The Hoard

The Hoard was the second competitive Hive server and the first to host Clan vs Clan. It was a continuation of The Club of Legends. It peaked at 1900 members. The Hoard was praised for its strong connection to the Hive staff team, with community manager Splodg3r even being in the server. In addtion, the Hoard had sponsers such as MixerEclipseJet and Jeffska which partnered with it to fund CVC.

### Community:

The Hoard for its time was the biggest Hive related discord server (apart from the Hive Games server), until it was surpassed by the Mystic Lobby server (now Swimcord). The Hoard was the hub for all Hive community activity, not just competitive tournaments. Most Hoard members didn't actually scrim, but were invested heavily in what was going on in tournaments and CVC. The Hoard chat was very active and a clan role system was created where members of each clan had a custom role displaying that they represented their respective clan. Multi-clanning was not allowed.

### Tournaments:

The Hoard hosted various tournaments on a weekly basis. Tournaments spanned a total of five seasons (two of which were adapted from The Club of Legends) and originally started with only Treasure Wars solo. In Season 4, Treasure Wars duos, Survival Games solos, and Survial Games duos were added. In Season 5, Treasure Wars Squads, Skywars Solos, and Skywars Squads were added. The winner of each tournament would be banned from playing any subsequent tournament as they would qualify for the Grand Championship, which would consist of the winners of each week battling each other. This sometimes caused controversy, with past winners wanting to play more.

### Clan vs Clan:

The Hoard was the first server to host Clan vs Clan. It was run by the staff, mainly ayo kPin and Big Tiny1234. Both Clan vs Clan tournaments held pioneered the format and popularized hive scrims.

#### - Hoard Season 1:

Hoard Season 1 lasted from March-June 5 (2020). It had a group stage of 2 groups made up of ten teams each and then a double elimination bracket. The winner ended up being Valor B, upsetting the expectation of a Valor A sweep. Valor B claimed a prize of $80 that was gathered through sponsers. This CVC included many controversies such as the Swim Clan disqualification. For more details see Hoard Season 1.

#### - Hoard Season 2:

Hoard Season 2 lasted from June 28-August 8 (2020). This was the shortest gap between CVCs. The head organizer was ayo kPin and a separate server, Hoard Pro League was created to host it. The cvc had a group stage of 8 groups of four and a double elimination bracket. Once the group stage was completed, the double elimination bracket was removed and the teams were shuffled controversially into single elimination matchups. The expected winner, Valor A ended up beating Valor B in the final after they gained the power of mj owns u, making him the first double cvc winna and the only back to back cvc winna to this day.

### Events:

The Hoard hosted many events apart from tournaments and clan vs clan such as hub hide and seek, karoke nights, walking dead, build battle, chess tournament etc. These were organized by the staff such as Usvfoofadaunq (Sekuzi), c zoeyy, and ItHazy, and were even daily for some time.

### Legacy:

Like the Club of Legends before it, the owner of the Hoard, Big Tiny1234, started to become inactive. This annoyed the other staff members and eventually a new server was created, Inertia, owned by DarthMarz79. The Hoard pioneered the competitive community and scrims would likely have never taken off without it. The server still exists, with all the old channels archived and public if you have access to an invite link.