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Welcome to Team Blaze! Here at Team Blaze, we are an all-inclusive team whose main goal is just to have fun, and to have a good time all while being supportive of each other. So, whether it's playing FFR, chatting with other members, or doing other activities together, we're just here to have some fun, and to make memorable experiences. Important Notes - Announcements are kept in post #2. - Current Events are kept in post #3. Team Requirements: -At least 10 forum posts. -At least 250 games played. -At least a member for 0.2 years -People join Team Blaze, not accounts. So please, no alts. -You must not be a current member of either Team Pony or Team Indeed. requirement removed as of July 31, 2013 Team Motto: Current: Wafu?! Past Motto's: Team Blaze Member List / Spreadsheet: Click here Rules: -Don't cheat -Don't sandbag -Don't misrepresent the team -Don't add people in the skype group without asking -Don't do anything deemed too stupid Team Blaze Engine: As far as files for Team Blaze go, they are now once again being uploaded to the team blaze engine! If you want a file uploaded (as a part of TB) then contact Charu through a private message or Skype. All the engine links for the community engine can be found on the Team Blaze website, http://teamblaze.zxq.net. Team Blaze Engine Song List We also have a leader board for scores gotten on the TB engine, courtesy of TC_Halogen. Check out these links if you have a score to submit, or if you would like to see the scores your fellow teammates have gotten so far! For more information on score submission, please refer to this post. Score Submission Form Score Submissions Spreadsheet Leaderboard Spreadsheet Direct Legacy Engine Link Direct Velocity Engine Link Current Staff List: Admin: reuben_tate Chat Moderators: HalfStep, tosh, and kjwkjw PM Senders: top and RB_Spirit Graphic Designers: Sweet Angel and Charu New Member Welcomers: Sweet Angel and PaperclipGames Spreadsheet Updaters: Gradiant and PaperclipGames Sandwich Maker: thesunfan Thread Updater: kjwkjw Engine Moderator: Charu, justin, and Gradiant Presence Moderator: Charu Skype Group: We do have a Skype group, if you wish to join it, please contact any of the Team Blaze staff. They'll assist you with getting into the chat. Team Game info Spreadsheet: We've put together a nice little spreadsheet of users/games we play, to be added simply post that you want to be and list of usernames for any game you want, or suggest a game you don't see! Spreadsheet: Click here |
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Announcements The 9th Official FFR Tournament is here! Check the spoiler box below for round updates. Courtesy of ohsosilly. Thanks a bunch, Bridget! Updates |
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CURRENT TEAM BLAZE EVENTS None at the moment, stay posted... |
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Yay :3
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Hot n' fresh!
Time build up that page count again. |
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Due to the original poster (Zekramcross) stepping down from his position as Team Captain, I made this new thread so we can have a thread where we can have the OP updated. The OP is under a team account so that more than one person can update the OP if I'm not around. Please post in here from now on, I'll see about getting the other thread locked.
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Timotei!
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i love (orange things)
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Any suggestions for additions to the OP are appreciated :3 I threw it together in two minutes and I know I'm missing some things.
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Guys, it's not that we hate you or anything, it's that our bylaws prohibit dual membership. Besides, you helped me get over my first case of "OMG I'm getting bumped up!" For that, I for one can't stay mad, even if I am bad. ;) |
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I'd like to be removed from the roster, thx.
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The whole blacklist thing is due to Team Indeed and Team Pony both being competitive, while teams such as Team Pokemon and Debbie Downers are more casual, therefore dual memberships are allowed with them.
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In the standalone thread, there's an swf for a TB engine, is this still used? I'd guess no from the number of files on it, but I think it'd be cool to revive it and have the members be able to have their files on it for critiquing from other members, maybe sponcons, friendly competition with comparing scores, etc.
Edit: Oh, and my new best AAA is either Fei Longer or Starlight. Whichever is better :) |
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I guess you should rephrase the "blacklisted" teams into something more friendly sounding.
Something like adding / changing the requirements list: - You cannot be a member of the following teams for competitive purposes: Team Indeed, Team Pony. - Teams you may duo join due to the more casual nature: Team Pokemon & Debbie Downers. |
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Edit: After thinking about this for a little bit, I think a good way to approach the topic to understand my thoughts on it (justin_ator) is that Team Blaze is a group that has become pretty tight-knit as far as the skype group and active member list is concerned. We want people dedicated to our team. Team Pokemon is a gathering of pokemon lovers. debbie downers is a gathering of downscroll players. We happen to be a gathering of people that WANT to be a dedicated team and support group. Our group isn't so much casual talk about this topic or that, it's friends supporting each other. In my opinion (and this is not official TB opinion, just mine, so don't quote this as "the TB side of things") TB isn't really meant to be a group that people join and just casually pass through to say hi once in a while. We want dedicated members. People that are going to say yep, repping tb in this event. If you can't say you'd support TB over your other team, I don't feel you should join TB in the first place. |
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Truth be told, I hardly see much "team competition" going around for any team these days. Score comparisons for the purpose of one-upping another team is almost non-existent now, but used to be common in the mid to late 2000s. Today, people post scores almost always to gauge their own rate of improvement. They rarely heed to someone else.
I see teams these days as being groups composed of individuals that share a common interest that is usually unrelated to the game itself. If this is how it's going to be, I don't see the need to add barriers for competitive purposes. The competitive aspect of FFR is most common in one-on-one rivalry threads, not team threads. |
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Well it's not my decision to make, as it's Ben's team.
If you want my honest uncensored opinion, I personally am not real excited about Team Pony members joining because, while I have no problem with you guys enjoying MLP, I don't really like hearing about it or seeing avatars from it all the time, and TB is one of the few places I don't really see any of that. Somewhat the same reason I tune out / close the TB chat when the conversation turns to League of Legends. I'd be fine with letting TP members in if I didn't have to hear about MLP in the TB chat. Again, my thoughts (as bad as they might sound, I don't mean to be offensive), and it's ultimately Ben's decision. edit: depending on what Ben thinks, I'd be open to dropping the rival-team "bans" and just seeing how things go |
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My concern is that there are people in Team Pony (they / ben / myself / justin should know who they are) who have been shown to not be able to remain civil in our chat if we open it to them (thanks to an incident a bit ago.) I'm fine though if Ben thinks it can be done ect. Just thought I'd voice my only concern.
I'm not fond of all the pony talk / fandom ect, but I see no reason to discriminate them because of their interests. That would be like kicking me out for liking the Miku vocaloid as much as I do. I'm all for allowing everyone into the chat as long as they can remain civil and not force us into doing what had to be done last time. |
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Hi guys. Just saying hi guys..So, hi guys.
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only problem i have with the op is the word owner.. iirc your not the one who started it and i think leader would be a much better word.. im also gonna have to ask that you please take me off the team, im not really part of it.. i tried and someone kept kickin me outta skype chat so i kinda prefer to roll solo anyways..
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That would have been me as back when you did join the chat we had too many people to host call so I had to kick people out temporarily to make room (I'm fairly certain I warned you and everyone else who I had to kick out to start them, everyone was also allowed right back in).
I'll remove you from the spreadsheet as requested though. |
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Good to know Team Pony is getting more advertisement in here.
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I like how Middie is the only one with something nice to say. Surprising.
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Something like, each team is divided into divisions, and each division can post like 3 scores per song, and then the highest team at the end of a couple of songs would win. That would be quite enjoyable, indeed. |
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I'll join, since I'm already friends with a couple of the members. Skype chat sounds fun.
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why was a v2 made im curious
also im not on the team also also compete more also also also zek sticks out like a white man in a black parade |
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jductape can be bumped to D3 on the spreadsheet =p
edit:// and 25th to D4 This can be important for spon cons and stuff |
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Woah, new TB thread. I didn't know about this.
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isn't that account managed by a few people, like zak, middie, J_A?
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I have no clue probably.. I was jus tryin to be funneh :{p
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It's me (justin_ator), Ben, and Zak. Middie isn't modding for the team anymore, just kinda helping keep the spreadsheet up to date. Most of the posts will be by me I would assume, but if it's a spon con it's probably written by Ben, as was the original OP.
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I still have no idea how long my ban is and it's been 5 days after today. Has a decision been reached yet?
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I'm a little tired of the leaders of this team trying to say who can and can't join the team. There's a lot of assumptions being thrown around that certain teams are -competitive-, and the fact that you have both Team Pony and Team Indeed is kinda silly to me. Team Indeed barely has any forum activity, and their opening/original post states that they are looking for those who are serious with rhythm gaming. They even have an entry requirement to be on the team that some D4 players won't even be able to make, and TB has many other users, which wouldn't make much of a "team" competition.
As far as Team Pony, there's always been an implied rivalry against Team Blaze, but it's never been serious enough to the point of denying users from other teams to come in. Team Pony is dedicated more toward being a fun hangout, rather than a tight-knit team. To me, it just seems like you're forcefully dictating things to keep a small and specific group that will adhere to your overly specific requirements. I normally won't make a post like this if I'm not involved, but this is a bone I've had to pick with Team Blaze for a little while now, above other things. EDIT: also the whole having to deal with Pony avatars/signatures might be a problem with you, but people have to deal with the large Team Blaze signatures in all of your members' signature areas, and likewise as Kayla said, we can disable them but we choose not to. It goes both ways since we're both representing our miniature communities/interests. |
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lol can't talk about ponies cause someone gets annoyed
lol can't talk about league cause someone gets annoyed lol can't talk about ______ cause someone gets annoyed let's just talk about ffr all day every day so no one gets annoyed (sun) |
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I'm fine with loosening restrictions, giving everyone a chance. Trolls can always be banned later, but everyone deserves a shot, if not two.
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i would join if i hated myself, but i don't so YOUR LOSS
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Not perma-banned, no. Just don't have a length yet. You'll be back in eventually.
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Secondly, you act like we have super specific entry requirements. Basically, it says, "don't be on another team" which seems rather reasonable. We've tried to make our team as inclusive as possible by not discriminating against skill, GT, member length, etc; but I feel like the concept of a team loses it's meaning when it becomes 100% inclusive, there has to be some exclusivity. Team boundaries would just melt away if every single team became 100% inclusive; every team would just turn to multiple instances of "Team FFR" since many people would feel inclined to join all the teams they can. As for Team Pony, I have to say that you guys are doing a great job. You've been keeping your members interested with events and such and it seems like a lot of you guys are really dedicated to the team and it's interests. Not to mention I love seeing the way you guys support one another in tournaments and other events. Now even if you guys weren't really competitive with us, I'd still like to see a organized and dedicated team hard at work, and I feel that allowing dual memberships with Team Pony would mitigate the level of dedication each member gives to their respective team(s). I believe in the thought that it's always better to put in a lot of quality effort into a few things, as opposed to putting in zero to a minimal amount of effort into many things. As you can see, I'm not just worried for the Team itself, but to the whole existence of teams as a whole on FFR. I find them to be an interesting aspect to make the FFR experience more interesting and enjoyable and it would upset me if we lost that aspect. ------------------ Now I know that it may seem unfair that we are allowing members to join Team Pokemon and Debbie Downers as well. That came from my personal opinions on which teams were "competitive" or not and I realize that it may be a little silly for me to be able to make that judgement since it is rather subjective. I am considering allowing dual memberships for all teams. If I decide to let it happen, I'll let it run for month or so and at the end of the month, I'll do a re-evaluation of my thoughts on dual memberships. I'm just trying to be fair as I possibly can here so give me a chance to try to work things out with you guys, it's not my intentions to have any negative grudges between any of the teams. EDIT: Quote:
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i'm still ok w/ no dual-memberships w/ TP/TI. your thoughts all make sense ben.
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I guess I'll wait my 3 weeks or so.
Seems kinda long imo, but I'll just wait it out. |
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How do we deal with vast differences in relative skill levels between individual members? How do we deal with differing numbers of members? Strict PA-based tournament or more skill-token-ish based? Ongoing or strict deadlines? ... and so forth. |
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posting to say that I am still part of this team, despite my lack of contribution/activity etc
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Oh hey bob bob, do you care to be added to the skype chat, out of curiousity?
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No worries, we haven't removed ya (:
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Add me on Skype (Zakvvv666) and I'll add you to the group, though not many people are on now, so it's kinda dead.
EDIT: I would really like some feedback on this idea, I'm thinking of adding a list of (Multiplayer) games to the 2nd post, and listing off which members of the team play said games, to encourage more activity among the team. |
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you should get a request from my skype (itsonlydano) soon
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On to Round 7... GO ZYPH, BOB BOB AND 25THHOUR!!! TOP 5! Update after Round 6! Black = safe, red = elimination zone, strikeout = eliminated. D6: Zyphoror, awein999, bmah, Elite Ninja, EzExZeRo7497, justin_ator, TK_unreal, ULTIMEGA, Ziergdsx18 D5: bob bob, chocobothief12, CammyGoesRawr, chocobothief12, reuben_tate, sticklydude,TC_mistrisofevl, The_Toymaker, U.N. Owen D4: Charu, i will pwn u, Jake Ferguson, Khenra, magicturbo, raskanally, TC_Pr0, xBBx Takedown, XxMidigamixX, Xx{Midnight}xX, Zakvvv666 D3: 25thhour, circle_q, Hateandhatred, ohsosilly, popsicle_3000, TheSaxRunner05, Samwais D2: Evascythe, Guest15937, jductape, Ksl33zy24, Puzzler64, rusty_spoons D1: Nobody lol o.o Total Participants: 41 Members left after First Round: 34 [Eliminated: CammyGoesRawr (D5), i will pwn u (D4), Jake Ferguson (D4), Khenra (D4), raskanally (D4), xBBx Takedown (D4), XxMidigamixX (D4)] Members left after Second Round: 26 [Eliminated: justin_ator (D6), ULTIMEGA (D6), reuben_tate (D5), TC_pr0 (D4), ohsosilly (D3), Guest15937 (D2), KSl33zy24 (D2), rusty_spoons (D2)] Members left after Third Round: 21 [Eliminated: Ziergdsx18 (D6), TC_mistrisofevl (D5), magicturbo (D4), Samwais (D3), Puzzler64 (D2)] Members left after Fourth Round: 9 [Eliminated: awein999 (D6), bmah (D6), Elite Ninja (D6), sticklydude (D5), The_Toymaker (D5), U.N. Owen (D5), Xx{Midnight}xX (D4), Zakvvv666 (D4), Hateandhatred (D3), popsicle_3000 (D3), TheSaxRunner05 (D3), Evascythe (D2)] Members left after Fifth Round: 6 [Eliminated: TK_unreal (D6), chocobothief12 (D5), Charu (D4)] Members left after Sixth Round: 3 [Eliminated: EzExZeRo7497 (D6), circle_q (D3), jductape (D2)] |
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new best AAA: {Big Boss}
i've rarely been this stoked after getting a AAA |
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I would like to join Team Blaze. I have the exact requirements to do so, thank you.
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I don't see why not. Have a Skype/want to join in that too?
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Welcome in. Sorry for the chat issue. |
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name: Mike
D3 best AAA: Turbulence spread qwp[ 1.8 downscroll dat shit^ |
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