Purity Events

Purity Events was a Discord server dedicated to running events, currently mainly being held on the Horde Server. Maps and arenas for different minigames to be used in events (including dodgeball, spleef, hunger games and sky wars) are currently under construction. There was a mixture of short-term and long-term builds; Purity Events planned to provide new and exciting entertainment to the community for a long time.

Creation and Establishment
The Purity Events Discord server was first launched on the 10th June 2020. EJ had long since heard about the occasional events that happened on Purity, like the Christmas Spleef of 2019 among others, and was fascinated by how players could come together in complete peace on a server made for chaos and destruction.

After substantial growth of the discord, EJ received a message from Penguin that would change Purity Events forever (which I will write about if it happens).

After a failed attempt at a main server event, EJ received a message from Boone, saying how much he liked the idea and that the Horde Server would be available for any future events. This led to Boone becoming Co-Host and a team of builders assembling on horde to work on event locations and planning.

Summer Spleef 2020
The true first event held by Purity Events was the summer spleef, held on the 5th July 2020. EJ heard Boone was planning to do it soon, and told him it would be a good idea to announce it on Purity Events. Boone did so, and went one step further than this by announcing it on the Purity Vanilla minor news feed. He also added a prize of $10.

The 1.16 update was set to interrupt the event, but Penguin rescheduled the server update a little earlier so it could still be held, as well as announcing the event and linking the discord on Server Updates.

By 15 minutes before the event, 10 people had already arrived, and the number kept growing before peaking at 32 players. This number of people was an incredible turnout, considering netherite had been added to Purity 2 hours earlier. The event went on for an hour and a half before dying down, and was won by MiningBoomBoy, the first to 3 wins.

Closure of Purity Events
In late 2020, EJ was no longer as active on Purity as he was over summer, largely due to school. This meant that not as much time could be put into Purity Events anymore, and led to little effort organising events. EJ eventually came to the difficult decision to discontinue the discord after the Horde server, which some events had been held on, became very unstable and could not handle the people who turned up for the Halloween event 2020. At its peak, Purity Events had over 300 members, making it the third largest purity-related discord server ever. Not wanting to face the deletion of all his hard work, EJ enlisted Tiger_Try to remove everyone from the server, who was helped by the Admin loker. It was deleted shortly after when everyone was gone.