About Us

Welcome to the Leftovers, the premier Community Raiding (CR) organization on the Silver Hand server. The Leftovers is not a guild, but is a community within itself, run by volunteers who help organize open roster raiding for anyone who has an interest in raiding content that requires 10, 20, 25, and 40 players. It is our mandate to provide an opportunity to visit this content, as well as progress through it, all while having fun with friends. We also provide an openly documented rostering, raiding and points system, so that our raiders can investigate our policies, regulations and strategies and have an knowledgable expectation of what the evening of raiding with us will entail.

On a social side, the Leftovers provides a way for friends who belong to different guilds to communicate easily via the use of our forums, and we also maintain a Teamspeak server for use during non-raiding events. Leftovers members will often form PvP groups, and coordinate lower level instances for alts. Our forums are also used to facilitate the easy trading of items, especially those involved with tradeskills.

Becoming a member of the Leftovers requires nothing more than the registration on our website, or the participation in one of our many events/raids. Prior membership is not required to attend one of our raids, it is in fact very common for people to join one of our raids, and having never been to the website, or had any prior contact with the Leftovers.



The History of the Leftovers
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Founded in May of 2005, the Leftovers was created to provide a raiding home to those individuals who did not believe joining a large guild should be required simply to see and combat the end game raiding instances. We also have worked at providing openly accessible strategies for these fights for other groups and guilds to use, not just on Silver Hand, but also on any World of Warcraft server.

Raiding with the Leftovers is as simple as registering with our website, and signing up for the raids we're running. We are proud to have never had minimum gear requirements to start raiding, nor have we ever required any specific guild affiliation. People were free to signup for whatever nights they were available. The organization of the raids, as well as leadership, points tabulation/entry and banking/distribution of consumables was provided by the Leads of the organization.

Within 3 months of formation and raiding Onyxia and Molten Core, it became apparent that we had enough people join the community to run 2 Onyxia raids at a time, a server first for a raiding group/guild. Soon, not only were there 2 Leftovers Onyxia raids every 5 days, but there we very quickly expanded to 2 Molten Core raids a week. The first raid was a one day full clear, and the second raid was broken into 3 sections, to allow more raiders access to the bosses, and also to allow for new members to raid the MC bosses that didn't require an accumulation of Fire Resistance gear.

Within 6 months of formation, it became clear that we would be able to effectively field 3 full MC clears, in addition to start working on Blackwing Lair. The logistical overhead of organizing and slotting 3 full public raids, in addition to dealing with the collection and distribution of consumables brought the organization to a crossroads.

In December 2005, it was decided that the Leftovers would be broken into its tradition Public raids, and a closed raiding group called a Strike Team (ST). The Public raids would continue to be run, and administered by the Leads, but the members of the Strike Team itself would run the ST. The Strike Team would handle it's own scheduling, collect it's own consumables and be responsible for filling it's own ranks. The Leftovers Point system (LOP) would be shared between the Publics and STs, however, membership in a ST meant that you were no longer eligible for Public raiding.

The Strike Teams were mandated to ensure that the public raids would not suffer by their separation from the public raiding ranks. Each time a Strike Team was formed, the Public raids continued unabated the following week, without an interruption in the overall Leftovers goal of providing open raiding to the community of Silver Hand. The first Strike Team was Roasted Quail (ST:RQ). Within 2 months, the second ST was formed; Burning Adrenaline (ST:BA).

By the Leftovers' first anniversary, each week there were;

• 2 full BWL clears
• 1 partial BWL clear
• 2 partial AQ40 clears
• 4 full Molten Core clears
• 4 Onyxia kills
• regular kills of several of the Green Dragons.
• several weekly unofficial ZG and AQ20 runs

Leftovers active rosters (active as defined by having raided in the last 2 weeks) were approaching 400 members, with over 1500 registered members having raided with us since our formation.


World of Warcraft Screenshot of the Day - Oct 11, 2006
Leftovers Anniversary raid on June 3rd 2006 (4 simultaneous Onyxia/Molten Core clears)

In July 2006, the third Strike Team, Volatile Rum (ST:VR) was formed . By this time, the first forays into Naxxramas were just beginning. As the Leftovers heading into the autumn of 2006, membership in the Strike Teams was starting to falter, and the decision was made to combined ST:BA and ST:VR into Battle Rez (ST:BR).

While the Strike Teams were facing roster difficulties mainly due to many of the members having been raiding the same content for over a year as well as the approaching release of Burning Crusade, the Public raids were at an all time high, in regards to content being tackled. In addition to the regular weekly double MC clears and double Onyxia kills, the Public raids were clearing Blackwing Lair weekly, tackling the first half of AQ40, and for the first time ever, working their way through Naxxramas. The Leads of the Leftovers were presented with another crossroads.

In December 2006, one year after the formation of the first Strike Team, it was decided that instead of having static rosters for Strike Teams, and open Public rosters, that a hybridization of the two systems would occur. The decision to move forward to Charter Raids was made. The concept behind the Charter system is that players who are interested in leading raids would apply for a raiding Charter with the Leftovers. The Leads would review the application, and as long as the Charter met criteria regarding experienced raid leadership, and a non-conflicting instance selection (ie. a Molten Core charter when there are already 2 MC charters that are barely filling their weekly rosters), the Charter would be granted. The Charter Leads will then be able to use the Leftovers forums, slotting software and points system to organize their raids, which people will be able to sign up for based on their specific interests. Instead of the Leads running the raiding community of hundreds of players a week, they would change to hosting raids, and allowing more freedom to the raiders and the raid leaders.

The Charter system acts to put the control back into the raiders hands, as far as what raids they want to sign up for, without being locked into (or out of) a specific Strike Team membership. In addition to this, it relieves the logistical overhead from the Leads, and the workload is spread across to those Charter leads who have applied for, and been granted a Charter.

In January 2007, the first two Charters were granted, to Roasted Quail (RQ) and Avatars of Power (AP).

For more information on applying for Charters, or on the Leftovers Points (LOP3), please visit our forums, or join the channel leftovers in game.

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Current Leads & Active Charters
Strategies

Admin note: A big thanks to Tenatia for writing this up!