Red vs. Blue [SEP] production company
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Trocadero (band)


Violets Are Blue", was released on 01 Sep 2004. The album contains "songs from and inspired by "Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles"", including its theme song, "Blood Gulch Blues". Shortly after the release of the album, Mittelstadt left the band to join another Boston-based group. In 2007, the band was joined by Martha Marin on slide guitar and vocals, and Jeff Williams on keyboard. Trocadero continued to perform at a number of "Red vs. Blue"-related events.
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field. In April 2003, Burns, along with several friends and co-workers, created the machinima series "Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles". Filmed using the video game "," "Red vs. Blue" was acclaimed for its humor and originality, making Burns an Internet celebrity. His success allowed him to co-found the production company Rooster Teeth. After the immediate popularity of "Red vs. Blue", Burns attracted the attention of video game company Electronic Arts, who asked him to create
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to attract more attention, and by April 2004, Kevin J. Delaney of "The Wall Street Journal" estimated that weekly viewership was between 650,000 and 1,000,000. In a 2006 interview, Strange Company founder Hugh Hancock called the series probably "the most successful machinima productions " and estimated that it was generating almost US$200,000 annually. "Red vs. Blue" content was also included with a premium "Legendary" edition of "Halo 3". "Red vs. Blue" was widely acclaimed within the machinima industry. The first season
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Trocadero (band)


show's opening theme. The band's debut album, "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue", was released on 01 Sep, 2004. Their latest album, the soundtrack to Season 14 of "Red vs. Blue", was released in 2018. Nico Audy-Rowland was also involved in the Uggos, a collaboration with Jeff Williams that created the music for "The Strangerhood", another Rooster Teeth series. Trocadero was initially founded by Nico Audy-Rowland, Brandon Erdos, and Susan Hsia in Cambridge,
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Red vs. Blue: Revelation


Red vs. Blue: Revelation (originally named "Resolutions") is the eighth season of the action comedy science fiction machinima web series Red vs. Blue created by Rooster Teeth Productions. This season marks the end of the "Recollection" trilogy which began with the sixth season, "" and was continued in the seventh season, "". The season premiered on April 1, 2010, the anniversary of the first episode of "Red vs. Blue". A DVD of the season shipped on September 14, the day after
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Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction


Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction (stylized as redvsblue RΞCONSTRUCTION) is the sixth season of the action comedy-drama science fiction machinima web series Red vs. Blue, produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and distributed via the Rooster Teeth website. "Red vs Blue: Reconstruction" is set over a year after "The Blood Gulch Chronicles" and picks up where the "" miniseries left off. The credits for the trailer state that "Reconstruction" stars several voices from the original Blood Gulch Chronicles, as well as "Recovery One"
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Red vs. Blue


Red vs. Blue, often abbreviated as RvB, is an American comic science fiction web television series created by Burnie Burns with his production company Rooster Teeth. The show is distributed through Rooster Teeth's website, as well as on DVD, Blu-ray, and more recently syndicated on the El Rey Network, Netflix and its own YouTube channel. The series initially centers on two opposing teams of soldiers fighting an ostensible civil war – shown in increments to actually be a live fire exercise for elite soldiers – in the middle of
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Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Paradox


Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Paradox is the sixteenth season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" first premiered for Rooster Teeth site sponsors on April 15, 2018. Like previous seasons, the series is produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and is loosely based in the "Halo" universe. This season is the second part of a three season story arc entitled "The Shisno Paradox". The plot starts right as Season 15 ended, with the Reds and Blues leaving for lunch
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Red vs. Blue: Recreation


Red vs. Blue: Recreation is the seventh season of the action comedy science fiction machinima web series Red vs. Blue created by Rooster Teeth Productions that premiered on June 9, 2009, and concluded on October 26, 2009. Set three days after the "" mini-series, the Red team are back plotting against the Blue team, which currently consists of only one person, Caboose. New episodes were released every Monday at 9:00 CST. Unlike the more dramatic tone of the previous full season, "", "Recreation
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Monty Oum


2012. Previous to the conclusion of season 10 of "Red vs. Blue", Oum had pitched an idea for a series of his own; anxious to see the production deadline for "Red vs. Blue" met, Burns told Oum that if he could complete work on season 10 of "Red vs. Blue" on schedule, Oum would be given the opportunity to make his series. At PAX East, that new series was announced as "RWBY" with Oum serving as lead animator and over-all creative director for
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List of Red vs. Blue special episodes


This is a list of Red vs. Blue special episodes and public service announcement (PSAs) of the machinima comedy series "Red vs. Blue". These episodes exist outside the main storyline of the series. This list is organized primarily by how Rooster Teeth Productions have labelled their videos; as a result, some PSAs may follow the format of a Special, or some videos labelled otherwise may follow a PSA or Special format, but are not categorized as such. Presented like the PSAs and end-of-episode morals of
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too long, and too complicated, and the jokes were a bit too far apart". Nevertheless, both Prince and Jandoc were optimistic that the series would improve, and Qualls stated that the fourth season had "returned to the series' roots" as "some of the funniest stuff you'll ever see". Rooster Teeth Productions has created special "Red vs. Blue" videos for various events. For example, Microsoft has commissioned "Red vs. Blue" videos for Xbox demo kiosks found in game stores and for a
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Red vs. Blue: Singularity


Red vs. Blue: Singularity is the seventeenth season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" first premiered for Rooster Teeth site sponsors on March 9, 2019. Like previous seasons, the series is produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and is loosely based in the "Halo" universe. This season is the conclusion of a three season story arc entitled "The Shisno Paradox". Joe Nicolosi, who wrote and directed the previous two seasons, had to leave due to other commitments,
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[2004], the designers actually inserted a special command—a joystick button that makes a soldier lower his weapon—designed solely to make it easier for Rooster Teeth to do dialogue". "Red vs. Blue" has motivated the fan base to create the machinima ""Sponsors vs. Freeloaders"". This series lived on the forums of roosterteeth.com. The series has inspired other machinima productions, including "The Codex." Other "Halo" machinimas that are not necessarily related to, or influenced by, "Red
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Hominy, Oklahoma


class A division. The teams most recent state title was the culmination of an undefeated season. Sep 1 vs. Cleveland W, 25-7 Sep 9 at Pawnee W, 35-0 Sep 16 at Pawhuska W, 47-9 Sep 23 at Mounds* W, 56-7 Sep 30 vs. Woodland* W, 61-0 Oct 7 at Porter* W, 70-12 Oct 14 vs. Summit Christian* W, 55-0 Oct 20 at Liberty* W, 67-8 Oct 28 vs. Kiefer
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Red vs. Blue (season 13)


The thirteenth season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" premiered publicly on April 1, 2015 and concluded on September 7, 2015. It is the final installment of the "Chorus Trilogy". The series is produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and is loosely based in the "Halo" universe. "Season 13" is set on the once owned UNSC planet, Chorus, shortly after the Reds and Blues help end the Chorus Civil War between the Federal Army of Chorus (
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Red vs. Blue (season 15)


The fifteenth season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" first premiered for Rooster Teeth site sponsors on April 2, 2017. This season focuses on Dylan Andrews, a journalist who is determined to find the truth after a series of attacks result in a galaxy-wide manhunt for the alleged attackers: the Reds and Blues. Like previous seasons, the series is produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and is loosely based in the "Halo" universe. This season is also the first
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machinima, and Microsoft updated its user license agreement to allow noncommercial distribution of such films. A notable machinima production is the comedy series "Red vs. Blue" created by Rooster Teeth Productions. It has achieved an unparalleled level of success in "Halo" machinima in specific, and machinima in general; it is credited with bringing attention to the genre. "Red vs. Blue" generated annual revenues of US$200,000, and special promotional episodes were commissioned by Bungie. The first series, "The Blood Gulch Chronicles", ended
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RWBY


Oum's for years before it began development. Towards the end of his work on the 10th season of Rooster Teeth's "Red vs. Blue", he developed the color-coding approach to character names and design as a hook for the series. During production on "Red vs. Blue" season 10, Oum asked series creator Burnie Burns if they could produce "RWBY" following the conclusion of that season. Burns, worried for the production schedule, told Oum "If you finish Season 10, then you can do
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aired weekly, and were posted on the Red vs Blue website. The inaugural season of "Red vs. Blue" follows the misadventures of Red Team and Blue Team in the boxed-canyon of Blood Gulch. The boring life of the Reds and Blues will turn on its head with the arrival of a mercenary. The narrator attempts to tell the story of "" and of the brief "Red vs. Blue" civil war that occurs between the first and second Covenant invasions, but stops to argue with an uncooperative subtitler,
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versions would continue to be released, but after their Flash counterparts. Eventually, during Season 10, downloadable episodes ceased to be posted. This was likely to prevent re-uploading episodes onto YouTube ahead of public release. Although it is distributed serially over the internet, "Red vs. Blue" is also one of the first commercially released products made using machinima, as opposed to a product merely containing machinima. DVDs (and later Blu-rays) of every completed seasons are sold through Rooster Teeth's official website, as
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the new "Recollection" story arc. Several voice actors returned in "Reconstruction", which ran from April 5 to October 30, 2008. Rooster Teeth announced plans for a sequel "Red vs. Blue" series, each separated by a few weeks' break. The mini-series "Red vs. Blue: Relocated" bridged the gap between "Red vs. Blue: Recreation" and the previous season. During a Late Nite Jenga Jam podcast, Burnie Burns officially confirmed that the working title of the eighth Red vs. Blue
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Monty Oum


working for the company. It wasn't until PAX East 2010 that it was announced that Oum had been hired as an animator for the company's long-running web series "Red vs. Blue". Despite its military science fiction setting, "Red vs. Blue" had been light on combat, emphasizing humour and storytelling. With Oum's involvement, the series began to feature elaborately choreographed fight sequences similar to the content of Oum's fan videos. This trend continued through the completion of the 10th season of the show in
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List of Red vs. Blue characters


The following list describes each of the characters from the popular webseries "Red vs. Blue", originally created by Rooster Teeth Productions. Colonel Sarge (Matt Hullum) is the leader of the Red Team on Blood Gulch. He is voiced by Matt Hullum, co-creator of the series, and first appeared at the end of . He has a Southern accent, and has a military background and briefly joined the ODSTs. Sarge is somewhat bloodthirsty, and the only Blood Gulch soldier on either team to actually be serious about
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Red vs. Blue (season 1)


The inaugural season of the action comedy science fiction machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" premiered on April 1, 2003 on Rooster Teeth's official website. The season consists of 19 episodes and concluded on September 28, 2003. The series is loosely based on the "Halo" universe and is created by Rooster Teeth Productions. The series follows the accounts of two teams stationed in Blood Gulch, the Reds - consisting of the leader, Sarge; the lazy one, Grif; the "kiss ass", Simmons;
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Red vs. Blue: Revelation


Blues are pursued by Washington and Maine/Meta who are trying to capture Epsilon Church. Also Epsilon Church tries to remember who he is and why he was created. onlyinclude /onlyinclude The soundtrack for season 8 of "Red vs. Blue", titled "Red vs. Blue: Revelation Soundtrack", was released by Jeff Williams on November 21, 2010. It also features the cast of "Red vs. Blue", Sandy Lee Casey, and Lamar Hall. The soundtrack is available on iTunes, Amazon and the Rooster Teeth website
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Rooster Teeth


Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC (d/b/a Rooster Teeth) is an American media and entertainment company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum, Geoff Ramsey, Jason Saldaña, Gus Sorola, and Joel Heyman. Rooster Teeth is a subsidiary of Otter Media, which is a subsidiary of WarnerMedia Entertainment, a division of AT&T's WarnerMedia. Rooster Teeth began with the production of "Red vs. Blue", which premiered in April 2003 and is still in production, making it
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disabled in one way or another. Console games such as "Halo" and "Halo 2" are often more limited in this respect. In 2010, Rooster Teeth Productions released a remastered edition of "The Blood Gulch Chronicles" that removed the black bars and aiming reticle existent in previous versions of the series, which was done by re-shooting the first four seasons in the PC versions of "Halo" and "Halo 2". A book based on the series, titled "Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate
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not considered canon. In these videos, the members of both teams are actors who claim to be from "Red vs. Blue". Although the visual background of "Red vs. Blue" is primarily taken from the "Halo" series, Rooster Teeth consciously limits connections to the "Halo" fictional universe. A special video made for E3 2003 portrays Master Chief, "Halo"'s protagonist, as a larger-than-life member of the army, and the "Red vs. Blue" trailer and first episode establish
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Red vs. Blue (season 12)


The twelfth season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" premiered on April 28, 2014, and concluded on September 29, 2014. The series is created and produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and is loosely based in the "Halo" universe. It is the second season of the "Chorus Trilogy". Chorus, a former UNSC colony, is in the midst of a civil war between the Federal Army of Chorus and the rebel group called the New Republic. The remaining
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Red vs. Blue (season 4)


The fourth season of the action comedy science fiction machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" premiered on August 29, 2005 and concluded on April 1, 2006. The series is created and produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and loosely based in the "Halo" universe. The season uses "Halo 2" and was directed by Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum. In a first for the series, this season features 20 episodes, as opposed to the standard 19 for the first three seasons. A DVD of the season was released
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has created episodes, some under commission from Microsoft, for special events. "Red vs. Blue" content was also included with the Legendary Edition of "Halo 3", where the main cast had also made cameo appearances in the personalities of their "Red vs. Blue" characters. The "Red vs. Blue" storyline so far spans seventeen full-length seasons and five mini-series. Rooster Teeth periodically releases self-referential public service announcements and holiday-themed videos, which are generally unrelated to the main storyline and
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expected demographic of young adult males. Shortly after episode 2, Bungie contacted Rooster Teeth. Although the crew had feared that any contact would be to force an end to the project, Bungie enjoyed the videos and was supportive; one staff member called the production "kind of brilliant". A deal was arranged to ensure that the series could continue to use Bungie's game properties without license fees. The relationship has continued with Bungie's successor in the "Halo" series, 343 Industries. "Red vs. Blue" continued
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List of Red vs. Blue episodes


"Red vs. Blue", often abbreviated as "RvB", is a comic science fiction video web series created by Rooster Teeth Productions and distributed through the Internet and on DVD. The story centers on two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon (Blood Gulch), in a parody of first-person shooter (FPS) games, military life, and science fiction films. Initially intended to be a short series of six to eight episodes, the project quickly and unexpectedly
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Red vs. Blue (season 14)


The fourteenth season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" first premiered for Rooster Teeth site sponsors on May 8, 2016 and concluded on October 16, 2016. Season 14 is an anthology season, consisting of numerous short stories written by a combination of in-house and outside writers. The series is produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and is loosely based in the "Halo" universe. Unlike the previous thirteen seasons, "Season 14" is an anthology season, consisting of
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Red vs. Blue (season 9)


The ninth season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" premiered on June 14, 2011, and concluded on November 14, 2011, The series is loosely based in the "Halo" universe and is produced by Rooster Teeth Productions. "Season 9" is the first season in the "Project Freelancer" Saga, as it follows two apparently separate but connected storylines. The first storyline is set in the present that details events that play out in the Epsilon AI's memories
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Red vs. Blue (season 11)


The eleventh season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" premiered on June 14, 2013, and concluded on November 11, 2013. The series is created and produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and is loosely based in the "Halo" universe. The season premiered on June 14, 2013, while the rest of the episodes were released on Rooster Teeth's website on Mondays starting June 24, 2013. It is the first season of the "Chorus Trilogy". The season
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Red vs. Blue (season 10)


The tenth season of the American action comedy science fiction animated/machinima web series "Red vs. Blue" premiered on Memorial Day, May 28, 2012, and concluded on November 5, 2012. The series is produced by Rooster Teeth Productions and is loosely based in the "Halo" universe. "Season 10" concludes the dual storylines that started in "". The first story acts to conclude the Project Freelancer back-story that began in the previous season, which is again depicted using pre-rendered CGI.
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July 2010, during which the team focused all their efforts towards "Red vs. Blue" episodes. With production on "Red vs. Blue" complete, weekly "RT Shorts" episodes began again on August 28, 2010, until the second season's conclusion with its twenty-fourth episode and DVD release in early December. Shortly before season two's conclusion, Rooster Teeth collaborated with the team behind "Mega64", a video game centered comedy series. Together they produced four "Rooster Teeth Shorts" episodes, which were
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well as at several retailers in the United States, such as Target and Wal-Mart. Rooster Teeth claimed in 2017 that "Red vs. Blue" has sold more than 1 million DVDs of individual seasons and box sets. Initially each season's episodes were edited together in the DVD releases to play continuously as full-length films, though later seasons were written as singular films with episodes being split up later during production. Because some episodes contain dialogue that continues into or past the episode credits, Rooster Teeth either removes that
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List of Red vs. Blue special episodes


on a DVD and people began visiting their website. Wishing to take advantage of the visitors, they went through multiple ideas for a series, mostly clichéd film genres, before settling on "Red vs. Blue". The "Red vs. Blue" cast display stories of Red and Blue battles from throughout history. In a parody of the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election, two campaign ads for Church and one for Sarge have the characters promising improvements to the canyon, or attacking one another. Available on the DVD. In response to
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"Red vs. Blue" trailer that Burns described as a "touchstone for the audience". Among the company's core philosophies, Burns stated, "we only make content that we would want to see ... it comes from a very genuine space. I think that our audience appreciates that voice". As of 2017, production costs for an episode vary from $15,000 to $100,000. Rooster Teeth's business strategy is a hybrid model composed of subscriptions, onsite preroll ads, YouTube preroll ads, licensed studio productions,
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March 28, 2011, Rooster Teeth presented the first trailer for "Season 9" of Red vs Blue which aired on June 14, 2011, during which time Miles Luna officially joined the company. Season 9 acted as a semi-prequel, fleshing out the event surrounding "Project Freelancer", one of the key elements of the plot in previous seasons, while continuing the events left off in "Revelation". "Season 10", which continued Season 9's pattern of showing both stories simultaneously, began on May
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Austin, Texas


Rooster Teeth Productions, creator of popular web series such as "Red vs. Blue" and "RWBY", is also located in Austin. Austin has a strong theater culture, with dozens of itinerant and resident companies producing a variety of work. The Church of the Friendly Ghost is a volunteer-run arts organization supporting creative expression and counter-culture community. The city also has live performance theater venues such as the Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Vortex Repertory Company, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Rude Mechanicals' the Off Center,
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List of Red vs. Blue characters


create his Red vs Blue movie based on the events of Season 15 he later got a audition to play Temple in the movie and was later playing Sarge. Private George is a historical figure based on the first President of the United States George Washington who was recruited by Sarge and Simmons in the Shisno Paradox to kill Mark Temple of the Blues and Reds alongside John and Alex. After accidentally killing the actor playing Temple in the Red vs Blue movie being made by Jax he became his assistant director. Private Alex was a historical
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and Washington (Shannon McCormick); prior to the events of the series, the Blues were led by the late Captain Butch Flowers (Ed Robertson) who's later replaced by Grif's sister, who's simply referred to as Sister (Rebecca Frasier). Over the years, "Red vs. Blue" has attracted numerous notable guest stars, namely Elijah Wood, Christopher Sabat, Amber Benson, Dan Avidan, Arin Hanson, and Smosh. "Red vs. Blue" emerged from Burnie Burns's voiceover-enhanced gameplay videos
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about it to Burns, who liked the piece and promptly requested more music for Red vs. Blue. Episode 8, "Don't Ph34r The Reaper", was the first to include music. However, for the release of the season 1 DVD, music was retrofitted into earlier episodes, often during transitions. Trocadero's "Blood Gulch Blues", whose last few measures are now heard during each episode's title sequence, is used as background music for the character introductions on the Red vs. Blue season DVDs. According to
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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue (album)


Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue is the first album by the alternative rock band Trocadero, released in 2004. It contains "songs from and inspired by "Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles"". The album was independently released, with manufacturing and distribution by Rooster Teeth Productions. Several distinct musical techniques were implemented on the album. Most songs use polyphonic lead vocals, usually between Nico Audy-Rowland and Wendy Mittelstadt. Many of the electric instruments have a recognizable reverberation effect. The album contains genre elements
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pain on Grif. The notability and impact of "Red vs. Blue" extends to video games outside the "Halo" series as well. The developers of the Xbox 360 video game "Gears of War", Epic Games, made a reference to a "Red vs. Blue" gag through an in-game achievement called, "Is it a spider?"; the award is earned for tagging opponents with grenades. Another reference to the series appears on Bungie's website. On a player's "Halo 3"
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Red Rapper, Barbara La Ronga, Nicole D'Andrea, his daughter Casey Lee Williams, Sandy Lee Casey, and some members of the cast, and collaborates with Steve Goldshein on some tracks. The soundtracks also feature several parody songs, and some songs included are heard in PSAs and Rooster Teeth shorts. With the release of , Williams moved away from providing music for Red vs. Blue to work on Rooster Teeth's new series, "RWBY". Trocadero returned as the sole-provider of "Red vs. Blue"'s score
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Gray Haddock


1998, he played the role of Lei Wulong in "". In August 2011, he was hired by Rooster Teeth as a visual effects artist and digital compositor working on season 9 of "Red vs. Blue". He then worked on season 10 of "Red vs. Blue" and, in 2013, he took on a voice acting position as Roman Torchwick in Rooster Teeth's animated series, "RWBY". He also took on the role of Locus in "Red vs. Blue", a character that debuted in
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series was ""Red vs. Blue: Resolution"". The title was later finalized as ""Red vs. Blue: Revelation"". The first four episodes were previewed at PAX East in March. After five seasons, Rooster Teeth expanded the scope and animation of the show, hiring renowned animator Monty Oum for action scenes, starting with . On April 1, 2010 the premiere of "Revelation" attracted such a large audience that both roosterteeth.com and Blip.tv (who formerly hosted Rooster Teeth's videos) crashed. On
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released on April 1, 2003. Rooster Teeth was initially unaware of the broader machinima movement. In 2004, Co-producer Matt Hullum stated in an interview with "GameSpy", "When we first started "Red vs. Blue" we thought we were completely original. We never imagined that there were other people out there using video games to make movies, much less that it was a new art form with a hard to pronounce name and an official organization." The nature of "Red vs. Blue" was different
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can identify with." Rooster Teeth has stated that "Red vs. Blue" was influenced by "Homestar Runner", "Penny Arcade", and possibly "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Rooster Teeth initially envisioned "Red vs. Blue" to be short, but the series grew beyond their expectations. Burns and Ramsey had preconceived a list of jokes for which they allocated six to eight episodes. By , however, they realized that the series had fleshed out more than expected; they had covered only about one third of
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the show have also been created. "Red vs. Blue" attracted interest immediately; the first episode was featured on Slashdot, Penny Arcade, and Fark on the same day, and had 20,000 downloads within a day. The following episodes wound up downloaded hundreds of thousands of times, forcing a change on the distribution to peer-to-peer file sharing to cut the increasing server costs. Ramsey noted "Red vs. Blue" also "had a broader appeal than we anticipated", gathering a female following along with the
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of 1UP.com displays photographs of soldiers holding various weapons, as well as copies of the first and second season "Red vs. Blue" DVDs. Geoff Ramsey later stated in an interview, "We get a lot of merchandise and DVDs out to Iraq and get a lot of great e-mails back." "Red vs. Blue" has been acknowledged by Xbox Live through Grifball, a game variant which is featured on the Halo 3 multiplayer; Grifball originated as a joke by Sarge in the 4th season that alluded to inflicting
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future videos. Hancock argues that this model was necessary for "Red vs. Blue"s success: "Sunday night is Red vs. Blue night, just as (in the UK) Thursday used to be Buffy. Had RvB released their films as single downloads of an hour and a half, they'd have had nowhere near the success they currently enjoy." Karen Moltenbrey explains that, machinima films were quite lengthy and were typically not episodic. Rooster Teeth was able to combine these aspects by compiling the episodic adventures into a feature length
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Machinima


popular web series "Red vs. Blue", most of the storyline takes place within the game engine of "" and its subsequent sequels. "" has an extensive storyline already, but "Red vs. Blue" only ever makes mention of this storyline once in the first episode. Even after over 200 episodes of the show being broadcast onto the Internet since 2003, the only real similarities that can be drawn between "Red vs. Blue" and the game-world it takes place in are the character models, props,
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School of Rock (company)


, Rocky Horror vs. Hedwig, AC/DC, Best of the 80s/90s/00s, Punk rock, The Clash vs Ramones, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Who's "Tommy", British Invasion, Iron Maiden vs. Judas Priest, Frank Zappa, Old School Blues, Women Who Rock, British Rock, The Doors, Grunge, Alice in Chains vs Pearl Jam, Guitar Gods, Yes, Dave Grohl vs Jack White, Rush, Red Hot Chili Peppers, David Bowie, Prince, Prince vs Michael Jackson, Green Day,
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Gus Sorola


employed at the company and appears in many of their productions. Since 2003, he has voiced the character of Richard Simmons in the machinima series "Red vs. Blue". He was also a voice actor in "The Strangerhood" from 2004 to 2006. His live-action credits include "Rooster Teeth Shorts", which started in 2009, and "Immersion", which started in 2010. Sorola has also managed and hosted the "Rooster Teeth Podcast" (formerly known as the "Drunk Tank") since 2008
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Mario Party (video game)


4-player, 1 vs. 3 and 2 vs. 2) is determined by what color the players' panels are. If all 4 players have the same color panels, a 4-player game is selected. If there's 1 blue panel, and 3 red panels or vice versa, a 1-vs.-3 game is selected. If there are 2 panels of both colors, a 2-vs.-2 game is selected. If there's a green panel, the color will switch to either red or blue (usually blue) randomly. A single-player mode
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vs. Blue" are: "Arby 'n' the Chief", "The Forgotten Spartans", "Matchmaking", "Spriggs", "Rise of the Spartans", "Playtime", "C n' P", and "Sandguardians". In machinima, "Red vs. Blue" has been mentioned as the most successful example of the trend toward serial distribution. According to Hugh Hancock, this format allows for gradual improvement as a result of viewer feedback, and gives viewers a reason to return for
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Red vs. Blue (season 15)


season that is a part of the "The Shisno Paradox" arc. A horrific string of violent attacks across space has triggered a galaxy-wide manhunt for the Reds and Blues. One intrepid reporter and her Hollywood-obsessed cameraman set out to expose the truth, determined to find out what really happened to the Reds and Blues. The investigation sets off an adventure filled with familiar faces, unexpected twists, and the exclusive of a lifetime. onlyinclude /onlyinclude The soundtrack for season 15 of "Red vs. Blue", composed
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Fan Guide", was published November 17, 2015. Written by Eddy Rivas and Burnie Burns, it collects information about the series over its first twelve seasons and most of its thirteenth season. Due to the popularity and success of "Red vs. Blue", Rooster Teeth has created dozens of "Red vs. Blue"-themed merchandise available for sale on the website's store. Rooster Teeth has released several posters featuring major characters accompanied by their most popular quotes, dubbed "-isms posters". Several t-shirts based off quotes from
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Trocadero's website, the song's lyrics are intended to highlight episode 2's joke about the Warthog and the notion that there is as much bickering and fighting within each team as there is conflict between the two sides. In fact, "Blood Gulch Blues" never mentions Red vs. Blue. The song is from the band's debut full-length album "Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue" which was released in 2004. The band's style is alternative rock, taking influence from elements of blues, alternative rock
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Burnie Burns


" issue. Burns founded the production company Rooster Teeth to produce the show with Sorola, Ramsey, Matt Hullum and Joel Heyman. The was released on April 1, 2003. The series is primarily produced using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from a game to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio. Burns initially envisioned "Red vs. Blue" to be short, but the series grew beyond his expectations. Burns and Ramsey had preconceived a list of jokes for which they allocated six to eight episodes. By , however
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Tod Frye


version of "Asteroids", the "Swordquest" series ("Earthworld", "Fireworld", "Waterworld", and the uncompleted "Airworld"). Unreleased titles include "Save Mary", "Shooting Arcade" and "Xevious" (Atari 2600). Frye also developed the Red-Blue kernel (frequently misnamed as the Red-vs-Blue kernel) vertical sprite re-use technology used in "Realsports Football" and several other Atari 2600 products. After parting ways with Atari, Frye later
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Monty Oum


Monyreak "Monty" Oum (; June 22, 1981 – February 1, 2015) was an American web-based animator and writer. A self-taught animator, he scripted and produced several crossover fighting video series, drawing the attention of internet production company Rooster Teeth, who hired him. There, he provided custom animations for "Red vs. Blue", and created the original animated series "RWBY". Oum married Sheena Duquette on May 10, 2014. Oum attracted attention within the gaming community after releasing the hit
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Geoff Ramsey


Geoffrey Lazer Ramsey (born Geoffrey Paul Fink on June 19, 1975) is an American voice actor, comedian, and Internet personality. He co-founded the production company Rooster Teeth in 2003 and is best known for voicing Dexter Grif in the long-running web series "Red vs. Blue". He also co-founded Achievement Hunter, a video gaming division of Rooster Teeth. Ramsey was born and grew up primarily in the Mobile, Alabama area where he attended elementary and high school, but lived in Pensacola and
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is established that onwards takes place one year after "Halo 3" and several characters indirectly reference Smart AI, the Human-Covenant War, and Forerunners. Also at several points it is noted that Project Freelancer is under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Space Command. "Red vs. Blue" centers on the Red and Blue Teams, two groups of soldiers engaged in a supposed civil war. Originally, each team occupies a small base in a box canyon known as Blood Gulch. According to , one of the Red Team
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usage of the abandoned bases. By the end of the season, she is reunited with her brother once the New Republic troops, who she met while in a business meeting on Chorus, arrive to check on the Reds and Blues, officially rejoining the main cast. In "The Shisno Paradox", Sister is paired with Tucker in time travelling misadventures, mostly regarding Sister's intent to have sex with past celebrities. Although Rebecca Frasier was a good friend of the Rooster Teeth production crew, Burnie Burns intended to allow other
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Blood Gulch, a desolate box canyon, in a parody of first-person shooter video games, military life, and science fiction films. Initially intended to be a short series of six to eight episodes, the project quickly and unexpectedly achieved significant popularity following its premiere on April 1, 2003. The series consists of seventeen seasons and five mini-series. "Red vs. Blue" is the longest running episodic web series and second longest running web series of all time, behind "Homestar Runner". "Red vs.
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Trilogy" arc, the UNSC's role in the series was greatly expanded in explaining the abandonment of the planet Chorus. This is primarily due to the arc's antagonist, Malcolm Hargrove, working for both the UNSC and his own company, Charon Industries, with the intent to wipe out all life on Chorus with the help of hired space pirates led by mercenaries Locus and Felix. Hargrove's crimes are exposed when he is apprehended offscreen by the Reds and Blues ten months before the events of "Season 15." "
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the second-in-command of the Red Team, being an attentive and sycophantic follower to Sarge. Simmons and Grif were the first two characters to ever appear in Red vs. Blue, appearing at the start of , and both are friends in spite of their constant bickering and personality clashes. Simmons is shown to be logical, practical and intelligent, showing extensive knowledge of technology and computers. However, his reasonable inquiries and effective battle plans and strategies are always overlooked by Sarge. Simmons even twice defected to the Blues after
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use a black hole to travel back to the beginning of time and become a god. Successfully doing so, Genkins is revealed to be Chrovos; Chrovos had forgotten her origin as Genkins. The Reds and Blues then instruct Huggins to inform the Cosmic Powers about Genkins’s treachery and to trap him alongside his future self. Chrovos is a primordial being who existed when the universe was created with the power to control time . He is the main antagonist of Red vs Blue season 16 & 17 while also a Catalyst behind the events
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then yells "What are you talking about? I wasn't even in this video!" For Thanksgiving, Sarge announces his plan to outdo the turducken with his own improbably complex creation, while Grif and Church try to point out the difference between "Red vs. Blue" and Red and Blue states to confused viewers as the 2004 general election loomed. In another Point/Counterpoint debate, Church argues against celebrating Christmas, while Grif argues for it. Grif and Simmons present various tips to combat the cold and flu, though
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Red vs. Blue (season 9)


blended; each animation type is entirely separate and represent different eras of the "Red vs. Blue" storyline. This season follows two different but connected storylines. The present storyline follows Epsilon Church as he relives memories from Blood Gulch in the AI Capture Unit from "Season 8", but tries to fix them when the Reds and Blues aren't acting like themselves. The past storyline is set before the start of "The Blood Gulch Chronicles", following the agents of Project Freelancer in their peak against a rogue UNSC faction
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VS (band)


VS were an English R&B and pop group that had three hit singles in the United Kingdom. The band were the brainchild of Blue member Simon Webbe, who was also their manager, Melody from DJ Pied Piper, and established singer-songwriter Ali Tennant, who came together to form the production company 'Love for Music'. In 2005, VS announced they were to split after releasing the album, "All Kinds of Trouble". In December 2013, it was announced that VS would get back together, although Humes
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Red vs. Blue: Revelation


the season finale, and on the same day as "". "Revelation" is distinguished as the first season of "Red vs. Blue" that extensively uses pre-rendered character animation, separate from the "Halo" engine, allowing for actions not possible within a multiplayer game of "Halo". Its tone seems to be a mix of both "Reconstruction" and "Recreation". It is also the first season to feature its own soundtrack. "Revelation" immediately follows "Recreation" as the Reds and
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Color vision


complementary theories of color vision are the trichromatic theory and the opponent process theory. The trichromatic theory, or Young–Helmholtz theory, proposed in the 19th century by Thomas Young and Hermann von Helmholtz, as mentioned above, states that the retina's three types of cones are preferentially sensitive to blue, green, and red. Ewald Hering proposed the opponent process theory in 1872. It states that the visual system interprets color in an antagonistic way: red vs. green, blue vs. yellow, black vs. white. Both theories are
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Geoff Ramsey


Because of this, he jokingly changed his middle name to "Lazer". Ramsey is one of the original voice actors for Rooster Teeth's sci-fi comedy machinima series "Red vs. Blue" (as the voice of Dexter Grif) which premiered in 2003. Since then, he has gone on to become an Internet celebrity, regularly appearing at conventions such as PAX and Com Blue with "Red vs. Blue" actors Burnie Burns, Gus Sorola , and Joel Heyman on the "Drunk Tank Podcast" (renamed to
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Joel Heyman


and has also done a range of acting roles on American television shows including "Friends", "Angel", "The Inside", "Alias". He has reprised his "Red vs. Blue" role as a Blue Prison Guard in the G4 show "Code Monkeys", and has had a minor role in "Halo 3" as an unseen marine with the voice of Caboose from "Red vs. Blue". His character Caboose also has a minor voice role in the Xbox 360 arcade game, ""
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specific reason: to attend the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference back on Earth. As Grif demands an incredulous Donut cease fire, the Blues overhear mention of the corporation, and in turn stop shooting to approach the Reds. While Donut wonders how a single company can briefly stop a war, arrives to demand why the battle has stopped. He then reveals that he used to write speeches for Steve Ballmer, including the one Ballmer used at the last Conference, in which he chanted "Developers, developers, developers" multiple times.
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The Ultimate Fighter 4


(Original Air Date Sep 7, 2006) Episode 5: Flip-A-Coin (Original Air Date Sep 14, 2006) Episode 6: Captain Miserable (Original Air Date Sep 21, 2006) Episode 7: Drop to a Knee (Original Air Date Sep 28, 2006) Episode 8: True Colors (Original Air Date Oct 6, 2006) Episode 9: Semi-Final Match-Ups (Original Air Date Oct 12, 2006) Episode 10: Carter vs. Serra (Original Air Date Oct 19
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44 Blue Productions


, . The company is located in Studio City, California.In July 2016, it became a subsidiary of German-based Red Arrow Entertainment Rasha Drachkovitch is a television producer and president of 44 Blue Productions. He serves as executive producer, writer and director for most of the programs. Stephanie Noonan Drachkovitch is executive vice president of 44 Blue Productions and also executive produces series for the company. Sarah Poage is senior vice president. David Hale is vice president of programming. 44 Blue is a member of the Got Your 6
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the pawn shop to pawn his gun and armor before the bank takes it away. While the rest of the Red Vs. Blue team attempts to set up for Chapter 17 of Reconstruction, Caboose presents a PSA on Columbus Day. However, Caboose's attempts to discuss said holiday are full of misunderstandings and general absurdity, eventually leading a frustrated Simmons to turn off the camera and end the PSA. This video was released only to sponsors, but is also on the Reconstruction DVD. Following the events of Reconstruction, the Reds
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for the first time since season seven, also providing a new theme song "Contact" effectively replacing "Blood Gulch Blues". "Red vs. Blue" is mostly filmed using a number of networked Xbox consoles. As the games evolved and Rooster Teeth grew, consoles were changed to eight connected Xbox 360s and later sixteen Xbox Ones. Within a multiplayer game session, the people controlling the avatars "puppet" their characters, moving them around, firing weapons, and performing other actions as dictated by the script, and in
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Reds and Blues the following season, Wash helps them in their mission to drive away the mercenaries attacking the planet, entering particular conflicts with Locus, who considers Washington to have lost his value as a soldier. In Season 15, Wash and Carolina separate from the Reds and Blues to investigate on the death of other Freelancers. They are still reunited with the Reds and Blues and meet the Blues and Reds, with their leader Temple secretly traps them in armor lock mode in a room full of Freelancers who fell victim as well
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teammates, and will eventually come to their aid. While "Red vs. Blue: The Ultimate Fan Guide" stated Grif was forced into the Red Army in a military draft, Season 16 instead reveals Grif enlisted after dropping out of college in Ithaca, New York. Grif is shown to be relatively adept at driving vehicles, even managing to fly a Pelican and a Hornet with next to no experience with aircraft. He is also shown to be exceptionally hard to kill, being able to survive multiple shots, being run over
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E-card


an announcement sent with a link to the card's location at the E-card site. Between Sep 1996 and Thanksgiving 1997, a paper greeting card company named Blue Mountain developed E-cards on its web site. Blue Mountain grew quickly by allowing visitors to create greetings for others to use. Blue Mountain further expanded when Microsoft promoted its service on its free Hotmail service. This affiliation ceased and Blue Mountain sued Microsoft in Nov 1998 for putting email card announcements from it and other E-card companies in the junk folder
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, there is an achievement called "Chupathingy," when killing a Chupacabra. "Red vs. Blue" is widely credited with attracting public attention to machinima and web-series. The first instance of machinima dates back to the 1990s in the first-person shooter game "Quake". A group that called themselves "The Rangers" created a software mod of them typing in the chat box and putting lines of dialogue on the screen. This group named these "videos" "Diary of a Camper." Even though
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about also in Season 1. Pvt. Jimmy was implanted with the Alpha before going into Blood Gulch, and that A.I. turned Pvt. Jimmy into Pvt. Leonard Church. In season 15, the Reds and Blues are lured out of their retirement moon by a distress call which seemed to be from Church. However, it is later revealed it was a ruse by the Blues and Reds, who edited a message from the original Church to lure in the Reds and Blues to them. Still, through Loco's time machine
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personality, they have a differing taste in weapons, with Surge preferring a railgun as opposed to a shotgun. During the Blues and Reds invasion of Earth, Surge is the most concerned with killing the Reds and Blues. After Loco's machine is activated, Surge and Sarge get into a one-on-one battle. Sarge tries to get Surge to turn against Temple, but accidentally causes Surge to fall into an incinerator. Gene (Sorola) is Simmons' Blues and Reds counterpart, named as in–joke to
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are sent to kill the Reds and Blues in a tank. Tucker quickly decapitates Lorenzo, and causes the tank to explode with Cronut still inside. It's later revealed that Cronut managed to survive, and was imprisoned along with the other surviving Blues and Reds. Lorenzo (Burns) is Lopez's counterpart, a robot that can only speak Italian. When the Blues and Reds arrive on Earth, Lorenzo and Cronut are sent in a tank to kill them. Tucker jumps on the tank and decapitates Lorenzo, who was serving
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largely ignored, and, for unrelated reasons, "drunkgamers" soon closed. Four months later, "Computer Gaming World" contacted Ramsey for permission to include a different "drunkgamers" video in a CD to be distributed with the magazine. Ramsey granted permission, but he and Burns felt that they needed a website to take advantage of the exposure from "Computer Gaming World". They therefore resurrected "Red vs. Blue" and re-released the trailer to coincide with the "Computer Gaming World" issue. The was
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series, "", which chronicles the adventures of the mercenary Tex after her disappearance in . The mini-series premiered exclusively on the Xbox Live Marketplace, but Rooster Teeth later made it available on their official site. The original series, "The Blood Gulch Chronicles", ended on June 28, 2007, with the release of episode 100. On April 4, 2008, Burns announced a new series, "Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction", the group's first "Halo 3" series and the beginning of
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By the third season, however, the "Red vs. Blue" idea seems to be running out of steam ... It's not funny so much as just odd." Writing for the "Honolulu Star-Bulletin", Wilma Jandoc agreed that the first part of "season 3 ... throws the teams into a ridiculous situation and has limited member interactions, leading to a lack of witty dialogue". In an "about.com" review of the season 4 DVD, writer Eric Qualls thought that season 3 was "a little
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profile screen the description of a kill or death with a flag is "Right next to the headlight fluid". In "Halo 3" itself, the second campaign scenario features a "Red vs. Blue" skit, wherein two cast members voice over a soldier attempting to bypass a locked door. Different skits are seen on each difficulty level. In "Halo: Reach", Dr. Halsey's office contains a data-file detailing the UNSC's "reaction" to the films. In the expansion pack for ""
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Ernest Cline


In 2016, Cline wrote an episode for the 14th season of the web show "Red vs. Blue". The episode, titled "Mr. Red vs. Mr. Blue", was a parody of the 1992 film "Reservoir Dogs". In June 2010, Cline sold his first novel, "Ready Player One", in a bidding war to the Crown Publishing Group (a division of Random House). The film rights to the novel were sold the following day, to Warner Bros., with Cline co-writing the
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Blue Ocean Strategy


. The metaphor of red and blue oceans describes the market universe. Red oceans represent all the industries in existence today – the known market space. In the red oceans, industry boundaries are defined and accepted, and the competitive rules of the game are known. Here companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of product or service demand. As the market space gets crowded, prospects for profits and growth are reduced. Products become commodities or niche, and cutthroat competition turns the ocean bloody; hence, the
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