I will shortly explain the sail. If anything is wrong or missing pls write it into the comments.

-What is a Grand Prix?
+Modded version of the Chinese new year event for Summer Sale 2019. Teams are competing with the amount of money they spent on steam.

-What is there to achieve?
+You can join a team to compete with. The winning team will receive 300 games, 2. place 200 games, 3. place 100 games; 600 games in total which are going to be distributed randomly in the teams.

-What is a boost?
+Boost is spending up to 1000p for your team.

-How can I earn points?
+You can earn them by completing tasks given by steam; achievements of games you already collected can be redeemed as points if you have enough O-meter capacity, the rest of your points will disappear.

-How can increase my O-meter points?
+You will get some O-meter point at the beginning related to your purchase history so far (from the beginning of the Lunar new year event), each day you will get 100p extra, and also while spending money you can increase your O-meter points.

-I have used my capacity and now it is on 0, how can I reset it?
+Your O-meter points won't reset, this to prevent people from crafting endless badges or getting an infinite discount. (My idea)

-So, if my O-meter won't reset how can I get more?
+Purchase more and more...

-How much should I pay?
+Don't waste your money into games you won't play to get a %0.00000000000000000000001 chance of winning the game you want. Buy what you want instead of trying to win it.

-What is a pit stop?
+The place where you exchange your tokens for wp, extra discount, badge and emoji for the chat.

-How to get tokens?
+Boosting your team will give you tokens in exchange.

-Which team should I join
+Since it is unlikely to win a game instead of joining the winner team join the 2nd because the winning game has more people participating the chance is very low to get a team; not that I believe that you can win. Instead, try joining giveaways on steamgifts.
Or join the team according to the badge you want.

-My friend spent around 50$ he got more O-meter capacity whereas I spent 500$ how is this possible?
+This sale is like Fallout 76. Bugs are everywhere. There are people with infinite O-meter capacity.

-Does Gaben care about the bugs
+Maybe, maybe not

Hope this helps a bit.


Update 29.06.19

Complete these special Qualifier Tasks to increase your max points!
Each completed task increases your max points by 500, enabling you to complete Grand Prix Quests and claim Achievements below.
+Play a new game
+Review a game
+Add 3 items to your wishlist
+Watch a broadcast

Corgi nerfed, other teams buffed:
Hare: Multiplier of 0.02318937799
Tortoise: Multiplier of 0.01206381834
Corgi: Multiplier of 0.001473809
Cockatiel: Multiplier of 0.01644663899
Pig: Multiplier of 0.0258657815225226649


Update 30.06.19

You can now change your team and receive 1000 max points for doing so. Note that valve decides which team you are going to join.

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Though, the sale event games are never good.

I kind of disagree, I usually found at least a small amount of enjoyement in the event minigames. This event though... this event is trully something else >_<

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Yes the event sucks :))

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I'm glad it helped some people :)

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I started with -11,400 points, after buying a small game. Haven't paid much attention since finding that number, why bother?

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If you contact Steam support they'll likely compensate you for the negative, they did it for me. I was -2200 at the start.

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Sorry for a stupid question, but where did you file a ticket? I can't find a category that even remotely works.

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No question is stupid :)

I couldn't find a suitable category either but I just went to https://help.steampowered.com/en/ and then via Steam Community > I need help with something not listed here. > Contact Steam Support

Seems they don't really mind because I got a pretty fast reply too

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Thanks. (Some questions are stupid, though I think mine isn't that bad - sort of at the edge!) I was having trouble navigating any of the support menu trees to a place where I could file a ticket, eventually found one on Account Data. Support answered fairly quickly. I mentioned that I thought the lack of a clear way to file a ticket was a worst-practice approach to customer service, and they said they'd pass that to the right department.

For the rest, they explained the rules to me and said that since I'd successfully used a boost, my account must be working. No points refunded. /shrugs

I figured out that playing any Steam game for 30 minutes gives points for all past achievements, so I rousted up a couple of games I played heavily a couple of years ago and I'm now in the positive. It's a little weird that some people started thousands of points in the red and others started thousands of points in the black, but whatever. From the total dominance of the Corgi team from the very start, I can only assume that this is designed even more poorly than I think it is.

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I think the best way would be to say that no question is stupid as long as the intent is genuine, if that makes sense.

my account must be working

Did you actually clearly explain that you started your token balance in the negative? A lot of Steam support is outsourced to people who don't take their jobs very seriously and try to get off easy with unrelated copy paste answers.

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I did, and then submitted a "we're not done yet" ticket with a screenshot of the negative balance. We'll see if that does anything.

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they wont for me can you show me the support replys?

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"Having to use the boosts to make up the negative was unintended. I have since fixed your total to account for the lost points. 3035 points have been added to your Max Point capacity total."

That's what they said after I explained I had to use 3 boosts to get my token balance out of the negative

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yeah they reply to me today saying sorry and refund me the 27k points. but toke me 4 days with lots f denys

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My capacity increase on 100 every day, but I can only use the 100 that i got, not what already have plus 100. ( Don't know if I explained it right)

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if you used points to boost your team your capacity decreases.
If your capacity was set to zero, even if you haven't used points, leave a ticket at the steam support.

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This is not SIMPLE !

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at least I tried man.

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I know and i appreciate it ! But still playing game and making "tasks" and doesen\t count seems bugged to me ! I do not intend to be rude to you :D

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awesome explanation, thanks a lot mate

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u r welcome

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is there any difference between Quests?
PLAY THESE GAMES YOU OWN vs PLAY THESE PARTICIPATING GAMES vs PLAY ANY GAME WITH STEAM ACHIEVEMENTS
til now i did the last one only, it is already enough to fill my speed capacity.

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  1. Free crappy points.
  2. Pay a ton of cash for crappy points.
  3. Ton of points for any shovelware you have that just needs idling.

The first 2 seem to made for poor souls who don't understand their system to waste their life. Or it is just poorly thought out like everything else this event.

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both r the same

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I guess the multiplier is based on the ranking the day before. Guess it will be Corgi last and then Corgi first from now on...

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12,556 ΠΟΝΤΟΙ ΩΘΗΘΗΚΑΝ / 12,339 ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΙ ΠΟΝΤΟΙ

How can my thrusted points be more than my max?

Also a suggestion, I think the games that participate should be changed daily...

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Childs numbers ! :D
84,000 POINTS BOOSTED / 12,022 MAX POINTS
but i boosted more around 150.000points :D
and i get 0 points while the max points is 2k higher than my overall token :P

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Childs numbers?! My max points are still more than yours! :)
Even so, it doesn't make sense. It even stops you from spending money (which is good!)

Also I started with negative points so my tokens are half right now, around 7k, oh well.

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i meant the boosted points number :D
But i boosted at 7pm instantly while the site did go down and literally all of my tokens except the laast 4,4k are from purchases
If you dont have enough capacity you will gain 100capacity at 7pm but you get plus 1000bosted points :P
before there was no difference between bosted points .
The event overall is still a buggy mess i couldnt even claim the tokens today if i wouldnt have changed my language to english :D

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What? So my native language is to blame here?! Oh this event is worse than I thought by faaaaaaaaaaaar

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Officially this is the messiest mess.

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Damn so right now I have less points boosted than max points but I can only claim 100 from the daily increase of max pool and I used all of my available points so those 2 pools should be just 100 points apart..
Damn it Valve this is buggy as hell :(

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Who still wants Half life 3 with as many bugs as this event? :)

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Same here. Bugs, bugs everywhere...

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Valve got money got people to do but they really do like this school project.
Can't they hire someone which good enough to do this kind of things and then tested it first before launch.
They know summer sales is on what date, they can prepare early. This is not something like suddenly come out from mind then need to complete in 2 weeks.
Dunno why someone able to claim those discount x3 times. Whether they got bugged max point or they spend that much to increase that max point for it.

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So now they nerfed us? WTF? Maybe they should have limited number of people per team or something?
Or maybe they should have kept the progress day to day secret so that the teams who aren't winning wouldn't just give up? Because that's the problem here, right?

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Update 30.06.19

You can now change your team and receive 1000 max points for doing so. Note that valve decides which team you are going to join.

I've searched the GP page but I couldn't find how to change the team. On the other hand, should I do it? I'm on team Corgi. What benefit is there besides getting 1000 extra "O-meter points"?

PS: This event sucks.

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You will have badge for Corgi + your new team (which means extra 100xp for your steam lvl). it's right below the progression steal buttons. Something green.

Additionally, in an effort to balance team sizes for the event, we are rolling out a new random drop: Switch Teams. Once received, players will find it below the Attack buttons on their dash. Clicking this button will randomly re-assign you to a different team while also granting you 1000 more max points so you can complete quests and claim achievements for your new team. No need to use it, though if you are interested in making a switch you will need to act soon, as this one-time offer will expire within 48 hours of receiving it.
-CHRISTEN

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Additionally, in an effort to balance team sizes for the event, we are rolling out a new random drop: Switch Teams. Once received

Aaaaaaah, you need to randomly receive the "switch teams" drop (I dind't receive it so I don't have that option). Do you get those random drops without boosting your team? If you only receive them by boosting your team and your O-meter is already max out... I guess you're screwed...

PS: This event sucks. A lot.

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actually evryone I know received the switch button, dunno what triggers the drop if it's totally random is also not clear(who knows what's actually behind this). I haven't heard of anyone winning a game from that drops anyway, so your team is probably not important.

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if you swap teams you'll most likely be on pig since they have the lest people and maybe a small chance for hare

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Yesterday I had 100 points left to earn for boosts, so I let it be, figuring if I waited till another +100 to my cap, I'd waste fewer points, but I didn't end up getting extra cap. So today before the reset I did a 100 point boost and voila, +100 added to my cap. Maybe it's a glitch or maybe you don't get the daily +100 unless you're maxed out before reset? Either way this event continues to be a mess alright XD

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every day you'll get 100 but if you don't use it it will not stack. in fact i think you lose all points you didn't use up at the end of each day.

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if some one want to boost their badge level just buy cs:go keys from the store (not market) then sell them on the market. you'll lose about 9cent per badge level.

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