Great pictures, Tom. And congratulations on the win, Nuno.All D2 Replays up! Congratulations to @nmcp1 for the provisional overall win. It came in a way of a tiebreaker with @turnupdaheat . Great racing all around last night...there was even a @Dragonwhisky sighting!
There are a bunch of people that need to be thanked indeed, but biggest thanks to you, Zero, for creating what can only be called an extended family of completely different people, hell bent on having fun, trading paint and enjoying themselves. From our oldest young man in Tex to the teenagers that come and go as their girlfriends also come and go, it couldn't have happened without you.
Wow! Five flippin' years..what an amazing journey!! It was around this time of day five years ago that I made the very post of this thread. I tried to find the time stamp so that I could try to replicate the exact time stamp, but it's not listed anymore. However, I did see that I've edited the original post a thousand times - literally 1,000 edits! Of course, it looks much different that it did five years ago. Thankfully, we have @Dragonwhisky's Mother Of All Posts which includes the original banner that we used along with a comprehensive overview of our first three (and most formative) years. The bottom of his MOAP has some fun facts about our thread after three years. Well, he's also dug up some updated fun facts from @Jordan regarding this thread after five years. For example:
- The thread has received over 4 million views. This makes it the third most-viewed thread on GTPlanet behind "GT5 News & General Discussion" (8.7 million views) and "Your MP3 playlists" (4.7 million views).
- 922 people have subscribed to the thread. Of those, nearly half (429) have opted to get email updates for new replies. Each reply generates hundreds of alerts and emails (depending on how recently those subscribers visited the thread).
- 1,165 people have participated in the thread.
- 28 people have over 1,000 posts in the thread. Here's the top 5:
Looking at the top five posters, I can't help feel a great sense of gratitude to them all. I credit @kcheeb for being the catalyst of our initial growth as well as engineering our complex data and divisional structure. He and I spent many a long nights chatting on PS3 discussing all things SNAIL in an attempt to develop and maintain the league. Then along came @Dragonwhisky with his passion and determination. I credit him for leading SNAIL through the second chapter of our story, or the post-kcheeb era if you will. And our course @Rallywagon is probably the most fun-loving guy you will ever come across. Hanging out with him in the lounges were always a blast, and of course he posts like a maniac lol. But my biggest thanks of all goes to @JLBowler. He is the only SNAIL leader to have been on this 5-year journey with me since the very beginning. If SNAIL was a car, he would be the engine; always doing the hard work under the hood, but rarely getting the attention or stares like a fresh coat of wax or a set of flashy rims. He is as big of a reason as anyone behind the success of this league and I am truly grateful for everything he does for us.
- @zer05ive - 4,991 posts
- @JLBowler - 3,543 posts
- @Dragonwhisky - 3,331 posts
- @Rallywagon - 3,220 posts
- @kcheeb - 3,171 posts
So what lies in store for the next chapter of SNAIL? All I can say is PS4. While the fact that GT6 was released on the PS3 (instead of on PS4) did us a lot of good, that was three years ago and the PS3 is now on it's last legs. We plan on transitioning to the PS4 once GT Sport is released as quickly and can be done in a responsible manner. In other words, as quickly as we can while still ensuring that we have the structure in place to support multiple divisions, steward reviews, and everything else that you expect from SNAIL. That said, it's not a 100% guarantee that our future is with GT Sport. While we will hope and expect that GT Sport will give us all the features and capabilities we need to run SNAIL, we reserve the right to go in another direction if GT Sport lets us down in a big way. Bottom line, we're going to give GT Sport first dibs and see where it goes from there. So if you don't already have a PS4, be sure to add it to your Christmas wish list!
Oh and Happy Anniversary Snails!!
5 years?! It feels like longer, yet at the same time it feels like it was just last week when I joined. Had a lot of good times racing with you guys. Not nearly as active as I once was, school and work got a fella down. Rig has been taken down as well. However, some free time may be coming my way by time GTS releases, probably this time next year. Rally wagon may just make a come back!
Wow! Five flippin' years..what an amazing journey!! It was around this time of day five years ago that I made the very post of this thread. I tried to find the time stamp so that I could try to replicate the exact time stamp, but it's not listed anymore. However, I did see that I've edited the original post a thousand times - literally 1,000 edits! Of course, it looks much different that it did five years ago. Thankfully, we have @Dragonwhisky's Mother Of All Posts which includes the original banner that we used along with a comprehensive overview of our first three (and most formative) years. The bottom of his MOAP has some fun facts about our thread after three years. Well, he's also dug up some updated fun facts from @Jordan regarding this thread after five years. For example:
- The thread has received over 4 million views. This makes it the third most-viewed thread on GTPlanet behind "GT5 News & General Discussion" (8.7 million views) and "Your MP3 playlists" (4.7 million views).
- 922 people have subscribed to the thread. Of those, nearly half (429) have opted to get email updates for new replies. Each reply generates hundreds of alerts and emails (depending on how recently those subscribers visited the thread).
- 1,165 people have participated in the thread.
- 28 people have over 1,000 posts in the thread. Here's the top 5:
Looking at the top five posters, I can't help feel a great sense of gratitude to them all. I credit @kcheeb for being the catalyst of our initial growth as well as engineering our complex data and divisional structure. He and I spent many a long nights chatting on PS3 discussing all things SNAIL in an attempt to develop and maintain the league. Then along came @Dragonwhisky with his energetic passion and relentless determination. I credit him for leading SNAIL through the second chapter of our story, or the post-kcheeb era if you will. And our course @Rallywagon is probably the most fun-loving guy you will ever come across. Hanging out with him in the lounges were always a blast, and of course he posts like a maniac lol. But my biggest thanks of all goes to @JLBowler. He is the only SNAIL leader to have been on this 5-year journey with me since the very beginning. If SNAIL was a car, he would be the engine; always doing the hard work under the hood, but rarely getting the attention or stares like a fresh coat of wax or a set of flashy rims. He is as big of a reason as anyone behind the success of this league and I am truly grateful for everything he does for us.
- @zer05ive - 4,991 posts
- @JLBowler - 3,543 posts
- @Dragonwhisky - 3,331 posts
- @Rallywagon - 3,220 posts
- @kcheeb - 3,171 posts
So what lies in store for the next chapter of SNAIL? All I can say is PS4. While the fact that GT6 was released on the PS3 (instead of on PS4) did us a lot of good, that was three years ago and the PS3 is now on it's last legs. We plan on transitioning to the PS4 once GT Sport is released as quickly and can be done in a responsible manner. In other words, as quickly as we can while still ensuring that we have the structure in place to support multiple divisions, steward reviews, and everything else that you expect from SNAIL. That said, it's not a 100% guarantee that our future is with GT Sport. While we will hope and expect that GT Sport will give us all the features and capabilities we need to run SNAIL, we reserve the right to go in another direction if GT Sport lets us down in a big way. Bottom line, we're going to give GT Sport first dibs and see where it goes from there. So if you don't already have a PS4, be sure to add it to your Christmas wish list!
Oh and Happy Anniversary Snails!!
