Ateneocord R/Place Expeditions

The Ateneocord R/Place Expeditions was an event from April 1 to April 4, 2022 that gave AteneoCord representation on the r/place Reddit event.
==History==
Remmacaronie launched a poll asking Neocord members if they want to represent AteneoCord in the 2022 r/place event. The vote was won in favor by a landslide. Members started to gather suitable coordinates and designs. Finally, Nnitro made the design and found where to put it. The design revolved around the word "La Salle Sucks" and it had a lot of different renditions due to compromising because of build space.
==Conflicts and Negotiations==
=== The First Expedition Events===
 Negotiations were held with people who were desecrating the initial location. Baguette and Nnitro were the prominent diplomats. After some discussions, they struck a deal. The assembly was agreed to commence without any interruptions. The plot was in great shape, with Baguette’s propaganda keeping morale high. 
The peace would be short-lived. Members from r/India would start claiming Neocord’s territory. The might of AteneoCord might have been strong, but the Indians were much more robust. Nnitro messaged r/indiaplace mods, asking for peace. Peace talks with various r/indiaplace members also commenced. Unfortunately, the Indians rejected peace offers proposed by Nnitro and u2, as their reason was that a country's flag is more important than a hate message.
After hours of fighting, r/indiaplace found a new location to plant their flag.
Around this time, the members of Neocord had started to become weary. They had approached a period of sleepiness and tiredness. Going further into the early hours of the morning, the commanders decided to negotiate with r/Colombia and their Colombian flag so that they could protect Neocord’s build while they defend theirs. Colombia agreed with the terms. After the negotiation, u2 announced that we were in safe hands due to the peace deal between Ateneocord and r/Colombia.
The following day would rise as a shock; they were getting swarmed. Two groups were responsible for the invasion; the subreddit for the University of British Columbia and the subreddit for the country of Colombia. It seemed like the negotiations were void. Neocord wanted to negotiate with Columbia again, but they left all available negotiation servers. This betrayal led to Ateneocord marking UBC and Colombia as mortal enemies.
===The Second Expedition Events ===
After the betrayal, Nnitro soon found another design with another plot. Morale was dropping low, but some members persisted. Members started placing the outlines and the borders of the latest design. It was all going according to plan until another threat arose. 
Back in r/place 2017, a group of users would start using black pixels to invade, and thus ruin, early artworks and anything in its path. It was ruthless, destroying faces, flags, and memorials. Although it was a brutal force, the side of r/place that wanted tranquility and non-ruin quieted the group. The black pixels would later be called “The Void.”
Unfortunately, the Void was closing in the Second Build Location, making members pray for dear life. And soon, the Void swarmed the plot.
After the build got swarmed, Nnitro and Baguette fled to different subreddits in r/place, scrambling to find plots for Neocord’s sign. They tried searching in r/nordicunion, r/philippines, and they were even thinking of going back to their first location. Unfortunately, no one took them in. But, after more searching, they found an opportunity to get a plot in an old R/place subreddit.
===The Third Expedition Events===
In r/place 2017, one of the first designs users made were rainbows. They soon coordinated and created a lengthy strand of rainbows, which would be the basis for the name r/ainbowroad. 
Baguette and Nnitro sought and found the r/ainbowroad discord server, asking for collaboration for Ateneocord’s build. In a dash of luck, some of the mods in RainbowRoad were Filipino, so they accepted the offer quickly. This coincidence sparked hope inside the members of Neocord, and Nnitro immediately made another design. They immediately went to work, but they soon encountered some problems. Although RainbowRoad gave Neocord the go signal on building, the RainbowRoad hivemind persisted in continuing the pattern on our plot. This led to Baguette trying to negotiate with each user by placing pixels on the border. Once again, morale dropped below a dangerous level, and the members lost hope again. Fortunately, another build was forming. 
R/LingLing40Hrs or 2SetViolin arrived in the r/ainbowroad discord server. They were planning on making their logo near Ateneocord’s plot. This gave Nnitro an idea. If Neocord would help build 2SET’s plot, 2SET would then shield Neocord’s plot from the hivemind. Because of this, they partnered with 2SET, and Nnitro soon changed the design to coincide with 2SET’s outline. 
A lot of battles commenced after this. Neocord was fighting against stray builders, furry art and the rainbow hivemind. Xqc’s Lean Tsunami was also starting to invade the plot, but it eventually failed. Neocord also saw more negotiations being held for the plot. Smaller build threats were slowly going away. At one time, Baguette negotiated with a streamer named Hayden. Hayden wanted to build pixel art for his community, and Baguette wanted to continue the design as Hayden’s plot was overlapping Neocord’s. This led to Hayden agreeing to let Neocord swarm his build after he takes a screenshot of the art.
After long battles, Ateneocord finally finished the design. Everyone started to rejoice, and they now focused their resources on defending themselves. While everyone was rejoicing, Klums, an Ateneocord member, informed r/Philippines about the build, and they ended up making it an official base of operations. Because of this, the design started to gain more attention and such. Little did Neocord know, this would lead to something more devastating and tiring.
==The La Salle Arc==
R/Philippines is a haven and subreddit for all Filipinos. This meant that any Filipino could see the design. This also meant that the La Sallians had a chance to see what Ateneo had said about them.
===Discovery of the Design===
A member checked the subreddit of La Salle (r/DLSU). They saw posts about La Sallians talking about the “DLSU Sux” sign in r/place and planned to raid it. Many people agreed to raid it. Thus Neocord started to prepare for the worst. People made alternative accounts, and browsers were packed to the brim with Reddit accounts, covering every pixel of the design. But this could not be enough for what was to come.
===Declaration of War===
While all this was happening, u2 decided to raid the University of British Columbia out of vengeance. Most of the members followed suit and started griefing it. UBC was panicking, Neocord caught them off guard, yet they still retaliated. This would be a horrible mistake. When most of the members started to raid UBC, all that remained of the defending force was not enough to protect the design from an attack. Not long after they did the raid on UBC, De La Salle University invaded the design. An eye for an eye. If you make a problem, you get a problem.
On this foot, the Neo-LaSalle R/Place War would begin.
===The Neo-LaSalle War===
While looking for plans in the r/DLSU subreddit for clues about how DLSU would attack, u2 found a La Salle Discord server meant to recruit and gather members. They now had a mole, information was being given to them on the hour. According to u2, the La Sallians planned to annoy them and grief our builds constantly. The Lasallians also thought Neocord was botting accounts to keep the design. NeoCord members cringed at the fact that they felt they were botting. It was laughable.
The La Sallians ended up fighting with bots against Neocord, making it very difficult to preserve the build. Some of the La Sallians methods of attacking were; changing the letters of Ateneo to Among Us characters, changing colors of the background to green and trying to frame Neocord for invading other subreddits.
The soldiers had kept on fighting to keep the design safe until the very end. Unfortunately, they couldn’t stay awake for that long, and the design ended up getting swarmed. The La Sallians were celebrating their victory, but Neocord’s design ended up going on the r/Philippines archive and the official Atlas of r/Place. Neocord was victorious at the end.
==Aftermath==
This event brought the best and worst of Ateneocord. Even if Neocord did not have the final design preserved to the end, they still banded together and united as one to battle against an idea, and work together to keep that intact. The veteran soldiers were given r/place Medal Second Class and the commanders were given r/place Medal First Class.
The details about the design of Neocord can be found on the Official R/Place Atlas↵
==Ateneocord R/Place Medals==
After r/place ended, the staff team of Ateneocord gave medals to the veteran commanders and soldiers.
Medal	Medal Class	Claimed by
🥇 	1st Class 	Being a veteran commander during the R/Place Expeditions
🥈 	2nd Class 	Being a veteran soldier during the R/Place Expeditions
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