An unexpected surprise the league was hit by was the surge of new creates from their advertising on Reddit back in S20. There was something like 100 new members in a week, if I remember right and the league was not expecting reddit to do as well as it did for bringing in new members back then. I know a lot of the class fizzled out quickly but it did bring in a lot of prominent members who are still active and contributing today, or if they're gone now did have a profound impact on the league for a long time. It was a big boost for the league and the new recruiting tactic has clearly become an effective recruiting tool since, seen by how draft picks are stipulated on whether or not it's a reddit draft. It brought a lot of life and activity to the boards and I don't think any of the older members had really seen that coming to the scale it was. A pleasant, albeit unexpected, surprise for the league and it's just grown exponentially since then.