Pirate101 Monthly Newsletter

 
 
 

October 2020


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Ready the confetti canons, as it’s Pirate101’s 8th birthday this month! Now through Monday, November 2nd, we’re celebrating the awesome occasion by bringing back your birthday favorites, running member benefits all-month long, transforming Skull Island with birthday decor, and of course...giving away some festive items! Are you ready to join the parrrty?

Also, here’s your chance to spook the devs by participating in our new Halloween themed contest!

Halloween Costume & Decorating Contest


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BOO! Get the cobwebs out of the attic and candy out of the cupboards, because it's time to celebrate Halloween in spooky style! Put your decorating skills to the test in our new Halloween Costume & Decorating Contest! This contest is for both the Wizard101 and Pirate101 communities.

Share your ghoulish creations as instructed below throughout the contest period. You’ll get a chance to win some great prizes, plus receive tons of design tips from your fellow players. We’ll be announcing the contest winners this October 29th on KI Live! Since the show is just before Halloween, we may even have a few of our developers transform into nightmarish creatures for the show.

KI LIVE WITH BAT MASTERSON & PROFESSOR FALMEA


Speaking of KI Live, we had another fun show this past September! These shows are for all our games including of course Pirate101. For this show we focused once again on Wizard101’s upcoming Fall Update and new world named Karamelle. The new world has been teased earlier than usual. If you also enjoy playing Wizard101, you are going to want to tune in to the show, now available on YouTube:


Secret Reader Bonus - As of this newsletter's announcement, for those who didn't get a chance to redeem the KI Live giveaway code yet, we opened it up again (HAPPYBIRTHDAY2020) for another 500 redemptions!

For more videos and livestreams, be sure to subscribe to KingsIsle's YouTube channel.

HELP KINGSISLE SUPPORT EXTRA LIFE


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Join Our Extra Life Team!

We’re excited and proud to be supporting Extra Life again! The goal for this year’s charity effort is to raise $10,000 for the local Austin Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. With 170 hospitals across their network, each location treats thousands of kids annually, regardless of their illness, injury or family's ability to pay. Contribute to this very worthwhile cause by joining our efforts below.

We need your help to reach our goal for the kids!

To make a safe and easy donation to our team, click on the "Join Team" button at the top of the page to ensure you donate directly to our team. All donations go directly through Extra Life’s system. Donations can be anonymous and are tax-deductible. Whatever you can provide, it will make miracles happen for families who desperately need them.

In order to get the rewards below you must Join Our Team! When registering, you'll want to check Yes to the 'Make a Donation' option to donate to our team. You can set the 'Your Fundraising Goal' as anything you want, as that's only if others decide to donate to you and not to us directly. To be eligible for prizes, try to raise as much money as possible to reach the appropriate prize tiers. You can do this by having other community members donate to you.

Remember, donating to someone else on our team does not count for you receiving prizes (though their total will be raised by your contribution and their reward will be recognized accordingly).

Thanks for your participation!

As a thank you, we will be awarding direct team contributors that raise a sufficient amount for our team with the following items from both our MMO games, Wizard101 and Pirate101:

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The community is also planning livestream events on the weekend of Nov 7th. Stay tuned to our social media channels as community activities are announced! If you plan to stream for extended periods of time, please read these Extra Life Streaming Guidelines.

After this Extra Life weekend concludes on Nov 8th, please allow several days for us to organize and send out rewards. We will be contacting you directly via email.

PUPPET PIRATES COMMUNITY CHOICE


Congrats Seth, your quote was chosen for Puppet Pirates #95!

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Boochbeard: "I claim this mountain in the name of me crew!”
Gandry: "How many times must I tell you sir? It's a snow-capped hill, not a mountain!”

~ Seth

KING OF THE HILL TOURNAMENT RESULTS


TheFearsomeRubberDucky hosted a great King of the Hill 3v3 tournament with the results just posted a few days ago! The event was held at Smuggler’s Arena on September 26th:


There was also the Grand Pirate101 Championship Finals by Final Bastion!

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“After 3 memorable qualifying tournaments, the inaugural Grand Pirate101 Championship is finally coming to a close! All three of these qualifiers had unprecedented turnout, with the first two eclipsing 50 participants each. However, only the worthiest of these duelists could come out triumphant and earn one of the coveted eight spots in this finals, with a chance to win 60,000 Crowns!” - Final Bastion

Join in on the fun by watching Twitter and Facebook for the next Puppet Pirate reveal!

SCREENSHOT SPOTLIGHT


For this month’s screenshot spotlight, Trustworthy Tyler Kidd submitted this one to us of her always trusthworthy (and adorable) panda mount:

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Capture an amazing screenshot like a magnificent sunset or a monster about to eat your ship and send it to us at community@pirate101.com. We’re always interested in showing off more art, gameplay guides, and other content!

Thanks, Pirates!


GUIDE OF THE MONTH: SHIP PVP


Beginner's Course by Final Bastion
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While this isn’t a new guide, it’s a good one for getting the basics down for Ship PVP, an intense and enjoyable part of playing the game. Check out Final Bastion’s guide and let us know what you would add to it to keep it updated!

“Ship PvP hasn’t been around for too long, but it feels that the motivation to actually go out and fight isn’t quite there yet. I feel this is partially due to people being unprepared to fight. They don’t have the latest and best gear possible and possibly don’t understand the tricks to surviving. I have fallen in love with ship PvP and with this mini series I aim on helping our readers boost their chances of winning in a 1v1.” - Final Bastion

Many other guides like this one are available on the Community Guides list!


If you have an upcoming event, blog post or other pieces of news you wish to share with the community, send it to community@pirate101.com. Include a link on social media if you have one and we may share it on social and here in future newsletters!

Also, the unaffiliated-with-KingsIsle “Community Newsletter” had a great selection of Pirate101-related links this month from around the web. NOTE: Be sure to visit and follow their Twitter page for more information. To subscribe to their newsletter, send a Direct Message to them over Twitter inquiring to be added or email them at community.newsletter.101@gmail.com. You can unsubscribe at any time by sending them an email with the phrase “UNSUB”.

FOLLOW PIRATE101


Question for our newsletter readers - is there a newsletter section we should add? Tweet your suggestion to @Pirate101 and we’ll select the top idea we can implement to win 5,000 Crowns!

Be sure to follow the game and its community on social media!


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