Hello everyone,

tired of the Golden Joystick hype? Of WG EU community shoving it down your throat?

Well, here’s a competition just for you then :) You see, thanks to generous donation of player Takato, I have here two bonus codes for 7 day prem + 1000g (Gamescom codes – please note this code will NOT work if you redeemed one code of the same type already).

Your task is simple: create a picture (I don’t care what size, if it’s a poster or an avatar) mocking Wargaming and Golden Joystick competition. Its motives can include (but are not limited to) a Donkey, Stalin, WG cheating the competition with bot votes, SerB – or anything else you can think of.

One abovementioned code will go to the funniest picture, the second will go to a randomly selected participant :) The results will be published. There are no serious rules, but stay within at least basic decency limits (can’t publish it if there’s a huge donkey dick across the whole picture for example).

Important: Send your submission to this address:

competitionftr@centrum.cz

You have until Sunday (competition ends on 6.10.2013, 23:59 CEST). Don’t forget to write your nickname!

Hello everyone,

once again, Wargaming EU (or possibly NA?) fails with the special weekend events. You know, I wouldn’t even notice or care about that that, were it not for Ectar and his big proclamations on how the US and EU weekend specials would be the same.

This weekend Sputnik Special:

European version:

American version:

No 50 percent premium discounts for you, Europeans! As for the Americans having the “Earning your Steel” mission extra – that’s alright, that event was apparently shifted by one week forward for US server. Apparently, WG is “looking into it“.

In any case, the point of this fail is not to show WG can’t synchronize events, the point is “don’t make loud proclamations and then screw it up”.

Hello everyone,

so, uh, I checked the special event for the weekend and one thing really hit me: Sputnik? What the hell? What does Sputnik satellite have to do with tanks? Who makes up this stuff?

Anyway, so I guess there is nothing to “celebrate” (or – more like – remember) this weekend? Oh, wait, that’s right. On Sunday, it’s the 40th anniversary of the beginning of one of the most destructive conflicts after World War 2, the Yom Kippur War!

Yea, the biggest armor clashes since Kursk, including one of the most famous tank warfare events in history (Zvika Greengold’s one-tank rampage, fully comparable to the legendary Villers Bocage action of Michael Wittman) are surely totally insignificant compared to fucking Sputnik.

Anyway, so I checked the October calendar again. You know, there was this thought in my mind: last year, WG remembered German Unification and Polish Independence, so uhhhh… where is the Czechoslovak Independence Day, celebrated on 28.10.? With Czechoslovak community being 3rd largest in WoT EU and Czechoslovakia being World’s biggest arms (including armor) exporter in early 30′s, I kinda thought they’d remember. Or Hungarian, French, Italian and other events? Is it such a problem to actually include such events instead of a fucking Sputnik? It’s not like WG doesn’t have time to prepare such stuff in advance.

Anyway, rant over. This weekend I think I’ll write a special on Yom Kippur.

Hello everyone,

as some of you might have noticed, the 8.9 KTTS video showed us the new upcoming Chinese light tank Type 64 (more about its history here). Only one problem: it’s a Taiwanese vehicle, but in the movie it has a PRC emblem:

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As usual, some EU invite codes from CD-Action this morning (1000g, 3 days of prem) :)

Players, who donated: x_Eskel_x, Xardas060

Codes:

PKR29S-74S5X3
PKR29E-72V9F6

Edit: both used

New 8.9 North-West minimap

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Hello everyone,

Russian 8.9 ASAP video is up, you can watch it here:

In it:

- in 8.9 German TD’s will come, new map, and 7/42 companies, 3 premium vehicles

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New map (North-West) – official WG description:

This rustic, rural location may have been a peaceful, agricultural haven at one time, but these days, it is only host to hostile machinery. Northwest features a scenic, pastoral setting marked by farm equipment and open fields.

This map provides a good variety of high and low hotspots, as well as plenty of camouflage opportunities, as the map is peppered with trees. Don’t get too distracted by the scenery, because getting caught in the open on Northwest is a recipe for destruction.

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Hello everyone,

in last month, there was a huge influx of readers for FTR, on some days in truly unexpected numbers. I’d like to thank you all for your continued support!

For those who are new here: there is a For the Record Facebook page, where I am posting less important info, quick updates and other stuff, so the blog itself is not spammed too much. If you want the quickest updates on everything or are simply wondering “what’s taking so long today”, chances are the answer is there.

As always, I’d like to thank everyone who switched their Adblock off for this page, you guys keep the page going, literally. If you haven’t switched the Adblock yet, well – that’s up to you of course, I won’t urge you to change this. But it helps me.

And of course, if someone doesn’t want to bother with Adblock, but would like to contribute either way, the Paypal Donate button is in the upper right corner :)

Seriously though, all support (even words) is greatly appreciated. Thank you everyone!

-SS