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Empyrean Conquerors, or [SECT], was a team founded by Nightmare on January 16, 2017, with Vielle working alongside the team. The team was built on the foundations of community reconstruction and Nitro Type progression. Making its debut onto the scene with the Seasons launch being well announced and imminent at the time. With Nightmare, after being banned and making a new account, leading the newly established team and centralized community into the forefront of Seasons, debuting with a powerful coalition going into Season 1, in what would be one of the most competitive Seasons in Nitro Type history. The team's success led to it being recognized as a rightful Champion Team among the people, and the team flourished itself through its heavy presence on the NT Discord Community, and multiple community outlets. The team was re-founded on April 12th, 2022, eventually competing and thereby winning Season 39 - Nitro Arcade Vol 1 and Season 39 - Nitro Arcade Vol 2, making it the team with the third highest amount of Season wins, with the team having not lost a single competitive season during each period of serious activity.
Starting in what was a historical upset, SECT was able to diminish the competitive scene starting from the very beginning 2017 within January, merging with JRMC, and quickly making its rise to the Top 3 leaderboards. SECT was able to bring in community heavyweights Nightmare, Vielle, Moises, JRC, & Wildflower in the first ever NT Season. This teams influence would not only make a distinguished mark on the community, in one of the most iconic moments of Nitro Type Season history from the tragedy of Season 1, but it would have a powerful fan following within the entire Discord community at large, and gain a popular following that would lead to its presence and victory in Twitter polls, such as to add the "Empyrean Conquerors" title to Nitro Type. This was in large part due to SECT's popularity and respect with popular YouTubers, a series of factors that later on would be enmeshed with the advent of the Top Type YouTube channel, hosted by Nightmare and Vielle. SECT's success would also extend to other sources such as TypeRacer clans, Sean Wrona's book Nerds Per Minute, and even mentions on the official TypeRacer Blog, correctly proclaiming that "SECT won Season 1", and further echoing the team's motto: "All hail and Glory to the Empyrean Forces, for we are the Conquering Overlords", after conquering Marathons on TypeRacer.
SECT is notable throughout history for being the first ever team to mix Discord and Nitro Type together creating for a new chapter of history, where-as previously there was little to no interaction with the community at-large and top teams, due to dissatisfaction with Nitro Type, a core part of SECT's outreach to Veteran players and interests that has allowed the team to recruit from the NT Discord, the NT Olympics, various Shivtr outlets, unofficial forums, old contacts with influential racers, and other typing websites. This demographic was pivotal towards inventing and pushing new strategies during each Season including Guest Racers to speed up load-times, Multi-racing. As well as reporting various game-breaking bugs leading to the creation of the Special Sauce Achievement title "Bug Smasher", a title originally created for Nightmare, this would culminate on to the team's early involvement within Nitro Math, and early use of Casual Races.
SECT's official Sticker Mascot
Currently SECT has been notable for hosting the biggest community Discord, winning Season 39, hosting the Top Type YouTube channel, multiple giveaways, crossover with other YouTubers, and being an open & transparent platform for the community's interests, as well as advancing competition and new strategies, while promoting cooperative reform and interaction within the community. SECT's official cars are the Liberty GT40 and the Shadow XMaxx Tree. SECT's Discord invite is Discord.gg/nitrotype, and its official sticker is VaderCat.
Requirements[]
SECT's official Shop car with Nightmare's GT40 Paintjob.
The requirements were:
- Level 200
- 100 WPM
However, during Season 1, the requirements were:
- Level 120
- 70 WPM
The current requirements are:
- Complete 500 Races
- 80 WPM
Member Roster[]
Nightmare is the captain of the team.
Officers[]
Officers of the team during Season 1 include Kryptonic, SupernalLegend (aka GreenKnight), Dan_The_Wagger, the_logan, DrizzyShae, VormX, LightningTyper, Doc, Heracles_Karpusi, JoshRyan, and MysticLegendx. The team during this time included many NT Discord staff members as well.
Legendary event car, the Shadow XMaxx Tree. SECT's most recognizable team car.
Officers of the team during Season 39 (Nitro Arcade) include Vijanden, Flaneur, MysticLegendX, Gloryy, Stardust, Cheeto, Scythe, Zest, and formerly Tendons. In October 2017, when Vielle was briefly unbanned, he was made officer as well, and remained an officer when the ban on his account was reinstated; however, Vielle has since been unbanned and has raced for multiple SECT accounts Nitro Arcade Vol 1 & 2, using the multi-racing account strategy.
Hall of Fame[]
The team's early member roster was notable for dominating the Hall of Fame, particularly the "Oldest Active" players through racers such as TR0N, display_unavailable, and Weathr_Ninja. The "Longest Session" board from Nightmare, Moises and Tendons' highest sessions respectively. The "Most Money" board with Nightmare's presence being noted throughout the entire season. And eventually the "Fastest Racer" board when Vielle was temporarily unbanned and had joined SECT on his main account, setting the #1 speed for "Fastest Racer" while representing SECT.
TR0N's Iconic Paintjob
Accomplishments[]
Dangerbob's Car
Some of its prominent members are notable for various accomplishments. They include people such as the "Nitro Type Savior" TR0N, Liberty Danger 9 owner Dangerbob, "Typing Nightmare" & original "Bug Smasher" and arguable Season 1 "Champion" & "Champion Team" Captain Nightmare, Season 18 "Champion" Galaxied, alongside "Feline Overlord" captain Ayeyuhskuh. As well as numerous "Verified YouTuber" title holders, (formerly) including Smoke, Haru, and Tendons. With another limited content creator in the form of "Verified Twitch Streamer" Batmane. One of the team's most influential members is Empyrean Adviser and racer Vielle, notable for accomplishments such as: "Keyboard Cat", "Nitro Type Master", "Emperor", "Empress", Clan & Team Founder, Session Legend, indirect influence for the Wampus (see Pirc bot), TypeRacer Moderator, Speed Champion "Olympic Gold Medalist", and Nitro Math testing pioneer - Vielle. The team is notable for including early Nitro Math testers, namely: Vielle, Nightmare, Flaneur, Vijanden, Gloryy, and Tendons. This was also the first major Season team for the eventual milestone aficionado known for cars such as The Wildflower, The Wild 500, and The Wildflower 750 - by legendary racer Wildflower.
Economy[]
This team is primarily funded by its captain Nightmare, and by other core members in the form of donations from Vielle, Flaneur, Vijanden, Gloryy, Mystic Legend, and Bubbles. With racers such as Cheeto, and Scythe hosting their own competitions. This team raises money through the Discord and gives away large amounts of its money through the Top Type Podcast YouTube channel in the form of free giveaways.
There are competitions averaging over $60,000,000 in rewards a week from Nightmare, with separate donations and rewards towards distinguished members of the Discord, and incentivized NT cash for racing and accomplishments. This team also receives donations from other YouTubers such as PenguinTyper. This is the first major Team to use Try2Win4Glory's Team Competition website through the Lacan NT Sport Bot, with widescale use as an infrastructure on the team for competitions. Being preferred due to its easy to set up nature, as well as hands-off tracking, meaning that the officer, acer, or captain that hosts the competition does not have to be present to stat track or host it, and can follow up on rewards easily with all the information present. Allowing for speed, accuracy, points, or race-based competitions seamlessly. This integration has allowed the team to expand the use of competitions on the levels of SSH stat-tracking, a series of stat collection and data analytics that was seamlessly integrated onto other teams including those such as VFC, and KTTY.
The first of many Lacan NT Sport website competitions for SECT.
This team also runs competitions in the form of endurance heavy and high paying Blitzes that frequently run through the afternoons, as well as voluntary player-made competitions that give big $50,000,000 rewards during specific days. Because of this the team has been able to run near-daily competitions and activity that promotes a high reward environment for racing, in addition to other sponsorships with typists, and YouTube and Streaming promotion for various channels. This team gives over $20,000,000 in rewards per month through the Discord. The Team's biggest competition has been the SECT Weekend War, in which over $500,000,000 cash was given out in comps to three randomized sections of the team led by respective Officers, during the timespan of May 13th through May 16th.
One Billion Dollar Bounty competition.
One of SECT's biggest game changing competitions was the Billion Dollar Bounty, in which over $1,000,000,000 in cash rewards is set to go out. A contest that lasts for over a week, with a new "Most Wanted" role given out in the Discord every day to the person that finished #1 in the Daily Competition for team SECT during a 24 hour period, with each period being renewed at every daily interval usually starting at 9 PM Eastern Standard Time. The winner of the competition gets the "Most Wanted" role permanently in the team's Discord, with a bounty that cumulatively adds up, adding progressive intensity to the contest as it goes on, resulting in it being SECT's most competitive and novel competition yet, with rewards being extended to 10 Winners during the contest, not just the Most Wanted. SECT also introduced merchandise alongside this competition, which can be easily browsed at Bonfire.com. The funds and proceeds of which will go towards a future Top Type typing tournament
SECT has given away multiple accounts such as pjcrowley, Erased, among numerous others. pjcrowley's account was given to Tendons as a gift from Vielle on April 19th, a symbol of SECT's co-operation and mutuality with other top players & teams. The team had once given away 5 accounts within a single stream whose contents included 2 lifetime Gold accounts, a 130k race account, and several other 10k+ accounts, alongside a TypeRacer Premium thanks in strong part to Haru and long-standing TypeRacer connections to help facilitate these trades. SECT and its affiliates have given out over 10 TypeRacer premiums largely within the span of late-2017, with the majority of them coming from Vielle. The team does not officially endorse account-selling as a public forum in its Discord, although it does offer numerous disclaimers and allows for people to disseminate proof and scrutiny in public chat to target scammers & bots out of the community.
Gold Memberships are given out on average 3 times per month. Discord Nitros are given out 2 times per month on average through the Discord. The team averages 110 WPM on the leaderboards, and 85 WPM when half of its races are from multi-accounting. Currently the team averages 10k races per day, which is equal to over $50,000,000 in net-gross total player income on a daily basis.
History[]
Season 1 (2017)[]
[SECT] was the response to the takedown of the previous team, NTF. The team catered to veteran players, which was supported strongly by dominance in the 'Oldest Active Player' Hall of Fame. It also catered to experienced racers that had already established their presence, which could be seen in Gold Memberships and exceptional average levels of all people in the team. They also honed in on those that had yet to make a name for themselves, giving multiple people an opportunity to do so within seasons.
Early Formation[]
The Team would rise in its early period by making powerful alliances with players, with one of the most notable being with [JRMC], which allowed people such as JRC, Moises, Wildflower, Heracles_Karpusi, and more to join the team. Becoming their first established season team. As well as a few other mergers that put the team well ahead of [DOG] in the early leaderboards leading up to Season 1. Before the season started, there was numerous News controversy and arguments against [SECT], most of it stemming from their combative approach against the "Big Three", and positions on Teams while holding Clans with well-regard. The Team also recruited heavily from the initial [NT] Discord, become the first-ever Discord-based [NT] team on the Site, and offered a completely different form of governance & management that no other team had on the site at that point. This was in contrast to all of the Shivtr based teams at the time in early 2017. Because of this, [SECT] was able to effectively mark its meteoric rise, and pull members from every outlet of the community from the main Discord, the Olympic Shivtr, and contacts of old Veterans that would be willing to come back to the site, with one of the most notable of these being Vielle's participation on the team.
Season 1 Competition[]
With its biggest competitor being [DOG], there was little time given for the team to think, and a vast amount of time needed to take action. With the mentality of dominating the scoreboards and "emancipating the terrene", the newly founded team was able to establish its presence in seasons. They were projected to take a historical upset against the "Big Three" (NTA, DOG, and STPR) which would establish them as the first-ever winner of a Season. This would give 50 people an exclusive "Champion Team" title; however, because of Nitro Type intervention, they were not given first place. With the team's flagship leader engaged in a bitter rivalry with Smithy, it saw Nightmare attain 2nd place. This was contrary to the fact that Nightmare was the overall favorite to take first place, due to an intervention from NT staff to lock the account over evidence of Nightmare using Guest Racers to shorten race times. Despite this Nightmare was ahead for the entirety of the Season (along with SECT), having never lost it during the entire duration of Season 1. This resulted in him having all of his points removed, an action widely regarded as the deliberate manipulation of the results to change the outcome of the seasons. This was later further backed by leaked PMs & emails of Nitro Type's intentions to change the outcome of the result.
The Season Leaderboard as it stood before Nitro Type locked the account without notice in order to manipulate the season results.
This would further be backed up by NT's plans to rectify the season before Nightmare having even used guest racers - a tactic that would later be used in an extensively wider fashion later by KTTY, also known as the Feline Overlords, a team made in large part to contest and eventually overtake D O G. NT would solve this by making race times faster for those that were in higher WPM zones. [SECT] only had two recorded cases of cheaters, which Travis has marked as "far less than some other top teams". Nightmare was marked as a cheater throughout the tenure of the Season by those in [DOG]. But despite having no evidence, this strongly disputed claim, given all his races were legitimate.
Interim period (2017 - 2022)[]
This team was among the most controversial teams in the NT scene due to its loud nature on the News. Despite this, it created a formula for teams in its wake that would follow - by consolidating the Discord community; cementing itself as the rival team to the status quo (DOG, NTA, STPR); and doing so while in a short timespan (a matter of days to weeks). This formula typically plays big for big season point days (delivering itself to three record-breaking days in the Season alone); performing big on Fridays and weekends. This would be one of the quickest rises to success for a team in the history of teams since its inception. With the only exception being the temporary introduction of 200 member teams when the Teams feature was created and launched. SECT's testament to an unusually substantial performance is even more eminent, given the fact that it was plagued by repeated community controversy early on, and frequent derision & skepticism. This was because of the wave of circumstances working against the team, only servings to its outsider image in the foray of teams. Allowing for SECT to reach out to a new audience and contrast itself and challenge the current state's principles.
After Season 1, the former MMJR/JRMC members left mostly for NTA, causing the Season to shift against D O G following the shock of the Season 1 results, with only a small intermission period before the next Season. Distrust in Seasons, as well as the sudden increase of bots (due to the spread of UltraType), and lack of admin attention following their conflict of interest during Season 1, all culminated in a change in Season atmosphere following the end of Season 1, and a significant disinterest of many SECT members participating in further Seasons. Largely due to admin activity wanining significantly following the end of Season 1. This resulted in a serious drop off of activity in early Season history that would not be rivaled until the Xmaxx Event at the end of 2017 that same year, as well as many of SECT's records and achievements being intact for the large part of early Season history. SECT had successfully accelerated the changing team climate, leading to the fall of the Big Three eventually, and a realignment of Seasons to engage with the community's interest, where-as previously it had little to incentive to do so before, due to the state of censorship on the News, and the establishment's clash with the Discord-affiliated community due to numerous controversies from the other team captains.
TypeRacer Saga[]
ECOL setting the first of many landmark Marathon records on TypeRacer and gaining official presence through the TypeRacer Blog.
Nightmare and Vielle had returned shortly to the typing scene later on in 2017, but instead within TypeRacer clearing an Empyrean-based clan named ECOL on TypeRacer in August of 2017 through November 2017. Where Vielle and Nightmare would bring their session-specialties to Marathons on TypeRacer, with its new clan having controlled the majority of all marathon records on TypeRacer, as well as numerous high scores and text bests on the site, making it the most successful clan on the site, even more so than other Discord-led clans such as ones based on Speed Typers, partially related to a controversial player named Adaaam at the time, who was then later blacklisted from advertising his Discord on the TypeRacer leaderboards following targeted harassment, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories towards Nitro Typists. ECOL was able to successfully put attention and interest towards clan structures on Typing games outside of Nitro Type for the first time, as well as create the first ever major crossover between Nitro Type and Type Racer communities successfully through Discord that resulted in many free Premiums given to Nitro Type players on TypeRacer from Vielle. And ultimately Vielle being hired as Moderator on TypeRacer within September of that year, the peak of ECOL's dominance on the TypeRacer leaderboards. Eventually Nightmare would join the Army and Vielle would remain on the site as Moderator and Text Manager on TypeRacer for over 5 years and go on to average 190 WPM on Nitro Type. And there would be no significant presence of any user on the site until their return in April 2022 with the revival of SECT.
TyprX's website and its NT-inspired teams feature.
Ultimate Typing Championship & TypeRacer Legacy[]
One of many rewards given out during the Ultimate Typing Championship from free Keyboards, Artisan keycaps, cash prizes, T-Shirts, and much more.
This clan presence in Typing games would later be felt once again when TyprX brought back its site following the 10 year anniversary of the Ultimate Typing Championship bringing in Teams, a feature inspired by the actions of early clan pioneers on Nitro Type, going back to Nightmare and Vielle 7-8 years prior at the time (2020). Clans would also be distantly mentioned in the popular Typing book Nerds Per Minute, where it was directly contributed as a main factor in "Nitro Type's explosion in popularity". The book also contained numerous references towards Nitro Typists and their shared history and presence on TypeRacer that had begun with Vielle & Nightmare leading the Nitro Type scene to have a vocalized level of presence and influence on TypeRacer culminating in years of partnership that would begin with the communities following those events starting back in September 2017. With other Nitro Typists eventually becoming big within the TypeRacer community including NT veteran heavyweights turned professional TypeRacers that included a wide cast of [ECOL] members from NoThisIsJohn, to Alpha Panda, Rrraptor, Zetria, Flaneur, JRC, Angelo, Jisoo, Zest, and various others, in addition to Vielle and Nightmare.
SECT's Influence on the Nitro Type Scene[]
SECT would eventually inspire many other Empyrean-branded teams, and community-led revivals through the NT Discord community where SECT likewise made its meteoric rise through. Some of these influenced teams within the NT community included SECT-influenced team, TECT, a team that would later be featured in a news post and whose leader (Tesla) would then go on to co-lead VFC, a team named the Vielle Fan Club, a testament to influential NT player and SECT's second highest in command, Vielle. The team VFC would later go on to be slated for its own news post, but this was disbarred when VFC, much like Season 1, had the event of yet another Season manipulation when it was ruled that "Vielle" was not an appropriate name, a decision they would reverse 2 years later. In 2019, another team would mark its own come back with Empyrean adviser Vielle participating, with the comeback of another likewise NT veteran, pjcrowley recreating his old team, SYN. A team that would then go on to topple a long-reigning champion team, known as SSH, in an uncanny parallel to Nightmare's 2017 comeback, when he challenged the Big Three (NTA, DOG, STPR).
SECT would have a notable influence on team KTTY, also known as the Feline Overlords, largely due to their SECT-inspired nature against D O G, with its repeated use of Guest Racers paralleling what SECT did in Season 1. KTTY, like other Discord-based teams, would have Vielle racing for it, under the account nt_rigs_seasons, (a nod to Season 1 & VFC) and would bring in multiple recruits from other typing websites that SECT had paved the way for, such as TypeRacer. Because of this, KTTY was able to branch into a new blue ocean of racers using off-site recruitment such as Discord and TypeRacer. Due to Ayeyuhskuh's outreach and actions, he would indirectly lead P. Phan in unifying the Typing Community resulting in the lead-up to the Clicking Championship during February 4th, 2019, the first major Typing Tournament since the Ultimate Typing Championship in 2010. A testament to Nitro Type and its interwoven history with other typing websites, and demonstrating the power of the competitive scene on a larger scale. During the last days of Season 21, KTTY would change its name various times to names mocking D O G, along with provoking them through various news comments, with one such team name being "SECT won Season 1", with the team's goal being accomplished after successfully beating D O G in the Season alongside SSH, a team that also split off and competed against D O G for various reasons, going as far as to provide KTTY with many top racers to help them accomplish their goal in. Because of this KTTY was able to successfully avenge SECT from Season 1.
Sometime in early May of 2020, the team was auto-disbanded due to Nightmare's service in the U.S. Army. Although notably on March 18th, 2021, there was a binding Twitter poll held to determine an upcoming title for the item shop, where it garnered significant support from many NitroType YouTubers including Penguin Typer and the Discord community at large. While it was close early on for the first day or so of the poll, the support from YouTubers and community heavyweights helped propel the title to the top, winning by over 16.4% of the vote (55% to 38.6%). But it was not put onto the site's item shop and title "Potaytoes" was added, provoking yet another community outrage when NT decided against the title. Instead Nitro Type made a reference to this title in the form of "Aquarian Conqueror" in the season right after, the second to last tier reward in Season 33 - Sea of Riches that could be achieved after completing 560 races during the Season. And made another reference to this title in form of "Colemak Conqueror" which could be bought from the Shop. This was not the last attempt to turn "Empyrean Conqueror" into a title. One such attempt to put Empyrean Conqueror as a title into the game involved a competition hosted by Asssa123 in the NT Discord in 2021, in which Joshuu won a speed competition over Vielle (who came in 2nd place), with the grand prize being any custom title he could ask for, with his initial request being to ask for Empyrean Conqueror as a title. This was turned down once again by the admins, who then opted to give him "Speed Champion" as an exclusive title instead.
The Return of [SECT] (April 12th, 2022)[]
Meteoric Rise & Revival[]
[SECT] has returned, coming from a top 100 team and reaching Top-3 team status within a week by April 20th, this time focusing on an open-Discord model, and collaboration with many YouTubers such as Tendons and Haru. The team arrived with a slated goal of completely winning Season 39, and honoring their victory from Season 1. The team also launched what would become the most active NT Discord, with backing from many prominent Nitro Typists, and a guarded - more casual approach towards the Typing scene in contrast to other Discord communities. This rise was also met with similar mergers with other top teams which has allowed the team to maintain a dominant position on the leaderboards, while offering powerful prospects for anyone working within the team, in strong part due to Nightmare's efforts and immediate outreach into the community when creating his team.
SECT vs ELV[]
SECT's initial competition presided in the form of SECT vs ELV. Its rival team ELV had previously dominated the leaderboard for months by the time SECT came around, which SECT would eventually surpass by the end of Season 38, however as SECT would rise, team Elevate would eventually find itself focused on REB3LS, a team that would ultimately end up surpassing ELV near the end of the season despite the misfortunate odds. SECT's competition eventually would shift away from ELV and would instead gain a massive boost in popularity & outreach when Tendons joined the team. He would quickly rise and become the third most powerful member on the team, and having provided numerous support and races to help SECT's spot towards becoming an established #1 team. Because of this momentum, SECT was able to set over 26,000 races in 24 hours, setting forth a new world record for best team performance in 24 hours at the beginning of Season 39, after successive 21k days that followed, allowing the team to set the all time record for most ever team races in a 7-day period in Nitro Type team history.
SECT vs TBZ (May 9th - June 5th)[]
TBZ Comeback & Multi-Racing Invention[]
Vielle multi-racing on 4-5 different accounts, accomplishing over 4,000 races in a 12-hour timespan for team [SECT]. Via the Top Type Podcast.[1]
Despite a shake-up that had hurt the Team's performance when TBZ was revived by Tendons on May 9th, 2022, with the third in Command of SECT, now leaving the team, it would then become a full fledged contest to bring back the team, and making up for over 40% of the team's activity that had been lost overnight. SECT was able to make a commanding comeback and hold TBZ to an edge and then overpower the leaderboards at the end of the season once the team adjusted its methods and strategy. With such changes being more competitions, doubling down on the core racers, Discord reform, the Top Type podcast, a series of new recruitments. And along with one new meta-changing tactic in the season in the form of multi-racing, where one user can race on multiple different accounts simultaneously so long as they do not disqualified; primarily pioneered by Vielle, and adapted by Vijanden, Flaneur, and Nightmare in the Season. This tactic of multi-racing was also very similar to what Vielle did in TypeRacer to set the TypeRacer marathon record at one point, where one would race on multiple TypeRacer racetracks at once after ghosting through hundreds of short quotes, however with the added challenge that you can get disqualified after 12 seconds, unlike TypeRacer marathons which would have 1-10 minute timers in friends tracks before getting disqualified.
At the mid-end of the season, SECT was able to mount a successful comeback and double down on the content front, competition, engagement, loyalty, and its core community. With this day-by-day adaptation to revive itself back onto the scene within a week timespan, despite ailing concerns that the team would permanently fall out of its #1 spot due to TBZ's 5k race leads in the 24 hours, as it would begin to maintain 15k-18k races per day. SECT being able to make these numbers despite losing 60% of its activity was considered a massive upset in the community, as it was said that it would need a 'miracle' to come back. After the surprise TBZ blow that nearly crippled the momentum amidst a series of rhetoric and resignation that prefaced the team, the new-found confidence around had allowed SECT to regain the momentum within its court - where it was otherwise considered lost just days prior.
Top Type & Community Reform[]
SECT's member activity exceeding over 20 simultaneous players at once during the course of Season 39.
SECT aspired to make a community council on bots to identify and blacklist cheaters from top teams, which didn't get enough traction or involvement with other teams, while in the midst of the Season. Despite interviews and promises with other prominent typists through the Top Type podcast. Although they have collaborated and worked mutually through videos and content engagement outreach, similar to Tendons role within TBZ. This also ushered in a mix of content front with other prominent YouTubers, partnerships, collaborations, and typists. And eventually a strong part in the the early state of Nitro Math. All of this occurred while the team continued to centralize itself through the team in Discord, fast-tracked communication, and doubling down on its outreach, as well as a promise for reform and engagement within the community.
The team overall was able to make a comeback despite the torrents of bots plaguing the state of seasons at the time, and having regained many of its members following the TBZ split from the team that had changed the season landscape overnight, it had then became clear that SECT and TBZ would be separate teams, although with crossover and engagement on the community and Discord fronts. With numerous members administrating both Discord servers, YouTube co-operation, and frequent mutual communication between the two teams, as well as many other smaller teams.
SECT vs REB3LS (June 5th - June 30th)[]
Nitro Arcade Vol 2.[]
SECT's positioned lacked slightly behind heading into Nitro Arcade Vol. 2, following three-way competition with TBZ and REB3LS leading to the the current state of the Season on June 5th. Early on the Season started out as a 4-way race between FTU, TBZ, SECT, and REB3LS, with SECT starting within a semi-distant 4th place early on in the season. After FTU's surprisingly quick rise towards being a Top 3 team, the team would then proceed to kick all bots from the teams on June 8th, resulting in the team losing its quick performance, despite accolades from the community. SECT would then remain in contested top 3 spots, until falling towards a 1 million point deficit with REB3LS a week later.
Zest seen here racing on 4 different accounts on the Top Type stream. In clockwise order from top left: Zest, Nightmare, Flaneur, and Dangerbob.
However on June 14th, Vielle & Zest brought 4-account multi-racing to a 12-hour Top Type stream, in which they were able to close a 700,000 point gap overnight against REB3LS on June 15th. This coincided with an announcement from TBZ that it would step away from being a competitively-involved team later that day. This historic number of points was brought together by 2 racers who were able to bring 7,712 races in less than 18 hours across 8 accounts allowing the team to reach nearly half of its total points that day alone. With Vielle doing a Typing Nightmare session on each account, a nod to the title named after team captain Nightmare, 9 years prior.
This ended with SECT being on top of the season leaderboard in an unprecedented 700k+ point gain overnight. An unprecedented display of SECT's ability to take command of the leaderboard on a given day, while bringing in 100s of likes per stream, while simultaneously giving away half a dozen accounts, amidst big Blitz giveaways all within coordinated days & streams. This has allowed SECT to project commanding performances when desired upon, as well as being able to rally its entire team through big giveaway events, streams, racing, and communication. While in parallel, the team organizes its community roots with the act of running and racing alongside a team, that was furthermore centralized through Top Type streams, allowing SECT to reach a wide audience in expanding the role of a team.
SECT merchandise, available at https://www.bonfire.com/store/toptype/
During the second half of the season, the team would see major rebounds due to the likes of Legend X stepping up the plate with competitions, Zest's newfound determination for the team alongside multi-racing from Vielle, Zest, and Mystic Legend. Furthermore, former team captains of FTU and ELV would join the team and contribute powerful activity to drive in SECT's position, an unprecedented showing of alliance and unity from community leaders. The team helped shore up its financial from with $100,000,000 competitions being provided on a basis of every 2-3 days - helping maintain the team's financial advantage over its competitors. With this SECT was able to rebound the momentum despite unexpectedly falling to 4k daily race activity during the June 18th-19th timespan in what was a quiet weekend for Nitro Type, with race counts falling across every team. While other teams would temporarily rise and fall, the Season would primarily hone in on the fate of SECT vs REB3LS. Resulting in a push that allowed the team to drive its 7-day week advantage even in the midst of low activity. SECT had once again commanded itself on the leaderboards even amidst the shake-up and cynical peril of the current team environment.
Nitro Arcade: Game Over[]
Despite the impressive comeback that had resulted thereafter from passing REB3LS, SECT had once again found itself in a precarious position, after immediately passing REB3LS, the team had lost its lead, and furthermore to make matters worse, the team ended up with 4k races a day during the weekend of June 18th-19th, a performance so abysmal that it would plague the team's performance for the rest of the week. With subsequent performances yielding no more than 8,000 races a day in the successive week despite the team's most committed members doubling down on their performances. Because of this, Vielle, alongside Nightmare, had stepped in to perform captain duties and host his own comps for the team, while attempting to quickly contain the team's performance alongside rallying members, in a very similar role to his initial position during the height of Season 1. This was not enough as the team struggled to regain its lead, as prominent team players such as Legend X, Cam, and Zest would be pivotal in centralizing the team's support and energy heading into the 3rd week of the Season. Contrary to the team's significant efforts & newfound outreach, the team's periling situation seemingly could not get worse, as REB3LS would pass the team into the 7-day leaderboard, and SECT would fall to 4th place on the on June 22nd, with NGRV & N8TE temporarily ahead of it at this point in time. While it would quickly pass N8TE, NGRV would stop competing after briefly touching the #1 spot on the 7-day leaderboard, and many of its racers would leave shortly after accomplishing their goal.
Alarm bells had set off in the team, resulting in significant reform and micromanagement of the team's ailing performance by Vielle & Nightmare. With Vielle handling member slots and taking a direct role in communicating to its many members while furthermore expanding upon multi-racing in his off-time for the team. While Nightmare would set up fundraising and organization for a new comp, followed by videos and announcements indicating the prize pool which would be set on the direct target of delivering over one billion dollars in rewards, which he was able to quickly achieve. Because of the team's 4th place performance on the leaderboards, a lot of doubts set on the team's ability to revitalize itself this late into the season, due to its inconsistent performance without competitions. A complicating part of the team's roster was absent from the last season due to a lack of involvement, disinterest in the game, and summer priorities amidst a fluctuating Nitro Type landscape. With the team's sole response taking the form of a series of new recruits, competitions, structural reorganization; and crackdown of inactive members by using past competition data & message history.
The team on June 26th, 2022 as it appears on Nate Dogg's Community Leaderboard.
However, just as reform began to set in the team, on June 23rd, Zest's planned 5k multi-racing session was cancelled, Cam had decided to step away from the team, and Gloryy retired to NTM, with these events culminating in what now seemed like the team's inevitable eleventh-hour presently looming. With the only recourse being a 2nd place finishing, and the only factor persisting left for the team: the Billion Dollar Bounty competition, which at this point had a slow start. As a result people had written off SECT's position for the rest of the Season due to a perfect storm of factors culminating in unfortunate events that plagued the team's repeated attempt to bolster more than 10k races in a single day, as it repeatedly lost more and more ground to REB3LS. With the team threatening to double SECT's performance multiple days over the course of that following week. With this motivation severely thawing, portending in the form of a domino effect that could prompt a wave of retirements in the team. Amidst a series of dread building up around the game & its competitive scene, SECT would manage to hold onto 2nd place and slowly rebound its position after passing the short-lived competitive performances from other teams - and with no major room for new shake-ups or recruits that it had a month prior. The team held one final card left, a competitive billion dollar finale into the home stretch of the season, and waning faith into the team.
Nitro Arcade Endgame[]
The final Nitro Arcade Vol 2 Leaderboards. Showcasing SECT with a 7,229,809 point lead to close off the Season.
On June 25th, a new weekend dawned for the team, with Day 2 of the bounty competition settling in. The team had reach over 10k races for the first time ever, despite many of its core racers not being prevalent at all, with the team's race count quickly evolving, as the team's competition had now fully began to set in. Moreover, the team had managed to bring in many top players from the community, as the scale of its competition, and grand coalition had now begun to set into swing. The team had managed to completely re-stablish its presence, momentum, and lead, culminating in a meteoric rise to 20k races in 24 hours, surpassing all expectations, compared to the week prior, where the team had struggled to perform a quarter of those said numbers alone. It had became very quickly clear the competition had drastically reformed SECT's numbers overnight in what was once thought of as impossible, an uncanny parallel to the team's history of unprecedented comebacks and massive anti-establishment upsets allowing the team to surprise the narrative yet again.
Despite being 2 million points behind in the Season, SECT had ended off the weekend with a 1 million point advantage in the span of 2 days, reaching as high as 22,650+ races by the end of Sunday. The quickest turn-around and rise of a single team in Nitro Type history, that had managed to recourse itself from a sprawling point deficit late into the season. SECT was competitive once again, and reigned with Empyrean Conquerors on top of the leaderboards in the single most decisive blow to REB3LS yet in this season, with their team beleaguered towards a 7th place 24-hour finishing the next following weekday, with SECT projecting itself towards a 5 million point lead within the coming week. A lead that would have been previously unthinkable considering the team's point deficit a week prior. Soon after, REB3LS had announced it was retiring as a competitively-focused team, leaving SECT as the projected winner for the Season, akin to TBZ's announcement that it would no longer be seriously competing earlier that month on June 14th. This left SECT, having conquered an unthinkable 2 hyper-competitive seasons within a short timespan, expanding upon its victory just as it had done in Season 1, despite the frequent and calculated odds against them. The team had now climbed its way past 3 adversaries within this time period just as it had done when it dethroned the big three 5 years prior.
SECT and the Present Day (July 1st - Present)[]
Season 40: Sunshine GP & Retirement[]
Season 40: Sunshine GP
SECT is currently slated to hold numerous competitions going into Season 40, an event that is set to last until August 14th, a date when when people will return back to schools, and marking the end of the summer. It is unknown how much of the current roster will maintain itself heading into the next season, although the team aimed to be competitive, Nightmare had to unexpectedly retire the team after the beginning of Season 40 due to his focus real life priorities. The start of Season 40 was postponed after temporarily releasing for less than half an hour during its initial opening due to bugs regarding car animations, unfinished assets, and carrying over levels from the last season resulting in everyone earning the cars when the event was released. Because of this Nitro Type had delayed its season resulting in SECT delaying its day 1 season competition (hosted by Vielle) alongside several other teams at the time.
SECT currently sits with many legendary racers just as it had post-Season 1, and has no plans to ever disband. Although the future of SECT and Top Type at this time is uncertain. Although what is known is that Vielle and Nightmare left to focus on other activities beyond Nitro Type while maintaining the foundation of their NT connections.
The team currently operates one the largest NT Discords seen here, while holding the NitroType invite link (https://discord.gg/nitrotype). The team has won three total seasons, from Season 1, to Season 39 - Nitro Arcade Vol 1, as well as Season 39 - Nitro Arcade Vol 2. SECT currently is the first and only team to have its own merchandise, visible here at https://www.bonfire.com/store/toptype. With possible plans to take on other community related activities in the future.
Methods of communication[]
Discord[]
The team had its own Discord server, although at the time, the main Nitro Type Discord server was already mainly composed of SECT members. The team's Discord server is consistently active and is mostly handled by Nightmare & Vielle (the official adviser to SECT), and has became the central hub of Nitro Type related activity since SECT's return onto the scene and has served as a primary communication outlet for the team.
This new version of the team currently communicates on their own Discord Server. This new team discord server is consistently active and managed by Nightmare, Vielle (Adviser to Sect), Gloryy, & other community members.
Top Type Podcast[]
The Empyrean Conquerors maintain a podcast and YouTube channel via Top Type Podcast YouTube Channel. It is hosted by Nightmare, and co-hosted by Vielle. It covers numerous topics regarding seasons, Nitro Type, Nitro Math, competition, giveaways, community events, the Community Discord server, and more.
The Top Type Podcast thumbnail, featuring the first ever previews of Nitro Math.[2]
The first week focused on the historic competition with team [TBZ] with the pioneering of a new tactic known as four account multi-racing with Vielle's screen & handcam comprising the footage, alongside Nightmare hosting commentary. This extended into a 12-hour segment with interviews with numerous top Nitro Typists including Tendons, PenguinTyper, Cam, Gloryy, Galaxied, Mighty, as well as numerous others.
The second week podcast segment focused on the first ever stream to showcase casual races, and sneak peaks of first to finish mode. This stream included interviews with Nate Dogg, Beastly Typist, and Gloryy, alongside hosts Vielle & Nightmare. This stream had over $150,000,000 in cash giveaways.
Top Type hoodie, available at https://www.bonfire.com/store/toptype/
The third week podcast segment focused on the launch of Nitro Math to gold member previews. This 7-hour episode included the first ever historic 15-person Nitro Math races with various Nitro Type admins: Adrian Crook, Travis, Breakfast, and Kristen Smith. As well as a sneak peak towards another stream with Penguin Typer at the end. With the stream topping off at $300,000,000 in cash giveaways.
The fourth week in the Top Type podcast returned back to its roots with a new twist on multi-racing. By having 8 simultaneous accounts racing on stream with Vielle & Zest simultaneously racing on 4 accounts at once. This stream went on for 16 hours, as the racing went on for 2-3 more. 5 accounts were given away in this stream, with the majority of them coming from Haru. The accounts included a 130k Race Account, 2-lifetime Gold accounts, and a few 10k+ race accounts. At the beginning of the stream, SECT was 700,000 points behind REB3LS. And by the end of the stream, SECT successfully commanded the lead by the end of the session, even with Zest having to quit later on in the stream.
The fifth Top Type podcast occurred on June 26th, and was shorter than the other episodes, with primary attention given to the the rapid rise and passing of REB3LS' season position on stream. With the guests being Ayeyuhskuh & Galaxied, and talks about Feline Overlords, while Vielle performed multi-racing footage for the stream, performing 1,800 races for the team in this short segment, despite having done over 2,000 multi-races previously in the day.
Trivia[]
- The team is usually said to have broken up the "Big Three" teams of 2015-2016 (NTA, DOG, and STPR) by "killing" STPR.
- [SECT] was the first team to earn 1,000,000 points in 24 hours (7,500 races), and also took the most points in 7 days with over 4,500,000 points (33,500 races) as well as a monthly record that incurred over 15 million points (115,000 races).
- On April 12, 2022, the team was recreated by Nightmare after a period of time in the U.S. Army, in which the team was auto-disbanded.
- It is the spiritual successor team to [NTF] due to the leader of the previous team being banned.
- The S in SECT stands for: Supernal, Superior, and/or Supreme.
- The Artisan Keycap seen on Vielle's keyboard is a Das Keyboard Limited Edition Artisan Keycap from achieving top 10 in the Ultimate Typing Championship.
- The SECT merchandise campaign is the same one used as Nitro Type's official merchandise vendor, through Bonfire as seen here.
Gallery[]
Related Pages[]
Teams/Clans led by either Nightmare or Vielle.
- Nitro Type's Finest (led by Nightmare)
- Conquering Overlords (led by Nightmare)
- Nitro Type Masters (led by Vielle)
- Supreme Overlords (led by Vielle)
Successor Teams[]
- Vielle Fan Club (led by Tyrant)
- Feline Overlords (led by Ayeyuhskuh)
- Total Emancipation (led by Tesla)
- Syndicate (led by pjcrowley)
Adversary Teams[]
Teams that SECT was in direct competition with.
- Trailblazers (led by Tendons)
- Nitro Type Ambassadors (led by iloveshoes2)
- D O G (led by iDigDogs)
- Switching To Primes (led by Lollipop Girl)
- REB3LS (led by Drewyy)
- Elevate (led by Cam)
