oh! Hello there ☺
I, am alphacore!

If you are reading this post, you are either:
[A]: a random MINION that wandered in from search.
[B]: a random BOT that wandered in through data.
(or) [C]: a 'beginner' CHAMPION of CEO arriving to the forums of CHAOS.

If you don't know what [C] is, then you are probably '[A]' Minion...ha!
If you do know what [C] is, then you are among the chosen few. . . HauntedArmor!

( Welcome Champions, to the new CEO Forums )

(did you take a chaos portal to get here?)

In favor of your chess forum skills, I have decided to automagically upgrade you from 'beginner' to 'novice'.

Hooray!

In this place,
you can be rewarded directly for posts, comments, voting, and more.
It is enough, simply, to upvote something and you could earn a little penny.
It is also enough, to make a funny joke, and you get $100.
Are your piecemaker skills any good?
Hmmmm! Interesting!

Ok, then listen up, nooblord:
You have a tutorial to complete here.
This place is not the forums you know and love. ☹
This is a place of nonsense and scams, ☹
bot armies and exploitation, ☹
and posting-gamification... ☺

You think you're good at [games]?!
Not yet, you aren't.
But you will be.
('novice', +25)

Here is the deal:
You'll never have MY kind of crowns as a 'novice'... you know?
and they'll never have OUR kind of crowns as a minion... YOU KNOW???

Learn this closely:
This place has a unique attribute where people in tightly knit groups amplify each other and compound over time. Every vote gives someone else more permanent voting power, and every vote you gain gives you more permanent voting power. So all of those times you could have voted on a forum post you were reading would circle back around to you and suddenly amount to enough to buy Chess Dynasties, or whatever that megapack is called in Favor Chess.

Yes, you read that right.
You can BUY other CEO games by participating in this new 'CEO Forum'.

☆ Steem Power = Crowns.
☆ Dollars, generated as Royal Power.
☆ Crowns, gained as Contribution.

You are literally trained for this.

And now you understand why you're not a 'beginner'.
Hooray!
(Novice +100)

This all means that in addition to ingame functions of crowns/contribution we also begin to have external influence.
The stronger the CEO community becomes here, the more this entire blockchain bends to our will. And as a small bonus to all of us, this blockchain has massive rating in Search Engines. No, you don't need someone marketing your chess evolved game and wanting you to pay them, you instead need the CEO community posting about it - here, and getting paid to do it - by votes from the community.

You want to shill CEO2?

GET PAID TO DO IT. (Expert +1)

You want to complain about VoidMage?

GET PAID TO DO IT. (Novice, +25)

You want to talk shit about Grand?

GET PAID TO DO IT. (Expert +1)

You want RP->RP trades?

HOW ABOUT RP->$$$ TRADES? (Novice, +25)

You want contribution for pieces?

HOW ABOUT $$$ FOR PIECES? (Novice, +25)

You want to set REAL bounties?

HOW ABOUT I PUT $50 ON THIS CONTEST USING MY STEEM ACCOUNT? (Expert +1)

You want to PLAY THE GAME OF KINGS???

THEN IT IS CEO — OR NOTHING!

For those few that passed the magic forum filters,
here is the prelude:
In this [game], we are the army, and everyone else is the enemy.
Initially, our entire mission is primarily to strengthen the entirety of the CEO community.
This means upvoting each others posts and comments, but also:
actually making them to begin with.
(Novice, +25)

We will do this to progressively increase our own collective power, and funnel it into:
❖ guides = $$$
❖ piecemakers = $$$
❖ tournaments = $$$
❖ minigames = $$$
❖ challenges = $$$
or anything else that uses crowns.
our comments gaining a bit of power, is also good.

You can still gain crowns and contribution as normal, except now you may also find yourself having a small paycheck somewhere down the line, by chance... but this is not the primary incentive - {YET}
(Novice, +50)

So!
Are you ready to break all social structure stigma surrounding super serious standardized rules of a normal game forum, and try an 'Evolved' community concept?
Then, it's time for you to join, and stop acting like [A] minion.

Joining will seem like a pain at first, I know,
but you will make it through to the other side.
Everything may seem alien, and there is a system shock about to occur, but it won't take long for you to rank up.
Who knows, maybe you are secretly a Master of #CEO!

CEO CHAMPION 'RULES':

rule 0 - https://steemit.com/trending/hive-135459

NEW FORUM LINK
BOOKMARK IT NOW
DO IT NOW
AND SUBSCRIBE TO IT AFTER JOINING THIS CONTEST

rule (1) - use a CEO/CEO2/FC/CD/etc. avatar here, or risk looking like a minion.

rule (2) - use 'ceo' tag and other related tags for posts in CEO Champion's Gate community for all relevant CEO/chess 'posts'. (threads)

rule (3) - always primarily upvote others with a CEO avatar, to become exponential. Voting 10 times or less per day has no penalty, so do this often.

rule (4) - always primarily follow others with a CEO avatar, for reasons that will become obvious later.

rule (5) - do not explain to random minions 'what are CEO avatars'.

rule (6) - do not ever, or very rarely ever, 'downvote' a CEO avatar. (this works like reports/rep system, and it wastes your voting power) To simplify this critical rule:
simply consider a lack of upvoting something as good as 'disagree'.

rule (7) - use our community hub for moderately-related posts, but sparingly (DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FARM US, MINION). If nothing is posted, nothing can be voted on, so moderately-related is sometimes valid.

rule (8) - always interpret @TheGrandestine and his legion(?) as having 'a CEO avatar'.

rule (9) - treat random minions with respect and dignity... as default.

rule (10) - defend CEO against any hostility from enemy minions.

rule (11) - treat hostility against a known CEO avatar as hostility against CEO.

rule (12) - treat projects such as CEO2/CD/CBA/FC or any others as 'CEO' for above purposes.

rule (13) - never completely explain what we are doing here to minions.

rule (14) - do not subscribe to so many other communities that you lose track of CEO.

rule (15) - try not to break more than one rule at a time.

rule (16) - complete any MISSION that sounds easy to you.

rule (17) - collectively create enough posts and comments to sustain constant use of power regeneration over time (10 max strength votes per day per person).

rule (18) - if enough activity feels difficult to sustain, change priority into gathering more CEO players here.

??? - obey the ℜѻɣคŁ, when she arrives. [?????]

rule 99 - follow me ☺ I'm the avatar of a demigod, after all, and also serve as a conduit for our power here.

rule 100 - follow @TheGrandestine, the sleeping giant. This will also indicate you have read some details.

OPTIONAL
↔ You may add your CEO ID into account info instead of @account name,
but everyone will suspect you, eventually.
↔ You may deviate outside of #CEO into other tags for posts, if you want to rally minions.
↔ You may deviate outside of the CEO community for unrelated posts, for missions or [reasons].
↔ You may attempt gaining more steem power from external sources (you will master this, in time).
↔ You may ignore all $$$ aspects and just treat this like a weird forum/subreddit.... and get paid anyway.

and yes,

THIS IS A PIECEMAKER CONTEST.

SUBMISSIONS AND COMMENTS ARE A ROLL CALL.
LITERALLY ANYONE CAN VOTE.

THE CEO AVATAR WITH THE HIGHEST VOTED UNIT SUBMISSION
[[[ON THIS POST]]]
WINS:

$50+

1000 CONTRIBUTION!!

100 CROWNS!!!

plus however much their comments earn!
plus however much their voting curation score earns!

BUT ONLY

IF YOU DRAG THE OTHER PIECEMAKERS FROM THEIR CAVES
DO - YOU - READ - ME - NOW ?
(you need votes to win)

THESE FILTERS APPLY:
filter (#1) - downvotes or not upvoting anyone disqualifies you.
(FAIL this tutorial)

filter (#2) - 30 player MINIMUM!
BRING ME THE DAMN PIECEMAKERS!
DO IT NOW!

filter (#3) - 15 vote MINIMUM! (for All placements)
THE ENTIRE POINT IS TO RALLY!!!
FIND DORMANT CEO PLAYERS
Q:(How do I know if they're CEO players?)
A:[They have a CEO AVATAR]
DO - YOU - SEE - ME - NOW?

filter (#4) - this contest ends whenever I say it ends.
if that were tomorrow - DID ANYONE WIN? (#3,2,1?)

START THE RALLY

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Submission Guideline:

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image should be in your comment, in one form or another.
no raw data saves are likely to win (but I am only one(?!?) vote).
you should vote on at least one other persons unit for each submission.
if their comment is archived (7+ days), you may comment "+1" instead.
there is no max to submissions, but quality>quantity in CEO.

The piece should follow this design format:
☆ radial symmetry CHAMPION with less than 4 move types at any tier.
☆ entropic MINION that has an alternative method of moving backwards.
☆ single-tier HERO that has a dynamic moveset based on positioning and/or board state.
☆ Favor TOKEN that has some mechanic not already made by the Ghost.

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optional, but recommended:
Comment reviews should include the scoring system of 'The First Hurrah' piecemaker contest:
Creativity x/5 (how good is the idea behind the piece)
Theme y/5 (how good the piece fits the flavor)
Execution z/5 (how good the piece is designed and balanced)

Art is not required, but if it gets you more votes - YOU WIN!!
2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place may also win something fancy,
{!} but only if enough people show up and vote {!}

If you still feel like a novice, MAKE A CHAMPION and VOTE!
If you want to be an expert, MAKE A HERO and VOTE!
If you are just a random minion, BEHOLD THE POWER OF CEO!

Time to win your first [game]!?!

This piecemaker contest is:

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❉▦[Dawn of the Phantasms]▦❉

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MISSION 0
BEGINS

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