Downward Spiral is a clan with a long history in Unreal Tournament. The origins go all the way back to the Mad Hatters.

In September of 2002 Neo, Ravenous and Apollo formed a UT 2003 clan named Mad Hatters, In October, Burnthewitch, Dissectional, and Pure_Evil joined. The clan struggled at first, typical issues with servers and game mods. Then in December of 2002 Neo got together with a Serious Sam clan named DOA. DOA Sasquatch and LaSH, and MH|Neo merged the clan to form DOA|MH. We started with clan battles with The Outlaws, then moved to the ladders at Proving Grounds.

In March of 2003, the Dissectional, Burnthewitch, Pure_Evil, and Unforgiven decided it was time for the UT part to go off on its own again and Downward Spiral was formed. Later, we were joined by LaSH from DOA and Fragetti from the Outlaws to form the leadership base that drives {DS} To this day. we have several members with over 2 years of commitment to {DS}, Zell, Spawn, Goober, LaSH, PimpDaddy, Unforgiven, Dissectional and Pure Evil