JetPunk on Reddit Place 2022: a Collaborative Adventure

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Introduction 

As you maybe know, the Reddit Place event took place from the 1st to the 4 of April. To quickly explain, that was the second edition (first in 2017) of a collaborative and competitive event, where each participant can place a single pixel each 5 minutes. Alone, you can't do anything, but with a great team of alliance... That's what JetPunk decided to do. This blog will tell you, day by day, the steps in the evolution of JetPunk on the canva.

Just a note before starting: the events are presented how I saw and understood them myself. There might be some mistakes, or at least ambiguations, but that's just how I felt it. If you think something has to be fixed, let me know it in comment. And remember that I live in France (UTC+2). It can sometimes explain the way I decided to cut the chronology of the Place event.

Finally, please keep in mind that this blog doesn't pretend to be a very serious treaty, but just a few information of an event that made JetPunk shining on its way on an international online catwalk.

Day 1: Rise and Fall

To be completely honest, that's probably the day I know the least about, mostly because it started when I was sleeping, and didn't know about the event. I discovered its working on this day and was mostly observing.

Nevertheless, I can tell you some things about this date. JetPunk decided to create its own logo on the canva, or at least to write on its name. It finally succeed, but then fall during the night and sadly completely disappeared, replaced by the drawing below:

Day 2: Invasion(s) and implantation 

This day was probably my favourite one. After the obliteration of the former small JP.com, the community was looking for a new place to represent us on the canva. After a failed attempt near to the femboy flag, we finally succeeded to conquer a small place near to the giant Italian flag. Our beginings there where kinda difficult, but we finally achieved a "JET PUNK" rectangle. We then became able to draw our first Jeppy on the canva. At this moment, it was surely our biggest achievement so far.

Day 3: Peace and Stability

After the invasion of a small trans stripe, JetPunk was able to improve significantly the size of "JETPUNK" and the quality of the Jeppy drawing, to make a very nice drawing, more or less our final one.

This day also marked the building of a strong alliance, first with our brothers of Seterra, and then with several surrounding communities (Luxembourg and Guatemala, SharkPog,..).

Day 4: Last Invasions and End

All was ready at the begining of this last, so we just have to defend our place and those of the members of our alliance (and you may have understood that, despite the fact that it's necessary, defending is not my favourite part of the game).

Guatemala was probably to gourmand by trying to expand on Romania and got invaded, Romania was replaced by Poland, who then invaded SharkPog and made an fortunately unsuccessful attempt on Luxembourg,... but JetPunk stayed alive. The alliance was expanded to Stop War and two spots under us, and a non-agression pact was signed between the alliance and giant Italy, making of our zone one of the most peaceful part of the whole canva.

All finished greatly for us. Everything was for the best.

Conclusion

The event finally ended. It was for me a very funny and enjoyable experience, which I surely would like to reproduce in some years, although my participation was very limited and a lot less important than many JetPunkers.

I of course would like to thank all the participants who made this project possible, and in particular Vicky/IAB, the best war captain we could have dreamed (make sure I also don't forget all the members of our whole alliance).


Thanks for reading, and have a nice day!

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Level 37
Apr 5, 2022
We definitely proved that we're an amazing community, I can't wait for the next edition! :D
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Level 54
Apr 5, 2022
I completely agree, we are a strong community, more than a certain other quiz website, I guess.
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Level 48
Dec 9, 2022
Sporcle?
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Level 54
Dec 10, 2022
👀
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Level 75
Apr 5, 2022
Glad that I've contributed to this effort

That one American night spent defending was worth it

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Level 53
Apr 5, 2022
gg guys, It was fun but I'm glad that it is over now, switching between so many alts was exhausting to say the least. I'm surprised that we lasted three days tbh considering the size of our community, but that makes our community more impressive.
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Level 65
Apr 5, 2022
What coords was Jetpunk on? I could try to find it in earlier maps?
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Level 15
Apr 6, 2022
in the picture shown in this blog, there is an arrow pointing to it in the top middle-ish
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Level 48
Apr 6, 2022
In the beginning it was to the left of Lithuania
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Level 84
Apr 6, 2022
This was an incredibly fun thing to be a part of. Super happy I helped contribute.

And meeting ambassadors from Shark Pog and Guatemala and Luxembourg was very fun

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Level 48
Apr 6, 2022
More information on the first day: we noticed that Lithuania's flag was slightly not aligned with the other two Baltics' flags, so we "helped" Lithuania by drawing a line to cut off the section that wasn't aligned, then stole the part that we cut off for ourselves.
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Level 54
Apr 6, 2022
Thanks a lot for the add, Abby!
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Level 38
Apr 6, 2022
bro can someone ask the QM if I can continue blogging without reaching level 40??? Im tired -_-
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Level 54
Apr 6, 2022
There are rules, and you have to respect them, like everyone on JetPunk.

Btw, reaching level 40 isn't so hard, more again if English is your native language.

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Level 60
Apr 6, 2022
You really can’t get to level 40? No offense, but do you even try any more? It’s fairly easy, at your level.