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I've been gone for a few days, so there is a lot of context that I'm missing since I know there were threads, posts, and videos deleted. Anyways, let me just give me thoughts on a few subjects.

First of all, I know that Team Blaze is often accused of being a D4 circle-jerk. The reality is that we are accepting of members of a large variety of skill, whether that be D1 or D6. About the "circle jerk" though, I don't see the problem with people being competitive with each other and sharing scores and encouraging/rivaling each other. It just so happens that this type of activity has been happening in the D4 skill range. If this has something to do with "I don't want to see crappy D4 scores in the scores thread" then where do you want them to post their scores? The amateur scores thread surely wouldn't be accepting of D4 scores (or even D3 scores for that matter) and the idea of a "semi-pro" scores thread has already been shut down.

If this has something to do with FFR being the topic of conversation in the chat and the "D4 circle jerk" in there well I have a few things to say about that as well. First of all, about 90% of the time, we aren't even talking about FFR (I don't understand when people accuse of only talking about that.) And when we do talk about FFR, what's the problem with that? It's an FFR chat. Also, I see D6 players in the chat going on and on and on about scores as well, although it seems to be more about sm scores most of the time (so basically it ends up looking like a D6 sm circle jerk at many times in the chat.)

Next, let's discuss what elitism is. Elitism is not just being good at this game. Elitism is
(1) using your skill level to justify something
(2) associating your skill level with a level of power
(3) associating a lack of skill with not having any power
(4) constant bragging of your skill level, even if indirect

Let me touch on number 2 and 3. First of all, as seen in the difficulty thread, I've seen some comments that basically say "Only people like me or around my skill level are good enough to accurately judge the difficulty of this/these files." This is an example of 2 but mostly an example of number 3, because the statement implies that everyone below that skill level should have no say in the matter what-so-ever.

Pro-tip:
How to be good at this game and not be elitist: be good at this game and be humble about it.

Now let me touch upon the "mad cuz bad" thing. First of all, it was used to describe people that got mad at a file because they were bad at it. First of all, there is nothing wrong with being mad because you are bad at a file. What is wrong is being mad at the stepartist because you are bad at the file. It's understandable to be frustrated at your own inability to do some songs well; it's when you call out the stepartist for making a bad chart with the reason "because I can't get a good score on it" is when it turns wrong. However, this phrase has turned into something much more than that recently. I've recently seen higher skill level players using the phrase towards lower skill players to discredit their words even in non-FFR situations, and this is just another disgusting new form of elitism.

As for the people that were banned, I don't know what they did exactly. I'll ask Richie to make a ban log somewhere with the names of people, the ban reason, and ban length (if it's not a perma-ban.)

The goal of team blaze is to foster a friendly FFR-based community and to have a positive inter-team relationships with other teams as well. I have nothing against Team Pony, I occasionally lurk the their thread just to see what's going on. I have nothing against the formation of Team Indeed either, although I'm not too fond of the entry requirements. I'd like to see inter-team events later, remember that hating on the other teams and not wanting them to exist is counter productive because if we only have one team, we might as well call that team "FFR."

A quick summary
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What are Team Blazes goals:
-to foster a friendly community on FFR
-to build good inter-team relationships with other teams in an effort to have inter-team events.

What aren't Team Blazes goals:
-to have the most members
-to have a high ratio of D4 players
-to have a low ratio of D6 players
-to prevent the formation of new teams or to try to disband an already existing team

If you are in the team and you don't agree with the goals above (or if you think the things in the "what aren't Team Blazes goals" should be goals), then leave. If you aren't part of the team and you don't agree, then don't join. If you aren't a part of the team and you don't want to join, then leave us alone. Team Blaze was not created with the intention to create drama, so please don't start any with us.

tl;dr: stop being a douche