Giveaways

01Free and Premium

• Free: 1 giveaway running or scheduled at a time.
• Premium: up to 25 running or scheduled at once.

02What it does

Giveaways are a great way to get people active in your Discord. You set the prize and how long it runs, the bot posts it, and members press one button to join. When the timer runs out, the bot picks the winners and announces them.

You'll find it under Management > Discord Integration > Giveaways. Your giveaways are split into Running, Scheduled, Ended and Cancelled.

03Starting a giveaway

1. 1Press New giveaway.
2. 2Write the prize and, if you want, a short description. Under Images you can add a thumbnail and a big image the same way as the other embed builders — paste a direct picture link, or an ImgBB / Imgur page link and Surge switches it for you.
3. 3Pick how many winners there are and how long it runs.
4. 4Pick the channel it goes in, and whether to ping @here, @everyone or a role.
5. 5Check the preview, then press Start giveaway.

Want it to start later, like on wipe day? Choose Schedule for later and pick a date and time. The bot posts it right on time by itself.

Under Prize you can also pick what the winner actually receives. Currency is added on this server only. Kits and items go in their vault marked Giveaway — they are not given in game. Add to List puts them on a Role List, including each kit list under Autokits, like Ak List. They have to be linked. If they are not, the prize waits for their Discord and is handed over the moment they log in and link.

• Between 1 and 50 winners.
• It can run for anywhere from 1 minute to 60 days.
• You can have up to 25 giveaways running or scheduled at the same time.

04How members enter

They press the button on the giveaway. The bot replies privately with "You're in!", how many entries they have and when it ends. There's a Leave giveaway button in that reply if they change their mind.

If they don't meet the requirements, the bot tells them exactly why, and if it's a waiting thing, like account age, it tells them when they can enter.

05Who can enter

Open Who can enter in the form to set rules. All of these are optional.

• Required roles: they need one of these roles, or all of them. You choose.
• Blocked roles: people with these roles can't enter. Good for staff or people who already won recently.
• Account age: their Discord account has to be at least this many days old. This stops people making alt accounts just to win.
• Time in server: they have to have been in your Discord for at least this many days.
• Bonus entries: give a role extra chances, like +2 entries for boosters or VIPs. If someone has more than one bonus role, they get the biggest one, not all of them added together.

06How winners are picked

This is the part people always ask about, so here it is plainly. The draw is completely random and fair. Every entry has a fair chance, and nobody can predict or nudge the result.

• Everyone who entered gets one ticket, plus their bonus entries if they have any.
• One person can only win once per draw, no matter how many entries they have.
• Before someone is confirmed as a winner, the bot checks they're still in your Discord and still meet the requirements. If not, it picks someone else.
• Nobody can hand-pick the winners. Not you, not your admins and not us. Even a reroll is a fresh random draw.

Winners get pinged in the giveaway channel with your winner message. You can write your own using {winners}, {prize}, {host} and {entries}, and you can have the bot DM the winners too. Kits and items get a green message that they are in the vault. Currency gets a green message that it was added to their balance, with the amount before and after. If they are not linked, a red message tells them that and includes this server’s player link so they can link and collect.

07Managing your giveaways

• Edit a running giveaway and the message in Discord updates straight away. The channel and ping are locked once it's posted.
• End now stops it early and draws the winners right away.
• Reroll picks new winners for an ended giveaway. People who already won are left out, so the prize goes to someone new.
• Cancel stops it without picking anyone. You choose whether to keep the message or delete it.
• Duplicate copies a giveaway, so running the same one every week takes seconds.
• Open Entrants on a giveaway to see everyone who entered, how many entries each person has and their chance of winning. You can export the list too.