Tier 1, Task 1
The league and its members have been around even far before I was around to witness some of the crazy moments or games that forever changed the way that things would be for years to come. There is still plenty of time left for more history to be made and possibly a chance for myself to make more history. One moment that I was able to witness and take part in was something that ended up creating a “controversial” fine for one of the former DSFL GMs that possibly played a part in them leaving the job. Not a lot know about what truly went down and as more members join in the league, this moment ends up passing back further and further to just be old memories between those involved. The moment I am speaking of has earned my title of the Gay Meme Scandal of GM Chat or simply the GMS and brings about a few laughs between the GMs involved.
The story begins with an idea to fill the gap of not having enough representation for the S21 DSFL draft stream by all DSFL teams. It was a constant ask after the over 250 player draft, that a GM from each team was able to get in the stream to give a better review of each team and who they picked and why they picked them. The teams involved were all but Norfolk and any member of head office. The rest of the DSFL teams involved, that I am fully aware of, were Kansas City, London, Dallas, and Minnesota. There was some involvement from Portland but nothing after the first speed bump that comes later. The task seemed reasonable enough but never was met with proper confirmation by head office or anyone involved with the stream. So the GMs not involved with the official stream decided to work on creating a separate stream that other users could view on their own time. There were a few hiccups when getting the stream setup at first with trying to gather people from different parts of the world at one time to get a stream going but eventually, we managed to work out all of the kinks to begin. The first few rounds went by easily and everyone was in a great sync while pulling off jokes or bringing out hidden draft thoughts that usually are hidden in the very vented group on a draft stream. Almost all teams were represented by the group providing the commentary on the special draft stream which added to just how much insight was given.
However, after a few rounds, things quickly hit a bad speed bump as internet issues arose. A few people were not able to continue with the stream and the move to another stream host caused a restart on the planned stream into a far longer one as things jump back into the way that they were planned, mostly. With a few people still there, some alcohol had been flowing through the voices of the GMs and caused some of the less inebriated opinions to devolve slightly toward more quick comments or jokes just through the secondary stream. It represented more of a few people trying to build a LEGO set without any instructions but a vague idea about what the product is from the box, messy but eventually it got put together. All 250 and more players were discussed through a multiple hour stream that finally had decent GM representation by most of the teams in the DSFL. Then the next speed bump came up with the night that turned out to be the wall that would crush all hopes for a normal night. In the hasty switch to secondary stream, the ever-important record button had not been pressed at all during the multiple hour stream. By now it was around 2 AM EST and a lot of the GMs had taken a lot of hard drinks to get through the stream so the hopes of making another recorded stream were all but dead. This is where the night goes from a huge missed opportunity, into something that the entire league would be made aware of for a week and league money would be fined into the multi millions.
As the group abandoned the prospect of recording another draft stream, a few memes were getting shared of rising edginess and sexual nature and laughs were had by all of those involved. The memes were flowing, the laughs were rising, and everyone was having a great time. Then there was a major issue that came as one of the London GMs, DeadlyPlayer, involved began to call out members that were not sharing or awake at the time that were members of head office which quickly started to make things far worse than the original intent of drunk meme sharing. While I won’t say that I did not enjoy the night of memes, calling out members of head office or other GMs that were not involved in the night was when the night became too much to continue without major repercussions. They quickly came in the morning after all of the energy from the mistakes had faded and consequences came out. The highest fine from the night went to Deadly at a whopping $8 million for sharing hundreds of gay memes that had been cropped and given different captions to create a special meme. The fine led to a very active punishment thread with those that had not been involved with the event and were given misinformation or half truths about what had gone down inside of DSFL GM chat. Hopefully some people have learned more about the event in the past few seasons or maybe it has all been lost to time.
The league and its members have been around even far before I was around to witness some of the crazy moments or games that forever changed the way that things would be for years to come. There is still plenty of time left for more history to be made and possibly a chance for myself to make more history. One moment that I was able to witness and take part in was something that ended up creating a “controversial” fine for one of the former DSFL GMs that possibly played a part in them leaving the job. Not a lot know about what truly went down and as more members join in the league, this moment ends up passing back further and further to just be old memories between those involved. The moment I am speaking of has earned my title of the Gay Meme Scandal of GM Chat or simply the GMS and brings about a few laughs between the GMs involved.
The story begins with an idea to fill the gap of not having enough representation for the S21 DSFL draft stream by all DSFL teams. It was a constant ask after the over 250 player draft, that a GM from each team was able to get in the stream to give a better review of each team and who they picked and why they picked them. The teams involved were all but Norfolk and any member of head office. The rest of the DSFL teams involved, that I am fully aware of, were Kansas City, London, Dallas, and Minnesota. There was some involvement from Portland but nothing after the first speed bump that comes later. The task seemed reasonable enough but never was met with proper confirmation by head office or anyone involved with the stream. So the GMs not involved with the official stream decided to work on creating a separate stream that other users could view on their own time. There were a few hiccups when getting the stream setup at first with trying to gather people from different parts of the world at one time to get a stream going but eventually, we managed to work out all of the kinks to begin. The first few rounds went by easily and everyone was in a great sync while pulling off jokes or bringing out hidden draft thoughts that usually are hidden in the very vented group on a draft stream. Almost all teams were represented by the group providing the commentary on the special draft stream which added to just how much insight was given.
However, after a few rounds, things quickly hit a bad speed bump as internet issues arose. A few people were not able to continue with the stream and the move to another stream host caused a restart on the planned stream into a far longer one as things jump back into the way that they were planned, mostly. With a few people still there, some alcohol had been flowing through the voices of the GMs and caused some of the less inebriated opinions to devolve slightly toward more quick comments or jokes just through the secondary stream. It represented more of a few people trying to build a LEGO set without any instructions but a vague idea about what the product is from the box, messy but eventually it got put together. All 250 and more players were discussed through a multiple hour stream that finally had decent GM representation by most of the teams in the DSFL. Then the next speed bump came up with the night that turned out to be the wall that would crush all hopes for a normal night. In the hasty switch to secondary stream, the ever-important record button had not been pressed at all during the multiple hour stream. By now it was around 2 AM EST and a lot of the GMs had taken a lot of hard drinks to get through the stream so the hopes of making another recorded stream were all but dead. This is where the night goes from a huge missed opportunity, into something that the entire league would be made aware of for a week and league money would be fined into the multi millions.
As the group abandoned the prospect of recording another draft stream, a few memes were getting shared of rising edginess and sexual nature and laughs were had by all of those involved. The memes were flowing, the laughs were rising, and everyone was having a great time. Then there was a major issue that came as one of the London GMs, DeadlyPlayer, involved began to call out members that were not sharing or awake at the time that were members of head office which quickly started to make things far worse than the original intent of drunk meme sharing. While I won’t say that I did not enjoy the night of memes, calling out members of head office or other GMs that were not involved in the night was when the night became too much to continue without major repercussions. They quickly came in the morning after all of the energy from the mistakes had faded and consequences came out. The highest fine from the night went to Deadly at a whopping $8 million for sharing hundreds of gay memes that had been cropped and given different captions to create a special meme. The fine led to a very active punishment thread with those that had not been involved with the event and were given misinformation or half truths about what had gone down inside of DSFL GM chat. Hopefully some people have learned more about the event in the past few seasons or maybe it has all been lost to time.