Pollinator gardens provide a beautiful, sustainable, and a nourishing habitat for bees and butterflies. April Johnson is here to teach us how to create an NDSU certified home pollinator garden. April's the NDSU Extension Pollinator Technician. Her job consists of public outreach to promote pollinator conservation. She's an avid gardener with a passion for edible landscaping and teaching others how to grow food. April, welcome to the forums. Hi, thanks for having me. Okay, let's get started. Yeah, so like Tom said, I'm the pollinator technician, which is a beautiful, wonderful, totally made up job that I am blessed to have. If I'm not talking about bees and butterflies, I'm writing about them. It's literally a dream. So if you have a garden club or other organization that would benefit from a talk like about pollinators, edible landscaping, monarch habitat, anything like that, let me know, I will be sharing my contact information at the end of our discussion. All right, why should we care about pollinator habitat? So pollinators are absolutely essential for the reproduction of many flowering plants and over 75% of the world's crops, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. About one out of every three bites of food we take is with the help of a pollinator. And I don't mean wind, I'm talking about living organisms. And this includes not just fruits and vegetables that we eat, yes, your cucumber, your apples, but also the pollinators make sure we have food for the other food that we eat, like cattle specifically. Pollinator sustained ecosystems by ensuring the survival of plant species. Most of the colorful blooming plants, so a lot of the stuff that Don talked about in his presentation are pollinated by living organisms. Prime pollinator habitat is shared by other wildlife as well, including birds and mammals. So if you're creating pollinator habitat, you're not just creating a home for insects, birds and other animals will enjoy it as well. And pollinator habitat is diminishing across the globe due to multiple factors like climate change, herbicides, agriculture, and urban expansion. So our initiatives, and when I say our, I mean NDSU Extension, specifically the pollinator conservation section. My role is to educate my community and promote the restoration and expansion of pollinator habitat across our region. My team and I fully believe that home gardeners can make a significant positive impact on pollinator conservation. You may think that putting in a pollinator garden, a tiny little spot makes no difference at all, but it makes a huge difference. The more humans get involved with the landscape, the farther and farther they're apart, the larger native untouched habitats become. And our job as gardeners is to try to fill in that what's called the empty matrix, the spaces between those native pollinator habitats. I'm talking with my hands, and I don't know if you can even see them, but I can't stop talking with my hands. Our impact is we have certified over 240 public and private gardens in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota since the program started in 2016. And we're up to about 4.7 million square feet of pollinator gardens that we have certified during the program. This year, we're partnering with Fargo Parks, who certify around 50 acres of new pollinator habitat. Our Be-On initiative is new. So we started it last summer where we distributed white Dutch clover seeds for 10 by 10 square foot patches. So little bags of enough seeds to cover that area. And we distributed about 60,000 square feet worth of seed. So that's pretty exciting. Clover is a drought tolerant nitrogen fixing flowering plant. It's an excellent source of pollen and nectar for bees and requires almost no maintenance. So that's why we recommend it for a Be-On. And one of my favorite aspects about clover other than the forage it provides for our bees is it stays green even when the grass in your lawn is dead. We get long periods of drought and I get sections in my yard that just turn brown. But if there's a patch of clover, it's green. If you're interested in participating in the Be-On program, I'll touch on that later, but watch for updates on our Facebook page. Okay, so what is a pollinator garden? A pollinator garden is a specially designed garden or landscaped area planted with a variety of flowers, shrubs and trees that attract and support pollinating insects. The primary goal of a pollinator garden is to provide a habitat that encourages pollinators to visit, forage for nectar and pollen and contribute to the pollination of flowering plants. We're creating a beautiful space that bees and butterflies want to live in. These gardens often feature a diverse array of native plants that bloom at different times throughout the growing season to provide food sources for pollinators year round. Additionally, pollinator gardens include nesting sites, water sources and shelter to further support the needs of our pollinators. For the benefits, I've got a list here, but I just wanna draw your attention to the two blue highlighted sections, ecosystem services. This is something that we don't talk about a lot, but all sorts of animals over the planet provide ecosystem services that would cost a lot of money and take a lot of engineering for humans to replace them. So ecosystem service for pollinators is not just pollinating our food, but they help improve soil health and water filtration and pest control. Conservation is another aspect I wanna touch on. Many pollinator species, including bees, butterflies and some birds are facing population declines due to habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, other factors that we mentioned earlier. Pollinators, sorry, creating and preserving habitat for pollinators is crucial for their conservation and the preservation of biodiversity. So our main goal here today is to promote, restoring that pollinator habitat for lots of really good reason. Factors to consider before starting. And when I say starting, I need filling out the application to get your pollinator garden certified. You're eligible for certification if you reside in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota or Montana and meet the guidelines in the application. That's what we're gonna touch on in the next few slides. And just before we really get into it, I wanna draw your attention to a water source availability as a bullet point. We're gonna talk about that in detail, but that's something that is sometimes missed when we start planning our pollinator gardens. Water is a key element and it's absolutely necessary for prime pollinator habitat. These are the four categories we're gonna talk about in designing your pollinator garden. There are, there's different criteria for each of these categories. So garden size, there's no official recommended size, but you will have to give an approximation in the application. So the only question about garden size is how big do you think it is? If you're looking for a recommendation, I'd say start with an eight by eight section of garden. Pressure treated landscape timbers make excellent borders. They last a long time. They're pretty inexpensive and they're sold in eight foot boards. So that's the only reason why I say eight by eight is because it's easy to put together that size space. Borders are absolutely key in making a space look intentional. So mature pollinator gardens look absolutely feral or they can't. I mean, I suppose you could have a really well-manicured one but if you're trying to mimic nature, it's gonna look natural. And so having a border is essential to letting your neighbors know that you're growing that garden on purpose. Location, it does not matter where you install your garden on your property though a spot with full sun is ideal. The application will ask you to categorize it by one of those four qualifiers in the slides, urban, rural, public, or private. Just because we like to, on our interactive map of all the gardens, we like to mark if they're public or private garden. There's no priority for either, for any of those four qualifiers. Plant selection, lots of options. We will get more into that in the next few slides. Water source, like I mentioned, you'll have to provide water but there are lots of options. And pesticide use, the last question in the application is a pledge to use, I hope you can see my hands, safe pesticide practices in the pollinator garden. The plant selection, choose plants with staggered bloom times. And you need two selections for each bloom period. So the earliest pollinators in our area to wake up are bumblebees and they start to appear mid to late April. Bubblebees can fly in colder temperatures with lower light levels than other bees. So that's why they get to go out first. The first bumblebees out will be the overwintered queens with a brood at home to feed. The, some of the plant selections, now I'll talk about a resource for a better list than what I'm gonna give you later on. But just to get started, if you're gonna take some notes, April and May, some good choices would be Columbine, Crocus, Grape Hyacinth, Prairie Smoke, June would be Blue Indigo, Catmint, Golden Alexander, Butterfly Milkweed. July, August, that would be Black Eyed Susan, Meadow Blazing Star, Purple Coneflower, Bee Balm and Swamp Milkweed. And then fall, New England Astor, Golden Rod Sedums. Now, just a note, these are native plants that I listed. You do not have to stick to native plants as long as you've got something hardy that's blooming that's not a double bloom cultivar. They work great. We just, all of our testing and research that goes into these kind of talks, we've tested on native plants. So, and those recommendations, I think I mentioned Blazing Star, there's other types of Blazing Stars, Aliatris, and they work just fine. But again, these are, I'm just giving you specific species that we have tested and we have some data on. But you're not limited to what I just told you. Water, okay. This is really fun. So a minimum of one water source is required for certification. You can be super creative with this. We got a bird bath, a butterfly puddling area. If you don't know what a butterfly puddling area is, it's a puddle. I don't know why that cracks me up when I'm just, I just say it's a puddle. It is a puddle. In your garden, it would be a section of standing water that appears frequently. Now, since we get some, we get long periods of drought in the summer, I doubt that that's gonna happen reliably in anyone's garden.  That's the theory anyway. A fountain, a nearby pond, lake or stream. So if you live near golf course, or you live next to the river, you are golden. A water garden, and then a top plant also works as a water source. Nestor, nester, shelter and nesting sites, nester. Nesting sites are especially important for solitary bees. These are the bees that don't live in a hive. Sites can be dense vegetation, brush piles, dead wood, rock crevices, abandoned rodent dens and bare ground. Some pollinators, particularly insects like butterflies and certain bee species overwinter as adults. Sheltered locations like leaf litter, dense vegetation and hollow plant stems provide protection from freezing temperatures from all the snow. And then pollinators need resting places where they can perch and roost and rest between foraging activities. So bees and butterflies are out during the day getting all that pollen and nectar, and they do sleep, they need a place to sleep. And just like you wouldn't want to sleep outside, unprotected, expose the elements, your bees and butterflies don't want to do that either. So it's really important to have shelter in your garden. So that could look like shrubs, trees, tall grasses, and man-made structures such as fences and benches work really well. And the fences and the benches work especially well for attaching a chrysalis too. So any of your butterflies that go through a metamorphosis period, the really solid structures that aren't going to bend and move in the wind like a tree or a shrub, those are great places for attaching a chrysalis. There's some more options. A minimum of one place for pollinators to nest overwinter is required. So here's another list that I think these are the word for word, the options that are in the application that you could check. Bee house, butterfly house, provide bare ground that is not plowed. That's for your ground nesting bees. They can easily get to dig a tunnel out in the mud or in the dry ground. Don't cut down perennials in the fall.  This winter was especially bad because it didn't get covered up with snow. So it's just exposed. However, this makes excellent shelter for bees and I don't have to build anything. It doesn't cost me any money. I just leave stuff out and I hesitate to clean up in the spring until temperatures get warm enough. So if you're any, if you want to know what I mean by that, the most of your pollinators are going to be out and about when it gets warm enough at night that you would feel comfortable planting a tomato outside. I don't mean from seedling. So if you think it's warm enough and you're confident that that tomato won't get too cold at night, that means it's warm enough that all the pollinators are out of those overwintering sites and you can clean up all of your debris if that's what you saved for your pollinators. A note about bee houses. These are very popular and there's a lot of cute designs and I like them as a teaching tool especially as a way to get kids to introduce them to pollinator conservation and get them excited about it. However, there is a maintenance factor that goes with bee houses. So if you're going to build a bee house you notice in this picture there's mud on the ends of the tunnels or tubes. I'm gonna call them tubes. Okay, so the baby bees inside those tubes will chew their way out of the mud and they will leave behind food that they didn't consume their waste and particles of the mud and other things that were lined that their mother used to line their nest.   So what that does is it's a disease vector. It's not clean. Anyway, so the maintenance factor is if you want to use a bee house try to do it in a way that you can keep it clean meaning the tubes can come out and be thrown away and replaced or you can line the tubes with like a plastic straw and then take out the plastic straw at the end of the or in the spring after the bees have left and throw it away and put new ones in. So that was way too long of a note but bee houses are great for certain purposes but they have to be clean or you're risking the health of the bees that live there. Pesticide from the pollinator garden will go through this really fast. All of the following are required. This is part of like the pledge when you check the box at the end. Reduce spraying is the least toxic pesticide. Don't spray blooming plants. Spray that means don't spray the blooms and also just don't spray it when it's blooming. If you think it's gonna attract a bee at any point during the day, don't just leave it alone. Spray only late in the evening. Always follow pesticide labels. The pesticide label will usually tell you something like don't spray when bees are active or don't spray during the day and then identify the pest for taking action. I think I wanna add to that. Don't take action, okay. In a lot of cases, we have several pests here in this area that can be problematic but a lot of the time they won't do enough damage to your pollinator garden plant to prevent the plant from blooming or producing seed or surviving till the next year. So I would just hesitate to really do anything at all and usually, especially in a diverse garden like a pollinator garden, you will get, once it matures, you should get a healthy balance of pests and predators. And so the predators, their job is to take care of any outbreak of pests. Anyway, so I just identified the pest for taking action. Know what your target pest is. If you're gonna use a pesticide, use something specifically for that insect and nothing else. Anyway, this is, I could talk a long time about that but we don't need to, we can answer questions if you have more resources. So here's some QR codes. The first one is for our Pollinator Conservation Facebook page. That's where I chat all the time. I post at least twice a week. We have Fun B and Butterfly Facts. We have all the Pollinator Conservation News that's hip happening. I post stuff about events. This talk, I promoted this talk on that page and we can interact and you can ask me questions. And you'll get the first updates on when we put out new publications. The middle is our online library of Conservation and Gardening Resources Extensions Library. And then the last one is, we'll take you to the application intro page but at the bottom is that interactive map that I mentioned earlier in the talk, which has a map of all the certified home guard, certified pollinator gardens, home or public. And a lot of them, a majority of them have pictures attached. So you just click on the little icon and it will show you pictures so you can see what other people have done with their pollinator spaces. Points, pollinator gardens make a difference meaning, yes, your eight by eight space does contribute positively to pollinator conservation. You need two space each for each bloom period. That's key. So you're gonna have, was there four bloom seasons? So you're gonna have at least eight different species in your pollinator space. You need a water source and then there's pesticide mitigation. That QR code will take you to the application page. So you can, if you've already got a pollinator garden and you think it needs all the criteria, go ahead and follow that link and fill out that application. You'll get a really cute, free sign. Or if you are gonna install one this year, bookmark that, you can refer to that application if you need some more notes on, or I mean, it's the same as this presentation but if you need a reminder of what the qualifications are or if you just wanna bookmark it and save it for when you've finished your installation. I would like to open up to questions. And while we do that, I will just leave it on my contact information so you can email me anytime with follow-up questions or if you need some help planning a pollinator space, I would love to help you do that. Okay, thanks, April. All right, everybody. Now the last session, we had so many great questions. They're really all helpful and let's keep it going now. And so we've already got some questions coming on out here, April, you got a bee house, but now what's the trick to getting the bees to nest in those tubes? They will find it. Put it near your pollinator garden. So put it near where they're foraging and they'll find it ideally in kind of a sheltered space. So something that's not gonna fill up with water, hanging it on your fence works really well or mounting it on your fence or somewhere on the ground in the pollinator garden works too. So you're saying if you build it, they will come? Yes, yeah. All right, okay. How about this person uses a crop rotation of two years of red clover in a six-year rotation plan, but they don't want the red clover to go to seed. How long can they allow the blooms to bloom before they mow them so they don't go to seed? Oh, interesting. Okay, that is a question that I would have to look up to be absolutely accurate, but if there was no data on it, if we didn't know, I would test it by looking at my clover and if the blossoms are still like, moist is not the right word, but they're not dried up. So the clover of blossoms will dry up as they're going to seed. So if you test it and you're like, okay, it's still, I can still feel there's moisture in it, then you can think about mowing it. And then, but as soon as it starts getting dry, I'd be, if you don't want it to go to seed, I definitely would be mowing at that point. Makes sense. Okay, bro, in your certification process, you insist upon two plants per bloom season. Now, why are you so demanding of two plants, two species? I've never asked that question, but I think it's probably hedging your bets just in case something happened to one of the species that they would not have like a black hole in your blooming calendar. Okay, how about, would you call a honey locust or a mountain ash tree a pollinator plant? Yes.  Yes. Okay, thanks, sorry, a trees are not my, I don't know trees very well, but I do know honey locust is a pollinator plant. And I have one of those in my front garden, so. The mountain ash has those white blooms and those beautiful orange fruits, clusters of fruits in the fall. That's right, that's right. So they bloom well. Okay, what else we got? What are some of the most common pollinators in North Dakota? Well, there's apis mellifera, which is the honey bee, European honey bee, so it's not native, but it has naturalized and taken, it's taken over the world, right? European settlers brought it everywhere. We have lots of different bumble bee species, bombus teresterus, for instance, which I think is the yellow banded bumble. I can't remember, it's common name. We need to look that up. And we have a lot of, here I'll just do categories because that's more fun. We have the metallic sweat bee, some people say sweet bee, but they're the tiny bees that are really shiny, they're usually blue or green, they're super beautiful. We have longhorn bees, we have mason bees. They will, they line their nests with mud, so you'll see a bee flying to like a wet bare ground, scooping up some mud and taking it back to its nest. Leaf cutter bees, they will, they cut little discs, almost perfectly round discs out of leaves and use that to wallpaper their nests. I'm sure I'm forgetting some of them, but we have 1,400 bee species in North America, and I feel like it's 200 and something species in North Dakota, but it's been a while since I've had that statistic in front of me. 200 different species of bees in North Dakota. Wow, how about flower colors? Are there better colors of flowers for pollinators or do different types of pollinators prefer different colors? Sure, okay, yes, yes and no. Butterflies, the research says they can learn, they don't have necessarily flower preferences, they will learn when they visit your garden which flower has the best nectar, and then they'll think, oh, I love red because this red flower has a ton of nectar, but another butterfly visiting a different garden might learn, oh, I love purple because this purple flower has more nectar or has the best of those choices. These are a little bit different. They like white, yellow, and blue or purple flowers. They will see those colors in, their eyes interpret those colors differently than humans do, so the yellow flowers look blue, I think, and the white ones might too, but they, yeah. So we have a lot of yellow and purple flowers in our recommended list for pollinator plants, but I think most of the ones I even listed in my, that slide on the plant selection, they're mostly yellow and purple. How do you feel about many clover compared to Dutch white clover? Because a concern this person has is many towns have municipal codes that limit boulevard plantings to six inches of height. So that could be an issue with the Dutch white clover? Dutch white clover grows three to four inches tall usually. Okay. It doesn't get, I'm sorry, what did you say was the maximum six? Six inches. You should be okay with Dutch white clover. Red clover gets taller, so the white should be, stay shorter, yeah. And in your water requirements, how far away does the water need to be from the plants, or how close does the water have to be near the plants? It kind of depends on which bees your pollinator garden is up supporting. Some bees and butterflies can't fly as far as others, but I know that most bees can pollinate, like when you talk about apple trees that need to cross pollination, a lot of the recommendation is 50 yards, I think. So I would say 50 yards is probably fine if you're talking about, oh, I live this far from the river, that works. Okay, here's another question. This person wants to update their mom's lawn with bulbs for early spring. And maybe it'll attract some early insects, but the mom thinks her soil is too sandy. Do you have any thoughts about that? So the question is wanting to update a lawn with bulbs. Right, naturalize. You may need some Siberian squill, maybe, or glue to the snow. Oh man, I know we have this information in our beautiful landscapes. It'll tell you if it needs sandy soil, or if it tolerates sandy soil, or you know, mess it to dry. But I don't know that off the top of my head. That would be an excellent question to email me with the contact information on your screen, and I will be happy to answer that for you tomorrow. Okay, let's get some more questions here. When is the best time to dismantle last year's pollinator garden? Oh, so cleaning up the, yeah. So that would be when it's warm enough for all the pollinators to have woken up. So if you would plant a tomato outside, so 50 degrees at night is a good temperature for that. They should be all out of the garden by then. But also, your queens will start to lay a new brood. Well, all the species are different. So I can't really make a blanket statement, but you will have ground nesting these that are active throughout the whole season. So if you get some of those in your garden, when you're cleaning up, just be, just look at where they're at and don't step on them, but they mostly bees are too busy to bother with you. How about are wasps attracted to bee houses? Yeah, there's some predatory wasps that this is another reason why I don't love bee houses is because you can get some predatory wasps that will lay an egg. They'll say, they'll see the bee house and they can lay their eggs through the mud caps and then their egg will hatch and eat the baby bees inside. So that's a risk. And then there's, I think I mentioned butterfly houses were on that list and they're in the application. And butterfly houses have been known to be colonized by paper wasps. And we have quite a lot of, we have a lot of paper wasps in this area which are attracted to building their nests on human man-made structures. So like a bee house. When you clean out the bee boxes, do you throw away the tubes that were not used? You can compost them if they're, typically those tubes are bamboo or you can use paper straws too.  You can also compost them if they're compostable material. And in these bee houses, how do you clean up the tubes? Well, so you can put a straw lining in them or just replace the tube. Okay, how about this person doesn't have a QR code and doesn't have a phone for QR codes. Is there a way to access that virtual tour without a QR code? You'll send me that, you can send me that and I'll post that on the website tomorrow. Okay, are there, can a rain garden be a pollinator garden? Yes, so a rain garden to the best of my understanding is a, it's zero escaping, so it's a garden that gets flooded sometimes but also can handle drought, right? So yes, that would be a really interesting project. I'd love to chat with someone about that who's maybe got that as a dream of theirs. Are yellow jackets pollinators? No, kill them with fire. We hate them. Will the flowers all grow first year? I would say give your pollinator garden about three years to start looking nice and full. Can use neem oil on plants? I don't wanna, I knew this question was gonna come up. And I don't know. Maybe Dawn has the answer to using neem oil or maybe knows more about that than me. I don't, I'm concerned that it might slough off some of the beneficial insect eggs, but maybe Dawn can comment on that. Okay, I think that's all on that. Drop links for your QR codes. Okay, I will drop the links during the next person's chat so you don't have to watch me look for the pages. All right, well, we wait for time to get back on. I think we'll take a five minute break and we'll find out, I think you got one more that just popped in April if you wanna take a peek at that one. Yeah, there's some more in the Q&A too. Yeah, you can pop that up and then see if there's any time to not read your off. Does the pollinator garden need to be a dedicated space or can be part of a larger garden? Yes, it can absolutely be part of a larger garden and you can incorporate it in your vegetable garden. There's a lot of data that shows that getting pollinators into your vegetable garden means bigger yield and heavier fruit even with the fruits that don't need pollinators. How does one get rid of minor bees in the ground? I have questions. Are they causing a problem? Are they bothering your pets or your kids? Are they really minor bees? There's too many questions. Send me an email and we can chat because I have questions to ask you before I can properly answer that. Are there negatives to planting a pollinator gardener on apple trees will attract apple maggots? I'm not sure what attracts apple maggots other than maggots but I have my pollinator garden stuff incorporated in my fruit trees and they all seem to be pretty happy. What natives are better for drier sandy soils? There's a lot, that's another good, so that's, send me an email. I have that data in a publication in my office. So there's some way more questions I thought there would be. You guys are great. I have an area, wow, this is detailed. I have an area I'm prepping for pollinators. I have a plastic covering the space that I planted, placed last fall. How do I best prepare the soil for planting till or no till? That is a loaded question. You don't need to tell. I would say a bunch of organic matter as long as you know where the organic matter has come from. So from your lawn clippings or your leaves, from your trees, you know they don't have a bunch of chemicals on them and keep feeding that soil with organic matter. It will soften it up naturally. It will attract a lot of biodiversity to your soil and that will be great for your pollinator garden water source. Best way to attract pollinators for early blooming fruit trees and shrubs like Juneberries and apricots. Okay, that's a good one. Okay, the best way to attract pollinators early is I plant comfrey under my fruit trees and the bees are obsessed with comfrey. And so that gets them in around my fruit trees. In the fall, I have to kill hornets. Would I still qualify? Yes, because I don't think you'd be spraying plants to kill hornets. We could cut about that in an email. The certification process happens the whole year. And I have some common milkweed that I have never seen a pollinator on although my other milkweed types are busy pollinator areas. Should I assume this common milkweed is as an issue and replace it? You certainly can. If you notice that nobody likes it, then the bees in your area and they prefer something else, then sure, if you wanna get rid of it to make room for something else, that's a perfectly fine idea. I would just check before you get rid of it, see how popular it is with the butterflies laying their eggs on it, because they really, the monarch butterflies really love common milkweed for that. Okay, do bees reproduce all summer or their certain time of the year? It depends on the species, but most bees will mate, the solitary bees, most of them will mate in the fall and have their brood by spring. Honeybees are a little bit different because they will overwinter in their hive and they generally mate in the spring and lay babies all summer long until it gets to be about time to close up the hive in the fall. How close does the wood pile need to be to the pollinator garden? It'd be great if it was in the pollinator garden, but as close as your water source is, however you've decided that 100 feet away or 50 yards, the wood pile is probably close enough for them to find it. Would you use any grasses as pollinator garden plants? Yes, grasses are great for shelter. They don't provide much pollinator sources because the bees aren't as attracted to them as your forbs. Cross pollination distance for apple trees is 50 feet. I knew when I said 50 yards, it was too long. Hey, I'm sorry, everyone. I thought that sounds really weird. That sounds too far. What are your feelings about hollyhocks? They're pretty. I don't know if they are, we haven't done any trials on hollyhocks for pollinator species or pollinator gardens. NDSU Extension does have a compiled list of pollinator flowers. It is being, the publication is being updated. So it is not currently available, but if you follow us on our Facebook page, I will let you know as soon as it is republished or re-released. Plant selections are perennials. How about annuals and containers? Yes, I guess it just depends. Anything that's double blooming is not great for pollinators. But that's what I'm thinking. When I think of pollinator annuals, I think of herbs and vegetables, which are great. We have a bee called a squash bee, that's the category of bee, and they are specifically evolved with squashes to pollinate them. So that's pretty cool. Okay, we just, I'm sorry, the power went off here. I had a poor dose here, so, but I'm glad it sounds like everything's going good here. But we just have time for one more question here. Right. Is there one in particular? Whatever you wanted. Five minutes, like 10 more in here. Let's also say this, how about we just say this, that there's so many great questions tonight. If anybody has a question that's not answered tonight, then April will be happy to answer it. Or if it's for like Don's talk, Don will be happy to answer it. And I'm also, I'm always here to help answer any regarding questions. And especially sometimes we don't ask questions if they're not really relevant to the topic, but I'm still happy to answer those questions. But how about we just, just I wanna thank you, April, for your outstanding presentation.


The seminar will be presented by Ioana Grigpatti. We'll do the presentation of the OpenAir Monitoring Institutional Dashboard, and we'll show you the features and the recent developments made in this service. And Leonida Pespedingas from OpenAir will do the demo of this service for you to get more acquainted on how to use it. So I will also like to raise and give you some news for our next webinar that will happen on the 13th of July. And it will be on another OpenAir service, uses counts, uses a statistic service of OpenAir. So if you want to know more about this and the recent developments made by this service, please join us. You can go to OpenAir portal on the webinar section and you can already register yourself. So after the webinar, we will have a Q&A session where you can address your questions and comments to the speakers. And now I keep the floor to Ioana and Leonida. Thank you so much. Hi. Thank you, Paula. So as Paula said, my name is Ioana Grigpatti. I'm a former econometrician and current data product owner at OpenAir, which means that I worry about indicators and data all the time every day. And I will give a brief presentation about service. And then Leonidas, who is the institutional dashboard guru, is going to give you a live demo. And hopefully nothing will crash. OK, so let's start. I'm assuming you can see my screen. So the OpenAir monitor can be found at monitor.openair.eu. It is a monitoring service, big surprise. So the goal, when we built the service, we wanted it to be used for the monitoring and evaluation of research activities in a reliable, consistent, and timely manner so that the users can understand the research funding pathways along different dimensions of interest, assess the open science policy uptake, and the impact that they have, the research activities have on the society as a whole, see what works and what not, identify weak spots, reveal hidden potential, implement good practices, showcasing their performance, for example, to funders or to other policymakers, and turn all the data that we have in OpenAir into insights, in an automated way, of course, to lead to evidence-based decision making. And I guess that for everyone who is interested in a monitoring platform, these are the key points that have to be addressed. So we built the platform trying our best to satisfy all of these so that the platform can be used for monitoring and decision-making, analysis, and then storytelling and reporting. So there are three types of dashboards in the OpenAir monitor that are on demand in the sense that you have to tell us that you want one. The institutional dashboard, which will be the focus today. We have 12 dashboards already and nine more on the way. And Leonidas is the co-design expert. And we also have different types of dashboards dedicated to research initiatives and to funders, where for research initiatives, research communities, Alessia Bardi is our expert. And Harry Dimitropoulos takes care of everything related to funders. So we separated the people among the different types of dashboards to really have build expertise on the needs of the particular type of organization. So the guiding principles, of course, since it's OpenAir, it's all about open data. And our guiding principles are openness, usability, and replicability. So what is the monitor? It is a data and visualization monitoring platform, which is built up on the OpenAir research graph. Which includes linked scholarly communications from around the world. And it has different research outputs besides publications, so data, software, and other research products. It is based on OpenScience principles, which means open data sources, open APIs, well-documented metrics, and indicators. We have a dedicated methodology page that we keep building and improving on the monitor. So one can easily see how something is constructed. And also, on the one-to-one sessions that we have, we try to make sure that we cover all the aspects that are relevant for an institution. So we try to meet the community requirements for the different types of dashboards. Basically, our main aim is to build trust in our indicators and our data. OK. All right. So what is it exactly? So we think it is a user-friendly data and visualization platform. And I'm going to list some functionalities that we have. I will summarize them here to give you an idea. And then, Lelandidas will present them in detail in the demo. So there are exporting capabilities. So the data and visualization can be downloaded for analysis, to put it in reports. It can also be embedded in other websites. So for showcasing and stuff, there are filtering functionalities so that the entire set of indicators is filtered by a particular aspect. There is the research product browsing. What does this mean? It means that there is an area in the platform where you can see individually the research outputs of institutions that are behind the indicators. So someone is viewing, you see, let's say, a timeline. There is a jump in a particular year. You can go to this section, to that particular year, and see all the research outputs that are in open air for your institution for that year that have been used in the calculation of all the indicators. And then see if something is missing, what's causing the jump, and so on. And download that table as well. And there is a partial editing of visualizations. And I'm impartial because you cannot affect the data that we show, right? So this dashboard is customized and validated in one-on-one sections with the experts. Now, the level of contact is up to you. So our experience so far shows that we have one-to-one session where we present the different functionalities again and show the indicators. And then we see feedback of additional indicators or visualizations should be shown. And then after the dashboard manager or the user has had the chance to play with the dashboard, we usually have another session to discuss the data quality. Sometimes, for example, they may notice that a particular data source is missing. And then we add it, and then it shows up there and so on. And then there can be additional exchanges if needed. But usually, after two or three, we have a stable dashboard that people are using. There are each indicator slash visualization can have one of three settings that the user themselves decides after logging in. It can be public. So these are indicators that would be used for showcasing. So you tell a potential funder, please go see it. Look at my dashboard over there, and you can see what I have done in the last years and so on. There are restricted indicators where someone has to sign in and be invited by you to view them. So these are usually used for teams. So the manager invites the team members by email, and then they have access to this restricted set of indicators. And then there are private indicators that are for work in progress. So they're not shown to anywhere besides the institutional manager. So what we do from our side when there are new indicators, we upload them in the profiles. The manager is notified. They can change the setting of the indicators if they like them. They can change them to public to showcase to the rest of the world and so on. But they receive a notification. And then one is obviously able to play with the public dashboards of the other stakeholders if they wish. OK, in terms of the indicator themes, I'm not going to cover all the indicators that we cover. Although in the next month, besides viewing a dashboard, you will be able to go to a particular to the resources part of monitor and download a full set of indicators, which will be with the definitions and construction, which will be useful, we believe. So currently, we have indicators with respect to funding, so grants, projects, and so on for an institution. There is different types of research outputs. Open science, where we cover fairness, access rights, article processing charters, and journal business models. Networks and collaborations. Right now, we have some stuff with respect to funded publications, but there's more coming. And impact, where right now we discuss, we have indicators with respect to reach and frequency that have to do with the downloads from different resources, sources, and so on. The road map for indicators that will be completed by early fall 2022 is, first of all, we have a set of improvements suggested by the users of the monitor for the particular ones that we have already. So we're working on this. Then we have a set of indicators on plan S compliance. Indicators that include UN sustainable development goals, so research output by goals and so on. And indicators that include different fruits of science done to FOS level three at this point. OK. Now, in order to really understand what's going on and reveal these weak spots and make decisions, we provide visualizations that break down the indicators by different aspects of interest. If additional aspects of interest are required, so different metadata elements for the breakdown, this can be very easily added because we have a tool that we use internally to create the indicators directly from the open air graph. So some of the breakdowns that we have now is the research activity type. So publications, data, software and projects, time, different data sources, different organizations, at top journals and so on. Just the ones that you will see in the demo are just an example of the ones that previous users have found interesting, but this can be augmented. The data behind the indicator, so priority number one, let's make sure we show something that makes sense. So for those of you that didn't know already, so we show the data that is of the open air research graph as I saw before. And here, this picture represents the pipeline of the open air research graph. So there is aggregation from different major resources, sorry, sources, which is then deduplicated so that different records of the same publication, for example, are merged into one. And you are always able to access all of the records, like the regional instances, as we call them, they do not disappear. Then this is enriched with additional metadata via text mining, okay? These are cleaned. And then they're ready for statistical analysis which is what you see in monitor and our fellow monitoring service, the open science observatory. And also indexes, which is what you see in explore and other services as well and other places. Okay. Extremely important for the institutional dashboard is organization disambiguation. So in the metadata of research output records, we view one particular organization with lots and lots of different names. And these changes, the number of names keeps increasing as we merge more and more records. So what did we do? We developed this open orgs tool, which is super easy. You go and you enter your organization, for example, organization name and then it automatically presents all the duplicates. So organizations that almost have the same name, you go and you say, okay, this is a duplicate, this is a duplicate and you validate it quickly. And then we have also added, by we, I mean our friends at CNR, but an opener, you are also able to identify the parent-child relationship. So you're able to say that University of Athens is the parent. Department of Economics, University of Athens is the child. The minute this is validated when the creation is complete, it immediately goes to the next round of updates of the open research graph, which means that the institutional dashboard that is created with one organization ID, will now contain the information of all the different alternative names that the organization was showing up as. So in order to do this duplication, we ask managers of the institutional dashboard to do it as well as not. So on June 28th at 11 am CST, we will have a training of how to do this where you can also, if you would like to have an institutional dashboard who will give you access and so on. The presentation includes the Zoom link and you can see how you do it. This massively improves the data available at the dashboard because we show, we take all the outputs that are put into the right organization together. Okay. So just the last thing to say before we move to the demo is that as we said before, our priority is data quality and of course the indicator quality as well. So we work closely with the users of a dashboard to make sure that all the major research output outlets are integrated into OpenAir. That the project outputs are correctly identified. So we have data, we have in OpenAir right now 25 funders and we're increasing the numbers and we're using inference to track from acknowledgement in footnotes and so on to track project outputs even after the project ends. And we do, there is a quality verification with the funders themselves as well. Validation curation, let's say. We link the different research products. So one is able to see the links between a preprint and a publication and data and software if it all comes together. And also one can verify if all their output is correctly counted in the output of the country as well. Because a lot of users are using OpenAir in order to look at country level indicators as well. So we make a lot of effort into data quality and we welcome our users to work together with us on this. The monitoring dashboard makes it easy to do so because you can see a breakdown by, for example by content providers and one can easily identify if something is missing. And we make it so that the records are duplicated, clean and visible to you and searchable. So we really want to build trust on this indicator to make the dashboards useful. So I spoke enough, let's move to the demo and there's a link you can see in the slides where you can access a public dashboard as well. Thank you. Leonida. Thank you Joana for your presentation. So now we will proceed to the demo of the institutional dashboard from the monitor service. Okay, here we see the homepage of the OpenAir monitor. First of all, we will login with your institutional account. I'm performing the login with my OpenAir account. And then by clicking browse, you will have the list of the organizations that are included that have a dashboard in the OpenAir monitor service. We are interested in the institutional dashboard here and then you can find your institution. And by clicking manage, as a dashboard monitor, you go to the admin web page of your institution where you have three tabs, the general tab where there is information about your institution such as the name, some internal information that cannot be editable, such as the Elias and index ID that comes from OpenOrcs, index name and index short name. Here you can change the name for your institution, for your profile, and you can also add a description here for your institution. And you can upload the file or share a URL for the log of your institution. And of course you can also set the status, the visibility status of the dashboard where as Johanna mentioned in her presentation, there are three types, the public status of the profile, the restricted and the private status. The same levels also exist in the indicator tab where we will discuss it right after. Now, before we go to the indicator tab, let's see the user tab. We're here, there are two levels of user levels, the managers and the members. The dashboard managers are the administrators of the institutional dashboard and they can perform all the functionalities that we are describing in this demo. They can also invite other users to become managers or members. Members are users that are able only to see indicators and categories that are in restricted mode. And here you can, as a manager, you can invite other users of your institutions. For example, the team you want to create for the internal monitoring of the indicators of your institution. So on the indicators tab, we have the main five, the five main categories. As Johanna mentioned, her presentation which are funding, research output, open science collaborations and impact. Let me mention here that each of these main categories can be set to public, restricted or private as long as any other category and subcategory in each tab and of course in its indicator and the hierarchy follows and the level, the set, the level of the status level, the status follows in the hierarchy. For example, if we set the funding category here to private, there is no one will be able to see except for the institutional managers. We will be able to see the indicators or the internal categories of this or the subcategories of the category funding even if you set them all to public or private. So let's continue to the first category, the funding where we have the project's information and the overview and horizon 2020 grants tabs. In the overview tab, we have two number indicators regarding the institution's project participations and the institution's project participation in the European Commission. Follow up with the graph charts, we have the project participations of the institution by funder and the project participations of the institutions or the European Commission project participations of the institutions over time for the FP7 and the horizon 2020. Let me mention here that all the graphs are interactive. Here, for example, you can hide any set of information from the labels of the graph. You can also set each indicator, restricted private or public as we mentioned earlier. Additionally, by clicking edit on one indicator, you have the option to change the title of the graph and also you can write a description of the graph. For example, if there is a specific chart, you see a large jump on the data from year to year and you have some internal information from your institution that can justify this jump. You can write it down in order to inform your users why you see this jump in the chart. And then when you hover over the chart, you can see the description. You can also change the status. You can also change other information such as the width and the height of the chart. And also you can change the chart type to buy line or bar accordingly. Well, let's continue to the description of the indicators. Apart from the project participations by funder, we also present the project participations and research output by the number of projects and by type of research output that is produced by the projects. We mean projects with publications, project with software, with data sets and other research product. We also have the project publications by open access route, green open access, gold open access, hybrid and bronze open access. And we also have the four charts with the top projects by number of the research outputs, which are publications, data sets, software and other research products that are produced and are affiliated to the institution. In the Horizon 2020 grants, as a number indicator, we have the Horizon 2020 project participations from the institution. We have the total project funding in Euro and we also have the average per project funding on the Horizon 2020. We present the project participation by pillar and by programs and we also present the top programs, the top 20 programs of the Horizon 2020. And we also present the project funding, the project funding by pillar, as long as the top Horizon 2020 programs by project funding and also the average per project funding over time and the top Horizon 2020 projects by total project funding. Here I must mention that, I should mention that the data has been created from the European Commission. That the data is current and there is a constant data exchange between open air and the European Commission. And also we are in the process of incorporating the Horizon Europe project metadata, which is around 1500 projects. So let's continue to the research output category where we have the publications, data set software and other research products accordingly. We have as a number indicator the total number of publications of the institution. We present the publications by type, the number of publications over time, the number of publications by data source type, which have been aggregated by a specific data source type and are found in a data source type. And also we have the top data sources by number of publications and also the top journals by number of publications. And accordingly we present the information for the data sets by type over time, by data source and the top data sources. Here we have only one data set registered for the specific institution on the software tab. As you can see, there is no software for this institution and in other research products we present accordingly the same information. Of course here we don't have the top journals because we are not discussing about publications. Following up the open science category where we have the open access category and the fairness. At the open access in the access rights tab we present the number indicator part we present the number of research outcomes by access rights. Research outcomes are for the publications, data set software and other research products. For some reason the numbers are not shown here. This is strange because and here you can see an important information that the number of the closed access publications for the University of Gettingen are almost the same as the number of open access publications. Which means that the open also aggregates information regarding and metadata regarding closed access publications. Okay, regarding the other charts indicators we have the publications, we present the publications by access rights, open access, closed access and bar when restricted. We also have the data sets, software and other research products by access rights. And we also have a chart, we present the same but over time for each year. As long according to the information we have aggregated. In the open access routes tab we present the publications by open access route, green open access, gold, hybrid and bronze open access. The same information but over time here. And also here we have the green open access separated by the gold, hybrid and bronze open access in order for you to see the level of the difference between the numbers of these publications. We also have the published open access via the deposited open access over time. The deposit open access is the green open access publications where we have the published only, the deposited open access only and we have the publications that also published and deposited open access. And then we present four charts with the top journals by the corresponding access route, top journal by gold, hybrid, bronze and green open access publications. In the transformative journals tab, we present the publications that are in transformative journals, have been published in transformative journals over time both open access and non-open access publications. And then the diamond open access and Article Processing Charges A Proses are the nominal indicators which have, the publications with Article Processing Charges, the number of publications with Article Processing Charges and the number of diamond open access publications which are the ones without Article Processing Charges. In the charge indicators, we also present the information open access with APCs and diamond open access publications over time. Here we see that there are diamond open access publications, but there are a few very few diamond open access publications in numbers regarding the open access with APCs. That is why you cannot see the bar, the column bar in the whole chart, but the interactivity graph helps you separate and see the numbers that you want. We also have the top journals by number of publications with article processing charges and the top diamond open access journals by number of publications. On the fairness category we have six tabs regarding the position identifiers, the abstracts, OKIDIDs, CC licenses, funding reference and duplicates. On the position identifiers tab we present the research outcomes, the whole number of research outcomes, and then the ones that have a position identifier. We have the publications by PID type, the ones that have a DOI, Handle, Publiment, Central ID, and others, and the same information regarding data set software and other research products. At the abstracts tab we have the publications that have abstract or not in the metadata and the same information presented over time for each year. At the OKIDIDs tab we have the publications with at least one OKIDID and the ones with which does not have, do not have an OKIDID. The same information here presented over time and accordingly the same information regarding data set software and wherever this information is available. In the CC license tab we present the open access publications which have a CC license and the ones that do not have a CC license, the same information over time and accordingly the same information for data sets and software. And the same information here on the product publications with funding reference in the metadata or without the funding reference, the same information over time and accordingly for data sets and software. And finally we have the duplicates tab where we have we present a number of copies that are available for publications in the open air research graph and of course these are potentially different versions of the same publication. For example this might be a preprint or postprint version and we have the number of publications with one copy with two copies three copies and following the same information is for data sets software and other research products. So in the collaborations tab we have the collaborations via product participations on the publications tab. We have we present the co-funded product publications over time via funders where we have the publications that are funded by zero or one funder and the ones that are funded by more than one funders. And we also present the co-funded product publications over time via project participations and the separation here is the categories are the participation to none or one product and participation to more than one project. And we also have the collaborating countries by number of funded publications. We present it in a world map here where the map is zoomable of course and by hovering on a country you can see the number of publications from the specific collaborating country and we have the same information for data sets software and other research projects accordingly. And finally the last category the impact category where we have the for now we have the research frequency subcategory and the downloads which have been which are used by the openers user scout service and we have the category the SDGs and the citations are soon to come and to be presented here. Well as a number indicator we have the total number of the publications, the total downloads and the average downloads per publication. In the chart indicators firstly we see the downloads per publications over time by year of download where we present the average downloads per publications by the year that the download has been made. And next there is the downloads per publication but over time of course but here we have the downloads per publications are counted by the year of the publication that the publication has been published not the year of download. Following we have the downloads per publications per publication by project participation over time project participation to zero or one projects and the co-founded publications which are publications that have been participated to more than one project. We also present the downloads per publication with abstract over time by year of publication. Then we have the repositories downloads per publication by access rights. We have the open access and the closed access publication. These are the downloads from repositories for example the closed access publications that are closed access are published in a journal and a version of this publication has been found and downloaded from a repository as a pre-print or post-print and this is very important information for the institution. We also present the same information here over time. Then we have the downloads per publication by open access route. Similarly we have the green, gold, hybrid and bronze open access and the same information over time. Also we present the top journals by number of downloads per publication from repositories and also the top journals by number of downloads from repositories. You also have the charts of downloads per publication by open by access rights which are the open and closed access and the downloads by access rights accordingly and the same information as above but this time over time from 2007 until 2021. So these are the indicators that are currently presented in any institution and dashboard. I must tell you that when we add open air ads a new indicator this will be included in the bottom of the corresponding section that it will be added and it will not change the interface as you might have already customized it through the admin interface and the default setting for each new indicator is a restricted setting, meaning that the institutional, the dashboard manager and the registered members will be able to see the new indicator and you will receive a notification in the app, in the monitor service when you log in the notification windows or in the right part of the page here where myself as a because I'm an administrator, I have a lot of notifications here. I must also show you the filtering functionality which is it's not visible in the admin interface but only in the institution's profile. This is a page of the institutional dashboard where a user, whether it's public or restricted can see the corresponding information that we just described. Here in the right side of the page you have a filtering ability of having restriction between the years in the corresponding graphs. You can put any number you want or you can select for example the last five years and all the charts that have information over time we have the filter that we have just put for years. Also with the option search research outcomes you will be shown with a search functionality inside the research outcomes that are previously shown in the institutional dashboard. You can find here all the publications, data sets, software and other research products that are shown in the dashboard here. And finally we have a methodology page where we have the terminology and construction. It is constantly updated with information for example we have we describe its term from the publication research outcome publication data set from here to even the green, gold, hybrid and bronze open access information also for the downloads. So this was the demo of the dashboard of the institutional dashboard. Thank you very much. Thank you so much Leonidas and Johanna for your presentation and demo of this service and now can institution access to these specific indicators to monitor open science. So I see that Johanna was very active in the chat so most of the questions were already answered but some of the participants are already leaving so we are just on time. But for the ones who are here and have some questions to address to the speakers please do open your microphone and just say your question or comment. Does anyone want to raise a question? I guess there is a question from Ruh. How is it preserved if we create a new indicator on each indicator's page? Perhaps you can speak up we can clarify the question a little bit please. Okay I think the question is if we go another indicator how is the shape of the profile remain the same? If this is the question then the answer is that if there is new indicators they go in the bottom of the profile and again it is not viewed publicly right because they have to be approved by the institutional manager and then the institutional manager can just move it wherever they want to leave it private so it doesn't it's not shown to the dashboard. Kenny yes yeah there were some buttons on each indicator's page like plus mark and create a new indicator and when we push that button a new window will appear and if we make a graph or indicator and then is it preserved automatically on this page or we should restore on local machine. Yes for now this functionality is not enabled for the dashboard manager meaning that you cannot create your own indicator. If you want a new indicator you can contact us we have a meeting and we discuss it and then we create it for you. Okay I understand actually we have a redesign that is going to be pushed to production in the next month and this feature will not be there. All right thank you very much. Okay and does anyone has? There is another question okay how is the total number of publications calculated are those all publications written by authors from this institution or only those publications which are archived in repositories. So we have in the as you see as you maybe saw in the NIDA's demo we have about 50 percent for the particular dashboard so close publications so these are taken from journal aggregators and other sources so the affiliation is in the metadata of either the repositories or the journal. If it is the journal it is the author affiliation if it is the repositories we assign it to the institution and only if it is an institutional repository. Okay hope this answers the question. Then if it's okay for Bogun then Maurici is saying that they're happy they don't have to figure out what to do with the JSON file yes you don't have to do anything with the indicators the functionality will not be there because in any case someone it's for us to deal with no worries. Anything else? Congratulations very good job. So thank you so much I already shared a link for to get your opinion and evaluation form of this webinar and please give us suggestions and comments for future activity or public webinars that OpenAir will organize and taking this in consideration I'll share again the link for our next public webinar on the 13th of July so if you have interest it will be about the users count service that is also used in this monitoring institutional dashboard and in another services that OpenAir provides so thank you all once again for being all here and thank you Leonidas and Joana for your great presentation and we'll see you in our next public webinar so see you soon goodbye.


This is the animation minute Welcome back to the round of news as always it start with jobs ILMX lab is looking for an animation supervisor in San Francisco Moonshot Games is looking for an animator as well ILM London is looking for an animation supervisor Rico here is tweeting that they're looking for a senior principal level gameplay animator actually more than one They're looking for animators was a here saying they're looking for 2d animators for a game project switching over to kind of tips Here's a director in prep watch out for that account It tweets a lot of threads with a ton of tips really interesting and big fan of this Speaking of thread and big fan a massive fan of Pixar and this is a insane insane threat with a really Detailed history of how Pixar has advanced technologies and through their shorts and movies is really really interesting Make sure to check it out. ILMX lab has released a new teaser trailer for Star Wars Tales from the Galaxy's Edge This is part 2. These are super cute poses one of the throw that in there really really cute You know, I have to add pixel art, you know it, but also this is super cool I love the rotoscoped animation in there just to look and feel this is such like a classic old-school Look in the cinematics. I love it behind the scenes of my knit stop motion animation. This is absolutely insane I'm gonna scrub forward a little bit. This is taking forever not the clip But what she did absolutely insane and I love it speaking of insane and look at this one Absolutely crazy and I love it really cool idea and if you want to see something similar if you scroll down in the thread Here's another example. Let's switch over to artwork. Look at this. Love the design. Love the colors Speak of designing colors. These are a couple or three of them. Look at that.  It's pretty cool. I'm gonna actually make this bigger You can take a look at this Oh Speaking of fantastic if you're watching my clips, you know, I like Star Trek and look at this model Details the lights Speaking of so good that key animation. I drew that's the tweet here. That's really cool the cloth Really nice a lot of work in there. It's really cool And last but at least I'm leaving you with Blender Studios Clip here for sprite fright. It's a really cute clip I'm not gonna spoil just watched the whole thing really well done, but that's it from me for your damnation minute You can find it every Monday on my channel at 10 a.m


Alright, I'm in a level three. I've had enough. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna win now if you don't mind. Oh How's it going everybody? Dott22A here back with some more Dragon Ball Fighters ranked matches this time playing the main team of Broly, Krillin, and Yamcha Yeah, nobody really requested this team But I did get a ton of comments asking me to go all out in a match of fighters and I do just want to clarify I don't know if it was meant to be an insult, but I do try in these videos But yes, this would be my main team.  I don't know if he saw the Dragon Rush, but he didn't take it But now we're just going to continue doing the loops of I already Dragon Rush that come Oh, wow, I am in it. You know what? Maybe the guy was right. I should just I need to go all out It's just ain't a good look Y'all just what all right? I'm gonna call cheap on that one that one look like we started our Dragon Rush It's the same time or maybe I'm blind. I Don't know but I could have swore. I was I was starting to mine up as well Okay Just taking turns to aging the story of my Dragon Ball Fighters career Just gotta wait for everybody to get their two H's out. Oh wait. Let me back up. Oh Oh That was actually really cool Barely propelled myself a button after image go low never mind that was a great option I would have had to block and we all know I'm not doing that switch out. I That was another back dash for me See here's one of the strengths of Broly just zone and Eventually they got to make a move that vanishes a pretty decent one Vanishing is a good way to get around it, but man. It's just so it's so hard to get around Broly That's why I think he's so cheap sick Oh, yeah, no, okay. Can't confirm off that. He doesn't have a bar. I'm gonna go for the 6m. It works 90% of the time it works every time Dragon Rush a tick throw with Broly is getting I think I know what I'm doing next. I Think I know what I'm doing next. I Think I know what I'm doing next Hold on Hold on. Let me work. Let me go to work. I dropped it. All right. Hold on. No How many drops? 6m and I'm mashing. Wow. He went for another 6m. He was that confident that I'd block But I was not I got hit three different times there My beam lost in the input.  Oh, I'm dead. I actually can't confirm Oh with if gohan had more health trunks was dead Great. Okay trunks is back in I'm he's gonna throw a beam and so am I No, he didn't throw it Krillin I was you could see that I was holding it to wait for his super dash if he wanted to do that But that time, uh, I just needed to let it go All right, am I playing neutral neutral neutral I played a little bit of neutral Game one goes to the main team. We actually got taken out Uh, quite a bit Broly and Krillin both met their unfortunate demise. Yamcha didn't even get a scratch He was back there throwing the assist out. Uh, never even got touched pretty much. Are we gonna get a rematch? Oh, we do. Okay late in the rematch Let me focus. Let me focus Let me focus. Let me go to work. I said this last game All right, does he block this time? There we go So cheap, dude. All right, I'll take that hit Okay, at least we blocked it might also just be that people respect Broly more like People are very afraid of both Broly's command grabs and just uh a dragon rush So they really get jumpy and when they get jumpy you can just stagger Like right there, he's gonna regret not being jumpy by them right here. I'm just mashing So he has to not be oh, I'm losing this one All right We had a course correct there because that was the standard Broly route was not going to You can tell with how low he was that I was just gonna whip that one So we had to call out the assist and go for a super dash Probably other ways around that but uh if there are I don't know To age with the armor Oh, come on. I could have there were so many sick things I could have done like this Like this. Oh, no.  All right. Oh Broly just called him trash. I was gonna do a level three I don't I don't know about all that Broly trash. I'm gonna just toss him aside My power is rising. It's overflowing. All right. Let's see if we get to rematch again Last one came down to 20 seconds. Maybe it's just a a matter of cool down 20 seconds It's here and gone now. I'm a little worried. No, it's okay. That's a bit longer every time I'm gonna just have it Are we still do we still want to talk about cheap? Is anybody willing to talk to me about this cheap character? Is anybody gonna is anybody gonna talk beam assist? Okay I'm just bashing my heart's content Oh, I love this character Raise a little bar.  No, he had a spark That's another win though. Getting spark is not bad Nice dp that's how mom's gonna go for the low Oh speaking of lows that was fast. Uh, don't kill me. Don't kill me beam assist probably gonna equal my death But he drops it and we're out of there.  That was nice See that's what when you see that that's a good time to vanish because I don't think I can vanish out of the startup of that Because I was really trying there. That's how I know I was really mashing go on. See you later All right, bring out trunks Bring him out. Oh Wait, stop. I I didn't mean it stop stop this We're in How much damage can we get off this? Oh, I already see there. Whoa. What am I dumb? Which one is it? You'll never know you'll Have the after image Okay, that was three wins, but that was pretty I feel like we should you know what let's just go find a different opponent And go three more times. Maybe that might be that might actually sound great Let's just let's just see where it takes us three A first to three again, that could be like an hour long video. All right. We're finally back We got an android 21 players yamcha.  It's not fair I should have done it again Oh that that's the worst time for it to hit because that is when I'm actually like I'm ready to I'm ready to like mix it up and go for the beam That was smart. I was like, yes Through the key blast dragon rush. Yes. All right. It connects. That's gonna be android 21 down That was a really smart key blast into vanish as soon as I saw the key blast part. I was like god. Oh Hey Do we armor here this kid boo?   We're level three already. All right, and then I'm sparking You've you've played my hand It's time. It's time for me to go Oh hold this vanish The the lag actually made that good look out to six. I'm not gonna Level one I mean level three. I'm sorry Why can I do another one because I'm blue combo. I know it wasn't right Oh, just let me go. I know the blue combo was upsetting, but I just I thought that would connect All right, I'm I'm gonna level three I've had enough. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna win now if you don't mind Oh, I've been running level three a lot recently. I don't know why maybe it's just my patience has gotten down But I am just a fiend when it came If I got three bars and we're playing against each other Don't just don't just make sure everything's safe, dude Don't let me get a chance Especially if you're beating me in terms of like if you've already mixed me up once or twice watch this read The read the read was correct, but the execution of the follow-up was very bad All right, he does have we gotta hit a level three as soon as possible Okay, make sure we're just buying a lot of time. He's got a super dash. He probably will Or I'll do it. That's fine. Oh back up Oh, I'm totally okay with this Oh gotta hit you with it again though. You thought I wasn't gonna do it again, especially after you did one Nah, I'm just I put it all in his chest All right, I can respect that that was kind of say he was like, all right This dude is throwing cave laugh And then I thought he was gonna throw one himself So I super dashed but the level three that was immaculate. Let's see if we get a rematch from that Because I was playing to be very annoying Specifically because the sparking was up This is bad. Don't think I could win. Don't expect any thanks for me. Plus. Let's he got a whole did you what the stamp meta game was impressive Wow If he wins, I'm ending the video. That was so sick. Oh, by the way, we are trying to get 200 I try to mention this at every video now Just because we're so close But we are trying to 200,000 subscribers So if you've been enjoying the video make sure to like and subscribe if you want to I want to show support. It's I really appreciate it.  I'm sorry. I still gotta win. This is a pink square matchup after all We both have families to worry about Another hit that's we all right. We tied it up We tied it up being very conservative with our bar. We almost have seven now. How many dragon balls throw them up ref Oh, I could make it work though I can't make it work.   I'm not having a good time anymore. I just want to wait. Why am I so focused on shenron Krillin's auto combos trash and I know it is too just All right Forget shenron Might need shenron I might need shenron for the oh wait, never mind. He just he wasted spark and then threw everything at a fit of That was a lot going on there.  Okay, just keep moving keep moving keep moving Three bars. What's the read? Oh sick The stamp game was impressive, but I think it all comes to an end now Why did I do that? I gave him a clean hit and three bars. Just this might be where he gets his moving If he final flashes right here, he didn't opt to He didn't even try to dragon rush. It's gonna come up to defense. Get that key blast out of here All right, we're full screen now I'm just gonna am I just gonna do it. Am I just gonna do it again? I'm a reckless man I hate to say it But it's game over Thank you all so much for watching Hopefully you enjoyed this video if you did like I said before make sure to go down below Leave a like and subscribe as well as let me know your favorite moment down below in the comments Why you're doing that though if you want to watch more videos right away There should be some up on your screen So give those a watch if any of them catch your eye I have been datsudoya and I will see you in the next one