pjcrowley is a player who is most notable for being the captain of the team Syndicate. As captain, he also ran streams.
History[]
pjcrowley started Nitro Type as far back as 2012, and within his first 2 months he became one of the earliest members of the clan the Nitro Type Masters, the first and only clan at the time, led by Vielle. Early on he was able to get to top 100 all time active racers. Although he would be absent during later periods of 2013, he would make explosive comebacks to the site, such as when he vied repeatedly to set a session record by setting out a 2,000 race session. During one of his race sessions, he had a heart attack, but survived. His brother made a statement on the Nitro Type News at the time, implying a rumor that he had died. Afterwards, many players showed their support by equipping the"R.I.P." title. This News controversy cleared up, and the last time he would ever interact with the community aside from the news comments was the first unofficial forums at the time until he created SYN.
On July 7, 2015, pjcrowley created SYN, which became known for being one of the fastest teams at the time, having frequently appeared in the All Time Speed Leaderboard. He would become involved with the SBD Shivtr, where he communicated with players, and was widely respected by other players. However, in 2015, he would end his involvement with Nitro Type when he sought to quit the game by getting banned. He emailed the admins, and they complied with his request to be banned, while leaving a ban reason implying him to check out the 7 other skins (with a link to the Imgur album), a feature that many players widely believed was coming at the time.
pjcrowley would make a grand return to the community and teams after being banned. His long-time friend asssa123 had unbanned him after 4 years and he immediately brought on supporters for his vision of Nitro Type by quickly becoming a major Discord personality and reinstating his longtime friendship with Vielle, who also supported and served as a personal adviser to his team. He had incidentally became the 2nd major veteran player to come back to the community with almost no name-recognition and quickly became a centralizing team leader in the community. Because of this, SYN became a quick phenomenon, as SECT once did in the Discord community.
pjcrowley notably took many risks when running his team and had a powerful confidence that interfered frequently with authority around him at the time. Because of this, he became controversial due to his personality. This likewise had made him more genuine to many players and added to the growing complexion when his risks would pay off and his team would defy the odds. This was no more evident than in the rivalry that ended SSH's 10-season winning streak, a consistent showing that was so historic that it had placed itself as the most powerful team in seasons history due to its unbeaten record. He was overwhelmingly successful at rallying Discord and having powerful backing from people that supported him while simultaneously bringing in many veteran players, as well as creating a coalition of the most active players at the time. This culminated in an impressive all-time point record for Seasons, and the end of SSH's year-long streak as the #1 Seasons Team. He had also done this while keeping the team's WPM average above 100, a remarkable accomplishment consistent with SYN's history as a speed team at the time.
SYN would notably bring out the peaks of many talented players in the community, most notably Tendons and Pandora. Because of SYN's championing success, powerful backing, and strong influence, it would go on to be known as one of the most legendary teams in the Discord community, made even more empowering due to pjcrowley's personality and meteoric comeback to the community. SYN would come back to win another season during Season 28 in July 2020, where they would quickly dominate and take over the leaderboard. He would eventually kick many of his members but wind up winning the season anyways. pjcrowley left the community abruptly in mid-2020, and gave Discord leadership of SYN's server to Jisoo. His account was given to Vielle, who eventually passed it on to be preserved by Tendons until it was given away and locked where it remains today.
Clans and Teams[]
pjcrowley participated in the Nitro Type Masters as one of the core members. He would also be one of the most active members of the clan many times, only falling behind Vielle and Andrew1167.