The Sonic Stadium
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The Sonic Stadium was launched on October 24th, 2000. The webmaster, Svend Joscelyne, is also known as 'Dreadknux' online, and has since worked on various designs and layouts over the years the site has been open. Recognition for the website's fresh editorial and light British twist on the Sonic and Sonic Team world never truly came into fruition until nearly a year after the site's launch, in June 2001. The Sonic Stadium had then released a formidable vat of information on the game of the moment, Sonic Adventure 2; as well as having Dreadknux take the plunge into events and innovations that would not only increase popularity in The Sonic Stadium (usually referred to as it's shorthand namesake, 'TSS'), but benefit the Sonic community in general.
The first two innovations to arrive to The Sonic Stadium via Dreadknux was The Sonic Fan Club, and the now legendary 'Sonic Site Awards' annual awards ceremony. The former was an attempt to bring all fan creation aspects of Sonic the Hedgehog into one portal - Fan Games, Fanart, Fiction, Hoaxes... it was the first site to maintain a fan portal with almost every fan creative outlet. The idea came where Dreadknux saw fan fairs on other sites, but only covered one or two things such as only Fanart or just Fiction and Hoaxes. The Sonic Fan Club has been under reconstruction for an interactive new interface, but the early concept of it brought other, larger sites at the time to follow suit.
The Sonic Site Awards was an event that would change the community for the better; an annual awards ceremony that saluted the efforts of the smaller, lesser known Sonic websites, while still giving recognition for hard work made by webmasters of larger Sonic sites. The aim was the allow smaller Sonic sites to get attention - a privelidge The Sonic Stadium was hardly allowed when faced against massive sites such as Sonic HQ or The Sonic Foundation at the time.
The Sonic Stadium continues to go on apace, and has caught on a large following from both the site, the 'SSMB' Forums and other innovative events Dreadknux has since created. TSS stands as one of the most popularwebsites for general Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic Team information, and most certainly the premier British website. With content increasing every day; information, Q&A, screens, movies, music, cheats and guides, history pages, cartoons and comics and even with it's own Network of hosted sites that all offer something inventive and new to the Sonic community, The Sonic Stadium has come a long way since it's launch way back in 2000.