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or series to watch while I play video games

about complaining

do y'all want people to not take this seriously and not care, or do you want admin/mods to care and do updates

this community deserves a space like this if I am being honest. Collectively the "loudest" and most prominent members of this sphere who have the most influence tend to be the most mean, publicly vile, and privately incel-coded people I have ever met online. Anytime anyone who is remotely mature / professional enters this space and tries to make it better, they are almost immediately ran out because the SAME users pull the same stunts for their own entertainment & drama that fulfills their lackluster lives to begin with. I truly feel fucking awful for Sin because I know how hard they have worked to pull this shit off, and I feel equally awful for those who were in power (myself included) that had true intentions to make this website a great space just to be constantly harassed by those who either wanted an upper hand in a game, or just so fucking bored of their life that they'd rather ruin the fun for everyone else. Rant over! LOL

but I am pretty sure Kovaze makes money from the designs/shops part of the website rather than the games. Yes, the games are the point but the $$$ comes from people buying diamonds / koinz. so I am not really surprised the updates are being prioritized there because its easier AND makes him money lol

This was a project I was working on for a few weeks before I realized it was never going to happen. I am sad about it because I really think this would have done really well and kept people on the website for something to compete for. Teams - max of 10 people per team. Works like frats on TG [This was before Cliques were introduced on the website!]. Get a custom tag that’s put next to your name. Custom team page where you can post custom merch. Teams work like “clans” in e sports leagues. Players compete solo but can earn points for their team in team standings. League - works like Fortnite cup. Open for 2 hours (twice, once in the morning once at night. Two different leagues? EU/AU vs. NA?). Races will be in black border. You earn points for yourself in competing in these events (ELO specific points. Will need to come up with a formula to reward / punish players for not competing to save their ELO). Will be every Tuesday and Saturday for Races. Players can compete in both leagues if they want. Arena/Frenzy - how do we stop premades ruining the league? Once a week games where you sign up ahead of time via raffle. Happens Friday night and Sunday night. Casts will be randomized. Playoffs - Top 40 players will compete in each league on specified dates. It’ll be seeded based on points earned. 4 races of 10 INDIVIDUAL teams. First round lasts 2 races per day (if it takes place over a weekend, for example). Your average ranking moves you onto the next week with 20 players. Same thing with 2 races of 10 individual teams based on remaining seeds. Then finally the last week is the grand final with 1 race of 10 individual players. Here is my spreadsheet to track stats, rankings, performances, etc. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xi51HQ4s2C_LRoh9h_8lGM6yn9CPrb7A3K_tUS_EpD4/edit?usp=sharing

if the Events team still existed: Kovaze E-Sports League: This was my idea. Essentially it was a e-sports league for Arena/Race/Frenzy that would have given people rankings based on events we held. There would be "scheduled" times where you can play a game (kinda like Fortnite Cup) and how you did would give you points / grow your ELO. Eventually this would have led to a regular season / playoff format. Cliques would turn into "e-sports teams" that you could represent or submit teams for like TSM. If the website grew, different divisions as well. 12 Days of Christmas: Every day there is a different task you must do on the website. For example, on the first day of Christmas, you must play a Frenzy and make Top 3. On the 2nd day, you must enter a Race and never use transportation. You'll get a prize at the end of the 12 days dependent on how many tasks you completed. 1 task = 25 Koinz. 12 tasks completed = 3000 koinz a holiday flame (obviously can be changed) Project Runway: Have 3-4 of the best designers judge a competition where up-and-coming designers make designs to each week's "theme". The Judges will determine who is high/low. Winner of a challenge receives Koinz. Winner of the season gets a shop without bidding where they can post their designs. Maybe the winning design for each week gets posted in a special shop where that designer keeps the profit. Longer Outcasted: Cast of 80 players, all divided into 4 games of 20. Every game will merge at Final 10. Once the merge happens, there will be 2 more games of 20, with randomized tribes. Once again, these games will merge at Final 10. Finally, we have 1 game of 20 left. This will have a merge at F12, with a classic end game. Idols found in the games will transfer when you swap games. Special Races: All Deal or No Deal Race, No Partners Race, Everyone Has an Immunity Ticket Race. Community Watch Parties: Every week we have something that we all watch together on a stream, whether it's a Survivor episode, movie, etc. If you check-in and participate in the party, you get a certain number of Koinz. We can have the community vote on what they want to watch that week (we'll provide the options). RACE AROUND THE WORLD - It seems that people are missing their geography game (me too!). In the server I’d like to set up a trivia geography based quiz. Similar to the above comp though I’m unsure on what the prize for this should be. I do think this one would be awesome to have a little spinning globe flame (I’m unaware of the difficulty of creating flames). My thoughts for this one are leaning more towards the side of calling the event ‘Race Around the World’ and having those who manage to get enough points to be invited to a special style race. I did want some sort of trivia quiz on discord to kick this off though to bring back some more of the positive interactions to discord. (This was a Connor special that I loved). EDIT: I know that nikky and kemi were planning on at least had the concept of a Kovaze ORG as well. There were a lot more but this is just what I have access to. shout out to bagel kemi nikky surfersorbet and of connor for the great ideas and events. <3

some of you need to MODERATE your mental illness!

Always finds its way back around

All JessieKowalski and I wanted to do was help Kovaze be the best it can be. It (unfortunately) became common dinner time conversation on how things were going on the teams we were in, and we had a lot of fun doing it… until we didn’t. I trust that Sin actually wants Kovaze to succeed in their vision, not the vision of the very loud crazy people. I really hope that the next batch of users who try to help this website don’t get ran out like we all did. Dusty and I are always #TeamKovaze and won’t stop!

I got the events team fired and jessiekowalski got the mod team fired. the kennedy-putmans truly run Kovaze

EVENTS TEAM. FIRED MOD TEAM. FIRED

for the 3rd time in a row... It just hurts.

Flew for 10 hours, grabbed myself a few margs, took a walk through a really nice park, now watching March madness in my hotel room! Life is good :)