After our clan leader quit, randoms on XLink Kai saved our Friday nights

I had a solid group of 8 guys for Halo 2 on the original Xbox, we ran clan battles every Friday night for about 4 months straight. Last week, our leader got a new job with night shifts and just quit cold, no warning, and then two others followed because they only played with him. I thought the whole thing was dead, honestly, I was ready to pack it in and go back to solo matchmaking. Then on Saturday I joined a random lobby on XLink Kai and mentioned what happened, and three strangers said they had the same issue with their old clan last month. We ended up playing until 2 AM, just messing around on Lockout, and now we're forming a new clan with 12 people total, all of us refugees from dead groups. The key was just finding people who still care about the game, not the original crew. Has anyone else rebuilt a clan from strangers after a total collapse, and how did you handle the first practice together?

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hugog4323d ago

...and honestly that's the best part about the whole thing, nobody in the new group has any old grudges or baggage from past clan drama. You guys are basically getting a fresh start with people who already know how to handle a team, just not each other. The first practice thing is way overrated, we did a 4v4 custom on Midship with the rule that nobody talks about strategies, just callouts, and it worked way better than any of my old clan's "serious" scrims. The real trick is to skip the whole "let's get to know each other" icebreaker crap and just play, the talking comes natural after you've been teabagged by a stranger for the fifth time. Also, make one of the 12 the official "party host" before you even start, trust me, arguing about who picks the map at 1 AM is how small groups fall apart.