For those of you who weren't aware of this amazing achievement:
Last Sunday night, The Jempire celebrated their 100th consecutive leaderboard win as the #1 Lockdown Guild in Spiral Knights! As Jempire marches forward towards the two-year mark, a new generation of players now carry the torch forward.
Back in 2011, when we first founded Jempire on Spiral Knights, I never really imagined we would end up growing as much as we have. When we started, it was all just about finding some like-minded friends to run with, hosting a few events for the community, and waiting for the next big SK content drop.
Our goals were small but modest, and though we joked about taking over the world, we never really imagined that would happen. I saw a number of members with great potential, and promoted them - Dothackerduo, Kennyn, Huntr, and soon after, Chikamatsu, Espira, and Damon-Drake, who formed our original Officer Team. Of course, having a co-GM who has been your best friend for over ten years (Ruyter) helps, too.
And somewhere along the line, everything just clicked. We found not just success, but an abundance of it - and, as our teamwork increased and our friendships grew stronger, our strength as a guild began to grow, too. Remembering back to that very first week that PvP came out, and how Jempire was the underdog team, behind by almost 30,000 points going into the weekend... Somehow, we ramped up to an amazing comeback to steal away 1st place from a guild called "Active" at the time. It was a great victory for us as a team, and though we didn't know it yet, a sign of things to come.
A lot of players who joined Spiral Knights within the last two years probably only know Jempire as the #1 PvP guild, able to take down any team of six that gets thrown against us. The old A team defeated Aequitas' A team in a series of three matches that still holds the record for most spectators in SK history, and the new generation Jempire A team has proven their mettle, too - downing the best teams that any guild can put together now, even when star players combine.
But for as perfect as all that sounds, the truth is, back when we first started, that totally was not us. We fell hard against teams with better gear (like Finesse with their heart pendants), and even as we began our #1 streak, we ran into a lot of challenges that required us to change our way of thinking - and playing.
And as the months went by, we continued to grow, and grow, and grow. We won some, lost some, and kept pushing ourselves to learn from those losses. But more than anything else, we never stopped playing. As old generations began to fade out, new ones came in to fill their shoes.
We've grown stronger and have overcome much in our 100 weeks at the top. We've made a great number of friends, and (naturally) a few enemies, but we're thankful for the fun times all the same.
Jempire, you guys are truly, truly, truly amazing. I said it back when we finished a year, but I'll say it again now - and with just as much amazement. It's an honor to see our guild still working together, growing together, and having fun together, at such a level as I see here. There's no other guild in the game that compares on that front, and it's humbling to look back on all the things we've accomplished, together.
Onward, then, to a full two years.
(source: http://jemgaming.net/forums/content.php?330-Jempire-celebrates-100-strai...)
Quite so! Can't wait for all the hate this thread will generate :D