This is a continuation of my 4-part "The History of Reddit Raiders" series. To read Part 1 click here, Part 2 click here, and Part 3 click here.
We left off in part 3 with ReAlz stepping down as leader and leaving his good-bye post on April 21, 2015.
Very: Frank was our most logical and obvious leader we felt even though I believe he was the newest elder
He had it pretty rough with me joining so soon after taking power haha
Very: okay so we though Frank was best, asked him, he said yes right away pretty much. Then Re left as you saw, then slowly Reality and Curly faded away soon after. Dehn was in there too, the crazy German
Frank: Also, to add to what Veryous said, I only agreed to leader because Matt, Veryous, and Funk gave me their support. I’m not a power hungry d!ck. I just think this clan is awesome and didn’t want to see it die.
Very: yeah we didn’t let on for a little bit that Re was leaving but then he started saing it in elder chat more. We almost forced him to stay for weeks before we got serious about replacing him. Frank had no idea this was coming at him at all. It was like hey, you wanna be leader? Haha
Frank: And were a very cohesive group in leadership. So good luck Wifette trying to prey on Bruno for intel. He’s already been force fed the Kool-aid.
Very: even if we don’t agree on something, someone or whatever the topic, it never gets ugly or disrespectful. I know 90% of the time Matt won't agree with, but I actually depend on Matt to argue with me so keep me on the sane side
I’m still afraid of going up against Matt for some reason. I think Frank and Very enjoy me pushing their buttons.
Very: matt is my perfect balance, yin to my yang. Keeps me grounded, doesn’t like change and all opposites of me. It’s a good thing we all have there and why we look for personality a lot so we don’t bring in a new person to mess it up
Frank: hes cold and calculated Wife. I wouldn’t mess with Matt either. I always think I have a solid argument for something then Matt tears my POV to bits.
Very: he does us all, its great.
Frank: I think hes a computer
Very: Matts a bot
Frank: like the hard mode in chess!
Funk: if Matt wasn’t here, this clan would be WAY different lol
Matt: Hi. It took me like 6 hours to catch up, but now I’m lurking. I just like to make sure people think of all the consequences of decisions :-P
Notable changes during Frank the Tanks's reign of terror as leader:
Funk: and dealt with the RCS… don’t forget that part. The biggest accomplishment
NOTE: THIS REUNION TOOK PLACE BEFORE THE RAIDERS SPLIT FROM THE RCS!
Reality: what happened with RCS?
Funk: everyone's leaving. All good war clans. Making their own families and alliances
Reality: did we leave
Funk: nope
Very: nope were like the best left yet. But normal stupid shit Reality, some mod somewhere, panties bunch, yell Raiders, bad people
Jman: behind elemens (jk)
Realz: alright guys. I’m gonna peace out. It was a lot of fun going down memory lane.
Final question... how does leadership see the clan changing in the future?
Very: I don’t know how to answer that. I think some of us have some ideas, we’ve thrown little things out here or there, but really a lot of what we become will be based around the game, the community, RCS, you guys, etc. We almost have to roll with the punches and adapt. Its hard to be proactive sometimes
Frank: what Very said
Very: I was about to say I’d love to hear Frank's answer
Frank's been quiet lately! Hopefully its cause he’s busy planning more wars for me
Frank: only crystallized direction I hope to steer us in is furthering our skill in war and continuing to be animals in the RCS
Very: I think easily its more matched wars. We need to be tested more. You guys roll over clans like this one too easily and we all get lazy. More facing clans at our intelligence and play level will help us.
Reality: that coz 90% of clans still suck major a$$
Very: agreed
Frank: I always go back to our label: competitive clan. We will always push to be the baddest motherf***ers on the block.
Very: Which reminds me I need to put attacks in soon haha
Funk: needs to be clan rankings so you face better and better clans when you keep wining
Spart: looks like I just missed the clash reunion but it was a fun read
UPDATE:
The History of Reddit Raiders reunion took place exactly a week before poop hit the fan with the Reddit Clan System. Reddit Raiders made the decision to leave the RCS on August 4, 2015. A future blog post is in the works detailing the events leading up to it.
Another blog post will be up once we make a decision about our future.
Until then, make love... and clan wars!
Very: Frank was our most logical and obvious leader we felt even though I believe he was the newest elder
He had it pretty rough with me joining so soon after taking power haha
Very: okay so we though Frank was best, asked him, he said yes right away pretty much. Then Re left as you saw, then slowly Reality and Curly faded away soon after. Dehn was in there too, the crazy German
Frank: Also, to add to what Veryous said, I only agreed to leader because Matt, Veryous, and Funk gave me their support. I’m not a power hungry d!ck. I just think this clan is awesome and didn’t want to see it die.
Very: yeah we didn’t let on for a little bit that Re was leaving but then he started saing it in elder chat more. We almost forced him to stay for weeks before we got serious about replacing him. Frank had no idea this was coming at him at all. It was like hey, you wanna be leader? Haha
Frank: And were a very cohesive group in leadership. So good luck Wifette trying to prey on Bruno for intel. He’s already been force fed the Kool-aid.
Very: even if we don’t agree on something, someone or whatever the topic, it never gets ugly or disrespectful. I know 90% of the time Matt won't agree with, but I actually depend on Matt to argue with me so keep me on the sane side
I’m still afraid of going up against Matt for some reason. I think Frank and Very enjoy me pushing their buttons.
Very: matt is my perfect balance, yin to my yang. Keeps me grounded, doesn’t like change and all opposites of me. It’s a good thing we all have there and why we look for personality a lot so we don’t bring in a new person to mess it up
Frank: hes cold and calculated Wife. I wouldn’t mess with Matt either. I always think I have a solid argument for something then Matt tears my POV to bits.
Very: he does us all, its great.
Frank: I think hes a computer
Very: Matts a bot
Frank: like the hard mode in chess!
Funk: if Matt wasn’t here, this clan would be WAY different lol
Matt: Hi. It took me like 6 hours to catch up, but now I’m lurking. I just like to make sure people think of all the consequences of decisions :-P
Notable changes during Frank the Tanks's reign of terror as leader:
- Created a War Room in GroupMe the first week of May. This provided a dedicated location to focus on discussing strategy and posting war plans without getting lost in the social chitchat of our Chill Room. This also unofficially gave Griz... and later Wifey permission to take over our Chill Room blabbering. Some Raiders will even claim the War Room was created because of Grizzly. Miss ya!
- Changed our approach in wars on June 7th, 2015 by implementing Clash.Tools as our new calling system over Clash Caller. This better fit our needs and only required slight modifications to the timing of calls. At this time, leadership also adjusted the ranges for our calls to have a more even distribution.
- On Tuesday June 23, 2015 Reddit Raiders held their very first Civil War (Inbound hounds vs. Hog Raiders). Two new temporary clans were created so as not to give one team an advantage with level 6 clan perks to a level 1 clan. You can read more about the war in my recap post here.
- Reddit Raiders has tried to organize more scrims than in the past... we've had the one with Reddit Freeze (worked on first try) and Reddit Ion (keeps getting pushed back due to scheduling and one failed sync). Wifey enjoys taking all the credit for pushing leadership to make this happen. Leadership doesn't get enough credit for all the hard work that goes into it.
Funk: and dealt with the RCS… don’t forget that part. The biggest accomplishment
NOTE: THIS REUNION TOOK PLACE BEFORE THE RAIDERS SPLIT FROM THE RCS!
Reality: what happened with RCS?
Funk: everyone's leaving. All good war clans. Making their own families and alliances
Reality: did we leave
Funk: nope
Very: nope were like the best left yet. But normal stupid shit Reality, some mod somewhere, panties bunch, yell Raiders, bad people
Jman: behind elemens (jk)
Realz: alright guys. I’m gonna peace out. It was a lot of fun going down memory lane.
Final question... how does leadership see the clan changing in the future?
Very: I don’t know how to answer that. I think some of us have some ideas, we’ve thrown little things out here or there, but really a lot of what we become will be based around the game, the community, RCS, you guys, etc. We almost have to roll with the punches and adapt. Its hard to be proactive sometimes
Frank: what Very said
Very: I was about to say I’d love to hear Frank's answer
Frank's been quiet lately! Hopefully its cause he’s busy planning more wars for me
Frank: only crystallized direction I hope to steer us in is furthering our skill in war and continuing to be animals in the RCS
Very: I think easily its more matched wars. We need to be tested more. You guys roll over clans like this one too easily and we all get lazy. More facing clans at our intelligence and play level will help us.
Reality: that coz 90% of clans still suck major a$$
Very: agreed
Frank: I always go back to our label: competitive clan. We will always push to be the baddest motherf***ers on the block.
Very: Which reminds me I need to put attacks in soon haha
Funk: needs to be clan rankings so you face better and better clans when you keep wining
Spart: looks like I just missed the clash reunion but it was a fun read
UPDATE:
The History of Reddit Raiders reunion took place exactly a week before poop hit the fan with the Reddit Clan System. Reddit Raiders made the decision to leave the RCS on August 4, 2015. A future blog post is in the works detailing the events leading up to it.
Another blog post will be up once we make a decision about our future.
Until then, make love... and clan wars!
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