How The Freestyle Club was made

Charcoal made his Discord account on 3 December 2019. He made this server 21 December 2019 — eighteen days later.

He came into the Discord scene as a nobody. No following, no co-founder, nobody waiting for it, and no reason for anyone to turn up. He made the server and invited strangers into it — people he did not know, pulled in off the back of nothing.

Then he left it alone for about a year. When he came back to it, that is when the work actually started. The club anybody knows today dates from the return, not from the founding — the server had already been sitting there for a year by then, doing nothing.

Not in a week and not off one video. It grew the slow way: nights that ran whether or not anybody came, the same handful of people turning up, and then more of them, until the rooms were full and there was a league, a panel of judges and a record worth keeping.

Every figure above is counted off the record as this page loads, not written into it. The rest of this site is the same thing in detail: who holds a post, every battle on tape, and every themed night that was ever crowned.