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Yo, guys (and gals), I've been listening to what you've been saying about the site's new app bar, and I have some news for you regarding it.

First off, you can now minimize the chat room (and consequently a lot of the other apps because of the way the functionality was written). To do this, you should click the button circled in the picture below:

It's real easy. You'll still hear the chat indicator sound (unless you have clicked the mute button, also in the pic above) if you have the chat minimized, and the bar will look something like the following picture:

You'll notice the chat link is colored differently (with the new site accent color you may have noticed in the activity feed seperation). Chat is not the only window that can be minimized, and the button is in a similar location on the windows that can. Fairly soon, individual IMs will be added to that list of windows that can be minimized, but for the time being, that feature has not been implemented yet. Remember that a minimized app (like chat) will only remain active for as long as you stay on the current page. It is being worked on, however, and a fix is expected soon.

Also, smilies have been re-added to the chat room, and fairly soon, I will have all the custom smilies you know and love from the forums available there as well.

One more thing I've heard from people is that some people love the IM indicator sound, and some people don't. And some people want to be able for a sound to come when one person says something, and not play a sound when someone else talks. So, check this out, now, in an IM, highlight the person's name as in the picture below and you will have some available options:

From that menu, you can browse to the same page on the site your buddy is looking at, go to his/her profile and check out their hot pics or whatever, or turn the sound off for this individual.

Thanks for reading, hope you like the new features.

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The CerealKillaz MTGO Game Mat Design Contest (ends 3/8/10)!

You want to win some prizes for some easy work? This article is for you!

The way to enter the contest is simple, follow these steps:

1. Create a CerealKillaz-themed game mat that you feel represents CerealKillaz and is visually appealing to you while playing MTGO.
2. Go to this thread and submit your game mat in a post.

The way the winners will be decided will be as follows:

A panel of judges will be chosen and announced no less than one week before the closing date of the contest (03/08/10).

The judges will judge the entries on the following criteria (points available in each category listed in parentheses afterward):

1. Visual Appeal (20 points)
2. Originality (15 points)
3. CerealKillaz Themed (35 points)
4. Flavor (15 points)
5. Usability (15 points)

These criteria will be defined by the judges as they see fit to award points in them.

The entry with the highest total (out of a possible 100 points) will be declared the winner.

The prizes will be (list will be updated as donations come in, to donate to the prize pool, contact meuslix):

• Inclusion of your playmat in the CerealKillaz skin.
• A medal in the Awards column on the CK roster.
• 5 tickets (donated anonymously)

Those are the prizes I have so far, and I assure you that more are on the way, but you can't get a special medal in the awards column on the CK roster very often, so that's a pretty good one there.

I do need volunteers to be judges, so if you are interested in that duty, please let me know.

thanks for reading,

- meuslix

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Look, EVERYONE, read this blog! This is important. Don't get caught not reading this.

Just so everyone knows, the thing is this: Wizards of the Coast has removed the limitations on the number of people that can be in a clan at any given time. The limit is endless now. They have yet to give us any information about further improvements (like the abilities for multiple recruiters, etc in the same clan chapter, etc.), so it is going to be a slow go. I would really like to try to get us all in the same chapter in-game. I think it would go a long way towards making us a unified group. So, we have some questions, and we should talk about them, and maybe come up with some more before we really decide to take any steps.

1. Should we keep multiple chapters?
2. Do we need to consolidate?
3. Should we wait until further information on future clan organizational tools to be released before moving forward?
4. If we consolidate into one chapter, how long should we let the process take?

Those are the ones I can think of right now. I am not sure of further ones. I am going to make a corresponding forums post for this topic. Feel free to discuss there or in the comments section on this blog. I NEED YOUR HELP! Please remember not to be pissed off later when things do not get done and noone listened to your ideas if you do not give your ideas to the group now during the planning stages of this bold move into our future.

The forums post is located here:

http://www.cerealkillaz.org/forums/?page=post&id=3B723A7E-6204-4641-946D-DAA2D587F77F&fid=350877

thanks.

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