How do you start and organize a BAF or Lambda

I have been on a few of them to know how they go ( although I have no idea where the boxes are in the Lambda I tend to follow others )

But I am tired of standing around waiting for someone else to start these things. So the question is how do you start them. How do you make the league. How do you move people around onto different teams.. Then How do you launch the trial..

I know this is probably really easy but id rather get some advice and get it right.


Thanks in Advance.

You can right click and invite people to your legaue, just like inviting someone to a team.

You use the LFG tab to select which Trial you want to do, and if you want to have it open or locked.

You can drag and drop people to the different teams on the league, or right click their names and move them using the drop-down menu.

First I collect friends and SG mates (and I move to Pocket D).

Then I announce in global channels and Pocket D broadcast. I normally set a start time as well, and I keep to that time (on very rare occasions I have dleayed it, because someone is logging in or someone crashed just as we approached the time). My message in the global channels might be, "Forming a Keyes trial in Pocket D. We launch in 12 minutes."

I open the Find window, narrow the search to 41-50 and start sending teels to levels 50s who are not already teamed (or who have something in their search comment that indicates they may want me to send them a tell even if they are teamed). If the response from my global/broadcast announcements is large enough, I will likely skip this step.

I inform my league every 3 or so minutes of the time left to start. I will usually repeat my global channel message 2 or 3 times after the first message, continuing to include the start time, "Keyes trial forming in Pocket D. 4 minutes to Go time." I also inform the league that I will be giving instructions during the wait for the queue (I may do this 2 or 3 times so people who are added also get to see).

Once my timer beeps, I put us in the queue and inform everyone I put us in the queue (and I start the timer again at 5 minutes). I announce in globals and broadcast that a trial has been queued so that others can choose to join if they wish, "A Keyes trial league has just been queued. To join, press LFG, select the Keyes trial, and Enter Queue. 5 minutes until green button." I inform the league at 3 and 1 minute left of the time. I'll usually make one or two more announcements in global that people can join the queue and get a place on my open league. If I feel I need to give any instructions on how we are going to run the trial, I'll use this time.

Once the green button appears, I'll make another instruction or two if needed and press the button. During the trial, I try to give my instructions ahead of time. I much prefer to say, "All charge Nightstar," or "Wait at Tennis Courts, character X is pulling Nightstar, " while there are still 8 to 10 Warworks left to kill, rather than waiting until after they are all dead.

A few little tricks I've learned leading leagues.

First off the league interface won't allow you to move people between teams if the person you're moving or a member of the target team is out of zone so I tend to ask people to come in zone before inviting.

When inviting a League Invite will place the person on a new team (it will also invite their entire team if they have one). A team invite will place them on team 1 but can only be used if team 1 has room. I tend to like using team invites and shifting people to secondary teams as team 1 fills up but YMMV.

When you queue as an open league the queue will wait for 5 minutes (this is apparently a bug, it's supposed to be 90 seconds) or until there are enough people for a full league. That means if (for example) you queue with 23 people it will wait 5 minutes unless someone is in the queue. Consequently it's often easier to fill the league entirely before starting.

How many people do you need before you can begin a lambda or baf trial?