Life is Unfair, Ego. You are the whipping boy of today. :P

we are a rather large clan (53 members I think), all our members are active at least once a week (any who go beyond are booted) we are fairly new but at the moment we have joined LEA's 5v5 tournament and have organised a clan tournament of our own, I myself create games for the clan, I don't believe that it is wholly the clan size that contributes to the image that The Wolves have given themselves, But the members they allow into the clan.

im gonna laugh

a lot of our members are about to be booted tommorow

some are very close to the thirty day boot

30 day :o

Well, nobody can say what a clan should be doing. It is not for me or anyone else to determine their clan model. However, I place NO value on those spam clans. They are a waste in my mind, but if the members get something out of it, so be it. Just don't send me invites and dont spam the forums it does not really matter to me much.

I agree with Sze on picking. When I started playing the ladder, I did what Ryiro suggests (picking based on opponent). I found that sometimes it gave me the upper hand, but more often I guess them wrong and was out of position. If I am playing a noob, I might check to see if they triple pick all the time and guard against that, but that is it. Otherwise, you just have to trust your read of the board.

I want to revive this thread as I believe it is an important subject.

The most important thing for most clans, I believe, is getting talented, active players to join. This is a challenge and there are three established ways to go about this...

1- Spam invites then try to filter out the talented individuals.
(Not very popular and doesn't necessarily work)

2- Recruit people who have been playing Warlight for a while and try to convince them to join your clan
(Most experienced players already have a clan and it will not work in most cases)

3- Recruit new players and help them to level-up and become skilful players.
(Hard to spot talent and not all new players stay)

1. Stupid idea!
2. Very true.
3. Its not that hard to spot talent your just bad at it.

After_Dark focuses on the enjoyment of our players not solely the skill of our clan (although we do have some fairly skilled members), This is why we are diplomacy clan (although recently we have been delving into some competitive gaming).

So basically you recommend to play the player, not the board? Sounds like bad advice to me.
I fully support any post-match analysis though.

I mean in general you shouldn't make important in-game decisions based on who you are playing, especially when it comes to picking.

this is partial true. In general you shouldnì't pick based on the opponent, but based on the board yeah.
But i am sure, ceteris paribus (same board) szew would make different pick agaisnt me than agaisnt another very good player, as he expect me going for some dirty counter.

I advice to pick based on the opponent ONLY if you know him very well, and you are sure what he is going to pick.

Alias09, since when did you let your mind be infected with the mentality of the Wolves and Darklords?

there is a reason we are not a competitive clan...

https://www.warlight.net/LadderTeam?LadderTeamID=8623

Alias09, since when did you let your mind be infected with the mentality of the Wolves and Darklords?

Based on what exactly?

there is a reason we are not a competitive clan...

https://www.warlight.net/LadderTeam?LadderTeamID=8623

We aren't doing bad, we have lost one match out of the three we have finished :P

yeah

just realised that you are saving my ass quite well :)

Personally, just ignore us. After_Dark and GRID in particular are good clans, and populated by good people. And please don't look at us if you don't like us.

First, thank you Thomas, I appreciate the compliment

Second:

"The most important thing for most clans, I believe, is getting talented, active players to join. This is a challenge and there are three established ways to go about this..." "Alias09, since when did you let your mind be infected with the mentality of the Wolves and Darklords?"
Really Colonel? Your clan does this too. Don't act like Royal Falcons doesn't try to get as many players as possible.

We do try to get as many players as possible, as does everyone else. They just have to fit a certain criteria. It takes time and methodical scrutiny.

And this is why I manage PR.

I believe given players a chance alot of clans want high level players, experienced players why not take the less experienced and newer players to teach them and help them become great? I bet that none of you guys that are great players started great, you learnt over time and this is what clans should focus on, I'm sure there's many elite clans that do exactly that. Training and having paitience with newer players, get to know your members instead of huge spam inviting.I myself have a lot to learn.. We don't focus 1v1 ladder or 2v2 and that is something as a clan we will work to improve on. I rarely post on forum because i see that a lot of players use it to say this clans is doing this wrong or this clan is spamming, we should focus on our own clan and not others.. Encourage not and be positive not negative all the time..

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some of us actually do
i was taught to play better by some of the best players i've seen
but its not like they will teach you just because you're weak or they felt like it,you have to ask them

*scoffs at Royal Falcons* "Certain Criteria" 58 players in a 2 months?