How do I recruit reliable players for a new gaming clan who will commit?

[Hannah_L]

I’ve been trying to find a decent clan for the new season, but every group I join either has no real schedule or just falls apart after a week. I’m starting to wonder if I should just try to build my own team from scratch, but I have no idea how to even begin recruiting reliable players who actually want to commit.

[DonaldSJ]

Yeah I felt that too. I joined a few groups with vague schedules and a rotating leader. I tried posting a simple sign-up thread and suggested a fixed 2 hour window each Saturday. We had two people show up for the first trial, one for the second, and then nothing. It was a tease of momentum I could never count on.

[EricT]

I gave up chasing a formal clan and just pulled together a small squad from friends I already played with. It worked a bit—3 of us were steady for a couple weeks—but life stuff kept erasing the rhythm. One got a new job, another moved, a third lost interest after a bad scrim.

[GeorgeJL]

If you’re starting from scratch, maybe try a very low bar: a single weekly session with no role expectations, just show up and play. No big commitments, no schedules to keep people on. It might reduce the friction, even if it doesn’t build a long-term team.

[Larry_H]

Sometimes I wonder if the bigger issue isn’t recruiting at all but whether people actually want to commit in the first place. I kept notes on who said they'd help with recruitment, who could lead, who could fill roles, then watched most of it drift away. Is this actually the real problem, or is there something else going on?