Team Legownz

### Outcome

* First instance of tagger vs. tagger drama in times of peace for the modern TF2Tags community.
* Reason for P1P2's hatred of Legownz revealed, subsequent end of their rivalry.

## Belligerents

* **Legownz**
* Sensible Haircut
* Crimson Blitz

* **Player 1 + Player 2**

> "p1+p2 is tiny coward man."
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> ~Sensible Haircut, describing the site's feelings towards P1P2.
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**Team Legownz** was a minor event that occurred on July 22nd of 2015, and is often cited as the first significant spat of community drama the modern TF2Tags community experienced. The event involved the culmination of a rivalry between Legownz and Player 1 + Player 2, wherein a large portion of the site rallied behind Legownz.

## Background

Prior to July of 2015, TF2Tags's community had loosely formed through the infamous Racist Anon Incident that occurred two months prior. While the site had returned somewhat to normalcy following then, Team Legownz would prove to be one of the first instances in "peaceful" times where the site would largely be dedicated to the community for several tags. Personal relationships had developed between some Taggers at this point, both positive and negative. One such example was between Legownz and Player 1 + Player 2. P1P2 had hated Legownz for quite some time after the latter joined in February for reasons that were at that point unknown. They had gotten into several arguments before.

## Prelude: Death of Iwata

Satoru Iwata was the fourth president and CEO of Nintendo, and had been since 2002. He was a man extremely influential both in technological strides in the gaming industry and Nintendo's strategy of mass family appeal which was largely responsible for the Wii's unprecedented success. Iwata, like *Mario* and *Zelda* creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Nintendo of America president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime, had become an icon for the childhood gaming memories of many, which made his sudden death on July 11th, 2015 all the more painful for so many.

The death of Satoru Iwata sent waves through the gaming world, and naturally the news soon hit TF2Tags, with Ulysses announcing the man's death early into the morning of July 12th. What was unexpected, however, was the comment section of this tag. The first comment was left by Legownz, who said "OMG REALLY!? I don't care. I never played Nintendo stuff anyway." This comment was quickly pointed out to be rather rude and in poor taste by some taggers, like Blast, Flam, and P1P2, the latter of whom called Legownz a "feggit". Sensible Haircut was the only one to defend Legownz, giving his own harsh comments regarding his apathy. The backlash caused Legownz to defend his position in the comments, stating that it was like a random person on the street died to him, and even then if it was someone he knew it wasn't someone he knew personally. He would later admit his initial comment was harsh. P1P2 sarcastically quipped that he was thankful that users couldn't edit or delete comments so people could see how bad of a person Legownz was.

Things had escalated between Legownz and Player 1 + Player 2 following this, with evidence that the two were still fighting about Iwata's death as far as week after the initial tag. Sensible continued to defend Legownz's position, and many neutral parties like Crimson Blitz and Blast pointing out that both sides were taking things too far and that P1P2 was acting like a douche, respectively.

This event is often cited by taggers to be the prelude to Team Legownz for a few reasons. First was the conflict between Legownz and P1P2 being present here and escalating after. Second was P1P2 calling Legownz a "feggit", an intentional misspelling of "faggot", the usage of which started Team Legownz. Third was the proximity of this event to Team Legownz itself, being only eleven days apart, with the fallout going as far as the 18th, four days prior. However, due to the nature of what occurred during Team Legownz and the subsequent deletion of many tags relating to the event, it is unknown if these two instances are indeed connected. They very likely are, however.

## Team Legownz

At some point on July 22nd, Player 1 + Player 2 changed his username to "Legownz is a faggot" and would state the same in the keywords of his tags for reasons that are unknown, though likely related to another spat the two got into. This was the tipping point for many people neutral in the two taggers' conflict, who saw this as too far and too petty. In response to this, many taggers began to change their own usernames to hybrids of their own and Legownz to show their support. This collective effort became known as "Team Legownz". Many tags were made during this time insulting P1P2, but almost all tags related to this event have been lost. Taggers confirmed to have changed their names include Sensible Haircut and Crimson Blitz. There is no concrete evidence for anyone else. The only surviving anti-P1P2 tag was from Sensible, who called him a dick. He was also apparently missbombed around this time, as shown in a comment on the other tag.

The other surviving tag was the tag that seemingly ended the event. Ulysses came to the site demanding an explanation for what was going on between Legownz and P1P2. Being the highly respected and feared anarchist figurehead of TF2Tags, an explanation was quickly given to him, with Crimson informing that P1P2 crossed a line and the site was coming to Legownz's defense. P1P2 himself then stated that he simply changed his name and that "everyone went tumblr on me". Sensible then came back at P1P2 explaining everything wrong with what he was doing:

> being an ass for the sake of being an ass is dumb, if you had like a legit point or reason like legownz did something equally egregious, we'd prolly wouldn't have cared, but you legit just went full asshole for the sake of it, I'm no stranger to being an asshole, but 99% of the time I have a fucking reason other than "lol idk jk xD". Don't you ever compare us to that cesspool of trannies and whiny feminazis again.
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After being ripped a new one, P1P2 finally revealed the reason why he hated Legownz so much, and why they had been enemies for so long. Legownz was apparently the first tagger P1P2 ever ran into during a game of TF2 and during that game he insulted P1P2 for not having 1000 crits. This apparently greatly offended P1P2 and he had been trying to get on Legownz's bad side ever since. Legownz then commented immediately after, recalling no such incident but apologizing for it anyway. Following this, things seemed to die down, and the site soon went back to normal.

## Aftermath and Legacy

After things calmed down, P1P2 left the site for a few weeks, returning on August 11th. After putting his reason for disliking Legownz out in the open, the two began to slowly mellow out with each other, coming to at least neutral terms and eventually friending each other on Steam.

As to the wider legacy Team Legownz left, it was the first time that the Taggers in the modern community had an instance of community drama unrelated to any outside malignant force (like the Racist Anon). While the circumstance for Team Legownz was minor in comparison to future events, it left a precedent and a pattern that would be followed many more times in the future, such as the controversial Mobile-Friendly Update that started the Bring Back Misses movement that happened only a few weeks after Team Legownz's conclusion.

## Gallery

Note: Tags from this historical event are sparse in the archives due to many being deleted. These five are all that remain of Team Legownz's existence.

The initial announcement of Iwata's death, and the ensuing criticism against Legownz.Sensible Haircut taking a similar position as Legownz.The fallout of the Iwata incident continues a week later.The only surviving anti-P1P2 tag from Team Legownz.The end of Team Legownz. Ulysses demands an explanation, an from it P1P2 reveals his reason for hating Legownz.