>>66352424>>66353747As someone who applied, I can give you the full run down
>Nijisanji set up applications for a GAMER wave, this seemingly done by the same management team that handled ILUNA and XSOLIA>Application evidence here: https://www.nijisanji.jp/en/news/7r-5zlk8o>Some of the questions wanted to know your e-sports background, prior prize pools and ongoing sponsorships. I firmly believe this was done to counter the VSPO EN news>Months go by with next to no updates, until details leak into the /nijiEN/ general that the planned GAMER wave of EIGHT has been downscaled due to various members leaking things via Discord>Later leaks emerge on /vt/ including designs of the remaining FOUR>GAMER wave is dubbed the Frog wave with various French and French Canadian males graduating around this time, some returning abruptly leading to the speculation to hold weight>Around this time, Niji put out a new application form that isn't gender locked>New Application evidence here: https://www.nijisanji.jp/en/news/7s9spanqg4r>"KRISIS" debuts shortly after with the leaked GAMER wave designs, now merged into the new Niji JP waves to form the "HERO" UNIT. The "frog wave" holds true with two of the three hires being French>Nobody in "KRISIS" is worthy of the GAMER title, so clearly internal restructuring occurred to stop these stupid themed waves >Another application form is rushed out, seemingly struggling to bring in worthy applicants: https://www.nijisanji.jp/en/news/ebwcq6s87wis>A few months later, TTT drops to no fanfare or impact, likely casted from the two rushed poolsThere has been a hefty gap and major rewording / adjustments to applications forms since, with the newest one having passed a few weeks ago. I have to suspect that the staff in-charge of monitoring applications has changed since the failures of those listed above. In turn, I also have some personal rrats
>IILUNA and XSOLIA are also meant to be themed. You don't hire almost exclusively Westerners for one wave and than follow up with exclusively East Asians after. My belief is that Nijisanji was trying to appeal to the two normie bases of those respective nations.>I believe the GAMER wave was intended to enter tournaments and highlight the Niji name internationally to ape VSPO's success.>I also believe that someone in management had a vendetta with EN, having constantly choked in every branch wide tournament. Splatoon, PUBG, Val etc. EN are constantly scrubs. 
