My 9th Wizardversary!

Hello Wizards!

I want to first say Happy 4th of July to everyone! I hope all of you are planning on having a great day with your family and/or friends. I will be hanging out with family today for a BBQ and swimming, and later, I'll be watching my town's firework show! Today is always an eventful day. Speaking of eventful, for me, today marks 9 years of playing Wizard101!

On July 4th, 2009, I was watching Cartoon Network. I was planning to go to the park with my family, but it was raining most of the day. I didn't think we would be able to go since it kept raining. At the time I was looking for a new video game to play. An advertisement for Wizard101 started playing on my television! I knew that was going to be the game that I would play. I typed in the website as soon as I heard about it and created my first character, which was of the ice school. I named him Edward Wintergem! 

I remember when I first started playing Wizard101. I would go to the commons and beg for membership/crowns. We didn't have a crown shop (mounts, packs, etc.) at the time, but I would want the crowns to buy new areas. I was addicted to the game! I remember waking up at 5:00 am before the school-day would start to play the game. These were amazing times and since then I've had a lot of great experiences with Wizard101's community. 

I created my life character, Edward Lifegem, around early 2010. Shortly after I decided to create a website as well, that is now known as Around The Spiral with Edward Lifegem. This website has been used to keep memories in one place. It's always nice to check out old memories by looking at my old blog posts. It's a lot of fun to see how I've progressed as a person since joining the game. I thank Kingsisle for creating such a great game. If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have ever experienced such an amazing community. It has been an amazing past 9 years with a lot of experiences. Here's to many more years of Wizard101 and the community! I know that I'll continue to be here as long as Wizard101 lasts - which will be quite a few years!

Community Leaders: What They Represent

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Today, I thought I'd make a new blog post to talk about something that has been around since before I joined the game. Community Leaders have been part of this wonderful community since the beginning of the game. This post is about why community leaders are here, what they've done, and what they still do for this community.

As I've stated above, community leaders have been around for awhile. Community Leaders are sponsored by Kingsisle so not everyone (especially those who are not family friendly) represent a family-friendly game. Years back, I remember attending the Diary of a Wizard events, and this Fansite's events were sponsored by Kingsisle. All of the Fansites would get together and throw one huge event for the community. It was a family-friendly event. These events were by far the largest events that this game has ever had. No matter what anyone says - these were the largest events in the game that even if all Wizard101 Event Hosts got together and hosted one event, it wouldn't even add up to the number of people that attended these events.

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I started attending the Diary of a Wizard events back in 2010. These events, like I said above, were very family-friendly and brought many thousands of wizards together each year. Other great Fansites helped co-host their own events as well. This Fansite was chosen by Kingsisle for a reason. They led the community in a positive direction. It brought a lot of people together and was the owners of this website were true community leaders. So even though it's been about six years since the last Diary of a Wizard event, we're now heading in a new direction from the old Website & Podcast days. We've now been introduced to Streaming!

Twitch is very popular these days. So I thought I'd talk about how streaming started in this community. The very first streamers were Stephen Spiritcaller & Leala from Ravenwood Radio. Each week starting in Fall of 2009, they'd release a new episode of Ravenwood Radio. They would talk about what was going on in the community and even sometimes after the show, have afterparties. Today, we have many great streamers who also bring the community together and have parties. I can't even list the many great streamers in this community, but they know who they are! I would like to thank them for continuing to bring this community together. The main priority, in my opinion, should be to do just that. 

Although many people in this wonderful community have brought people together for years, there are others who let jealousy & competition run their path. If anyone is trying to compete with other members of this community, they aren't a community leader. They are especially not a community leader if they are not officially recognized by Kingsisle. They have provided the community with a way to see who they wanted as community leaders. You can read the official newsletters (or watch the KI Live Streams). You can also click on the links below to read the Official Fansites that are listed on their websites.

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https://www.pirate101.com/free_game/fan_sites/

Wizard101 Fansites

https://www.wizard101.com/game/community/fansites

There is a reason why most MMOs have official fansites. Kingsisle is a family-friendly game. Anyone not being family-friendly & pretending to be a community leader is not a community leader. They never were and never will be. Community leaders make mistakes, I know I have made plenty, but KI knows who were are. They've known some of us for nearly a decade. Please be aware of those who mislead the community into thinking that we're not. They promote and sponsor us for a reason. Thank you all for reading. Until next time, I'll see you around the Spiral. 

Patriotic March 2018: Recap

Hello Wizards!

I hope you're having a wonderful Sunday. Today I wanted to make a Recap Post for our community event yesterday, the Patriotic March. For this event, we ran around Wizard City wearing our nation's colors to celebrate our love not only for our Country but for all Countries.

Our events are meant to bring people from all over the community (across the world) together for a free of charge event. The reason behind each event that we throw really comes from the old community. Diary of a Wizard, Ravenwood Radio (now SpiralRadio101), and many other Fansites would throw events that would bring this community together. These late 00s and early 10s events were amazing. I met many great people because of these events. Today, we throw events to bring people together just like the old community did. That will be the purpose of our events. So today, I want to say something. Lately, I've seen our events being copied (whether it's themes, activities or specific times of the events). Today, I've decided that I'm no longer going to be upset about this. If people are being brought together, that is what matters at the end of the day. We have to remind ourselves that when they go low, we go high. We'll continue bring this community together with new ideas! Now that I've explained a few things, let's talk about what we did at the event yesterday!

Simon Says To Tell Yourself That You're Amazing

While waiting for the event to begin, we played Simon Says! This was such a fun thing to do and I'm really thinking about having something like this during larger events. I don't think we've had anything like this before, so I might have an idea for an activity at our upcoming event, The Holiday Mashup. It was a lot of fun playing Simon Says with all of you. Thank you so much for keeping it family-friendly and fun! This is why I love this community. The people who attend our events and/or support them are the best people that I've met in this community. You truly are great friends! 

The Patriotic March - Recap Videos

A few awesome YouTubers made videos of this event. Please click on their videos and give them a thumbs up. Thank you for your support and working so hard on editing. It really means a lot. By the way, WhiteTiger, you did not fail me. I am thankful for your support. At the end of the day, that is what means the most to me. You're awesome! I can't wait to see your Holiday Mashup Recap Video!

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A Special Thank You & Holiday Mashup Event

I want to thank all of you for your support. Some of these events take a lot of work for planning. Although this was a smaller event, it is sometimes tough planning out days during busy schedules to have events. I am thankful that we have such great people to inspire us to go even bigger for the events. It was such much fun seeing all of you again. We'll continue trying out best to make these events as fun as possible. Speaking of fun... our Holiday Mashup Event is quickly approaching. We've been working hard on this event, so I hope you're able to stop by this upcoming event. Some of you know that July 28th is my Birthday, but I wanted to spend part of my Birthday with the community. It'll be fun spending time with y'all! By the way... Don't gift me if you see me on the game that day. I want this event to be about the community, not me. Okay, I should stop talking because I'll be typing all day. I have a few other posts to publish! Here is some more information about The Holiday Mashup - the first event where we combine all Holidays into one event!

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