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On last week's episode of All Things Azeroth we launched the next All Things Azeroth contest, the NaPodPoMo Content Contest, where you send us voicemail, email, or pre recorded mp3s, and you get played on our feedback shows in November, and entered into the contest to win some fabulous prizes. Well, we are happy to reveal an additional prize that has been added to the Grand Prize package, courtesy of the great folks at Taverncraft. The prize is a Rise of the Lich King epic collection stein, with a Panoramic image of the Lich King and his undead minions and incredible artwork by painter extraordinaire Alex Horley. This stein is Superior quality fine-grain stoneware with a solid pewter sculpted lid. Just looking at the creation process on the Taverncraft website you can see these are painstakingly made, and are of the highest quality.

Coming in at 10 inches tall and an incredible 3 pounds, that alone would make this mug stand out on your shelf, but when you add in the carved texture, and the amazing artwork it becomes obvious this doesn't belong on some shelf, but in a prime place in your collection. While the artwork on the stein itself is definitely worth some attention, the lid itself is a work of art. With intricate Dwarven runes, a blade skewering the northern part of the world, and some very detailed Pewter sculpting, from top to bottom this is something any WoW Collector would cherish and desire. The best part? You can win one in our contest! Get your entries in starting October 26th, and tune in the entire month of November to hear the National Podcast Post Month!

It's been a lot of planning and work, but I am happy today to be announcing the 2009 All Things Azeroth NaPodPoMo Content Contest. The idea if if you leave us a voice mail, send us an audio content file for playing on the show, or send us an email between October 26th and November 26th, you will get your content played on the weekly feedback shows we will be doing during the National Podcast Post Month, and an entry in the contest. On each feedback episode, the feedback of the show, a highlighted piece of feedback, will get an extra 5 entries into the contest. The winner of the contest will be announced on the show release on November 30th, not the weekly show recorded that day.

What will you win? Well, here is the first prize package:

• $15 J!nx.com gift code
• 27x40 inch WoW Poster (Preview)
• Curse Premium Subscription
• Authenticator
• Series 2 Figure Pets set from FigurePrints.com
  
• 2 prints of your choice from the store of Blizzard award Winning artist Cadistra, of WoW Eh?

The second prize pack is no less impressive, with:

• Curse Premium Subscription
• USB Key
• Authenticator
  
• 1 print of your choice from the store of Blizzard award Winning artist Cadistra, of WoW Eh?

I want to thank Curse.com, FigurePrints.com, Jinx.com, and WoWeh.com for the awesome prize donations! I will keep adding whenever I find new companies willing to add to the list of prizes in this contest, right up until the end of the contest. See you in November!

I always hate having to make these posts, because they usually follow bad stuff coming down the pike. This time I wanted to address a few things, some good, some bad. First, as you all know, earlier this morning, and I do emphasize early, All Things Azeroth 133 was released. Recorded on Monday, August 14th, the show was released a week later than I prefer to see the shows released after recording. This is due to a Garage Band bug that has cropped up a few times on Graece's Mac, and unfortunately I was not able to devote the time to editing the show myself until Tuesday.

I would like to say that such a delay between recording and editing won't happen again, but I won't lie to you, friends. I do not know what causes this to happen to Garage Band, and I don't have the resources to contact Apple with the needed info to have them answer with possible solutions and fixes. I do, though, want to move on, and try to avoid this becoming a week long problem in the future. This is part of the reason I am making this post.

The front page of ATA has, for a long time, been a once a week virtual ghost town. I want to change that. I am therefore putting a request out there for 3 people to be added to the 'staff' at All Things Azeroth. First, I want an audio editor. This person would, at first, be a back up for Graece's efforts to bring the show out. The person would need knowledge of editing Double Enders together, and be able to devote the time needed to bring the show out with equal or better quality to what we have now. Second and third, I want to bring on some bloggers. These people would be responsible for 2-3 posts a week, length not dictated, just that they be quality posts that can bring readers to the site.

While all three of these would be unpaid posts with the show, you would, as a person filling these posts, share in the ad money when money is paid out. Recently Graece and I both got new mics due to the advertising on the show, and I strongly feel that if we can tighten up in these two areas, bringing the show out better and sooner, and adding compelling content to the front of the site, that this will result in more listeners, and more listeners results in more ad revenue. Other shows have their publishing within a day or two, if not hours of the show's release. I am not sure we can meet the latter option, not without more time in the day, but I think we can definitely do the former with the right team. Join us?

Now to the rest of the update. As many in the live show on the 21st know already, and many of you will hear soon enough, the new mics have arrived for both me and Graece. Hers is a headset, taking the audio off her Mac, and mine is a Blue Snowball Condenser Mic which I bought from Stompalina at Rawrcast. Even in editing my side of the show this week, I was able to tell that the new mic is totally awesome. It picks up more of what I want it to get, my voice and the passion in it, and less of the stuff that has been frustrating me, the background noise in the 'studio' here. I fully intend to make this show totally awesome in sound, and am even considering buying one of these Mic's for Graece, if she would have it.

In November we have the National Podcast Post Month, were we release 1 episode per day for the entire month. We are accepting ideas, suggestions, and thoughts on what you would like to hear. Last year we did the lead up to, and fall out from the launch of Wrath of the Lich King, which was released partway through the month. It was an exciting and energizing time, and led to some of the content we have done on the show in the 10 months since. We have lots of plans to execute for the NaPodPoMo this month, and I want to share a bit with you.

First, we will have a month long contest on the show which we will announce on Graece's 1 year anniversary show in a couple weeks. Second, we have a lot of 'weekly' releases planned for the NaPodPoMo, or AzPod show, including weekly interviews, music shows, and discussions about the highlights, and little mentioned features of the recently announced Cataclysm expansion. We might look at how professions have changed, maybe look over some of the zones we know will change and what we will miss about them, anything is possible and we will have 30 days to fill! Of course, we will still do our weekly episodes on Monday nights, with a plan to release them for the Thursdays. Stay tuned!

The last thing I wanted to mention is the little thing that you see in the top right hand corner of the site. Thanks to Shawno of the Hypernonsense podcast, who's wife Jen(no, not Jena) is our weekly moderator in the live chats(awesome job, Jen!) we now have a voicemail line. 1-785-ATA-WoW-5, or 1-785-282-9695 is the number ot leave us a voicemail for the show, and if it's good, it will get played. If you leave an email saying anything rude or derogatory, you will be blacklisted, and will waste your money. Call it, give us your thoughts, and hear yourself on the show!

That is about it for this novel of an update. I hope to hear from the bloggers and audiophiles out there, and I also hope to hear from all of you by email, voicemail, or even carrier pigeon! Take care, happy hunting, See you in... well... November to Remember!

All Things Azeroth, your World of Warcraft Podcast, is back as Medros and Graece talk about the Blizzcon revelations, the new races in Cataclysm, stats changes, and end the Linking Contest

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Today we are merely 2 days from the start of Blizzcon, the show celebrating all properties in the Blizzard Entertainment empire. Blizzard on Tuesday released the schedule for the show, then pulled it back, and released a new schedule. We are pretty sure the second one is official and final one, and we here at All Things Azeroth are prepared to give you, the listeners, our official Blizzcon live show broadcast schedule for the 2 days of the conference. We have looked and cross checked the schedule to ensure our coverage of the show is as in depth and non conflicting as we can.

First, we will be doing 3 shows over the 2 day event. First we will do a live show covering the opening ceremony, which is now reduced to 30 minutes. We hope to cover all the stuff we expect in the opening in less than the time it is scheduled for, but no guarantees. Second, we will do a show on Friday night, just after the start of the costume contest, in which we will cover the hottest news released on day 1, including, we suspect, WoW Cataclysm and MMO Champion being right. Then, between the Live Raid panel and the music show, we will do the third show, covering the highlights of Day 2, and the biggest stories of the con.

In addition to this, while I am watching the videos on the Blizzcon Live Feed, be they on demand or actually live, I will be live blogging what I see. You can find the live blog we will be doing here, with live blogging services thanks to CoverItLive. I may take breaks here or there, but if there is a panel I am not interested in, I will go back and listen to panels I missed, plus there looks to be 30 minutes planned between panels for those us who need breaks. I will try to be on Stickam during these live blogging sessions, but no promises.

Finally, as we wrap up our coverage, we will of course be doing the usual Monday night show, where the biggest topics will be the news out of Anaheim, and the winners of the Linking contest. You will be able to join Bacoes(Graece) and Orrgithar(Medros) live in Ogrimmar on Echo Isles as we do /roll for the winner, and the runner up prizes, which can be found here. Get your entry emails in now, and maybe we will hit a plateau and I will add in even more prizes!

We will see you Friday, Saturday, and Monday for All Things Azeroth, Your World of Warcraft Podcast!

This past week has been a pretty huge one, and the week coming up is expected to be an even bigger one! Not only did we release both episodes 125 and 126 this week of ATA, totaling over 2 hours of audio talking about the hottest topics in the community, but I was on the Pixelated Podcast this Sunday, talking Blizzcon and.. ummm... other stuff, and of course promoting this here show. You should definitely take a listen, and thank Nelson for having me on his show again.

In addition to that guest appearance, Graece and I recorded a short version of ATA for the Tech Podcast Network weekly show. Be warned, this is a very spoiler heavy show, as we talk about the leaked Cataclysm information that came out just after we recorded the show on Thursday. If you want to hear our thoughts in a short under 15 minute episode of ATA, check it out and be sure to Tweet, Facebook, and link it anywhere, and everywhere you can. I will even make a concession and let you all count those links for the linking contest, so be sure to send in an email about your link to the proper address!

As for the upcoming week, it is going to be Crazy! We don't yet know the Blizzcon schedule, and we don't have a full run down of the goody bag, but be sure that live.allthingsazeroth.com WILL be the place to catch our coverage of the show. When I am home and tuned into the stream, I may just be streaming live, but we will definitely have an opening ceremony show, a Friday end of day show, and a Saturday end of day show. The rest, as they say, is gravy! See ya there.

-Medros

Hey everyone,

While these coming few weeks will be a rough one for me, and the show, I did want to let you know what's going on. So I got this great, well paying new job, but it requires I work Mondays for a few weeks, until a new training class comes out of that phase and enters the rest of us reps. Therefore, Episodes 125 and 127 will be recorded on Thursdays, with the time to decided closer to the dates, and 126 and possibly 128 will be recorded, sadly, without me. I plan to record small segments for you all, as my way to feel like I am still part of the show. This is a sad fact for me, as these will be the first time since I launched this as a podcast that the show goes on without me. The show, as they are famous for saying, must go on, and I am sure Graece will do a fabulous job without me there. I hope you all join her in chat to cheer her on if she does a live show.

Now, to the other topic of this update post. The Linking Contest. Yes, the dreaded, seemingly never ending contest where we bribe ask you to link to us in exchange for a chance to win fabulous prizes(but not a new car!). As many of you know, the Blizzcon 48 hour pre sale began on Wednesday, the 5th, and our good friend Matticus of World of Matticus was kind enough to buy a few things for us, as we could not access the store ourselves. We have posted and shirts, murlocs and pandarens. Well, ok, we will have soon enough!

Well, in order to encourage you all to get entered, and spread the word about the site and the contest, as there is only about 2 weeks to go, I have an offer. If we get to 250 entries, I will add 1 Blizzcon item to the Grand Prize. If we hit 500, I will add a second item. Lastly, if we hit 1,000, I will add in Grunty the Murloc Marine! These need to be valid entries, which is to say you must link to us as All Things Azeroth, Your World of Warcraft Podcast, and email contests@allthingsazeroth.com with your entry! The contest ends Auguest 23rd at 12 noon CDT. The winner will be chosen via a /roll ### in game where ### is the number of entries and the runner up will be chosen the same way. So, my friends, my listeners,get out there, get linking, and start telling everyone you know about All Things Azeroth, Your World of Warcraft Podcast!

-Medros

All Things Azeroth, your World of Warcraft Podcast, is back asMedros and Graece talk about wowTwitter, Battle Bots, 3.2 mount and travel changes, as well as other big news of the week, like a contest!

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• The new All Things Azeroth Linking contest
• Contest update
• Winner prize pack
• $50 J!nx.com">J!nx.com gift code(We thank them for their generous contributions!)
• 60 day game card for World of Warcraft
• Firework trinket loot card code
• Slash Dance loot card code
• Blizzard Authenticator
• Runner up prize pack
• $25 J!nx.com">J!nx.com gift code(We thank them for their generous contributions!)
• Sandbox Tiger loot card code
• Slash Dance loot card code
• Mountain Dew Battle Bots now live! umm Except in the EU
• Huge mount changes in 3.2
• Brewfest mount likely to become easier to get
• New Zepplin and new portals coming in 3.2
• Druid, Hunters and Shamans to get fast sooner in 3.2
• WoW Twitter for your toons
• Scam warnings
• Maelstrom lore, in case it is the next expansion
• Going on in game dates
• Isle of Conquest BG info
• Avoid the ride to Shadowmoon, buy mounts and training in Dalaran

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I was just going to update the original post, but I decided there is enough in this update to warrant a whole new post. First, I want to extend my huge thanks to Jinx, who we are an affiliate of, for being kind enough to donate not one, but two gift codes for their site. While they don't have our beloved talking plush murlocs in stock, and likely won't for a few months(post blizzcon?) we now have a Winner and Runner up prize package! The first prize will be a $50 code for Jinx.com, and the second will be $25 for Jinx.com. So, at this point, we have the first prize as an Authenticator, a 60 day game card, the $50 gift code for Jinx.com, and a Fireworks trinket loot code. The second place prize is the $25 Jink.com code, and so far that is it.

If you wish to donate something to one or both of the prize packages, or know of a gamer/WoW related company that might be interested in donating, let us know at contests@allthingsazeroth.com and we will be more than happy to accept the donations and/or tips.

Now for my second update. I wanted to clarify, in case people are plotting, that we have very strong rules about spamming. If you spam our link to a site that is unrelated to the game, the entry will be disqualified. Likewise, if we get a report from a site or webmaster that our link has been spammed on their site, or their site has been hacked, or in any way brought harm to their site, you will have one strike before you will be out. Your entry will be disqualified, and any further reports will also disqualify you, and your other links will be thoroughly examined for legitimacy.

We are trying to promote the site, and the podcast, and we cannot do that by spamming people who couldn't care less about WoW, gaming, or the podcast. Just as a final reminder, to have any entries included in the contest, you must link to us, and then email the link to contests@allthingsazeroth.com. If you twitter us, just click on your Twitter.com page the time stamp on the tweet, and that will link you to the full tweet url. If you have any questions, concerns, or spam reports, please feel free to email the contest address above and we will repond as quick as we can.

We here at All Things Azeroth are launching a new contest tonight. The contest is one that will have you linking to us all over the internet. Your link should be this: All Things Azeroth, Your World of Warcraft Podcast, with a link to http://www.allthingsazeroth.com. These can be on your guild forums, your blog, WoW or gaming related forums, as long as it's not spamming or against the rules of the forum. If you want to write your own words around the link, feel free to. If you create a site solely for this contest, it will be disqualified. There should be real, useful content at the site.

Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and other social networking sites are also allowed to be used. If you twitter, an @allthingsaz is recommended, with a preferable #ata at the end. If you Facebook, a link to the site or to our Facebook fan page or group would be appreciated. Any other social networking sites, just link back to the ATA website. Once again, spamming will get you disqualified. If we hear from a webmaster, guild leader, or otherwise from someone complaining, we will disregard an entry.

In order to let us know about your submission, send us the url to the site you linked to us on. If you can include a screenshot, that would be even better. The winning link will have to be verified on submission and on completion of the contest. Links on the WoW forums are discouraged, and can get you banned or suspended from forum posting privileges, therefore use them at your own risk.

The prizes. The prize package may change as the contest progresses. Currently the prize for the winner will be a 60 day WoW game card and an Authenticator. More prizes may be added as the contest progresses. The contest will begin on Monday June 15, and submissions will be accepted until Sunday August 23rd at 12:00(noon) CDT. The winner will be drawn on Monday August 24th, and verified the same day. The winner(s) will be announced on the live show the evening of August 24th. Please stay tuned to the show, or the site for details as we get more prizes in. If you wish to donate a prize, email contests@allthingsazeroth.com.