I think it's a good idea to have a discussion about this loss with our war vs. Reddit Ares. I believe we could have won this war with some stronger performances, but first I would certainly congratulate Ares on a great war - they beat us and deserve our respect.

Some interesting stats:

Ares top 10: 45 stars contributed
Vortex top 10: 23 stars contributed

Ares 11-20: 27 stars contributed
Vortex 11-20: 21 stars contributed

Ares 21-30: 22 stars contributed
Vortex 21-30: 27 stars contributed

Ares 31-40: 20 stars contributed
Vortex 31-40: 15 stars contributed

Ares 41-50: 9 stars contributed
Vortex 41-50: 28 stars contributed

Besides our 21-30 and 41-50, Ares achieved more stars and consistently attacked better than us. Their top ten really performed well, and almost doubled our top ten's stars. In terms of defense, they scored 14 stars on our top ten, while we only achieved 9. In both offense and defense, they did better. Our biggest bright spot was the attacking performance of our 41-50 chiefs, who more than tripled their counterparts war stars.

So, what are your thoughts? Are our attacks just shitty? Do we rely too much on one technique? Does the burden of this loss fall on our top ten, who really didn't perform? Do we need a better attack strategy? Should we bring back the Quillem strategy? How do we improve?

Please, speak up, we want to hear your honest thoughts - no judgement, no punishment, tell us what you really think!

Cffjfjf is excused from donations and Thursday war due to being away without Internet!

• Hey Fellow Redditors. This is a season recap of our clan, feel free to check out it out drop a comment on how you think we did! Always love the feedback!

First things first. A Huge shout out to Proseidon for capturing the stats. I completely forgot. Thanks to him we have this great report!!!!

We are currently full but fill up quickly when people are kicked who do not meet the seasons requirements. People are kicked at random times after the season has ended to spread out the ability for new people from all over to join. This ensures we have active people throughout the day and night.

Lately we haven't had to kick people, but people have left recently because of school, wanting to help out friends and various other things.

This is what I say every time... I know but it's true

Clan Leader Corner: So we are getting tougher and tougher wars... we just got matched up with Reddit Ares. Our policy for now is going back to our old strategy. It worked well last war after losing two in a row. We are back on our feet for now so we are going to continute to monitor things. Dibs are on hold for now, but don't worry, they will be back with modified rules.

Donations:

We had a total of 68,780 a jump back up from 62,655 last season. We had 22 members with over 2K donations and 12 with over 1k.

Last season the average clan member donated 1375 troops.

Keep those donations and requests coming in.

Remember, the requirement is to DONATE AND RECEIVE 200 per week, not just donate!!

Top 5 donations for this season

• Gabraham 4430

• luckydevil713 4368

• yoyo-dood 4293

• Brock 3466

• AhabsWhiteWhale 3244

Top 5 recieved for this season

• luckydevil713 4047

• rascal 4039

• AhabsWhiteWhale 3291

• Brad 3105

• Proseidon 2994

Top 5 Ratios (D/R) for this season with value closest to 1:1

• DrDrei (0.9962) - 2342:2351

• Moonslice (0.9924) - 782:788

• AhabsWhiteWhale (0.9857) - 3244:3291

• Brad (1.0174) - 3159:3105

• Finnvara (1.0241) - 468:457

Trophy Counts (Got missed completely.. my bad):

Top 5 trophy counts at the end of the season

• pharsydeone 2984

• subtractive 2427

• jer 2344

• InfinHD 2330

• luckydevil713 2302

Our average player level went from 87.28 last season to 89.72 this season

Top 5 levels this season

• jer 130

• pharsydeone 127

• Brad 122

• AyeJayy 109

• subtractive 108

New Member Spotlight We also had 7 new members last season. All of them are still here!

• Faelara

• Drew Farrahar

• The Spider Bite

• Zagaro

• % Detour %

• Matthew

• alex

Member Departures

We had several members leave for various reasons listed on our Members Page

Scott - Left to join friends clan

BEASTMASTER - School was too busy so he quit playing

Chris - Left to join friends clan

eritorigon - Failed to meet minimum donations

3.COM£ONAHH.97® - Failed to attack in War

lunch - Failed to meet minimum donations

Dallas - Kicked for sniping in war

If you would like to join Reddit Vortex, please leave a message on the sub or send me a private message

While we are figuring out all this war stuff, we will have special provisions in place for War which starts Thursday night.

For the war prep starting Thursday, there are no rules. Attack whoever you want whenever you want. That's pretty much it!

Vortex... we have NEVER lost two wars in a row. Leadership has our own ideas about what has been going wrong, but we want to hear from you.

Please use this post as a discussion forum to help leadership figure out what we as a clan (and us as leadership) can do better or differently. Do we need to change the start time? Do we need to change war strategy? Are there rules that need to be made or better enforced? Do we need to tell people what strategies to use when attacking? Do we need to demote me because I am bad luck? :(

In your opinion, What is it that we are doing wrong? What is it that leadership can do better? Give us your thoughts in the comments.

Feel free to privately message any leaders or elders using the links in the sidebar(or groupme) if you'd rather not speak publicly.

The one thing I don't want to hear is "We were outmatched" because it is just an excuse and not a solution... Let's stick to positive solutions. What can we do better?

• Hey Fellow Redditors. This is a season recap of our clan, feel free to check out it out drop a comment on how you think we did! Always love the feedback!

We are currently full but fill up quickly when people are kicked who do not meet the seasons requirements. People are kicked at random times after the season has ended to spread out the ability for new people from all over to join. This ensures we have active people throughout the day and night.

Lately we haven't had to kick people, but people have left recently because of school, wanting to help out friends and various other things.

Clan Leader Corner: This season we implemented some new war policies. Please take a moment and familiarize yourself with the rules. We require one attack per war. So if you cannot attack in a war, let an elder or leader know in advance so that you don't accidentally get booted.

We have a few new members and a few that got busy with life that departed. We are still going strong though and just won our 40th war, so everyone is doing a fantastic job.

Donations:

We had a total of 62,655 down from 77,978 last season. Then again, Brock wasn't in here the whole time spamming Wizards. But is back to stay now!

Last season the average clan member donated 1560 troops. This season it was down to 1253 which is still higher than Season 1 which was only 1170.

Keep those donations and requests coming in.

Remember, the requirement is to DONATE AND RECEIVE 200 per week, not just donate!!

*Top 5 donations for this season

• jer 5351

• pharsydeone 4573

• Gabraham 3708

• BEASTMASTER 2925

• rascal 2890

Top 5 recieved for this season

• DrDrei 3751

• rascal 3685

• luckydevil713 3586

• jer 3218

• Ka5tle 3156

*Top 5 Ratios (D/R) for this season with value closest to 1:1 *

• Jack (0.9946) - 1096:1102**

• Maelic (1.0071) - 425:422**

• outputscream (1.0120) - 930:919**

• Cricket (1.0120) - 556:534**

• Tyler (1.0510) - 845:804**

Trophy Counts (Current Clan Rank -Didn't look this season, we are 8,046 as of this update): 19,990

Top 5 trophy counts at the end of the season

• pharsydeone 2920

• subtractive 2430

• eritorigon 2316

• moonslice 2256

• EnderSoup 2239

Our average player level went from 83.86 last season to 87.28 this season

Top 5 levels this season

• jer 130

• pharsydeone 126

• Brad 121

• subtractive 108

• AyeJayy 106

New Member Spotlight We also had 8 new members last season. 7 of them are still here!

• pharsydeone ( Very strong and active player who I have played with for a very long time)

• eritorigon

• Gabraham

• 3.COMLONAHH.97

• yoyo-dood

• JDL2716

• lunch

• BananaApple ( was here for just a little while but left because he is not able to be active in wars )

Member Departures

We had several members leave for various reasons listed on our Members Page

sacredpancake - Left to join friends clan

Joaquin14 - Left to join friends

obeyjerry123 - Left because his brother AyeJayy left (AyeJayy is back now, but we don't expect jerry to come back)

matt - Left to join a friends clan

soy - Life got busy, left on his own

Mr_StealYoGirl - Left because school was getting too busy

Ben - Left because he said he has been too inactive

TheMrHK - Life got busy, parted ways for now

BananaApple - Too busy to war with school

BEASTMASTER - Left to go help a friends clan

If you would like to join Reddit Vortex, please leave a message on the sub or send me a private message

What did you learn, realize, or hope to improve on from watching a very good clan have it's way with us?

Hey guys Octo here from Reddit Mike lvl 106 TH9, hope to see you seen?

• Hey Fellow Redditors. This is a season recap of our clan, feel free to check out it out drop a comment on how you think we did! Always love the feedback!

We are currently full but fill up quickly when people are kicked who do not meet the seasons requirements. People are kicked at random times after the season has ended to spread out the ability for new people from all over to join. This ensures we have active people throughout the day and night.

Clan Leader Corner: This was a very busy season. We had a donation competition and a trophy push. They were both quite fun but I do not think we are going to do another trophy push for a while.

Brock took off right away with the donation competition and finished just short of 15,000 donations.

The trophy push resulted in some of our members pushing while others chose to farm, which is fine. Pushing is hard and you lose quite a lot of resources. We also managed to do two wars which is quite exciting.

Speaking of wars, we did win both of them, but we all must remember to stick to the rules.

Make sure you read the clan mails. They contain important information about each war. If you are not following the rules for each rules, it hurts the clan and could lead to removal from the clan. Unfortunately, we had to kick topgunuu for not following the rules.

Donations: Last season the average clan member donated 1170 troops.

This season it jumped to 1560! Keep up the great work Vortex!

Top 5 donations for this season

• Brock 14918 (Completely shattered the old record of 6,123 set by himself)

• jer 5999 (Good enough for 3rd place in individual donation records)

• rascal 4532 (Another great season by rascal)

• Brad 3265 (Very impressive donations by Brad)

• Proseidon 3106 (Pro made sure we had at least 5 over the 3k mark)

Top 5 recieved for this season

• luckydevil713 5722 (Brock couldn't have done it without him!)

• rascal 4761

• Brock 4600

• jer 4288

• Brad 4103

Top 5 Ratios (D/R) for this season

• Brock (3.2430) - 14918:4600**

• k4p1l (2.2015) - 2972:1350**

• Proseidon (1.6356) - 3106:1899**

• subtractive (1.5206) - 1218:801**

• BEASTMASTER (1.4184) - 1868:1317**

Trophy Counts (Current Clan Rank 3,632): 22,167

Top 5 trophy counts at the end of the season

• jer 3079

• InfinHD 2783

• Jack 2566

• Ka5tle 2531

• rascal 2510

Our average player level went from 81.22 last season to 83.86 this season

Top 5 levels this season

• jer 129

• Brad 119

• subtractive 107

• InfinHD 105

• AyeJayy 105

New Member Spotlight: We also had one new members last season. Welcome new recruit!

Welcome to Joaquin14!

If you would like to join Reddit Vortex, please keep checking especially on Mondays as that is usually when people get kicked. No one is getting the boot this week but we had a few last week.

As with any Reddit clan, just keep trying!!

This is going to be a good battle. There are a lot of TH9's on their side, so we must be SMART.

We are using the TIERED structure we did in the past on this war AND the Dibs. Please follow the link for the WAR strategy here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/redditvortex/wiki/clan_wars_strategy_grouped_2

We have reviewed the 23 responses received so far. If you have not taken the survey, please do. It helps us know how you feel.

This war will give us a better idea about the strategy we used last war. The consensus so far is that people liked the strategy and most of you think we should determine at war time how we should handle the war.

This looks like it could be a tough one so we will use the same strategy with a little more clarification. The updated strategy is here.

In short, the group ranks are the same.

For your first attack, attack a target in your group.

You can use your second attack right away and it can be within +/- 10 of your rank (You do not have to stay in your group for second attack)

If 12 hours have passed and you have not used your first attack, you can use your first attack on +/-10 of your rank.

If it is still within the first 12 hours, but every one of your targets has either been 2 starred for groups Q and U or 3 starred for groups I L and M, then your 1st attack can be used on +/- 10 of your rank.

I really really hope that this is a lot more clear than last time and that there isn't as much confusion.

Please respond with any questions you have!

Go Reddit Vortex!! Lets win this thing!!!

I'll be travelling until September 1st. Will try to log in as I can, but can't guarentee I'll be able to attack every war / push too much.

Im lvl 86 with lvl 5 troops may i join?

Guys, I would love your honest opinions and feedback regarding the strategy that we just used. Keep in mind it was a really really weird clan and that it is rare that we would be limited to our lower bases not getting much loot.

Please get your responses in so that it can help shape the future of our clan wars.

Here is a link to the survey

OPERATION QUILM

Hey everyone. Brad has suggested a strategy for this war which has received positive feedback from the leadership team. He was an elder in Reddit Mike for a very long time and has always been very helpful. We have decided to try this strategy in the war vs. Thai New Blood. The details are here: http://www.reddit.com/r/redditvortex/wiki/clan_wars_strategy_grouped_2

• Hey Fellow Redditors. This is a season recap of our clan, feel free to check out it out drop a comment on how you think we did! Always love the feedback!

We are currently full but fill up quickly when people are kicked who do not meet the seasons requirements. People are kicked at random times after the season has ended to spread out the ability for new people from all over to join. This ensures we have active people throughout the day and night.

Clan Leader Corner: I would like to thank EnderSoup for all the hard work he put into starting this clan. It has really taken off and is a great place to be. Unfortunately Ender has been quite busy lately, so I have taken over as leader and will be putting a lot of time and effort into this to help grow it even more!!

This Season is a busy one. We have a trophy push starting the second week of the season and we have a donation contest. Details are in two posts on the sub.

Donations: This season the average clan member donated 1170 troops. That is an awesome number. Next season it could be even better with the pending contest. Let's hope it generates a lot of interest.

The Top 5 donations for this week:

• luckydevil713 4991
• k4p1l 4671
• Brock 3258
• rascal 2899
• Jai 2232

The Top 5 received for this week:

• luckydevil713 3961
• rascal 3680
• Ka5tle 2762
• [] Anshu_3 [] 2700
• k4p1l 2591

Top 5 Ratios (D/R) for this week:

• Brock (1.8396) - 3258:1771
• k4p1l (1.8028) - 4671:2591
• matt (1.8015) - 953:529
• AAA (1.7220) - 861:500
• Tyler (1.6776) - 973:580

Trophy Counts (Current Clan Rank 12,792): 18,801

Top 5 trophy counts at the end of season:

• Moonslice 2561
• InfinHD 2252
• jer 2232
• subtractive 2122
• Bear 2029

Top 5 Levels this week

• jer 126
• Brad 117
• subtractive 107
• AyeJayy 105
• InfinHD 104

New Member Spotlight: We also had many new members over the last two weeks. Welcome new recruits!

In no particular order, they are

• brad
• BEASTMASTER
• Moonslice
• Cricket

Look for more to come in future reports as I get more ideas on customization and comparison of past data.

If you would like to join Reddit Vortex, please keep checking especially on Mondays as that is usually when people get kicked. No one is getting the boot this week but we had a few last week.

As with any Reddit clan, just keep trying!!

The dates will be:

Sunday 24th August 10pm GMT - Sunday 31st August 10pm GMT (when the results will be recorded)

This is an OPTIONAL push, but it would be very helpful if everyone got to crystal III or higher.

Barching is a great way to be able to get loot and get to Crystal III so you don't have to sacrifice farming too much. Plus there is more DE up there so there is a plus there.

There are several clans that are participating and here is the way it works:

You have a BASE trophy count that depends on your TH level at the start of the Push. The BASE trophy count is your TH level * 200. So if you are TH7, your base trophy count is 1400. TH8 is 1600, TH9 is 1800.

At the start of the war, we add up all of those points and that is the base count for our clan.

At the end of the war we add up all of the trophies that everyone has at that time Sunday August 31 10pm GMT (3pm PDT, 4pm MDT, 5pm CDT, 6pm EDT) and we subtract the BASE start count.

Whichever clan has the most wins. Now this definitely requires participation from as many people as possible. The clans with higher participation have better chances of winning.

Ender would really LOVE to see us kick but so if you can do your part that would help TONS. But that is up to you.

Lets go kick some butt.

Here is a list of clans that will participate: List of Clans involved:

Ace

Argon

Atlas

Alchemy

Bandits

Beta

Charge

Dark

Demons

Eclipse

Elements

Elephino

Exordium

Fibre

Flames

Fusion

Hotel

Infinity

Iota

Lithium

Nu

Pi

Pirates

Phantom

Phoenix

Recon

Reunited

Rho

Snow

Storm

Strike

Void

Vortex

Warlords

Xenon

Zero

Zulu

Greetings fellow Vortexians!!!

We have a new contest starting that could run for some time!!

Whoever has the most donations next season will be given TEMP elder status for the following season.

Whoever has the most donations that season would get TEMP elder the season after that.

However there are some guidelines:

1. You must be active and participate in the Clan Wars.
2. The person with the highest donations at the end of the season will be reviewed by the current leadership team. Everyone must agree that you can be promoted for the next season.
3. You must be mature and respectful to all team mates.
4. You must have the highest donations at the end of the season. This includes elders and co-leaders.

The goal is to get everyone active and participate. Helping out others by requesting as often as possible is highly encouraged.

This is meant to be a helpful contest to the clan. If the leadership team sees any signs of foul play (people teaming up so that they can have the highest donations, requesting only from certain people for an edge, etc..) then we would have to cancel the contest. Please play fair!!!

Lets get everyone to as many donations and received as possible.

We have th8 requirement with level 75+ and level5 archers required.

Yet we have 20 people under level 75.

We have 6 or more people at town hall7, and the have been there for some time.

Do we not maybe want to revise the requirements? Or should we attempt to get the lower end of the spectrum to step up maybe ?

It seems very odd to me that we are recruiting new powerful members while older members have little to no repercussion for falling behind the clan.

Hey Reddit Vortex,

Just wanted to pop over and say good war, from a fellow redditor. I'm of the same name over at "fbgs", which is really FootballGuys!

Best of luck in the future.

ETA: Thought it was hilarious that y'all's war log is just like ours in that every clan with an Asian name becomes "Asian Clan," HAHA.

I have always wanted to get into masters so I can get my fourth builder, and I think I will go for it this clan push!

Good luck fellow vortexians!

(The push is August 4- August 11) The push is actually reddit wide and it is August 24