Team Edge

Team Edge is a challenge-based channel which has been going since September 28th of 2015. Team Edge was a production under Hi5 Studios before becoming an independent division of Omneity Inc. The channel was created by Matthias, Bryan and J-Fred, and currently has a split ownership between Bryan and J-Fred.

Their channel description states, "This is a channel where we do nothing but competitions and challenges and act like idiots while doing it! We love Jesus and live to make his name known. YouTube has given us a great opportunity to do that! All are welcome and loved so we hope you'll stay awhile, but don't spend your whole life on YouTube! Go smell a leaf or something!" 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 of 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 they made the decision to move from the garage to an office building, which gave birth to Hi5 Studios. They officially moved Team Edge to the Orange Base on August 28th of 2016. The move allowed them to do more larger scale challenges within the Orange Base warehouse. After only 10 months of filming in the Orange Base, they relocated the channel to the Red Base because of the larger office space and warehouse space.

After 2 years as a Hi5 Studios production, Matthias made the decision to stop producing Team Edge under Hi5 Studios, and instead make Team Edge their own separate division under Omneity Inc. Team Edge officially moved out of Red Base on July 17th of 2018 and have been producing videos in their new office since then.

Background
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

 * Youtube
 * Team Edge
 * Twitter
 * @Its_TeamEdge
 * Instagram
 * @itsteamedge

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.