12/9/08 - 7/4/11

9 years ago today the Shendileers Forever group went public as a machinima series group. About 2 years later we then launched a public community server in Team Fortress 2 known as the Shendileers Awesome Server. It became a well known server at the time and has made Shendileers Forever more of a community based group than just a series. I was very proud how it all turned out until the end. To this day I still miss the fun times me, the crew and the entire Shendileers community had together.

This group has been dead for quite some time after the entire Shendileers group shut down in 2011, but the group still remains nearly 1000 members and I know people are still here to hope that Shendileers could possibly make a comeback. I've been thinking for awhile about maybe reviving the Shendileers, but could never have an idea on how to make it happen w/o repeating the mistakes I've made when it all went down. It's also more difficult since IMO Team Fortress 2, while it's a lot more active now with it's recent Jungle Inferno Update, still isn't in a good state for dedicated servers. Since today marks 9 years of the group, I really want to do something special for next year when it reaches 10 years. I would love to do a Shendileers 10 Year event next year and it would be awesome if you guys were to cooperate and be a part of the event. We could possibly set up a public Shendileers server for a limited time to celebrate the 10 years and depending how it all goes we might actually do a little more than that in the future. Thing is if we're going to make this happen we need you guys to help out.

If you would love to have us set up a 10 year anniversary event you are more than welcome to provide any ideas on how we should make it happen for next year. At some time I'll set up a discussions topic on the 10 year event so you guys can submit your ideas on how it should all go. If we get enough people to help out on this we'll make sure to get things ready. I'll see if I can get the old crew to be a part of it as a reunion. Who knows though, if this future event becomes something more than just a 10 year celebration then there could possibly be a future for a revival of the Shendileers.

I want to thank the crew and all you guys for making Shendileers a fun and well known group in the Team Fortress 2 community. It may have not lasted very long, but we still had fun in the past and could have more fun in the future. Hope to hear your thoughts on the event and you all have a great holiday.

-ARMaster