The member who moves up the most number of spots in the user list this month by improving their VD will win this contest! Winner gets to pick a game outright from my gift inventory.

Details on our Steam forum post


Its crazy to think it will be 1 year ago this month that the guild first showed up on SG! It has been fun gathering a group of great gifters for what started out as an experiment, and its been great to see it grow to what it has become. I hope the flexibility, reasonableness, and generosity of the group is as much of a breath of fresh air for you as it has been for me.
One of the core goals I had for this group was for there to be just enough giveaways & members for most good giveaways to get 5+ entries, and I am proud to say this has been true of good giveaways for quite a while now but is also true on average overall.

• In the next month or so, I hope to put together a bunch of charts that show what our group giveaway trends have been like. Then with that in mind, I want to get your feedback in a poll I will make about what rules should be updated/added, which I will consider when...
  
• I update the rules to reflect how much its grown
  
• Let me know if you are interested in becoming an officer/mod. It would be a good way to start the guild's next year.

Stay awesome and stay well!

-RenegadeMaster

Balancing Act Guild's December contest is live!

Its basically total points/$ given times number of copies for $6+ exclusive giveaways. Details on our Steam forum: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/BAGuild/discussions/1/1743386555596326391/

Have ideas for future contests? We want to hear them on this forum thread: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/BAGuild/discussions/1/3963662189542391311/

I am looking to add at least one Steam group officer to help out with running the guild: Periodically check that giveaways are following our rules, help with recruiting, and when I am briefly unavailable handle contest results & purge stuff.

See the new discussion thread for more details and how to apply.

Thanks,
Renegade

Starting today, half of your guild GAs can also include your whitelist. We are still NOT allowing multiple group GAs.

Don't worry about average entries because all rules+FAQ about that have been removed.

In general, do not be afraid to enter GAs unless you win a few hundred $ more in GAs than what you give.

Only one person with the worst negative VD (Sept=-$446.45) gets purged every month.


* This should help increase # of GAs with 5+ entries and decrease # of GAs with 0 entires. Current entries statistics have likely discouraged creation of more GAs.
* More people wanted whitelist GAs (40%) instead of other options in a guild poll about what should be changed: Multiple group GAs (30%), limiting GAs with bad reviews (17%), or change nothing (13%)
* Attract new recruits
* Guild+Whitelist GAs are easier to track and less likely to increase entries as much as groups

Moderation Log has details on exactly what parts of the rules and FAQs have changed, plus info on the September purge: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/BAGuild/discussions/0/


The winner this month was MeisterLeuchte thanks to their 5 giveaways with a huge 26 average entries (contest score of 68.6)! This week they will receive one game outright from my gift inventory, and will be crowned the Steam group's "Player of the Week".

Here were our runners up that also had high demand exclusive giveaways:
Whitemage87 = 16.4 (2 GAs at 19 average entries)
FifflarenVintage = 15 (1 GA at 28 average entries)
cals7 = 12.3 (4 GAs at 11.3 average entries)
logvip08 = 12 (12 GAs at 8.3 average entries)

-For GAs ending between Oct 1 00:00 and Oct 31 23:59 Eastern Time.
-Whitelist giveaways with the group are counted if they do not exceed half of your created giveaways during October. If whitelist GAs are more than half, then that member will be disqualified.
-Only giveaways worth 6 points/$ each or higher will qualify
-GAs and members must follow the other group rules to qualify, including the "be reasonable" rule.

To win this month's contest it still requires a combination of high entries and multiple giveaways, but now people can create some Whitelist giveaways.

Details and updates will be posted here: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/BAGuild/discussions/1/1630790987577414686/

Vote here on a major rule update: https://strawpoll.com/7sgrrh88

I will be considering rule updates next month to help prevent more GAs with 0 entries and provide even more flexibility with gifting. So make your opinion known in the poll.

You can try to avoid this by searching the group wishlist first: https://www.steamgifts.com/group/3JcQV/baguild/wishlist
Also, stats prove that gifting higher reviewed or higher value games are more likely to get more entries.


September's contest has the same rules as August's contest. The contest rewards a balance of high number of giveaways ($6 or more) and high number of entries: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/BAGuild/discussions/1/2692512878718167191/
The winner will receive one game outright from my gift inventory, and will be crowned the Steam group's "Player of the Week" for the whole month.
In August, the winner Whitemage87 had 4 GAs with 23 average entries, resulting in a contest score of 60. They chose 911 Operator.

**Sept 2019 Contest Standings** (as of Sept 15)
MeisterLeuchte = 77.4
FifflarenVintage = 16.9
Geralt28 = 10.9
Georgeous = 10.5
Whitemage87 = 8.9

The formula basically determines how much your GAs for the month positively contribute to overall Average Entries.


Check your stats here: https://www.steamgifts.com/group/3JcQV/baguild/users/search?page=4
August purge was one user with -$353.69 Value Diff.

**Don't be too worried about entering more GAs** unless you have Value Diff worse than -$200 or recently won 50+ games from us.

See our Moderation Log for details on who was purged and such: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/BAGuild/discussions/0/1642044369658605413/