Team Avolition

Team Avolition, also known as Team Avo, is a game griefing clan, known for their griefing raids in Minecraft. They mainly gained attention for posting videos of their Minecraft raids on YouTube.
== Content ==
Team Avolition has employed many methods of griefing, from the most common forms of griefing, such as destruction of Minecraft creations, to more elaborate methods using their private self-developed Minecraft mod client known as Reliant. Members of Team Avolition are known to have understanding in programming, which allows them to complete the more difficult griefs they have attempted to past.
Since the rise of Team Avolition's popularity, numerous of users have spawned YouTube fan tributes, as well as grief servers that were recently raided by Team Avolition. An legitimate official forum has also been created by Team Avolition for general and programming discussion, as well as occasional reviews of released games.
== Griefs ==
===First Grief===
On Janurary 9th, 2011, a YouTube account with the username Team Avolition was created. On the same day, Team Avolition posted the first part of a video of Minecraft users Storm_Surge, Sirenfal, happytimeharry, relocationagent, warchamp7, and RAWB3RRY flooding another user's house with lava on a server called Spacemonkey. The server admins failed to discover who griefed the house (which was the Avolition Team), which led to Avolition Team to act innocent and restored the victimized user's house. And surprisingly, by this situation, Storm_Surge was promoted into Spacemonkey's moderator. Avolition members Storm_Surge and Sirenfal then proceeded to grief the Spacemonkey server more, by burning down a tree fort dedicated to the marijuana subreddit /r/trees. 
In the process of griefing, Storm_Surge was spotted by the tree fort owner Sugarfree. Sugarfree accused Storm_Surge of griefing, but Storm_Surge denied that he did not destroy anything. Sugarfree did not follow through in reporting to the server admins but instead would go on a rampage and decimate the entire server by griefing the following day. Sugarfree was then banned, and the Avolition Team would later commit to an "All Out" raid of SpaceMonkey. Though they were banned afterwards, Storm_Surge succesfully used an alternate account to extract revenge and have a last raid on the server, after the admins and other Spacemonkey users griefed any creations that were made by users associated by Team Avolition.
===Outcome of the Server Griefs===
Following the posting of the Spacemonkey Griefing Videos, as well as griefing other servers, Team Avolition gained attention from the Minecraft subreddit /r/Minecraft from the video depicting of the burning of the /r/trees fort in the early Spacemonkey griefs. Many redditors became outraged, and subsequently DDoS'ed Team Avolition's forum, as well as attempting to dox any users associated with Team Avolition.
Rumor arose that MCAdmin (server provider for many Minecraft servers) creator Doridian will globally ban Team Avolition. Team Avolition retaliated by hacking the MCAdmin global banlist, and banned Spacemonkey admins, MCAdmin creator Doridian, and multiple other users. Avolition then banned users that were logging in and playing on Doridian's Furry server. During this time, Doridian discovered what Team Avolition was doing and shut down MCAdmin and restored the ban list prior to Team Avolition's raid, as well as banning Team Avolition members and anybody remotely associated with them. After these events, Minecraft servers featured on Reddit were often subjected by griefing from members and fans of Team Avolition.
==References==
Forum – Team Avolition
YouTube – Team Avoltion's Channel
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Forum – Old Team Avo videos removed. Anyone have them somewhere? / Posted on 7-29-2012
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YouTube – Updates and Source Forts / Posted on 7-19-2012
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