Raid Team Absences

Please read my message below and take it seriously, because if I don't see attendance start to improve in the next two weeks, I will drop people from their raid teams and put them onto the reserve team.  Everyone that has been placed onto our raid teams made a commitment that they will generally be able to make their raid team's raid night once a week.  If you're asking for specifics, then by a general commitment I mean 90% of the time, you are able to make your raid team's primary raid night every week.  If your attendance dips below the 90% benchmark, you are not being fair to your team mates.  Also, everyone gave their consent that they would be consistent with their signing up for their team's raid nights on the guild calendar, whether their status is confirmed, tentative or declined.  I am not seeing this in several individuals. 

Since the start of the three raid teams, there have been several team mates that have been missing their team's raid nights week after week.  I understand if you need to miss out on raid nights due to work or other real life obligations.  Like I said before, we don't even mind if you miss a raid night because you want to go out on the town or just stay home and watch your favourite shows.   However,  everyone on the raid teams gave their consent that they understand the commitment involved in owning your own slot on our raid teams, yet people are still not showing up for raid nights every week.  If you are already assigned to a team, then it is completely okay to miss out on your team's raid nights once in a while.  But if you are gone every week then your team is left struggling to find someone to replace you.  Another commitment everyone on the teams made was that they will be consistent with their sign ups for their team's raid nights on the guild calendar.  This is a very crucial step because your raid team will know what to expect from you, whether you are able to confirm, decline, or sign up as tentative.  By not signing up at all, you leave your team mates wondering what your status is and this causes raids to be late because we end up waiting a bit longer because we're not sure if we should expect you to show up or not.  If you are not able to generally commit to your team's raid night, then please reconsider joining O Team instead because it is our reserve team.

Mists of Pandaria will launch on Tuesday, September 25th, and I'm sure we are all excited to hit level ninety quickly and start the new raids.  But if we keep having excessive absences then we are all going to miss out on progression, team-building and the fun involved in being on a raid team.  Please take no offense to this message because I intend none.  I am only doing this to ensure that our team-building environment is still one that rivals the cutthroat, impersonal and elitist raid environments that other guilds manage on our server.