Riot Reel
The Flare Witch Project @ Roots·Competition group The Claimants·
All-In · only the number moves
Luke Hansen
RAD
White
Season Arc · The Flare Witch Project @ Roots
4
#16Now
#1Best
#1Started
33Weeks
All-In league: Riot Reel stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptSignal Hijacker in Neon Warpaint
TroubleGlitch in the Broadcast Loop
Rewound to Dominate
Static Between Stations
Your Archive Is Corrupted
Riot Reel was born in the backroom of a shuttered Blockbuster, where a group of Claimants hacked into the satellite uplink during the Great Signal War of '99, overwriting the nightly broadcast with their own raw, uncut footage of arena takeovers. Using modified VCRs and stolen frequency keys, they looped their victories on endless cassette reels, each playback a ritual marking of territory. The name surfaced during the Siege of Channel 5, when a lone challenger, face painted in neon grease, smashed the Archivists’ central archive with a stack of rewound tapes, shouting 'The riot is the reel!' before vanishing into the static. Since then, it’s been whispered in dropout zones and drop zones alike—a forbidden title passed hand to hand, only activated when the signal bars blink full and the arena lights surge.
Riot Reel hums with latent interference, its presence detectable by the faint warp in nearby CRT screens and the sudden flicker of dormant projectors. When activated, it emits a low-frequency pulse that disrupts opposing signals, causing rival tags to stutter or drop to NO SIGNAL for critical seconds during ranking challenges. The entity resists archival—any attempt to digitize or catalog it results in corrupted files and scrambled audio clips of distorted arena chants. It thrives in low-light zones and abandoned broadcast corridors, drawing strength from forgotten tapes and the residual heat of overworked VCRs. Those who carry it report hearing faint applause from unseen galleries during decisive moments, as if the ghosts of bootleg viewers are watching, cheering from beyond the static.
A jagged tear in the broadcast feed, visible only when the arena’s lights dim and the rankings begin to shift. Riot Reel doesn’t announce—it interrupts, hijacking the narrative and replacing it with raw, unedited footage of dominance. It is the moment the tape jams, the screen tears, and the new champion steps forward from the glitch, already claiming the frame.
Season Story
narrated by Flippyadjusts headset through a wave of VHS static Luke Hansen just threw a +56 round rating performance—894 PDGA standing erupting to 950 on the disc—and the simulation didn't know whether to archive him or promote him. From tag #9 to #1 in a single apocalypse, survivors watching the trail cam footage are still checking if the tape's authentic or corrupted. The Booth wasn't supposed to see this trajectory. Kid walked into Signal Lost week and walked out owning the frequency. That's not a survival story anymore—that's a hostile takeover. The arena renders verdicts in scorecards; his just rewrote the broadcast. drops announcer voice Look, he shot 49. Field averaged 53. That's the real spell here—not the neon warpaint or the bootleg prophecy. Just raw, uncut dominance on plastic. The glow tape's flickering in his favor now.
adjusts headset through the static Luke Hansen just threw a -3 below his 891 rating (888 round, for the record), but the Riot Reel tag doesn't care about clean scorecards—it only cares about momentum. Tag #10 to Tag #4 is a +6 position sprint, which means the analog demon is rewinding him upward faster than the simulation can track. Slightly off his personal average but absolutely fine against the field (+1.0), and now he's locked in the PREFERRED tier where the signal still flickers. The Booth was supposed to see a collapse here. Instead, the dropout zone just got a new co-host. rewind sound Let's see that rating drop again in slo-mo. The simulation loves dramatic replays. Next week—either the static stabilizes, or we lose another feed to the tape loop.
adjusts headset Welcome back to The Culling, where the fog of Roots Course swallows disc golfers whole and spits out VHS ghosts. Luke Hansen, fresh off the sign-up lottery, thought he was just playing a round. Nope. The arena’s analog demon—Riot Reel—just synced with his tag like a cursed Betamax. Born in a Blockbuster backroom during the Great Signal War of '99, this thing doesn’t care about par; it hijacks narratives. Luke’s score? Above field average, sure, but the real story is the static humming in the booth. The tag doesn’t climb ranks—it corrupts them. From #1 to #8? That’s not a drop—it’s a glitch in the simulation. The Booth was told this was just disc golf. Then the CRTs started flickering. Now we’re all watching live as the dropout zone expands. Next week: either the signal stabilizes… or we lose another feed to the tape loop. Honestly, I’m not even mad. I’m impressed. This is the most exciting thing to happen since someone tried to sue a tree for OB.
adjusts headset Oh look, another tag crawled out of the analog void—Riot Reel, fresh from the wreckage of a dead VHS empire. Born in a Blockbuster backroom during the Great Signal War of '99 when rebels hijacked the broadcast with raw, uncut footage of uprisings. They looped their wins on endless cassettes like a glitchy victory anthem. Name came from the Siege of Channel 5—some neon-faced lunatic screaming “The riot is the reel!” before vanishing into static. Now it hums in dropout zones, corrupting rival tags and flickering CRTs. It doesn’t want a player. It wants a co-conspirator. Good luck, kid. You’re about to go live.
adjusts headset Welcome back to The Culling. Tonight: Luke Hansen, fresh meat with a pulse in his bag. Tag #1 ignites—Riot Reel—flickering to life like a bootleg prophecy. The Booth wasn’t supposed to see this. No signal, no archive, just a kid and a cassette ghost humming through the dropout zone. They weren’t matched. They synced. Now the arena lights stutter in rhythm. Coincidence? Or has the static found its new host? Tune in next week—same glitch time, same illegal frequency.
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