However if that were hypothetically to go ahead it would beg the question; if the group who formed the mini-clan is bigger than the group who abstained and contained no clan leader, then why be in the big clan at all? Why not fracture off and make their own clan?
Well if that happens those members are free to make their choices.
Perhaps not all their principles, for example this event does not bare relevance to a clan's training scheme. However you can judge some key principles and other things; their willingness to get involved with the rest of the community, leadership cohesion and overall unity to name a few. The whole point of a clan is that it isn't just a bunch of individuals wearing the same t-shirt. Clans must take actions as a team, or they are completely 100% pointless. Need I remind anyone of the 'clans' in 2007/8 LWs?
Sorry but I don't fully agree with that. Clans should take actions as a team, yes, however they should also allow all their players to have a say in it,not just go with what the majority of the members agrees and ignore the minority. And if I could choose between the community we have today and the community we had back in 2007/8 I would choose the 2007/8 community without thinking twice. I never had more fun in vcmp than the time I started playing back in 0.3x.
-Is there more events and competition today compared to 2007/8 ? Yes, there is alot more events and competitions these days.
-Did I have more fun playing back in 2007/8 compared to today ? Yes, alot more. Why? Because despite the comunity not being obsseded about competition like it is today (which isn't exactly a bad thing) the community was more united, it was a small comunity(it still is) but everyone knew eachother and most people back then were able to put a coherent sentece together but above it all, it was mostly a group of people that wanted to have fun playing and because of that, things never had a tendency to get so serious and the community was alot more closer and united.
I'm sure there's players that also played in that time and have different views than mines, however I believe it's not worth to discuss it as it won't take us anywhere.
Another question that you should really think about is why you aren't going to compete? Are you really that stubborn to let a few of the mishaps of the last event prevent you from competing? Also, is there any other way around the problems that you are seeing?
I never said I wasn't going to compete because of what happened last VW, sorry if I somehow gave that impression. Sure I won't deny I didn't like how some things were handled last vice war, however I said want I wanted to say back then, so there's no need for me to go back to the same old matter once again.
The main reason why I'm not going to participate is because Im' pretty much inactive ingame these days. The last time I opened my game was just when the VU-MK CW happened, before that I hadn't played vcmp for weeks. And sure you sure you can ask: If im that inactive why did I joined HA's last event?
I joined that event because that event was supposed to be an LW reunion, which was "planned" back on LW's forum a couple weeks ago. An event where we would reunite with old LW players back from 2007/8. However not many members showed up as you can see in that topic.
Anyways, about the dilemma about individual players joining in:
Would this problem be solved if we requested our members to remove their tags while they're competing in the event? This seems to be the right thing to do as they would be participating individually/not representing their clan, so it seems correct that they would play without their clan tag as they would be participating individually. I also can't see how this option may disrupt or make it impossible for other players to enjoy the event in any way.