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Happy New Year everyone!

I am so excited to be HG's newest recruit! I usually play on on the Jailbreak server and am currently trying to learn how to lead. Although I don't get everything right, I love the learning process and am trying to get better and to have more fun!

-hg- Clan Application Game Division Counter-Strike Global Offensive In-Game Name Suicide1 Location Dallas, TX How old are you? 13 Which games (servers) do you play on? Jailbreak How long have you been playing on our servers? For a month What is your Steam ID? (This is NOT your Steam name!) STEAM_0:0:578538353 Why do you want to join HG? I really like jailbreak and i wanna be apart of it and i'm very active on it. 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? WhoIsThis Any other information you want to include? No

Free Game - StarCrossed: BMA6Z-27XPZ-204V3

Welcome bruddah! We will show you dey wey!

This is awesome! Crackhouse was popping again last night and had about 20 or so people on!

Had almost 20 players at 1:30am EST. The server is definitely gaining traction!!

Just an update: Since we have two servers already transitioned to the new box, it would be amazing to see us all get together a couple days a week or every night to get the server full to it's capacity! Generally, a lot of us tend to be on from 9:00pm EST until 3-4am. Hit us up on TS whenever you are available as we would really like to further our momentum and bring in some new recruits!

-hg- Clan Application Game Division Counter-Strike Source In-Game Name Zoren Location Mexico City How old are you? 17 years old Which games (servers) do you play on? 185.141.204.1:27015 , 185.141.204.4:27015 How long have you been playing on our servers? Some weeks now, im pretty new to the game What is your Steam ID? (This is NOT your Steam name!) STEAM_0:0:210663561 Why do you want to join HG? I wanna play pugs CS: Source 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? [HG] Blindy [M] Any other information you want to include?

Thank you for the donation Asian Persuasion!

Welcome back man, glad to see you around! I love seeing you on the jb server.

I'm so tired lmao

Welcome to the community! Glad to have you here

Welcome to HG and it's nice to meet you. See you on the servers

Welcome to the community!

Welcome to the community Jimothy!

According to Admiral, you returned. In that case, welcome back!

Welcome to HG!

-hg- Clan Application Game Division Counter-Strike Global Offensive In-Game Name Jimothy Location Boston MA How old are you? 27 Which games (servers) do you play on? JB How long have you been playing on our servers? off and on since 2010 ish What is your Steam ID? (This is NOT your Steam name!) STEAM_0:0:15892216 Why do you want to join HG? I've always enjoyed the HG JB server specifically. I want to be more involved. I'm also learning sourcepawn now and would be interested in taking up sourcemod plugin dev work if possible. 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? Any other information you want to include? I don't go by the name on my forum account anymore, but i like having this old account. I'd rather not make a new forum account just for name sake if possible.

We are glad to have you! Let me if you need any help with anything

Welcome! You're doing great in my opinion. I remember trying to learn how to lead, its a very strange process but you seem like a natural. Congrats and welcome to this amazing community!

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

Welcome to our humble community, we are happy to welcome you here! Hope you have a lot of fun, and just contact Staff if you need any help, we are here for you!

Eyy I knew you'd join! Welcome to HG bro

Don't play TF2 servers much but congrats on Veteran!

Thank you all very much for sharing with the community your new year's resolutions and for providing us with some feedback. Happy New Years to all and here is to many more! I would like to give a huge congratulations to @Miles for winning this raffle! Please PM me with your mailing address and full name to receive your prize! 2021-01-04 21-53-54.mp4

Thanks for all the work that's keeping the community going. Been here since 2014 so I've seen many things change over the years, but for better or for worse I hope we can continue to keep this community running. Happy New Years!