(I still feel bad about #18, at 3:28.)

Any excuse to post this video ;p

I'm curious; who are the "Deeply Flawed Raiders"?

I've always considered it to be just the 6 forum members who managed this accomplishment on the playstation after weeks of attempts...

We were a Fireteam of five. Kalamari was unfortunately out sick the night that we finally managed it. But nah, we were the "Flawless Five".

But the Deeply Flawed Raiders was kind of a joke started by Kermit on the Fireteam Builder, to contrast all of the "Flawless Raiders" posts, and I've always interpreted it to mean any non-pro-tier group that he Raids with on either console. Regardless of experience though, they're pretty dang good. Sammy and I ran with them, and it was fun. We hardly wiped (and when we did, it was almost always intentional):

The roster changes over time due to who is available. In my time I've played with Kermit, Bigarm, Lichtonatus (someotherguy), telemachus/houndzilla, CyberKN, Destroyoboy, Rev, CommanderCleavage, CaneCutter.

Ah, yes, the early evening PS4 crew. I've run w/ many of you (usually in Iron Banner or Crucible), but not very often as you're usually finishing up around my kids bedtime. I can hardly wait until I feel they're old enough that I can allow them to play Destiny w/ me, maybe even some Halo. (see the Oholiab family)

The name is a play on the Flawless Raider achievement, which we are the opposite of: Almost comically flawed.

There's been talk that without Kermit, we're no longer the deeply flawed raiders.

The roster changes over time due to who is available. In my time I've played with Kermit, Bigarm, Lichtonatus (someotherguy), telemachus/houndzilla, CyberKN, Destroyoboy, Rev, CommanderCleavage, CaneCutter.

I hope I'm not leaving anyone out of that list--I feel like I am. I raided regularly with them back in the spring, and recently have participated in some raids with them too, notably the Hard Crota raid last week where Destroyoboy took down Crota.

edit: but I could certainly be wrong. :)

I've always considered it to be just the 6 forum members who managed this accomplishment on the playstation after weeks of attempts, but it seems there's a lot of interest around this design. Is this a label specific to the original PlayStation fireteam? Does it include anyone who's managed a flawless run, or limited to DBO fireteams who've earned the trophy/achievement together?

It was quite amusing keeping this a secret while discussing whether Cyber would ever get to play TTK.

Congrats!

So this means he's in? Dream Team assemble on Oryx!

Congrats!

I loved the words on the back and so did Bigarm, and poor Cyber probably ran through a dozen iterations for me. Another judgment was that it was too much to have "deeply flawed raiders" on the front and back, but the find a word aspect was a big part of why it was so cool. We'll get it on a shirt eventually.

Because Cyber was riffing on Bones' original idea, they both get a free t-shirt. Thanks again to you both and to everyone who participated.

Okay, so you linked to Paddy's post, not Bones' - but Bones just had a bunch of logos. It sounds like Bigarm41 might have suggested the wordplay on the back... weird.

Thanks so much for all the great entries even though that really made it difficult to choose. You can peruse the thread here. I'd love to get several of these made into shirts in the future.

There was consensus among the judges regarding the front, and the back was an open question, and because the artist was generous enough to iterate with me, we came up with a combination that was simple, yet captured the whoopsy-daisy spirit of the flawless raiders.

The winner of the Taken King Digital Collector's Edition is ... CyberKN!

Here is his design:

Because Cyber was riffing on Bones' original idea, they both get a free t-shirt. Thanks again to you both and to everyone who participated.

I won't have time to get the shirt made for a few weeks, but I definitely post when they're available.

This is an awesome community.

Kermit