I've been a member of Gamespot for about 5 years. I've gotten to level 33 and racked up over 7,000 posts but I'm not proud of any of that. No, what I am proud of is that I put my time here to good use and put together one of the best Gamespot Unions out there. Yes, this sounds a little arrogant, but I've seen a lot of unions and there are few I consider better than the one I founded a year and a half ago. The Triple A Union was my kingdom, my place where I could chat about two of my favorite things; games and movies. The union was the vision I had seen when I first started The Triple A 3 1/2 years ago, as a simple geocities website. The union grew far more than I ever invisioned and the more it grew, the more I wanted to work to continue that growth.

So you can now see why I didn't want to give up leading the union, even though I had managed to neglect it to the point that it was barely breathing. When I finally posted that the union was done, I figured there would be a small murmur from the few people who still visited it however, I was very surprised to see that not only were there still those who did not want the union to die, but that they were very willing to work to get it back to it's glory. I realized now that it was not time to end the union, but to hand it over.

After a very hard decision of choosing who would lead, I came to my decision, stepped down, and appointed dukebd699 as the new leader. To be honest, I didn't think anyone could return the union to its former glory but I was optimistic that duke could do something, and something he did. In the 5 days that he has lead the union, there has been over a 100 new members, page views are at their highest ever and activity on the boards is skyrocketing. I look at what has been done and see that aside from the union design and a few threads on the board, the union has been almost reborn.

I now see why a change in leadership is always a good thing, no matter how good the last leader was. I simply want to commend duke for the job he has done, and I look forward to seeing how far he can go. I could say that the union will always truely be mine but that would be wrong; the idea was mine, the union is now duke's.