History WebVideo / TeamAvolition

* ADayInTheLimelight: Jaroks, the player who bore the brunt of most of Storm Surge, [=SalC1=] and The Horizon’s shenanigans with Dunshire during the Complex Gaming saga, happened to be recording his own series for YouTube at the time, and captured most of their efforts from a different angle. He also joined Storm to deliver the news to the server’s Discord that Mojang had banned their server for breaking the terms of service.

* RetiredMonster: The entire team for ''Minecraft'', as ''Minecraft'' servers have become robust enough in their protection that griefing is either not fun or downright impossible.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Jaroks, the player who bore the brunt of most of Storm Surge, [=SalC1=] and The Horizon’s shenanigans with Dunshire during the Complex Gaming saga, happened to be recording his own series for YouTube at the time, and captured most of their efforts from a different angle. He also joined Storm to deliver the news to the server’s Discord that Mojang had banned their server for breaking the terms of service.

* CoolBoat: They love to 'steal' other users' boats and leave behind humorous messages about how they won't return the boat.

* BegoneBribe: In the Complex series, one of the team members distracts one of the targeted players by trying to build a cone, and then kicking up a great big fuss about it when the said player claims the area to make him stop doing it. The guy eventually offers the team member a million sever currency to make him go away.

* SocialEngineering:

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/teamavolition?feature=watch Team Avolition]] (often stylized as aVo) is a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' griefing team that popularized putting videos of griefing on Website/YouTube. They spread to other games in later on, such as ''VideoGame/DayZ'' and ''VideoGame/{{Rust}}''. Team Avolition's endeavors are highly controversial, with detractors labeling the team as a bane on gaming in general, or fans that claim their actions are hilarious. [[ForTheEvulz The group just enjoys what they do.]] The videos are currently on indefinite hiatus.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/teamavolition?feature=watch Team Avolition]] (often stylized as aVo) was a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' griefing team that popularized putting videos of griefing on Website/YouTube. They spread to other games in later on, such as ''VideoGame/DayZ'' and ''VideoGame/{{Rust}}''. Team Avolition's endeavors are highly controversial, with detractors labeling the team as a bane on gaming in general, or fans that claim their actions are hilarious. [[ForTheEvulz The group just enjoys what they do.]] The videos are currently on indefinite hiatus.

* VillainProtagonist: Nothing they do can objectively be construed as constructive behavior, but that doesn't stop them from having over 200,000 subscribers at their height, and slightly less that when their content slowed down.

** A series of their Minecraft videos deal with what amounts to a internet war with Reddit. Team Avolition destroyed a specific server hosted by Reddit and posted their footage on Youtube. People from Reddit found out and tried, among other things, a Denial of Service attack and trying to ban Team Avolition from their Minecraft servers using a global list of forbidden players. The Team responded by banning every single admin and moderator [[HoistByHisOwnPetard by using Reddit's global list]]. Needless to say, neither side has forgiven the other.
*** Surprisingly, Doridian (The person who made the system they used, who was also banned, and had his server griefed by them before) actually became friends with them later.

* BreakTheHaughty: Occasionally they will unleash their destructive ways upon a server who's admins have gone DrunkWithPower. This is more often than not the outcome.

* DirtyOldMan: Well, not necessarily old, but the target of one of their Minecraft HG griefing videos is a guy who, on one server daily, asked in the chat if any girls online could send him nudies.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Nonexistent or basic modded clients, relatively primitive griefing methods (pouring lava down Dell's house is juvenile compared to some of their escapades later on), and a general lack of coordination that they became infamous for later on (although the Cobblecloud incident was fairly thought-out, if somewhat unsuccessful). Arguably justified, as their griefing methods had to adapt to the constantly evolving countermeasures against griefing itself.
* EurekaMoment: In "Reddit Episode 15: Diamonds", the team is screwing around on the top of a hill. When Storm_Surge is crafting diamond tools for everyone, Krysk playfully destroys the crafting table, sending the diamonds flying. Storm_Surge quickly re-pockets the diamond, only for them to duplicate for a split second. When he mentions this to the team, Krysk remembers that there was a duplication glitch for Minecraft, and modifies Reliant to allow the creation of infinite-stack blocks, which ends up being the primary griefing tactic for the video.

* ForTheEvulz[=/=]ItAmusedMe: The primary reason for griefing.

* GameMod: "Reliant", a modified Minecraft client at least partially of Krysk's work that allows the team {{Flight}}, XRayVision, SuperSpeed, and [[SuperSpeed Other]] [[StealthExpert Super]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Powers.]] Reliant was specifically built for Avolition's griefing, with capes to identify their accounts.
* GoneHorriblyRight: Rice Think's system for detecting griefing used a system to tell if individual blocks had been tampered with. This meant that Team Avo simply ''wiped the structures from the face of the earth'' and got away with it.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In one episode of their Spacemonkey griefing, one of them decides to turn the Admin complex into a monster spawning zone by removing all of the torches, [[https://youtu.be/I6nNo_usbNE?t=342 only to get attacked by a spider, and later a skeleton, on the way out.]] Later in the same episode, their usual trick of putting fences under stairs(which, in that version of minecraft, prevented the stairs from being climbed) [[https://youtu.be/I6nNo_usbNE?t=403 gets one of them stuck as a Creeper's approaching.]]
* KillItWithFire: Their plan for almost every griefing.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After stringing along the above DirtyOldMan, they have him believing they are a hot girl sending him pics - when one of the members' invisibility runs out. The others quickly turn him invisible again, but it's too late. The victim sees his name - [[spoiler: "Agent Harry"]] - and realizes they've been messing with him.

* RefugeInAudacity: At one point, they destroy a building, bury the remains, tell an admin they're planting trees, and have the admin ''help'' them. Look below at Unwitting Pawn to see why this qualifies.
* RetiredMonster: The entire team, as Minecraft servers have become robust enough in their protection that griefing is either not fun or downright impossible.

** [[FunnyBackgroundEvent Dell and another user on Spacemonkey recite Reznov's Vorkuta plot from]] VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps.

** Some users on Spacemonkey make sporadic VideoGame/TeamFortress2 references.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Any server with Big Brother requires that they do this; Big Brother records who modified which block last, so doing something like putting lava in a house would just get them banned. Their solution, therefore, is to utterly destroy any structure and remove any trace of its existence.

* UnwittingPawn[=/=]SocialEngineering:
** Early on in the Spacemonkey saga; The players voted to make Storm a moderator because he worked to repair the tower that they just griefed.
** Twice during the "Rice Think" episodes:
*** First, they demolished a castle. As they were trying to bury the remains, they received help from [[spoiler:''the player who built it.'']]
*** Second, Storm_Surge was destroying a gazebo. He was caught in the act by another player, so he pretended that he was "upgrading the floor." He asked the player if he could fetch some logs. After the new structure was built, the player helped Storm_Surge protect it.
* VillainProtagonist: Nothing they do can objectively be construed as constructive behavior, but that doesn't stop them from having over 200,000 subscribers.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/teamavolition?feature=watch Team Avolition]] (often stylized as aVo) is a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' griefing team that popularized putting videos of griefing on Website/YouTube. They have spread to other games in recent years, such as VideoGame/DayZ and VideoGame/{{Rust}}. Team Avolition's endeavors are highly controversial, with detractors labeling the team as a bane on gaming in general, or fans that claim their actions are hilarious. [[ForTheEvulz The group just enjoys what they do.]] The videos are currently on indefinite hiatus.

* {{Troll}}: [[CaptainObvious Naturally.]]

* Early on in the Spacemonkey saga; The players voted to make Storm a moderator because he worked to repair the tower that they just griefed.

* UnwittingPawn[=/=]SocialEngineering: Twice during the "Rice Think" episodes:
** First, they demolished a castle. As they were trying to bury the remains, they received help from [[spoiler:''the player who built it.'']]
** Second, Storm_Surge was destroying a gazebo. He was caught in the act by another player, so he pretended that he was "upgrading the floor." He asked the player if he could fetch some logs. After the new structure was built, the player helped Storm_Surge protect it.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/teamavolition?feature=watch Team Avolition]] (often stylized as aVo) is a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' griefing team that popularized putting videos of griefing on Website/YouTube. They have spread to other games in recent years, such as VideoGame/DayZ and VideoGame/{{Rust}}. Team Avolition's endeavors are highly controversial, with detractors labeling the team as a bane on gaming in general, or fans that claim their actions are hilarious. [[ForTheEvulz The group just enjoys what they do.]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Nonexistent or basic modded clients, relatively primitive griefing methods (pouring lava down Dell's house is juvenile compared to some of their escapades later on), and a general lack of coordination that they became infamous for later on (although the Cobblecloud incident was fairly thought-out, if somewhat unsuccessful). Arguably justified, as their griefing methods had to adapt to the constantly evolving countermeasures against griefing itself.
* ForTheEvulz[=/=]ItAmusedMe: The primary reason for griefing.
* {{Flight}}: Their Reliant client allows them to fly around.

->'''RelocationAgent:''' We're awful people.

->'''Jade:''' We're awful people.

->'''Jade:''' We're bad people.
->'''Krysk:'''

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* CallingCard: They will change many signs to let you know Team Avolition was there. They also make 'swastistars' -- [[CrossesTheLineTwice a swastika inside a Star of David.]]

* UnwittingPawn: Twice during the "Rice Think" episodes:

** Griefers call this sort of thing [[FanNickname Social]] [[SocialEngineering Engineering.]]