All right then, 2000 posts, this is quite crazy even for me. I would never have gotten here if it weren't for ASB that's for sure! I joined Smogon a number of years ago after searching for some Shaymin movesets for a "competitive team" (for reference, this team included Shuckle and Blissey...). At first, I dismissed Smogon because I thought it was some weird psychology project made by an actual university! How crazy is that? Thankfully, I soon realized my error and have been part of Smogon ever since.
My early years here were kind of on and off, mostly just me trying to craft competitive teams that I could then train for in-game stomping of my friend. Sadly this never really happened because my friend mostly retired from Pokemon. I joined the competitive scene shortly after Garchomp was banned. For a while, I challenged people on Shoddy Battle with my first ever team of Aerodactyl, Cresselia, Porygon-Z (later switched to Heatran), Salamence, Scizor, and Togekiss. This team actually worked pretty well for the longest time. In fact, I used it a couple times past it's supposed "prime" and it still worked reasonably well.
After that, my time here gets kind of blurry, I crafted a few other teams, but never found much success with any of them. Then I signed up for a Battling 101 round. My first experience with it wasn't that great, as I wasn't particularly active and I never got around to meeting with my tutor, Great Sage (or something like that). Thankfully my second experience with undisputed turned out much better. With him, I crafted a pretty unique Dragon Dance Tyranitar team with a Leech Seed Protect Shaymin that worked wonders. Once 5th gen rolled around, I tried a couple of teams, most notably a Sun team, but got bored of the constant weather battles. Currently, I spend what little competitive battling time I have into BW UU.
Well, sometime while I was waiting for 5th gen to stabilize, I didn't really do that much in the forums. I checked up on it occasionally to read some analyses and such, but wasn't posting for a long time. Eventually in my boredom, I clicked on some subforum calling itself CAP ASB. I saw a couple of battles there and was instantly hooked. A short time later, I created my profile with the mons Larvesta, Budew, and Privatyke. A nice fire water grass core to start out with I figured. Later on I went around buying more Pokemon like crazy, notably Stratagem and Snorlax. After seeing how good Stratagem was doing, I started going for the Rock gym, but lost interest after some time for various reasons. Too much competition I think. Then I looked at Snorlax and the lack of viable competition in the Normal group and started buying Normal mons. I was a bit worried about Rolf, who at the time was going for the gym and was supposedly very good, but he apparently went inactive, and now my biggest threat is probably Yarnus. Well, a few things happened and in my boredom I started checking out the raid zone, which I had mostly ignored, and I got hooked on that too. My first raids weren't too successful, getting murdered by Moltres and then by Ho-oh and Lugia before finally succeeding against Moltres with Leethoof I believe. After that, I joined forces with a specific other ASB personality to take on Frozen Vault.
After that, I found the Free RPG group, a newly created group dedicated to having some fun RPG's. I figured "why not?" and signed up, where I met a lot of great people on the forums. If you're wondering where the Soldiers of Gaia team got their name, it was from the first of the RPG's we had there, Bending Past Breaking. Frankly, it's one of our longest and most successful RP's, generally involving a plot involving a monster awakening deep beneath the earth and some...for lack of a better term "mutants" called Omnipotes. It's better than it sounds, believe me. Currently, the group is in a bit of a slump, but we're aiming to get out of said slump with a new PMD based RP. Everyone is welcome to join.
Regardless though, you guys are the best forum I think I've ever seen, and I hope to keep it that way!