To our Hivemind team, y'all bee-lieved in the team so strongly and did as much as you could to help the hive thrive until the very last life was lost.
This is my third year participating in Elimination, my first time assisting with leading a team, and honestly, I could not ask for a better team to lead. I'm not gonna lie, I was super worried about being offered a leadership position by Champion. For the last two years, I was on the Elimination team that was out first. How could I handle a team of potentially 1k+ members? Those worries were quickly dashed away though, as Hivemind proved to be not only a team but a community with a shared goal of winning. The morale and enthusiasm ran high, 0 toxicity to be found, and everybody was working together to get one another caught up-to-speed on how Elimination works, how to find targets to fit your stats range, and supporting one another.
I'm not even going to try and wax poetic about Elimination team politics or team strategies - it's completely out of my realm of knowledge. But I will give credit where it's due, and our team worked so gawddamn hard in protecting our non-hitters from bleeding tickets. We had a lot of first-time Elimination players step up to the plate and assist in push coordination, reaching out to non-hitters and protecting them from ticket bleeding, setting up initiatives to aid low-income active hitters, and pairing off our active hitters with the non-hitter to help boost morale and participation. We also had a lot of people contribute to the team armory, and provide our younger members with supplies. We had such a huge amount of support from those who stepped up, and it really helped the team thrive.
I wanna say thank you to our Council for supporting
myself, Champion, Marcinko, and Zorfar in Leadership and helping the team: Ara, BitchCutter, Cheb, CindyFury, Droxy, ImSteve, itsme89, Kidnapped, mud, Nena, Nyx, Tenacious1, WhackedMaki, and Z_Junior.
Thank you to our Server Helpers for helping with the onboarding of members into the Discord Server and helping with role assignments: Klockwerk and tos.
Thank you to our Push Captains for coordinating pushes, boosting morale, and relaying orders from the team's Discord server into the in-game team chat for those who were not on the Discord: -Samel-, adorablemenace, alfuerza, Amaricq, astrosoft, Basilissa, BitchCutter, bitsy, Decame, DimPerrin, Ducati_Jack, Eabd-AlGhaffar, fawkses, FijiWater, GingerBush, LoadedGuns, Lothbrock, MiiitcH, NightShadeNova, Opalsocks, RealLune, SimbaJack, WantSomeJD, Wtf_mica, Yahoo-chick. I want to give a big thanks to Basilissa for providing the Push Captains with a script to use to help coordinate pushes. I feel like all of our Push Captains put in serious hours with coordinating pushes and reiterating orders - hope y'all are able to get some good rest after this and enjoy training :)
Thank you to our Slacker Patrol, y'all got really innovative with your initiatives of "Adopt-a-Slacker", "Send-a-Can", "Bounty Slackers", and "Revives OFF". The endless amounts of Google Sheets y'all created to coordinate and organize these initiatives were amazing. Thank you for putting in serious work to help get our non-hitters and inactives under control to prevent ticket bleeding. I especially wanna shout out BoonieSteep, they're a newer player, less than a year old, and they were head of the Slacker Patrol. Shout-out to the rest of the Slacker Patrol: -Samel-, Aguirre, alfuerza, ApocalypTec, baradasandip, bitsy, BoDuke, ChaoticNova, Chronos, Clwee, Coseruseusesus, Crapple, CunningNimrod, Cursed_Phoenix, dark_cultis, DevIce, DimPerrin, Ducati_Jack, fawkses, Glenn, GONE4EVER, Gtne, Hpj_, Lady-War-Bot, Legohead, LemonGrenade, LordZAKRI, Maestro, Mahsati, MaineHippo, MeatYourBeat, Meg91, MiiitcH, Mr_Bob, Napes32, NightShadeNova, Opalsocks, PadroDaCat, Papillon25, PickleRick, Punish3r, RealLune, Roberto, Ryskill, Scrattch, ScroogeMcDuck, sCrUwU, Shadowmourne, SHENG0413, Shroominkid, SimbaJack, SonicHades171, Soup, Tbn1991, The-GOAT, Toshredyousay, Vindu, WantSomeJD, WhackedMaki, Wood, Wtf_mica, Yahoo-chick, Zanz, and Zeroske.
Thank you to our Programmers who helped with scripts and adding to our Discord bots to make things easier for the team: astrosoft, Eriall, Javus, Lazerpent, LoadedGuns, MiiitcH, Mikkass, Mr_Bob, MrTrick, Scrattch, TheMonkeyMan, tos, Trill07, and Which_Overseer.
And last but not least, a big thank you to our Hive Builders, they were big morale boosters and were active in chat to assist players new to Elimination (both young and old): 99ior, ARIESS, bitsy, BoDuke, BoonieSteep, CebteR, Clwee, Ducati_Jack, EndlessXII, fawkses, Gtne, Hpj_, Iris_Rose, Kaykot, KittyKath, Legohead, Life, Little_Miss_J, MiiitcH, Papillon25, RealLune, Salocin2308, sCrUwU, SimbaJack, Sinatr_, Tbn1991, The-GOAT, WantSomeJD, Wtf_mica, Yahoo-chick, and Zanz.
Thanks again y'all for helping the hive thrive til the very end <3
Wishing all our Hivemind team members the best on their Torn journies and I hope y'all enjoyed this year's Elimination competition as much as I did.
~* Gem
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