User:BasqueBall

Jokin Gabiola aka Basqueball or Juak is a mapper who has been around since late 2015 or early 2016. He was involved in lots of influential conflicts and events and created his YouTube channel called BasqueBall. He has been moderator in communities like PRM,NEMU and DMR and led the Anti EMU group which took down EMU (European Mappers Union), but he currently serves as moderator in '''Countryball Universe. BasqueBall has more than 300 subscribers''' in youtube.

Origins
Basqueball began watching mapping in 2015, mapping was different in some aspects back then, and he grew a big interest on maps and countryballs. He first joined an RP in google plus, where he coincided with Japanese Mapping, but didn't interact too much with him.

First EMU conflict
Basqueball eventually left the RP and joined other mapping communities, there used to be a big variety of them, but the largest one was the European Mappers Union, with just 100 members. EMU had suffered big conflicts, and now changed ownership, with Quality Mapping being the new owner. Quality Mapping, and his .. let's say secretary ML Mapping did their job as owners poorly, banning members without any particular reason and deleting any post that questioned their ownership. EMU used to have its wikia page, and they were also very involved in the TFOE wiki. EMU was in bad hands, but this wouldn't last for long. Basqueball met the Anti EMU group, a group of less than 10 people with the intention of raiding EMU and ending the missery once for all. He eventually became co-owner of the group along with GloryToPrussia(Immortalus) and Frog face. GTP was going to become a very controversial mapper.

Anti EMU started its operations with a mass posting of Anti EMU texts and images. This is aproximately the time when Basqueball created his Youtube Channel. Sadly, EMU discovered the group and sent an alt to delete it. EMU succeeded at deleting the original group , but this wasn't the end, Anti EMU came back, and became more hermetic.

Anti EMU continued with the attacks and sent a big amount of alts to spy on the community's activity. EMU noticing this became private, but this was a bad decission. Members started leaving, and eventually EMU lost the half of its members. These Members who left formed the NEMU (New European Mappers Union).

NMECCA
After EMU dissappeared, a kind of a new era began. Google + saw a boom, and communities reached 200 Members, also, as EMU fell, people took advantage of it to make their own communities. Basqueball, seeing this, decided to organize the NMECCA (New Era Creating Communities Aliance). Which was an agreement between the major communities that helped with the EMU conflict, the members of the pact were PRM,NEMU,Anti EMU and IMU. The purpose of the pact was to consolidate the new era and support smaller communities.

People's Republic of Mappers (PRM)
This community was originally created as a protest against the CCM (Civilised Community of Mappers), an antecessor to TMC. PRM had 200 members, being the second largest community behind '''UFIMP ( Union For International Mappers Peace). A community made by former EMU supporters'''. Basqueball became moderator of PRM and stayed loyal to the owners. PRM was raided 3 times, but it recovered fast after all the raids, this shows how attached the members were to the community. After the third raid, georgia mapper became owner and deleted the mods to relegate them to a honorary range, this was done to prevent raids from happenning, and it showed to be effective. PRM faded away after the creation of TMC.

Fall of NEMU and TMC
NEMU's owners and mods were almost all turkish. They were like a gang or a family. This became a problem after the owner left, nobody knew what to do. Basqueball and Anti EMU convoked owner elections, but these got interrupted by EtonSa Mapper, who was a mod, and obviously turkish. EtonSa attemted to take over NEMU with the rest of the turkish mods, but he got banned after a drama with Basqueball. NEMU was deleted soon after, and NMECCA created a new version, despite all the effort, NEMU was on life support, and this became worse when TMC showed up. TMC was created by the owners of CCM (former EMU supporters ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°) ). TMC grew in incredible numbers. TMC marked the end of NMECCA and all the communities from the "new era". Basqueball didn't get involved in lots of things after that, TMC was the new EMU, but.. talking about EMU.

Second EMU conflict
EMU had in secret recovered entirely, this time Quality Mapping was inactive and ML Mapping was left with ownership. ML showed to be even crueler than Quality mapping. Protestors inside EMU, pressumably Epirus, Justin Mapper and Georgian Mapper demanded owner elections. Anti EMU noticed this, and saw this as an oportunity to take down EMU once for all. The action was vague, most of Anti EMU had left Mapping, so it ended in defeat, but this at least left EMU dead, the community has been inactive since.

Other Events
Basqueball was involved in other minor events, and mostly focused in the youtube channel. He also got attacked by the Bats , but later signed peace with them.

Countryball Universe
Basqueball joined countryball Universe early, but got active in Summer of 2017. He made good relations with the mods and owners and this reminded him of the comradery present in PRM .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·..

He became a moderator in Summer 2018, and has put effort into the new reforms like the YouTube channel, and has been writing new articles here, in TFOE wiki.