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Tournament Roundup

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We've got several tournaments going on right now on InstantAction (rather, sign ups are happening now) so if one of these interests you, go ahead and click the link.

Legions DeathMatch Tourney

Standard Deathmatch with a 10 minute time limit and 50 kill score limit.  Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places.  Broken up into Eu, NA, and Australia.  Sign up deadline: October 15th.

Galcon Noob Tourney

This is still up in the air but if there are at least 7 people that are interested before October 10th, it could be a reality.  The noob part of tourney just means that it's a very relaxed tournament for fun.  If you are interested, click the link above and sign up.

Rokkitball Multiple Goal Challenge

In this competition it will be required to do multiple shots in 1 video.  You'll be given a task, earn point on your video and winners will be determined.  Prizes are still TBD.  Check it out!

That's all I've got for now.  DrWiley out.

Legions DeathMatch Tournament

MightyDeath has taken the initiative to kick off a Legions FFA DeathMatch tournament.  Some of the rules are as follows:

- Rounds will be divided by american/euro/aussie hosts in the first rounds to avoid timezone complications.

- Rounds will be 10 minutes with a score limit of 50

- Brackets will be chosen randomly at random.org.

- 1st place will win 1000 tokens, followed by 500 for 2nd, and 250 for 3rd. 

For the full list of rules head on over to the forum post.

So far there have been 17 people who have signed up.  If you think you can compete, head on over and sign up with your username and your timezone.  Deadline for signups is October 15th.

Good luck and have fun.

-Dr Wiley

Legions Wallpaper - Is it safe?

Resident artist Chris Flanagan has just given us this Legions wallpaper that he's whipped up.  Thought I'd share it with everyone so they can add it to their already large collection of desktop backgrounds.

Click here for full size

BFCL - Legions Season 1 Winners

A couple days ago I announced that Season 2 is now underway.  However, we never gave recognition to the winners of Season 1.  That's kind of silly.  So let me introduce the winners of BFCL's Season 1 winners:

Team [null] took first place with a top score of 35 points.  The following is a list of the members from [null].

Liv, petrified, kasityolainen, Agoria, Ajaxiss, GReaper, Impatient, urmelody, oahra, Gheist, robke112, =The_Trooper=, and rodein.  Congratulations guys and good luck in season 2.

To join in the discussion of the season 1 winners head to the forums.  

-Dr Wiley

Dynamic_Derek, Fragged at LANFest

 

Nine "lucky" LANFest gamers were awarded an InstantAction Cup of Noodles t-shirt for fragging Dynamic_Derek.  Congratulations to:

• Vel0city
• gammasts
• stealth5706
• jatwell
• kfn00b
• IM0001
• xeromist
• SCE_Deadeye
• Fragmentor151

Legions Facebook App Update

Thanks for everyone's patience while we pushed an update to the Legions Facebook App.  This release has fixed a couple of issues as follows:

• Some users InstantAction names were displaying on the Leaderboards when it should have been displaying their Facebook username.
• Leaderboards scores should now be reflecting times accurately for all players - let us know if you are still experiencing errors via facebook@instantaction.com

Those are the two big issues that were fixed during this release.  Now go set some high scores.

-Dr Wiley

Legions App Adds Two New Routes

Roundabout and Donut Trip are the two latest additions to the Legions app on Facebook.  As you can see from the above screenshot there aren't many people that have set times on these two new routes so now might be a great time to head on over to the Legions App and start setting some records.  Even I haven't had a chance to try them out yet, so get to the Legions App, and maybe we'll all be seeing your lovely face as the top player.  Sorry if you get bumped out of the top slot Nathan. 

-Dr Wiley

New Legions Bundles on the Way

As previously announced, we will be introducing Legions skin, helmet, and voice pack bundles at a discount.  Above is the first of many and will be available later this week in August.

Congratulations to Hardstyle_Pete for entering the winning bundle submission.  Allow me to introduce Ra, the Egyptian Sun God Bundle!  This includes the Sentinel Gold Skin, Spike Helmet, and Tribes 2 Robot Voice Pack.  Unfamiliar with Egyptian mythology?  Edumicate yourself.

Facebook Issues Resolved

There were several reports that people had regarding the Legions app for Facebook and we are proud to report that these should now all be fixed.  

These include:

An infinite loading issue upon the first time of downloading the Legions app.

The leaderboards will now show more than the top 10 scores between your friends.  

Of course, let us know if you run into any other issues.

Legions on Facebook - Available Now!

Everyone here at InstantAction has been extremely busy working on the Legions Facebook App lately.  I wanted to run through some of the features that you can expect to see now that it is live.  At the bottom of this post you'll find the links to grab the app and get playing on Facebook.  Here we go!

Leaderboards - Compare your top times with others and see where you stand.
Map Flyovers - Each map has a flyover so you can see the obstacles.  Click for the videos.
Tutorial - Learn the ropes with this walk through of all the controls.
6 Maps - Including 4 completely new maps to time trials.
24 Routes - Each map has 4 different difficulty levels bringing the total amount of routes to 24.
New Beginner Routes - Having too much trouble with the harder routes?  Try something a little easier.

You can grab the app by clicking this link: Legions Facebook App

Get in there and start trying to grab those top times.  Invite your friends and see who's the best.

Thanks to everyone who worked on this to get it out the door.  It really looks great.

-Dr Wiley

UPDATE:

There are currently 2 know issues for which we are working on fixes :

If you experience an infinite "Downloading Now" screen, refreshing your browser should begin the download again properly.  This is a temporary fix, we will have a proper one soon.

The Leaderboards are currently not displaying more than the 10 top scores. We know how badly you want to show up your friends (I know I do) and are working to have a remedy in place ASAP.

Just hang in there guys!  In the meantime, head over to the Legions forums to discuss this monumental occasion!