Jump Academy was first announced to the world in this post!
The very first version of Jump Academy (jump_academy_beta_v1), developed by Chris!!, was released.
Our announcement SFM was released on YouTube.
The first public release of the JumpBOT plugin that enabled a bot to demonstrate a jump on command from a recording. More information here.
The first community jump movie developed by members of Jump Academy: RISE.
Five additional servers were added to our roster, including three EU servers and two NA servers (LA and NYC).
Hierarchy system for donors replaced with everyone who donated $5+ receiving the same rank and perks.
Milestone hit of 25,000 members on the JA Steam group!
Abilities test and certain new criteria required to be a Teacher were implemented.
Argentina server announced with TF2JumpArg as a sponsor partner.
Ran by Bear and CryptX and streamed by Weap0wned. Winners: Nax, Lhcloudy, Gebobus and Soup Can.
Weap0wned has decided to step down as leader of Jump Academy, and ownership transferred to Andemand and AI.
JA servers sponsored by RetroServers and SimplyTF. JumpBOT and SyncR plugins became available on the servers.
Servers for Asia/Korea announced and launched, with AsiaFortress and 아시다시피 as sponsor partners.
US East Hightower server announced.
Secondary EU dedicated and rotation servers announced, with RetroServers as a sponsor partner.
EU Hightower server spawned and announced.
Milestone hit of 30,000 members on the JA Steam group!
Advanced Soldier and Demoman rotation servers launched in EU, US West and US East.
Our very own Discord server was opened and announced to the world!
Dedicated, Easy/Medium Rotation, and Hightower servers announced for US Central.
Andemand stepped down as Co-Owner and Community Manager and Appah and Cing became Community Managers for their regions.
Easy and Medium Demoman servers announced for: Asia, US West, US East and EU. With RetroServers and AsiaFortress as Sponsor Partners.
Fishy was promoted to Admin to act as Community Manager.
Added a command to check Map's Information pages quickly on the servers.
Initial Progress Tracking announced, where 2 points are gained after each jump you complete on a map.
Hightower server for US West announced, with RetroServers as a sponsor partner.
New Dedicated and Soldier East/Medium Argentina servers announced with Jump Town as a sponsor partner.
Andemand returned as Admin to be the head of the moderation team.
Adolf The Toast Jesus™ joined the Subadmin team to assist with backend server maintenance.
New Easy/Medium Rotation Brazil server announced, with Memehouse / zolak as a sponsor partner.
Map Cycle updated to include maps that average at around T3 on the Soldier and Demoman Rotation servers.
Cing stepped down from his Admin position as he moved on from jump.
New Hightower server announced for Brazil, with Memehouse / zolak as a sponsor partner.
The Beggars Bazooka was reverted to act normally instead of as a stock launcher.
VolKan joined the Subadmin team to assist with community events.
New EU dedicated 3 server, with RetroServers as a sponsor partner.
VolKan joined the Admin team, taking over staff management duties.
Announcement of dedicated Market Gardening servers as JA2 doesn't have an MGA arena.
Jump Academy 2 (jump_academy2_rc7), the long awaited sequel to our original map, developed by scotch, dipp, Dr.Gains, John, Oatmeal, Pants, Pardinensis, Plopy, RNC1839, Sitood, Superchuck, and Syro was announced and released to the dedicated servers.
Oktonko (Autumn) joined the Subadmin team as a community manager.
The initial version of auto save was deployed as part of the progress tracker.
Fishy stepped down from his Admin position after seeing the JA2 project through to completion.
Oktonko (Autumn) stepped down from his Subadmin position after largely moving on from jump.
Classic servers for EU, US East, Asia and Australia created and announced, Including the application of Mr. Squid's MGA plugin to be used on the servers.
Rick May, the voice actor for the soldier, passed away and a statue was erected in his rememberance on the Classic and JA2 servers.
US West dedicated classic server announced.
The dedicated MGA servers were closed after the JA classic map with MGA arena was reintroduced.
Initial version of Call Teacher plugin added and announced.
The First Offical MGA Tournament using Mr. Squid's Tournament plugin, streamed on the Jump Academy Twitch account and casted by Ridge.
EU dedicated 3, US East, West and Central 2 created for Jump Academy 2 and US Central Classic server created.
Mr. Squid joined the Subadmin team as a backend developer and head of MGA.
Hosted a Market Gardening (MGA) segment during the 2021 TFConnect Midsummer Mashup event.
Released jump_academy2_rc8 to our dedicated servers, with updates, fixes, and optimizations maintained by Gentle Puppet.
Partnered with EssentialsTF to offer a jump competion with a total prize pool of $1500.
Hosted a jump segment during the 2022 TFConnect event.
Converted our Hightower servers to rotation PvP with maps edited to be jump friendly.
Released jump_academy2_rc9 to our dedicated servers.
Grandma joined the Subadmin team as a community manager.
Introduced a relay chat system allowing players to talk between any of our servers and our Discord through a global chat.
Hosted a jump segment during the 2023 TFConnect event.
Celebrated Jump Academy's 10th birthday with a community announcement.