Who was this friend?
I lead about three branches of TRC on other sites before. One before the orginal TRC, a branch during the orginal TRC, and then one after the fall of the orginal. The most successful branch of TRC off of smogon was on serebii. I have about 5 other branches but I don't pay much attention to them. After my serebii branch fell I came back here and then setter up the current TRC. I was just an admin of the orginal TRC. TRC has a long and in my opinion very interesting backstory.