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This is a final update from myself, the original author of the Head Hunters wikia page to whomever it may concern.

Reason for my absence
Work took over my life in 2014 around about the time I heard the Head Hunters had collapsed. You see when you're getting married and starting a family, being an editor takes a backseat and I have since gone on to write articles for PSBLive which is a great deal of fun!

However upon returning, my account seems to have been made inaccessible: My password is not how I remembered it(?) and as such the entire fan page here dedicated to the Head Hunters as a hobby of mine became not possible.

Vandalism on the page
Since re-reading all of the content I spent hours upon hours clarifying with Head Hunters members I have noticed the very people who seem to have suffered at the hands of the clan have re-written pages to suit themselves, articles are missing or falsified. I spent a significant portion of my spare time writing this wikia as a hobby to document the events of the headhunters as factually as possible. But at the end of the day, it's just a fan page, still, one can't help but think about the history lost because of the vandals. Everything that was here was interviewed information and documented there and then. It was how I became interested in journalism.

What of the Head Hunters?
Gone. And the fashion in which they crumbled seems to be on the one I saw coming the most. Former Supreme Commander Frozen 's departure seemed to have ushered in a different kind of leadership in SCdr. Goldspear who, as far as I knew, wasn't a bad leader, or lacking in credentials, but simply wasn't the people-person the clan needed.

Of the few pieces I put together this year and over the last few years especially is that the Head Hunters entered a kind of stagnated form after topping the all-time group kicking record. I'm told they topped 99 or 100 groups and 14k users kicked, leading to a severe lack of interest. Additionally, the group who had set out on the mission in 2011/12 were radically different from those still there in mid-2014. People were older, more mature and much less interested in group kicking.

So the way I have come to understand it since is that a combination of the wrong leader during a direction-crisis and a lack of interest after mid-2014 lead to a internal ''coup d'tat. This coup, saw Supreme Commander Goldspear voted out in a kind of emergency ballot but he was never actually replaced because what happened next, if what I'm told is true, is Goldspear'' used his 24 hours notice to vacate, to liquidate assets like Destroyers and Jammers. The SCdr position held all passwords to all the equipment the Head Hunters needed. Goldspear took control of these assets as well as the clan funds and palmed them off to tech-heads. The now rogue Goldspear then went on a mass-banning of Head Hunters from their main group. The ensuring confusion and path of destruction, as well as the moral damage, had a slow domino effect on most of the immediate clan.

After this scorched earth policy was enacted, Goldspear vanished and as far as I'm concerned, organised group kicking on Palringo came to a halt as late as June or July 2014. Now of course this is six years later almost to the day and I have searched long and hard to find ex-Head Hunters with virtually no luck apart from having one of them as a friend on facebook already and it was her testimony that resulted in this article and subsequent swansong.

Maria, as her first name goes, told me some of the more dedicated Head Hunters banded together, not to restart group kicking, or the clan, or to find some other nasty pass time, but rather went to discord to be in a gaming clan. Whatever the case, only those who were there over those few days really truly know. One thing is for certain, the Head Hunters were dealt a mortal wound in mid-2014 when they attempted a coup on their Supreme Commander, and it wasn't Staff, VIP's or Agents that brought the clandestine mob to a screeching halt, but rather an internal-coup.

Whatever the result, the event itself was like the Titanic striking the iceberg in 1912. It didn't sink straight away, and neither did the Head Hunters. They went several months without any assets to use in group kicking, and as far as anyone can really say, they never attacked another group after mid-2014. However, according to Maria, my ex-Head Hunters contact, the clan limped throughout the latter of 2014 onwards to November, probably attempting a rebirth whilst trying to stop the bleeding of quitting members. After November nobody really knows. Maria says 20 Head Hunters remained in the new group, few were active at all and those who were had lost interest. It's safe to say the Head Hunters were no more by the start of 2015.

Final Take
It is what it is, as "they" say. The mob who carried the torch of the GKTF in 2011/12 came to a crash and burn end at the hands of their own actions. It can't be said they had the same cultural impact as the GKTF did on Palringo, but they certainly did what they had set out to achieve. Adapt and remodel group kicking into the new Palringo with a more survivable set of tactics, and beat the GKTF's record of 12.7k users kicked. I personally expected them to last until 2016 atleast but it wasn't to be.

And what of me?
Well I came back here to set the record straight. This empty, ghost of a wikia is now wreck with vandalism and some hefty lies, but this final article should be the only thing trusted here. I poured a lot of my time into covering these guys, it was fun, I felt like a journalist in a speakeasy. The truth of the matter is time changes you and I no longer hold the views I did back then. I was rooting for the Head Hunters, nowdays I see them a lot like an old man see's kids on skateboards without helmets. I have a wonderful job, wife and young family and crypto currency added wealth to my name I never imagined. All of these changes turned me to remember my past, and after conversing with Maria, I found myself back here on last time.

Head Hunters Wikia Author and Admin,

Charles, M