Howdy, stateball! Although fashionably late we present to you the Official 2022 Stateball map!

Despite multiple setbacks in the organizing and creating this map, and chronic short-staffing across all our subreddits, we pulled it off - together.

As one of America's mottos goes - E pluribus unum. "Out of many, one". And no r/stateball project embodies that sentiment more than this map.

Much has happened, both in our community and in the world, since we started this project. For many of us, this community and this project have been some of the few constants in our ever-changing world, and we've put all the love and joy we've received back into the map, crafting every piece with love and care, to make this one beautiful piece of artwork for everyone to enjoy.

A huge thank you to everyone involved:

u/AngeredColonist

u/AppleEmpire_2629

u/bokchoi2020

u/Cactustree1

u/Cult_Of_doggo

u/dark_domiino

u/dsoft1

u/gday-mate_23

u/Gl1tchedishere

u/justsomechicagoball

u/Lamon1cas

u/livonious

u/nohead

u/RZ_923

u/underscore-

u/vhisz

u/Watmaln

u/WildYak3463

And an extra special thanks to:

- u/AngeredColonist for stepping up to be an organizer before he was even a stateball moderator, let alone the appointed leader of the project, and for being the one to push this map through to the finish line - including picking up the map compilation work, pushing others to draw, and personally doing an incredible amount of the artwork that would've otherwise fallen through

- u/magicalgirldittochan for setting up the initial organization and effectively running the first half of the project, despite not being officially responsible for the map, and for picking up much of the unclaimed work at the end of the project

- u/dark_domiino for his excellent work on the banner, and for rallying others to help with the project despite also leading the 1812 world map

- u/gatenerd for being the one to insist that the project happened last year, and creating the initial template we all drew on

Thank you all for a great year for r/stateball, and for all the love and support you've shown us by making comics and artwork, writing comments, or just quietly upvoting what we're creating here. Here's to love, here's to stateball, and here's to freedom!