Blogs, Viceroys, and All That Contest (January-March). Stage II - Voting

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Friends, today is Tuesday, which means it's time to launch the long-awaited voting for the Blog Contest, the Governors, and Everything Else!

We spent a whole week reviewing your applications, and we can already say: there are more than enough contenders for the prizes, and the competition will be interesting in all categories. Moreover, the prizes for this contest were provided by **AMD - Advanced Micro Devices**, a company that you all know and love.

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is a pioneer in developing semiconductor components for computer systems. With the release of the revolutionary AMD Fusion hybrid processors (Accelerated Processing Units - APU), which are used in a wide range of computing devices, the company opened a new era in the history of computing. The excellent graphics technologies of AMD can be found in a variety of solutions from gaming consoles and PCs to supercomputers.

AMD's products are always designed to meet all customer requirements, rather than simply to create yet another innovative solution.

For computer game fans, AMD is always ready to offer powerful graphics cards that make gaming at the highest settings an absolute pleasure!

We promised you intrigue with the prizes. I think it's time to reveal our cards... Yes, yes, the prizes for this contest are graphics cards and sets of souvenir products. By the way, these graphics cards are not ordinary, but engineering! This means they were produced by AMD itself, not by its partners, and you can't buy such graphics cards in stores. Exclusives, my friends! So, here are the cards.

The three best bloggers of the season will receive one of three graphics cards from AMD.

The best blogger of the season will receive a wonderful gaming **AMD Radeon HD 6950**.

AMD Radeon HD 6950 is a special-class video card, significantly improving the anti-aliasing mechanism and increasing geometry processing speed. The innovative AMD Power Tune technology allows dynamic adjustment of both voltage and graphics processor frequency depending on workload and energy consumption level. The AMD Radeon HD 6950 is a powerful graphics accelerator with a quiet cooler, excellent output port options for all occasions, and enough memory for modern and future games.

• The second prize winner will receive another **AMD Radeon HD 6870**.

AMD Radeon HD 6870 features 1 GB of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit interface and is equipped with an updated 3rd generation UVD video processor. Additionally, the video card supports AMD Eyefinity, CrossFireX, and HD3D technologies. There are five ports on the back panel: two DVI, one Mini Display Port, and one HDMI.

The slogan of this graphics accelerator is: "Today the best just got better."

• And finally, our third prize winner will receive **AMD Radeon HD 6850**.

AMD Radeon HD 6850 is a video adapter with a rich set of options necessary for the modern gamer: Blu-ray 3D acceleration and stereoscopic 3D gaming, high anti-aliasing capability, tessellation with increased speed, and support for AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology (up to 6 monitors simultaneously). The AMD Radeon HD 6850 is built on a PCB for the PCI Express 2.1 x 16 bus, equipped with 1 GB of GDDR5 memory with a 256-bit interface, and is cooled by dual-slot active cooling systems.

The other prizewinners will receive commemorative sets of branded souvenirs from AMD.

And, of course, all winners can expect respect, appreciation, and good cheer to celebrate their victory in the contest. You can learn how the application submission process went by clicking the link below, and I suggest we start the voting!

Post of Stage I: Application Submission

• Governor. In this category, the performance of the governor's blog is evaluated (writing articles, categorizing them, the atmosphere in the blog, community interaction, attracting new people to the blog, organizing events such as contests).

Makarov21

Blog - [Total War Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai](http://www.gamer.ru/total-war-shogun-2-fall-of-the-samurai)

Captured the blog

Updated posts, sorted them into categories, made the top player list. The blog is firmly in seventh place in the game rankings.

Published several posts:

Samurai rules of the samurai blog + mini giveaway - Rules of the blog

Gaming clans - Part I

Developers' diaries #1

Developers' diaries #3 - Smoke and Steel

Won the contest "The Last Days of the Samurai", for which he was acknowledged by Kotovsky:

[quote:1333451929594=Kotovsky]

...many thanks to the game governor who put in his all in the contest,...

Hidsan

Blog - [Half-Life 2](http://www.gamer.ru/half-life-2).

Took over the blog and in two months raised it from 68th place to 12. It has three excellent posts:

1. Cinematic Mod - the best mod for Half-Life 2

2. Ant Lions

3. Where science is created: Penny Arcade Report goes on a tour of Valve Software's offices

Maguar

Blog - [Guild Wars 2](/games?search=Guild Wars 2).

During the reporting period, extensive work was done on the blog [Guild Wars 2](/games?search=Guild Wars 2). With the agreement of the governor guvatara, I took over management of the blog and in 2 months [Guild Wars 2](/games?search=Guild Wars 2) jumped from some fifty-something place to 6th position in blog rankings.

During this time, dozens of people became interested in the blog and subscribed to updates. A creative contest was held with rather good prizes (thanks to the sponsors: Vespa and the Gamer.ru administration), in which about a dozen people participated. During the reporting period, only one heated debate broke out in the blog (yes, many will say this is little for popularity :) ), and PreHistoric came with ponies, beams of goodness, and his creative endeavors, more than 100 posts were written in the blog, and a load of medals was awarded to the governor for interesting posts, well, and other little "naughtiness" occurred in the blog [Guild Wars 2](/games?search=Guild Wars 2). So, in order:

My report for January-March 2012:

News:

Current news and latest events

News Digest

News Digest-2

News Digest-3

It's started!

New player recruitment for the Guild Wars 2 beta test in March

"Let's me speak from my heart" or the ArenaNet & NCsoft petition from the Russian community

Get in for the beta test in 48 hours!

Video materials from the beta test

Translations and material compilation:

This not only included the translations of articles, but also the collection and compilation of information and materials from Russian and foreign portals, mixed with the author's opinion. Most of the materials were later added to the Wikipedia page for Guild wars 2

Kekai Kotaki - the man who drew Guild Wars

Daniel Dociu

Guild Wars 2 and Skyrim. Viva La Revolución!

Elder Dragons in Guild Wars 2

Generals of Elder Dragons

Guides to the main cities of Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 vs World of Warcraft

The whole truth about graphics and visualization in Guild Wars 2

Choose your music in Guild Wars 2

Miscellaneous about [Guild Wars 2](/games?search=Guild Wars 2)

Posts here include video materials or pictures directly related to [Guild Wars 2](/games?search=Guild Wars 2)

Magnificent Fan Video from Amolino

Cosplay from the game Guild Wars by Adamoluna

Adventures of Ritlok Brimstone at PAX 2011

FOSTER_ok

Blog - [Xenonauts](/games?search=Xenonauts).

Created and began to fill the game's blog =)

I confidently hold the blog's top position and I'm not going to give it up. Plans for creating a guide, pruning bad posts, and distributing medals. XD

In the meantime, here's one of my posts:

News dump number one

But it's a very cool one, just amazing XD

So I've won, that's it, guys, we're done here.

Kaliya

Blog - [Dragon Age: Origins](/games?search=Dragon Age: Origins).

After capturing the blog [Dragon Age: Origins](/games?search=Dragon Age: Origins) shortly before New Year (huge respect to the update "A Path to the Young"), I wrote 16 posts totaling about 233 thousand characters (including tables in the original presented as screenshots).

1. [post]Walkthrough: Lothering[/post]

2. [post]Walkthrough: Brecilian[/post]

3. [post]Walkthrough DLC "Fortress of the Guardians"[/post]

4. [post]Walkthrough DLC "Stone Prisoner"[/post]

5. [post]Walkthrough: Haven Village[/post]

6. [post]Walkthrough: Orzammar[/post]

7. [post]Walkthrough: Redcliffe[/post]

8. [post]Companions[/post]

9. [post]Guide: Crafting Traps[/post]

10. [post]Guide: Herbalism[/post]

11. [post]Guide: Crafting Poisons, Ointments, and Bombs[/post]

12. [post]Guide: Stealing[/post]

13. [post]Walkthrough: Nobility Prologue[/post]

14. [post]Walkthrough: Mage Prologue[/post]

15. [post]Specializations[/post]

16. [post]What to Equip for Sheila and Mabari?[/post]

Before the New Year, three gold posts were published in the blog, but unfortunately, they are not included in the reporting period.

All posts received gold and readers' respect, six of them received editorial recommendations (by the way, I did not extort any medals \_).

Approximately ten new readers were attracted. During this period, three new posts were written by other bloggers, of which the story [post]The Fall of the Iron King[/post] received silver and the governor's recommendation.

Under my guidance (and mostly thanks to me) during the specified period, the blog jumped from 65th place to 7th (at peak), and has stayed in the TOP-10 ever since.

Quester82

Blog - [BioShock Infinite](/games?search=BioShock Infinite).

\[C\] \[З\] \[Б\] – silver, gold, diamond frame respectively.

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[РН] [PP] – medals "Recommended by the governor," "Recommended by the editorial board" respectively.

During 01.01.2012-31.03.2012, I actively worked on filling the blog [BioShock Infinite](/games?search=BioShock Infinite). I became a governor only 2 months ago, so I had a little less time to dedicate to the improvement and development of the blog than I would have liked.

During the reporting period, several articles, interviews, and news blocks were written for the blog:

[post]BioShock Infinite, the most ambitious game of 2012. Interview for GamesTM.co.uk.[/post] [url] [6016 characters] [З] [PH]

[post]A major "disappointment". Interview for The Official Xbox Magazine.[/post] [url] [4802 characters] [C] [PH]

[post]Developers' diaries. What does 2012 bring us?[/post] [url] [4092 characters] [C] [PH]

[post]Ken Levine on the craft of writing in BioShock Infinite. Interview for Gamasutra.com.[/post] [url] [21683 characters] [C] [PH]

[post]Developers' diaries. Mode 1999, Q&A.[/post] [url] [3557 characters] [C]

[post]Troy Baker, professional actor, serious gamer. Interview for EscapistMagazine.com[/post] [url] [7289 characters] [C] [PH][PP]

[post]Infinite News. Official release date for BioShock Infinite, fan art by Alex Garner[/post] [url] [1761 characters] [C] [PH]

As well as a series of developers' diaries dedicated to sound recording, in 3 parts:

[post]Developers' diaries. Shooting range. Part 1: sound recording.[/post] [url] [3316 characters] [C] [PH]

[post]Developers' diaries. Shooting range. Part 2: shooting.[/post] [url] [3623 characters] [C] [PH]

[post]Developers' diaries. Shooting range. Part 3: target achieved.[/post] [url] [4370 characters] [C] [PH]

Furthermore, totoroQ published a news post:

[post]Irrational announced the "1999" mode for BioShock Infinite[/post] [url] [News] [C] [PH]

...and VictorMarius bravely formalized a series of video diaries for the blog:

[post]Developers' diaries. Heavy opponents. Part 1: Motorized Patriot[/post] [url] [Video] [C]

[post]Developers' diaries. Heavy opponents. Part 2: Master[/post] [url] [Video] [C]

[post]Developers' diaries. Heavy opponents. Part 3: The Silence Boys[/post] [url] [Video ] [C]

[post]Developers' diaries. Heavy opponents. Part 4: Siren[/post] [url] [Video] [C]

Summary:

A total of 10 original articles (10 translations) were written by Quester82.

In total, 60509 characters.

9 topics received the "Recommended by the governor" medal.

1 topic received the "Recommended by the editorial board" medal.

10 topics received the silver frame.

An additional number of users engaged with the blog, contributing substantial social interaction.

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