S2 Games, in partnership with Garena and Axeso5, is pleased to announce HoN Tour Season 2 with a global prizepool of $360,000. After a 7 month season, teams from around the world will meet in Southeast Asia to compete in the International Grand Finals that boasts a $150,000 prizepool. Stay tuned for more information!

Registration for season two opens on Friday July 12th, 2013 at 5:00 PM EDT(23:00 CEST). The qualifiers begin on Saturday, July 27th, and last until August 8th. Cycle one of HoN Tour Season 2 will begin on August 10th! More information will be available on Friday, July 12th.

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Hi everyone! Feanux here, looking to bring you the latest Report-A-Player (RAP) statistics and provide some monthly insight.

First off I'd like to give a brief overview of the RAP system so we're all on the same page. We have 6 negative categories in which players can fall into: Chat Abuse, Feeding/Stat Manipulation, Impersonating Staff, Ability/Item Abuse, Bad Nickname/Clan name, and Avoiding AFK Detection.

To report someone, simply click on the ban-hammer next to their name (either in-game or after the match), select the category, enter a small description and select a time. Press the submit button when you are done and you're one step closer to helping improve the community.

Each player reported can have multiple tickets from different players against them, and they should! This helps us to determine who the repeat offenders are and get them out of the game as soon as possible; the more you report the sooner they're gone.

Let's get into some of the statistics to see where we stand for the month of June.

Well over 25,000 individual Player Reports (or Tickets as well call them) were submitted and completed for last month. Here's a breakdown of how the categories looked:

Chat Abuse
Guilty: 81%
Innocent: 11%
Warned: 8%

Feeding/Stat Manipulation
Guilty: 75%
Innocent: 23%
Warned: 2%

Impersonating Staff
Guilty: 27%
Innocent: 70%
Warned: 3%

Ability/Item Abuse
Guilty: 73%
Innocent: 19%
Warned: 8%

Bad Nickname/Clan name
Guilty: 16%
Innocent: 84%
Warned: 0%

Avoiding AFK Detection
Guilty: 53%
Innocent: 38%
Warned: 9%

Ideally we would like to see all of the tickets we receive to be 100% guilty, but realistically that won't happen. Why 100% guilty you might ask? Well, the more guilty reports we get, the less time we have to spend on the players who did nothing wrong, the innocent group. The faster we can do reports of other guilty players the sooner they become suspended and learn their lesson.

Let's look at some of the categories with high innocent percentages and see what we can do to make those better.

Impersonating Staff - Remember to report these players who say they are a staff member (or GM) and will ban you (real staff won't say that!). Or maybe their best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who knows Maliken and will get you banned (whew!). Someone saying you're going to get banned for breaking the rules isn't going to be a guilty offence, but them telling you they will ban you is.

Bad Nickname/Clan name - These accounts and clans should be reported if their names are not safe for work and/or are meant to be directly offensive. While I can't give direct examples of what the bad nicknames would be, anything vulgar, racially, or ethnically offensive are not allowed.

If we can work on providing higher quality reports, we can be the change in the community that we want see. We have the systems in place, we just need you to keep it up!

If you have any questions or concerns about the RAP system feel free to head on over to the RAP Feedback Section on the forums and talk about it with Game Masters.

Thanks for reading!

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Hi guys, AceJR here. With the release of Ultimate Edition Pandasoul, we ran into some technical limitations with how items build onto Booboo. However, we took your feedback into consideration, re-evaluated our process, and found a way to remedy the problems we were experiencing with item builds on Booboo in order to produce the best possible product.

Here's the list of items and how they affect both Pandasoul and Booboo. Keep in mind that Pandasoul's Ultimate form will be affected by the other avatars that you collect from the Sang-La patch.

Hopefully this solution helps resolve some of the problems with the avatar, and that you're able to give it a try!

Hero

• Boots (any) - Fur leggings
• Shaman's Headdress - Headdress
• Charged Hammer(Thunderclaw) - Bamboo skirt
• Brutalizer - Fur arm-guards
• Frostwolf Skull - Backpack
• Dawnbringer - Larger weapon

Booboo

• Mock of Brilliance - Aura
• Demonic Breastplate(Bulwark) - Butt Armor
• Brutalizer - Helm
• Charged Hammer (Thunderclaw) - Flags
• Boots (any) - Leg Guards
• Savage Mace -Spikes on Armor

Buro here. As many of you may have noticed, we added a new feature today: Hero Filters! Due to the large amount of heroes in HoN, the pick screen might seem daunting at times. Hero Filters allow you to break down the hero pick screen by filtering through different roles. It also shows you to what extent your team has filled these roles, allowing an easier way to create balanced teams.

As you check filters, the system will show heroes that fit within the requirements of those filters. The more filters that are selected, the more lenient the system will be for finding a hero within those filters. For instance, if "Jungle" is selected, Predator will not appear because only the strongest jungle heroes will be available. However if "Carry" is also selected, Predator will appear as an option because he can carry as well as jungle even though he cannot jungle as effectively as other heroes.

Two really neat features of this system are the Favorites Filter and Filtered Random. Favorites allows you to go into the herodex and set your "favorite" heroes. The Favorites Filter will then be available in the hero pick screen and you may sort through heroes with this filter as well as others. Filtered Random is just like it sounds: when you have any filters selected and you random a hero, you will random from the heroes within your current filters.

I'd like to give thanks to all of the community feedback that drove the creation of this feature! If you have any suggestions or feedback on the hero filters or HoN in general, please visit the suggestions forums and make a post about it.