DOG

D O G, or [DOG], was formed on May 19, 2015, by iDigDogs!. The team was notable for being high-ranking before Season 10. When the old scoreboards were removed, DOG was the second most active team of all time with more than 500,000 races.

Requirements
The current requirements are:


 * Any Number of Races
 * 70 WPM

Notable Members
Notable members of team DOG include:


 * iDigDogs (captain)
 * PantherJosh!
 * HOUSE
 * MisterMouse
 * Frostbite
 * Gondolin

History
After the team's creation, and through 2015 and 2016, the team maintained high positions on the leaderboards, rarely dropping out of the top 3. This continued with the release of Season 0.5, earning first place. The team was also controversially given the win for Season 1 due to an incident involving Nightmare and interpretation of "cheating" (more info can be found here). DOG consistently placed in the top 3 throughout the rest of 2017, until January 6, 2018, right before Season 10, when iDigDogs announced that the team would no longer be competing in seasons except for the summer and winter events. This caused many DOG members to join SSH. An attempt was made to "revive" their team during summer 2018, but most of the former DOG members who joined SSH were not willing to go back to DOG. As a result, the team remained dormant until October 2018, when iDigDogs announced that the team would return to competition for the Xmaxx Event, or Season 18.

In Season 18, the team was active and had gained players who used to be on DOG and had went to SSH back. The team got 3rd place with KTTY in 2nd place with 681,640 points separating them. KTTY's tactics are relatively controversial due in part to using guest racer races (which is putting guest racers in one's own track to speed up loading times; a method that was supposedly the nullification reason for #1 Season 1 racer Nightmare until they removed his points) however this was alleviated by Travis by speeding up loading times in faster WPM zones - allowing for a new wave of point efficiency that was not otherwise possible.

iDigDogs decided that she no longer could handle the responsibility of leading a top team after Season 18. As a result, the team has fallen off of all leaderboards, except for the 24-hour leaderboard. However, the team actually isn't supposed to be on that leaderboard and is only on there due to a glitch with that leaderboard.

In Season 25, the Xmaxx time of the next year, the team went active again and achieved third place. However, they did not have the same amount of force nor did they have as fierce competition as in their previous seasons.

In Season 26, the team won a season for the first time since Season 9, after the season, their requirements were changed to no longer be competing.

Methods of communication
Their websites can be found at https://nitrodogs.shivtr.com (no longer in use) and https://dogs.shivtr.com.

Trivia

 * The team is currently ranked 129 on the team leaderboard.

(Last updated December 27, 12:20 AM GMT)