I have a very long history of involvement with the Bungie.net community, stretching back nearly eight years, beginning with my purchase of Halo 2. Back then I wanted to expand my involvement and knowledge with the community, and the Bungie site was a means to an end. Over the years, I have continued to grow into an outstanding member, contributing more content and in more constructive and effective ways. I've been involved in several projects; I was personally requested to be apart of the founding CompoundIntelligence team by Foman strictly for my unparalleled knowledge of the Bungieverse and Halo cannon, I aided in bringing to light the community's frustrations with the Halo 3 Beta entrance issues from the beginning, and I help further the project of Pimps at Sea with two other Bungie.net members, later soloing the project on my own periodically. I believe that Community Carnage represents the next step in community involvement, not only for me but for the community as a whole. For years I've been on the side of improving the way members interact with each other, arguing that we as users needed more tools to accomplish this. A group like CommunityCarnage is one part of these tools. The connectivity that Bungie.next is now able to offer with tags amplifies the group's ability to connect to the grassroots of the community directly, which will allow a personal connection to be shared by all members, not simply a local or elite group. As a participant of CommunityCarnage, I see myself facilitating efforts to connect members to the group's activities and to each other, bringing about great, successful events that would continue to grow in scope and scale. I hope to see the group and the group's efforts start from simple online activities between a handful of members to an officially recognized unity of like-minded members of a great game developer and a resource to members who wish to seek out new experiences with the community, both online and off. I think the best way to accomplish these goals is to establish a temporary rigid member structure within CC. This short-term concept will allow ideas to quickly shape up and come to fruition. Initially, this structure would not have the best people in the right places. Given time and effort, it will allow those that seek leadership positions and those that have a creative and ambitious spirit to move in the structure to the place they truly belong. With this system, the right people will work themselves into the right positions to contribute the most from their abilities. With time, the temporary leadership will step aside if others are seen to fit the position better, as this was their purpose, to facilitate the start of the group and the beginning of events and remove the risk of the group stalling because no leadership could be established quick enough for Bungie.net fast-paced community. There are a number of great ideas that I'd be willing to share and help push into the community. My main focus would be on a long-term competitive style game, in which two large teams would routinely compete for territory control on a virtual "map," not unlike Risk. This type of game would be successful because of its novelty and its length of life, allowing for a long project to run as a back bone for the group while short-term, more frequent events filled the news feed for publicity. Run successfully, this event could be built up as a community spectacle, constantly advertising recent struggles, strides and upsets in the game, drawing in attention to the group and other events. Oh, and I'm East coast.