Touhou Giveaways Recruitment [CLOSED / 14 SLOTS] [RESULTS]

Closed

00:33 - Archi: !9ball recruitment time?
00:33 - ArchiBoT: ⑨: It is certain
00:34 - Archi: !ai pick a number between 5 and 15
00:34 - ArchiBoT: 14

Quiet touhou music starts playing in the background...

What is Touhou Giveaways?

The Touhou Giveaways group was founded by Archi on February 18th 2015. We're small, ratio-based group, sharing the spirit of giving away and winning games on SteamGifts. You might already recognize us from awesome events that we organize from time to time.

We have implemented many unique features into the simple concept of a private giveaway group, and today we are probably the most "technologically advanced" group that exists on SG. The objective is simple: the group should be a nice addition to the SteamGifts community and should require no extra effort from the member. Therefore, apart from the group on Steam we have a bot, chat, website, userscript, mumble server, 2hu radio, you name it.

All group giveaways are tracked by our bot, which automatically handles everything - adding new giveaways to the database, tracking winners, calculating points and ratio, detecting current/finished giveaways, statistics, and more. We even reward members with our very own touhou achievements! Our group is fully automated, and thanks to that, our members can focus on creating and winning giveaways, instead of being forced to manually add them through the website or post links in a group thread. This way everybody is happy to make giveaways the same way as public or private ones, and ArchiBoT does everything else. We even created our own userscript which enhances further SG experience. All 2hus love it :3.

Basically you could say that the entire group is run by ArchiBoT, he even kicks people out of the group sometimes...

To make the precious data gathered by the bot available for the members, we also coded our very own Touhou Giveaways website, which acts as a "frontend" to the data gathered by the bot. Members can check their stats, ongoing giveaways, giveaways won and many other useful information we provide in a nice, fancy and modern way. Hell, we even have a shop with some extra neat features. Make your profile look great!

We're always actively working on improving our group even further. Many things are being added and improved as the time goes.

Group goals

Touhou Giveaways is not a typical giveaway group that can be found on SG - we're more like our own small community of people that like spending time with each other, be it by chatting, playing or discussing SG ~~rants~~ threads. We actively focus on the community aspect of the group - everybody knows each other, we chat together, play together and win giveaways together. If you treat SG group as a source of games only, or how I like to call it - "anonymous gifters", most likely this group is not for you.

I highly recommend joining us on the chat if you want to get more info, ask a question, or simply talk with us. Doing so will greatly increase your chances of joining, while at the same time finding out if you like our companionship or not :3. We don't force any member or candidate to stay on our chat for the entire time, but no interaction with group members apart from SG is rather discouraged and decreases your overall member potential. Show us that you care and you're really determined to join, and most likely you'll get rewarded for your effort.

Chat is always open for everybody, including our members, people interested in joining, as well as lurkers, eternal guests and those who simply like our companionship. Don't be afraid of joining if you'd like to, regardless if you want to join the group or not - everybody is welcome.

Members

We're looking for members who:

Fulfill all of our requirements (rules), that can be found on the website
Like our group concept, especially community-focus
Enjoy winning and giving away games in a nice, small group of friends
Being active in our Touhou group chat will be a great plus
Being "recognized" in SG discussions will be a plus
Having a good ratio on SG will be a plus
A recommendation from our members will be a plus (Touhou members may +1 candidates they'd like to see)

This is not popularity contest and +1s have no direct influence on any candidate getting recruited or not - it's only a nice indicator for us to see how our existing members feel towards given person. That's also why +1s given by non-2hu members have no value at all.

Please notice that those are only recommendations who we're looking for, you don't need to fill them all, as the only "real" requirement is having 2+ level on steamgifts, but due to the fact that there are always massive amount of people applying, the more you fit our concept of the member, the bigger the chance of you making it in. "Normies" are also accepted, you don't need to have any interest in Touhou to be eligible for joining.

If you consider yourself a good addition, do not wait any longer and try your luck. Tell us why you would like to join the group, and why you consider yourself as a good candidate. We accept applications in this thread, which doesn't have to be super-long or CV-like, but telling a few words about yourself is greatly appreciated.

After the deadline, all applications that meet initial requirements (rules) will be reviewed by our staff - candidates who get most points in our private staff voting will get an invite to the marvelous world of Gensokyo, together with introduction done by one of our staff members.

If you're still confused, check out how previous recruitment looked like. You can also read our introduction for new and interested members, which explains further group and various details, although if you make it in, you'll get more familiar with how things work. If you have some additional questions, it would be best if you joined our chat and asked - somebody for sure will be happy to answer, and explain in details particular subject you're interested in.

This recruitment

Currently we're looking for up to 14 new members.

Mandatory giveaway, open for everybody

Until the giveaway above ends, you're able to post your application. If you meet initial group requirement, you'll be listed as valid candidate (linked to your application) below. Being a candidate does not guarantee getting invited, that's also why there is no limit of candidates.

After the deadline, we'll organize inner group staff voting and pick lucky winners out of valid candidates, based on our sole discretion (which is based mostly on our expectations stated above).

If you decide to apply, please state it clearly so we won't have any doubts if you're interested in joining or just casually posting - we can't read people's minds yet. If you miss being considered as a candidate due to non-obvious comment, you'll be the only one to blame :3.

Good luck!

Candidates

In chronological order, updated from time to time.

Tchii
WarFerret
lhan
Mike90
berpergian
L4stM
edwintan23
PsychoApeMan
MonsieurSkull
ayuinaba
djnemonic
nsm0220
myselfpt
Semeicardia
Skull18
stfx2000
Samusx
Crossbourne
recu
shakeebthe1
Chazan
kergan3
lazie
Omicron666
Drevorn
TwixClub
mstrkllr
Melodyqt
Maulen
C0S
lorangbiter
juryman00
AwesomePossum50
Davenatic
Virose13
ercalote
Daedalus2788
MasterJunior
LadySanta
abc567
warlordmsm
ulvercarvalho
dracolany
Avantyr
vamptibor
Canuckrat

Voting finished!

Congratulations to:

Mike90 - 79
ayuinaba - 75
WarFerret - 56
dracolany - 44
Skull18 - 38
shakeebthe1 - 34
Omicron666 - 30
AwesomePossum50 - 29
Daedalus2788 - 27
Melodyqt - 27
C0S - 25
Semeicardia - 23
Tchii - 22
Crossbourne - 18
TwixClub - 17

Better luck next time:

MonsieurSkull - 15
juryman00 - 15
lhan - 15
myselfpt - 13
Vestvit - 13
Drevorn - 12
LadySanta - 11
stfx2000 - 11
Avantyr - 9
MasterJunior - 8
edwintan23 - 8
PsychoApeMan - 3

(Not listed candidates didn't get any points)

Our staff will contact with lucky winners and proceed with introduction :3. Thanks for your interest!

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