Tespia a bientot?

Bientot is soon, so literally it'd be like, at/in/to soon.

Ah, then the implied goodbye would be the idiom.

Any way to check if we were invited to this round?

Any way to check if we were invited to this round?

The same way it's always been; you log in to the website and either are, or aren't.

In French, 'a bientot' simply means 'soon'. The thread title directly means 'Tespia soon?"

If you say it to someone as a farewell, then it would directly translate to "See you soon."

Any way to check if we were invited to this round?

you log into http://maplestoryt.nexon.net/ and if you see the tespia homepage you were invited and if you see the regular maplestory homepage you weren't.

In French, 'a bientot' simply means 'soon'. The thread title directly means 'Tespia soon?"

If you say it to someone as a farewell, then it would directly translate to "See you soon."

Actually that would implicitly translate, not directly, since the 'see you' portion is implied, not literal.
I think the french lesson's already been fairly well covered by the previous answers though.

I'm really surprised I haven't ever on half a dozen of accounts been invited to tespia. Really bad luck.

I'm really surprised I haven't ever on half a dozen of accounts been invited to tespia. Really bad luck.

Do they all have characters over level 50 who've been active in the last 30 days?

I'm really surprised I haven't ever on half a dozen of accounts been invited to tespia. Really bad luck.

I believe they only picked people twice. Once when Tespia was (re)opened before BB, and then one more wave since (which added a few people to those already picked, not a completely new drawing).
So saying "ever", as if there have been a dozen chances and you were passed over every time, is a bit of an overstatement.
Still sucks.

Do they all have characters over level 50 who've been active in the last 30 days?

One of my accounts was picked yet it had no character in any of the worlds. I only used it to play DFO.

Now that's just bizarre.

Pretty sure the account selection for Tespia has remained the same for the past 3-4 rounds. No new accounts as far as I'm aware.

Account selection, I don't understand it. I used Gamelauncher for years, never got selected for Tespia. I start using the website to log in and I get chosen for the next round after 2 weeks of using the site. Since nothing about my account had changed apart from that I assumed it was the only criterion my account didn't fulfil.

Either that or my account just got picked out of Nexon's top hat by accident.

I never used the website except to charge NX on my main account.
My account that got picked for Tespia was a random mule.
They just picked totally at random, it seems.

I remember getting into Tespia for BB, and that was my first time ever. Hime had a contest or so that required you to send in an old bug report (I think) of a glitch in the past, and how it was fixed. There was like 1k winners IIRC, and I'm fairly certain I was one of them although they had no notice of the winners.

I made a loving and lengthy bug report on the dews not dropping and how the quest UI displayed differently depending on your class. Next round, got selected
1 benefit of being a quest freak