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WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Hello tankers!

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In today’s episode we’ll be answering

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the hottest questions about
the matchmaking test.

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We’ll also be showing you

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some of the coolest entries in the
“Goodbye Cedric” meme contest,

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and giving you your first task
for the Parkour Survival Tournament.

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Of course the hottest
theme of the past week,

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has been the testing of
the matchmaking system,

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which took place on
Tuesday and Wednesday.

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There have been many questions
on our forum and social media.

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Today we’ll be answering the most
common ones from our forum.

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Let’s start with the loudest one:

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　The matchmaking system is garbage.

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Why did you implement it
on the main servers?

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Do NOT add it to the game!”

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As we explained in the last episode,

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this system NEEDED to be
tested on our main servers

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so that we could get a realistic picture

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of how players were
being distributed in battles,

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how long the waiting times would be,

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and how other factors,

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such as the rank bracket size
for battles, would be handled.

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We understand that the system
is far from optimized for now.

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That’s why it’s not going to be
implemented any time soon.

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The test has given us a lot of
feedback and technical data.

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Now we need to analyze it, and use
those insights to improve the system.

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And now the rest of the questions

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Spurger tells us,

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“Where is my in-game Mission button???”

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There is a problem in the game overall.

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A player enters a battle,
finishes a mission, and leaves.

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This problem exists now,

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AND was also present during
the matchmaking test.

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And that’s why we removed the button.

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It is not an elegant solution, but
it brought us the results we wanted.

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We haven’t decided
what it will look like yet.

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We’ll tell you this once we’ve decided.

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Nicola_M is upset about having to wait
behind a queue of 300 players to join a battle.

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This is not a queue in the usual sense.

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If you’re in a queue in a shop,

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and you have 300 people in front of you,

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you re number 301,

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which means you have to
wait for a very long time.

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But in our case, this is the number of
players who pressed the 　Play　 button,

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and are waiting to
join a battle, just like you.

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The system goes through this list
and sends players into battles.

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So, the bigger the number of
waiting tankers, the better,

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because it means the
battle will start sooner.

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Yes, it s probably not obvious.

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Anyway we ll fix it.

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SilentJay_the_cool talks about a TDM game
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and complains that it’s totally
unfair on the lower ranks.

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There are no rank limits
in matchmaking at all.

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After you click the button,

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the system starts looking for
players with the same rank.

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It there aren’t enough such players,

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the rank limits increase by
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If there are still not enough players,
the rank limits grow a step further.

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So a battle might include one
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or a range of 15 ranks and more.

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There is one very important characteristic:
the time after which the rank limit expands.

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If this number is increased,

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the rank limits become narrower, but
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If it is decreased, battles
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but the rank difference will be too big.

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Yes, we also have seen battles
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but this is just a bug that we missed.

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Our task for us now

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is to find the right balance between
battle creation speed and rank difference.

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The next comment is from Hatty1994:

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“Why am I being forced to play with kids
when the other side is full of Legends?

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Is this the so-called Matchmaking System?”

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This was one of the main things that
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so during the first day, the system
scattered players into teams randomly.

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The same happened with combat groups,

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where sometimes two groups
ended up on the same team.

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On Wednesday, we fixed these issues,

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and the mechanism started dividing
groups between teams perfectly.

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The remaining players
were distributed by rank.

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So there were no more battles
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were playing against five brigadiers.

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We understand that the distribution of
players by rank is not always fair.

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Sometimes a General,

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with his kill/death ratio, skill and Garage,

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can be stronger than a Legend.

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Therefore, in the future,

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it will be more fair to distribute
players according to rating,

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which takes into account kill/death
ratio, supplies and other statistics.

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hatealien is complaining on
the low FPS on Osa map.

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This tanker is right.

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Not all the maps were properly optimized.

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And the map where FPS were
falling the most, was Osa.

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On Wednesday, we also solved
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as well as on Polygon,
　year 2042　, and others.

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The next is a suggestion
from The_God_Delusion,

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who says we should create a system

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where ALL battles appear in the
battle list regardless of server origin.

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The merging of all the
servers into one list

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has been in the development
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Now we see that the matchmaking system

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should definitely be implemented
together with the merging.

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We’re sure there aren’t any players

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who like to hop across all the
servers to find the perfect battle.

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We’ll do our best to
implement a single battle list

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by the time we release
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And the final one —
player Sniper1954_the_dark

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is upset about not being able
to play on a favorite map.

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We know that some players
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for the fact that the fund there
grows faster than on other maps,

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due to their design.

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With the release of matchmaking,

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we will change the
profitability on all maps

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so that it will be equally profitable to
play on every one of them.

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Details later.

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If the issue is not with
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but due to a true love of these
maps, you are able to choose:

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If you don’t like that the system decides
where you should play, use the battle list!

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Of course, such battles don’t count
towards your mission progress.

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Want to complete missions?

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Play in matchmaking battles. Simple.

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So, let’s sum it up.

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The test is over,

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and despite the fact that the system

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is obviously nowhere
close to being finished yet,

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it works and the servers survived.

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Now we need to finalize the system.

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Our goal is to create fast and
profitable battles on optimized maps,

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with teams that are
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and without mults and sabotages,
robberies and other troubles.

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At the same time there
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so that you don’t have to keep jumping

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from one server to the other
to find the perfect battle.

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All battles, XP/BP, no supplies
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will be in one convenient place.

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As we finish programming
each new feature,

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we will talk about it in
the upcoming episodes.

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Video of the week

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Last week, we gave you a challenge.

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On the Space Lost Temple,

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you had to jump from this
platform... to this roof...

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without using any mines.

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Here is the video from the first
team that completed the test.

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They get 200 thousand
crystals to share.

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Good job!

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And now let’s watch the team who
submitted the best video for the challenge.

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They also get 200
thousand crystals to share.

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For next episode, shoot a cool
video with Wasp and Hammer,

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wearing the Orange paint.

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It can be a frag-movie, a spectacular
flag delivery, a funny moment...

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it’s up to you. Good luck!

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A couple of weeks ago,

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we told you about a new
upcoming Parkour tournament

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called “Parkour Survival”,
where every week,

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the participating teams will be
given a parkour challenge to complete.

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Those teams who can
finish the challenge,

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will win a prize and
move on to the next stage.

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Those who don’t manage,
will be eliminated.

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Now, the tournament
is about to kick off,

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and we’ll be issuing the first
challenge here in the V-LOG.

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For this first challenge,

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you’ll need to get on top of
this building on the Polygon map.

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Yes… we know it’s easy, and
that any noob team can do it.

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But that’s exactly what we
want for this first challenge.

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We want EVERYONE to
participate and win a prize.

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So, make sure you give it a shot.

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To find out more about
the tournament details,

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including the rules, prizes, and
where to submit your entry,

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check out the link in the description.

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By the way, the challenges WILL
be getting harder over time,

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but the prizes will also
be getting bigger and cooler!

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Last week, Cedric,

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backed by some tear-jerking
music added for dramatic effect,

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announced that he’ll be leaving
Tanki Online at the end of the month.

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He also kicked off a meme
contest with the theme

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“Goodbye Cedric”,

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and the entries are already rolling in.

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Here are a few cool ones.

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Remember, Cedric will be
picking his favorite entries

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and rewarding them with
1 day of premium each.

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Additionally, prizes will be given out
to those entries that get the most likes.

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To participate in the contest, submit
your meme in the special thread.

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The link is in the description.

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The deadline is on Friday
18th August, at 07:30 UTC.

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That’s it tankers!

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Subscribe to our channel

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so you don’t miss any of our
upcoming episodes. See ya!

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Last time, we showed you some
shots from a mystery map,

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and you had to guess its name.

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The correct answer is, Solikamsk.

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Here are our winners!

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And here’s the new question.[]