Great Depression of BEOG

Early September, 2014 marked the start of BEOG's great depression. The main cause of this was a large amount of the founding and core members entering Year 11, or their last school year, thus being constantly nagged by parents, leaving less time for gaming. While this alone wouldn't have had a too bad effect, gaming less amounts of time caused the BEOG group to shift largely more to Skype talk only sides, where Skype chats would be created for the pure reason of socialising. This combined with witty and ridiculous humour from people such as Richard or Laura caused there to be a loss of enjoyment in people's lives, thus starting the Great depression of BEOG.

To start with, this wasn't too bad as first, as GCSE's where still three quarters of a year away. That is, until it was notified that there were many mock exams, and people were having to constantly come off their computers to revise. This continued until March and Early April 2015, where there was a short break, known as the Easter holidays, where some stress was relived, however, it was short lived due to the in holiday school sessions for students to catch up in, at which many were forced to participate against the WiFi usage. Times got even tougher after this, as there were many after school sessions which people were made to go to, and that this cut even further away from play time.

The worst came when the exams started, as this meant that there was almost no time for gaming, and each member currently doing GCSE's were secluded from the rest of the world. Then, on 22nd of June, 2015, the last official exam finished, and the members of BEOG were once again allowed to game as they please, ending the Great depression and starting a new age for BEOG.

However, the effects of this can still be seen, as recently on 20th August 2015, the people who participated in GCSE's had to collect their results, which cause major discomfort among them. The effects of the depression can also be seen with the increased socialising of members of the BEOG, continuing to talk and converse without playing the same game together. While this did happen before "Year 11", it is now a far more common practice.

The incident is foretold to occur again as the more youthful will be entering their last year, however, the effects will be less significant, as the previous effects have made enough impact already.