*** Apologies in advance for the length of this post. Redditors, feel free to read & contribute, but these suggestions are really mostly intended for the devs (^{cough cough} ladydevann & valseek) to peruse! I feel like this sub seems to get the most visibility from Bethesda so that's why we chose to post it here. Devs, thanks in advance for considering these requests: I really hope you'll take the time to look through them, as a lot of thought went into this list! ***
EDIT: Yes, of course many of these have been suggested before. Consider this repetition for emphasis. Some may not be possible. That's up to the devs. This is simply suggestions that we would like to see considered.

Without further ado...
I've been playing Fallout 76 since quarantine began, and I have so much more fun than I ever thought I would in an online game! One thing that has seemingly been improving more and more lately has been Bethesda's responsiveness to the fanbase. Now that Microsoft has purchased Zenimax, I'm hoping that developers might be willing to take a second look at several things that I think really reflect the wishes of many in the community.
I regularly play with several other people and between us, we've encountered a number of issues, bugs, and generally things that could be improved to make this game much more fun and less stressful for us. Instead of making separate posts for each, we've decided to create one large idea dump in the hopes that it might catch the eye of a developer or two. I'd be very open to discussing any of these at greater length if devs are interested. The ideas are contributed by myself (same username, on PC), as well as the PC players Amarranth (AKA foxtailamarranth), Velox6, and LoftyTuna (with a few others contributing here & there).

GENERAL SUGGESTIONS:

Adjust One Wasteland to ensure the balance is applied equally to enemies as well as to players. It seems like since the update, some of my previously awesome weapons got nerfed pretty hard, yet the enemies I see with the exact same weapons do significantly more damage to me with them than I deal to them. This is especially frustrating in events like Daily Ops with the Major Gutsies that completely ignore DR and can take down our level 150 players in a hit or two.
Lower the maximum* enemy spawn level in some areas to restore some of the exploration element of the game. Everywhere you go, everything is a bullet sponge: even if you are specced out well enough to survive, you end up burning through the ammo. It seems the only way to avoid this is to create a specialised build character (i.e. bloody, junky, etc.), which is much less fun to play for those of us who would rather take the QOL perks and focus on exploration, scavenging, etc. (*edited for correct word choice)
Create a machine that allows you to combine or recharge fusion cores & plasma cores, so the almost-empties don't just get wasted or take up space in your inventory. I like to reload when I get an opportunity in fast-paced battles like A Colossal Problem, so I get stuck with a lot of 10% and 25% full plasma cores. It's unnecessary, and the "combiner" machine could be a great future season reward.
Fix the ammo converter. As many have suggested, a vendor-style interface would really be ideal. If this is not possible, at least gray out options for which you don't have enough ammo to scrap / enough points to purchase and/or allow us to see our inventory ammo counts (a la crafting, where it shows that a recipe requires 1 of your 5 crimson flux and displays as 5/1, for example). There also need to be more tiers in between trading in 3, 30, or 300 missiles, for example.
Add more faction quests that reward reputation points so that it's not such a long and laborious grind to max out reputation. They don't have to be in sequence with the main faction storylines, and could be played separately or after the vault raid, so they would still add content and maybe a few unique rewards or at least gold bullion for players who have already completed the grind.
Add a Mothman storyline! This is some of my favourite lore around Appalachia, and we'd love to see more content and quests devoted to the cult.
Add more Mistress Of Mysteries quests. This one was so much fun! I'd really like to see it fleshed out with more quests, more locations, and a daily repeatable quest.
Adjust the scrip & caps limits to be account-wide. In other words, instead of 1,400 caps & 150 scrip per character per day, combine it to be 7,000 caps & 750 scrip: that way, players who just play one character instead of the 5 permissible per account can still trade more in without having to create an alt. You can get three 3-star legendary weapons from Uranium Fever alone and all but max out your scrip limit in one go. It ends up with players who don't have an alt and who don't want to waste their legendaries signing off early to wait for the scrip limit to reset the next day so as not to be overencumbered, when they would have otherwise kept playing.
Make the stash weight limit account-wide, as well, or at least make that a toggle-able setting under gameplay options. Just because you can make an alt to mule your hefty goodies doesn't mean you should have to. It would be really nice to be able to share inventory between characters on the same account.
Allow players to mark items unscrappable or junk. I know we can mark favourites, but that's limited to the slots on our favourites wheel, and sometimes I just want to make sure a Mr. Fuzzy I picked up makes it back to my C.A.M.P.'s collection without scrapping him. He doesn't need to go on my favourites wheel! It would be easy to do if that same button that allows us to favourite could instead cycle between Favourite (which is by default unscrappable), Protected (unscrappable and unsellable/untradeable), and Unwanted (with a "sell all unwanted items" or "scrap all unwanted items" option available by holding down the sell/scrap all buttons at vendors and workbenches. respectively).
When completing events that have a chance at especially rare plans (i.e. the War Glaive from Daily Ops, The Fixer from Encryptid), remove already-known plans for rare items from the random pool for these drops, or at least reduce their drop rate significantly, until the player has collected all possible rare plan drops. I've already gotten the Burrows Signs, the Gutter, and the Symptomatic plans several times, but I have yet to get the War Glaive.
Split the aid category into food/drink and chems like you already do on the map when showing items for sale at players' vendor camps to make things easier to find.
Let us get rid of extra keys. While they might not be taking up weight, it's just unnecessary and annoying to have multiples of a key in your inventory when you absent-mindedly picked it up for the 5th time. Let us drop it and have it break when we drop it, like the Floater grenades.
Add a plant that boosts strength for herbivore builds. (Spinach, anyone?)
Offer more cosmetic skins (hair, makeup, etc.) to let us really personalise our characters! That's the most limited option in the game, by far.
Adjust Pacifist mode to be a true PVE option (absolutely NO PVP allowed outside of workshops). I know there's a major debuff for PVP players attacking someone in pacifist and they get a bounty, but it was really annoying during Meat Week when someone decided to go around bopping people playing the drums with their Tenderizer. Didn't kill us, but it was an unnecessary annoyance. I don't like PVP mode and really feel it's overly pushed/forced on players in this game, when many longtime fans of the franchise play Fallout games strictly for PVE experiences. If you want to sell me on online MMORPG gameplay, don't force me to do PVP.
Make legendaries' corpses glow (like legendaries they do when they first spawn, or resilient enemies do at low HP) so that they are easier to find/loot. Alternately, transfer their legendary weapon or armor directly into players' inventory. Please do not allow these enemies to turn into ash piles.
Add a text chat feature so that it's easier to send a quick thanks to a player for purchasing from your vendor machine, or communicate with someone who doesn't have a mic (beyond just using emotes).

C.A.M.P.:

Give the people what they want: Power Armor display stations!!! What's the point in collecting all the sets and letting them take up space in your stash if you can't even show them off, and you only wear one at a time?!
Similarly, create dummies/mannequins for displaying outfits.
While we're on the topic... Allow displays in the instanced interior shelters as that's really the biggest draw of having them. You can't do much beyond put your workbenches there, so they're glorified dollhouses if you can't at very least put your magazines, bobbleheads, and lovingly collected junk on display in your own personal underground museum to relieve your above-ground budget. Seriously, that is the #1 reason ALL of us making these suggestions want the shelters. Without displays, there's not much point!
Give us the ability to determine where players load in to our C.A.M.P.s via a welcome mat or something to that effect. If concerned about PVP traps, make a no-trap/turret zone around the spawn point, or make these defensive items harmless to other players.
Create a function to find "hidden" objects that we build and then promptly clip behind a wall / underground. Sometimes I can find these if I go up a level in my house near Delano Garage, other times they're lost, but they still take up budget. I don't know how this would be implemented but it would be very helpful. Maybe a "currently built items" tab in the C.A.M.P. building screen, like the Blueprints or Recents tab, that lets you see what is built and delete directly from the menu?
Offer legendary-style C.A.M.P. plans that function like certain perk cards. For example, an ammo box that reduces ammo weight by 60%, or a deep freezer that prevents food spoilage entirely. These could be made available for bullion or as rewards for grindy things like the seasons.
On that note... let us put raw flux in the coolers!
Let players use a free camera (including bird's eye) mode for C.A.M.P. building so we don't have to jump over obstacles or struggle to reach high-up building spaces.
Create a buildable bulletin board or terminal that lets visitors leave a brief message at your C.A.M.P. It can includes usernames to prevent anonymous hate speech, and there should be an option to allow players to send the person leaving them a message a friend request or "report" a user, directly from the terminal/board. If possible, devs could employ the same vulgarity screening logic as in usernames.
Eventually we'd love to see instanced interior "guild towns" that allow maybe up to 8 players to have a permanent space they share and can load into from an entry point outside of their C.A.M.P.s (but placed in much the same way a C.A.M.P. would be placed). Allow all guild members to build or delete items, and allow other players not in the guild to visit by invitation only. Allow for communal stashes separate from individual players' so guilds can pool resources.

PERKS:

Add a Legendary Perk that allows you to fast travel overencumbered (ex: 1x per day at the first card level, 2x per day at the second level, 3x per day at the third level, and 5x per day at the 4th level).
Make Legendary Perk Coins rewards from daily/weekly challenges after you complete the season to reward players who continue to invest time in the game challenges even after completing the scoreboard. Furthermore, there ought to be even more opportunities to earn these coins besides just scrapping perk cards: for example, how you earn bullion from events, allow Legendary Perk Coins to be accumulated, as well.
Earn a bonus Legendary Perk Coin from scrapping an animated perk card.
Allow players add points to their S.P.E.C.I.A.L. each level up to level 76 instead of 50, so that players have more motivation to continue to high levels. This would be especially nice since there is no HP gain from levels beyond 50, and would be more consistent with many other challenges in the game that require things to be completed or collected 76 times.
Allow for 7 legendary perk card slots instead of 6 to be consistent with the number of S.P.E.C.I.A.L. categories. Perhaps it's nitpicky, but it bugs me that you can pick cards that enhance 6 of your 7 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. attributes and have to leave one out. Perhaps you could make the last slot unlocked at level 500 to reward players who have invested that much time in the game.
Once a standard perk card has been maxed out, allow it to be reduced or raised in level at will so that players do not have to keep multiples of the same card. Grinding for legendary coins is already hard enough: I should not have to keep a 1-star, 2-star, and 3-star "Good With Salt" card depending on my current perk loadout. Once we've hit the maximum stars per card, we should be able to scrap any others, and just adjust the maxed card up or down. They could be called "golden" cards and given a gold border or something like that once maxed to distinguish them.

FALLOUT 1st:

Increase the stash size for subscribers. Yes, it is already a huge benefit to have unlimited junk storage, However, the subscription isn't exactly cheap, and there are so many unique items in the game that collectors (including myself and my regular teammates) easily max this out. If we're paying for our own servers that host fewer maximum players than a public server and thus have less strain, we should get a higher storage space. At least make an upgraded stash a purchasable commodity available to FO1st players in the Atomic Shop. I know you'd get our money that way! Another option would be to create a "bank vault," accessible on the private server for FO1st subs only, that offers a greatly increased stash space but is not accessible from the main stash box.
Offer more survival tent skins for those of us who really enjoy the cosmetic aspects of the game. I'd love to see a Halloween tent, a Mothman tent, a mad scientist tent, a Nuka Cola tent, etc. For that matter, those could be available in the existing Atomic Shop bundles, just as an added bonus for FO1st subscribers.
In addition to the weekly free bonuses for FO1st, offer seasonal outfits / item skins like unique Halloween costumes, Santa outfits, summer C.A.M.P. decor, etc. under the FO1st tab on the Atomic Shop. I feel like the existing subscriber-only skins feel more like a one-time pre-order bonus, and the weekly freebies really don't make up the difference.

BUGS:

For the love of Ward, PLEASE fix the regenerating or rubber banding damage issue that primarily happens with shotguns but can occur with any weapon. I can't seem to find one single cause for this, but what happens is that the enemy's HP bar grays out like it's going to lower that much, then most of that recovers. It can be incredibly frustrating to face a Mole Miner or something you know that your weapon will normally kill in 2-3 hits and have to shoot it 15 times in rapid fire in order to get the HP to drop fully before it bounces back up. I notice this primarily out of V.A.T.S., but it has rarely happened in V.A.T.S. as well, and occurs for several of us who play, all with different weapons (none of which are bugged/exploited). It's not simply that the damage is miscalculated and then corrected: most of the time, the same weapon WILL do the full amount of damage that instead grays out and then regenerates when the bug is active. It makes enemies even bullet spongier and is REALLY annoying.
There is an issue when joining/rejoining teams that causes mics not to work. This happens most often after the game has crashed when attempting to rejoin your friends. Switching mic modes back and forth (i.e. "team" to "area" and back) seems to fix it, but sometimes you have to fully restart the game.
The game is crashing significantly more often since the patch. From the comments, it seems like this one is happening across the board.
Lately, there have been occasions where I have gotten stuck firing my weapon and cannot switch weapons / change P.O.V., but I can aim and do other functions. Sometimes opening my Pip Boy fixes the issue, but not reliably. This has happened several times lately during ACP and against the SBQ. So far, I'm the only one of my team to encounter it, but it's very frustrating and can cause me to waste a lot of ammo, particularly on the SBQ when she's out of range.
There's a bug in conversations with the NPCs that causes them to pause between lines of dialogue, where the player cannot advance the conversation and "skipping" does nothing. The NPC may just stand there, or in the case of some (like Blackeye at Ohio River Adventures) may go to sleep right in the middle of a conversation. One of our team members also reported difficulty getting Ward to initiate conversation at Foundation, stating he has to find a "sweet spot" angle to be able to start the conversation.
Lately, all of us have at least once encountered an issue where certain things will just render as floating letters that spell out "CHAIN" in white text instead of their proper textures. This seems to happen primarily in nuke zones, and we've seen it in Whitesprings, Monongah, and Fissure Site Prime.

Wrestling Observer Rewind ★ Feb. 15, 1988

Going through old issues of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and posting highlights in my own words, continuing in the footsteps of daprice82. For anyone interested, I highly recommend signing up for the actual site at f4wonline and checking out the full archives.
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The big story this week is WWF has announced a 14-man tournament for Wrestlemania IV. The word going around is that there will be four other matches: a battle royal (which ought to get another dozen guys on the card for the big payday, probably two tag matches (Dave speculates Demolition vs. Strike Force and Bulldogs vs. Islanders) and an Intercontinental title defense for Honkeytonk Man. The leading candidate for challenger there is Brutus Beefcake, so they’ll need to get on top of shooting an angle for that this week if they want to try and get it over. Anyway, the real meat of Wrestlemania is this tournament, and the bracket has already been announced on the syndicated shows.

Jack Tunney announces Wrestlemania tournament
Dave’s hand-drawn bracket

So looking at this bracket, what are the likely outcomes? Dave thinks there’s really only two possibilities, and there’s only two possibilities for the final match. Hogan vs. DiBiase is the obvious finals if Hogan is to win, and if Hogan’s filming schedule for his upcoming movie (it begins in April) allows for it, this will be the finals. If he can wrestle during the summer, Dave expects him to win, if not he expects DiBiase to win overall since the winner of the tournament needs to be a heel to drop it back to Hogan when the company decides the time is write (Dave thinks the ppv in August looks like that time). If DiBiase wins, Dave thinks it’s going to be Don Muraco he beats in the finals, however. Dave then goes down the bracket and explains who he thinks wins when, ruling out combinations of guys (if Roberts beats Rude, Bravo beats Muraco, so we get Roberts vs. Bravo, for example). Savage doesn’t go out in the first round, obviously, but neither should Steamboat lose to Valentine, so that’s probably our token face vs. face match leading probably to a draw or double elimination. Notice anything weird about this bracket, though? WWF changes plans and redraws the bracket. They swap Roberts/Rude and DiBiase/Duggan’s place so DiBiase is on the same side of the bracket before Wrestlemania, so all this speculation by Dave ultimately goes nowhere because that one shift completely changes the tournament. More on that change when it happens. Dave is definitely right about one thing, though: there are going to be way too many matches on this show, so they're definitely going to have to have some fuck finishes to get the number of matches down in the tournament so things work.
The Main Event’s final rating was a 15.1 and a 25 share, ranking 31st for the week. Dave feels like this has to be a major disappointment for WWF and NBC, as both figured the show would be in the top 10 easily. It won its time slot and the rating was better than the 11.6 average NBC has gotten in that slot with Rags to Riches, but it’s not as big a winner as they hoped. So in the LA Times and USA Today, Dick Ebersole (who co-produced the show with Vince) said that they weren’t interested in a weekly prime-time show because it would hurt live gates. But the reality is they won’t even be offered a slot, because they won’t be able to sustain competitive ratings. Dave was really surprised by the rating, and this show’s rating was the most interested he’s been in something wrestling related for a long time, because it was a test of just how much the general public would bite on wrestling. And what we’ve learned is that to the general public the biggest wrestling match possible, with the biggest hype possible (Andre vs. Hogan) with a month of buildup on all shows and even big news media attention (almost every newspaper ran a feature about the show at some point during the build) only got mediocre mainstream support. Wrestling fans are supremely loyal and will watch no matter the time slot, and the same show on Saturday night at 11:30 pm would have gotten at least a 12 rating), but moving to prime time didn’t get them a big increase in viewers. It renders moot the question of how first-time viewers will take the evil twin angle and such, because few of the viewers were first-time watchers. The audience was the same wrestling audience we’ve always had, and 85% of the general public just ignored the show and hype outright. Nothing wrong with that, people like and dislike what they want to, and WWF can still make loads of money off the 12-15% of people who do have an interest in wrestling.
But this really puts Hulk Hogan and his appeal/drawing power into perspective. To the cult wrestling audience, he’s bigger than any wrestling star has ever been in the U.S. But he’s not mainstream, not really. He can help get wrestling on prime time network television a couple times a year, but they can’t build wrestling on him to make a mainstream appeal. And Hogan, for as over as he is here, clearly falls short of the most over acts to have graced Japan (Inoki in his heyday) and boxing (Larry Holmes, for example). WWF did prove they can be put in a weak time slot during sweeps with a lot of hype behind a special card and win the slot, which is no small thing. We can probably expect another prime time special in the future, but probably no more than one or two a year. You won’t read about wrestling’s resurgence in Time Magazine, and networks won’t discover Crockett’s shows because nobody’s looking at wrestling as a hot item (if the show had cracked the top five, maybe they would). The long and the short of it is, WWF is no worse off than they were two weeks ago, and Wrestlemania will still make a lot of money. And although Vince has gotten WWF to the point where they are making more money off wrestling than any other promotion in history, their “mainstream” interest in this country doesn’t even come close to New Japan’s tv heyday (1982-1985), and Hogan’s ability to draw a rating is probably more than anyone else in the modern era in the U.S., but probably isn’t as strong as Chigusa Nagayo’s ratings drawing power is in Japan.
And you might be wondering if it’s appropriate to compare to Japan, or if the comparison is ridiculous given cultural differences. Dave notes that the U.S. is more tv oriented in Japan, which should put things in greater perspective - Hogan has all the advantages of American television culture and is still behind Nagayo and Inoki in terms of relative mainstream appeal/drawing power in their culture. In short, Dave had a conversation with a WWF employee a couple months ago about wrestling style (serious, hardcore vs. sports entertainment fast food) and if it was the style, being the best run promotion, or how much money they spend that makes WWF number 1. Their conclusion was that they couldn’t figure out a clear answer. No other promotion that offers a traditional product has hundreds in the front office, $250,000 to spend on every tv taping, etc. There’s no way to control for the sheer magnitude of advantages WWF has to be able to tell if they would be beatable, and the only way to know the answer about style would be if there was another promotion that had a traditional style but also had the production values, the front office staff, etc. And on the flip side, would people like Carlos Colon, Riki Choshu, Antonio Inoki, or Chigusa Nagayo be as over as they are if their local markets had a dozen different wrestling promotions on tv?
[Memphis] Financial News Network announced on Tuesday that they’ll start airing CWA Wrestling weekly beginning in April. Dave forgot to write down the time slot, but thinks it’s Saturday nights at 9 pm eastern. ESPN signed a new exclusive deal with AWA for 2 years, which kicks World Class off ESPN. Angelo Savoldi’s ICW in New England got a deal with Tempo cable, so all other wrestling will be dropped from that service.
AWA is “restructuring the company.” No word on what that means other than that their Las Vegas card this Sunday will be their last for about a month before they reopen in late March. Maybe they’ll change some major things about how they run? Dave thinks Verne’s gotten tired of people making decisions that cost him money, so he’ll probably be booker again. From what Dave hears, Curt Hennig will be the only wrestler getting paid during the time off, so expect Verne to fob him off to Memphis for the interim. The Midnight Rockers will probably also work Memphis in that time. No idea about the rest of the roster, but they’ll probably have to find new work in other territories if they can find work in wrestling, or regular jobs if they can’t.
Over in Puerto Rico they sold out on January 30 a big show at Roberto Clemente Coliseum. That’s roughly 32,000 fans to watch Carlos Colon vs. Iron Sheik for the Universal Title, with manager Chicky Starr in a shark cage above the ring. Carlos won, of course, as Sheiky baby is heading back to WWF. Dave talks a bit about Carlos - he’s over like Rover, but the man’s comebacks are dull as hell. It’s a bizarre thing, what gets over with crowds.
Stampede’s February 5 show had what was probably the best match in Calgary in months. Bruce Hart and Brian Pillman defended the International Tag Titles against Great Gama and Jerry Morrow, with three assigned referees (Wayne Hart, heel ref Jurgen Herman, and heel ref for Karachi Vice Akeem Singh). Herman wound up being the main referee, but got knocked down by Gama, and after that when Pillman went up top to do a dive, Akeem threw powder in his eyes and Gama did a cobra hold. When Herman came to, he saw Pillman passed out and awarded the match and titles to the heels and they celebrated with champagne until Wayne Hart told Herman what happened and the decision was reversed.
Les Thornton has been given a promoter’s permit by the Calgary Boxing & Wrestling Commission. He’ll start running shows against Stampede in the spring.
WWF is doing a Wrestling Challenge taping on March 9 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. That’s about 20 miles from Greensboro, so they’re encroaching a bit on Flair country, which means they’re making moves to kill the competition dead.
WWF has a Saturday Night’s Main Event scheduled for March 12, to be taped on the 7th.
Honkeytonk Man was supposed to drop the Intercontinental Title at The Main Event but vetoed the title change. Lots of chaos backstage as a result of it, and the match was also supposed to be shorter than it wound up being. He held out and refused to job and he’s still champion, so in the end he got what he wanted. You might wonder why not just have Savage win anyway and not give in by having him shoot on Honkeytonk, but the key is Honkeytonk realized that Vince wouldn’t want to take a chance of anything bad happening on tv, and you definitely aren’t going to want a match turning into a shoot and getting real violence on live tv. This also probably explains why he’s not in the tournament.
Billy Jack Haynes apparently asked Vince McMahon for help starting a promotion in Oregon to run against Don Owen’s promotion. Vince wasn’t biting, and this ultimately is the real reason he was let go, probably, as those close to him say it wasn’t his health, but that he wanted to get out anyway because he wasn’t being pushed (and neither was Brady Boone).
Jesse Ventura will get to do color commentary this season on some New York Yankees games for local pay-tv. He’s apparently thrilled about this.
Correction: Bam Bam Bigelow didn’t have arthroscopic knee surgery. He just took a week off to rest his knee, and isn’t planning to get surgery until just after Wrestlemania.
Bam Bam also had a drug possession charge dismissed against him in Freehold, New Jersey on the grounds that the evidence was obtained illegally and that state police had no grounds to search his car. They found a small bag of marijuana under his seat and he got a misdemeanor possession charge, but again, no probable cause to search so that’s a 4th amendment violation. They pulled him over and searched his car, apparently, because he waved at the officers. If convicted, he would have been in big trouble because he’s still on probation from a 1986 conviction for threatening to kill a local sex worker (that’s a big yikes right there), so he would have caught a 5 year prison sentence for revocation of probation.
Memphis has a revolving door of talent, as Bill Dundee is leaving and Manny Fernandez, Scott Hall, and several others have disappeared. Dundee is going to the new promotion that will be running out of Knoxville. New to the area this week are the Rock & Roll Express, Tommy Rich, and Samoans Samu and Kokina. Samu is Afa’s son, and Kokina is, from the information Dave has, Sika’s son (he’s Afoa’s son, not Sika’s son). Kokina is impressively large at 400 lbs, but Samu is definitely the more impressive wrestler. Kokina, of course, will later on travel to Japan for a kayfabe sumo career and come back to the WWF as Yokozuna.
[Memphis] Tommy Rich is apparently a babyface, going by his recent interview. He apologized for all the bad things he did and said he was wrong to team with Austin Idol and Paul E. Dangerously, but he said he still hates Jerry Lawler. There’s legit heat between him and Lawler which is why Rich left last year anyway while he was a top heel. So he said he wanted all the fans in Memphis who hated Lawler to come support him. Expect a 50/50 crowd for their february 15 grudge match - although the promotion can’t draw without him, there is a large group of fans who don’t like that he’s constantly on top of the card.

Watch: Tommy Rich calls on the fans who hate Jerry Lawler

[Memphis] The manager with the preacher gimmick has dropped that gimmick, and the Choir Boys tag team are gone. Too much negative attention in the form of phone calls to the studio last week. The manager, Ernest Angel, now manages CWA Tag champs Max Payne and Gary Young, and his behavior has been toned down and he’s apologized somewhat for his behavior the previous week.
Continental (Alabama) had its last week this week as a unified promotion this week, since the Knoxville office ran its first show this weekend. They drew 7,000 in Knoxville on February 12. Dave’s not sure what the eventual talent split will work out, but known guys going to Knoxville are Johnny Rich, Bill Dundee, Hector Guerrero, Ron Fuller (didn’t he announce his retirement a few weeks ago?), Austin Idol, Lord Humongous, Doug Furnas, Mongolian Stomper, the Armstrongs, and Tracy Smothers.
[Oregon] The Frank Bonema Memorial Show is scheduled for February 16. Boneme was their long-time tv announcer who passed away five years ago. Curt Hennig vs. The Grappler (Hennig as babyface) for the AWA Title is the main event. The show will also have a battle royal for the TV Title, Mike Miller vs. Rip Oliver in a cage, The Assassin vs. Avalanche in a mask vs. headgear match (Avalanche lost his hair in a match and has been wearing headgear like Kurt Angle or Molly Holly to hide it), and a couple more matches.
Steve Estes, a former wrestler local to the Kansas City area, pleaded guilty to a Class B felony. The charge was related to the hold-up of a Mexican restaurant in October. He was charged with a Class A felony, but the charge was reduced on plea bargain. He faces five to fifteen years.
Mean Gene Okerlund’s son Todd is on the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey team right now. At the time of writing the team will have won their first game, but their fortunes turn south over the rest of the group stage and they don’t qualify to go to the knockout rounds of the tournament.
Mad Dog Vachon is suing the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic for several million dollars. His claim is that if he had received proper treatment he would never have needed to have his leg amputated. This starts a big series of cases lasting all the way until 1994, and you can read the final case summary here.
There’s a movie in Japan called “The Crazy Family” which includes the family’s 13 year old daughter doing nothing but weightlifting and training and singing so she can be like Chigusa Nagayo. It’s from 1984, so I don’t know why Dave’s only just noticing it now.

Watch: The Crazy Family (1:09:00 to see one of the training scenes)

Florida has dropped legislation that would have created a state athletic commission that would regulate wrestling. Legislators met with Duke Keomuka and Gerald Briscoe, and were subsequently convinced that wrestling is pure entertainment and not a sport at all.
In Southern California a new group is starting up called the American Women’s Wrestling Federation. They’re running ads for beautiful women who want to be trained as wrestlers. Mando Guerrero and Debbie Pelletier (The Killer Tomato, later Dallas in GLOW) will be training, and Dave remarks that Debbie doesn’t know the first thing about wrestling.
Bruiser Brody is promoting a show in St. Louis at the Fox Theater on March 4. He’ll face Jerry Blackwell in the main event, and Sam Muchnick will be there to raise the winner’s hand. The building is apparently the nicest building within 500 miles of St. Louis and not the sort of place that would ordinarily let wrestling in. Muchnick apparently felt used by the NWA at a recent taping by constantly showing him on camera and making it out like he endorsed the NWA and that they have continuity with the NWA he ran back in the day. So that’s why he’s on board. Crockett’s NWA has a show in St. Louis two days later.
Wrestling fanzine publisher David Leehy promoted a show that drew 200 in Richmond Virginia on February 5 for Virginia Wrestling Association.
Ohio’s state senate passed a bill that would put a 5% tax on all wrestling receipts, with money raised going to the boxing commission. The money would be earmarked for creating a medical advisory board for boxing. No regulation of wrestling is proposed in the bill, and the bill still has to pass the house. Seems a bit unfair.
WCCW drew 3,800 (buy one ticket, get a second for a penny, same deal for concessions) in Dallas on February 12.
Michael Hayes is back in WCCW as a babyface. No surprises there. They’re building to a Hayes concert on March 5 at the Sportatorium, and that’ll probably have a big angle. Somebody’s gotta attack Hayes. Won’t be Terry Gordy, since he’ll be in Japan, but somebody will.
WCCW’s tv show is airing mainly tapes of old matches. That’s fine in the Fort Worth area, since they had no live cards for two weeks, but Dave’s puzzled nonetheless. Maybe they somehow missed a taping?
Ken Mantell has this idea of reopening Wild West and starting their tv back up and having Wild West and World Class feud. Where’s the logic in that? Plus, there are enough promotions that this would only confuse the average fan.
Steve Williams told the press in Japan he’ll be coming to work in World Class. It’s not been announced stateside yet, but he said he’d wrestle in WCCW as UWF champion and defend the belt against the Von Erichs.
AWA is putting all the heat with the recent Hennig/Gagne title match on Stanley Blackburn. They’d billed the match as a title match, Gagne won and was presented with the title, but Stan refused to honor the title change because it was a cage match. Something to talk about in the month they don’t run shows, I guess, but this is what passes for creative in AWA.
AWA will use the University of Minnesota’s Williams Arena as their new home base now that the Minneapolis Auditorium is gone. There’s some concern that the arena’s ban on alcohol will adversely affect ticket sales.
Despite some screw ups, New Japan did fairly good business with their most recent tour and jr. heavyweight tournament. Inoki beat Choshu decisively on February 4 to retain the IWGP Title, which puts a final end to Choshumania and any chance he had of regaining the popularity he’s lost over the past six months. On the final night of the tour, Shiro Koshinaka won the Top of the Super Juniors tournament. Vader and Inoki went to a double countout for the IWGP Title that saw the return of the masked pirate who was attacking Inoki last year.
In bad wrestling stuff in New Japan, Choshu’s performance has noticeably slipped and Buzz Sawyer seems to be trying to sabotage Owen Hart. Choshu just looks like he doesn’t even want to be in the ring anymore. As for Sawyer, he’s been teaming with Owen and when Owen starts up his more flashy offence, Sawyer starts barking, howling, and playing to the crowd to distract them from what Hart’s doing. Buzz Sawyer is a total buzzkill.
New Japan plans to tour Brazil in late March.
Steve Williams gave an interview saying he’s tired of touring all over the U.S. and he wants to spend more time with his wife. He also said the NWA broke a bunch of promises they made to him when they bought out UWF, and he seemed pretty upset that Dusty never followed through with the promised unification match with Flair. He said “I don’t go back to NWA Crockett promotions anymore. I’d like to wrestle for promotions which set a high value on ability. New Japan is good because they use Vader, Buzz Sawyer, Bob Orton and Owen Hart who can do hard wrestling.
All Japan Women is looking pretty healthy right now. They drew 3,500 fans on January 28 for a big grudge match pitting Yumiko Hotta and Hisako Uno against Yumi Ogura and Kazue Nagahori. It was last year on April 27 when Ogura tombstoned Hotta off the middle ropes and broke her neck, and there was worry that Hotta would never wrestle again. The next night they drew 4,500 as Ogura won the AJW Title (their tertiary belt after the “Red Belt” WWWA World Singles Title and the “White Belt” WWWA All Pacific Title) from Bull Nakano via disqualification. Both shows work out to over 100,000 gates given ticket prices in Japan, and AJW’s merch machine is better than anyone else, as they get more money selling merch per capita than any other promotion. Monster Ripper (Rhonda Singh from Stampede, in the future Bertha Faye), is working here now too.
Paul Boesch was elected/appointed to the NWA board of directors, making him the first non-promoter ever on the board. Back in the NWA’s glory days, the board would select the world champion, but that’s probably pretty much up to Jim Crockett now and the board is more or less a figurehead thing. The real value for the NWA here is using Boesch’s name value in the Houston area, and he’ll be starting as they return to Houston on March 4. He’s not on board as the promoter, however, and has no financial stake in the show, so it’s pretty much just a “Hey, remember Paul Boesch? He’s with us” kind of thing.
More details will be forthcoming about the Crockett Cup next week, but Dave has a bit to report right now. The original plan was two sites on two dates: April 9 in Greenville for the first round and April 10 in Greensboro for the finals, but they’re already advertising on tv now that the Cup will take place in Greensboro in late April. No information on if they’ll be filling out the 24 team slots with outside teams, but if they can get World Class and Stampede, maybe even New Japan involved that could help. But with the egos involved it might be impossible.
Crockett’s TBS show this weekend had a balding, blond jobber named Randy Hogan. Subtle.
Shane Douglass is back in Crockett and is using a sleeper hold for his finisher. He seems to be getting a bit of a push, but they don’t seem to know what they’re doing, as Schiavone is calling him the 1986 rookie of the year and Jim Ross is calling him the 1987 rookie of the year.
Road Warrior Animal’s eye injury is legit and he’ll be out of action for a few weeks. He broke his orbital bone when Konga the Barbarian botched a move on him and was nearly blinded (similar injury to what Maeda inflicted on Riki Choshu). They were billing him as returning this past weekend, which had Dave thinking it was a work at first. Dave’s not sure how effective the angle with the weights was in terms of increasing crowd turnout. So far, middling turnout says not very effective.
It’s astonishing how fast Luger’s face run has fizzled. Luger’s the kind of guy you can look at and in a snap decision decide he’s a future top babyface star and begin the push, but when you look at him close you realize he just doesn’t have it. He’s got the body, the good looks, the hair, all the surface level stuff you want in a guy. It almost convinces you he’s over and the future of the business. But having a good body and blond hair is pretty common, and his looks aren’t anything special either. He could still be a big star and almost certainly will be a star at some level in the future, but he just doesn’t have the connection to the audience that will make him the guy. He didn’t have it in Florida (the promotion literally died trying to get him over as a babyface in 1986), and he doesn’t have it now. Sting needs a lot of work on promos, and he’s not got the body Luger has, but he has the connection with the fans and has just eclipsed Luger in their eyes. And it’s super obvious to anyone watching. The crowd comes alive for every little thing Sting does, and they don’t really care about Luger and Windham when they talk. Sting’s look comes across as more cool to the fans too. Dave has this feeling that Crockett will want to keep all three at the same level, ensuring nobody gets over enough to make a difference. And Luger’s not to blame for the crowd reaction. The promotion wasted no time making him just one of the boys after his face turn, and Dave thinks they should have given him a few months of a major singles babyface push rather than just ruining the impact of his face turn by making him a tag team guy.
An anonymous wrestler or referee from Oregon writes in about the latest athletic commission business in Oregon. Short version: Don Owen and the commissioner were arguing over enforcement of certain rules in the combined boxing and wrestling rule book. The commissioner wanted to regulate wrestling exactly the same as boxing. He saw a guy thrown over the top and saw the top rope break during a match, leading to a nasty spill. He told Owen that having four ropes would fix that problem, and he didn’t like seeing heels use foreign objects in front of the referee and would appoint a commission referee if that kind of stuff continued. Three weeks later, he came back with a changed point of view after meeting commissioners from other states. Clearly someone smartened him up about what wrestling actually is, and he changed his mind about the ropes and foreign objects, though he did want drug testing and a ban on blading. He lied in the media that he said what he said about the ropes and referees, but he did say it. In the writer’s opinion, the commission is on the right track now. They check tickets closely, seem concerned for the welfare of fans and wrestlers alike, and have introduced changes that the Northwest has needed for a while. It doesn’t solve the big problem out there, though. And that problem is that Don and Barry Owen run things like it’s the 1940s and are afraid to try new things. They also don’t want to pay well, and with the death of the territories happening, they can get away with it because there aren’t that many places to work. A lot of wrestlers would prefer if Sandy Barr ran things in the region, because he’s been seen as very fair. Finally, unrelated, a paragraph about shoot style and shooting that I think is very interesting as we see things like MMA begin to take nascent form in the next few years:

One other thing I would like to touch upon. That is the people who seem to get off on “shooting style” pro wrestling. Shooting is NOT pro wrestling. In fact it’s the very antithesis of pro wrestling. Why anybody who claims to be a pro wrestling fan would like to see it is beyond me. Pro Wrestling is an art form. Making it look good WITHOUT hurting anyone is what makes you a good worker. Good technique, a light touch and a gift for gab is what constitutes a top-notch pro. Wrestlers who deliberately hurt people in the ring may be feared, but they are not respected. We find many of these asses in Japan, but we have our share in the United States and Canada as well. When you give someone your body, you expect them to take care of it. People pay to see action and drama. Legitimate wrestling matches have never proven to be able to draw any significant following.

Another writer writes in about the Observer yearbook and how a large chunk of it was super professionally done and could be the basis for expansion into a proper book, but there’s also sophomoric and childish stuff (like the nicknames) that hurt it. The writer thinks Dave’s passed the point of just being a fanzine and shouldn’t bog down the quality of his publication with stuff of that sort. Dave, for his part, thanks the writer for his points, but maintains he’s never wanted or claimed the Observer as a professional publication. The Observer is a publication for hardcore wrestling fans and plays on a lot of the inside humor they want to hear.
There’s an entire page devoted to letters about The Main Event. Some folks think Andre should retire with what dignity he still has, because he just shouldn’t be in a ring anymore. Some loved the finish to the title match, others hated it and found it ridiculous. One reports that just before the show started, the local tv announcer pivoted from Wheel of Fortune to the show by saying “Join Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant next for live wrestling comedy.”
Correction on the above about Road Warrior Animal’s injury: He apparently hurt his eye the night before the bench press contest. A move was done wrong, or he took it wrong, but either way, his eye popped out of socket. Major credit to him showing up the next day to do the contest angle before going to the hospital. It explains Ellering’s comments about $50,000 not being worth the price of an eye, which didn’t make sense at the time.
New Japan has changed plans and their big show they were going to have in the Tokyo Dome (capacity 55,000) will now be at a tennis stadium in Tokyo (capacity 10,000) on May 7. Looks like he’ll wrestle Vader, Willem Ruska (a former gold medalist judoka), or Chris Dolman (a sambo wrestling champion), and none of those pairings has the drawing power to fill the Dome. If he really wanted to sell out the Dome he’d need Koji Kitao (who was recently kicked out of sumo) or a big name boxer like Michael Spinks or Larry Holmes, but he couldn’t get them. On Kitao, he recently was contacted by Wajima, which means Baba’s on the hunt for him, although things are so early they haven’t even had preliminary talks yet.

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Introducing the /r/CFB Civilization Battle Royale!

Ladies and Gentlemen, the offseason is well upon us, but that shouldn't mean that we lose the ability to cheer on our favorite teams as they battle it out for a shot at national glory. I would like to introduce you to the /CFB Civilization Battle Royale! A 12 week tournament where all 130 FBS schools fight (literally) for a chance to be champions!

The rules are simple:

All schools will be controlled by an A.I. There will be no human influence in the results at all
Domination victory only
No city states
Each Conference will have one full game played until there is one conference champion left standing. Conferences will be done in alphabetical order.
After all conferences have played, a final championship game will be played with all conference winners until there is one true National Champion!^*

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Extra Tidbits

The game will be played in Civilization V with all expansions enabled
The team's leader will be their current head coach
Capital cities will be named after each team's home stadium
Cities will be named after different buildings around each school's campus
Spies will be named after former players for each school
Conference games will take place on custom maps designed for each conference. Each team will start as close to their true location as possible.

And here are your fighters!

Each school will get two unique units/buildings. I have already added school mascots as the first unique unit, but I need your help! Any suggestions to what could be a second unique unit/building for your school would be greatly appreciated. And for those of you who don't have a mascot (Indiana, Central Michigan, Illinois), I need something to fill both of your unique slots!

The AAC

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Cincinnati Cincinnati	AAC	Luke Fickell	Nippert Stadium	Skyline Chili	The Bearcat	Crosley Tower
Connecticut UCONN	AAC	Randy Edsall	Pratt and Whittney Stadium	Civil ConFLiCT	Jonathan Husky	Big Red
ECU East Carolina	AAC	Mike Houston	Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium	Purple Haze	PeeDee Pirate	Queen Annes Revenge Research Lab
Houston Houston	AAC	Dana Holgorsen	TDECU Stadium	Ya! Woo! Cougar Football!	Shasta	Sasha
Memphis Memphis	AAC	Mike Norvell	Liberty Bowl Memorial	Eye of the Tiger	Pouncer	Tom the Tiger
Navy Navy	AAC	Ken Niumatalolo	Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium	Beat Army	Bill the Goat	Admiral John M. Richardson
SMU SMU	AAC	Sonny Dykes	Gerald J. Ford Stadium	Death Penalty	Peruna	Fort Burgwin
Temple Temple	AAC	Rod Carey	Lincoln Financial Field	Cherry Crusade	Hooter T. Owl	Stella
Tulane Tulane	AAC	Willie Fritz	Yulman Stadium	Mardi Gras	Riptide	Angry Wave
Tulsa Tulsa	AAC	Philip Montgomery	H.A. Chapman Stadium	Wave the Flag	Captain Cane	Goldie
UCF UCF	AAC	Josh Heupel	Spectrum Stadium	Spirit Splash	Knightro	The Citronaut
USF USF	AAC	Charlie Strong	Raymond James stadium	On Campus Publix	Rocky	Pirate Ship

The ACC

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Boston College Boston College	ACC	Steve Addazio	Alumni Stadium	For Boston	Baldwin	The Jesuits
Clemson Clemson	ACC	Dabo Swinney	Clemson Memorial Stadium	Gathering at the Paw	8Ball The Tiger	Country Gentleman
Duke Duke	ACC	David Cutcliffe	Wallace Wade Stadium	Krzyzewskiville	Blue Devil	Cameron Indoor Stadium
Florida State Florida State	ACC	Willie Taggart	Doak S. Campbell Stadium	War Chant	Osceola	Renegade
Georgia Tech Georgia Tech	ACC	Geoff Collins	Bobby Dodd Stadium	Master Engineers	Buzz	Ramblin Wreck
Louisville Louisville	ACC	Scot Satterfield	Cardinal Stadium	Card March	Louie	Papa John
Miami Miami (FL)	ACC	Manny Diaz	Hard Rock Stadium	Turnover Chain	Sebastian	Miami Maniac
NC State NC State	ACC	Dave Doeren	Carter-Finley Stadium	Krispy Kreme Challenge	Mr. & Mrs. Wuf	Tuffy
North Carolina North Carolina	ACC	Mack Brown	Kenan Memorial Stadium	Air Jordan	Ramses	Old Well
Pittsburgh Pittsburgh	ACC	Pat Narduzzi	Heinz Field	Victory Lights	Panther	Cathedral of Learning
Syracuse Syracuse	ACC	Dino Babers	Carrier Dome	Postgame Speech	Otto Orange	The 44
Virginia Virginia	ACC	Bronco Mendenhall	Scott Stadium	Lighting of the Lawn	Cav Man	Thomas Jefferson
Virginia Tech Virginia Tech	ACC	Justin Fuente	Lane Stadium	Enter Sandman	Gobbler	Hokie Stone
Wake Forest Wake Forest	ACC	Dave Clawson	BB&T Stadium	Rolling the Quad	Demon Deacon	Granny Deacon

The B1G

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Illinois Illinois	B1G	Lovie Smith	Memorial Stadium	Block I	Galloping Ghost	Alma Otter
Indiana Indiana	B1G	Tom Allen	Memorial Stadium	Candy Stripes	Mark Cuban	Lil' 500
Iowa Iowa	B1G	Kirk Ferentz	Kinnick Stadium	Kinnick Wave	Herky	Vodka Samm
Maryland Maryland	B1G	Mike Locksley	Maryland Stadium	Maryland Flag	Testudo	Scott Van Pelt
Michigan Michigan	B1G	Jim Harbaugh	Michigan Stadium	Go Blue	Biff	Michigan Man
Michigan State Michigan State	B1G	Mark Dantonio	Spartan Stadium	300 Yell	Sparty	Beaumont Tower
Minnesota Minnesota	B1G	P.J. Fleck	TCF Bank Stadium	Row the Boat	Goldy	Paul Bunyan
Nebraska Nebraska	B1G	Scott Frost	Memorial Stadium	Sellout Streak	Blackshirts	Herbie Husker
Northwestern Northwestern	B1G	Pat Fitzgerald	Ryan Field	Guarding the Rock	Willie	The Rock
Ohio State Ohio State	B1G	Ryan Day	Ohio Stadium	Best Damn Band in the Land	Brutus	Silver Bullets
Penn State Penn State	B1G	James Franklin	Beaver Stadium	Whiteout Game	Nittany Lion	Ole Coaly
Purdue Purdue	B1G	Jeff Brohm	Ross-Ade Stadium	Worlds Largest Drum	Purdue Pete	Boilermaker Special VII
Rutgers Rutgers	B1G	Chris Ash	HighPoint.com Stadium	Birthplace of CFB	Scarlet Knight	Chanticleer
Wisconsin Wisconsin	B1G	Paul Chryst	Camp Randall Stadium	Jump Around	Bucky Badger	Dairy Farm

The BIG XII

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Baylor Baylor	BIG XII	Matt Rhule	McLane Stadium	Baylor Line	Bruiser	Marigold
Iowa State Iowa State	BIG XII	Matt Campbell	Jack Trice Stadium	Tornado Siren	Cy	VEISHEA Village
Kansas Kansas	BIG XII	Les Miles	David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium	Rock Chalk Jayhawk	Big Jay	Baby Jay
Kansas State Kansas State	BIG XII	Chris Klieman	Bill Snyder Family Stadium	Purple Wizard	Willie	EcoKat
Oklahoma Oklahoma	BIG XII	Lincoln Riley	Oklahoma Memorial Stadium	Boomer Sooner	Sooner Schooner	Toby Keith
Oklahoma State Oklahoma State	BIG XII	Mike Gundy	Boone Pickens Stadium	Walkaround	Pistol Pete	Garth Brooks
TCU TCU	BIG XII	Gary Patterson	Amon G. Carter Stadium	Blood Eyes	Super Frog	Clark Brothers
Texas Texas	BIG XII	Tom Herman	Texas Memorial Stadium	Horns Up	Bevo	Matthew McConaughey
Texas Tech Texas Tech	BIG XII	Matt Wells	Jones AT&T Stadium	Tortilla Toss	The Masked Rider	Matadors
West Virginia West Virginia	BIG XII	Neal Brown	Milan Puskar Stadium	Country Roads	The Mountaineer	Flaming Couches

C-USA

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Charlotte Charlotte	C-USA	Will Healy	Jerry Richardson Stadium	Gold Rush	Norm the Niner	Normbulance
FAU FAU	C-USA	Lane Kiffin	FAU Stadium	Owl Walk	Owlsly	Joey Saltwater
FIU FIU	C-USA	Butch Davis	Ricardo Silva Stadium	Trail of the Torch	Roary	Wall of Wind
Louisiana Tech Louisiana Tech	C-USA	Skip Holtz	Joe Aillet Stadium	Spirit of 88	Champ	Tech XII
Marshall Marshall	C-USA	Doc Holiday	Joan C. Edwards Stadium	We Are Marshall	Marco	Memorial Fountain
Middle Tennessee Middle Tennessee State	C-USA	Rick Stockstill	Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium	Blue Horseshoe	Lightning	Blue Raiders
North Texas North Texas	C-USA	Seth Littrell	Apogee Stadium	Eagle Claw	Scrappy	Mean Green Machine
Old Dominion Old Dominion	C-USA	Bobby Wilder	S.B. Ballard Stadium	Ice Cream and Cake	Big Blue	Howitzer Cannon
Rice Rice	C-USA	Mike Bloomgren	Rice Stadium	Beer Bike Festival	Sammy the Owl	MOB
Southern Miss Southern Miss	C-USA	Jay Hopson	M.M. Roberts Stadium	Amazing Grace	Seymour d'Campus	All American Rose Garden
UAB UAB	C-USA	Bill Clark	Legion Field	Resurrection	Blaze	The Vulcan
UTEP UTEP	C-USA	Dana Dimel	Sun Bowl Stadium	TCM Day	Paydirt Pete	Miners
UTSA UTSA	C-USA	Frank Wilson	Alamodome	Viva Fiesta	Rowdy	Sombrilla Fountain
Western Kentucky Western Kentucky	C-USA	Tyson Helton	L.T. Smith Stadium	Red Towel	Big Red	The Hill

The Independents

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Army Army	Independent	Jeff Monken	Michie Stadium	Beat Navy	Army Mules	General Mark A. Milley
BYU BYU	Independent	Kalani Sitake	LeVell Edwards Stadium	Mission Trip	Cosmo	Latter-Day Saints
Liberty Liberty	Independent	Hugh Freeze	Arthur L. Williams Stadium	No Shame	Sparky	Jerry Falwell
UMass UMass	Independent	Walt Bell	Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium	Rope Pull	Sam	W.E.B. Du Bois Library
New Mexico State New Mexico State	Independent	Doug Martin	Aggie Memorial Stadium	Agricultural Beginnings	Pistol Pete	A Mountain
Notre Dame Notre Dame	Independent	Brian Kelly	Notre Dame Stadium	Touchdown Jesus	Leprechaun	Four Horsemen

The MAC

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Akron Akron	MAC	Tom Arth	InfoCision Stadium	Wagon Wheel	Zippy	AK Rowdies
Ball State Ball State	MAC	Mike Neu	Scheumann Stadium	Bed Races	Charlie Cardinal	Frog Baby Statue
Bowling Green Bowling Green	MAC	Scot Loeffler	Doyt L. Perry Stadium	Forward Falcons	Freddie and Freida	Sic Sic
Buffalo Buffalo	MAC	Lance Leipold	UB Stadium	Oozefest	Victor E. Bull	True Blue
Central Michigan Central Michigan	MAC	Jim McElwain	Kelly Shorts Stadium	Fire Up Chips!	Fighting Chips	Marching Chips Rock
Eastern Michigan Eastern Michigan	MAC	Chris Creighton	Rynearson Stadium	Track Stars	Swoop	Emu Army
Kent State Kent State	MAC	Sean Lewis	Dix Stadium	Black Squirrel Festival	Flash	Ray's Place
Miami (OH) Miami (OH)	MAC	Chuck Martin	Fred C. Yager Stadium	Cradle of Coaches	Swoop	Mac and Joes
NIU NIU	MAC	Thomas Hammock	Huskie Stadium	Maction is Magic	Victor E. Husky	William the Goose
Ohio Ohio	MAC	Franch Solich	Peden Stadium	The Baker Cane	Rufus	Marching 110
Toledo Toledo	MAC	Jason Candle	Glass Bowl	BASHCON	Rocky	The Rocket
Western Michigan Western Michigan	MAC	Tim Lester	Waldo Stadium	Western Wednesday	Buster Bronco	Bell's Brewery

The Mountain West

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Air Force Air Force	MWC	Troy Calhoun	Falcon Stadium	Prop and Wings	The Bird	Gen. David L. Goldfein
Boise State Boise State	MWC	Bryan Harsin	Albertsons Stadium	Smurf Turf	Buster Bronco	Cowboy Kohl
Colorado State Colorado State	MWC	Mike Bobo	Canvas Stadium	The A	Cam the Ram	Old Main Bell Tower
Fresno State Fresno State	MWC	Jeff Tedford	Bulldog Stadium	Red Wave	Timeout	Red Wave
Hawaii Hawai'i	MWC	Nick Rolovich	Aloha Stadium	Haka	Vili	Rainbow Warrior
Nevada Nevada	MWC	Jay Norvell	Mackay Stadium	Law of the Jungle	Alphie	Lieutenant dangle
New Mexico New Mexico	MWC	Bob Davie	Dreamstyle Stadium	Hanging of the Greens	Lobo	Fiesta Balloons
San Diego State San Diego State	MWC	Rocky Long	SDCCU Stadium	Templo del Sol	Montezuma	Aztec Warrior
San Jose State San Jose State	MWC	Brent Brennan	CEFCU Stadium	Fire on the Fountain	Sammy the Spartan	Spartan Squad
UNLV UNLV	MWC	Tony Sanchez	Sam Boyd Stadium	What Happens in Vegas	Hey Reb	Fremont Cannon
Utah State Utah State	MWC	Gary Andersen	Maverik Stadium	The Scotsman	Big Blue	Night Runner
Wyoming Wyoming	MWC	Craig Bohl	War Memorial Stadium	Beer Song	Cowboy Joe	Steamboat

The PAC-12

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Arizona Arizona	PAC-12	Kevin Sumlin	Arizona Stadium	Bear Down	Wilbur Wildcat	Mirror Lab
Arizona State Arizona State	PAC-12	Herm Edwards	Sun Devil Stadium	Devil Walk	Sparky	Bees of Innovation
California California	PAC-12	Justin Wilcox	California Memorial Stadium	The Play	Oski	Marshawn Lynch's Golf Cart
Colorado Colorado	PAC-12	Mel Tucker	Folsom Field	Ralphie's Run	Ralphie	Chip
Oregon Oregon	PAC-12	Mario Cristobal	Autzen Stadium	Nike Hookup	Puddles	Robo Duck
Oregon State Oregon State	PAC-12	Jonathan Smith	Resser Stadium	Carry Me Back	Benny Beaver	V Oceanus
Stanford Stanford	PAC-12	David Shaw	Stanford Stadium	Steam Tunneling	Stanford Tree	Stanford Band
UCLA UCLA	PAC-12	Chip Kelly	Rose Bowl Stadium	Spring Sing	Joe Bruin	Josephine Bruin?
USC USC	PAC-12	Clay Helton	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	Fight On!	Traveler	Tommy Trojan
Utah Utah	PAC-12	Kyle Wittingham	Rice-Eccles Stadium	The Grand Kerfuffle	Swoop	Ute Thunder
Washington Washington	PAC-12	Chris Peterson	Husky Stadium	Sailgating	Dubs	Boys in the Boat
Washington State Washington State	PAC-12	Mike Leach	Martin Stadium	Ol' Crimson	Butch T. Cougar	Popcorn Guy

The SEC

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Alabama Alabama	SEC	Nick Saban	Bryant-Denny Stadium	Dixieland Delight	Big Al	Denny Chimes
Arkansas Arkansas	SEC	Chad Morris	Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium	Woo Pig Sooie	Tusk	Track Team
Auburn Auburn	SEC	Gus Malzahn	Jordan-Hare Stadium	Toomer's Corner	Aubie	War Eagle
Florida Florida	SEC	Dan Mullen	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium	Gator Chomp	Albert	Mr. Two Bits
Georgia Georgia	SEC	Kirby Smart	Sanford Stadium	Glory Glory	Uga	H8 Ball
Kentucky Kentucky	SEC	Mark Stoops	Kroger Field	Basketball School	Scratch	Bourbon Distillery
LSU LSU	SEC	Ed Orgeron	Death Valley	Neck	Mike the Tiger	Raising Canes
Mississippi State Mississippi State	SEC	Joe Moorhead	Davis Wade Stadium	Cowbells	Bully	MAFES Sales Store
Missouri Missouri	SEC	Barry Odom	Memorial Stadium	Homecoming	Truman	The Columns
Ole Miss Ole Miss	SEC	Matt Luke	Vaught-Hemingway Stadium	The Grove	Tony Landshark	Colonel Reb
South Carolina South Carolina	SEC	Will Muschamp	Williams-Brice Stadium	Sandstorm	Cocky	Cockaboose
Tennessee Tennessee	SEC	Jeremy Pruitt	Neyland Stadium	Rocky Top	Smokey	The Volunteer
Texas A&M Texas A&M	SEC	Jimbo Fisher	Kyle Field	Tradition	Reveille	Twelfth Man
Vanderbilt Vanderbilt	SEC	Derek Mason	Vanderbilt Stadium	Anchor Down	Mr. C	Cornelius Vanderbilt

The Sun Belt

School	Conference	Leader	Capital	Unique Trait	Unique Unit 1	Unique Unit 2
Appalachian State Appalachian State	Sun Belt	Eliah Drinkwitz	Kidd Brewer Stadium	Hot Hot Hot	Yosef	The Big House
Arkansas State Arkansas State	Sun Belt	Blake Anderson	Centennial Bank Stadium	Howl	Howl	Clyde Statue
Coastal Carolina Coastal Carolina	Sun Belt	Jamey Chadwell	Brooks Stadium	Teal Turf	Chauncey	The Athenaeum
Georgia Southern Georgia Southern	Sun Belt	Chad Lunsford	Allen E. Paulson Stadium	The Eagle's Elbow	Freedom	Beautiful Eagle Creek
Georgia State Georgia State	Sun Belt	Shawn Elliot	Georgia State Stadium	Fight Panthers	Pounce	Aderhold Cat
Louisiana Lafayette Louisiana Lafayette	Sun Belt	Billy Napier	Cajun Field	Crawfish Boil	Cayenne	Krewe of Roux
Louisiana Monroe Louisiana Monroe	Sun Belt	Matt Viator	Malone Stadium	Born On the Bayou	Ace	Bayou DeSiard
South Alabama South Alabama	Sun Belt	Steve Campbell	Hancock Whitney Stadium	South In Your Mouth	Southpaw	Mischka
Texas State Texas State	Sun Belt	Jake Spavital	Bobcat Stadium	Soap Box Derby	Boko	Bubble Guy
Troy Troy	Sun Belt	Chip Lindsey	Vetrans Memorial Stadium	Giant Slayer	T-Roy	Terracotta Warrior

I have many different Google spreadsheets that will all be posted here once more information is finalized for everyone to review and approve. I want all of you involved in the setup process so that each of your schools can be represented accurately (I've only visited so many schools in person). But I know you are all really wondering...

When is this going to happen?

The tournament is going to start June 1st! I will be running the simulation during the week between each round and take lots of screenshots of the results as they happen. Once the screenshots are compiled, I will be narrating each one and placing the results into a slideshow that will be released each Saturday. This will place the finale for this Battle Royale the Saturday before kickoff weekend.

If you have any better suggestions for your Unique Trait or Unique Unit I would love to hear them! Most of this information came from Wikipedia and school websites (with a few jokes from this sub thrown in for fun). I will be posting the full google spreadsheets with more details in the upcoming weeks once I have all of your feedback and the rest of my research finished.

Let's Get Ready To Rumble!

Edit: Thank you all for the responses! Keep em' coming! These have been awesome and a great help so far

Edit 2: I have gotten a lot of requests to stream the games as they happen. I am definitely looking into a way to get this done! It would be awesome to do it live for anyone who is interested in watching.

Edit 3: Thank you for the gold!

Edit 4: Here is a little preview for you all. The founding city of /CFB! Home of the /CFB party sub that will be used as a watcher for the game!

Basement Gym Plan Layout - Dream

Preview of the Delaware Handicap, Diana Stakes and more

Saturday, July 13, 2019
Delaware Park
Race: 8 (5:25 PM EST Post)
Delaware Handicap

Elate bounced back to Graded Stakes form when coming from behind to take down the Fleur de Lis at Churchill last time out. This daughter of “King of the (sales) Ring” Medaglia d’Oro was impressive powering past her rivals down the lane while getting the last furlong in a swift :12.1. She has worked well since and she is 2 for 2 on this oval………………..The multiple Graded Stakes winner, yet still underrated Blue Prize was head strong on the first turn of the aforementioned Fleur de Lis last time out and didn’t offer much of an answer when Elate came to her in mid stretch. However, this seven time winner, of over a million bucks, will be making her third start off the layoff in this spot and that 6F work (1:12 flat) was strong, signaling she might be ready to run another big one here………………….Escape Clause is a win machine as her 20 for 30 career record would indicate. This five year old mare gave the mega talented Midnight Bisou all she could handle two starts back and had several excuses in her last (may have bounced slightly off such a tremendous effort and got caught up in a strong early pace). Leave her out of your exotics plays at your own risk…………………….Honorable Mentions: Gotham Gala ran the best race of her life in her initial try on this oval in her last, which is the perennial prep race for this. This $260,000 daughter of Smart Strike figures to be on or near the lead early once again in here and could prove difficult to run down late……………After showing little on the grass last time out, Promise of Spring return to her preferred surface (dirt), where she’s hit the board in 11 of 16 tries.

Saratoga Race Course
Race: 3 (2:10 PM EST Post)
Sanford Stakes
These 2YO races are far and away the toughest to figure. This time of year these horses’ forms are volatile and can improve or go downhill quicker than a hiccup. Of course, having such little info (few races) to go off of is another nightmare. That said, I’ll take By Your Side who ran the last half of a furlong in sub :07 seconds to take his Churchill Downs and racing debut. The way this colt by Constitution came running late makes me think the stretch out in distane here should only help him…………………..Cucina appears to be a huge threat in this spot. After just missing in his debut, this colt beat maidens in the slop while getting 5F in a fleet :58 flat…..looks next best……………..Raging Whiskey is a California invader who broke his maiden by a wide margin in his second career start.

Race: 9 (5:46 PM EST Post)
Diana Stakes
The 2019 Diana is an intriguing race in several levels. First off, it drew yet another small field (six) with four of them trained by Chad Brown. Also, it pits 2018 Older Female Turf Champion Sistercharlie against another one of the better turf fillies in training today in Rushing Fall as well as unbeaten in this country, Homerique with yes you guessed it all three being trained by Brown. All that being said, you can throw a blanket over all three and pick one as they are almost impossible to separate. So much so, I might pass this race.
However, if I change my mind (and I probably will) I would have to stick with Champion Sistercharlie, who capped off a sensational campaign last year with a furious late run to win the BC Filly and Mare Turf. Good looking mare sports an 11-7-3-0 record overall with the elephant in the room being will she be ready as this will be her first start since the Breeders Cup in Nov?....................It might be betting suicide to put Rushing Fall, a mega talented turf filly who is an astounding 9-8-1-0 in her career, in the two slot. Her last race in the Grade: 1 Just a Game Stakes was one of the most impressive races I’ve seen all year long. After cruising through the first five furlong of that race, this filly dropped her head, leveled off and came home the last quarter supersonic :22.2….needless to say, in taking Sistercharlie, this filly scares the daylights out of me………………………………….As I mentioned earlier, Homerique is 2 for 2 since arriving from France. The gray filly by Exchange Rate overcame slows paces in both races, which is one of many telltale since of a quality racehorse. Her speed figure are in the same zip code as her stablemates (the top two) and she should be coming late once again in this spot……………………….Honorable Mentions: The speedy Mitchell Road, who has sports record of 7-5-2-0, merits attention as well. Good looking mare by English Channel should be the one to catch on the turn for home……………………Secret Message won her last two with strong late runs. Steps WAY up here however.

Los Alamitos
Race: 6
Los Alamitos Derby (6:28 PM EST Post)
The 2019 Los Alamitos Derby continues the trend for short fields this weekend as just four are entered. It almost appears as though the race was written for 2018 Two Year Old Champion Game Winner, who makes his first start since his valiant run in the Kentucky Derby. I’m not seeing a way to beat him as he absolutely towers over this field and his work line resembles an Uzi 9 millimeter (non stop “bullet” works). This is probably one of those rare occurrences where you might see a horse go off at 1-20 odds……………………After chasing the talented Visitant, Mucho Gusto and Anothertwistafate, Game Winner stable mate Kingly looks next best by a wide margin…………………..I have to go with Feeling Strong, who won his last and will be breaking out of state bred competition for the first time for the show dough, as my only other choice is a maiden who is 0 for 12 in his career.

Indiana Downs
Race: 8 (9:10 PM EST Post)
Indiana Oaks
Chocolate Kisses has shown very little in her last three but you must note the enormous class drop she is taking in this spot. $410,000 daughter of Candy Ride ran in back to back Grade: 1’s, including the Kentucky Oaks, and had a failed turf experiment in her last. She will be cutting back in distance here and clearly will not be facing anything near was she’s been lately……………..After pulling an 11-1 upset in the Grade: 2 Fair Ground Oaks two starts back, Street Band will also be coming out of the Kentucky Oaks so she too should relish the class drop vs. these………………The rest are rather difficult to separate but I’ll go with Kim K for the show dough. This $335,000 daughter of Will Take Charge seems to have improved greatly from last year, highlighted by ripping off fast early fractions and wiring a $75,000 optional field in her last. What made it more impressive is she broke from the #9 post that day. In this spot, she’ll break from the rail, which is a serious tactical advantage for her and, oh by the way, the #1 post at this meet so far is winning at a 25% rate…………………………..Honorable Mentions: With Dignity has used impressive late runs to win her first two starts. Note how she encountered serious traffic issues down the back side of her last race but yet blew past the early leaders down the lane for the win….Steps up but could easily better this rating……………..If you ignore Blessed Again’s failed turf experiment in her last, you’ll see an impressive maiden breaking win before going on to beat $75,000 optionals by a colossal margin……………….Sweet Diane has yet to be off the board in six career starts, including finishing within shouting distance of Street Band in the Fair Grounds Oaks this past spring.

Race: 9 (10:02 PM EST Post)
Indiana Derby
Mr. Money is sharp as a tack right now. The son of Goldencents won back to back Grade: 3’s by wide margins at Churchill in his last two. Good looking colt’s speed figures are higher and more consistent than these as well…......………Math Wizard is quietly having a very good year, highlighted by finishing less than five lengths behind Tacticus at 65-1 in the Wood Memorial back in April. Since then, he’s faced an improving Laughing Fox and a really improving Owendale and held his own in both. Looks next best………………Fan favorite Long Range Toddy has been in training, and running once a month for the past 10 months now, and on paper, it looks like that brutal schedule is catching up to him. He was overmatched two and three races back but I saw no visible excuses for his disappointing effort in the Ohio Derby at 2-1 odds in his last…………………Honorable Mentions: Although running admirably, Alwaysmining went down in flames as the even money favorite in the Easy Goer at Belmont in his last, further fueling my speculation that he is a vastly different horse anywhere but on his home track (Laurel)…..Find out more about that on Saturday night……………………Gray Magician is not as bad as his 1 for 9 record indicates. Make no mistake, this gray colt has talent. I’m just not sure how much a trip across the world (Dubai) and then running in the most physical race in the country (Kentucky Derby) less than five weeks later, has taken out of him……………………….. I love Roiland’s running style. Although somewhat inconsistent with it, he possesses a big closing kick which is always fun to watch. Listen, if he gets a nuclear meltdown type early pace, stranger things have happened………………….If, and that a big “if”, Frolic More can handle the class rise, he could be a menace in here as he is clearly in career best form right now.

By: Gerard Apadula
Director of Equine Operations and Development
Knights of the Round Stable Thoroughbred Racing Team
[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])
2019- Record: 43-124 = 35%
2018- Record: 107-261= 41%
2017- Record: 92-235 = 39%
2016- Record: 91-229 = 40%
2015- Record: 67-180 = 37%
2014- Record: 29-73 = 40%
2013- Record: 20-59= 34%
2012 -Record: 24-73= 33%
2011 –Record: N/A
2010- Record: 24-74= 33%

Little Bets N’ Pieces:
**** In the “about freaking time” category Colonial Downs Group/owners announced plans to name its turf course after the immortal Secretariat.
Secretariat was born at Meadow Stable in Doswell, Va., in 1970. He became a global phenomenon after his tour de force 1973 Triple Crown win while setting track records in all three of the classic races.
The Secretariat Turf Course will be ready when Colonial Downs opens for live racing Aug. 8. The partnership is part of an agreement with the Tweedy family, who owned him while on the track, and Secretariat.com that also will feature an annual Secretariat Day at the racetrack as well.
"Colonial Downs is thrilled to partner with the Tweedy family and spotlight one of Virginia racing's brightest stars, who was foaled less than 50 miles from our own gates," said Jill Byrne, Colonial Downs Vice President of Racing operations. "Secretariat's enduring legacy continues to reverberate with new generations of fans, and it is only fitting that Colonial Downs recognizes this native son of the Commonwealth."
"My family and I are excited that live racing has returned to Virginia and that we can contribute by sharing the legacy of Secretariat." said Kate Chenery Tweedy, daughter of Penny Chenery. "The Secretariat Turf Course will no doubt witness great racing contests, something my mother and my grandfather would have especially loved to see. Our family also applauds Colonial Downs for their efforts to engage existing horse lovers and generate new racing fans."

MeWe: A trip report

Among the more frequently mentioned G+ alternatives at the Google+ Mass Migration community, and others, is MeWe with over 250 mentions. The site bills itself as "The Next-Gen Social Network" and the "anti-Facebook": "No Ads, No Political Bias, No Spyware. NO BS. It is headed by professed Libertarian CEO Mark Weinstein.
As the site reveals no public user-generated content to non-members, it's necessary to create an account in order to get a full impression. I thought I'd provide an overview based on recent explorations.
This report leads of with background on the company, though readers may find the report and analysis of specific groups on the site of interest.

Leadership

Founder & CEO Mark Weinstein.
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Jonathan Wolfe (no longer with company).
Weinstein previously founded SuperFamily and SuperFriends, "at the turn of the millennium". Weinstein's MeWe biography lists articles published by The Mirror (UK), Huffington Post, USA Today, InfoSecurity Magazine, Dark Reading, and the Nation. His media appearances include MarketWatch, PBS, Fox News, and CNN. He's also the author of several personal-success books.
His Crunchbase bio is a repeat of the MeWe content.

Advisory Board

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web.
Jack Canfield: Legendary Founder, Chicken Soup For The Soul.
John Friedman: Founding Partner, Easton Capital.
Cullen Hoback: Director, Terms and Conditions May Apply.
Dianne Morrison: Partner, MorrisonMcNabb, LLC.
Colin Sebastian: Director, Equity Research/Internet, RW Baird.
Brett Shevack: CEO, Brand Initiatives; Former Vice Chair, BBDO.
Marci Shimoff: author, Happy for No Reason.
Sherry Turkle: Professor, MIT; author Alone Together.

Ownership & Investment

MeWe is the dba of Sgrouples, a private for-profit early-stage venture company based in Los Angeles, though with a Mountain View HQ and mailing address, 11-50 employees, with $10m in funding over five rounds, and a $20m valuation as of 2016.
Sgrouples, Inc., dba MeWe Trust & Safety - Legal Policy c/o Fenwick West 801 California Street Mountain View, CA 94041
Crunchbase Profile.
Founded: 2012 (source)
Secured $1.2M in seed funding in 2014.
2016 valuation: $20m (source]
Backers:

John Friedman, venture capitalist, founder & MD, Easton Capital, New York, NY.
Jack Canfield, author, Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Marci Schimoff, author, Love for No Reason, Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul.
Tom Myers, investment advisor.
Mykola Latansky, personal improvement guru, Ukraine.
Dan Phillips, entrepreneur, co-founder, CloudHealth Technologies.
Jack Sweeney, CEO, SevOne, operating partner, Bain Capital Ventures. (WSJ Profile)
Rachel Roy, fashion designer.
Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com.

Despite the business address, the company claims to be based in Los Angeles County, California and is described by the Los Angeles Business Journal as a Culver City, CA, company.

Business

MeWe Raises $3m in Funding FinSMEs (March 9, 2016).
Facebook Alternative MeWe Raises $5.2M Los Angeles Business Journal (July 7, 2018).

Policy

In an August 6, 2018 Twitter post, Weinstein promotes MeWe writing:

Do you have friends still on Facebook? Share this link with them about Facebook wanting their banking information - tell them to move to MeWe now! No Ads. No Spyware. No Political Agenda. No Bias Algorithms. No Shadow Banning. No Facial Recognition.

MeWe provide several policy-related links on the site:

Highlights of these follow.

Privacy

The privacy policy addresses:

Content Privacy Policy: You own your content.
Tracking Privacy Policy: We respect your privacy.
Message disappearance (self-expiring messages).
California Disclosures -- Do Not Track, 3rd-party cookies, and California Privacy Rights.
Your Identity: We protect it to the extent the law allows
Linking to Third-Party Sites: These are your decisions and responsibilities
Security: HTTPS and Encryption
Children's Privacy
Notifications
Privacy Policy Changes

Terms of Service

The ToS addresses:

Your acceptance
Allowable Content and Acceptable Use
Rights Reserved
Who Our Services are For
Privacy
User Content Ownership
Passwords
Misuse of Usernames, Page names, Group names
Fake Accounts (pseudonyms allowed, misleading is not)
More on Spam
Our Commitment to Data Security
MeWe Content Data
MeWe Log Data
Your Data Portability
Deleting Your Account -- Right to Erasure
MeWe Secret Chat
MeWe Invitations and "Add Automatically"
Additional Policies for Pages, Groups, and Events Notifications of Requests for Account Information
Guidelines for Law Enforcement Seeking Customer Data (Worldwide)
MeWe Rights
Indemnity
Ownership In and To the Site and Services
Other Provisions

Effective: November 6, 2018.

FAQ

The FAQ addresses:

What is MeWe (emphasises privacy)
The Politics of MeWe ("absolutely no political agenda")
How can MeWe be free and make money? (additional services/freemium)
Which devices is MeWe available on? (Android, iOS)
What content can I share on MeWe (photos, videos, documents, voice messages, privacy mail, chats, gifs, memes, doodles)
What are some unique features of MeWe?
Who can see the posts I share?
Can I delete my MeWe account and is it easy to do this?

Values

This emphasises that people are social cratures and private people by right. The service offers the power of self expression under an umbrella of safety. It notes that our innermost thoughts require privacy.
Under "We aspire...":

MeWe is here to empower and enrich your world. We challenge the status quo by making privacy, respect, and safety the foundations of an innovatively designed, easy-to-use social experience.

Totalling 182 words.

Privacy Bill of Rights

A ten-item statement of principles (possibly inspired by another document, it might appear):

You own your personal information & content. It is explicitly not ours.
You will never receive a targeted advertisement or 3rd party content based on what you do or say online. We think that's creepy.
You see every post in timeline order from your friends, family & groups. We do not manipulate, filter, or change the order of your content or what you see.
Permissions & privacy are your rights. You control them.
You control who can access your content.
You control what, if anything, others can see in member searches.
Your privacy means we do not share your personal information with anyone.
Your emojis are for you and your friends. We do not monitor or mine your data.
Your face is your business. We do not use facial recognition technology.
You have the right to delete your account and take your content with you at any time.

Press

There are a few mentions of MeWe in the press, some listed on the company's website, others via web search.

Self-reported articles

The following articles are linked directly from MeWe's Press page:

Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America (LeadPages)
2018 "One to Watch" Tech Trends Report (Helt.Digital)
SXSW Start-Up of the Year Finalist (LeadPages)
MeWe CEO Talks About Europe's Privacy Rules (PBS)
Inventor of the Web Tweets About MeWe (Twitter)
Should You Delete Your Facebook Account? (Mirror - UK)
Send Facebook & Twitter a message: Use MeWe Insteat (Appleworld)

The page also lists a "Privacy Revolution Required Reading" list of 20 articles all addressing Facebook privacy gaffes in the mainstream press (Wired, TechCrunch, Fortune, Gizmodo, The Guardian, etc.).
There are further self-reported mentions in several of the company's PR releases over the years.

Other mentions

A DuckDuckGo search produces several other press mentions, including:

Facebook Alternative MeWe Raises $5.2M, Los Angeles Business Journal (July 7, 2018) "The latest round, as well as MeWe’s total $10 million in fundraising, was predominantly backed by celebrity investors, such as author Marci Shimoff, Rachel Roy, and Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com, which sold to Linkedin in 2015 for $1.5 billion. Jack Canfield, creator of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul” book series, also invested in MeWe."
Full Page "Dear Facebook" Letter In The New York Times from MeWe, the Competitor Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Name Yahoo Finance/PR Newsire (May 28, 2018) "Facebook competitor MeWe, in its first-ever advertisement on any medium, took a full-page in the New York Times on Sunday, May 27th. MeWe's "Dear Facebook" letter is a direct response to Mark Zuckerberg's letter ad on March 25th, and a response to Zuckerberg's refusal to name a Facebook competitor in front of Congress."
Is building a Facebook alternative worth the effort? MeWe thinks so VentureBeat (July 5, 2018) "[T]here are still companies hoping to make their mark in the social networking realm with “Facebook alternatives.” One of those is MeWe, a “next-generation” social network that positions itself as the anti-Facebook: “Your private life is not for sale. No ads. No Spyware. No BS,” its website proclaims." Continues to mention "modest $5.2 million" funding round. Also a "sister product", MeWePRO, a Slack competitor.
5 easy and simple ways to protect your privacy online — how to prepare for the next big threat Medium/Mark Weinstein (November 16, 2016) "If there’s one thing everyone wants to protect it’s their privacy and information online."
Startup MeWe Launches Free, 'No Ads' Social Network eWeek (March 16, 2016) "MeWe, a new network engineered with its users' data privacy built in, is betting that a lot of people will say yes to both of those questions. The Mountain View, Calif.-based startup, whose parent company is Sgrouples.com, launched its freely available social network out of beta March 9 with more than 200,000 members already using it.... Sir Tim Berners-Lee, co-architect of the World Wide Web, found out about MeWe on his own and approached the company about getting involved."
Facebook Alternative MeWe closes $5.2M Series A Yahoo/PR Newswire (July 5, 2018). "The investment brings MeWe's total funding to $10 million, to support the engineering of MeWe and the enterprise version MeWePRO.... The company has relied on high net worth individuals for all of its funding including Lynda Weinman, founder of Lynda.com ...; Marci Shimoff, a #1 New York Times bestselling author ...; Rachel Roy...; and Jack Canfield."
Exactis Data Leak 2018: 340 Million Records Exposed InvestorPlace (June 29, 2018) "'Today's cookies can link your mobile phone to your laptop, to your home monitoring devices, and much, much more. Creepy? Scary? Orwellian? Yes, yes, yes,' Mark Weinstein, the privacy expert and founder of social media company MeWe, told MarketWatch. 'So imagine that Exactis, like Facebook, knows everything about you — really.'"
MeWe Raises $3M in Funding FinSMEs (March 9, 2016) "Sgrouples, Inc., the Mountain View, CA-based developer of MeWe, a social network with neither ads nor tracking, raised $3m in funding."
MeWe Raises $4.8 Million, Launches Next-Gen Social Network Cision/PRWeb (March 9, 2016) "The company also announced the completion of its $3 million Seed III round of funding at a $20 million valuation, bringing MeWe’s total funding to date to $4.8 million."
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s app MeWe is used by neo-Nazis and perverts The Times of London (January 8, 2019) "The social network that Sir Tim Berners-Lee hoped would be free from abuse has been found to contain gun sales, drugs and antisemitism."

Technology

This section is a basic rundown of the user-visible site technology.

Mobile Web

The site is not natively accessible from a mobile Web browser as it is overlayed with a promotion for the mobile application instead. Selecting "Desktop View" in most mobile browsers should allow browser-based access.

Mobile App

There are both Android and iOS apps for MeWe. I've used neither of these, though the App store entries note:

MeWe Android 4.4 rating (13.1k ratings). Permissions: Contacts (read), Location (approximate/precise), SMS (receive), Phone (read status & identity), Photos/Media/Files (read, modify, & delete contents), Storage (read, modify, or delete), Camera (take pictures/videos), Microphone (record audio), Device ID & Call Info (read status & identity), and numerous elements under Other.
MeWe iOS 4.3 rating (18.1K ratings) In-app purchases (additional features).

Crunchbase cites 209,220 mobile downloads over the past 30 days (via Apptopia), an 80.78% monthly growth rate, from Google Play.

Desktop Web

Either selecting "View Desktop" or navigating with a Desktop browser to https://www.mewe.com your are presented with a registration screen, with the "About", "Privacy Bill of Rights", "MeWe Challenge", and a language selector across the top of the page. Information requested are first and last name, phone or email, and a password. Pseudonymous identities are permitted, though this isn't noted on the login screen. Returning members can use the "Member Log In" button.
The uMatrix Firefox extension reveals no third-party content: all page elements are served from mewe.com, img.mewe.com, cdn.mewe.com, or ws.mewe.com. (In subsequent browsing, you may find third-party plugins from, for example, YouTube, for videos, or Giphy, for animated GIFs.)
The web front-end is nginx. The site uses SSL v3, issued by DigiCert Inc. to Sgrouples, Inc.

Onboarding

The onboarding experience is stark. There is no default content presented. A set of unidentified icons spans the top of the screen, these turn out to be Home, Chats, Groups, Pages, and Events. New users have to, somehow, find groups or people to connect with, and there's little guidance as to how to do this.

Interface

Generally there is a three panel view, with left- and right-hand sidebars of largely navigational or status information, and a central panel with main content. There are also pop-up elements for chats, an omnipresent feature of the site.
Controls display labels on some devices and/or resolutions. Controls do not provide tooltips for navigational aid.

Features

Among the touted features of MeWe are:

My Cloud - Seamlessly organize all your content in My Cloud; it's your personal cloud. My Cloud offers an interactive dashboard for you to control everything you’ve posted or shared - making it simple to delete or reshare.
Unique profiles - Be yourself, free from any tracking and spying. Customize your profile for every group you create or join.
Voice integration (on any or all content) - Post pictures, videos, or documents and include a voice message. Respond to a shared post or just chat. MeWe’s voice integration works for you and your contacts throughout the entire platform.
Universal tagging - This is a new, convenient way to sort and organize all the content you receive and share, making it easy to find everything, anytime.
Enhanced permission control (patent issued) - Manage permissions on a granular level and decide exactly who sees what. You can also remove yourself from the search directory, make yourself invisible to other members online, and much more.
Much More – join MeWe today and take a look inside! MeWe is the next-gen social networking experience designed for you to have fun, stay in touch, collaborate, organize, and simplify.

Community

A key aspect of any social network is its community. Some of the available or ascertained information on this follows.

Size

Weinstein claims a "million+ following inside MeWe.com" on Twitter.
The largest visible groups appear to have a maximum of around 15,000 members , for "Awesome gifs". "Clean Comedy" rates 13,350, and the largest open political groups, 11,000+ members.
This compares to Google+ which has a staggering, though Android-registrations-inflated 3.3 billion profiles, and 7.9 million communities, though the largest of these come in at under 10 million members. It's likely that MeWe's membership is on the whole more more active than Google+'s, where generally-visible posting activity was limited to just over 9% of all profiles, and the active user base was well under 1% of the total nominal population.

Active Users

MeWe do not publish active users (e.g., MUA / monthly active users) statistics.

Groups

MeWe is principally a group-oriented discussion site -- interactions take place either between individuals or within group contexts. Virtually all discovery is group-oriented. The selection and dynamics of groups on the site will likely strongly affect user experience, so exploring the available groups and their characteristics is of interest.
"MeWe has over 60,000 open groups" according to its FAQ.
The Open groups -- visible to any registered MeWe user, though not to the general public Web -- are browsable, though sections and topics must be expanded to view the contents: an overview isn't immediately accessible. We provide a taste here.
A selection of ten featured topics spans the top of the browser. As I view these, they are:

MeWe Favorites
Music
Entertainment
Lifestyle
Travel
Health & Fitness
Foodies
Cars & Motorcycles
Technology
Fashion and Beauty

Specific groups may appear in multiple categories.
The top Groups within these topics have, variously, 15,482, 7,738, 15,482 (dupe), 7,745, 8,223, 8,220, 1,713, 9,527, 2,716, and 1,516 members. Listings scroll at length -- the Music topic has 234 Groups, ranging in size from 5 to 5,738 members, with a median of 59, mean of 311.4, and a 90%ile of 743.5.
Below this is a grid of topics, 122 in all, ranging from Activism to Wellness, and including among them. A selected sample of these topics, with top groups listed members in (parens), follows:

Activism: QAnon+++ (2,572), PATRIOT PREPPERS USA (2,430), Deplorables Republic (2,48), The War Drummer (1,898), Patriots for a United America. (1894), Anonymous (1,700).
Alternative Energy: Reiki, Crystals, and alternative healing (2,114), 💜Starseeds & Empaths💜 (345), Living in Colour (365).
Alternative Lifestyle: Natural Healing and Home Remedies (3,045), Backyard Farming of All Things (2,696), WeTheSheeple (2,251).
Alumni Connections: Google Plus Refugees (271), Google+ Refugees (186), Frog Pond (156), Carlsbad NM High School alumni (57).
Animals: I Love My Dog (4,421), Pussy Shots (4,619).
Astronomy: Spherical Earth Truth, Flat Earth is Wrong (278), Nibiru, Nemesis, Hercolobus, The Destroyer (187).
Biology: Trees (344), Field of Birds (104), Patriots of Australia (51).
Blogs: Women Bloggers (1,439), Urban & Wilderness Survival & Preparedness (1,367), Conservative Patriots & Oath keepers (742).
Books and Book Clubs: PNW Book Club (1609), Bookworms (1,464), Erotica and Erotic Romance Book Lovers (1,219).
Business: Small Business Connect (2,565), Deep Survival (1,183), Marketing and Social Media Tips (1,173).
Career Building: Marketing jobs and opportunities (698), Famous Quotes (184), Automotive Technicians (57).
Celebrities: Madonna Mania (116), Katy Perry (Hot!) (103), Trance Gemini of andromeda 2.0 (16).
Classrooms: Are YOU Awake too? (1331), CRT (Crystal Resonance Therapy) Student Support (28).
Clubs / Associations: RCBS Reloading Equipment (685), Boat Owners United (670), The Caliber Canteen (Reloading/ Firearms Buy/Sell) (505).
Co-workers: Money Making sites to SHARE (235), Cop and retired cop friends (85).
Coders: Hacker (978), Delphi Developers (269), Python (258).
Colleges and Universities: SEC Football (832), Christian Apologetics: Campus Apologetics Alliance (221).
Cooking: *recipies/homecooking* (2,618), Low & Slow BBQ (1,582), Mexican Foods and Recipes (1,503), Budget Meal Recipes (1,004).
Culture: Destroying the Illusion Fans (1147), my friends (551), Coffee Addicts (542).
Cyclists: Car Free Cities / Cycle communting (26).
DIY: Homesteading DIY (5843), Prepper Living (3110), Knucklehead Homesteading (2102), 1911 owners forum (1,474).
Dating: 🌸something Beautiful just for you too🌸 (237), Relationship Junction (171), LDS Dating (114).
Education: Q-Anon Patriots (1,616), InfoWars.com (1,217), Constitutional Liberty for All (907), Prepping, Homesteads skills and Community (887), Shamanic Community (756), Truther Talk (665).
Environmental: Geoengineering, Chemtrails, HAARP (455), ShareYourLove (253), The Seasons (193), Near Term Human Extinction Love (174).
Family: Raising Natural Kids (1,496), Dogs (1,075), VACCINE DANGERS (583).
Fraternities: Freemasonry (1072), Brotherhood of the Blade (313), Proud Boys Canada (74).
Friends: MEWE FRIENDS ( NO NUDES ) (2,416), FIREARMS UNLIMITED...MEWE Version (1,517).
Gamers: Tabletop RPG's and Boardgames (1,936), Dungeons & Dragons (1,499), OSR (1,485).
Green: Aquaponics and Self SustainingLlifestyle (655), ENVIRONMENT and CLIMATE (583), Chasing Butterflies - Vaccine Free (385).
Health & Fitness: NATURAL HEALING AND FOODS (8,221), Bodybuilding (5,321), Natural alternatives for Modern Health (4,680), Vaccine Free (3,285).
Heart of All Women: Christian Women Talk About ANYTHING (39).
History: 9/11, False Flags, & NWO Truth (1,872), The American Cowboy (1,065), "This Day in History" by Tara Ross (590).
Hobbies: CinDes Embroidery (1,974), Another Caliber to Conquer (1,800), Sonia Showalter Machine Embroidery Designs (1,696).
Home Improvement: Renovations With Grace❤️ Question & Answers (723), Home improvement DIY Group (79), Buildings churches castles etc (33).
Homeschooling: Christian Homeschool Parents (889), Open Path Homeschool: Secular, Buddhist, Pagan, UU (145), The Lords Prophets (33).
Hunting & Sportsman: GUN POST Group (Canada) (5,097), Guns, Ammo, and Supply's (5,023), OLD GUNS AND OLD FARTS (4,902).
Innovation: Bitcoin/Crypto/Blockchain (759), CRYPTO 24/7/365 (28), 2 Real News (372), Tisk 3D modelů - 3D print (26).
Jewelry: DFW Gold And Silver Coins And Currency (449), FIRE AGATE GEMSTONES (106).
LGBT: HOUSE OF KNIGHTS - ENTERTAINMENT & MAIN GROUP (680), HOUSE OF KNIGHTS - HISTORY (421), HOUSE OF KNIGHTS - CARTOON (409).
MEMES: MeMe Wars (3,758), MILITARY MEMES/FUNNY MILITARY MEMES (2,616), Shitposting Dumpster Fire (2,318).
MLM: Post your biz opp here. (855), Make Money Moms Work at Home (612), Work From Home Opportunities (428).
Medicine: Dinosaur Docs (120), MEDICAL MALPRACTICE (88), Zhong - Beroepsvereniging voor TCG (56).
Medicine & Herbs: Herbal Survivalist Spot (2,353), There's an Oil for That™ (1142), 🌴Weed News🌴 (880).
Meetups: light workers (1,203), MeWe Welcome (or "It's Not a Ghost Town") (729), The Banter Lounge (223).
Movies and Film: Digital Movies (4K, HD, iTunes, MA, UV) (2,519), Ultraviolet Digital UV & MA Codes (Buy/Sell/Trade) (2,073), Science Fiction (1,483).
Music: 60's 70's 80s Music (5,739), Musicians of MeWe! (5,194), Guitar Playing (3,921).
Neighborhoods: Texas Issues (317), Cascadia Circles (235), Houston tx (214).
Nerds: Cosplay (1,856), Classic Sci-fi Kingdom (1,292), Marvel (410).
News: Judge Jeanine Pirro has Fans (7,808), Qanon News (3,466), Unfiltered News (2,913).
Non-Profit: TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT (190), Flat Earth Database - 地平論資料庫 (127), Florida Carry (99).
Organic: Gardening Guru's Unlimited (1,381), GMO FREE for me! (1,076), Americans For Cannabis (874).
Organizations: TRUMPANDPENC2016 (1,454), Low Country Survival Prepping & Camping (1,064), Wisconsin Firearms Trader (614).
Parenting: Vaccines Empower Warrior Voices (391), Moms talk (360), Peaceful Parenting (131).
Personal Improvement: For Introverts. (1,214), Anarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, and Spirituality (679), Positive Affirmations (447).
Philosophy: In5d Esoteric Metaphysical and Spiritual Database (1,764), Thought Bouncing (1,137), Obtectivists - Galts Gulch - Ayn Rand fans (561).
Poetry: Dead Poest (1,407), Palacio de Poetry (451), Poets Corner (412).
Politics: Donald J. Trump 2016 - Present (11,486), The Conservative's Hangout (8,345), Qanon Follow The White Rabbit (5,600), Drain The Swamp (4,978), Libertarians (4,528), United We Stand Trump2020 (4,216).
Pop Culture: The Loftus Party (116), The Walking Dead: The Stalking Dead (100), Tyler, Texas (71).
Privacy: Join the Open/Privacy Movement (3974), Kingsport tn gun trader (1,157), Safer Computing (555).
Psychology: Inspiring Spirituality༺❉༻ non-religious~ universal (1,486), sacred plants & psychedelix community (1,212), OUR.Psychology (701), Dream Interpretation (537).
Recreation: Everything Reloading (3,252), Redeye Reloading (1,980), Fishing (1,549).
Relationships: Complementarian Thought (50).
Religion / Spirituality: LoveHasWon (3,245), The Christian Underground (2,604), Pagan Friendly Folk (1,630).
Robots: Arduino Hexapods, Balancing Robots, and projects (137).
Romantic: Snapchat Add Party (2,681), Green Heart (1,270), ROMANCE COMMUNITY (205).
Science: Consciousness (1,327), Steven's Private Alien/UFO Group (668), BIGFOOT HAPPENINGS (538).
Self Help: * SURVIVE and THRIVE* (858), Preparedness and Off Grid Living (763), Free (631).
Self-Directed Learning: Exposing the Matrix of Lies (997), WAKE THE FUCK UP (474), Wake the Fuck Up. The Next Dimension (287). WTFU when SHTF (126).
Social Change: Armed with Truth and Knowledge (1,986), VEGANS UNITE (766), ACTIVISM universal headlines ~❉~ (729), Meet Earth's Cosmic Neighbors (MECN) (663).
Space: Space (579), ** THE AMAZING UNIVERSE and OUR WORLD** (546), WE ARE NOT ALONE... (488).
Sports: Australian IPSC Buy And Sell (591), Formula 1 (295), Border War Rifle Series, Iowa PRS Matches (280).
Sports Teams: Liverpool FC (228), GEORGIA BULLDOGS (129), The Black and Gold (89), Dallas Cowboys Fans (80).
Subculture: Neon Revolt (3,696), Redneck Funnies (2,042), Serial Killers And True Crime (724).
Surfers: NZBM BEACH VIBES (416).
Sustainability: Common Sense Home (1,746), The Survivalist (1,603), Barter For Prepping/Survivalism/Homesteading Goods (1,274).
Techies: MeWe Help And Support (948), Geek Time (220), GZOSP (124).
Technology: Apple Discussions (2,722), Linux and Open Source Users Group (3,423), Cutting Edge Military Technology (3,201).
Transportation: Truckers Life (431), Aviation (316), Duramax Diesel (312).
Travel: Travel Tips and Recs (8,234), Travel, Food & Wine, Cocktails + Craft Beer Lovers (6,071), Texas (2,694).
Trending News: **UNDER ATTACK & FIGHTING BACK!** (1,138), US News Page (691), THE AMERICAN PATRIOT (609).
Twitter: Twitter Hates Conservatives (198), Cstle Ricochet (35).
Videos: ♥ MY FAVORITE YOUTUBE VIDEOS ♥ (926), Video Meditations (196), The 80's Again - My Retro 80's Music And Video (180), Deep Space Seven (127), Naked Male Celebrities (74).
Wellness: Minds Awaking Consciousness Restored (1,855), Hemp Earth (1,164), Mind-Body-Spirit (993).

To be clear: whilst I've not included every topic, I've sampled a majority of them above, and listed not an arbitrary selection, but the top few Groups under each topic.

Google+ Groups

Google Plus expats (1,862)
Google+ Refugees (186)
G+ Refugees (101)
my Google+ expatriates

The Google Plus expats group seems the most active of these by far.

Political Groups

It's curious that MeWe make a specific point in their FAQ that:

At MeWe we have absolutely no political agenda and we have a very straightforward Terms of Service. MeWe is for all law-abiding people everywhere in the world, regardless of political, ethnic, religious, sexual, and other preferences.

There are 403 political groups on MeWe. I won't list them all here, but the first 100 or so give a pretty clear idea of flavour. Again, membership is in (parentheses). Note that half the total political Groups memberships are in the first 21 groups listed here, the first 6 are 25% of the total.

Donald J. Trump 2016 - Present (11486)
The Conservative's Hangout (8345)
Qanon Follow The White Rabbit (5600)
Drain The Swamp (4978)
Libertarians (4528)
United We Stand Trump2020 (4216)
The Right To Self Defense (3757)
Alternative Media (3711)
Hardcore Conservative Patriots for Trump (3192)
Bastket Of Deplorables4Trump! (3032)
Return of the Republic (2509)
Infowars Chat Room Unofficial (2159)
Donald Trump Our President 2017-2025 (2033)
Berners for Progress (1963)
Sean Hannity Fans (1901)
The American Conservative (1839)
I Am The NRA (1704)
Tucker Carlson Fox News (1645)
We Love Donald Trump (1611)
MAGA - Make America Great Again (1512)
Q (1396)
ClashDaily.com (1384)
news from the front (1337)
Basket of Deplorables (1317)
Payton's Park Bench (1283)
Convention of States (1282)
Britons For Brexit (1186)
MoJo 5.0 Radio (1180)
MeWe Free Press (1119)
The Constitutionally Elite (1110)
Libertarian (1097)
WOMEN FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP (1032)
AMERICANS AGAINST ISIS and OTHER ENEMIES (943)
#WalkAway Campaign (894)
ALEX JONES (877)
The Lion Is Awake ! (854)
We Support Donald Trump! (810)
The Stratosphere Lounge (789)
TRUMP-USA-HANDS OFF OUR PRESIDENT (767)
Official Tea Party USA (749)
Mojo50 Jackholes (739)
Yes Scotland (697)
"WE THE DEPLORABLE" - MOVE ON SNOWFLAKE! (688)
Judge Jeanine Pirro Fans (671)
Anarcho-Capitalism (658)
Ted Cruz for President (650)
No Lapdog Media (647)
Q Chatter (647)
Daily Brexit (636)
Tucker Carlson Fox News (601)
The Trumps Storm Group (600)
QAnon-Patriots WWG1WGA (598)
100% American (569)
Ladies For Donald Trump (566)
Deep State (560)
In the Name of Liberty (557)
Material Planet (555)
WikiUnderground (555)
Trump NRA Free Speech Patriots on MeWe Gab.ai etc (546)
Magna Carta Group (520)
Constitutional Conservatives (506)
Question Everything (503)
Conspiracy Research (500)
Bill O'Reilly Fans (481)
Conservative Misfit's (479)
Canadian politics (478)
Anarchism (464)
HARDCORE DEPLORABLES (454)
Deplorable (450)
Tampa Bay Trump Club (445)
UK Politics (430)
Bongino Fan Page (429)
Radical Conservatives (429)
RESIST THE RESISTANCE (419)
The Deplorables (409)
America's Freedom Fighters (401)
Politically Incorrect & Proud (399)
CONSERVATIVES FOR AMERICA ! (385)
Political satire (383)
RISE OF THE RIGHT (371)
UK Sovereignty,Independence,Democracy -Everlasting (366)
The Patriots Voting Coalition (359)
End The Insanity (349)
Coming American Civil War! (345)
Constitutional Conservatives (343)
United Nations Watch (342)
A Revival Of The Critical Thinking Union (337)
The New Libertarian (335)
Libertarian Party (official ) (333)
DDS United (Duterte Die-hard Supporters) (332)
American Conservative Veterans (331)
Anarchism/Agorism/Voluntaryism (328)
America Needs Donald Trump (326)
The UKIP Debating Society (321)
Coalition For Trump (310)
Egalitarianism (306)
FRIENDS THAT LIKE JILL STEIN AND THE GREEN PARTY (292)
2nd Amendment (287)
Never Forget #SethRich (286)
Green Party Supporters 2020 (283)

It seems there is relatively little representation from the left wing, or even the centre, of the political spectrum. A case-insensitive match for "liberal" turns up:

104: Conservatives Against Liberal Beliefs C.A.L.I.B (273)
184: Progressive and Liberal Politics (119)
301: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder (33)
302: Resistance Against Liberal Socialism (33)
358: NOT For Liberals (17)
367: Drinking Liberally Houston (14)
400: Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Army (6)

Mainstream political parties are little represented, though again, the balance seems skewed searching on "(democrat|republic|gop)":

11: Return of the Republic (2509)
161: Death to the Democrat Party! (138)
188: Republican Liberty Caucus (113)
306: Twin Cities South Metro Republicans (32)
316: Non-Conspiracy, Non-Republican Libertarians (30)
323: Democrats and Veterans Party (28)
364: GOP Fireworks (15)
391: Saving The Republic: Video News & Opinion (8)

The terms "left" and "right" provide a few matches, not all strictly political-axis aligned:

7: The Right To Self Defense (3757)
80: RISE OF THE RIGHT (371)
150: POLITICS ON THE LEFT (156)
157: 1st Amendment Rights Protected By The 2nd Amendmen (141)
209: On The Left With Jeremy Corbyn (84)
262: Eyes-Left Labour & PP - Social Media (49)
300: Gather Left (33)
385: Defend Washington State Gun Rights (9)
390: Left Coast Conservatives (8)

Socialism and Communism also warrant a few mentions:

121: Revolutionary Socialists United (204)
216: Socialist Thought (79)
220: Stories Of Communism (76)
262: Eyes-Left Labour & PP - Social Media (49)
288: Snuggly Wuggly Socialists (38)
302: Resistance Against Liberal Socialism (33)

And there are some references to green, laboulabor parties:

97: FRIENDS THAT LIKE JILL STEIN AND THE GREEN PARTY (292)
100: Green Party Supporters 2020 (283)
262: Eyes-Left Labour & PP - Social Media (49)
320: Green Party of Ohio Issues & Discussion Group (29)

Conclusion

Whilst there may not be a political agenda, there does appear to be at least a slight political bias to the site. And a distinctive skew on many other topical subjects.
Those seeking new homes online may wish to take this into account.

Updates

Various typos and tagging corrections. 2018-11-29 - 30
Added G+MM references count for MeWe to lede paragraph. 2018-12-2
Wolfe status, Times of London story, typos.

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