 23rd, 2008 - 7:22 PM
FunkyJam has announced the Basin Alliance Battle Contest.

This weekend is Bonus Faction in Alliance Battles, and the scores are looking very, very competitive. Here is the contest, shamelessly lifted from FunkyJam's post. Go read the thread for the current standings.

What: A contest to see which Basiners can get the biggest Alliance Battle win (your score - enemy score). There will be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place prizes awarded for each of the 5 Alliance Battle Maps (Kaanai Canyon, Etnaran Keys, Saltspray Beach, Grenz Frontier, Ancestral Lands)

When: Starting NOW...yep right now as you are reading this...and ending on Saturday, 2/23/08 Saturday, 3/1/08 at
12pm PST / 1 pm MST / 2 pm CST / 3 pm EST / 8 pm GMT / 9 pm CET / 7 am AEDT / 9 am NZDT

CONTEST Extended 1 week to take advantage of the Double Faction AB Weekend and allow people to play on more of the 5 map rotation!

Who: Teams going for the high score may consist of AB Guild members, non-AB Guild members, heros and henchies, but prizes will only be awarded to members of the AB in-game guilds.

Judging: Players wanting their score to be considered for this contest, must post in this thread. Please post a screenshot or a link to a screenshot in this thread of your score.

Here are a couple choices for hosting screenshots:

Image Shack
or
Mammonlord Gallery

Remember to take a screenshot at the end of each Alliance Battle you play this week!!


Prizes:
There are 1st, 2nd & 3rd Place Prizes for each of the 5 Alliance Battle Maps (Kaanai Canyon, Etnaran Keys, Saltspray Beach, Grenz Frontier, Ancestral Lands)

First Prize
Each AB in-game Guild Member on the team with the highest score will receive:
2,000 gold
10 miscellaneous Drinks, Sweets, Fireworks or other Party Animal items
1 randomly selected gold item from the following list (players will roll in-game to pick the prize)

I=inscribable, r=required attribute

Forked Sword, Long Bow r9 I, Composite Bow r10 I, Minature Pig, Elite Mesmer Tome, Steel Broadsword r9 I, Gemstone Axe r12 I, Elite Ranger Tome, Zodiac Axe r12 19%<50, War Hammer r9 I, Skull Spear r11 I, Elite Warrior Tome, Guardian Spear r10 I, Zodiac Hammer r9, Composite Shortbow r11 I, Shortbow r9 I, Shadow Bow r10 15% in stance, Nightmare Spear r12 I, Zodiac Daggers r10 +14>50, Gladius r12 +20<50


Second Prize
Each AB in-game Guild Member on the team with the second highest score will receive:
1,000 gold
5 miscellaneous Drinks, Sweets, Fireworks or other Party Animal items
1 randomly selected green item from the following list (players will roll in-game to pick the prize)

Rajazan's Fervor, The Shadestone, Gorrel's Cane, Wieshur's Inspiration, The Time Eater, Shen's Censure, Jayne's Staff, Victo's Battle Axe, Sskai's Sword, Ungues of the Oni, Milthuran's Staff, Modti's Depravation, Gardock's Staff, Shakor's Spear, Wroth's Holy Rod, Kaolin Wand, Ryver's Shortbow, Flint's Artifact, Milus' Eye, Forgotten Fan


Third Prize
Each AB in-game Guild Member on the team with the third highest score will receive:
500 gold
3 miscellaneous Drinks, Sweets, Fireworks or other Party Animal items


Frequently Asked Questions
Q. Can I win more than one prize in this contest?
A. Yes, there is one contest for each map, so you can win up to 5 different prizes, but you can't win 2 prizes for the same map.

Q. Do you count the score at the moment your team gets 500 and wins?
A. You can count any score you can get a screenshot of...so if you win 504 to 100 then it goes up to 511 to 100, then 511 it is!

Q. Can I use a screenshot from an Alliance Battle last month?
A. No, only screenshots from battles fought between when the contest started on Monday and before it ends on Saturday should be posted.

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Altrumm Ruins Contest Winners
Posted by ceolstan on Feb. 18th, 2008 - 2:44 PM
It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of our first ever Altrumm Ruins Challenge Mission Contest. Our PvE Coordinator, FunkyJam, has compiled the results here. This is a shameless copy from his post.

Let's all congratulate the winners of this contest.

The WINNERS:
1st Place
Eddie of the Dead
FTW Swift Death (Zero)
Rue Von Basin (Rue)
Juusatsu No Uchuu (Jochen)
Sla Veone
Xei Win Toh
Nubian God (Nexxidger)
Kiera Silverlight (Skie)

2nd Place
Arwen Evenstars
Rakim B (Temba)
Kukla Trouble Maker

Ftw Swift Death (Zero) on 1st Place team
Eddie of the Dead on 1st Place team)


3rd Place
Hamster Named Boo (Boo)

Juusatu No Uchuu on 1st place team
Ftw Swift Death on 1st place team
Arwen Evenstars on 1st place team
Rakim B on 2nd place team

Remember that we have other contests in the works. If you're artistically inclined, please take a look at the Screenshot Contest: Second Edition and the Alliance Battle Contest. There's something for everyone. Come join us!

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Basin Board Upgrade
Posted by ceolstan on Feb. 16th, 2008 - 7:40 AM
All the Basin boards have been updated to the most recent version of Invision Power Board. The new software's been installed. To congratulate and thank our tech team, feel free to post here. To report issues with broken tags, please report those bugs here. Posting bugs requires registering on the Main Forums, also know as "blue" as a result of the color of the skins, though right now with the default look, all of our boards look the same! If you aren't yet registered over there, you should be. There are a lot of forums devoted to different games. It's a bit of a watering hole for all Basiners in all the sponsored games, and it provides a nice place for Basiners who are playing a variety of other games with Basiners, but not to the degree of the sponsored games, to hang out. There are also blogs and, I believe, a gallery. Yes, you get a lot of nice stuff over there!

Anyway, it'll be a bit before the dust settles. In the meantime, enjoy our Altrumm Ruins Challenge Mission Contest, our Screenshot Contest, and the upcoming Alliance Battle Bonanza. This weekend, we'll have our usual offering of PvP and PvE. Come join us!

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Altrumm Ruins Challenge Mission Contest
Posted by ceolstan on Feb. 11th, 2008 - 10:56 PM
FunkyJam has announced the Altrumm Ruins Challenge Mission Contest. From NOW to Saturday, February 16, Basiners can compete to get the highest scores on the Altrumm Ruins Challenge Mission.

This exciting contest is a great chance for our players and teams to figure out the best way to crack this mission and win Kurzick faction as part of our drive for a town.

Go Team! Let's get [AB] players and teams listed on the Guildwars.com Challenge Mission Ladder!!!!!

Check out FunkyJam's post here for details.

--ceolstan

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The Basin Alliance Owns ANOTHER Town!!!
Posted by Jayling on Feb. 5th, 2008 - 6:38 AM
Bai Paasu Reach is now owned by the Basin Alliance!!!

We have 4.227 million Kurzick faction. Once the line was overrun, we owned BP!

Thanks to everyone whose efforts have made this possible!

Well done, folks!!

Jayling

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Basin Alliance Breaks 4 Million Kurzick
Posted by ceolstan on Feb. 3rd, 2008 - 8:31 AM
After the news got out that we held Breaker Hollow for few hours on Saturday morning GMT (around midnight EST), Alliance Battles, Fast Faction Farming, and Vanquishing went into overtime as we pushed the Kurzick Faction up to 3.9 million just before the nightly decay hit.

Within 12 hours, we had regained our lost Kurzick Faction and then some. We broke the 4 million mark on Sunday, just before noon, GMT (7am EST).

What a great push! Go Team!

--ceolstan

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The Basin Alliance Owns A Town!!!!!
Posted by ceolstan on Feb. 1st, 2008 - 9:50 PM
Beaker Hollow has fallen to the Basin's advance on Kurzick territory!

We have 3.36 million Faction. When the line shifted, we owned Beaker Hollow.

Basiners, if you haven't yet been run to Beaker Hollow, the town is ours for now!

Thanks to everyone whose efforts in Vanquishing, Alliance Battles, HFFF, House Duels, etc. have made this possible!

Well done, everyone!!!!!!!!

--ceolstan

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We break Three Point Five Million Kurzick Faction
Posted by ceolstan on Feb. 1st, 2008 - 7:20 AM
As of 7am EST/noon GMT/11pm AUS, the Basin Alliance had 3,503,114 Kurzick faction! The numbers keep going up and up, with each day inching us closer to our goal. The Alliance Battles, the HFFF, the vanquishing runs, the farming of challenge missions--it all adds up!

This is truly a group effort. It's heartwarming to see the very many people who've spent so much time bringing us closer to our goal.

What a great team!

--ceolstan

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Basin Alliance Breaks the 3 Million Mark
Posted by ceolstan on Jan. 27th, 2008 - 6:33 PM
The Basin Alliance broke the Three Million Kurzick Faction mark just before the daily Alliance Faction decay hit.

Folks, this is unprecedented. Getting to 3,000,000 Kurzick faction is a huge push for the guild. Thanks to everyone here who ran Alliance Battles (and we beat the Luxons even on their own maps!), Fast Faction Farming, and Jade Quarry/Fort Aspenwood.

This was a weekend of amazing effort on the part of so many!

Thank you all!


--ceolstan

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Basin Alliance Breaks 2.5 Million Mark
Posted by ceolstan on Jan. 26th, 2008 - 3:04 PM
Great news!!!

The Basin Alliance has pushed past the 2.5 million Kurzick faction mark! This occurred around noon EST (5pm GMT). Despite the 10% Faction decay each day, the efforts of everyone have been paying off.

A lot of people are working very hard to pull this off.

/bow
/salute

--ceolstan

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The Basin Alliance Breaks the 2 Million Mark!
Posted by ceolstan on Jan. 21st, 2008 - 6:23 PM
The Basin Alliance hit the 2 million Kurzick Faction mark today, shortly before the 7pm EST faction decay mark. Reaching 2 million has taken a lot of effort from a lot of people. Besides those of you staying up way too late at night or getting up way too early in the morning to do your Fast Faction Farming, there are others of you playing many, many Alliance Battles.

In fact, on Sunday, January 20, we had 3 teams of Basiners in Alliance Battles--once even managing to synch enter all 3 teams on the battlefield at the same time!

This has been a great push!

Go Team!

Chaaaarge!

--ceolstan

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Amazon Basin breaks 1.5 million
Posted by ceolstan on Jan. 18th, 2008 - 7:31 AM
Jayling reports that the AB Alliance hit the 1.5 million mark in Kurzick faction at about 3am EST (8am GMT/9am CET) on Friday, January 18.

This is a huge surge, as it takes more and more effort to get more Alliance faction. For example, on January 17 at about 5pm EST, the Alliance stood at 1,479,000. About 1.5 hours later, the Alliance was at 1,399,000. This shows the amount of Faction decay.

Well done to those online who saw the opportunity for the push:
    Rue
    Myst
    Dustbunny
    Ancient 1
And to all the rest of you who helped push us over! You folks are doing a great job!
--ceolstan

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Amazon Basin hits 1 million Kurzick Faction
Posted by ceolstan on Jan. 13th, 2008 - 11:11 PM
The Basin Alliance hit 1 million Kurzick Faction for the first time in over 9 months! And hat was better was that we hit it twice! We saw the hit to the totals due to Faction decay, but our intrepid members rushed to make up the difference!

Thanks to Pooka's diligence in getting everyone gung-ho to contribute Kurzick faction toward the Alliance (and we get titles and stuff), we're starting to see some excellent progress in our quest to make our mark on the Factions map.

A big thanks to everyone who did challenge missions, Fast Faction Farming, Jade Quarry/Fort Aspenwood, Alliance Battles, and Vanquish runs. It's paying off!

Show your group's effort by posting a picture in MammonLord's Guild Wars Gallery. Let's get a chance to recognize everyone's hard work!

Go Team!!!

--ceolstan

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Amazon Basin Fundraising Time
Posted by ceolstan on Oct. 28th, 2007 - 9:10 AM
From time to time, we will ask those in our community who are in a position to do so to donate funds to the Amazon Basin. Our founder, TPJ, has just announced on our Main Forums that we once more need to have a community drive to keep the servers that support our community up and running.

Here are TPJ's own words:

Our last server fund drive was in early 2006. It kept us going for almost 2 years! I can't thank you folks enough for that. I understand we held another one about a year ago for a (close to) destitute ABM - and asking you again so soon wasn't my plan. I hope everyone understands.

Right now, the best way to help is with a donation through PayPal. I am working on getting our BasinWear site back up and running, so I should have that ready in the next few days. Once it is up, you can use it to purchase 1337 items like cracked sashes and mongolian pr0n. Heck, you can even purchase a sweet embroidered polo or Basin mouse pad!

If you are in a financial position to help us, please visit our donation page. If you'd rather not go the subscription route (on that page), you can just use the single 'PayPal Donate' button below that row of 'subscription' icons. I'll have the BasinWear site up soon, so if you'd rather use it, just hang in there please.

Thanks everyone.



Once more, if you're in a position to help, every little bit counts!

Thank you all very much!

--ceolstan

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Amazon Basin Screenshot Winners Announced!
Posted by ceolstan on Sep. 8th, 2007 - 6:35 AM
The Amazon Basin Screenshot Contest has announced its winners. Congratulations to:

Action Shots!
  1. Bobany
  2. Scalidoo
  3. Kousei

Landscapes!
  1. Kousei
  2. Ona Tangent
  3. Bobany & Soton
Character Portraits!
  1. DPTR
  2. Ona Tangent
  3. Bobany
Bugs & Glitches!
  1. Ona Tangent
  2. Mister_ABC
  3. Bobany
A big thank you to all who entered. The screenshots were breathtaking, and showed off the different aspects of the game's beauty.

Also, a very big thank you to Arhurt for organizing the contest, and to our volunteers who acted as judges.

Very nice work!!!

--ceolstan

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Amazon Basin Screenshot Contest
Posted by ceolstan on Aug. 7th, 2007 - 4:25 PM
The Amazon Basin Screenshot contest, organized by our very own Arhurt, has gathered its submissions and posted them into the appropriate galleries: Action Shots, Landscapes, Character Portraits, and Bugs and Glitches.

The judges now have 2 weeks to make their decision.

The screenshots are stunning! Kudos to all who submitted their work. You're all extremely talented! And a big hand to Arhurt for doing all the organization!

--ceolstan

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Congrats to Team Pax--Sealed Deck Winners
Posted by ceolstan on Jul. 28th, 2007 - 7:44 PM
The Third Basin Sealed Deck 4v4 Tournament was held on Saturday, July 28, 2007. Organized and officiated by SirBunnz, the Tournament featured three teams:

1. Team CoonerTheRed
2. Team FunkyJam
3. Team Pax

Team FunkyJam took an early lead, winning their first 2 matches against Team CoonerTheRed and Team Pax, advancing straight to the finals. Team Pax rebounded from their loss to Team FunkyJam and went on to meet Team FunkyJam in the finals. There, Team Pax defeated Team FunkyJam in 2 matches for the Tournament Championship!!!!!

Congratulations to Team Pax: Pax (Captain), Demon, FoxBat, and JustinL

Congratulations to our other teams: Team FunkyJam (FunkyJam, Magwill, twolf, Mister_abc); Team CoonerTheRed (CoonerTheRed, 2VipeRS, Yobbo, Donut).

Thanks, too, to Eddietheman and to Arcala for refereeing the matches, and a big thanks to SirBunnz for organizing the teams and for laying out the rules.

Well done!

--ceolstan

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Dynamic Duo PvE Build Contest Winners Announced
Posted by ceolstan on May. 27th, 2007 - 6:15 AM
If you're looking for a new Hero companion build for your Hard Mode explorations, check out the winning combinations in the Dynamic Duo Contest. PvE Coordinator FunkyJam tested the different combinations submitted. The Basin is now pleased to announce the winners here.


CONTEST WINNERS
1st Place - CoonerTheRed - Cooner's Burning Bullies
2nd Place - Kynar - Flatten and Fry
3rd Place - Rolento - "I usually run with my Ranger and Mesmer..." Duo
4th Place - Donut - Donut's I Will Drain You Build
5th Place - Demonclaws - Smashy Smashy Burny Burny
6th Place - Zoomga - Uber Damage (Warrior + Necro) & (Paragon + Dervish)

Thanks, too, for all who entered their builds and to those who donated prizes to help make this event a success!


--ceolstan

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AB Nation Community Newsletter #2
Posted by ceolstan on Apr. 10th, 2007 - 8:03 PM
The AB Nation Community Newsletter has hit the stands once more! Once again, erinye has taken up the editor's role to bring together the news from around the Basin nation.

This edition features the considerable talents of our very own Arhurt, who made the layout possible, and our newest Basin Member, geocurt, who provided a very nice write-up of the Mission Possible: Tyria gatherings.

Thanks to everyone who was involved in the project, from gathering the news to providing the screenshots, from writing copy to laying it out. And a special thanks to the community here, whose efforts and activities help provide us all with excellent online adventures!

Cheers!

--ceolstan

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