Team ABS forums?

[Meister_Kai]

When I first started giving a shit about competitive magic (around 2004 or so) there where a group of people on the WotC site that eventually created their own team website.

Team ABS or "ankle bitter subjugators" or whatever their acronym stood for was one of my first e-community experiences, and it was a great one. Posters like PipOC, Shadyphoenix, Tim and Stew taught me a lot about the game through their tournament reports on both the Vintage and Legacy formats.

However, I can no longer find their website. I haven't seen any of these posters in a long time. I recognize a few posters from the Team ABS boards on the Source (Barook especially comes to mind) but my pm was never responded to.

In short, anybody know what happened to any of these guys? Do they still have a board anywhere? thanks for any leads.

[tpnp]

Supa_Tim started posting on the Legacy WotC boards not too long ago, and I think he said the majority of them stopped playing, as well as dropping the site. I'll see if I can find his post.

edit: Supa's first post back on the WotC boards - http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/18923962/UR_Control:_Fox_News.dec

Supa_Tim "Some of you may remember me. Others may have never heard of me. I am back after a two year hiatus. In the meantime: Team ABS is no more, I have no idea where we all went. I graduated college. I got married. Got my first after-college job. My wife and I are having our first kid, its a girl."

His profile: http://community.wizards.com/supa_tim

[Float4WeldSlaver]

Holy crap. I can't believe anyone remembers that. Ankle-Biter Subjugators. Shady was hilarious. Pip was brilliant but depressed all the time. Stew took everything super seriously. It was a wild ride while it lasted.

I was Enialis Liadon, Pip asked me to join a little after he started the invisionfree boards. You can find the remains here: www.s10.invisionfree.com/Team_ABS

Then stew bought a domain name and we started our own site. That lasted a while, and we produced a lot of articles on budget type 1. Then proxy tournaments became the norm, so we focused our efforts on making new decks for T1 metagames. Then Shady and Pip stopped playing, then they stopped posting. Stew got kidney stones, so he was MIA for a few months. Then he stopped paying for the site without telling anyone, but it didn't matter at that point--interest and activity dwindled on all fronts.

I actually used to be Enialis Liadon here, but I forgot my password and the e-mail I used when I signed up, so I switched to something more appropriate.

I still rock my Team ABS shirt whenever I go to a tournament, though.

EDIT: Make sure you stay away from all the gay porn sites that lurk there, now.
EDITEDIT: Unless, of course, you're into that sort of thing.

[Meister_Kai]

So I just took a walk down memory lane through that old site, wow, I vigorously overused commas even then.

Since All the posts there are at least 4 years old and I'm still relatively young, it was a somewhat shocking revelation to see how much my basic posting habits have "matured", if you will, over the years.

There was a lot of Smmenen hate going around, Solidarity was still a good deck (and I posted somewhere that FOW's where $30, even in 2005-2006!!!) and I still debated endlessly in every Enchantress-related thread posted.

For some reason I'm really glad the site is gone now, but I can't say why. Just this weird feeling.

Also, this reminds of of my first ever e-community, MTGCITY.com. Dear jesus that website was horrible even then. I get chills just thinking about it. The site was past its prime when I got there in 2004 or so. I was even a moderator there for a bit, around when Mirrodin had just been released. Wow how times fly.

[wmagzoo7]

Never was a member of ABS, but I remember MTGCity too. It took me a solid 2 years to break off the bad habits in everything that I picked up there, especially since there were less than 10 people who weren't donkeys on the website, and those 10 people rarely posted. Needless to say, it was fun in a sad way to be part of that website just so you could see how bad some people really were at the game.

[imopen2`]

Sorry for the necro but I was just walking down memory lane myself and stumbled upon the old (read second gen) ABS forum and could not remember why the team died out. If it isn't obvious, I was "imopen2," a non-initiated but very active user of the site. Remember when Lord Mayhem and I got into that huge fight about the holocaust? Those were some great times. I never did make it to 1,000 posts though...

It's good to hear that Tim and others are still somewhat active and finding success in their lives.

@EL: according to my sig on ABS you hated me. I hope you forgive me for whatever I did :D