Hoivengers

The **Hoivengers** is an active gaming cohort on Discord. Founded sometime in 2019 by Pyro, the group's primary focus is to host and play multiplayer grand strategy game sessions with each other. The Hoivengers is currently led by Premier Corn.

## History

### Precedent Group

Pyro created the predecessor to the first Hoivengers chat on the Steam platform in 2019. Pyro's Steam group initially consisted of a handful of Pyro's friends, purposed as a communication alternative for Hearts of Iron IV multiplayer sessions. A few original members of this chat included Pyro, Ian, Piedmont, and Mark.

Before the Hoivengers group was formally established, only a handful of Hearts of Iron IV games were organised by the nascent group. According to Pyro, most multiplayer sessions included the Kaiserreich mod.

### Coining the Hoivengers

Pyro first coined the term *Hoivengers* sometime in early 2021. Pyro officially rebranded the hitherto untitled Steam group to the Hoivengers Steam Group in early 2021. Shortly after, the Hoivengers adopted the tagline of *"We Make Sure, Mark doesn’t Win!"*, and recruited new members such as Corn, EnderDog, and Xi. The sudden expansion of the group precipitated the creation of off-topic channels in the Steam group chat for topics unrelated to Hearts of Iron IV such as politics and computers. Pyro controversially granted Corn his own channel, which he would frequently use to extol Communism.

By the end of May, 2021, there were 8 members of the Hoivengers, which doubled the number of members Pyro had initially recruited. The influx of new members encouraged Pyro to transition his group to Discord in April of 2021. A Discord group chat was established by Pyro on the 2nd of April, 2021, titled *Hoivengers - Discord Sect*.

### Transition to Discord

The transition to Discord was difficult, as some members struggled to join the new group chat while others failed to migrate entirely.

The Hoivengers Discord group chat was established by Pyro on the 2nd of April, 2021, only to be superseded by a Discord server minutes after its creation. Titled *The Hoivengers - Discord Sect* by Pyro, the server was designated as the main Hoivengers group chat until the 19th of July, 2021.

### Pyro's Maladministration

By July of 2021, a few Hoivengers members such as Corn and Xi began complaining that the Hoivengers was growing more politicised and that Pyro, while exhibiting tentative activity, was not responsibly administrating the Hoivengers Discord Server. For example, Corn and Mark would continuously squabble about politics and Piedmont and Pyro stamped out any messages they deemed "*degenerate*".

After Pog's *Kingdom Come* spamming incident, in which Piedmont, Mark, and Xi attempted to censor another of Pog's spamming episodes, Pog was banished to the Hoivengers Purgatory and Xi left the Hoivengers due to *"...enmity and squabbles"* he was witnessing in the Hoivengers.

### The Confederation of the Hoivengers

Pyro resigned shortly after these events and granted Piedmont leadership of the Hoivengers and disestablished his position of the Grand Chairman. Piedmont then created a new Hoivengers Discord Server and established he title of President.

On the 19th of July, 2021, Piedmont dubbed his new Hoivengers Discord server *the Confederation of the Hoivengers*. Despite the promise to ameliorate relations between Hoivengers members and to de-escalate politicisation, the server was perpetually unstable due to these unresolved problems.

### HoIv Resistance

###### *Main Article: HoIv Resistance*

Shortly after his ascension to leader of the Hoivengers however, Piedmont began to exercise what was seen as "tyranny", delivering mass bans and favouring members over others due to political affiliation. On the 4th of August, 2021, Piedmont's vagarious behavior culminated with Private Pizza, a former friend of Piedmont, organising a resistance group against Piedmont, leading to the latter's deposition on the 8th of August, 2021.

### Hoivengers Hub

After abandoning Piedmont's Confederation, the remaining members of the Hoivengers created a third Discord group chat, titled 'Hoivengers Hub'. On the 18th of October, 2021, Pyro granted leadership of the Hoivengers to Corn, who has led the Hoivengers as their Premier ever since. Corn later renamed the Hoivengers Discord Server's name to the '*Hoivengers Reborn'* in 2021, and then again to the **Union of the Hoivengers** in December of 2021.

## Features

### Minecraft Server

##### *Main article: The Great Server*

On the 23rd of May, 2021, Piedmont opened a server for the Hoivengers Discord Group. Piedmont later named the server to *'The Great Server'*. After Piedmont's Deposition in August of 2021, the Great Server has since been under Pizza's administration.