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March 2020 brought the COVID-19 outbreak and the increasing of Stay At Home orders in most states. As a result, many game companies offered incentives in game for people to stay home and play games, specifically Blizzard and their massively successful MMO, World of Warcraft, who offered a 100% XP boost for a month. This led to a massive surge in popularity for WoW among the Wideboys, eventually leading to Capri Sun Tzu to reveal that he was still a part time leader of a moderately sized raiding guild on Thrall, which in turn led to [[Operation: Thralls Deep]]. | March 2020 brought the COVID-19 outbreak and the increasing of Stay At Home orders in most states. As a result, many game companies offered incentives in game for people to stay home and play games, specifically Blizzard and their massively successful MMO, World of Warcraft, who offered a 100% XP boost for a month. This led to a massive surge in popularity for WoW among the Wideboys, eventually leading to Capri Sun Tzu to reveal that he was still a part time leader of a moderately sized raiding guild on Thrall, which in turn led to [[Operation: Thralls Deep]]. | ||
COVID would dominate most of the year, along with many sociopolitical disturbances such as the riots across the United States in Summer 2020 as well as the highly contested and controversial 2020 Election, which was highlighted by a BEEFY BOYS stream. The year was closed out by an unorthodox [[Bimmies]] ceremony. Due to countless delays and pre-production situations, the show was held live via YouTube on Christmas Eve, leading into the yearly Die Hard viewing. | |||
In the first week of 2021, Operation Thralls Deep would culminate with the formation of [[WIDEFORCE]], a WIDEBOYS raid team tackling the first tier of World of Warcraft Shadowlands: Castle Nathria. 2 months later the group would achieve "Ahead of the Curve" achievement by killing the end boss, Sire Denathrius, on Heroic mode. | |||
A brief beta test of a new platform, [[Guilded]], took place, and while the platform had many advantages over Discord, it was deemed too early to coordinate a movement to it. | |||
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