Standing My Ground

For those of you who don't know, several people have left very recently. Well, listen up everyone.
I just wanted to say:
I'm not leaving. And I hope whoever's reading this right now won't either. Even though others have, I won't give up.
This story may seem irrelevant, but just read it and hear me out-
My mother was a gymnast, and so was my best friend, Jamie. So I did
gymnastics as well. I did it until I was a level 5, and made many friends. After
about 5 years or so of gymnastics, I gave it up in favor of the Korean martial art, Kuk Sool Won. I've been in it about 2 years, and it has made me more serious, and given me a sense of determination and focus. At one point, I found dueling. I wasn't very good at it, as I was very new, and still today, have not even been a duelist for even a year yet.
I lost so many times in gymnastics, dueling, and even occasionally in Kuk Sool Won. But that hasn't stopped me. I haven't let it get in my way, and I don't plan to any time soon.
But you're probably wondering, "What's the point of doing something if there's no hope for it?"
Because, if there's one thing I've learned from gymnastics, martial arts, and dueling, it's that it's not over til' it's over, and to never give up hope.
I hope this has inspired you, and that you will stay here alongside me and all the other people who still believe in HDA. If it hasn't, I respect your decision. Either way, I'm going to stand my ground til' the very day this academy shuts down.

good then its starts with community to living things up a bit here. Like hosting random tournament and more duels.

And how about meetings and other group activities amongst the classes

By the way this academy won't die because some of us have hope and belief that this would survive and will prosper once again all we need to do is to grow out and expand our reach to new academy students and bring more fun activities to this place. But you all mite think I'm a fool or a dreamer but what I see is hope and a new era for this academy so who is with me?

----I am, stephen. I'm glad that you and Rune are on board with this.

No problem . your right this is a problem and I hope runes that's my idea for consideration.

----stephen, do you have access to see who voted in the polls? i wanna see who
----said they weren't staying and that there wasn't any hope.

Well, I've had one kinda cool idea for the academy that I had on my academy- ya know, BEFORE it got hacked T_T.
My idea is an academy league.
Here's how it'd work: there's 3 leagues: 1 for each dorm.What happens in the leagues is that you duel like you normally do and post it in a certain topic. But instead of getting DP for it, you get league points, and the people participating are ranked by numbers.
What this does is gives the academy a bit of a ranking system, and provides a new fun and competitive way for all of us to duel. The way the league points works is:
single win 1/0: 5 points.
match win 2/1: 10 points.
match win 2/0: 15 points.
If they quit during the duel, post a pic of them quitting, and you still get the points- but you only get half as much as you would've.
This would be the format for the ranks page:
Rank #         HDA Name(DN Name)        Deck          league points
Here's an example.
1. ~King~(AwesomeGuy90000) Dark Worlds deck. points: 661754.

In order to sign up, you would have to PM an admin/mod and tell them your info for the leagues, and may not participate in leagues until they confirm you. And to change your league deck, you must, once again, PM an admin/mod and have them approve.

I really like the leagues idea, and hope you admins and mods will consider it.

If I didn't have hope, I woulda left already, I wouldn't have gotten depressed about so many people leaving if I was going to leave. I wouldn't give 10 shits about this academy if I didn't have hope. But I have that hope. Thats why i'm admin. I have that hope that HDA will become a better place. I am truly loyal to this academy, and those that leave aren't loyal to us.

True dat, hagii.

They are trators and will be dealt with!

bump.

I'm not a traitor and i'm back. i just didn't like how everyone was leaving. And Why are you bumping this shit? we got back up, geez.

yea how is he a traitor

Hey, stephen's words, not mine.

This song describes how I feel about this academy

Nope Nope Not Gonna Watch it NOPE cause u know the rules and so do i

Whats with the "Nope, Nope" today?

Hey takeru how come your Dn name is flame wizard yet u always duel me in FlameAlt

Because, i always make fun deck on my alt.