Imperial

Imperial was the fourth Hive community server. It was the successor to Inertia. It peaked at 1.6k members. Imperial was impulsively created by Bugqh (Combotages), right a few months after he won Inertia Season 2. Bugqh recruited a wide variety of staff from various backgrounds. Many of these staff had little to no experience and had beef with each other. Against all odds, Imperial was able to successfully gain traction, causing Inertia to become inactive and eventually rebrand to Skyron. Imperial was originally created for the sole purpose of scrimming, so Imperial Season 1 was announced instantly. A practice scrim system was also instated. Soon after Imperial was created, Bugqh returned to his homeland of Mongolia, going inactive due to the timezone difference. Imperial was run almost exclusively by Delta D80, although Bugqh maintained ownership and the other staff kept their roles and voices.

### Community:

Imperial was the last of the "competitive community" servers. Contrary to previous servers, Imperial focused only on scrimming, not hosting a set or organized tournaments nor consistent events. The Imperial chat was noticeably less active than previous servers, although eventually chat grinders such as cloudyanika and the Hive helper rinnykinsie were hired to keep it active. Imperial did have a connection to the Hive staff through rinnykinsie, although none of the higher Hive staff were involved with it. Imperial did not have a clan role system and started to facilitate the widespread playing of practice scrims, as it was the first big server with a practice scrim queue (following Shrine and the fall of NA Practice). The Imperial staff was very diverse with seemingly random people being given roles. This would eventually backfire, as Imperial was raided multiple times, although it never actually lost any of its members.

### Practice Scrims:

Bugqh hired FireXI and Nano to raid Scrim Academy in exchange for perms in Imperial. Shrine was also shut down a few months prior. This allowed for Imperial to be the sole host of practice scrims during its time. However, Imperial queues were not that active, with teams preferring to preset and practice for the CVC, Imperial Season 1. Queues averaged around 30 people in vc and peaked at around 60. The practice scrim system replaced the clan role system of Inertia and Hoard. Most teams that participated in Imperial Season 1 could be found in the queue throughout the day, aided by them having no school due to summer break.

### Clan vs Clan:

Imperial instantly hosted a CVC due to the heavy scrim scrim culture. Only one CVC was hosted in the original server, although a second season was hosted 2 years later in a separate server with the same name.

#### - Imperial Season 1

Imperial Season 1 lasted from July 10-August 21 (2021). It had 4 groups of 4, single elimination bracket and was run solely by Delta D80. The winner ended up being Mystic Z, the favorites, beating the underdogs Omen A in the final. This was one of the best CVCs hosted, with every single match being streamed (with an average of 120 viewers), crazy matches, and a consistent schedule.

#### - Imperial Season 2

Imperial Season 2 lasted from June 23-July 27 (2023). It had 4 groups of 4, a double elimination bracket, and was run by Delta D80 and xAc3q. The winner ended up being Scythe 1, beating The Royal Gentlemen in the final. This CVC was hosted well, but suffered from a lack of viewers on the stream and interest.

### Raids:

Imperial was raided 3 different times. Although none of these raids amounted to much, it signified the start of Hive community servers starting to be unprofessional and being ran by questionable staff.

#### - Revenge of FireXI and Nano

Bugqh hired FireXI and Nano to raid NA Practice in order to get more traction for Imperial. In exchange, he promised them perms in Imperial. However, Bugqh did not keep his end of the bargain, and FireXI and Nano never got their reward. xBzcca later banned them. This infuriated the pair, who decided to get revenge by raiding Imperial. They did this by launching a campaign to social engineer the Imperial staff member Kuzali with an alt. Using a texture pack, they were able to grab Kuzali's token and raided Imperial. This raid was a minor setback, as all the channels were deleted and the server got spammed. However, no members got banned and the server recovered within an hour.

#### - Corrupt bargain of HiveIsFreeElo

Another raid occurred when the staff HiveIsFreeElo gave davis066 the ability to raid the server in exchange for skins on Rust. This raid happened in the middle of a CVC scrim, so it was more of a setback. However, damage was repaired within 10 minutes and no one was banned.

#### - Swimfan's last stand

After Omen A lost to Mystic Z, Swimfan raided Imperial with the PornBurger bot. This raid just spammed pings and damage was fixed within 5 minutes.

### Legacy:

Imperial was the last of the Hive competitve community servers. After Imperial Season 1 ended, Bugqh and Delta D80 decided to close the server and reopen Shrine. Everyone was told to join this new server, with only good players being let in. This was due to the end of the summer and the post cvc effect. The channels were archived with periodic pings. Later on, Bugqh transferred ownership to fqzal who sold it off. The Imperial Server is lost to time. Looking back, this was a questionable decision as this caused the community to be divided with the good players going to Shrine and the new prospective scrimmers having no home. A variety of servers would be made to fill the gap, eventually solidifying into Scrim Academy.