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So what is SF?
SF is a gaming community primarily based out of Guild Wars and City of Heroes and Villains. The guild was originally formed in Rolemaster: Magestorm (by Mythic Entertainment) on AOL, by Sam and was soon taken over by RomBurns. The guild will be turning 10 on December 28, 2008. We've had several off-line meetings already, and more are planned for the 10th Anniversary year. We truly consider ourselves like a family environment and like to keep things that way. Plenty of us have history with each other that stretch through and past the 10 year period of gaming of this guild. We currently run rosters based on the needs of individual members, and this can mean more than one guild in each game. Our rosters vary from casual PvE teams, to dedicated PvP ones. The guild is overall managed by a council of senior members, and the guild is governed by its own Constitution. Overall we represent consistency, competent organisation and longevity that you won't find in too many other places.
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Year in review of 2009
As we take a look back at 2009 for the production of Strike Force as a guild/team/family things have been pretty calm. Near the beginning of the year we were under new management within Guildwars, which is/was our prominent game that members are connected to on a single roster. The new management wasn't technically new, new, but a fresh set of eyes on the scene. Amy was the GM for the GW roster running players through dungeon runs practically having people beg to get on her teams due to her leading capabilities as a GM and skilled player in those aspects. So, this year kudos and thanks to Amy for her contributions as a GM for the majority of 2009.
We did experience some downtime in GW after players experiencing GW burnout, this was weighing heavily on members, which is fine, every roster goes through it. We also had the development of the PvP team in GW that was in full effect this year, Hoschi had taken over as a fine GM for the competitive roster. Hoschi was very clear on what his expectations were for the team and followed through even with rough times and limited resources to get him going. Hoschi as a GM for that roster gets a round of applause for leading and dealing with the stresses that come with the role of a competitive roster.
During this year we had a lot of development and revamping talk and implementation as a guild. We had the addition of more TF2, Left 4 Dead, Aion, World of Warcraft, Diablo 2 gameplay. That just lists the quick spectrum of what players have been involved in. By the end of December and opening of the new year the WoW roster is going more official and having a Strike Force branded PvP team that are looking for going for high rank. The captain of the PvP portion of the team has been announced as Standerd (Kyle). The GM/AGM combination for the game that has been announced is Standerd/Yarg (Kyle/Ben). Dan's projects throughout the year were to implement steam servers as a test to grow the SF population in other games, these implementations were to test and see what types of people we could be able to add to our community of SF. Another big project during this year was the LC putting together and working on the implementation on how we run SF as a whole. We want to become more diverse to expand the team in to different games and be more lenient on how our roster works to make the jobs of our own Game Managers that much easier.
During this year we did have a couple of downfalls as well, but who doesn't right? City of Villains/Heroes as a roster was implemented for a short stint through this year, now there is a skeleton crew representing the roster as it were in CoV. We also had periods or lulls in our GW roster activity, which has now just gone to the development of the weekend warrior program. The "program" was developed so that a lot of the older members/players can just get together and run GvG's non-competitively and still show that we have a face in GW. We also weren't able to essentially pull what we wanted out of the Steam crowd either, this is in reference to the possibilities of recruitment. Yet, we never went official within any of the steam games and had a guild/team setup that was dedicated. Although there may be a little negative, we generally were able to pull some good notes and positive from our experiences as a team.
Interesting facts for the year for the team is that we had a couple of get togethers as a team. A huge thank you goes out to Becca and Jeff for their hospitality for opening their home to our members and letting some of us stay there instead of a hotel and burning even more money. As we all know times are tight on cash >;). For them two to open their home and let us all stay together in one place makes things with everyone who got together more personal and it really did feel, from a personal perspective, like I've known everyone for half my life. Even though in some cases that actually is true. We all got to meet up at Texas De Brazil, the steakhouse in Shaumberg IL..I hope I spelled that right. The turnout was quite nice, we had roughly 9 members at the dinner. Quite personally, I think this guild LOVES the sausage, especially when one of the main meetup spots to stop at was The Brat Stop! We had also figured that we will no longer let IV (Scott) pick out restaurants to eat at. We had the lovely graces of Xeeron coming in to the states as well for a period of time and for dinner we got the lovely crappy service of the Italian restaurant that Scotty picked out >:). It's O.K. Scott you are still loved like a red headed step child. I'd also like to mention that we did celebrate 10 years as a guild, congrats to us on 10 years as a community and team and being able to grow in to fine dysfunctional family.
Year in review by Jed (Ted)
Guild Happenings for Jan 2010
- SF entering competitive PvP gameplay within WoW
- SF implementation of new structure depending on GM decision
- SF implementation of GM/AGM's within WoW making the team more official within the SF community
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