Original history credit goes to PoPJaY, a former member of [HK]. Continued and revised by 5ylver. This is a work in progress.
[HK] was originally a clan in Return To Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW).
“HK was a non-competitive clan in Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Dago sent me a message one day, telling me I should try Tf2, which was still in beta. I never got around to it, but bought the game shortly after it came out and started a server. Newbies #1 was the first server I had ever run. I called on Dago to help me admin, although at the time he was part of another clan. Some former RTCW players to come along was KMB, Spike (both of whom joined HK and became admins).
I remember sitting on my server for hours waiting for people to join, but once it took off, it was amazing. We've grown to 5 servers and are well respected throughout the Web. I can't thank the admins that have come and gone enough for doing a thankless job, and thanks to the players that play here for making this a blast. ” - Lord Tuck
September 20, 2007 [HK] begins with tuck, kmb, spike, and swed, the site goes up, the first words are spoken by Tuck “Lord help us”
Original admins: Lord Tuck, KMB, Spike
October 21, 2007 newbies 1 goes up
1st ever kick on the newbies server
“Had to kick someone named "soreloser1". He was spamming music over his headset and when people were asking him to stop, he was telling them to f*** off. Dick head, I didn't even warn him ”
[HK] First server reset
Spike: "Something happened while I was on here and the entire server emptied then only one or two were on so I logged into HLSW, announced the reset and then went to the server site and did a reset. Piece of cake! I feel like a real admin!"
Tuck: "When you go to bed tonight, whisper to your wife 'Honey, tonight, call me Admin'"
1st ever permaban on newbies server
Dec 9 2007 first perma ban is issued by spike VG^TMR STEAM_0:1:15731848
Alan STEAM_0:1:9921201, speed hackers
[HK] Takes off
November 17, 2007 Rasputin is added to the team!
([HK]Ki||m3: Rasputin was not here long)
November 21, 2007 first formal introduction of KMB and the addition of Void to the team!
November 23, 2007 killm3 is added to [HK]!
November 23, 2007 Doc is given limited access on the server but is not [HK]
November 25, 2007 Doc is sacked
Iggy (December 17, 2007) and Dago (November 27, 2007) are part of the team early on, but not [HK]
November 27, 2007 Vdol is added to the team!
November 28, 2007 Skippy the Wonder Jedi is brought on the team!
December 5, 2007 [HK] has grown considerably, recruitment is changed to invite only
December 6, 2007 Members:
Tuck
Swed
Spike
Killme
KickMyButt
Void
Razputin
Vdol
Skippy the Wonder Jedi
Considered:
Ausedllama
Remington
SOD
Sinister Onion
Fear
December 10, 2007 5ylver is added to the team!
December 10, 2007 Vdol is sacked after he was drunk on the mic, burping and doing crazy swear chat
December 18, 2007 The first introduction of KIDDOS to the team! Rick and Kreuzen! Are added to the team
Dec 20 Killm3 lays down the first serious example for admins
“New admins:
As of late we have been trying to establish a set of ground rules for not using exploits in the server and its an uphill climb. As we know there are several glitches that people use and we warn the same not to do them. We should try and show an example to players not to do these glitches by not doing them ourselves. How can we punish ppl if an admin does them while we kick/ban others for the same thing? A lot of admins are busy working on this problem please lets not make there work for nothing. We all respect each other here lets keep it good…”
December 24, 2007 YAW is added to the team!
December 30, 2007 Better Thomas is added to the team! AUsedLlama is brought on with limited access
December 31, 2007 Remington is added to the team!
January 6, 2008 Spanky is added to the team!
January 7, 2008 Cloud, Moof, Super Hippie, & Super Toast Are all added to the team.
January 15, 2008 CappieKiller and Fatlop are added to the team.
January 15, 2008 Tuck wants to cap membership at 30, which didn't happen.
January 16, 2008 Clanless is added to the team along with Darknin!
January 17, 2008 Brian Viper is added to the team!
January 20, 2008 [HK] scrims off against TF2F in their first match!
By January 22, 2008 [HK] is at 22 members and looks into adding
Chad Vader
Inuart
Cadaver
XrinX
Xfer777
Moloch
January 23, 2008 Chad Vader and Inuart are added to the team!
January 25, 2008 With growing number of players and with [HK] growing at rapid speed, Newbies 2 goes online
January 30, 2008 XrinX is added to the team!
February 4,2008 Moloch -Xfer-777 -and Loki are all added to the team… Loki is the first female corrupted by HK.
February 5, 2008 Patlane is added to the team!
February 25, 2008 SOD is added to the team!
March 1, 2008 Judoman and Sysdameon are added to the team!
March 4, 2008 Peepers is added to the team!
March 19, 2008 The infamous day in witch the words “did you just call me dumb you little fuckstick” were uttered, thank you Tuck for giving this clan the best tagline it’s ever had
“Starting Friday, I'll be suspending myself again for conduct unbecoming.
Some pre-pubescent little shit called me stupid for not killing the guys taking the point. I was the only one alive, already injured and there were 3 or 4 demoman all on the point. I may have responded a little harshly.
Cadaver, Judo and Peepers may have more to say ”
March 20, 2008 Qan and J-good are added to the team!
March 24, 2008 Furious and Ass Mechanic are removed along with Sod
April 1, 2008 Fear is promoted to Sr. admin!
April 23, 2008 Jadenyah and Gooses are added to the team!
April 25, 2008 Spoon and Lin are added to the team!
April 29 2008 Avacado and Rofflecopter are added to the team!
May 6, 2008 Ausedllama leaves
May 9, 2008 Peepers is promoted to “HK commissioner”
May 12, 2008 DanTycoon is added to the team!
May 17, 2008 Mal is added to the team!
The Council
Founded: May 28th 2008
Reason: it was founded to be a separate entity to suggest stuff to the senior admins as far as rules and promotions the role has evolved though
Original members: Peepers, Qan, Fatlop, Cadaver, Cappie Killer, KMB, Cloud, Jadenyah
May 31, 2008 PoPJaY and Rover are added to the team! (Kiddos unite!)
June 12, 2008 Shiver is added to the team!
June 16, 2008 Dominare is added to the team!
Jun 28, 2008 the following are removed from [HK]
Aliensexfiend
XFER
SYSDAMEON
Jadenyah
Void
Roffle
Nozark
Tough
Isaac black
Xfer
Pepe
DanTycoon
Business Socks
July 3, 2008 Hippie, Meccania, & Lateralus are added to the team!
July 4, 2008 KMB is made a Sr. Admin!
Somewhere around June-July we lose a considerable amount of members who leave to form/join [TuN].
July 5, 2008 both White Thunda and Darth Fabulous are added to the team!
July 6, 2008 Kaebora, Redonkulous, Justin Timberlake, P!gs, Semi, Mag-hag, Dantycoon, KJB05 & Lord Searchie are all added to the Team!
July 8, 2008 Sysdaemon is added to the team!
July 14 2008 Sharp is added to the team!
August 2008 Newbies 3 and 4 go online!
August 5, 2008 Pyroclastic is added to the team!
August 12, 2008 new site is announced!
August 19, 2008 Ocelot & Davous are added to the team!
September 8, 2008 Lateralus takes his leave from HK.
Sept 12, 2008 Fuzzilla, Lier X Agerate, & Mr. Fro are added to the team!
October 14, 2008 Caidh and Pluto are added to the team!
November 9, 2008 Jen, Cerpin Taxt, Shadowninjs, Coldyron, Meg, & St. Allerdyce are added to the team!
December 8, 2009 Pigs is added to the council!
At the start of 2009 we have the new site (which is beautiful BTW) and the [HK] Roster stands 56 members strong
Jan 12, 2009 Cappie is promoted to senior admin!
Jan 17, 2009 TheBob!, Sylux, and Zero are added to the team and Cloud is voted as president of the council!
Jan 18, 2009 Buffbod added to the team!
March 9, 2009 Rokrin, Ozyen, and Barlim are added to the team! 5ylver is re-added to the team!
March 19, 2009 PoPJaY takes his leave from HK.
April 1, 2009 Navy_Spitifre and Scatman are added to the team! Lateralus is re-added to the team!
April 15, 2009 gh0st and Mal bow out due to inactivity. Meg, Brian Viper, and Ocelot are added to the Council!
April 16, 2009 Cloud is promoted to Senior Admin status and Dominare replaces him as the Council President!
May 5, 2009 Daf, Fish in a Barrel, and Baron Von HineySniffer are added to the team!
May 30, 2009 Jen is added to the council!
June 1, 2009 Valiarde and Voiced are added to the team!
July 6, 2009 Sylo, Kuroryu, and Noodles are added to the team!
July 8, 2009 JT takes his leave from HK.
July 11, 2009 Navy_Spitfire and Ozyen are removed due to inactivity.
July 13, 2009 Shadowninjs is removed.
July 14, 2009 Kaebora is promoted to Scrim captain!
I am going to be updating this soon.