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Billiard · Dec 13, 2008, 10:15 PM // 22:15

One year ago today the guild Team Love [kiSu] was formed. The concept for the guild was borne out of an idea by Axiom at Team Quitter concerning starting a Big Brother Program in order to help grow PvP players for Guild Wars. I suggested to Axiom that it would be good to have a place where less experienced and lesser known players could network with and be mentored by time players in the game. He thought it was a great idea, and since I had previous experience with training literally hundreds of new PvP players in X en of Onslaught [XoO], he of course thought I would the person best suited for making it happen.

I had recently stepped down from leading XoO and was pretty content just to join another guild and be just a regular player again, but the idea and the opportunity intrigued me. What's more, with Axiom's backing it became possible to rally other top players in support of the program. One of the keys I thought was to get the new (and still unnamed) guild into a very active PvP alliance. For this I turned to Yue from Delta Formation [DF] and let him know of my idea. DF was leading a very active guild with other top American PvP guilds such as Dark Alley {dR}. He thought it was a great idea, and quickly moved to form a new guild and give it a place in the alliance. Yue was the person who coined Team Love [kiSu], based on a name that he had been wanting to use for a guild for a long time.

Team Love started recruiting anchor members who provided a core group in the guild, mentors from top guilds who would guest, and less experienced "mentee" members who wanted a chance to learn and get better known in the PvP community. Originally Team Love used Hapa's Ventrilo server and hosted forums on the Team Quitter website, but as the guild grew and expanded it purchased it's own 100 person Ventrilo server as well as a dedicated website and forums. In addition to the main Team Love guild, several other [kiSu] guilds were created due to high levels of interest in PvP mentoring. These included Casual Love - originally a practice guild for Team Love and now a core guild in it's own right, Virtual Love - a guild designed to orient players new to PvP, Eternus Love - a Europe based core guild, and Random Love - a BYOB guild. Of these guilds Casual, Virtual, and to some extent Random are still active, with Team Love reforming a core this month.

Literally hundreds of players have been through and assisted with the Team Love PvP mentoring program. The goal of the program has always been to aid PvP players in helping themselves to learn and improve. [kiSu] guilds have been some of the most active in North American GvG over the past year, completing nearly 3000 matches across all the [kiSu] guilds. In addition, Team Love has also created a new Sealed Deck Generator to facilitate Limited Play GvG matches, as well as helped sponsor the Guild Wars Guru GvG Challenge 2008 PvP tournament.

Team Love continues to carry out it's PvP mentoring mission, and hopes to play a role in Guild Wars 2 once that game is released.

*Darcy* · Dec 13, 2008, 10:44 PM // 22:44

Congratulations on completing your first year as a much-needed teaching facility. I hope you have many other anniversaries.

While I do not PvP, I am grateful to your group for helping to make sure that the skills are taught and the system continues to grow. PvP is an innate part of Guild Wars and deserves the best.

Epic Monkey Battle · Dec 14, 2008, 04:33 AM // 04:33

Congrats Bill! I hope the guild keeps going strong!

Orange Milk · Dec 14, 2008, 04:34 AM // 04:34

Grats on the birthday

Good to be in your alliance for the ocassion

warriorsmiley · Dec 14, 2008, 04:38 AM // 04:38

Gratz on the 1st year. We have a good alliance going lets keep progressing.

Haxor · Dec 14, 2008, 07:01 AM // 07:01

Congratulations, Billiard. It's good to know that there are serious PvP players who want to help others, instead of shitting down on them and then bitching about how the game is dead. Both a fantastic initiative and job.

Jenn · Dec 14, 2008, 07:10 AM // 07:10

Has it really been a year already?

I wish our guild could have been a more unique part of the KiSu initiative, but alas, I think a lot of things were resistant to change. But since then, KiSu is definitely a brand name that people recognize, so congratulations on that. And also thank you for a share of the resources - I know my friends definitely appreciated it.

Thanks to you and Yue (<3 you guys are awesome!!), and whoever else helped with the project, for bringing this to the community.

Billiard · Dec 14, 2008, 10:56 PM // 22:56

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Originally Posted by Illfated Fat

Has it really been a year already?

I wish our guild could have been a more unique part of the KiSu initiative, but alas, I think a lot of things were resistant to change. But since then, KiSu is definitely a brand name that people recognize, so congratulations on that. And also thank you for a share of the resources - I know my friends definitely appreciated it.

Thanks to you and Yue (<3 you guys are awesome!!), and whoever else helped with the project, for bringing this to the community.

Thanks to you and Marcus and Mel for helping initially pay for the Vent server as things were kicking off!