Keep Your Raid Seat - Sign Up Early

In the most friendly manner, this is a reminder that if you would like to keep your raid seat, you should sign up early in the week. Raid events are posted no later than Tuesday - and typically on Mondays - and we start recruiting people to fill the empty seats on Wednesdays.

For known empty seats (when someone tells us in advance that they will not be available or when they sign up as out or declined), we immediately begin recruiting people to fill their empty spot. For unknown empty seats (e.g. when only 2-4 people have signed up and we have no idea whether more are going to sign up), we begin inviting people to cover off on those seats as early as Wednesday.

All of which is to avoid arriving at Fri/Sat and having to cancel a raid due to insufficient raiders and no available qualified pugs.

The obvious and common sense point is that it is poor guild relations to invite people to the event and then not let them in.

A catch 22 so to speak. We can neither ignore empty seats early in the week else we will not have decent replacements come raid night, nor can we find replacements early in the week and then not bring them to the raid. As you can see, this quickly translates into people who sign up late, sit out. And those that sign up early are not 'punished' by having the raid canceled because we waited until the end of the week to find replacements for empty seats we knew about several days earlier.

The simple solution is for everyone to respectfully sign up early - Mon/Tue.

Sign up before Wednesdays or your raid seat may already be assigned to someone else by the time you decide to sit in it. We absolutely will not punt someone from the seat just because a 'guildie' decided at the 11th hour to let us know they would be raiding that week. That is completely disrespectful and goes against the grain of what we stand for as a guild.

Sign up and show up - and may there be many loots!