| Cyan Quadrangle Alliance | |
| Name | Simon Fraser University |
| Description | Final form of the Cyan Quadrangle Alliance, of which SFU was a part. The Raccoon in the top left |
| Location | (895,501) |
| Area | Original canvas, right of Mexico, below Canucks pixels |
| Atlas ID | tuvwxy |
| Creator | /r/SimonFraser |
Simon Fraser University (Often shortened to SFU) is a public university located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, with it's primary campus being located on top of Burnaby Mountain, in the Greater Vancouver area, and secondary campuses in Surrey and downtown Vancouver itself. Students of Simon Fraser University created a subreddit for the university in March of 2010, with the subreddit as of June 2022 having nearly 17,000 subscribers.
r/place 2022
Creation
Members of the subreddit had, in 2017, cooperated with students from /r/UBC (The University of British Columbia) and /r/UVic (University of Victoria), both fellow British Columbian universities, to build a small banner with SFU on it between the banners of UVic and UBC. In 2022, initial proposals from UBC students to work together to build a banner below that of UBC's banner, itself below the soon to be turbulent flag of /r/Canada were met with some enthusiasm, however following an abortive attempt to take out a primary competitor in the area which ended up itself being taken over by /r/Colombia, the search was on for a new area.
This was found at about the location (889,503), which was the former territory of a trollface emoji of gg/troll, but had since collapsed into chaos with about half the territory being taken by /r/Greenlattice following their war with the Trans Flag, and the other half being a site of chaotic mishmash and abortive attempts at creating artwork. SFU seized the opportunity and, having organized in a discord (r/PlaceSFU), began to build their banner at around 21:00 GMT.
They were not the only ones competing for one of the last areas of free real estate left on the canvas however, and were soon thereafter joined by the /r/TorontoBlueJays, building a cyan square in preparation to add their logo (A blue jay). An agreement between ambassadors was very quickly reached, and the Blue Jays build around the SFU banner, joining forces with SFU and another two communities, /r/Spelunky and Staropa building to the left of the banner, in what would come to be called the Cyan Quadrangle Alliance. Despite growing pains and sporadic confusion as Blue Jays fans sought to place their logo, the largest of the three present, occasionally overtop of SFU and Spelunky, all communities were able to relocate and come to a rough form of completion by 06:00 GMT, 6 hours after place 2022 was launched.