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Q3 2020 Member Veteran Promotions - December 31 Well, our new server box is okay But I can tell you who is on fire! Say hello to our newest HG Veterans. Be sure to go and spam their profiles with a huge congratulations! If any of you would like to receive a Veteran decal please PM me with your full name and mailing address. TF2 HG | Yaboishadow CS:GO HG | MrBubble HG | Excalibur HG | MikeTheDead HG | SassyBruvva HG | Flops

-hg- Clan Application Game Division Team Fortress 2 In-Game Name TyGuy464646 Location Albuquerque, New Mexico How old are you? 19 Which games (servers) do you play on? Team Fortress 2: [HG] Trade 1 Minecraft Realms [HG] Trade 2 Minecraft 2014 How long have you been playing on our servers? About 5 years now. On and Off What is your Steam ID? (This is NOT your Steam name!) STEAM_0:1:75231802 Why do you want to join HG? I was a moderator for HG trade servers in the past and I left because of school. Now that I'm in college, and since there's a pandemic going on, I have found time to dedicate towards gaming (and hopefully part of that will be for Moderating the trade servers again)! I miss the community and serving it to the best of my ability. Y'all were close to me, and I miss that a lot. All members are required to be on our TeamSpeak3 Server whenever playing on our servers. Will you agree with this rule? Yes Do you have any current VAC bans? No Who (if anyone) referred you to apply? Admiral Mack [D] Any other information you want to include? I've been a very active (until about a year ago) member on the trade servers and I'm hoping to start it up again.

I would like to talk a little bit about HG’s finances, our history, and our future. Let me first say what I always say “that HG has never been about the money.” Some people like to joke about where the money is going...to Homer’s car rims or pizza, that is fine to rumer, but the reality is...it's reinvested to growing the community or it’s saved and not touched. You may wonder, what does that mean. Well, we have been around for 15 years. That is a long time. There are ups and downs for a community and I learned we need to account for that so that we can keep HG running for as long as possible. During the last 15 years, we have had our good years and bad years. Our best years were 2007-2010, during that time anything extra was reinvested into growing the community or it was saved and not touched. We had up to 70 game servers at one point! Then there is 2014-2018, our worst years of slow decline, due to multiple factors, for example: CS:Source player base dying out, which we were known for having the most populated servers. As well during this time my personal involvement was greatly reduced due to me having to focus on college (HG Sirius stepped up to run things). With slowly dying servers and struggling to break into crowded CSGO, as well trying other games...during 2014-2018 we would have died if it wasn't for the money saved from prior years and by the end of 2018 there was no more saved money to subsidize costs with and I was contributing leftover operating costs out of my pocket each month. During these years, I created the HG Future & Direction Board and we got to work on rebuilding the Leadership structure and we worked on getting a new version of our website done (the current one you are using). We then released the new website late 2018 and worked on rebuilding our VIP/GOLD subscribers and donations so that I could stop having to contribute out of pocket, this took all year and you may remember seeing me post Discord Announcements asking for any help we could get with donations each month. We struggled but we made it with everyone’s support. Each month since then with the new website and new Leadership structure, we have continued to grow with a bright future. Today, we now own our first piece of hardware ever, the Ryzen box, which you all made possible. This is huge for us and our growth going forward. It lowers our monthly operational costs the less we rent server machines and move to owning and colocating our machines. Going forward, my goal is to continue to work on growth and owning more of our hardware and renting less, as well to one day be able to put HG into perpetuity. This is an optimistic goal that may take awhile and includes me investing my own money so that interest earned on money saved/invested can one day take over paying HG’s monthly operational costs, but its an awesome goal to have because that means that HG can theoretically live forever..no matter what happens to the various fluctuations of income that HG currently relies on month-to-month to keep our lights on..HG can continue to operate for as long as there are active members of this community and willing individuals that step up and run for Director positions during our annual HG Elections Happy New Years & Cheers to a bright future for HG

HeLLsGamers New Years Raffle As this extremely crazy 2020 year is at its end I would like to reflect a bit. HeLLsGamers has had a pretty good year. We had a successful 15-year anniversary gathering on discord, Our CS:GO Division is back on its feet and we have a good relationship with GFL, Several people have come back to our community, Our CE teams are getting built back up, Donations have been great, and seeing everyone come together to show support of our community is fantastic! We got our very own server box for the first time since the community was founded, Many new projects in the works currently and overall HeLLsGamers is just an awesome community to spend time in. 2021 is going to be another big year for us and the sky is the limit! Happy New Year everyone and cheers to many more! We will be conducting a Raffle on January 3rd, 2021. The winner of the raffle will receive a Steel Series Arctis 1 Headset (The winner will be PM'd to claim their prize after the raffle) How To Be Entered Into The Raffle Be Recruit+ Post your new years resolution(s) on this thread What would you like to see added/changed/fixed this new year in HG Like this post (To be entered in this raffle you must have all four above items completed)

Welcome to the Club!

Greatest HG Member

congratulations on your new tag!

Hi, my name is Hobo I live in California and I am 14. I have been on the server for a while but never introduced myself. A couple things about me are 1. I have 2 dogs. 2. I have been in HG for about 2 months 3. I am a Tunnel Snake and we RULE! That's about it, I love this community and want to be apart of it more!

still haven't touched the door... but i made a duck

OOF. PC part picker checks for things like that. Take Misc2008's advice imo

Spencer - this is why you ALWAYS use this website to make a build https://pcpartpicker.com/

We are going to be bringing back CS:S Jailbreak for HG! Stay Tuned!