Sapphire Trip Committee

Sapphire Trip Committee
Type	Committee in Sapphire
Founded	September 20, 2016; 8 years ago
Key people	The PAX Masters Garrett; Chase; Caleb;

The Sapphire Trip Committee is an informal committee within Sapphire dedicated to organizing group trips. Meet-ups are almost always followed by a severe outbreak of Sapphire Post-Meetup Depression.

History

The committee was inspired by the original 3 PAX Masters' trip to PAX East 2016. Since April 2016, a group of members of Sapphire, have been communicating to set up a Sapphire Trip to PAX East 2017. The committee was formed in September of 2016 to begin preparations for the PAX East 2017 trip.

PAX East 2016

The very first Sapphire Trip, where only the PAX Masters went out to scout the PAX event. On the way back, they met up with Funky and Mike.

PAX East 2017

There was a Sapphire Trip to PAX East 2017, in which the "Funny Lawn" AirBNB House was chosen as the main place of housing.

Crew

Stayed at the House and Attended PAX with the Crew (8)

Garrett
Chase (Tennessee boys correspondant)
Caleb
Bryan (Florida boys correspondant)
Jerry
Creasingwolf
Adam
Anna

Attended PAX and stayed separately

Jimmy
Johnnie
Jenny

Could not come

Jose (Housing coordinator)
Emanuel
Tafari

Memes

Forgotten tickets

Anna forgot her tickets at home, so she had to have them mailed in (her brother came in clutch).

On Friday, Garrett, while on the way to the train station with the crew, realized that he had forgotten his phone at the house. Just as everyone got off the metro, Garrett realized he also forgot his PAX tickets. While the crew was eating brunch at Dunkin' Donuts, Garrett took a Lyft to the house, only to eventually realize that he had never gotten the key from Adam. Wondering what his next move might be, the crew was shocked when they saw Garrett calling Jerry. Apparently, Garrett had found an open window that he used to enter the house and get his stuff.

Meeting cool people

On Friday, the crew got to meet Boxbox. On Saturday, Caleb, Chase, and Adam met Dunkey. Caleb also ran into ImmortalHD and FYPme, while Bryan found MaximusBlack. Garrett and Caleb saw TSM Trump at PAX, and then everyone saw him at the airport. Furthermore, the Tennessee boys saw him by their gate as well. Despite all this, no one ever said anything to Trump.

Jerry ADHD

Throughout the weekend, Jerry would stare at other members of the crew, usually triggering a verbal ping pong match consisting of expressions such as "What's your issue?" and "What's your problem?" Furthermore, on the first night, Jerry paced about the entire house, seemingly frustrated about absolutely nothing. Eventually he settled down and fell asleep with Caleb.

Ahp

Andy's meme received an upgrade as the crew turned it into a system of rating a female's looks. An "ahp" is equivalent to a thumbs up, "ehp" to a meh, and "nahp" to ABORT MISSION. Later on, Jerry took this meme and made it his own by using this system to rate dogs.

CVS

Bryan, Garrett, Nick, and Adam made heavy use of the local CVS, which was a half-mile walk from the house. Bryan made a crew-high seven trips to CVS. They bought bottled water, candy, tea, ice cream, and canned soup.

The house

From the moment it was chosen as the subject of housing for the trip, the Funny Lawn house was a meme. It was nice, but it contained some strange items inside. Interestingly enough, a few items, namely a pair of mugs, refer to Greenbrier on them. Furthermore, the house was full of lewd paintings and magazines. The downstairs bathroom door was an accordion, while the bathroom itself was in the kitchen. One of the other bathrooms doesn't even lock. The house's steps were extremely steep and caused many people to hit their toes or trip, or spill Coke. The house also had a bench on the third floor.

The bench

Over the course of the weekend, Bryan moved the bench from its original position, to the stairs, and finally to Chase's room. The original intent of the first move was to watch Chase's television from the staircase. Caleb had to remind Bryan, every day, to put it back to its original place.

I'm fine

On Sunday night, the crew had a Sapphire Dinner at a Korean BBQ place. Adam and Garrett shared two bottles of sake; needless to say, they became very intoxicated. Throughout the entire experience, Adam would frequently reiterate the phrase, "I'm fine!" with increasing intensity. Needless to say, he was not fine, as he passed out as soon as the Lyft arrived.

During the Dinner, Caleb got up and bought potato skins and ramen noodles because he was too Jewish to eat with everyone else.

Food Reviews

Below are the representations of the average of everyone's ratings:

Tasty Burger - not that tasty/10
JP Pizza - pretty good/10
The Real Deal - 10/10
Boston Convention Center food - overpriced and not that good/10
Korean BBQ - overpriced and kinda good/10

Tennessee Boys x Florida Boys Graduation 2017

Caleb and Chase drove down to see the Florida Boys graduate.

Spring Break 2018 in Florida

Nick came down to visit the Florida Boys during Spring Break of 2018.

PAX East 2018

The planning for the third Sapphire Trip began on March 18, 2017. Originally, the plan had been for a trip to California (during TwitchCon), however many the plans were not solid enough and fell apart. Eventually, the plans were reforged into a trip hosted by the Tennessee Boys. However, even those plans were further pushed back into 2018. Despite this, the third annual Sapphire PAX trip was organized by Chase, once again based in the Funny Lawn House.

Crew

Going

Chase (Housing coordinator, Tennessee boys correspondant)
Caleb
Ryan (and his girl)
Bryan (Florida boys correspondant)
Jerry
Nick
Anna

Memes

Jeffs tryna buss

Going into PAX, some people were wondering if Caleb's trifecta would be heard in real life. Needless to say, someone busted the silence and unleashed the trifecta at full force. While waiting in line for League of Legends shirts, the crew's chosen name was "Jeff's tryna buss" - and the Riot employees indeed did call this name out when their turn came up.

The bench part 2

The bench made a solid comeback, once again becoming a part of Chase's room.

CVS part 2

CVS was once again the convenience store of choice for the Sapphire boys.

Popping water bottles

Thanks to Caleb, all the boys started twisting water bottles and then popping the caps off. Later on, for science, a few boys went to CVS to grab some big boi bottles and turned them into confetti cannons.

Jackbox

As per Bryan's request, one night the boys began to play Jackbox. As the night went on, it became clear that the meta in the game revolved around the unholy trifecta: tragedies, racism, and gay. Furthermore, Anna popularized the use of hardhat answers, probably because she was too lazy to type real answers.

Fortnite

Nick kept doing Fortnite dances everywhere. He did them in the house, on the streets, and at PAX. He also danced in order to hype up the homie Black Swan when he came by to rap ferda boys. Furthermore, Caleb made it pretty far on the Mixer HypeZone stream (which Nick did a dance on in the background).

License plate meme

For any 3 digits on a license plate that contained two letters, the boys had to come up with a short phrase whose words began with those respective letters.

Caleb cuck

Caleb asked for a photo with Pokimane and Yassuo while FedMyster was streaming, on his stream.

Caleb technique

Caleb taught Bryan how to sit like a mongoloid.

Meeting cool people

Anything4views
Scarra
Pokimane
LilyPichu
DisguisedToast
Trick2g
Yassuo
Fed

Food Reviews

The Real Deal - not SUPER good but okay
Boston Convention Center food trucks - that one Vietnamese place was really good
Mexican place in Jamaica Plain - best part about eating here was that real ningen shit that Caleb saw in the bathroom
California Pizza Kitchen - pretty damn good
Burger place Jerry ordered from - very not good
Sushi that Chase ordered - pretty okay

Tennessee Summer Break 2018

In late July, Bryan and Jerry drove up from South Florida to Atlanta to pick up Anna. Afterwards, the three completed the journey north towards Nashville, where they stayed with Chase and hung out with him as well as Caleb, Ryan, and Garrett.

Memes

x-ma
Whip it
Jerry
What now
Big Pokemon Go
KKonas, TriHards, and those three random Animes
National Mustang Museum
Caleb cucking everyone

Chase visits Florida 2019

Chase flew into Tampa, meeting with the Florida Boys and staying at Bryan's vacation house.

PAX East 2019

Bryan, Jerry, Ryan, Chase, and his brother Tristan all met in Boston to explore the city and to attend PAX. The vibes were considered excellent and refreshing.

Memes

Bar fight under penthouse
Gay orgy above AirBnB apartment

Kyle visits Caleb 2019

Memes

Kyle spent more time in Caleb's house than he did that week.

Tennessee Spring 2019

The Florida boys ate a lot of:

Nashville chicken
Sonic ice cream
Zaxby's

Memes

Getting chased by a man in car (possibly armed) in downtown Nashville while riding electric scooters
Bryan spilling water on Caleb's desk

Grand Road Trip 2019

A solo trip planned by Bryan.

Locations

Tennessee boys
Chicago
DC Area Boys

Memes

Bryan destroyed Mike's mailbox.
Bryan backed into a car outside of a coffee shop.
This finally got Mike & Funky to meet up with Nick, despite living in the same metropolitan area.

Tennessee Winter 2019

Bryan, Jerry, and (for the first time) Emanuel visited Tennessee.

Tennessee New Years 2021

Bryan, Jerry, and Emanuel visited Tennessee

Tennessee Summer 2021

Bryan and Jerry visited Tennessee.

Tennessee Gamer House Summer 2022

Gamers' Perspective

Once the boys all gathered, they began to undergo activities such as visiting bars and restaurants, the aquarium, and a cave. They played Smash Bros and had cook-outs led by Grillmaster Chase.

Bryan's Perspective

Bryan began to drive up and started to experience symptoms of illness, despite having worn a mask for the past two weeks. While at a pitstop, he decided to take a rapid COVID test, which faintly tested positive. On the road, a truck nearly merges into him; at a Bojangle's parking lot, a car almost backs into his. Later, at another pitstop, he was almost locked into a bathroom; the lock had been rusty and became stuck as he locked it.

At this point, he has to check in to a hotel. That evening, as he attempts to sleep, people began to make high levels of noise in the hallway, waking him up several times.

The next day, he took a COVID test at a clinic which turned out positive, confirming the previous test. He was prescribed some anti-nausea medicine to counter that COVID symptom. After this test, his car begins to exhibit some kind of issue.

In the evening, he tried to order delivery. He could not get the restaurants that he wanted, one of the reasons for a restaurant being that "it was too far to deliver" despite being 1 mile away. Eventually settling on a restaurant, he specifies that he required utensils, yet his food arrived with no utensils in the bag. He went to the nearby Taco Bell and yoinked a fork while the staff was busy dealing with some kind of crisis. When he got back to his room, he discovered that the food had gone cold and that the anti-nausea medicine had hardly worked.

The next day, after having checked into another hotel, he ordered food and pre-emptively went to the nearby Kroger to buy silverware. As it turns out, this restaurant also had forgotten to include utensils, and his investment paid off.

Boston 2022

In September, Emanuel graciously hosted Bryan, Caleb, Kyle, Funky, Mike, and Nick for a fun weekend trip. Notably, 5 out of 6 founding members were present at this meet-up, making it the highest founder attendance rate in the group's history.

Memes

7 boys, 1 bathroom
air mattresses
Boston Strong
Medical Emergency on the T / Foot stuck in the train
Drink milk, but not in the weird way
Walking, eating, drinking, (smoking?) repeat
Can we just go in to pray really quick? (at the Trinity Church, once told that tours cost $10)
Let me get it the ocky way
The Spiritbox hoodie meme

Other activities

Hella (good) Asian food
Watching first few episodes of Inuyasha
Oktoberfest
Nick playing Snake

New Years 2023 in Boston

Bryan, Caleb, Funky, and Jerry came up to visit Emanuel.

Memes

Papa Gino's and Trad Auto
Cold is a mindset
Jerry, Blinkerton, and Penjamin City
The Simpsons
The Unfriendly Toast
Bryan's Hotspot
The Spider in the Bathroom
Squiggly-diggly headass

Bryan visits Gamer House February 2023

Bootleg house (bathroom and shower)
Predators vs Golden Knights
Mass Effect Lore
Caleb matched with everyone in town on Tinder
De La Paz, Sushi Train, etc.
Soccer shootout draw 3-3 (Caleb was injured when he was up 2-1)

Tennessee Summer 2023

Soccer shootout: official 11-8 for Tennessee, unofficial 10-6 for Tennessee.
Team Florida: Bryan, Jerry (water boy / referee)
Team Tennessee: Caleb
The penalty kick line was marked by some leaves, firework scraps, and a water bottle.
The boys collectively finished 40 plates at Sushi Train

Toronto 2024

Andrei, Bryan, Emanuel, Kyle, and Vincent met up in the Toronto metropolitan area in March. Bryan became very ill with a stomach virus.

Basketball

Bryan and Kyle teamed up against the others.

Paxton's Wedding 2024

Bryan, Caleb, Emanuel, Funky, Jerry, and Mike go to Paxton's wedding.

Memes

The Cabin
PSYOPs
"It's cringe to try to be based" —Mike
The food on the ground at Mitchell's
Vibe/bit terrorist in Jackbox
Family sharing on Steam
Jerry "bald" head
The Wilgong
36 plates at Sushi Train
Spirit clerk said Bryan was going to get charged for not printing bag tag at machine, but ultimately spared him, stating "don't let Spirit take $25 from you."

Netgate Cup

No relation to Netgate the organization.

Spent 15 minutes finding the ideal net
First to 11, win by 2. Amended to a fixed number of final shots.
Caleb 6–5 Bryan
- On the final shot, Bryan made a heroic save only to ricochet into an own-goal