EdgeGamers / EGO

eGO was founded on July 1st, 2006 by JohnT and Artimus with just a website and a single Day of Defeat Source Avalanche server. Soon after, Slayr357, Kendle, Kamakize Tommy, Rashell, and Dominion joined on, creating the first eGO Council. What was to come was the transformation of a small fledgling clan into a shining city on the hill.

Additional Day of Defeat:Source servers were added and quickly gained top rankings around the world. Slayr357 and FluffyTDestroyer have lead this charge. With a few promising games getting ready to hit the market, talks of expanding were being held in Council.

On October 10th, 2007 the Orange Box was released, containing Team Fortress 2. With that, the eGO TF2 division was officially launched. GardenGroveVW, MasterofPuppets, Baron Rojo, and Drunken Sailor were asked to spearhead this second division. This addition grew EdgeGamers by more than double its members in short time. Other Council members that have been responsible for this division are USCG Hammer and A Nurse From Texas.

With the successes in DoD and TF2, eGO tested the waters with other FPS games. Mostly Harmless was asked take the top leadership spot for a Counter Strike Source division and Kamakize Tommy took over Call of Duty. COD was eventually taken over by Rocko.

GardenGroveVW and Drunken Sailor took responsibility of an Insurgency division, resulting in servers that quickly took the top ranked spots out of all INS servers in the world. In 2011 INS changed it’s name to FPS:X (First Person Shooter eXperiment) with a mission to test the waters with new FPS games. The top leadership spot was handed over to USCG Hammer. September 2011 saw another name change from FPS:X to OP:X and, with USCG Hammer being promoted to Community Manager in November 2011, Digital DJ became the new OP:X Council member.

EdgeGamers stepped outside of the FPS box in 2010 with the creation of an EVE division, co-led by GardenGroveVW and Dominion, later to be handed over to 2sl0w. That same year the WoW experiment gained so much support it became a full division.

The March 2010 release of Battlefield Bad Company 2 was met by eGO with 8 servers in locations around the world. The division has plans to expand further into the Battlefield series.

In Fall of 2010, eGO presented the Strategy Division, under the careful leadership of Kamakize Tommy, supporting League of Legends, StarCraft II, Minecraft and World of Tanks.

To date, all eGO divisions are doing well under the guidance of the Council, but mainly because of the hard, dedicated work of the Division Leaders and Advisors who have volunteered for those important leadership roles. These successes are also attributed to eGO’s mission, which is to provide a place where gamers of all calibers, from all over the world, can meet for family friendly, respectful game play. eGO servers are branded “punk-free” and its Council often receives notes from players who only play in eGO servers, proclaiming appreciation for a place where families can game without being surrounded by the abusive stuff found on many other servers.