Team Victory

Team Victory
Founders	Max Maelstrom, Verity Maelstrom
Colors	Purple and Gold
Theme	Strategy, Tactics, and Puzzle-solving
Current Managers	Max Victory, Verity Victory
Current Team	Alex Victory (the Player), Nicholas “Nicky” Victory, Maria Victory, Riley Victory, Kaeo Victory, Kanda Victory, Dominic “Dom” Victory, Ben Victory, Sam “Z” Victory
Arena Teams (Quads)
Primary Team	Alex , Nicky, Maria, Riley
Secondary Team	Dom, Ben, Z
Substitutes	Kaeo, Kanda

Team Victory was founded by Max and Verity Maelstrom when they were twenty eight and twenty seven, respectively. Formerly both on Team Maelstrom, Verity recruited Max to establish their own team for the latter half of their athletic careers. Rather than focus on AR water and trap-based play, like Maelstrom, Victory became swiftly reputed for precision tactics, puzzle-solving, and strategy-based play, making them able to compete with larger and more experienced teams. Victory’s ability to recruit top-notch skill has allowed the team to develop into one of the top ranking teams in the association.

Team Victory generally field four players who fit the ‘team leader,’ ‘team defender,’ ‘team foundation,’ and ‘team wildcard’ roles. These are descriptive of the players general skillsets as opposed to any kind of official or codified team role. The leader is the primary strategist, the defender prioritizes team welfare, the foundation offers a broad and adaptable skillset, and the wildcard is the necessary boundary-pusher and risk-taker. The wildcard is usually a fan-favorite.

Only established eight years prior, Team Victory is still considered a relatively new team on the LACA roster. Originally consisting of a single quad, two founders and two rookies, the team has since expanded. Despite its expansion, however, Victory has yet to be able to field a second full quad in the main LA season due to the founders’ preference for recruiting only the exceptional. Their prospective second quad has shown well in special events, even without a set four-player roster and is slated to enter the next LA season if a consistent fourth player can be found.

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Aesthetics & Vibe

The core of Team Victory’s theme is puzzle-solving, precision tactics, and clever strategy. Their goal, in PR, as to present themselves as “the smart ones” among the other LACA teams. Their aesthetics, to that end, are mazes, optical illusions, etc.

Current Members

Current Members of Team Victory

Name	Age	Status	Persona	Role in Arena
Verity Victory	34	Team Manager	The Puzzlecrafter	--
Max Victory	35	Team Manager	The Bulwark	--
Alex Victory (the Player)	27	Primary Quad	Master of the Arena	Foundation
Nicholas “Nicky” Victory	26	Primary Quad	The Bad Boy	Wildcard
Maria Victory	25	Primary Quad	The Lieutenant	Defender
Riley Victory	21	Primary Quad	The Tactician	Team Lead
Kaeo Victory	21	Substitue	The Quiet One	Defender
Kanda Victory	21	Substitue	The Rebel	Wildcard
Dominic “Dom” Victory	19	Secondary Quad	The Prankster	Team Lead
Ben Victory	19	Secondary Quad	The Fixer	Foundation
Sam “Z” Victory	18	Secondary Quad	The Rad One	Wildcard

Primary Team

Seasons 1 & 2

Name	Ages	Role in Arena
Verity Victory	27 to 29	Team Lead
Max Victory	28 to 30	Defender
Alex Victory (the Player)	20 to 22	Foundation
Nicholas “Nicky” Victory	19 to 21	Wildcard

The initial quad for Team Victory, they quickly rocketed their four-person team to the top of the competitive bracket despite their small size. Verity, Max, Alex, and Nicky work together well and the first two seasons represent a strong initial showing—a proof of concept that Verity was right to establish her own team despite opposition.

Near the end of season two, Nicky and Alex are involved in an in-Arena accident and Alex loses a leg. Nicky is blamed (primarily by the public, who were watching the accident live) for Alex’s injury and subsequent absence. Nicky and Alex have an explosive falling-out.

Seasons 3 & 4

Name	Ages	Role in Arena
Verity Victory	29 to 31	Team Lead
Max Victory	30 to 32	Defender
Nicholas “Nicky” Victory	21 to 23	Wildcard
Maria Victory	20 to 22	Foundation

For seasons three and four, Maria replaces Alex for the duration of the cybernetic leg fitting and rehabilitation period. While this is happening, Maria and Alex bond. The arena quad is strong and Team Victory continues to win, though they do not quite reach the heights on the leaderboards that they did during season one and two.

Alex takes one and a half years to reach arena-ready combat through rehabilitation. There is a period of six months at the end of season four where Alex acts as an occasional substitute. When Alex returns to the arena full-time at the end of season four and the beginning of season five, Verity takes the opportunity to retire from the sport and move into a managerial role with the team.

Seasons 5

Name	Ages	Role in Arena
Max Victory	32	Team Lead
Alex Victory (the Player)	24	Defender
Nicholas “Nicky” Victory	23	Wildcard
Maria Victory	22	Foundation

The first half of season five is less than stellar. Without Verity, the team is missing their long-time lead, and while Alex, Nicky, and Maria work decently with Max, Max has paired with Verity for the entirety of their careers. Then, too, while Alex and Nicky have reconciled enough to function, the team struggles to find their stride in the arena.

Max sticks it out for half a season before following Verity into retirement and announces the reshuffling of team roles for the remaining remembers, plus the acquisition of a new strategist, Riley.

Seasons 5.5, 6, 7 & 8

Name	Ages	Role in Arena
Alex Victory (the Player)	24 to 27	Foundation
Nicholas “Nicky” Victory	23 to 26	Wildcard
Maria Victory	22 to 25	Defender
Riley Victory	18 to 21	Team Lead

From mid-season five, Team Victory has been considered to be in their “golden era.” Riley is well-suited as a strategic lead and with her inclusion, the other three’s working relationship smooths out. Alex and Nicky continue to strike sparks from one another, but their volatile dynamic plays well with audiences and is tempered by Maria’s phlegmatic personality. The team breaks only briefly and periodically when a player is out for an injury, when they’re testing out a possible new team acquisition, or when there is a PR push that features a guest player.

During this time, Kaeo and Kanda are acquired and trained and often play substitute. Team Victory also begins to recruit for a secondary quad, testing, earmarking, and acquiring Dom, Ben, and Z.

Substitutes

Name	Age	Role in Arena
Kaeo Victory	20 to 21	Defender
Kanda Victory	20 to 21	Wildcard

Kaeo and Kanda Victory, twins, were recruited without the intention of putting them on a team, but often substitute in the arena where necessary. Kaeo is a more > Kaeo is the better at the arena. Kanda is the crowd darling, because she’s the ‘rebel’ and ‘takes after Nicky’ who is the original team’s Bad Boy.

> Kaeo & Kanda: recruited at 19, began to sub in at at 20, currently 21. They’ve only been subs for about a year, but have been with Team Victory for two. Have only played in seasons 7 and 8.

Secondary Team

Name	Age	Role in Arena
Dominic “Dom” Victory	19	Team Lead
Ben Victory	19	Foundation
Sam “Z” Victory	18	Wildcard
Unrecruited Fourth Player	--	Defender

> Team Victory need to pick up one more ‘junior’ to round out their nextgen team, but they haven’t recruited one yet. When they do, they’ll be between 18-22 (college age). Until then, team two mostly trains with Kaeo and sometimes Kanda. In the current season, the juniors VERY rarely subs into the main team, and only when one of the twins is unavailable for the slot, and usually in their ‘role.’ (Riley <-> Dom, Nicky <-> Zed, and Ben <-> Alex.) Maria is usually replaced by Kaeo. Kanda pinch-hits, as she really spices up the dynamics, especially if Nicky AND Kanda are the team.

> Dom was trained by Team Ferocity since he was 17, but most teams don’t use a puzzle/mastermind type, so Max snapped him up at 18, a bit before Ben. > Ben was part of open tryouts as an all-rounder and problem-solver who worked well with Dom. He’s a few months younger, but was also acquired at 18. They’ve both been with team victory for about a year and are currently 19.

> Z, the BABY, picked up at 16, actually, from a shitty home situation, much like Kaeo and Kanda, though this because of trans issues. He’s a *gremlin,* and has been from the beginning. Also not originally going to be going into the LA arena, but there are a LOT of pressures for this as the baby and a legacy and seeing how well that worked out for Kaeo and Kanda (not well). So basically just…thinks that Dom and Ben were recruited to be ‘his’ team and is miserable about it. Has been with team victory for roughly two years, acquired *after* the twins but before Dom and Ben. Still the baby as much because of gremlin behavior as age. Currently 18.