It looks like we'll have a great turnout for tonight - enough for two complete teams. Beorn volunteered to lead the second team; I'll reach out before we start and folks should look for a party invite from one of us.

With this many people, I figured we should have a thread - some place to poke fun at funkmon's internet connection, watch Disciple's videos, or talk trash if we want to race the parties. :)

If we split up by clan (tags in gray would be clan guests), it starts to look like this:

Team Rampancy:

• jchapman
  
• ChrisTheeCrappy
  
• funkmon
  
• ProbablyLast
  
• Narcogen
  
• Warbow

Team DestinyBungieOrg:

• Beorn
  
• HigherLifestyle
  
• DiscipleN2k
  
• Zero Point Fox
  
• Red robber
  
• dusk450

Any thoughts?

I think this is a good idea, as I bet some of us don't have that achievement.

Also I hate funkmon's phone. It's internets suck.

I think we should all be in 1 party so we can trash talk about how much better we are then the other group. Or laugh when funkmon lags out and we have to wait for him

I lagged out at least 3 times last night. Once right before the Ogres after the bridge and another time just before Ir Yût got killed. So missed both rewards. I did get Black Hammer for Crota, so not all bad.

With me and Funkmon this should be lagtastic.

I just signed up, but if I'm the odd man out that's no problem. I didn't know if I would be able to make it until the last minute and I'm not in super need of anything.

I don't mind running only 1. I am at my lull of Destiny now, so it's more to play just for fun with you guys and my physical life friends. If we don't get a third group, you can take my second run.

I didn't disconnect once during the like 5 hour flawless raider attempt. Just saying.

Also, we'll probably do Crota at the same time and that will cause talking confusion.

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Also, we'll probably do Crota at the same time and that will cause talking confusion.

Very true, plus parties are limited to 8 people anyway. I think for the bandwidth-challenged group, we'll stay in a party but use fireteam chat; that seemed to work well last week without disruption.

I'll keep smartglass open to stay it touch with Beorn via message. We can coordinate when the race starts :).

I'm fine with whatever the group decides, but agree that all 12 of us in a party will definitely lag out someone. I usually lose chat sound once a week with just 6 of us.

Also, we'll probably do Crota at the same time and that will cause talking confusion.

Yeah, but when has confusion ever made your experience less enjoyable?

If co-op night is keeping this kind of thing from happening, I'll cancel it for good.

I don't know if it is. I generally will jump into Co-Op night after (haven't lately I know), so I think because of the timing difference it's OK. I personally won't run any other activity before I run the Nightfall, because the bonus is so high. But the Raids don't use that bonus so I don't mind running them before Nightfall.

It's a good question though. What is everyone else's opinions? We could always try tweaking times.

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Now that would be a race.

If anyone in the party is in the preview program, then your whole party will switch over to using the new dedicated party chat servers, so you might actually have a phenomenal time! :)

I may be about 5 minutes late. Don't give up my spot, please.

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So here's the breakdown:

Team Rampancy:
Party Leader - jchapman
funkmon
ChrisTheeCrappy
ProbablyLast
Narcogen
Warbow

Team DestinyBungieOrg:
Party Leader - Beorn
Finwe of noldor
HigherLifestyle
DiscipleN2k
Red robber
dusk450

Team Happy:
Party Leader - unoudid
Zero Point Fox
bluerunner
squidNH3
DreadPirateWes

We'll be sending invites momentarily...

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Are you sure you didn't kill Sardok instead?

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Well, done, everyone! Three simultaneous raid speed runs, all in less than 30 minutes. I hope everyone had fun and lucked into some loot. Now for the results -

First goes to Team DBO - 22:42!:

• Beorn
  
• Finwe of noldor
  
• HigherLifestyle
  
• DiscipleN2k
  
• Red robber
  
• Dusk450

Second place goes to the Unoudid's team ~26:30 minutes:

• Unoudid
  
• Zero Point Fox
  
• Bluerunner
  
• SquidNH3
  
• DreadPirateWes
  
• BlazeRunner1084

Third place went to Team Rampancy ~28:00 minutes:

• jchapman
  
• funkmon
  
• ChrisTheeCrappy
  
• ProbablyLast
  
• Narcogen
  
• Warbow

My apologies for the chaotic start (and if I got any of the team members above incorrect), and a big thank you to Beorn and Unoudid to helping organize the teams.

My apologies for the chaotic start (and if I got any of the team members above incorrect), and a big thank you to Beorn and Unoudid to helping organize the teams.

Cool. Normal mode Crota, right? Was there cheese or death to save time in any of these? For instance, wiping instead of clearing out all the Knights after the death singer?

Cool. Normal mode Crota, right? Was there cheese or death to save time in any of these? For instance, wiping instead of clearing out all the Knights after the death singer?

Yep, Normal Crota. No cheese on team Rampancy, but we considered it :) We started the race (and the clock) from the initial start of the abyss (after dropping down and collecting the first chest)

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Eventually I'll get the hang of this streaming thing. I forgot to check the "Enable microphone" box this time. So instead of only hearing me like the first vid, this time you get to hear everyone but me. Not that I talk all that much anyway.

Here's our crazy fast (no-cheese!) run. Had a little hitch at the beginning when "Xbox, Leave" didn't trigger, leaving me to juggle with the party system. :)

What black magics hath you wraught?! ;-)

Thanks for posting that, Disciple; pretty smooth run! The last minute or so was cut off; did you manage to down Crota in a single sword or two?

Here's our crazy fast (no-cheese!) run. Had a little hitch at the beginning when "Xbox, Leave" didn't trigger, leaving me to juggle with the party system. :)

Hah - I had the exact same problem on my end and ended up dying too. No man left behind on Tuesday raids, though!
Next time I think a message will work better instead of trying to juggle chats.

Also, thanks for sticking around for a second run! I promise I'll never try to run sword again :) (second time is apparently is not a charm)

Thanks for posting that, Disciple; pretty smooth run! The last minute or so was cut off; did you manage to down Crota in a single sword or two?

I forgot to change the cutoff time when creating the highlight on Twitch. The full video is uploading now. We got 'er done in two swords.

-Disciple

I tried to get 3 downs in to kill Crota quickly on the first sword. I failed miserably and died before I hit him on the first down....

We even left no man behind in the abyss as we always do. Didn't slow us down at all though.

Now with nearly four minutes of additional footage and an entirely new ending!

You know, it didn't dawn on me until I watched your video, but if we were going for pure speed, I probably shouldn't have made it into the 2nd chest room :p

-Disciple

You know, it didn't dawn on me until I watched your video, but if we were going for pure speed, I probably shouldn't have made it into the 2nd chest room :p

This is true. I like that we still got the chest, though. :)

Yea we did as well. it just felt right.

We even left no man behind in the abyss as we always do. Didn't slow us down at all though.

Same for team DBO. And we got everyone across the bridge, and never saw the oversoul. I was sort of expecting more drama and chaos but instead it was a rather boring raid event wise :)
The race was what made it awesome. As soon as we were done it was like being in the Olympics* and waiting for the judges to give us our score :)

*I've never been in the olympics. The feeling may or may not be at all like finishing a destiny raid on normal.