I am attempting to make a team that has been inactive/barely alive for around a year or so active again. In order to do so, I have started a game in the team's forum and I have messaged the members of that team to hopefully find one or two people who would like to help out. In that team message, I have told them about the game, but I don't have much hope that any will try to
participate.
I am prepared for the worst case scenario, which is that all hope is lost for that team, but I *really* want to make it active again. Has anybody here tried to do something similar (and has succeeded in doing so)? Also, I am currently the only one that is trying to do anything in the team, so yeah, I'm alone in all this. Any tips?
Anybody?
This is something that the house of discord struggles with. Even though they have...what...10'000 members, I've only seen 23 - 100 people in their team battles. This is really a global issue in lichess. But if you're able to give out prizes, more people will be likely seen playing for your team.
It is very hard to do with one leader. Possible, yes. Easy? No.
Have regular team battles or arenas. The Liga or Rapid League are perfect for this. Ask @ jeffforever to add your team.
Sometimes starting a team from scratch is best because currently active players join. Whereas a team from a year+ ago will have old unused accounts.
You could open a new team, and send a team message to the old team that you are moving over. Anyone who is active and wants to participate can move over too. A much smaller team, but then active teams in the Liga and league tend to grow little by little.
Hope this helps!
If you can spend money
Pay a coach to make free courses for all the members in a group
P-R-I-Z-E money, get involved in Liga battles, just be careful of cheaters in tournaments with money
pay people money
Teams that offer Patron wing/money prizes have more participants than teams that can't afford to do that. And like others have said, active Liga participation is great for getting new people as people need to represent a team to play in Liga. The thing about money prizes is that you'll need good cheat detection though...
@larney said in #1:
> I am attempting to make a team that has been inactive/barely alive for around a year or so active again. In order to do so, I have started a game in the team's forum and I have messaged the members of that team to hopefully find one or two people who would like to help out. In that team message, I have told them about the game, but I don't have much hope that any will try to
> participate.
>
> I am prepared for the worst case scenario, which is that all hope is lost for that team, but I *really* want to make it active again. Has anybody here tried to do something similar (and has succeeded in doing so)? Also, I am currently the only one that is trying to do anything in the team, so yeah, I'm alone in all this. Any tips?
Play in a lot of tournaments and try the message all thing they will come back to your team. Also, is the cat on your pfp yours? Very adorable :)
I see a lot of advice here to PAY people to participate. That is a SAD commentary on today's society in my opinion... Unfortunately, I know you are right ... :-(
In general, people aren't motivated by much these days to FOLLOW a leader... I do seem to have some luck increasing participation when I share leadership roles though. I have a whatsapp group chat that I host for local people around me who want to learn English. As entertaining as my personality is, :-D it was still hard to get the majority of the people to participate. I took a harsh stance for a few months where I told people if they were silent for more than 2 weeks, I would kick them out of the group. ... Well, that woke some people up AFTER they were "suddenly" kicked out. Some stayed out and some asked to return and participated more. The fear of LOSING something motivated a lot of people, but it had a negative feeling in my soul... I didn't like the vibe I created.
So with that core group of more serious language learners, I SHARED the task of leading the group. Every month and a half I post a schedule of who will lead the group discussion by asking a Random question of the day. I lead the discussion once a week to help take most of the load, but the group knows that once every 6 weeks, it is their turn to ask a question. This gave me a MUCH needed rest from having to entertain everyone all the time and helped me not to feel lousy when some of my best ideas were met with silence. It also REALLY helped me learn about what is on the minds of the individual participants. I learned SO MUCH! I ALWAYS respond to everyone else's question of the day, and in doing so, they have much more respect for what it takes to lead and I get much more comments from people on days when they are not leading.
I don't know if maybe you could have your team members tell a joke of the day once a month or something or ask a get to know you type question once a month, but I think when others lead, there comes the feeling of sharing the load and that defines teamwork... right?
