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Curse Network Contests: Lots of Blizzcon Tickets For Our Community!

DoranM — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:03:20 GMT

Curse has been given 3 Blizzcon tickets to giveaway to our community! Since authors make up a good portion of our community and give us so many great Addons we wanted to do something special this year for them! We've developed a contest that will test your abilities as an author and upon review possibly win you a ticket to Blizzcon 2009! There are also several other Curse Network contests available; listed at the end of this post!

Here's the official Curse Blizzcon Contest Announcement:

Hey beautiful people, ckknight here.

We at Curse.com are holding three contests for addon authors within the Curse Network (i.e. WowAce and CurseForge). The grand prize for each contest is a BlizzCon ticket. You'll be able to compete in all three contests, but you can only win one BlizzCon ticket total. We're also going to be providing Author Reward Points for runners-up.

Note: for the BlizzCon tickets, we won't be providing travel costs. You'll have to get to California on your own. Also, you need to be at least 18 years old.

The contests will run from now until June 15th, you can submit any time from here until then, and you can also revise your entries up until that point.

You can find the contests at http://beta.wowace.com/contests/. Yes, this is the beta site for WowAce, but it still should work fine, the contests system was easier to make with the new system than having to backport it. CurseForge authors shouldn't have a problem logging in or submitting entries.

We're hoping that by having these coding challenges, it'll be a bit more fun and interesting than giving out tickets to the top 3 authors or holding a simple raffle.

Other Curse Network Blizzcon Ticket Contests

WorldofRaids.com - Design a WoW License Plate Contest!

DiabloFans.com - Class Art, Lore, Skills Contests!

ArenaJunkies.com - Design an Arena Map Contest!

Rawrcast Set To Interview Curse Rep & Addon Developer Ckknight!

DoranM — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:34:24 GMT

Rawrcast has invited our very own ckknight to participate in an interview live on their Rawrcast this Saturday May 16th! We'll be discussing what's in store for Curse in the upcoming months, talking about our decision to offer a pay-based premium subscription, and more about addons and their development process! If you've spent time in our WoW Addons section you've probably seen some of knight's addon projects and if you're a developer you've definitely spent some time on CurseForge.com or WoWAce.com - This is a great chance to hear from the man himself and learn more about the Curse Network in general!

Here's the official notice from Rawrcast about the Curse Network Interview:

Curse Network on Rawrcast!

Our line-up of scheduled guests keeps growing!

In addition to having TotalBiscuit scheduled for May 30th, along with the gracious winner of the Child's Play Charity Auction... Another guest is being announced today!

Join us
Saturday, May 16th - Episode 19
as we welcome..

ckknight
Software Developer and Community Manager
Curse Network

Developer of hugely popular add-ons like:

FuBar

Cartographer

PitBull

Parrot

CowTip

Chinchilla

and many more

Learn what you can expect from Curse in the coming months.
Find out why Curse now offers a Premium pay-based Subscription
Are you interested in developing add-ons? Learn what you need to know!

In the meantime...
Catch this week's show
LIVE on Ustream
Saturday, May 9th @ 4 PM, CST
with charitable philanthropist
Brigwyn from The Hunting Lodge!

[Participate in this week's show, even if you can't make it LIVE
leave us a message , send an e-mail or leave your mark
on our discussion forums . Either way, let's hear your RAWR !]

Curse Network Downtime Thursday 3AM EST 12AM PST

DoranM — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:46:16 GMT

The Curse Network will experience downtime Thursday morning at 3AM EST. Our colocation facility is upgrading our routers. The downtime should last no longer than thirty minutes and then it's back to your regularly scheduled programming. Here's a list of your favorite sites that will be affected:

WarhammerAlliance.com
WoWAce.com
CurseForge.com
WoWDB.com
WARDB.com
AionSource.com
Diablofans.com

Thank you for your understanding and patience in ignoring our e-dust while we upgrade our hardware!