The Purge

Purges are the spiritual successors of Spawn Incursions. The term “Incursion” had been retired due to the failures of the 7th Incursion, the defamation of the term during the attempted 8th Incursion, and Sato86 calling for Incursions to be over. Since then, the community had tried to avoid using the term and declaring another similar event as the onslaught of new players joined due to the YouTube algorithm and sudden resurgence in Minecraft. When YouTube streamer Etika joined the server and continued streaming, the first Purge event begun when it was evident that a mass killing of newfags was unavoidable as Etika had declared war on the community.

The First Purge
As the invasion of Etika and his fans clogged the queue along with previous players joining from the Minecraft craze, Etika poked at the idea of flat out starting the 9th Incursion, with fans spamming “9cursion” in stream and server chat. Some players resorted to a rebranding of the Incursion name, such as the first Recursion. However, these attempts quickly failed. It was not until May 27th, 2019, that policemike55 opened the Purge discord to the public with the purpose to exterminate all new players at spawn.