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Charleston Battery (USLC) - South Georgia Tormenta (USL1)
7:00 ET - Patriots Point Soccer Stadium; Mount Pleasant, SC
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	CHS 0-0 SGA
21'	Goal!	Battery	M. Myers	CHS 1-0 SGA
40'	Goal	Tormenta	P. Fonseca	CHS 1-1 SGA
45'+3	Goal!	Battery	M. Myers	CHS 2-1 SGA
45'	-	Half Time	-	CHS 2-1 SGA
60'	Yellow Card	Tormenta	P. Fonseca	CHS 2-1 SGA
83'	Goal!	Tormenta	G. Rodriguez	CHS 2-2 SGA
90'	-	End of Regulation	-	CHS 2-2 SGA
103'	Yellow Card	Battery	C. Allan	CHS 2-2 SGA
120'+2	Goal!	Battery	M. Myers	CHS 3-2 SGA
120'	-	FULL TIME	-	CHS 3-2 SGA

Charleston Battery advance to the round of 16!

Indy Eleven (USLC) - San Antonio FC (USLC)
7:00 ET - The Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl; Indianapolis, IN
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	IND 0-0 SA
2'	Goal!	Indy	A. Williams	IND 1-0 SA
10'	Goal!	Indy	J. Blake	IND 2-0 SA
20'	Yellow Card	San Antonio	J. Hernandez	IND 2-0 SA
41'	Yellow Card	Indy	M. Chol	IND 2-0 SA
45'	-	Half Time	-	IND 2-0 SA
58'	Yellow Card	Indy	S. Guenzatti	IND 2-0 SA
66'	Yellow Card	San Antonio	K. Burks	IND 2-0 SA
69'	Yellow Card	San Antonio	K. Lacey	IND 2-0 SA
90'	-	FULL TIME	-	IND 2-0 SA

Indy Eleven advance to the round of 16!

North Carolina FC (USLC) - Phoenix Rising FC (USLC)
7:00 ET - WakeMes Soccer Park; Cary, NC
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	NCFC 0-0 PHX
7'	Yellow Card	Phoenix	L. Wyke	NCFC 0-0 PHX
9'	Goal!	Phoenix	J. Azocar	NCFC 0-1 PHX
9'	Yellow Card	NCFC	P. Craig	NCFC 0-1 PHX
24'	Red Card!	Phoenix	L. Wyke (2Y)	NCFC 0-1 PHX
40'	Red Card!	NCFC	P. Craig (2Y)	NCFC 0-1 PHX
45'	-	Half Time	-	NCFC 0-1 PHX
54'	Yellow Card	NCFC	J. Malou	NCFC 0-1 PHX
80'	Goal!	NCFC	J. Malou	NCFC 1-1 PHX
85'	Yellow Card	NCFC	R. Somersall	NCFC 1-1 PHX
86'	Yellow Card	NCFC	E. Armstrong	NCFC 1-1 PHX
90'+6	Yellow Card	NCFC	J. Palacias	NCFC 1-1 PHX
90'+7	Yellow Card	Phoenix	J. Azocar	NCFC 1-1 PHX
90'	-	End of Regulation	-	NCFC 1-1 PHX
94'	Red Card	NCFC	E. Armstrong	NCFC 1-1 PHX
110'	Goal!	Phoenix	G. Doratiotto	NCFC 1-2 PHX
120'	-	END OF EXTRA TIME	-	NCFC 1-2 PHX

Phoenix Rising FC advance to the round of 16!

Tampa Bay Rowdies (USLC) - Birmingham Legion FC (USLC)
7:30 ET - Al Lang Stadium; St. Petersburg, FL
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	TB 0-0 BHM
23'	Yellow Card	Rowdies	C. Dennis	TB 0-0 BHM
25'	Goal!	Rowdies	D. Rivera	TB 1-0 BHM
32'	Goal!	Rowdies	C. Jennings	TB 2-0 BHM
42'	Yellow Card	Legion	M. Nyarko	TB 2-0 BHM
45'+6	Goal!	Rowdies	C. Jennings	TB 3-0 BHM
45'	-	Half Time	-	TB 3-0 BHM
50'	Yellow Card	Legion	A. Patterson	TB 3-0 BHM
79'	Goal!	Rowdies	C. Jennings	TB 4-0 BHM
82'	Goal	Legion	E. Martinez	TB 4-1 BHM
82'	Yellow Card	Rowdies	E. Munjoma	TB 4-1 BHM
89'	Goal!	Legion	K. Hernandez-Foster	TB 4-2 BHM
90'+3	Goal!	Legion	T. Pasher	TB 4-3 BHM
90'+3	Yellow Card	Rowdies	M. Arteaga	TB 4-3 BHM
90'+6	Goal!	Legion	T. Pasher	TB 4-4 BHM
90'	-	End of Regulation	-	TB 4-4 BHM
91'	Yellow Card	Legion	A. Crognale	TB 4-4 BHM
102'	Goal!	Rowdies	M. Arteaga	TB 5-4 BHM
109'	Goal!	Rowdies	N. Moon	TB 6-4 BHM
123'	Red Card	Rowdies	M. Arteaga	TB 6-4 BHM
120'	-	END OF EXTRA TIME	-	TB 6-4 BHM

Tampa Bay Rowdies advance to the round of 16!

NYCFC II (MLSNP) - Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC (USLC)
7:30 ET - Belson Stadium; Queens, NY
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	NYCII 0-0 COS
6'	Goal!	NYC	J. Jimenez	NYCII 1-0 COS
15'	Yellow Card	NYC	P. Elias	NYCII 1-0 COS
39'	Yellow Card	Switchbacks	D. Pierre	NYCII 1-0 COS
45'	-	Half Time	-	NYCII 1-0 COS
60'	Yellow Card	Switchbacks	J. Henriquez	NYCII 1-0 COS
88'	Yellow Card	NYC	A. Rocha	NYCII 1-0 COS
88'	Red Card!	NYC	!. Rocha (2Y)	NYCII 1-0 COS
90'+5	Yellow Card	Switchbacks	W. Ackwei	NYCII 1-0 COS
90'+5	Yellow Card	NYC	T. Calheira	NYCII 1-0 COS
90'	-	FULL TIME	-	NYCII 1-0 COS

NYCFC II advance to the round of 16!

Union Omaha (USL1) - Sporting Kansas City (MLS)
7:00 CT - UNO Caniglia Field; Omaha, NE
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	OMA 0-0 SKC
31'	Goal!	Omaha	L. Kunga	OMA 1-0 SKC
45'	-	Half Time	-	OMA 1-0 SKC
48'	Goal!	Sporting	M. Tzionis	OMA 1-1 SKC
58'	Yellow Card	Omaha	L. Mastrantonio	OMA 1-1 SKC
66'	Yellow Card	Sporting	M. Rodriguez	OMA 1-1 SKC
78'	Yellow Card	Sporting	J. Russell	OMA 1-1 SKC
81'	Yellow Card	Omaha	B. Knapp	OMA 1-1 SKC
90+8'	Yellow Card	Omaha	J. Gallardo	OMA 1-1 SKC
120'	Goal!	Sporting	A. Pulido	OMA 1-2 SKC
120'	-	END OF EXTRA TIME	-	OMA 1-2 SKC

Sporting Kansas City advance to the round of 16!

New Mexico United (USLC) - Real Salt Lake (MLS)
7:00 MT - Isotopes Park; Albuquerque, NM
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	NM 0-0 RSL
16'	Yellow Card	Salt Lake	B. Hildago	NM 0-0 RSL
17'	Goal!	New Mexico	Z. Bailey	NM 1-0 RSL
19'	Goal!	New Mexico	Z. Bailey	NM 2-0 RSL
30'	Yellow Card	New Mexico	T. Maples	NM 2-0 RSL
34'	Yellow Card	Salt Lake	D. Luna	NM 2-0 RSL
35'	Goal!	Salt Lake	F. Barajas	NM 2-1 RSL
37'	Yellow Card	New Mexico	A. Herbert	NM 2-1 RSL
41'	Yellow Card	New Mexico	Z. Bailey	NM 2-1 RSL
45+4'	Goal!	New Mexico	N. Hernandez	NM 3-1 RSL
49'	Goal!	Salt Lake	D. Luna	NM 3-2 RSL
74'	Yellow Card	New Mexico	N. Hernandez	NM 3-2 RSL
85'	Goal!	New Mexico	J. Reyes	NM 4-2 RSL
90'	-	FULL TIME	-	NM 4-2 RSL

New Mexico United advance to the round of 16!

Las Vegas Lights FC (USLC) - Los Angeles FC (MLS)
7:30 PT - Cashman Field; Las Vegas, NV
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	LV 0-0 LAFC
10'	Yellow Card	Las Vegas	V. Noel	LV 0-0 LAFC
21'	Yellow Card	LAFC	E. Atuesta	LV 0-0 LAFC
45+1'	Red Card	LAFC	S. Cherundolo (HC)	LV 0-0 LAFC
45'	-	Half Time	-	LV 0-0 LAFC
47'	Goal!	LAFC	K. Kamara	LV 0-1 LAFC
55'	Goal!	Las Vegas	S. Smart	LV 1-1 LAFC
70'	Goal!	LAFC	C. Olivera	LV 1-2 LAFC
89'	Yellow Card	LAFC	I. Sanchez	LV 1-2 LAFC
90+1'	Goal!	LAFC	C. Olivera	LV 1-3 LAFC
90'	-	FULL TIME	-	LV 1-3 LAFC

Los Angeles FC advance to the round of 16!

Seattle Sounders FC (MLS) - Louisville City FC (USLC)
7:30 PT - Starfire Sports Complex; Tukwila, WA
Stream

Time	Event	Team	Player	Score
1'	-	Start of First Half	-	SEA 0-0 LOU
41'	Goal!	Sounders	P. Rothrock	SEA 1-0 LOU
45'	-	Half Time	-	SEA 1-0 LOU
61'	Yellow Card	Louisville	A. Perez	SEA 1-0 LOU
62'	Goal!	Sounders	D. Musovski	SEA 2-0 LOU
67'	Goal!	Louisville	S. Totsch	SEA 2-1 LOU
89'	Goal!	Louisville	J. Gonzalez	SEA 2-2 LOU
90'	-	End of Regulation	-	SEA 2-2 LOU
120'	-	End of Extra Time	-	SEA 2-2 LOU
120'	-	End of PKs	-	SEA (5)2-2(4)

Penalties

LOU	SEA
❌	❌
❌	✔️
✔️	✔️
✔️	❌
✔️	✔️
❌	❌
✔️	✔️
❌	✔️

Seattle Sounders FC advance to the round of 16!

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Nature of Humanity Ch 65
Destination; Wriss part 18
A Fanfic of u/SpacePaladin15’s work “The Nature of Predators.” Thank you for the story!
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Excerpt of Dr. Elva's Journal recovered from the wreck of the Dauntless Victory
Many people suffer from motion sickness on space-faring ships. Normally, this comes from the disjoint of the body’s means of understanding how its actually moving and the mind's perception of how it is moving, but with the invention of inertial dampeners, one would think standing in what feels like a stationary room with no windows wouldn't cause motion sickness.
Yet, that's precisely what's been happening to me. I've never felt this way before. Dr. Wiesera believes the sudden onset of motion sickness is caused by the stress of our current situation. I am given to believe her as I have noticed ticks in the rest of the crew. For example, Crevan has begun pacing in circles but seems confused when someone tries to get his attention. The only person who seems calm and unbothered is Barmlin, but given his disorder, I am confident in dismissing this abnormal behavior. To be truthful, I am a little glad to see the Arxur just as nervous as us.
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Memory transcription subject: Elva, Morvim Charter Soldier
Date [standardized human time]: November 3rd, 2136
Our ship was hovering listlessly in the void of space just past the small astrological body known as Pluto. My digits tightened around the trigger of my gun as the five of us kept our weapons trained on the door. Crevan was unable to stop Isif from inspecting the “gifts” Humanity was giving to the Arxur as “thanks” for their intervention.
Wiesera let out a sigh as she lowered her firearm and grabbed the pad displaying the security feed, “Alright… we are in the clear. Isif has just departed the ship.”
We let out a collective sigh. The first hurdle for getting to Wriss had just been cleared without so much as a scratch. We lowered our guns as Hrallak opened the door, “We are safe for now. Crevan doubts we will get boarded again. Isif is apparently a bit of an outlier among the Chief Hunters.”
Caulnek stood up and stretched, “Hey, it's not like we didn't expect to get boarded leaving here and upon entering Dominion space.”
Rivera rubbed the sleep from his eyes, “Still couldn't we have done something better than just sit in a cattle pen with our guns pointed at the door?”
Hrallak thumped her tail no, “This is the Dominion we are speaking about. The great purge taught them everything about how stuff is hidden. I watched an Auditor enter a friend's house and in half a second open their hidden door. If they actually had anything stored in there, they would have all been executed via…”
As she trailed off, Wiesera changed the subject, “I never thought I'd willingly experience what it's like to lift off inside an Arxur ship. This is… unsettling.”
Hrallak wagged her tail, “It's sort of the opposite for me. For the first time in my life, I've come for the people in this room without that horrid knot in my guts. It feels like I'm free.”
It finally dawned on me as we grabbed our limited possessions and left the cattle pen behind for good, that every time she has come to this room before it’s been to drag some unfortunate soul to their death. Even if Crevan stated that she tried to be merciful, her paws were personally stained with a rainbow of blood that I doubt she would ever be able to wash out.
Yet, there was a slight spring in her step as she led the way to the galley with us in tow. Before she probably had to drag screaming victims to their fate, and now she is leading us to one of many meetings. I suppose in a sense, she is finally free. Whether this mission is successful or not, she will never butcher another sapient for as long as she lives.
My tail had the slightest wag to it as we entered the galley. The smell of disinfectant and bleach was strong enough to hit my blunt sense of smell but helped to wipe away any thought of the horrors that happened in this area. Lesh, Ishveil, and Ivan were waiting for us with cloths draped over their snouts.
For a moment, I thought they were trying to mimic what the humans do with their face coverings before they handed a cloth to both Hrallak and Wiesera. Wiesera took in a deep breath through the cloth, “Thank you, this smells a lot stronger than the hospital., Oh! This is a rather strange scent! I wouldn't think the Arxur would approve of scented laundry detergent!”
Ivan chuckled, “The dominion doesn't, but when I got a whiff of what the humans did to clean this ship, I nearly hurled. Thankfully, they had a handy solution ready. The smell should lighten up soon. And we also have more towels if you want them for any reason.”
Lesh thumped his tail against the ground, “Crevan and Mico are piloting the ship. You know the crew rotation. It should be quiet for the next few days… at least before we arrive.”
Ivan thumped his tail in agreement, “Normally, I'd suggest using downtime to train, but that is not exactly something we can do on this ship. So whatever you can do to keep ready for the attack without blowing the ship up or ruining our cover will be essential.”
Rivera stuck his paw in the air, “Does that include doing anything to distract us from the fact we are on a cattle ship?”
Lesh's eyes opened wide, almost as if he hadn’t considered what being on board would be like for us. He thumped his tail, “Y-yeah. It wouldn't do to have you freaking out… but it would be better for you to come to terms with the situation instead.”
Hrallak held herself with her own arms, “If the horrid things that have happened on this ship are getting to you, then you aren't ready for Wriss. Here… people were tortured, killed and eaten… on Wriss it was entire species…”
Rivera was starting to shake when Caulnek slapped a paw on his back, “It'll be fine. We've turned this ship from one of death to salvation, we can do it again. I got a projector and some human movies from a friend. What do you say about turning the lights down and watching them?”
“Y-yeah sure.”
Ivan tilted his head, “Movies? As in video media for entertainment instead of education? Can I watch? I've never seen anything like that before.”
Caulnek flicked his ears yes, then Lesh rolled his eyes and walked out of the room as Caulnek set up his projector. While Ivan, Ishveil and Hrallak sat separated from us, we all sat in a close-knit ball.
With the already dim lights off, our only source of illumination was the projector's light bouncing off the wall. A series of short clips began to play, depicting a series of quarries and mines. For the most part, it was heavy machines moving vast amounts of earth and stone.
Stupidly large dump trucks practically carried mountains on their backs. A gargantuan chain saw cut into the earth, making an artificial valley in a matter of hours. A drill comparable to a skyscraper began to drill a tunnel down into the earth.
I could only begin to imagine this movie was about mining and the stresses that it brings. Several humans began to carefully set up explosives in a tunnel and ran cables to a safe place. The lot of them were smiling at each other and were practically bouncing from excitement. Two humans standing several feet apart nodded at each other and flipped the plastic safety covers on two red switches before flipping them.
As the light turned green, every human ducked and covered in their makeshift bunkers as the detonation sent a shockwave down the tunnel. As the dust settled, I noticed the music that was playing in the background was now silent.
Two people walked off into the settling dust cloud and began to scream. A man who for the entire time he has been on the screen has had a blank emotionless face picked up a radio, “Report.”
“WE HIT THE FUCKING MOTHERLOAD! THE ENTIRE CAVE IS MADE OF THIS NEEAHRITE SHIT! HELL THERE ARE FLOATING COLUMNS OF THIS STUFF”
The description of the made up material caught me off guard. It wasn't until a serious dude walked forward that I realized why they said that. A floating hexagonal pillar of pearlescent green and orange stone floated weightlessly in the middle of a large chamber. As the miners walked through the chamber, what I had assumed to be just the minerals lining the walls twinkling in the light were pushed away like leaves floating on water.
The illusion broke as I realized that the air was filled with small floating particles. They almost gave the impression of being submerged underwater. A miner swept a bag through the air and closed it, “Hey, let's get out of here. Pretty sure breathing in minerals causes cancer. We can come back with respirat-” BANG!
We all jumped as a red puff came from the man's chest. The miners began to scream and run, but each one fell over after their own personal gunshot went off. Soon the only person standing was the emotionless human who wiped some blood off his face.
Several armed soldiers came into the cave wearing full combat gear and respirators, “Sir. Site secured. All potential leaks have been neutralized.”
Their leader fell to his knees and held his hands up to the floating monolith, “Excellent. Begin phase 2.”
Caulnek threw his paws into the air, “What?! Why did they do that? All those people worked together!”
Ishveil snorted, “I doubt that. That one human in charge was using the miners. When he was done using them, he threw them away. I've seen dominion officers do that to countless runts.”
“I- I just never imagined that as something humans would think of…”
“Then you need to read up on Humanity's past. Especially about their most hated foe, the Nazis.”
The camera cut to a man nearby a primitive cabin in the woods. He looked grizzled and old as he was nervously picking at his beard. A truck rolling up caught his attention and he waved at it. I couldn't read the words on it, but the woodsman addressed the man who stepped out of the truck, “Evening, Warden. Thanks for coming out here.”
“Hey, thank you! If there's aA new disease going around affecting the wildlife, I want to get on top of it now and not later. So tell me what happened.”
“Well sir. I got my permit to harvest yesterday when I noticed my stores were getting low.”
“Thank ya for doing that!”
“Welcome. I went to go harvest my first deer and… well, when I shot it, my round ricocheted off. Like I hit a piece of wrought-iron.”
They walked over to the deer and my little herd flinched as he showed the flayed corpse of a prey animal hanging upside down.
“It didn't run off so I shot it again but in the head this time. I brought it back here to dress it, but…”
I suppressed a gag as the man stuck his hand into the corpse and- pulled out a huge chuck of the mineral we had just seen, “Well… this!?”
The warden opened up a bag and took the stone from him, “Go wash your hands now. I- fuck! I got no clue what this is or if it can jump the species barrier. Also, I am taking the deer too, I'll have you compensated and get ya a new tag.”
Ivan spoke up, “Did those rocks… infect that animal?”
Wiesera shook her head, “No. Rocks can't infect anything. What likely happened is this mineral was absorbed by vegetation, which the animal ate and absorbed. That stone chunk the Game Warden pulled out was its intestines. The mineral is probably also contaminating the entire body of it.”
We quieted down again as the show carried on. The warden had put out an alert to the town about the mineralization of local animals, as well as a notice to not drink the groundwater. The Game Warden was standing with his brother, a police officer, as a doctor explained that several people were already showing signs of mineralization.
The pair of them discussed what they could do to try and solve this epidemic. Apparently, all means of communicating with the outside world were gone and both of the major roads coming into the area had collapsed into sinkholes.
Finally, the brother's decided that the Police would help the few Doctors help patients and keep a quarantine enforced while the Warden would go ask the miner's if there was an expert on call who could help.
As the brothers left the coroner's office, they both froze, like spotted prey. One of the miners who was visibly missing part of his head was standing in front of them. The warden took a half step towards him before the miner let out a star’s awful wail. I heard the sound of Hrallak skittering back as we watched the miner rush, lift and throw the warden ten feet onto the hood of his own truck. His brother quickly whipped out a taser and shot the man with it but started to backpedal as he just kept walking despite the electricity flowing through his body.
As the Police brother screamed in fear at the mineralized miner, the Warden managed to scramble off his truck and grab a shotgun from his cab. He fired a round into the miner's head, causing it to explode like a dropped ceramic plate. The body made another step forward and slowly started to crumble.
The brothers stared at the dust laying on the road as sirens began to grow in intensity. The screen smash cut to a dozen law enforcement cruisers ripping through mountain roads on their way to the quarry. As they approached the locked gates, the first cruiser flew through it, smashing it open for the others. While the officers climbing out didn’t look like they were anything special, they still moved in a coordinated effort.
Ishviel thumped his tail, “Are we going to see human strike teams at work?”
Caulnek snorted, “Yeah, no. From what I’ve seen of human media, their entertainment industry cares very little for accuracy. Expect these guys to do some nonsensical stuff.”
The Brother officer stepped out of his truck and loaded some shells into his shotgun. Another officer berated him for taking a lethal weapon into this quarantine operation when he stopped and stared them down, “I watched someone already mineralized chuck my older brother like a gawdamn can of beans. I will try to save as many people as possible, but I ain’t gonna die for this.”
With the defiant statement made, we proceeded to watch some surprisingly boring action. Or perhaps the actual action we had all seen took any entertainment out of it for us. From police officers ignoring all sense of danger and the lack of any competency of the bad guys who were still holding the mines hostage, I couldn’t tell who was worse. We’d watch three officers walk into a clear ambush, only for the bad guys to reveal themselves and then proceed to miss every shot.
Whenever the cops had to deal with those that had been mineralized, the victims suddenly moved five times slower and had absolutely none of their previous magical strength. It was starting to get so bad that we were all laughing by the time the warden and his brother confronted the mine’s manager. Yet, we all froze for a moment when we saw him. He stood there with his back turned to them and his hands held in the air, worshiping the floating monolith. He slowly turned around to reveal… some sort of pink goop thing piloting a robot human?
Wiesera just let out a “What the FUCK is this show?!” while Ivan doubled over in pain from laughing so hard.
Ishviel gave a confused look to Caulnek, “What is the plot of this thing?!”
Caulnek held his paws in the air, “It's a B movie. Guys had no budget to make a movie but wanted to anyways for some reason. My friend and I spent quite some time during the exchange watching these silly things.”
Hrallak was holding the tip or her snout as tears rolled down her eyes, “Oh my gosh, so this isn’t even good Human entertainment?”
“NOPE! Bottom of the barrel right here! Now shush! We are getting to the good part! The villain's monologue!”
“No you stupid apes. We Takakapalta have always been around. We were and have always been. Since your planet's life was barely strands of DNA swimming around in hot mud, we have planned. We have worked and strived and bled for this day. The day the Neahrite is ready for harvest. The full-”
The Warden rolled his eyes, “OH, SHUT THE FUCK UP!” before the brothers fired shell after shell into the alien, killing it.
The Police officer placed his hand on the warden’s shoulder, “Hey… should we have brought it in alive for the feds?”
He and the warden laughed as they walked off and the credits rolled.
Wiesera had buried her head in her paws, “I’m sorry but… WHAT!? Just WHAT?! THEY AREN’T GOING TO ADDRESS THE DISEASE RUNNING RAMPANT THROUGH THE TOWN?! THROUGH THE ECOSYSTEM?!”
Ishviel rolled onto his back and splayed himself across the floor, “What about those tactics? I thought those humans in masks defending the mines were professional soldiers! Those ambushes! They practically screamed, ‘this is an ambush’ before jumping out of cover and getting shot!”
Caulnek was laughing even harder, “Oh yeah! Or the fact that the whole explanation we got was, ‘Aliens did it.’ Like that wraps up anything nicely at all!”
Ivan was still chuckling to himself, “Are all the movies that you have these… B movies?”
“YUP!”
“Put another one on. I’ve never laughed like this before.”
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Movie night with the more friendly gator bois! And gal. Caulnek was introduced to cheesy B movies and now the whole gang is too! Looks like they might have a pleasant time en-route to Wriss!
Also this week SUCKED. Monday my car hit some deep water early in the morning and popped my water belt off causing my car to overheat. That led to a 4 hour trip home when it should have been 35 minutes. Bought a new belt and it’s fixed. THEN on friday our parking lot floods and the floor of my car gets flooded. Any higher and it would have poured into my car when I opened the door. It’s been three days and I will likely have to pull the seats, center console and some other things out to remove the carpet. Maybe I can find someone to pay to fix this problem. But hey… Ford should start building my truck this week.
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Was delivering for Uber eats last night driving my 1995 Honda Accord. Had a pickup at a wendys in Pico Rivera in California. Locked my car keys in pocket went inside and waited about 5-10 minutes for the order. When I went outside my vehicle was gone. Police were called and took a report. They checked video footage and there was a guy looking in cars before I got there. He goes inside for a water cup and as I’m entering the building he’s walking out. He goes over to where my vehicle is at and you can’t really make out what he’s doing in the cameras because it’s dark out but less then 2 minutes later you see my car reversing and it’s gone.

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Abstract: This article provides an analysis of “teaming,” or allying with a competitor, in battle-royale video games. Allying with a competitor is a normal strategy in social-deduction games, but it is often considered to be cheating in battle royale. Persistent complaints about teaming can be seen across a variety of social media platforms. This article surveys the controversy and outlines the major attempts to address such problems, including developer changes to matchmaking systems, automated moderation and opposition to stream sniping. These approaches are substantially successful, and yet there appear to be social and ludic conditions that make teaming an intractable problem. This article appeals to established economic and typological analyses of game goals to rethink the social dilemma of teaming in battle royale. The thesis argues that the major attempts to address the problem of teaming typically assume teaming is necessarily an unskilled strategy that circumvents the game goal of having a sporting contest of skills, but a comprehensive analysis of teaming allows us to recognize that it is conceptually possible to design regulatory mechanisms for teaming such that teaming requires skill. The conclusion begins to chart future research on sporting designs for regulating teaming.

Introduction

“Cross-teaming” or simply “teaming” in competitive multiplayer games is a strategy wherein a competitor temporarily cooperates with another competitor. Teaming is a central feature of social-deduction games centered on cunning negotiations, alliances and betrayals, for example the boardgame Diplomacy (Wizards of the Coast, 1954), the party game Mafia (Davidoff, 1986), the card game Are You a Werewolf? (Looney Labs, 1997) and the video game Among Us (Innersloth, 2018). In battle-royale video games, however, teaming has been a popular form of cheating. Battle-royale games are competitive, multiplayer survival games in which the last competitor alive wins the game. A match of battle royale typically has a large number of competitors in an arena with a variety of weapons. There are various game mechanics to decrease hiding/ camping and increase encounters between competitors, for example shrinking the arena area over time. Teaming in battle royale can provide a major advantage by allowing two competitors to outnumber a third competitor.

The analysis in this article begins with a brief history of battle royale and the crux of the problem with teaming. Teaming is a volatile practice that is randomized by the whims of other competitors, so teaming appears to provide an advantage based on luck within an otherwise sporting contest of skills. Players of battle royale use social media to complain about teaming, and game designers have addressed this problem in a variety of innovative ways inspired by both popular and academic conversations. However, illicit teaming remains a significant problem for the gaming community. How can we complicate our understanding of this problem and address it in new ways?

There are nuanced theoretical frameworks for unpacking the dynamics of teaming. The analysis in this article introduces and combines existing scholarship on the economics and typology of game goals. Jonas Heide Smith (2007) argues that cheating in online video games gives rise to a social dilemma, and I show how Smith’s economic framework can be extended to illicit teaming. Debus, Zagal and Cardona-Rivera (2020) argue that the goals of video games can be deeply equivocal, and I extend their analysis to consider alternate ways of framing the social dilemma of teaming. I argue that in the case of battle-royale video games, game developers have been largely prohibitive of teaming, but combining Smith with Debus et al. allows us to recognize that there can also be permissive and regulativeapproaches to teaming that substantially address the social dilemma. The major attempts to address the problem of teaming typically assume teaming is necessarily an unskilled strategy that circumvents the game goal of having a sporting contest of skills, but a comprehensive analysis of teaming allows us to recognize that it is conceptually possible to design regulatory mechanisms for teaming such that teaming requires skill. This article concludes by gesturing toward skillful regulatory mechanisms for addressing the social dilemma of teaming, including the innovative mechanism of “assimilation” in Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (Raven Software and Infinity Ward, 2022).

Battle Royale and Illicit Teaming

Teaming has been a part of battle royale since its inception. According to Teemu Pesonen’s article “The History of Battle Royale Esports” (2023), the Japanese film Battle Royale (Fukasaku, 2000) inspired the video-game genre. The plot of the film includes a government forcing students to fight each other to the death on an island, where only the last student alive may leave the island. The film also clearly includes cunning betrayals and alliances between competitors.

The genre of battle royale was further popularized by the American film The Hunger Games (Ross, 2012). Pesonen tells us that The Hunger Games directly inspired the first battle-royale modification for the video game Minecraft(Mojang Studios, 2011). In 2013 Brendan Greene, also known as “PlayerUnknown,” developed a mod called “DayZ: Battle Royale,” a battle-royale modification for the video game Arma II (Bohemia Interactive, 2012). Greene was inspired by other Arma II mods like Brian Hicks’ and Jordan Taylor’s mod for Arma II, “DayZ: Survivor Gamez” (McCarthy, 2017), and Green introduced to the battle-royale genre “items and weapons that were randomly spread across the map” (Pesonen, 2023). The first battle-royale video game to be officially published was PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (Krafton, 2017). The collaborative, online, multiplayer-vs-environment, survival video game Fortnite (Epic Games, 2017) added a dedicated mode for battle royale within a year of its release, contributing to the battle-royale genre both in-game building mechanics and cross-platform play.

Other major battle-royale games include Vigor (Bohemia Interactive, 2018), Apex Legends (Respawn Entertainment, 2019) and Call of Duty: Warzone (Raven Software and Infinity Ward, 2020), but I will foreground Fortnite for illustration. Fortnite debuted right when teaming was exploding in popularity in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, but unlike Battlegrounds, Fortnite was initially designed to be a cooperative game, and elements of this cooperative spirit made it into the battle-royale mode, including the ability to communicate with others by dancing with them and expressing emotions. Fortnite’s battle-royale mode also implicitly encourages teaming insofar as it regularly awards prizes like virtual clothing and accessories to competitors who complete non-competitive challenges (for example, Dance on a Giant Cup of Coffee), which often leads to competitors cooperating until they can complete the challenge.

The most common, overt way to initiate teaming in Fortnite is to stop fighting and start dancing. If the dancing is reciprocated, the two competitors have indicated to one another that they want to cooperate temporarily. Other overt ways to initiate teaming include disarming yourself in front of a competitor, dropping healing items, building heart-shaped constructs and rapidly switching between ducking and standing stances. Subtle ways to initiate teaming can include pretending not to see someone, running away instead of attacking and defensively “boxing up” (hiding in your own building) without taking opportunities to attack. In each of these cases the initiation procedures take place during a match. However, teaming can also occur prior to a match when two or more people communicate their intention to first enter a match as competitors and then cooperate by identifying one another via coded behavior, for example meeting at a certain location or using peculiar virtual clothing.

Unlike a sporting contest of skills, teaming in battle royale currently has deeply random elements from beginning to end. The tension between a sporting contest of skills and random game elements goes to the heart of the controversy around teaming. Attempting to initiate teaming is a gamble. Dancing, disarming or deliberately passing up opportunities to attack exposes vulnerabilities. Competitors have short-term incentive to eliminate anyone who is initiating teaming because the initiator’s defenses are down. Not everyone has an equal opportunity to team because reciprocation relies on the whims of others. Even when there is an established collusion, there is still an incentive to be the first to betray the other, which makes the long-term benefits of teaming precarious. If teamers are the last competitors in a match, a competitor may betray the other, eliminate themselves or wait until environmental damage randomly decides who wins. Ultimately, teaming introduces a volatile element of luck into a sporting competition of skill.

Controversies and Proposed Solutions

I searched for and surveyed comments about the teaming controversy on live-streams, blog archives, developer patch notes and game-specific discussion forums, including twitch.com, youtube.com, bohemia.net, hypixel.net and reddit.com. This article only cites about two dozen posts and forums, but I believe these sources on teaming are representative of the thousands of ephemeral commentaries I have seen across a variety of platforms. The arguments both for and against teaming display strong emotion (sleaches, 2020; Seahawks12, 2022; ThatOneRedditBro, 2022; Clix, 2023). In my assessment there is a general trend in the dispute. Across the major battle-royale games, game players have complained about teaming for being an unfair advantage and, usually, against the official rules. Posts that defend teaming may be dismissive of the seriousness of casual teaming, but these defenses can also be passionate appeals to the enjoyability of cunning alliances and betrayals (successXX, 2016; Emble12, 2021; SzzzMK47, 2021). Fans who defend teaming have been insultingly dismissed as unskilled competitors who can only win by cheating. The controversy over teaming has led game designers to propose a number of creative solutions, but the persistence of teaming despite these innovations speaks to the practical intractability of this problem.

Certain solutions to illicit teaming speak to the perceived motivations of teaming. Early in the teaming controversy, developers discerned in teaming a simple desire on the part of solo competitors to compete in teams, and the result has been optional game modes for legitimate team-based battle royale, namely Duos, Trios or Quads. However, illicit teaming continued to be common in Solos as well as team-based modes. Another widespread interpretation of teaming is that it is used by unskilled competitors who simply want a sporting chance against vastly higher-skilled players, and the result has been skill-based matchmaking, wherein competitors are matched equally according to an automated index of their perceived skill. Teaming remained common.

Game designers have attempted to prevent teaming by addressing the tools used for teaming. Competitors who can communicate prior to joining the matchmaking queue may conspire to join the queue at the exact same time, which increases the odds of getting into the same match and allows the competitors to find one another to team. This problem led game designers to implement a randomized matchmaking time-delay so that it does not matter when someone joins the queue (swapode, 2017). Game designers may also use a filter to prevent competitors from entering the same match if they are one another’s “Friends” list. Streamers have proposed anonymizing competitor names and appearances to prevent this kind of teaming (Amos, 2019). These approaches have been effective, but teaming remained a substantial problem.

Matches can also contain automated moderators that help gaming communities police teaming. In the article “Collusion Detection in Team-Based Multiplayer Games” the authors Laura Greige, Fernando De Mesentier Silva, Meredith Trotter, Chris Lawrence, Peter Chin and Dilip Varadarajan explain how automatic moderation works to help catch teamers in tournaments (Greige et al., 2022). Competitors who use teaming to climb the ranks of a tournament show an improbable consistency in their respective match rankings over time. Therefore, automated moderators compare gameplay data over several matches to identify these improbable correlations and flag competitors. The moderator assigns to a pair of competitors a higher index of teaming the more frequently that those two competitors begin a match close to one another, stay close to one another and end a match with similar ranking. The goal of automatic moderation is to select cases for further review by human moderators. A majority (but not all) of the cases flagged by the automated moderator were confirmed by human moderators to be genuine cases of teaming, so the system is largely effective. However, automatic moderation does not necessarily aspire to perfection or even to identify collusion itself. Rather, automatic moderation works by identifying the probability that two competitors are colluding, “Hence, human intervention is still essential and further investigation by human experts is required before taking any enforcement action against the potential colluders flagged by our model” (Greige et al., 2022, p. 13).

Human moderators may observe or review matches in order to remove competitors who act like teamers, that is, competitors who are in proximity, do not attack one another and/ or simultaneously attack a third party. Unfortunately, these are also the behaviors of legitimate competitors who are camping, stealthy, short on resources (if not empty), low on health and/ or ambushing ongoing fights, namely “third-partying.” Complaints about people who ambush ongoing fights consider this tactic to be unsporting, but it would make no sense to demand that such an integral strategy should be banned from battle royale simply due to its affinity with teaming. It is not possible to entirely prevent the appearance of teaming because teaming is an implied product of games where players must be selective about which competitors they move against. When competitors in the end game must be selective about which other two competitors they move against, two competitors can have a legitimate ceasefire and mutual third target without any intention to team. Competitors complain about being removed from matches or even banned due to moderators mistaking their legitimate behavior for teaming (simon-whitehead, 2020). The intention to team can be difficult to discern even for human moderators.

One curious case of persistent, illicit teaming is one-way teaming. This occurs when a competitor helps another competitor without their consent. This typically happens when a fan of a streamer gets into the same match as the streamer, and the fan (while watching the live-stream) does whatever they can to benefit the streamer--leaving resources in their path, healing them from a distance (for example, with health splashes), or intentionally getting eliminated by the streamer (thus awarding the streamer loot and credit for the elimination). Sometimes this is benign, like when fans enter a streamer’s match only to build heart-shaped constructs for them to see, but this form of teaming can cause significant social friction.

In April of 2023, Epic Games banned the Fortnite streamer Cody “Clix” Conrod for two weeks due to illicit teaming (Gan, 2023). This meant that Clix was also effectively banned for the following lucrative Fortnite Championship Series tournaments. The teaming occurred due to the actions of a stream sniper who healed and supplied Clix largely without Clix’s consent (Gan, 2023). Stream sniping refers to a competitor watching another competitor’s live stream to see what their competitor sees. In this case the stream sniper was a malevolent troll with an account named “N1 Clix Hater,” and the troll was likely deliberately trying to get Clix banned (Clix, 2023). However, the penalties would be the same if the one-way teaming was from a benevolent fan. Clix admits some responsibility for teaming because Clix solicited certain helpful behavior from the stream sniper over the live stream, although this solicitation was solely to catch the sniper in the act of stream sniping, that is, to get them banned (Clix, 2023).

One-way teaming had a lasting impact on Clix. Following the end of the two-week ban, Clix streamed his first match, and a competitor began healing him with the same splash items that “N1 Clix Hater” used. For fear of being banned again, Clix started screaming out loud and running from the one-way teamer to avoid the appearance of receiving a competitor’s beneficial items (again), then Clix abruptly backtracked to aggressively attack the one-way teamer for fear of appearing to be too non-confrontational or even intentionally leading the teamer. Audience members joked that Clix had a flashback from the PTSD of being banned, but Clix has made it clear to his viewers that being banned from the tournament really was a deeply serious, extremely stressful event for him (Clix, 2023). It was a serious threat to his career and reputation, and more generally it highlights the way in which streamers have a real burden of altering their gameplay to avoid the appearance of benefiting from one-way teamers.

These cases suggest that despite the attempts to address the controversy over teaming by appealing to competitors’ desires behind teaming, by moderating matches and by avoiding stream snipers, teaming remains an intractable problem for the battle-royale community. The teaming controversy lies in a tension between competitors’ desire for a sporting contest of skills in a battle-royale format on one hand, and on the other hand the fact that battle royale is basically, structurally permissive of nonsporting conditions like the volatile dynamics of teaming or third-partying. The basic setup of the battle royale genre seems to make teaming--however impermissible--always theoretically possible.

Collective Action Theory and Social Dilemmas

In the article “Tragedies of the Ludic Commons--Understanding Cooperation in Multiplayer Games,” the author Jonas Heide Smith uses collective action theory to understand how competitive games have cooperative aspects that give rise to social dilemmas (Smith, 2007). Understanding how these social dilemmas work is important for addressing social problems like cheating in online multiplayer games, including illicit teaming. Collective action theory is an economic lens that identifies the individualistic and cooperative forces in the production of collective goods. Individuals may have an incentive to enjoy the benefits of a collective good without contributing to its production, but without enough individuals cooperatively contributing, no individual could enjoy the benefits of a collective good. In this case there is a social dilemma, that is, when the individual and collective incentives are at odds in the production of a collective good.

An illustrative social dilemma is the problem of commons. This problem occurs when a collective good like global, environmental stability requires cooperation in, for example, not exterminating the last of any rare resource (like an endangered species), but the rarer a resource is, the more individuals are incentivized to capitalize on the resource. Social dilemmas are conflicts between a group and its individual members where individual members can benefit from “free-riding” so long as not so many members “free-ride” that the good of the group collapses, in which case there would be no benefit for any members. What counts as “free-riding” can vary greatly--Smith mentions cheating, griefing and irresponsible play (Smith, 2007). Here I am concerned with cheating as a social dilemma to better understand teaming.

On my reading of Smith’s analysis, cheating is a form of free-riding in a social dilemma insofar as cheating allows a competitor to gain a good--winning--at the cost of a greater collective good--having a sporting contest of skills. To clarify, team-based games normatively require cooperation between the members of a given team for the collective good of a team, namely winning. However, Smith points out that there is also a normative cooperation between otherwise competing teams because the greater collective good is a sporting contest of skills. Competitors cooperatively agree not to cheat to win, and this preserves the greater good of having sporting contest of skills. The collective good of a sporting contest of skills is greater than simply winning in the sense that a sporting contest can be enjoyed by all competitors, even losing teams. If players cheat, the contest is no longer about skills, so the remaining good is winning, and the collective good of a sporting contest of skills entirely collapses.

The use of a social-dilemma framework to address the problem of teaming has already been started by Rheem, Cho and Verma (Rheem et al., 2019). Here we have the idea that teaming can be prevented by interrupting the communication between teamers. For example, if competitors typically spin in place or rapidly duck and stand to initiate teaming, then perhaps matches could include bots (artificially intelligent competitors) who imitate this behavior but do not follow through on teaming. This would confuse competitors about which attempts to team are genuine, ultimately dissuading competitors from teaming. Other ideas from Rheem et al. include rushing competitors, separating competitors at the beginning of a match and separating competitors who have been previously flagged for teaming. Ultimately, it is important to dissuade teaming by altering the conditions of initial contact between competitors. I think Rheem et al.’s work can be extended further if we combine it with Smith’s analysis of collective goods and cheating in social dilemmas.

Illicit teaming, as a form of cheating, is a form of free-riding, and we might address teaming by applying Smith’s solutions. Smith first considers government as a solution to social dilemmas. Government would be parallel to the moderators of a match, that is, catching and banning teamers. However, we have seen above that teaming is a problem for even human moderators because teaming can appear identical to legitimate strategies at the end of a match. I would argue that Smith’s conceptual parallel for this problem is offensive-language censorship in online games, wherein Smith argues that moderators do not have a perfect way of determining what is sufficiently offensive to warrant censorship.

Smith also considers how “a group of principals can organize themselves voluntarily to retain the residuals of their own efforts” (Elinor Ostrom quoted in Smith, 2007). This solution primarily works when there is “a certain degree of permanence, the possibilities of monitoring the actions of other community members, and the prospect of future interaction” (Smith, 2007). In other words, like real marketplaces, cooperation is often obtained through systems of accountable reputation over time, for example, rating systems for online vendors/ buyers or for ride-share drivers/ passengers. Someone’s reputation for teaming may lead to their exclusion from a private clan, guild or association of battle-royale gamers.

Smith’s variety of solutions can be synthesized and extended to a wider, public base of players if competitors were to rate each over time in conjunction with automated moderators, perhaps leading to a reputation-based matchmaking system that parallels skill-based matchmaking. Reputation-based matchmaking could reward honest competitors by systematically matching them with other honest competitors and vice versa. Competitors who are repeatedly flagged for teaming might be matched more frequently with others who are flagged for teaming (as opposed to banning them). Of course, there would be disingenuous raters, but another system could filter out raters with anomalous behavior. Another difficulty would be applying such matchmaking to any game with anonymous competitors who can create new accounts to avoid the consequences of their reputation, but battle-royale games could require everyone to submit a verifiable personal identification to decrease the abuse of such fraudulent sock-puppet accounts. This is an extreme but not implausible solution to illicit teaming.

The Typology of Game Goals

Extending Smith’s economic framework to battle royale allowed us to imagine the extreme limits of solutions to illicit teaming as a social dilemma. One way to go beyond these limits is to rethink our implicit assumptions about the split goal of battle royale, namely winning and competing in a sporting contest of skills. What counts as a sporting contest of skills? Or, what counts as an even battlefield? To address this issue, we can begin with a broader theoretical examination of goals in games.

In the article “A Typology of Imperative Game Goals,” the authors Michael S. Debus, José P. Zagal and Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera unpack the theoretical problem of what counts as the goal of a game (Debus et al., 2020). It can be easy to confuse a game’s goal with its end, with preventing its end, with getting points, with winning, with improving skills or with having a sporting contest of skills--these are very different things. There can exist a typology of game goals, but it must account for equivocations in casually framed goals. The authors note that the goal to “survive” or win in “the context of battle royale games” can be conceptually split between avoiding elimination and eliminating others, whether aggressively or passively (Debus et al., 2020).

Debus et al.’s analysis of surviving or winning can be extended to the goal of having a sporting contest of skills. I argue that it is important to recognize that a sporting contest of skills is conceptually split between a contest of skills where no competitor has an advantage on one hand and a contest where competitors use skills (not random conditions) to obtain an advantage on the other hand. This distinction allows us to recognize that the prohibition against teaming as “unfair” relies almost entirely on the first sense of a sporting contest of skills, that is, a contest where no competitor has an advantage. An extension of Debus et al.’s analysis allows us to see that this popular objection to teaming is not necessarily valid. If competitors must use skills to obtain an advantageous position, then it can be entirely sporting for one competitor to have an advantage over the other. Of course, the prohibition against teaming assumes that it takes no skill to obtain a cooperating competitor because the opportunity to team is randomly decided by the whims of competitors. But is this assumption valid? If we put Debus et al. together with Smith, we can raise the important question, is there a way to design battle royale such that skills are required for teaming?

Skillfully Regulating Teaming in Battle Royale

There are battle-royale video games that prohibit most forms of teaming yet permit teaming under specific conditions, and these games can contain mechanisms for skillfully regulating teaming to preserve a sporting contest of skills. For example, in 2020 the battle-royale mod of Fortnite added a recruiting mechanism that enables an artificially intelligent, Non-player character (NPC) to be hired to cooperate for the duration of the match (Çakir, 2021). These AI-controlled NPCs are not necessarily competitors, but they are potential competitors insofar as anyone can hire them to fight on their team. This mechanism satisfies the desire to recruit without entirely spoiling a contest of skills in Fortnite because the skill level of NPCs is artificially kept quite low. NPCs often clumsily expose the location of whoever hired them, which balances out the advantage they provide. Further, anyone may hire an NPC, so there is an equal opportunity to team. However, the number of hirable NPCs in a given location is limited, which makes the opportunity to team with an NPC somewhat precarious. This NPC-recruiting mechanism has the effect of making each match into a race to hire the only NPC in a given location, which then significantly skews the following fights. Yet, there is significant skill involved in a race to hire an NPC. In Fortnite this race looks like competitors skillfully timing their jump from a moving starting point (a flying autobus) and skillfully timing their deployment of a paraglider to get to a location as efficiently as possible. The NPC-recruiting mechanism is a small but not insignificant step toward regulating teaming such that obtaining a cooperative competitor requires skill, namely the skill of racing to a location as efficiently as possible. Nevertheless, there remain substantial concerns that hired NPCs ruin the fairness of the game (IMainSpyAndImNoWeeb, 2023; emotx, 2023).

The battle-royale video game Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 (Raven Software and Infinity Ward, 2022) introduced a skillful regulatory mechanism for teaming called “assimilation” (Rain et al., 2022). There are four regulatory features of the assimilation mechanism. First, there is a communication option to explicitly invite a competitor to one’s team. The invited person can explicitly accept or reject the invitation to join the team. Second, the game prevents members of a team from damaging their teammates, and this mutual immunity extends to assimilated competitors. Third, assimilation is limited to teams that have lost a teammate. A player can assimilate as many competitors as teammates they have lost and no more. This also means that assimilation does not work in Solo competition modes. This mechanism prevents teaming from spoiling the contest of skills by keeping the maximum size of official teams consistent. Of course, it is still random whether or not a competitor accepts an invitation to team. Even when faced with the choice to be eliminated or cooperate with a competitor, players may simply choose to be eliminated, for example in order to spite an enemy or in order to begin a new match with the friends they had been playing with. A fourth feature of assimilation is that an assimilated competitor can choose to leave their team at any time. This is problematic for a sporting contest of skills insofar as it unevenly enables cunning betrayals through surprise defection. Of course, these regulatory mechanisms do not prevent unofficial, illicit teaming over the maximum size-permitted limit, but such illicit teaming would not have the protection of mutual immunity.

In November and December of 2022, Warzone 2.0 contained a Trios mode named “Unhinged” wherein the assimilation feature was no longer limited to a three-person team but a six-person team, meaning double the capacity of initial team sizes (Morton, 2022). In my view of player responses on reddit.com, Unhinged was polarizing for the Warzone fanbase (Boynus, 2022; Handbrake55, 2022; Infinitely_Infinity, 2022; Pmmeyourrocks, 2022; u/[deleted], 2022; C4ptainchr0nic, 2023). Defenders of Unhinged typically appealed to the fun of cunning alliances and betrayals, while others gave the usual complaints about teaming as an unskilled strategy.

Why was Unhinged removed from Warzone 2.0 on 14 December 2022? Fans of Unhinged wondered why they could not have an Unhinged mode while the complainers play a different mode more to their liking. We can make educated guesses about what happened based on player complaints. Unhinged had a problematic social and gameplay dynamic. First, players reported an increase in toxic communication (ThatOneRedditBro, 2022). Warzone 2.0 contains a mechanism called proximity chat wherein competitors can talk with one another if they are close enough to each other. This mechanism can be turned off, but proximity chat provides an advantage for inviting a competitor to team up, so Unhinged included more use of proximity chat relative to other game modes (SirDankz, 2022). The dynamics of competition and moreover betrayal seems to have encouraged toxic proximity chat between competitors. Complaints include the use of racial slurs. This made Unhinged extra problematic for popular streaming platforms that prohibited racist content. It is easy to imagine that the Unhinged mode was a liability in this sense, and I think proximity chat ultimately stifled the potential for Unhinged to further develop its explorations of regulated teaming via assimilation.

In terms of gameplay dynamics, players complained that the teaming dynamic in Unhinged effectively requires competitors to race to find a cooperative competitor if they are going to last to the end game, but not everyone can equally find a competitor. Competitors are incentivized to refuse cooperation in favor of betrayal to obtain the short-term benefits. Unlike Fortnite’s race to hire an NPC using a skillfully timed deployment, there was no parallel skill for racing to team up with another human competitor in Unhinged.

Conclusion

Further explorations in regulatory mechanisms for teaming can be developed on the basis of each element of teaming that would make it unskilled. Teaming is randomized or made unskilled by a number of things we can identify from the preceding analysis. We have seen that there has been randomness through an ambiguity in the communication of invitations to team, and the explicit invite function of assimilation resolves this issue. We have seen randomness in the whims of a teamer’s betrayal, and assimilation addresses this issue with mutual immunity to damage for competitors who accept an explicit invitation. Although assimilation currently allows teamers to defect at any time, which reintroduces the randomness of whimsical betrayals, it would be interesting to explore a mechanism that regulates defection by requiring a defection to be announced well ahead of time, say a thirty-second countdown until there is no more mutual immunity to damage. A defection countdown would eliminate the surprise element of defection.

Assimilation’s mechanism of explicit invitations currently does not address the randomness of the whims of competitor’s acceptance or rejection of an explicit invitation to team. However, the NPC-recruiting mechanism in Fortnite circumvents this randomness by forcing NPCs to accept the first invitation to team that they receive. We can easily imagine that assimilation can address the issue with human competitors similarly. When a competitor sends an explicit invitation to another competitor, a mechanism can make this invitation automatically accepted, immediately establishing damage immunity between the two competitors. Explicit invites would then be coercive invites, and the whims of the competitor’s interests in teaming no longer affect the opportunity to team.

I would argue that one current feature of assimilation is unnecessary to preserve a sporting contest of skills, namely a size cap on teams (inclusive of assimilated members). The idea of capping or limiting the combined size of a team is clearly meant to make the competition more even, but we have seen that a competition between unevenly sized teams can be sporting if teams use skills to retain teammates. Exploring the effects of different size caps for teaming would be interesting for future research, but a size cap is not necessarily needed to preserve a sporting contest of skills.

Given this robust revision of assimilation--coercive invitations, mutual immunity and a defection countdown but not necessarily with a size cap--the major randomizing elements of teaming are reduced, and skillful competition is preserved. However, new sets of issues emerge for the dynamics of teaming in battle royale, and game designers can benefit from exploring these new issues. I consider here a few questions for future research on the effects of skillful regulations of teaming in battle royale. What are different ways of regulating the duration of a coercive assimilation? What is the effect of implementing an indefinite duration until one member announces their defection? What is the effect of implementing a forced automatic defection of any assimilated members at the end of a match? What is the effect of establishing a determinate, short amount of time before auto-defection? What happens if competitors are given one or more options to renew their alliance? How can the ability to send a coercive invitation be distributed among players? What is the effect of giving players one or multiple chances to extend a coercive invitation at the beginning of the match? What happens if the ability to send a coercive invitation is regulated by possessing an in-game item to be found in the arena? What impact does the number of such items available make? How might the race to such items be regulated to require skills? What happens if an assimilated member can send a coercive invitation to a third party, and how might damage immunity be distributed in such a chain of assimilation? That is, if a first competitor coercively invites a second competitor, and the second competitor coercively invites a third competitor, do the first and third competitors have mutual immunity for the duration of the first assimilation? How can cooperation be encouraged between a coercive inviter and an assimilated member? What happens if teaming competitors receive bonuses by remaining proximate to one another? What happens if they receive penalties for straying too far from their teammates?

Finally, I want to note that robust mechanisms for skillfully regulating teaming can exist alongside prohibitions against teaming outside of these mechanisms, and in such a case skillfully regulating teaming would not really solve the intractable problem of illicit teaming. However, perhaps a well-regulated avenue for teaming would satisfy much of the desire to team, and there might be less incentive to team illicitly when official teaming offers sufficient protection against random betrayals. It remains to be seen how regulating the outlet of players’ drive to team will affect players’ engagement with prohibitive teaming.
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Carnivallium

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Cyberfunk

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• Around The World by Daft Punk
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• Worth The Risk by Sam Rivera
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• Night Of My Life by DJ Pauly D ft. Dash
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• On & On by Cartoon ft. Daniel Levi
• Optimistic by Sounds Of Blackness
• Party Like A Rockstar by Shop Boyz
• Perfect by Justin Timberlake, Eric Andre, Daveed Diggs, Kid Cudi & Troye Sivan
• Pink Friday Girls by Nicki Minaj
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• Power Ups by RDGLDGRN
• Probably (たぶん) by YOASOBI
• Pub Feed by The Chats
• Ride Wit Me by Nelly ft. City Spud
• Ridin' by Chamillionaire ft. Krayzie Bone
• Rolex by Ayo & Teo
• Save Somebody by Deitrick Haddon ft. Damita Haddon
• Say Hey (I Love You) by Michael Franti & Spearhead
• Set Me Free by Eden Alene
• Shake The Ground by Serge
• Shorty (You Keep Playin" With My Mind) by Imajin ft. Keith Murray
• Show Me by Kid Ink ft. Chris Brown
• Silver Bells That Ring At Night by The Wiggles
• Somebody by Natalie La Rose ft. Jeremih
• Something New by Zendaya ft. Chris Brown
• Sorry For Party Rocking by LMFAO
• Standing Next To You by Jung Kook
• Starlight by The Supermen Lovers ft. Mani Hoffman
• SUCKER 4 GREEN by LIL TAY
• Sunflower by Post Malone, Swae Lee
• Tangled Up In Me by Skye Sweetnam
• That's How You Write A Song by Alexander Rybak
• The Boys by Nicki Minaj, Cassie
• The Breaks by Kurtis Blow
• The DLOW Shuffle by iAmDLOW
• The Judge by Drax Project
• The One That Got Away by Katy Perry
• Thousand Hours by Flight
• Time Of Our Lives by Pitbull, Ne-Yo
• Tonight Again by Guy Sebastian
• Torn by Ava Max
• Trendsetter by Connor Price & Haviah Mighty
• Trumpets Blow by Kierra Sheard
• Turn Down For What by DJ Snake, Lil Jon
• Undress Rehearsal by Timeflies
• Victory Dance by DeStorm Power ft. T-Coles
• Violent Thing by Ben Dolic
• We Run The Night by Havana Brown ft. Pitbull
• Well Hello by Kali J.
• What's The Move by Jafunk, Nic Hanson & NanaBcool ft. Triple H Horns
• Whip It by Nicki Minaj
• Wop by J. Dash
• Yeah 3x by Chris Brown
• yes, and? by Ariana Grande
• You Know You Like It by DJ Snake, AlunaGeorge

Eternyx

• After Hours by The Weeknd
• Bad by David Guetta & Showtek ft. Vassy
• Beautiful Monster by Ne-Yo
• Black And White by Rudy Mancuso & Poo Bear
• Black Magic by Little Mix
• BLACK MIRROR by ONEUS
• Boyfriend by Dove Cameron
• Cruel by Jax Jones
• Dance, Dance by Fall Out Boy
• Dani California by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
• Demons by Imagine Dragons
• Dolls by Bella Poarch
• Emotions by Grant Knoche
• Empty by Jaiden & Boyinaland
• Fighter by Christina Aguilera
• Fill The Void by Alli Fitz
• Fragile by Tech N9ne ft. ¡MAYDAY!, Kendall Morgan & Kendrick Lamar
• Galvanize by The Chemical Brothers
• Ghost by Ava Max
• Ghost by Ella Henderson
• Going Under by Evanescence
• Graveyard by Halsey
• Heathens by twenty one pilots
• Hide Away by SYNAPSON ft. Holly
• I Don't Want It All by Kim Petras
• I Wanna Be Your Ghost (異世界混合大舞踏会) by Gen Hoshino ft. Ghosts
• In The Dark by DEV
• Iris by Goo Goo Dolls
• Joke's On You by Charlotte Lawrence
• Just Wanna Rock by Lil Uzi Vert
• Let It Rock by Kevin Rudolf ft. Lil Wayne
• MANIAC by Stray Kids
• me & ur ghost by blackbear
• Mirror by Lil Wayne ft. Bruno Mars
• Monster by Lady Gaga
• My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) by Fall Out Boy
• nihilist blues by Bring Me To Horizon ft. Grimes
• No Angels by Justin Timberlake
• Nobody by Skindred
• Paint The Town Red by Doja Cat
• Patience by KSI ft. YUNGBLUD & Polo G
• Psycho by Dixie D'Amelio ft. Rubi Rose
• Push The Feeling On (The Dub Of Doom) by Nightcrawlers
• Quake by Dirty Audio & Slippy
• Rampampam by Minelli
• Rodeo by Lil Nas X, Nas
• Sadie by Lady Heroine
• She Wolf by Shakira
• Sick And Tried by Mad Modishi ft. Dayon
• Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell
• Spooky Scary Skeletons by The Living Tombstone
• Streets by Doja Cat
• The Boom Boom Song by Imagination Movers
• The Hills by The Weeknd
• The Perfect Girl by Mareux
• The Wolf by SIAMÉS
• This Kind Of Love by The Future X
• Thunder by Imagine Dragons
• Unholy by Sam Smith, Kim Petras
• VAMPIROS by ROSALÍA, Rauw Alejandro
• Villain by Bella Poarch
• W.I.T.C.H. by Devon Cole
• What I Want by The Living Tombstone
• Wicked Games by The Weeknd
• You Own Me by The Chainsmokers
• ZITTI E BUONI by Måneskin

Floworld

• Centuries by Fall Out Boy
• Circles by Post Malone
• Conqueror by Mali Music
• Crown by Camila Cabello & Grey
• Fuego by Eleni Foureira
• Heart Of A Warrior by Dizzee Rascal ft. Teddy Sky
• INDUSTRY BABY by Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow
• J CHRIST by Lil Nas X
• King by Years & Years
• Kings & Queens by Ava Max
• Legends by Sleeping With Sirens
• Pink Venom by BLACKPINK
• prince of egypt by mofe.
• Roses by Muharram
• Royals by Lorde
• Royalty by Egzod & Maestro Chives ft. Neoni
• Rumors by Lizzo ft. Cardi B
• Samsara by Tungevaag & Raaban ft. Emila
• Trap Queen by Fetty Wap
• Two Princes by Spin Doctors
• Unicorn by Noa Kirel

Melosia Realms

• Baby, I'm Jealous by Bebe Rexha ft. Doja Cat
• Beautiful by Bazzi ft. Camila Cabello
• BIBA by Marshmello x Pritam ft. Shirley Setia
• Big Energy by Latto
• Bom Diggy by Zack Knight x Jasmin Walia
• Breathe by Jax Jones ft. Ina Wroldsen
• breathin by Ariana Grande
• Cinderella by The Cheetah Girls
• Déjà Vu by Beyoncé ft. JAY-Z
• Emotional Prism by Mikazuki BIGWAVE
• Genie In A Bottle by Christina Aguilera
• Good Days by SZA
• Leiser by LEA
• Let Go by Ark Patrol ft. Veronika Redd
• Magic by Kat Graham
• Mandala by KSHMR & Marnik ft. Mitika
• my future by Billie Eilish
• Naturally by Selena Gomez & The Scene
• No Promises by Cheat Codes ft. Demi Lovato
• Not Ok by Kygo, Chelsea Cutler
• Outside by Rhea Raj
• Queen Of Rain by Roxette
• Roses by The Chainsmokers ft. ROZES
• Sign by FLOW
• Sweetest Pie by Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa
• Wild Thoughts by DJ Khaled ft. Rihanna, Bryson Tiller
• Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift
• You Broke My Heart Again by Jax Jones, Teqkoi, Aiko

Sun Horizon

• 1, 2, 3 by Sofia Reyes ft. Jason Derulo & De La Ghetto
• BAILA by Eva Simons
• Beach House by Carly Rae Jepsen
• Body by Loud Luxury ft. brando
• Bubbly by Colbie Caillat
• Caramello by Rocco Hunt ft. Elettra Lamborghini, Lola Indigo
• Chop Life by Gdzilla
• Coco by Jala Brat & Buba Corelli
• Crab Rave by Noisestorm
• Cruel Summer (Taylor's Version) by Taylor Swift
• Damn (You've Got Me Saying) by Galantis, David Guetta & MNEK
• Danza Kuduro by Don Omar ft. Lucenzo
• Deep In The Bottom (Of Africa) by Monique Bingham, Black Coffee
• deja vu by Olivia Rodrigo
• Diggy Dee by Charly Black, Sak Noel
• Don't Waste My Time by Usher ft. Ella Mai
• Everything About U by IM5
• Feels Like Summer by Childish Gambino
• Hey Ma by Pitbull & J Balvin ft. Camila Cabello
• Hot by INNA
• Hot In Herre by Nelly
• Kute & Neat by Sasique
• Link Up by Ne-Yo
• Living Without You by Sigala, David Guetta, Sam Ryder
• Maan Meri Jaan (Afterlife) by King x Nick Jonas
• Made For Now by Janet Jackson x Daddy Yankee
• MAMIII by Becky G, KAROL G
• Music (Keeps Me Movin') by The Fresh Beat Band
• Mwaki by Zerb ft. Sofiya Nzau
• No Candle No Light by ZAYN ft. Nicki Minaj
• Obsessed by Calvin Harris ft. Charlie Puth & Shenseea
• Ocean Man by Ween
• Outside Vibes by Flight
• Pirate by EVERGLOW
• Pocketful Of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield
• RITMO by Black Eyed Peas, J Balvin
• Rush by Troye Sivan
• Savannah by Diviners ft. Philly K
• Sexy Chick by David Guetta ft. Akon
• Soak Up The Sun by Sheryl Crow
• South Beach Stars by Gigi Rowe
• Summer Feelings by Lennon Stella ft. Charlie Puth
• Summer Girls by LFO
• Summertime Magic by Childish Gambino
• Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Remix) by Lana Del Rey
• Take You There by Sean Kingston
• This Summer's Gonna Hurt... by Maroon 5
• Toca Toca by Fly Project
• Together Again by Janet Jackson
• Tourner Dans Le Vide by Brian Michael Hinds
• Turn Up The Sunshine by Diana Ross ft. Tame Impala
• Up All Night by Beck
• Water by Tyla
• Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles

WackyGroove

• 4EVA by KAYTRAMINÉ ft. Pharrell Williams
• Axel F by Crazy Frog
• AY AY AY by QPark
• Banana by The Aggrolites
• Bangs At The Waist (Чупки В Кръста) by Fiki
• Beautiful Mistakes by Maroon 5 ft. Megan Thee Stallion
• Beekeeper (Пчеловод) by RASA
• Betty Boop by Charlie Puth
• Bumble Bee by Bambee
• Chicken Noodle Soup by Webstar, Young B ft. The Voice Of Harlem
• Coincidance by Handsome Dancer
• Crazy Loop (Mm-Ma-Ma) by Dan Bălan
• Cupid by FIFTY FIFTY
• Dessert by Dawin ft. Silentó
• Doctor's Looney Remedy by Parachute Express
• Dogs by IShowSpeed & Kai Cenat
• Doodah by Cartoons
• El Pollito Pio by PULCINO PIO
• Fly Like A Butterfly by Badanamu
• Freaks by Timmy Trumpet & Savage
• Funny Song by Crazy Frog
• FVN! by LVL1
• Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) by Crystal Waters
• I'm A Banana! (Я Банан!) by PERFAM
• In Style (На Стиле) by Vremya i Steklo
• Made You Look by Meghan Trainor
• Miss You by Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz
• Pancake by Jaded ft. Ashnikko
• Panda by Desiigner
• Play by Jax Jones, Years & Years
• PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) by Pikotaro
• Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop) by Scatman John
• Shake by L.L.A.M.A, Ne-Yo, Carmen DeLeon
• Shut Up Chicken (Just Dance Version) by El Capon
• Soap by Melanie Martinez
• Sour Candy by Lady Gaga, BLACKPINK
• Tootsie Pop by BFFB
• Wonderland by Caravan Palace

Wasterra

• 21st Century Girl by WILLOW
• A Year Without Rain by Selena Gomez & The Scene
• Africa by Toto
• Afterlife by iamnotshane
• Austin by Dasha
• Beautiful Things by Benson Boone
• Big Enough by Kirin J Callinan ft. Alex Cameron, Molly Lewis, Jimmy Barnes
• California Love by 2Pac ft. Dr. Dre
• Down Under by Men At Work
• Feels Right (I Love It) by Flo Rida, Brian Kelley
• Hero by Enrique Iglesias
• I Got You by Bebe Rexha
• Lovers On The Sun by David Guetta ft. Sam Martin
• Pony by Ginuwine
• Sandstorm by Darude
• So Long by Diplo ft. Cam
• TEXAS HOLD 'EM by Beyoncé
• That That by PSY ft. SUGA Of BTS
• The First Cut Is The Deepest by Sheryl Crow
• Try by P!nk
• Vertigo by U2
• Wasted On You by Morgan Wallen
• World On Fire by Nate Smith

Winterhaven

• 7-11 by Eskimo Disco
• All I Have by Jennifer Lopez ft. LL Cool J
• Answer by ATEEZ
• Carol Of The Bells by The Living Tombstone
• Christmas Music by Charles Jenkins
• Cold by Maroon 5 ft. Future
• DJ Play A Christmas Song by Cher
• Doing A Dance by The Wiggles
• Frost (Инея) by #2Mashi
• Frozen by Madonna
• HOLIDAY by Lil Nas X
• ICE AGE by MCND
• Ice Box by Omarion
• Icebreaker by Agnete
• Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms
• Mistletoe by Justin Bieber
• Perfect by Ed Sheeran
• Really Love by KSI ft. Craig David & Digital Farm Animals
• Rockin' On Top Of The World by Steven Tyler
• SHUM by Go_A
• White Night by PSY x Heize

Earth

• (You Are A) Model Human by Jogurt ft. Commander Meouch Of TWRP
• 911 by From The Series "Danger Rangers"
• Another Mistake by YonKaGor
• Bing Bang by From The Series "LazyTown"
• CANDLELIGHTS by Vivziepop
• Caramelldansen by Caramella Girls
• Cuban Pete by Jim Carrey
• Dance Mode by From The Series "Bluey"
• Electricity by 3 Dog Band
• Enemy by Imagine Dragons x J.I.D
• Equestria Girls Forever by My Little Pony ft. Angelic
• Find The Magic by From The Series "My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Better Together
• Girls Girls Girls by Dolly Style
• Habibi by Dolly Style
• Häschenparty by Schnuffel Bunny ft. Michael Wendler
• I'm On A Yacht by From The Series "My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Better Together
• I2I by Disney's "A Goofy Movie"
• It's All Up To Me by From The Series "Danger Rangers"
• Jekyll And Hyde by From The Series "Arthur"
• Leave It All To Me by Miranda Cosgrove ft. Drake Bell
• Love Louder by The Meeps
• Love Love Alien (スキスキ星人) by Strawberry Prince
• Make It Shine by Victorious Cast ft. Victoria Justice
• Men In Black by Will Smith
• Monster High Fright Song by Monster High
• My Shiny Teeth & Me by From The Series "The Fairly OddParents"
• No Big Deal by From The Series "Amphibia"
• Nobody Like U by 4*TOWN
• Pingu Dans by Chris Van Tongelen
• Protect Your Ears by From The Series "Danger Rangers"
• Roar by From The Series "The Lionhearts"
• Sidechain Fever by LJ LephemStar
• Sing A Song by The Wubb Girlz ft. Beyoncé
• Skat Strut by MC Skat Kat And The Stray Mob ft. Paula Abdul
• Snuggle Song by Schnuffel Bunny
• So Alone by Anna Blue
• Teenage Crush Chocolate (青春チョコレート) by Strawberry Prince
• The Best Day Ever by From The Series "SpongeBob SquarePants"
• U Know What's Up by 4*TOWN
• VILLAIN by K/DA ft. Madison Beer & Kim Petras
• We Are Believix by Winx Club ft. Elizabeth Gillies
• Wish Now by Star Darlings
• Your Heart by Damien Dawn

Space

• Alien by Sabrina Carpenter & Jonas Blue
• Astronaut In The Ocean by Masked Wolf
• Bend The Knee by Bruno Martini, IZA, Timbaland
• Catchy Song by Dillon Francis ft. T-Pain & That Girl Lay Lay
• Dangerous by David Guetta ft. Sam Marin
• Get Into It (Yuh) by Doja Cat
• Interstellar Simon by Color Theory
• Lucky Stars by Take That
• Meet Me Halfway by Black Eyed Peas
• My Universe by Coldplay x BTS
• Rock It (To The Moon) by RuPaul
• Saturn by SZA
• Shed A Light by Robin Schulz & David Guetta & Cheat Codes
• SPACE MAN by Sam Ryder
• Starboy by The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk
• The 7th Element by VITAS
• The Zeezap Song by The Wiggles
• What It Feels Like by Navos x Galantis ft. YOU
• Woodpeckers In Space by VideoKids

Everywhere

• Back In Time by Pitbull
• Dance And Chant by Yolanda Be Cool
• Let's Go by Calvin Harris ft. Ne-Yo
• World, Hold On (Children Of The Sky) by Bob Sinclar ft. Steve Edwards

I’m a 17 yo 5’6” guy and I would consider myself bouncy. I’ve been weight training for over two years but nothing jump-focused. Right now I can just touch the rim which would give me a 34-inch running vert, given that my standing reach is 86 inches.
I started watching Isaiah Rivera videos and have been working sporadically on my vertical with max approach jumps and stuff, but I want to integrate things like plyometrics and isometrics into my workouts so that I can build a routine around it.
Does anyone have advice for how I should start? Maybe a video I can watch or a training program I could follow? It’s a dream of mine to dunk a basketball and I think I have the right elements to do it, I just need a concrete plan

In some of Jorge Rivera-Herrans' videos, he shows the song lyrics but also contains little transcripts of what Odysseus (or other characters) is doing. Does anyone know where to find those transcripts of the characters' physical actions?

Just thought I’d make a post to help out since I’ve noticed a few enquiries about it now. You can turn your unused free video files (when playing the game of love) in your rewards wallet into gems!
This only works with matches from the original selection on Winked, since they all have videos (they no longer make videos for new matches, since mid 2022 onwards). Basically, match with any of the male/female matches I’ve listed below. If there’s any of them you don’t like and can afford to gem farm, they’d be great for this hack. Just tap on their profiles as soon as you match, go under their videos, unlock the 2 files, and you’ve earned 150 gems.
Repeat the process as many times as you’d like by clicking the rotational arrow icon to start the storyline again :) This can also be done for audios, since I believe they also don’t create new ones anymore. If you want to know which matches have a few audios only, let me know (one of them is Teddy Hart who has 3, you can earn 100 gems from unlocking all of his.)
The matches who have videos, who can be used for this:
Male: - Aaron Mille Mr. M/ Marcus Jones - Alex Wilson/ Tae-Hyun Bak/ Javon Jameson - Camden Ellis/ Nur Naqvi - Connor Calloway/ Brandon Ackerman/ Dev Bridges - Damon Hunt/ Aki Yang/ Marcel Amos - Edward Lincoln/ Reuben Zackery/ Carlos Medina - Jordan Rivera/ Dominic Alonso - Jun Tsukuyomi/ Ayato Mochizuki - Logan Carte Theo Payne/ Victor August - Matt Davis/ Noah Johnson/ Josh MacAdams - Peter Lambert/ Roy Thacke Andrew Lin - Ryan Melnikoff/ Dorian D’Angelo/ Liam Green
Female: - Aniyah Diamond/ Kailee Betancourt/ Paula Moretti - Brooke Rose/ Luisa Rosales - Gabriella Allard/ Lizzy Anderson/ Bailey Morrish - Sophia Campbell/ Ela Dewan/ Xola Simmons
Premium matches: - Blake - Lucas - Nikolai
Happy playing! 💕 Also keep in mind that for one free video/ image/ audio file, you need to collect 5 tickets in the game of love.

In the show, retired Baltimore homicide detective Michael Baier and Rivera’s wife say that after Rivera’s body was found, Stansberry refused to return calls from investigators and put a “gag order” on employees to keep them from talking.
“It’s completely a lie,” Stansberry said. “It’s not a matter of opinion. It’s a lie.”
He said only that employees were told to refer media inquiries to a spokesperson. He said he personally spoke with a detective on June 23, 2006, which was after Baier was reassigned and when another detective, Marvin Sydnor, had the case.
Allison Rivera said Tuesday that her information about Stansberry not cooperating came from Baier.

Source: https://prosecutorspodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/2020_08_06-baltimore-sun.pdf
Det. Baier misspoke when he used the term “gag order”.
Only a judge can set forth and enforce a gag order. An example is the recent Trump case in the news.

“Employees were told to refer media inquiries to a spokesperson.”

Stansberry runs a media company that includes having a spokesperson.

“All three friends were transported to the Homicide Office and statements were obtained.”

Source: https://prosecutorspodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/police-report-exhibit-2.pdf
From Stansberry’s lawyer’s statement:

Stansberry was interviewed by Detective Sydnor with a witness present.

They also sent these messages out to their customers:

1. https://prosecutorspodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/exhibit-6.pdf
2. https://prosecutorspodcast.files.wordpress.com/2020/08/exhibit-7.pdf

A former associate gives testimony about the “gag order”:
https://youtu.be/4Tz1u57AJrU?si=Ou1Hk_6MNWNFB33I
Angel Rivera’s comments: https://youtu.be/7DzXWovGr2o?si=vxTFfu0em9rPUN5E

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I feel like 90% of the city is headed to Mile High Fest tomorrow, but if that's not your bag there is plenty of other stuff going on.

FRIDAY - APRIL 19th

Rockies vs Mariners @ Coors Field @ 6:40PM
MCA Max Mix @ The Cookie Factory @ 6PM Experience creativity, fashion, and joy at spring’s most anticipated runway show!
Pink Martini in Concert @ Boettcher Concert Hall @ 7:30PM Enjoy an exhilarating evening featuring a mix of Brazilian samba, Parisian café music, cabaret, and vintage jazz as this Denver favorite returns, featuring lead singer China Forbes.
Candlelight: Magical Movie Soundtracks in Concert @ Kirk of Highland @ 6:30PM / 8:45PM Hear some of cinema’s most iconic soundtracks from ‘Toy Story,’ ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘The Avengers,’ ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ and more!
Bored Teachers Comedy Show @ Paramount Theatre @ 7:30PM Bored Teachers Studios, the #1 teacher-entertainment platform, presents the funniest teacher-comedians in the world all on one stage.
Ice Cube @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ 6:30PM With The Game, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, & Living Legends
Steel Panther @ Fillmore Auditorium @ 7PM
Kai Wachi @ Mission Ballroom @ 7:30PM With MUST DIE!, Yosuf, Prosecute, Nimda, & Bluuher
Dombresky @ Ogden Theatre @ 9PM With Westend & JADED
Insomnium @ Gothic Theatre @ 7PM With Omnium Gatherum & Wilderun
Saka @ Meow Wolf @ 8PM
Tita Lau @ Temple @ 10PM
DJ Seinfeld @ The Church Nightclub @ 9PM
Papadosio @ Boulder Theater @ 8PM
Shadowgrass @ Fox Theatre @ 8PM With Magoo
Xavier Wulf @ Summit @ 8PM
Nascar Aloe @ Marquis Theater @ 8PM
Taylor Swift Party @ Bluebird Theater @ 9PM
Ella Red @ Globe Hall @ 8PM

SATURDAY - APRIL 20th

West Conference Playoffs: Nuggets vs TBA @ Ball Arena @ 7PM
Rockies vs Mariners @ Coors Field @ 6:10PM Promotion: City Connect Saturdays
Rapids vs FC Dallas @ Dick’s Sporting Goods Park @ 7:30PM
Mile High 420 Festival @ Civic Center Park @ 1PM Featuring live performances by Gucci Mane, Murs, Tommy Genesis, & more!
Arvada Beer Fest @ Freedom Street Social @ 1PM This year’s 90s-themed festival features unlimited sampling from 15+ breweries and distilleries, a dance party, a costume contest, food hall eats & more!
‘Gravity’ Screening @ DMNS @ 7PM
Candlelight: A Tribute to Adele @ Kirk of Highland @ 6:30PM / 8:45PM Hear the best of Adele’s discography in classical interpretation!
Wiz Khalifa + Flatbush Zombies @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ 6PM With Earthgang, Chevy Woods, & DJ Bonics
Pink Floyd Laser Spectacular @ Paramount Theatre @ 8PMEnjoy a unique laser show while be surrounded by the great music of Pink Floyd.
Starset: Immersion @ Fillmore Auditorium @ 5:30PM
INZO @ Mission Ballroom @ 8PM With Smoakland, Chmura, HEYZ, & Blookah
Chris Webby @ Ogden Theatre @ 8PM With Ekoh, Dropout Kings, GRIEVES, & Ryan Oaks
Old 97s @ Gothic Theatre @ 8PM With Holler Choir
Henry Fong @ Temple @ 10PM
Gimme Gimme Disco @ Summit @ 8PM
Driveways @ Marquis Theater @ 7PM
Sortof Vague @ Fox Theatre @ 7PM
Silversun Pickups @ Boulder Theater @ 8PM With Rocket
Shadowgrass @ Bluebird Theater @ 8PM With Jake Leg
Kassi Valazza @ Globe Hall @ 8PM

SUNDAY - APRIL 21st

Rockies vs Mariners @ Coors Field @ 1:10PM
Sofia Nino de Rivera Comedy Show @ Paramount Theatre @ 8PM
John Novosad Stand Up @ Comedy Works Downtown @ 7PM
‘Songs of Strength’ Concert @ Boettcher Concert Hall @ 2:30PM Denver Young Artists Orchestra performs a special program featuring Mahler, Puccini, Mendelssohn, and more!
Key Glock @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ 6:30PM With Young Nudy, BigXThaPlug, & DJ Rocksteddy
MIKU EXPO @ Mission Ballroom @ 8PM The concert features brand new Hatsune Miku songs as well as the big hits for fans who had been eagerly waiting for an opportunity to see her on stage.
The Ghost Inside @ Ogden Theatre @ 7PM With Palface Swiss, Bleed From Within, & Great American Ghost
Jessie Murph @ Boulder Theater @ 8PM With Shaboozey
Mali Velasquez @ Summit @ 6:30PM
Madds Buckley + Addison Grace @ Marquis Theater @ 7PM
Dead Poet Society @ Bluebird Theater @ 8PM
Jesse Daniel @ Globe Hall @ 8PM

All Weekend

All weekend - Adam Ray Stand Up @ Comedy Works Downtown
All weekend - Akaash Singh Stand Up @ Comedy Works South
All weekend - Colorado Ballet’s ‘Ballet MasterWorks’ @ Ellie Caulkins Opera House LAST CHANCE - Colorado Ballet closes its 63rd season with a mixed repertory program including new contemporary and classical ballet productions from world-renowned choreographers.
All weekend - ‘MJ: The Musical’ @ Buell Theatre Michael Jackson’s unique and unparalleled artistry comes to you as ‘MJ,’ the multi Tony Award®-winning new musical.
All weekend - The Improvised Shakespeare Company Comedy Show @ Garner Galleria Theatre The dazzling players create a brand new, fully improvised masterpiece right before your eyes. Enjoy an evening of spontaneous comedy featuring the language and themes of William Shakespeare!
All weekend - ‘Where Did We Sit On The Bus’ Play @ Singleton Theatre Through live music and storytelling, this one-person show immerses the audience in elaborate, layered soundscapes by fusing Latin rhythms, hip-hop, and spoken word poetry.
All weekend - ‘Emma’ Play @ Wolf Theatre In a new adaptation that’s a bit zany and refreshingly contemporary, playwright Kate Hamill infuses the language and perspectives of today into Austen’s beloved characters.
All weekend - ‘Noises Off’ Play @ Arvada Center A play withing a play, this relentless, high-energy farce is filled with embarrassing moments, behind-the-scenes kerfuffles, physical comedy hijinks, and even flying sardines.
All weekend - ‘The Mousetrap’ Play @ Lone Tree Arts Center LAST CHANCE - This record-breaking murder mystery features a brilliant surprise finish from Dame Agatha Christie, the foremost mystery writer of her time.
All weekend - ‘The Cost of Living’ Play @ Curious Theatre LAST CHANCE - In this wry and quietly observed play, Polish-born playwright Martyna Majok interweaves the stories of four lonely souls to examine the forces that bring people together and the ways we all need each other.
All weekend - ‘Guadalupe in the Guest Room’ Play @ CFU Lowry Campus LAST CHANCE - Exploring language barriers, cultural differences, and grief, this play is a deeply moving and very funny celebration of life, new beginnings, and the healing power of telenovelas.
All weekend - ‘The Glass Menagerie’ Play @ Vintage Theatre LAST CHANCE - A family drama of great tenderness, charm, and beauty, ‘The Glass Menagerie’ is an icon of the American theater.

Ongoing

Ongoing - ‘Space Explorers: The Infinite’ Immersive Experience @ Stanley Marketplace Embark on an immersive excursion through new breathtaking videos that reveal the many wonders of space exploration.
Ongoing - ‘The Berlin Airlift: Supplies from the Sky’ Exhibition @ Wings Museum The exhibit shares the lessons of courage, perseverance, and the triumph of the human spirit and pays tribute to the brave citizens who risked their lives to bring hope to a divided city.
Ongoing - 'Spookadelia' Immersive Show @ Spectra Art Space 'Spookadelia: Doubt’s Echo' is an all-ages narrative-driven psychedelic immersive art, theatrical, and highly interactive experience.
Ongoing - ‘Fazal Sheikh: Thirst Exposure In Place’ Exhibition @ DAM Capturing the Colorado Plateau, Sheikh’s portraits and landscapes shed light on the far-reaching consequences of extractive industry and climate change.
Ongoing - ‘The Russells in Denver, 1921’ Exhibition @ DAM Charles M. Russel’s works capture the vast landscapes, mountain ranges, and peoples of the American West of the 1880s, thus leaving a valuable chronicle of the West that once was.
Ongoing - ‘Personal Geographies’ Exhibition @ DAM The exhibition presents a selection of images by two artists - Trent Davis Bailey and Brian Adams who seek to understand themselves and the places they treasure though photography.
Ongoing - Spring Exhibition Series @ MCA MCA’s Spring series includes solo exhibitions of three contemporary artists whose multidisciplinary works focus on the exploration of the natural phenomena, landscapes, and human interactions with the natural world.
Ongoing - ‘Performing Self’ Exhibition @ Boulder Museum of Contemporary ArtThis exhibition provides a look into how seven multidisciplinary artists celebrate the mutability of self-identity through the embodiment of alter egos or personae.

Marlins @ Yankees - Wed, Apr 10

Game Status: Game Over - Score: 5-2 Marlins

Links & Info

• Current conditions at Yankee Stadium: 57°F - Overcast - Wind 10 mph, In From LF
• TV: Marlins: Bally Sports Florida, Yankees: Amazon Prime Video
• Radio: Marlins: WAQI 710 (es), FOX Sports 940AM (WINZ), Yankees: WADO 1280 (es), WFAN 660/101.9 FM
• MLB Gameday
• Game Graphs
• Savant Gamefeed

	Marlins Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	LOB	AVG	OBP	SLG
1	Arraez - 2B	5	1	2	1	0	0	2	.250	.339	.327
2	Bell - 1B	3	0	0	0	1	1	4	.188	.304	.271
	Rivera, E - 1B	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.250	.143
3	Burger - 3B	4	1	1	3	0	2	1	.260	.291	.480
4	Chisholm Jr. - CF	3	0	0	0	1	0	1	.195	.340	.390
5	Sánchez, J - RF	2	0	0	0	2	1	1	.160	.250	.160
6	Anderson, Ti - SS	4	1	1	0	0	0	3	.280	.308	.300
7	De La Cruz, B - DH	4	0	0	0	0	3	2	.255	.268	.327
8	Gordon - LF	2	1	1	0	2	1	0	.217	.269	.522
9	Fortes - C	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	.100	.143	.150
	Totals	30	5	6	4	6	8	15

Marlins
BATTING: HR: Burger (3, 3rd inning off Stroman, 2 on, 1 out). TB: Anderson, Ti; Arraez 2; Burger 4; Fortes; Gordon. RBI: Arraez (1); Burger 3 (15). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Arraez; De La Cruz, B; Anderson, Ti; Bell. SAC: Fortes. GIDP: Bell. Team RISP: 2-for-11. Team LOB: 5.
FIELDING: DP: (Burger-Anderson, Ti-Bell).

	Yankees Batters	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	K	LOB	AVG	OBP	SLG
1	Volpe - SS	3	1	1	0	2	0	0	.372	.460	.581
2	Soto, J - RF	4	0	2	1	1	0	0	.360	.468	.540
3	Judge - CF	4	0	0	0	1	2	6	.178	.367	.378
4	Stanton - DH	3	1	1	1	1	0	1	.256	.289	.605
	1-Jones, Jah - DH	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
5	Rizzo - 1B	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	.245	.339	.327
6	Torres - 2B	2	0	0	0	2	2	2	.192	.295	.231
7	Verdugo - LF	4	0	0	0	0	2	3	.200	.288	.356
8	Berti - 3B	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	.211	.250	.211
9	Trevino - C	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.056	.190	.056
	Totals	32	2	6	2	7	6	17

Yankees
1-Ran for Stanton in the 8th.
BATTING: 2B: Soto, J (3, Bender). HR: Stanton (4, 6th inning off Hoeing, 0 on, 1 out). TB: Berti; Rizzo; Soto, J 3; Stanton 4; Volpe. RBI: Soto, J (12); Stanton (8). Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Judge 3; Torres; Berti. GIDP: Verdugo. Team RISP: 0-for-7. Team LOB: 10.
FIELDING: E: Volpe (3, throw). Outfield assists: Soto, J (Sánchez, J at 2nd base). DP: 2 (Soto, J-Torres-Volpe; Volpe-Rizzo).

Marlins Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P-S	ERA
Weathers (W, 1-1)	5.0	3	0	0	3	1	0	94-53	2.57
Hoeing	1.0	1	1	1	0	2	1	17-11	1.86
Nardi (H, 2)	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	16-10	11.37
Bender (H, 3)	0.1	1	1	1	1	1	0	14-7	5.40
Scott, Tan (S, 1)	1.2	1	0	0	3	1	0	34-14	1.59
Totals	9.0	6	2	2	7	6	1

Yankees Pitchers	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	P-S	ERA
Stroman (L, 1-1)	5.0	4	4	4	4	7	1	95-58	2.12
Weaver	2.0	1	0	0	1	1	0	36-23	4.70
González, V	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7-4	1.93
Santana, D	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	21-11	6.23
Totals	9.0	6	5	5	6	8	1

Game Info
Pitches-strikes: Weathers 94-53; Hoeing 17-11; Nardi 16-10; Bender 14-7; Scott, Tan 34-14; Stroman 95-58; Weaver 36-23; González, V 7-4; Santana, D 21-11.
Groundouts-flyouts: Weathers 6-3; Hoeing 0-0; Nardi 1-1; Bender 0-0; Scott, Tan 1-1; Stroman 5-0; Weaver 3-2; González, V 3-0; Santana, D 1-2.
Batters faced: Weathers 20; Hoeing 4; Nardi 3; Bender 3; Scott, Tan 9; Stroman 21; Weaver 8; González, V 3; Santana, D 5.
Inherited runners-scored: Scott, Tan 1-0.
Ejections: Yankees manager Aaron Boone ejected by HP umpire John Bacon (7th).
Umpires: HP: John Bacon. 1B: Manny Gonzalez. 2B: Todd Tichenor. 3B: Cory Blaser.
Weather: 57 degrees, Overcast.
Wind: 10 mph, In From LF.
First pitch: 7:08 PM.
T: 2:50.
Att: 36,295.
Venue: Yankee Stadium.
April 10, 2024

Inning	Scoring Play	Score
Top 3	Luis Arraez singles on a ground ball to left fielder Alex Verdugo. Nick Gordon scores. Nick Fortes to 2nd.	1-0 MIA
Top 3	Jake Burger homers (3) on a fly ball to center field. Nick Fortes scores. Luis Arraez scores.	4-0 MIA
Bottom 6	Giancarlo Stanton homers (4) on a fly ball to right center field.	4-1 MIA
Bottom 8	Juan Soto doubles (3) on a sharp line drive to right fielder Jesús Sánchez. Anthony Volpe scores.	4-2 MIA
Top 9	Nick Fortes reaches on a throwing error by shortstop Anthony Volpe. Tim Anderson scores. Nick Gordon to 2nd.	5-2 MIA

Team	Highlight
NYY	Juan Soto starts a double play (00:00:29)
MIA	Luis Arraez hits an RBI single (00:00:16)
MIA	Jake Burger hits a three-run HR on his birthday (3) (00:00:21)
NYY	Stanton has now homered against all 30 MLB teams (4) (00:00:27)
NYY	Marcus Stroman strikes out seven batters (00:00:50)
MIA	Ryan Weathers K's Alex Verdugo (00:00:08)
NYY	Juan Soto's RBI double (00:00:29)
MIA	Tanner Scott strikes out Gleyber Torres to escape jam (00:00:07)
MIA	Tim Anderson scores from second after an error (00:00:27)
MIA	Tanner Scott retires Aaron Judge to secure the win (00:00:26)

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E	LOB
Marlins	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1		5	6	0	5
Yankees	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0		2	6	1	10

Decisions

• Winner: Ryan Weathers (1-1, 2.57)
• Loser: Marcus Stroman (1-1, 2.12)
• Save: Tanner Scott (1, 1.59)

Division Scoreboard

SEA 6 @ TOR 1 - Final
TB 4 @ LAA 2 - Final
BAL 7 @ BOS 5 - Final
^{Last Updated: 04/10/2024 10:16:27 PM EDT}