Kovas-Leoncj War

The **Kovas-Leoncj War** refers to a series of conflicts during 2017-2019 between the leader of Kovas & Company, M.B. Kovas, and a long-time DYOM designer and YouTuber, Leoncj. The conflicts were mostly carried out in the GTAForums DYOM platform, the Design Your Own Mission Discord server and the KCO Discord server.

## Background

### 2017

During 2017 M.B. Kovas (then mostly known as Eclipse5C or Delaware) was a member of the DFams Discord server, managed by Leoncj and his friends. Kovas has been part of the community for a few months and was an active member there, involved in casual daily conversations with Leoncj and other members of the community. During this time period, Leoncj and Kovas were on good terms and were even planning to collaborate on YouTube.

The relations came to a drastical shift after Kovas and Leoncj began arguing about various issues and none of the parties have shown initiative to try and fix the situation. The situation was worsened by the fact that Kovas established his own article on the GTAForums DYOM platform about recording DYOM walkthroughs. Leoncj argued that this should have been done under a post that he was managing, and not on a seperate one as initiated by Kovas.

Eventually Kovas parted ways with Leoncj's Discord server, but Leoncj provoked more arguments in the DYOM Discord server, in which both of them were also staying. This lead to moderators being involved, muting both Kovas and Leoncj consistently whenever arguments broke out. This is where more users, including Sean Ambrose, began their first involvements in the drama on the side of Leoncj. Eventually Kovas had also left the DYOM Discord server because of the moderators' failure to solve the issue.

### 2018

Kovas parting ways with both the DYOM and DFams Discord servers did not see the end of the conflicts. Most of the arguments were continued in GTAForums, where Leoncj constantly attempted to provoke Kovas and the latter would respond. These arguments eventually lead to GTAForums moderators being involved and issuing warnings and temporary bans to both Kovas and Leoncj.

DYOM moderators started showing more involvement in the conflict. One of them, Rytuklis, decided to take it upon himself to mediate a talk between Kovas and Leoncj in a private Discord group chat. Kovas suggested that he can let the conflict come to a stop and is ready to make peace. However, Leoncj insisted that he will not make peace with Kovas, eventually resulting in the peace talk being a complete failure which affected nothing in the war.

At some point during 2018, Leoncj initiated a secret Discord room titled "Resistance" where he attempted to gather personal information against M.B. Kovas. This partly succeeded with the help of DYOM moderators who used their powers to leak some of Kovas' data from the DYOM website to Leoncj. The latter eventually tried to use this information to try and frighten Kovas, which did not see any effects.

However, Leoncj involved Martin Strada, a long-time member of the Z2 Community, by attempting to blackmail him. Leoncj found Martin's personal Facebook profile which he then used to threaten Martin. He insisted that Martin gave up Kovas' personal information such as his full name and whereabouts, and in return Leoncj would not publicize Martin's personal Facebook profile. This did not and would not have seen any effect, because Leoncj severely overestimated relations between Kovas and Martin, as Martin did not have access to any of the information that Leoncj was seeking. After this blackmail attempt, the Z2 Community and Leoncj's allies have reached the highest point of hostility between eachother.

On May 6th of 2018, the first part of School Stories was uploaded on AznKei's channel, which caught the attention of Leoncj whose resemblence was depicted in the mission series. This effectively caused the School Stories Controversy.

Leoncj eventually came across a Discord user then known as Kyrite who agreed to help Leoncj in the war by fabricating multiple false copyright claims against the MartZ2 YouTube channel in an attempt to close it. Although some copyright strikes were processed, they did not conclude in the closure of MartZ2's channel. Eventually Kyrite approached Kovas on Discord and explained what happened, informing Kovas that Kyrite had turned on Leoncj, too.

At the end of the year, Spyderblack66 became involved in other drama within the DYOM community which resulted in the hacking of the DYOM website. Several DYOM users on the GTAForums DYOM community have attempted to blame Kovas for the attack, but this never saw any further escalation as it was not Kovas who hacked the DYOM website.

### 2019

After the baseless hacking accusations, the conflicts between Leoncj and Kovas have decreased, limiting themselves to mere references and gossiping. After the School Stories 2 walkthrough by AznKei1 came to an end, major conflicts between Kovas and Leoncj were discontinued for several reasons. For one, Kovas and the KCO community were attacked by other cringedeviants such as Sean Ambrose, TQR and Edward "The Good YouTuber" which diminished the attention on the Leoncj drama. Meanwhile, Leoncj's relations with the DYOM community degraded to a significant low as Leoncj was eventually banned in the DYOM Discord server for various reasons unrelated to KCO.

### Latest

The drama between Kovas and Leoncj has never been resolved. Both are still hostile toward eachother, however they do not openly participate in direct conflicts anymore. At some point during 2020 Kovas and Leoncj came into neutral contact to discuss and expose Sean Ambrose who attempted to fabricate fake Discord messages in an attempt to cause another war between the two parties.

## Trivia

* The Kovas-Leoncj War is one of the oldest recorded drama conflicts involving the KCO community. The drama dates back even before the creation of the Z2 Community, which is the old predecessor of KCO.