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MrSurprise has been a consistently positive force in Recruiting Division since his arrival.

He has maintained high energy, dedication, and activity, and has been instrumental in

implementing several critical processes and initiatives to support Recruiting Division's goals.

He has created essential new templates and documents, been a constant presence at official meetings,

and dutiful in carrying out assigned duties. His efforts have brought credit upon himself, Recruiting Division, and TAW.

leave a word on his medal: here

I would like to give a congratz on his promotion to DO and the rank of Major.

With his help the last month and recommendations of staff we made that descision.

We think he will do well in this position.

Thank you all that, upcomming Sunday the 31th of January at 21:00 CET the new CiC will be announced

tazmanian

Commander in Chief

General of TAW

Election Chairman

Greetings TAW:

It is time to vote!

The election of the new CIC is currently in progress.  Members of rank PFC and above, who are not on leave, and are in good standing are allowed to vote.  Please follow the link below to the candidate dossiers and the link to cast your vote at the bottom of the page.  Voting remains open for another 24 hours and will end tomorrow January 26 at 22:4545 CET/  16:45EST.

If you get an error clicking the link, you must login to the website first to be able to view the page.

http://taw.net/wikis/2021election/a-look-at-the-candidates.aspx

Scroll down the page to cast your vote

Thank you for your time,

tazmanian

Commander in Chief

General of TAW

Election Chairman

IT'S TIME TO VOTE

The election of the new CIC has begun.  Members of rank PFC and above, who are not on leave, and are in good standing are allowed to vote.  Please follow the link below to the candidate dossiers and the link to cast your vote at the bottom of the page.  Voting remains open for 48 hours, another email will follow in 24 hours as a reminder and then the polls will be closed at the 48 hour mark on Tuesday January 26.

http://taw.net/wikis/2021election/a-look-at-the-candidates.aspx

Thank you for your time,

tazmanian

Commander in Chief

General of TAW

Election Chairman

Before the meeting has concluded the Election Chairman will call for the voting to open and announce that members have 48 hours to vote.

1. The Election Chairman will send a TAW wide email with the link to the page for members to record their vote once the poll is open.
2. 24 hours into voting a second TAW wide email should be sent with a reminder that voting is closing in 24 hours.

Voting results should only be accessible to the Election Chairman and the Election Officers. At the close of voting the Election Officers and Election Chairman will meet and agree on the results. The Election Chairman will package a screenshot of the result and send it to the designated person for record retention. This designated person is decided by the previous CIC before the election process starts. In the case the previous CIC is incapacitated, this will default to a unanimous decision by members of Army Command and Operation Command. Raw voting results should be deleted from the database and the screenshots stored securely on the primary server.

In the event that a tie develops and there is not a clear winner, a new vote must take place with only the tied candidates. Any new vote should immediately follow the close of voting after a TAW wide announcement by the Election Chairman and be open for 48 hours. Following the conclusion of voting the poll will be removed.

Hi all,

Thanks to everyone that has submitted entries for consideration, a huge amount of time and effort was given over for free, and the end result is impressive!

We will now go ahead and vote - we're considering three aspects.

1. The shape of the actual logo - do we change it or keep the same?

2. The colour and texture applied to that logo.

3. The Mascots which will be used on some of the Shop clothing.

The link is here.

We'll keep it open past next weekend before taking on the next steps.We'll likely work with small groups of members to try out some ideas before settling on the final image, so there's more work to be done, but we're well on the way.

Maverick

Apex Legends Division Highlight Video

Welcome to the Arena! 

We are setting up a new TAW tournament in preparation for the TAW Apex Legends Clan Wars where each team will run 5 matches and will be awarded points based the parameters listed below.

Every member of TAW is welcome and encouraged to participate, we will be setting up a signup sheet in the forums and shooting for a tournament date of 20/11/2020 "13:00 EST / 19:00 GMT+2

The tournament is going to be kept within private servers. So please show up 30 minutes prior to start of the tournament for organizing. Remember not to share the codes with anyone else outside of the participants.

Apex Legends is a free-to-play Battle Royale' style game that pits 60 players in squads of 3 against each other in a race against the clock for the ultimate prize to become Champions of the Arena!

In Apex Legends you choose one of 13 Legends, each with a unique backstory and a specific set of skills and abilities to aid your team to the final circle, you will need to think fast and make split second decisions to stay alive.

You start by jumping out of the drop ship and selecting one of the many locations on the map to find loot. Once you hit the ground, its a mad dash to find the best Armor, Guns, and Equipment hidden in loot chests and scattered around on the ground. But, don't expect the same tier loot every time you pick one location as the loot spawns are varied and you could end up getting stuck with low tier loot.

Get a kill, and you can loot that players death box for better tier loot and ammunition. But be careful, take too long looting one box and get sniped from across the map by one of the legendary sniper drops the game spawns randomly throughout the match.

If you go down, your team can revive you or if need be, collect your death box banner and re-spawn you at one of the re-spawn beacons located around the map.

But beware, if you are re-spawned into the arena you will be completely stripped of any loot you collected and must find something to defend yourself with quickly because other teams can see the respawn ship coming in and will be on the hunt for an easy kill.

Point System:

The following point system will be used:

Game Rules and Reminders:

• Teams of 3, with 1 reserve

• Game Mode - Battle Royale

General Rules and Reminders:

• If you cannot attend and have signed up please let APL staff know, as soon as possible.

• If you are signed up as a group, and come time to play, one of your members has failed to show up, it is your responsibility to find a proper replacement, or your team will be disqualified.

• Games are to be recorded or streamed with a member of TFO or an AL as referee's.

• Code of Ethics are to be reflected at all times when playing

All screenshots from the matches need to be saved for 14 days from the date the tournament ended. The admin team has the right to request the screenshot at any time within these 14 days.

The Team or Solo sign-up is:  NOW OPEN.

If you have any questions please direct them to one of the Apex Staff Members: ROYALTea, MMG

Prepare for Battle!

Dear all,

First of all can I thank everyone for showing up to our meeting tonight. We have an exciting few months ahead, starting with the launch of the new shop with added high quality merch, followed by our 20th Anniversary, and the new website.

Couple of examples of the new shop:

https://www.craniumapparel.co/product-category/havoc-gaming/

https://www.craniumapparel.co/product-category/midnight-gaming/

https://www.craniumapparel.co/product-category/replenish-hq/

As you can see, we're going to get a really high quality shop - so combined with the new website we need to ask ourselves if now is the right time to look at our logo, and potentially make the change to pave the way for these new features.

So what do I want? We need to provide a basic logo (like the one on our website), and a "Mascot" logo. I've created a folder for these so that you can see what is being proposed as it happens. Link here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nL909p5z66AB6p8NYZCw8it5MdAiX0Jj?usp=sharing

We're inviting members with any artistic ability to submit either primary logo suggestions or Mascot logos via email to me on mavericksabre@taw.net. I will put them into the folder.

We will have another meeting in two weeks to review, vote on them, and then the top 2-3 will go forward to the Top 5 and board for final consideration.

Tabs will be handed out to anyone that puts forward a suggestion, with medals for those that end up with a TAW logo running in the end. And don't worry about creating a Vector graphic, no matter the format (even crayon!) we will have the final result translated if it makes the final 3.

Any questions please ask!

Thanks,

Mav

Apex Legends Division Highlight Video

Welcome to the Arena! 

We are setting up a new TAW tournament in preparation for the TAW Apex Legends Clan Wars where each team will run 5 matches and will be awarded points based the parameters listed below.

Every member of TAW is welcome and encouraged to participate, we will be setting up a signup sheet in the forums and shooting for a tournament date of 20/11/2020 "13:00 EST / 19:00 GMT+2

The tournament is going to be kept within private servers. So please show up 30 minutes prior to start of the tournament for organizing. Remember not to share the codes with anyone else outside of the participants.

Apex Legends is a free-to-play Battle Royale' style game that pits 60 players in squads of 3 against each other in a race against the clock for the ultimate prize to become Champions of the Arena!

In Apex Legends you choose one of 13 Legends, each with a unique backstory and a specific set of skills and abilities to aid your team to the final circle, you will need to think fast and make split second decisions to stay alive.

You start by jumping out of the drop ship and selecting one of the many locations on the map to find loot. Once you hit the ground, its a mad dash to find the best Armor, Guns, and Equipment hidden in loot chests and scattered around on the ground. But, don't expect the same tier loot every time you pick one location as the loot spawns are varied and you could end up getting stuck with low tier loot.

Get a kill, and you can loot that players death box for better tier loot and ammunition. But be careful, take too long looting one box and get sniped from across the map by one of the legendary sniper drops the game spawns randomly throughout the match.

If you go down, your team can revive you or if need be, collect your death box banner and re-spawn you at one of the re-spawn beacons located around the map.

But beware, if you are re-spawned into the arena you will be completely stripped of any loot you collected and must find something to defend yourself with quickly because other teams can see the respawn ship coming in and will be on the hunt for an easy kill.

Point System:

The following point system will be used:

Game Rules and Reminders:

• Teams of 3, with 1 reserve

• Game Mode - Battle Royale

General Rules and Reminders:

• If you cannot attend and have signed up please let APL staff know, as soon as possible.

• If you are signed up as a group, and come time to play, one of your members has failed to show up, it is your responsibility to find a proper replacement, or your team will be disqualified.

• Games are to be recorded or streamed with a member of TFO or an AL as referee's.

• Code of Ethics are to be reflected at all times when playing

All screenshots from the matches need to be saved for 14 days from the date the tournament ended. The admin team has the right to request the screenshot at any time within these 14 days.

The Team or Solo sign-up is:  NOW OPEN.

If you have any questions please direct them to one of the Apex Staff Members: ROYALTea, MMG

Prepare for Battle!

Hi all,

We are holding a TAW-wide meeting on Sunday at 2000 GMT.

Please encourage all teams to attend, even if it's only for the first 20 minutes or so.

It's of huge importance, and could have a big impact on the future of TAW.

Thanks,

Maverick

CLICK ON THE IMAGE OR CLICK HERE

We want to know what YOU think! Filling in the feedback form allows us to better understand your experience on the TAW 2020 Fundraiser: Play Your Part and what you would like too see in any future fundraisers. Find out more by clicking on the image or the hyperlink right above!

Sincerely

Treasury Corps.

TAW Fundraiser 2020: Champion Medal

As you may have heard by now, or may have seen in our previous blog post “TAW Fundraiser 2020: Play your Part (RESULT)" this year we managed to raise 8,377.56$ in total. Together, as a community we broke the TAW Fundraiser History Record! There are simply not enough words to describe how humbled and grateful we are to those who donated and/or contributed in any way towards this success. Compared to previous editions, the amount of generous donations we received this year was unprecedented, more than ever were we able to hand out the Outstanding Volunteer Medal to those who donated 100 $ or more to TAW's Community Fund. 

Unlike other years, we wanted to try something different this year and hand out a rare and unique medal, only awarded to ONE individual. The member with the largest contribution during the fundraiser. It really was a close call between two members. Both Dreamus and AJAXd were extremely generous this year, but only one can "win" and with a last-minute sprint AJAXd managed to take home the highest contribution by adding an extra donation on top of his already generous first donation.

Thank you AJAXd for your generosity... and one last time a HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ELSE who contributed in any possible way... you ALL played your part!

Check out his commendation here: http://taw.net/commendation/169787.aspx

Or click here.

TAW Fundraiser 2020: Play Your Part (RESULT)

The results are in, the word is out. A total amount of 8,377.56 USD has been raised. An amount breaking all previous fundraising records in TAW's history. A truly humbling achievement for us as a community. An achievement that highlights the generosity in our community and it's members, more so considering the uncertain times we are currently in. In the midst of the current global event, and all of us having our thoughts on more pressing matters besides TAW, people have still played their part beyond our imagination. It goes without saying that we are deeply humbled and grateful to experience such generosity from our community.

Success like these pave the path for our community to grow and flourish, and TAW will continue to do so because of YOUR generosity. TAW continues to strive to be the premier gaming organisation where people can find a home to play games, build bonds with complete strangers and form friendships, and where we all are not just a community but a virtual TAW family, it is members like you, that drive us towards those lofty goals.

Thank you to everyone who donated. Thank you to everyone who helped behind the scenes or contributed to this fundraiser in any possible way. And thank you to every single member of TAW, for playing your part and simply being part of this community.

Below you will find a list of everyone who donated and agreed upon having their callsign be shared with the community. If you see your name missing on this list, do not hesitate to reach out to us at treas@taw.net or on teamspeak!

In case you are missing one or more commendations, please reach out to your own Chain of Command initially as all commendations should have been awarded and may still be awaiting approval by your CoC. If the issue persists do not hesitate to reach out to us.

In case you have any questions left regarding the fundraiser, have a look at our FAQ wiki-page or reach out to Treasury on teamspeak!

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