Burgundy Wave Information, Rules and/or Regulations

Welcome to Burgundy Wave, here's a couple of things to know while browsing the site!

Meet the Staff:
* UZ - Chris "UZ" White is the managing editor and the main contributor to the site, which he started in July of 2010 on Blogspot, moving to the SBnation platform in September. Up until February of this year, he was the only staff member on board. UZ has a knack for logical and levelheaded analysis of the game of football and is a highlights junkie, and as such tries to be the most neutral member of the staff when it comes to opinion pieces. He supports Crystal Palace FC as his English team and will continue to pester the soccer staff at SBnation until they let him run a Palace blog here. If Burgundy Wave were a broadcasting team, UZ would be the play-by-play guy.
* Bulldog Ben - Ben Kowalsky was brought on by UZ to be an occasional co-author for the site partially due to his knack for number crunching and stats analysis. Ben usually writes the more in-depth analytical articles for the site, if and when he actually posts an update. Ben supports Chelsea as his English team. He currently lives in Minnesota for school purposes and therefore writes even less than he used to. If Burgundy Wave were a broadcast team, Ben would be the color commentary guy who always has his stat sheets at the ready.
* Richard Terry - Richard was brought onto the staff after writing for a while at Global Football Today - UZ maintains that Richard was probably the best writer in that place since this sort of shit was his competition - and Ben moved to Minnesota. His analytical style of longform article tends to contrast UZ's short and sweet posts which is always nice. Richard also supports Crystal Palace, which means that Burgundy Wave now contains two of the four (maximum) American CPFC fans as writers. If Burgundy Wave were a broadcasting team, Richard would be the locker room reporter at the end of every game asking Scott Palguta 'So Scott, why are you so terrible at everything?'.
* Jedidiah Bertram - Jed is a long-time friend of UZ's who was introduced to the Rapids fairly recently and quickly afterward start posting on Burgundy Wave. Jed serves as the moderator for the site, cleaning up inappropriate comments in the game-threads or elsewhere. Jed used to live in California but he's back in Denver now, still having nothing to do on this site since there are never any comments. He supports Manchester City as his English team. If Burgundy Wave were a broadcasting team, Jed would be the wacky guy that they cut to on the sideline acting way too excited for what the situation entails.

Columns:
I try to have something new on the site every day. If there's a news piece I'll often just use that as my daily article, if there's nothing else there will usually be a commentary on previous news items, things that happened in-game in previous matches or something similar. During a usual game week, this is the schedule you can expect not including news pieces:

Sunday - Sunday - or the day after any game - is the day we produce a Chalk Talk article, presenting analysis on one or a couple of players from the game the day before using MLS and OptaSports' new Chalkboard application. If there was something pressing - such as the Brian Mullan/Steve Zakuani incident from 2011 - there will usually be a Sunday update about that as well.
Monday - Monday is usually when the longer analysis articles come out detailing tactics, player updates/critiques, injury reports or analysis of play from the previous game that weren't covered in the Chalk Talk article.
Tuesday - A grab bag shorter article of some sort.
Wednesday - Same as Tuesday.
Thursday - Short Scouting Report on the next opponent comes out, often this is the day that interblog material comes out.
Friday - The Rapids Thugcast - Burgundy Wave's 30-45 minute weekly podcast featuring the three staff members of BW - gets released on Friday every week. If interblog material doesn't come out on Thursday or there just isn't any, you'll usually see a Three Keys to the Game post on Fridays as well.
Saturday - There will always be a Game Preview, Gamethread - a place where you can stay during the game for discussion about it, one of us is usually in there to chat :) - and Game Recap along with a 'Potent Quotable' concerning the game. Oftentimes a game related article will be released and sometimes you'll get the 3KTTG article on game days as well if there was something else to write about on Friday.

That's the approximate schedule we run on, with obvious changes as we go about real life with it.

Basic Site Rules
* Profanity is limited at all SBnation sites, I'm lenient enough to allow some profanity but don't go overboard with the curse-laden ranting.
* Try to not go horribly off topic if you don't have to. We prefer if you talk football on a football site, if there's something else you're dying to say there's probably another site out there dedicated to that topic that you can discuss on all day long! This rule is the most lenient of all of them, obviously. As long as we keep politics and religion out of it I'm pretty sure we're good!
* Obvious rules of the internet: Mainly, don't be a dick. As a professional troll I can tell when somebody is being a jerk just for the sake of being a dick.

Fanshot/Post Guidelines
* If you post a news item that looks worthy of an article ahead of me finding it, the shot will be deleted when I post the article. If it's something small like Ian Joyce and his wife having a baby, feel free to scoop me.
* Don't link to anything profane or completely unrelated to the Rapids or the sport of football, naturally.
* Spam comments, fanposts or fanposts mentioning gucci bags, clothing, illegal streaming sites or otherwise will be deleted the second I see them. (Also you will be banned but I think you knew that)

That's really all you need to know. Enjoy your stay!