Some months ago Bob27 developed a powerful forum avatar selection system for our Hive.

Since that time however, no new avatars have been added. New anime and Starcraft categories have now been included to provide our users with a wider variety of avatar choices!

Everyone is encouraged to comment on the new avatars and also to post hyperlinks to other forum avatars that they think should be included. Enjoy!

<center><B>The Hive Workshop

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Contest Updates
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37820"><img src="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/resources_new/files_img/icons_4178_btn.jpg" width="40" height="40" />»»» Texturing Competition #4</a> has begun!
Skinning gladiators are now competing to re-skin the formidable Chaos Warrior!</li>

<li><a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37973">Cinematic Contest #1 Results</a> prove that <a href=http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/member.php?u=127595">Jaakko</a> has emerged triumphant!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37329">Phoenix Trial #2</a> The poll results are in: <a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/member.php?u=122052">Herio-san</a> is the victor!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37844">Terraining Challenge!</a> Polling to determine the Dalaran Tileset Maser will continue through August 14.</li>
<li> <a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37231">Map Development Mini-Contest</a> Continues in the Map Development Forum. The aim of the contest is to try and create a TD, from a Template Map in 4 weeks.</li>
<li><a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36708";>Paired Mapping Contest</a> has had an excellent start, with over 30 Pairs all entered in the Contest, however theres still room for more entries, so if you want to enter visit the thread.</li>
<li><a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36940">Mini-Game Contest Voting</a> ragingspeedhorn has emerged victorious, congratulations!</li>
<li><a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36481">Texturing Competition #3 Results</a> The Poll for Texturing Contest #3 has closed: the winner of the poll is <a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/member.php?u=129536">Denu</a>, congratulations!</li></ul>

<center><B>New Hosted Projects!</B></center>

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<B>Arilen's Tale</B>

Arilen's Tale is The Hive's latest hosted project! It's a Cinematic Series that takes place in a World where there is a Civil War going on between Wizards and Necromancers. An adventurer named Arilen finds a strange Orb in a ruin unaware of what he has just found.

<a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=470">Explore Arilen's Tale!</a></center>


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<B>Pirate Tag</B><center>
ragingspeedhorn has just got his newly released map Hosted here, Pirates Tag! Pirates Tag is an innovative multi player mini-game/tag map for up to 10 players. Gamers control the action with the keyboard keys IJKL instead of using the mouse. A simple but fun map for everyone to enjoy.You can head over to his forum <a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=463"> Here</a>.


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Reinventing the Craft</B></center>
MindWorX has also begun Reinventing the Craft! RtC is a project that aims to add more functionality to Warcraft III, while at the same time keep it a low size, so it's still usefull for mappers. RtC will be available for any type of mod, be it a map or a mod, or even a Total Conversion.

Help reinvent the craft!
Read the <a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37335">interview</a>. Enter the <a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37100"> Mini-Contest</a>.
Participate in the project <a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=458"> Here</a>.

I am glad to announce that The Paired Mapping Contest for the Hive Workshop has just started! The deadline for the contest is the 30th of September, so that should be plenty of time for people to get a map together.

Position	Prize
First Place	50 rep + Award Icon
Second place	30 rep
Third Place	10 rep

Feel free to enter the contest, or to read more about it in This Thread.

<center><a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=293"><B>The Hive Workshop's

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Challenge Arena</B></a>

Has been reopened!</center>

<li><a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36684";target="_blank";>Rules & Guidelines</a> are now posted in the forum.</li>
<li><a href="http://hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36683"; target="_blank"; >Challenge Form</a> will be used by provocateurs to challenge others.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36686"; target="_blank";>Challenge Section - Ask the Hive</a> the community may ask questions and provide feedback here.</li></ul>

<center>The entire staff hopes that the new system will prove fun and productive.

Who's going to be first to drop the gauntlet?</center>

Hello everyone!
I have managed to implement campaign uploads within the map uploads page. Please try it yourself and tell us what you think?
It is still very new and there might be some bugs, try it out and tell us

Ralle