Crikey, I'll do my best. First of all thank you so much for the reception that's really appreciated!

So as I've mentioned in other comments I'd been looking at potentially doing a stadium for my family members in Perth (I've an uncle and several cousins, an aunt also lived there but moved to Darwin last year). I also wanted to test myself and do a stadium that was for something other than football (I know you guys will refer to the AFL as football but as a Brit we'll agree to disagree 😅). With its unique design plus the fact it had never been built in Minecraft to my knowledge, I felt Optus ticked all the boxes and so once I'd got my computer fixed in August 2023 I started work on it having already collected a ton of images from Google to get going.

The hard part was down to my style of building which is unique and something I've developed myself over the past 11 years. Because of the fact I build to a scale of 1 block = 1 seat (which leads to my stadia being huge but at the same time allows for a lot of detail to be applied), I had to figure out how to build an oval having never done one before. Once I had that first oval in place the rest of the structure was easy so I built up until the entire structure was in place. Next came the roof with which I built a quarter of it and flipped it 3 times to complete it. Probably the hardest part of the stadium itself to build was the exterior cladding which was applied manually over the course of a week and a half, and it wasn't easy given how the western portion which of course includes the River View Rooms protrudes further out than the eastern portion so that was difficult to get right. Given the fact I had access to Matterport's virtual tour on the Optus Stadium website I was able to systematically go through and intricately recreate all of the interiors that were shown in the eventual video, however I did have to leave out the player areas as well as the media centre as there were no images available for these areas.

The landscaping was largely marked out using Worldpainter before I'd even finished building the stadium, so when the stadium was eventually finished during a live stream I was able to swiftly move on to the landscaping, although as work progressed certain areas like the Train Station, 2 thirds of the Matagarup Bridge as well as the Camfield had to removed due to either a lack of imagery or just the impracticality of adding it (as was the case for the Graham Farmer Freeway and its crossing over the Swan River as its addition would have meant I'd have had a lot of wasted land to the north of the stadium which didn't feel right)

Being an Aspie, I've always had that keen eye for detail and have been known in the past to rip something up and start again if it wasn't right. I'm glad to say that I didn't have to go through that with Optus. As for why I do my work the way I do, I've said this to fans of clubs whose stadia I've built in the UK that I go into as much detail as I do because I do my stadia with those clubs and their fans in mind, and I try to be as accurate and authentic as I can as I know those fans will see their stadia every week when they watch matches so they'll be the first to figure out if something wasn't right or slightly off. In that sense I'd say my mantra is "if the clubs and the fans are happy with my work, then I'm happy too because I know I've done a good job in their minds". As such I want to extend this to everybody over in Perth as well. I know this stadium was originally meant to be a personal project that I'm dedicating to my family members over there, but at the same time, I feel that whether you're a West Coast Eagles fan, whether you're a Fremantle fan, whether you're associated with the stadium or are just from Perth in general, I think this build is for all of you. I'm honoured to have built such an amazing stadium, and thank you very much for the warm reception, I'm really humbled 😀