Touhou Giveaways Recruitment [CLOSED / 10 SLOTS] (results!)

qngage: we have recruitment soon?! aye!!
Asimmacovski: purging chat before recruitment
MaduRUDE: recruitment?
Khy - See You Hyrule Cowtrap...: MaduRUDE: recruitment?
Miku: Yep, recruitment... when?
Windu | 時崎 狂三: ːspeakː is recruitment today
Windu | 時崎 狂三: ːdoubtː so where is recruitment
Miku: Yeah, where is recruitment? I need fresh blood to leech my trash ːbiteː

Ladies and Gentleman

Quiet Touhou Swing starts playing in the background for jbondguy007...

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, daily gaming sessions, touhou radio, you name it.

All group giveaways are tracked by our bot, which automatically handles everything - adding new giveaways to the database, spotting winners, calculating points and ratio, detecting current/finished giveaways, preparing statistics, and much more. We even reward members with our very own touhou achievements for winning giveaways! Our group is fully automated, and thanks to that, our members can focus on having fun with creating and winning giveaways, instead of being forced to manually add them through the website or post links in some kind of 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, it's really awesome.

Basically you could say that we're having fun while the entire group is run by ArchiBoT... :3

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, points and many other useful information we provide in a nice, fancy and modern way. We even have a shop with some extra neat features, where you obtain coins by participating in giveaways and earning achievements. Capitalism, ho!

We're always actively working on improving our group even further. Many things are being added and improved as the time goes. It's not possible to list them all, as we're constantly bringing up new ideas how to further enhance our group and ensure that it's the best possible SG group experience that can ever happen to SG user.

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. We don't force any member or a 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 that you're really determined to join, and most likely you'll get rewarded for your effort. Let's say it's kinda "hard" to get an invite, considering the amount of people that want to make it in, so if you want to join, you will need to shine above average candidate. And no, we do not judge you based on SG ratio, number of giveaways, or a level. In fact, we're up for inviting people we can have nice chat and fun with, rather than L10 "generous gifters" that consider themselves elite above everybody else. Remember - community first, giveaways second.

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, and it's a great place to make some new friends. Why not give it a try?

Members expectations

We're looking for members who:

• Fulfill all of our requirements (rules), that can be found on the website. Most are affecting you the moment you join, but it's important to know what you can expect before you decide to apply
• Like our group concept, especially community-focus. If you'd like to meet some new friends while having great fun winning giveaways, this group might be just for you
• Enjoy winning and giving away games in a nice, small group of friends. CV is not everything, and if you're seeing a group as a pure source of games exchange, this group might not be for you.
• Being active in our Touhou group chat will be a great plus - this is the primary way of group interaction, and it's greatly appreciated if we can see that you care enough to join us on usual basis and casual talk
• Being "recognized" in SG discussions will be a plus, as it's a direct sign that you care about the community, definitely not a mandatory pre-requirement
• Having a good ratio on SG will be a small plus, as we can be sure you're not here only to leech
• A recommendation from our members will be a plus (Touhou members may +1 candidates they'd like to see making it in)

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-group members have no value at all, so please avoid them if possible.

Please notice that those are only "guidelines" who we're looking for, you don't need to fill all of them, as the only "real" requirement is having 2+ level on steamgifts, but due to the fact that there is always a 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, anime or anything else to be eligible for joining - it's you as a person that matters, and if you like our companionship. We're here to have a great time together, ArchiBoT is in charge of making it possible to happen :3.

If you consider yourself a good addition, do not wait and try your luck, as next recruitment will be not sooner than in 3 months from now. 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. The more effort you put into this, the bigger the chance you'll make it in, and this is why you're here in the first place, so make it count!

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. We will slowly introduce you into our community and teach everything you need to know to have a great fun not only on SG, but on Steam as well.

This is not a speed-run - we choose new recruits after the deadline, so it's very usual case to see over 30+ people applying for 10 slots that we prepared in the group. That's pretty normal, so don't be afraid of posting, we're looking for quality, not quantity - position on the list doesn't matter at all.

If you're confused, or you'd like to take a look how our previous recruitment looked like, please click here. 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, so don't have an impression like it's hard because of this wall of text - I can assure you that it's not!

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. You can also ask in the thread if you'd like to.

Bunch of useful links:
Website | Members | Rules | Introduction | Steam chat | Steam group | SG stats

This recruitment

Currently we're looking for up to 10 new members.

Here you can find a giveaway, open for everybody

The deadline for posting an application is equal to the time above giveaway ends. 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. Feel free to check previous recruitment linked above if you want to see how it works in detail.

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). When the voting ends, all results will be announced, together with list of people that made it in. If you were chosen, you can expect a friend invite on Steam from one of our staff members soon.

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, and won't attempt to do so. 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.

BarbaricGenie
GodFeelling
eeev
gamecreature
mikagee
TioSony
Otsenin
recrypter
lior9905
KingJZ
Kaiserlucas
Shinigamihero
DeltaBladeX
PsychoApeMan
TaigoWilliams
Sa6peto
welcomewilly
m0rphz
Andrewski
Ryahn
clemmy
sheepblack69
superpigsam
kurikinton
leonidas56
lhan
ambidot
valvin
devotee
juryman00
TheGamingWomble
xelco
jpdefo
trunks10k
PeteOzzy
theemu
GrimPhantasia
Rimberse
heilurmes
BlueLightning42
caitsith2
Veckpreb

Voting is over!

We calculated all of our staff votes and picked people that got the most points. The list is ordered alphabetically, without disclosing actual points order. Congratulations!

Andrewski
BarbaricGenie
BlueLightning42
DeltaBladeX
KingJZ
Otsenin
PeteOzzy
Ryahn
TaigoWilliams
Veckpreb
ambidot
eeev
heilurmes
m0rphz
theemu

Our staff will contact with lucky candidates and proceed with the introduction. Thank you very much for your interest, and see you during next recruitment/event! :3

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