Donations

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Donations

In order to mitigate some of the monetary costs of running the league we are opening up for donations to help keep the league up and running. The ongoing costs are related to server hosting, domain subscription and a league cloud storage system which in total sum up to around $50 USD per month or approximately $600 USD per year.

All of the expenses and previous donations can be found via this Google Sheet.

Donations

We have set up two different ways to donate, directly via Paypal or via Ko-fi.

Paypal offers lower fees transferring funds from one Paypal account to another while Ko-fi allows more standard payment options but higher fees. The following fees are implemented:

• A $5 USD donation directly through Paypal or Paypal via Ko-fi nets $4.48.
  
• A $1 USD donation directly through Paypal or Paypal via Ko-fi nets $0.62.
  
• A $5 USD donation through Ko-fi nets $4.09.
  
• A $1 USD donation through Ko-fi nets $0.49.
  

If around 50 users were to donate $12 USD per year we would cover all ongoing costs for hosting. If we were to get a significant excess of funds during a calendar year, the excess will be donated during the yearly Charity Drive.

Discord Boosting

As this league is heavily relying on Discord we also want to offer an opportunity to boost the main SSL Server as well. To boost you can follow the instructions in the following screenshots.




As of this writing we have 5 boosts (mainly BoD boosts) that is used to gain level 1 perks as well as the server tag that our users can tie to their players and represent the league in all other Discord channels they participate in.



Our current goal is to get to level 2 perks.

How to donate

1. Make a donation through either of the above options.
   
2. Make a confirmation post in the confirmation thread following the instructions on the front page
   
   Code:

   Current Player Name: FIRST LAST
Date and Time of Donation: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM
Other Notes:

A member of the BoD will periodically go through the thread, match against the donation account, log the donation and give the rewards.

Rewards

Any user who donates using either of the direct donation links will receive a permanent forum badge like:


Any user who boosts the main Discord server will receive a permanent forum badge like:



Other rewards will be announced as they become available. There is no player based incentive here for donating and we don’t plan on awarding site money or TPE for real money donations to the SSL, this is purely voluntary.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to reach out to any BoD member.

[norththegreatestshowman]

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