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Team Edge was a challenge-based channel which had been active since September 28th 2015 until October 5th 2023. It was a production under Hi5 Studios/Spellbound before becoming an independent division of Omneity Inc. The channel was created by Matthias, Bryan and J-Fred, and thereafter had a split ownership between Bryan and J-Fred.

Their channel description states:

Join us for fun adventures and big smiles!

About Us: We're all about spreading the love of Jesus and making His name known. YouTube gives us the perfect platform to do that! Everyone is welcome, and we hope you'll stick around. Just remember to step away from the screen sometimes and enjoy life's simple pleasures. Take a moment to smell a leaf or whatever floats your boat!

Philippians 3:20 – "But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ



They have had 2 spin-off channels: Team Edge Gaming and Team Edge Vlogs.

History[]

The channel started on September 28th 2015. The challenges were originally filmed in Matthias' apartment, with some larger scale challenges being filmed in other various locations. When Matthias bought a house, they started filming in his backyard, and later on a set which they constructed in his garage.

After almost a year of running the channel, they felt that they had grown out of the garage, and made the decision to move from their garage to an office building, which gave birth to Hi5 Studios. They officially moved Team Edge to Orange Base on August 28th 2016. This allowed them to do larger scale challenges within the Orange Base warehouse. After only 10 months of filming in the Orange Base, they relocated the channel's operations to Red Base since it had larger office and warehouse space.

After 2 years as a Hi5 Studios production, Matthias made the decision to stop producing Team Edge content under Hi5 Studios, and instead made Team Edge their own separate division under Omneity Inc.

Finally, Team Edge moved out of Red Base on July 17th 2018 and had been producing videos in their new office until the channel was officially ended on October 5th 2023.

Background[]

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Old Team Edge Profile Picture

According to the Hi5 Studios website, Bryan had originally pitched the concept of Team Edge to Matthias, and soon afterwards, they were able to get Matt's brother Joey on board with the idea.

Due to the limited space they had in Matthias' apartment, the channel started with simple tabletop challenges; mainly board games, food-based challenges or challenges that they came up with themselves. During each episode of the first season, the winner would be awarded an "Edge Point" which would help them during the Edge Games at the end of the season. After moving into Hi5 Studios, the range of challenges expanded to allow them to do more sports based challenges, as well as larger challenges which they could spread throughout their office space. They had continued doing the Edge Point system after the first season, but they gradually moved away from that system and never held another Edge Games until November 26th of 2019.

During their time spent in Red Base, they started doing a segment on each episode called "Trivia Time" where Bobby would give the players a trivia question/riddle and the player who got the right answer would be awarded a perk that would help them in the challenge.

The channel has had numerous running gags made by the editors throughout the channels existence. These have included "Edge Word of the Day" (for whenever someone would mess up their words and say a made up one) and "J-Jokes" (for whenever Joey says a mediocre joke).

In Matthias' "Team Edge Left Hi5 Studios..." video, Matthias explains that after having moderate success on Youtube, he decided to go through with creating Team Edge as a way to bring Bryan and Joey into the world of Youtube so they could quit their jobs and do something that they loved for the rest of their life. He also explained that him eventually leaving Team Edge was the plan from the very beginning. However, Team Edge and Hi5 Studios are known to be family companies, so they still connect.

Throughout the channel's history, they have had numerous guests and employees on the channel. Regularly, whenever they have had a guest Youtuber on the channel, they would also film another challenge video(s) for the guest to upload on their own channel.


Quotes[]

  • ”Peace!”
  • ”Edge Time!”
  • ”Cheater!” Or “Cheating!”
  • "PAPAYA!"
  • "Mama Mia!"
  • J-Fred: Mamacita!
  • Pacific Standard Time
  • "BORED!"
  • Bryan: Yeah Buddy!


Social Media[]

Trivia[]

  • J-Fred was the first to speak in their first video and the first to win the challenge
  • Generally, Matthias was known for being the best at challenges while Bryan was always the worst.
  • In their food slap challenges, it is always a problem of giving away that the guesser got the answer right.
  • J-Fred and Matthias are both teased with having big ears and noses.
  • The first video Bobby was ever in was Heelys Race Challenge.
  • J-Fred usually forgets the first team edge challenge Bobby was ever in.
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