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Post by Nightmare on Jun 9, 2019 17:23:51 GMT -5
Hey there everyone! You guessed it, it's that time of year again! We're nearing ZV's birthday, and our wonderful community will be celebrating its Sweet Sixteen this year! Can you believe that? Sixteen years of Zero Virus? It's been a wild ride. I'd like to start off by saying thank you to all of our wonderful members who make this place what it is, without each and every one of you, ZV wouldn't be the special community that's brought so many together and gave us good memories, helped us through hard times, and really just been a source of fun and entertainment throughout the years. With the sappy stuff out of the way, I'd like to announce some of the fun we have planned to celebrate this occasion. Far gone are the Carnivals of old, but just because we're all too grown up and busy for 2 week long carnivals doesn't mean we can't take a minute to celebrate ZV's 16th Anniversary! FestivitiesThe ZV Staff have hashed it out, and many of you have seen us take our discussions to the community at large in the chat rooms on IRC and Discord. We've planned for a four day celebration encompassing ZV's birthday on the 21st and the following weekend. We've planned for the following fun activities: - ZV Dynasty Warriors Stream: I've been working hard on making ass tons of ZV characters in Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires, as many of you are aware. You need 300 characters to make a fully self-sustaining custom campaign. Well after years of making characters on and off, I'm pleased to announce that the deed is done, and I've finally reached that golden number. So to celebrate, I'll be spending the days of our celebration streaming a ZV-themed campaign of China's warring states era! We'll be holding polls on the forum to determine who'll be the leader of this conquest, so keep an eye out for those!
- ZV Cards Against Humanity: Who doesn't remember this gem from the last couple of ZV get togethers? All the love of Cards Against Humanity, with all the silliness of ZV. Loaded with a fully functional deck of custom black and white cards, all ZV themed, we'll get together on Discord and play the game online for some good laughs!
- ZV Movie Night: Some of you may remember we did a little get together on Rabbit and Discord when Death Battle released their MegaMan free-for-all. It was a good time, us all watching the video together and giving commentary together. Well we've decided to bring back that fun experience with a movie night! We'll be posting polls on the forum to help decide what we'll watch, so give those a look.
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Amiibo Tournament: What's a ZV birthday without some Smash? But this year we've got a bit of a twist: Our tournament will be based not purely on pounding each other into a fine paste, but on our ability to train figurines to do it for us. With SSBU Version 3.1.0, we can now use Amiibo toys to life figures online. So what better time to take advantage of that than now? If you've got an amiibo, dust it off! If you don't have one yet, now's the perfect excuse to buy one of your favorite character! Train them up in Smash and enter them in the tourney! We'll be posting a signup thread with all the rules you need to abide by here on the forum, so check that out. Who knows, just because you're not ZV's best Smasher, your amiibo might be the mightiest of ZV's figurines, so this could be your chance to take home a trophy!
- BattleBob Tournament: Well we can't very well not have one of these, right? Ever since BattleBob, ZV's very own homebrew fighting game came into existence, we've played it on ZV's birthday. This year'll be no exception! For the last of our festivities, we'll be doing another BattleBob tourney, so feel free to sign up when the registration thread for that goes up on the forum!
Pretty good lineup, yeah? I hope you're all excited, cause I know I am! Below I'm going to post the schedule and the list of relevant signup threads and polls, this will all be subject to some change for the time being as we try and get everything organized, please understand. Keep an eye on things here, on our Facebook group, and in our chatroom on IRC and Discord. Relevant ThreadsSSBU Amiibo Tournament SignupsBattleBob Tournament SignupsZV Movie Night FINAL Poll
ZV Dynasty Warriors FINAL PollScheduleThursday, June 20th- [07:30 PM EST] ZV Dynasty Warriors Stream
- [10:00 PM EST] ZV Movie Night
Friday, June 21st- [07:30 PM EST] ZV Dynasty Warriors Stream
- [10:00 PM EST] ZV Cards Against Humanity
Saturday, June 22nd- [01:00 PM EST] SSBU Amiibo Tournament
- [06:00 PM EST] ZV Dynasty Warriors Stream
Sunday, June 23rd- [01:00 PM EST] BattleBob Tournament
- [06:00 PM EST] ZV Dynasty Warriors Stream
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Post by Nightmare on Jun 12, 2019 22:09:56 GMT -5
Updated the first post to include the links to the final polls for Movie Night and Dynasty Warriors, since the initial polls concluded. Be sure to cast your votes before next week!
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Post by Nightmare on Jun 17, 2019 11:54:02 GMT -5
Alright everyone, time for a quick update!
Plans for our festivities are still going as planned. We've settled the polls and I'd like to announce our schedule!
There'll likely be other fun to be had during the 16th Anniversary Celebration, but these are the officially scheduled events. I encourage anyone who wants to get together and celebrate with your ZV brothers and sisters to take the opportunity to do so! Organize gaming events, do some streaming of your own, just pop in and hang out, whatever you want! Until then, I'll see you guys there!
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Post by Nightmare on Jun 20, 2019 11:23:09 GMT -5
Hey everyone! Hope you're ready to say a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Zero Virus! Well, ZV's birthday is technically tomorrow, the 21st, but today we begin our 16th Anniversary Festivities! Tune in at 7:30 PM EST for our ZV Dynasty Warriors stream where I'll be streaming Sorrum's Quest For Ass! Click on the link here and set yourself a reminder.
Then at 10:00 PM EST we're doing ZV movie night! Join us in the General Chat on Discord and on Rabbit, we'll be watching The Princess Bride! If you haven't signed up for Rabbit, do it now, it's real easy!
And lastly remember to sign up for the Amiibo Tournament and the BattleBob Tournament if you haven't already! Looking forward to seeing you all tonight! |
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Post by Nightmare on Jun 21, 2019 11:30:13 GMT -5
Let me start off this announcement by saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZERO VIRUS! 16 years, you guys. 16 years of the greatest community on the internet! We owe it all to each and every one of you. Thank you all for the amazing turnout yesterday. ZV Dynasty Warriors Part 1 was a lot of fun, and movie night was a blast too. Tune in at 7:30 PM EST tonight for ZV Dynasty Warriors Part 2! We'll continue Sorrum's conquest and his quest for ass. You can view it here when the stream starts.
Then at 10:00 PM EST you can join us on Discord for ZV Cards Against Humanity. Always a laugh riot, so if you have time, please swing on by!
And a final reminder that if you haven't signed up for the amiibo or BattleBob Tournaments, today's your last chance! This evening I'm going to close up the signups so I can make the brackets, so if there's any last second entrants, it's officially down to the wire. See you all tonight! |
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Post by Nightmare on Jun 24, 2019 3:18:23 GMT -5
Hey everyone! This is the last announcement for the 16th Anniversary. We're at the end of our celebration.  Let me start off by saying thank you to all of our members. It's been a wild 16 years and without all of you, we wouldn't be the awesome community we are today. You guys are what makes this place so special, and it really is a privilege to be able to do all of these events with you guys to celebrate all of you. I hope all of you have as much fun participating in these things as I do putting them on.  On that note, let's give a shout-out to all of our wonderful events this year! Thursday we had a wildly successful movie night on Discord and Rabbit, we had a huge turnout and we all hung out and watched the Princess Bride. It was a lot of fun! It got us thinking we should do a movie night every month. Then Friday night we got together for ZV Cards Against Humanity on Discord, and as always that was a blast. Lots of laughs and a big turnout there as well. Of course we had our Dynasty Warriors streams as well! Sorrum's Quest For Ass made for a hilarious adventure. Alas, it's not yet over, there'll be more streams to come in the future! But it was a lot of fun and you can catch up on it here on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKbsx_c21_O_vXVUG5vHSlEaRcZvRUPpfWe also had a couple of tournaments! Our first was for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, we did an amiibo tournament! That was pretty awesome too, and luckily we streamed that as well! You can catch that on YouTube here: You can check the video description for timestamps to jump to specific fights.And finally we did a BattleBob tournament! As unconventional as it may seem, we streamed that too, so you can enjoy it even if you missed out! You can find that YouTube video here: You can check the video description for timestamps to jump to specific fights.I'll take this opportunity to congratulate our champions Nicktendonick for his superb amiibo and Majeh for once again showing his BattleBob prowess. Kudos to you two. Lastly, we discussed something exciting over the weekend: For those of you who aren't aware, we had a small ZV get together back last October over Halloween weekend. Small as it may have been, it's also the largest ZV get together we've ever done in person, with me, Ed, Aerin, Ztrl, Sorrum, and Tony hanging out together. It was a real blast, and we thought we should discuss doing another such get together with a larger number of people! We're planning it for September 2020, with hopes to try and discuss the details and finalize plans by the end of September 2019. That way we have all summer to plan out a trip, and a whole year to save up for it. If you're interested and/or have ideas, please join the #zv-quest channel on our Discord Server to contribute to the conversation. With all of that said, it's been a fun weekend, and I hope you guys enjoyed it too. Once again, Happy Birthday Zero Virus! See you guys around! |
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