Reign for gaming clans / esports teams. Gaming clan community and tournaments.

Reign is the WordPress theme for building a complete community site: social network, courses, member directory, marketplace and job board on one install. A clan uses the social network and the events, with gamification on top.

BuddyNext supplies member profiles, the activity feed, spaces and notifications. Eventonomy, free, lists scrims, tournaments and meetups with RSVPs, and handles recurring weekly practices. WB Gamification adds points, badges, levels, leaderboards and challenges earned from real activity, with no paid tier. Together they give the clan a visible record that sponsors can read.

The BuddyPress Community Bundle kit is the packaged route for a BuddyPress stack, and the private community build guide covers private areas for officers and recruitment. The plugins page shows the split, and Reign is a flat theme licence. If a clan wants to run a store for merchandise, a multi-vendor engine is not needed; a standard shop plugin is enough.

A player checks the schedule, RSVPs to Thursday practice and reads the result thread from the weekend. After a match they post a short recap or a clip, argue about a decision and congratulate the person who clutched a round. All of it stays on the site.

Activity is spiky around events. On a tournament weekend the feed is busy, then quiet midweek, and that is normal. The site matters most in the quiet periods, when new members want to find the history and the guides.

Officers use the week for housekeeping: check applications, update the roster, post the schedule and award badges. A clan with a good record of its own history makes recruitment easier.

A clan lives on its roster. Players leave, burn out or change games, and a clan that cannot recruit and onboard well fades within a season. The site can make recruitment fair, visible and quick, and take pressure off the officers.

Publish what you look for. Say which games you play, what level of commitment you expect, which hours you are active and what kind of teammate fits. A clear page attracts the right applicants and discourages the wrong ones before anyone wastes time.

Use a short application in a private space. Ask for gamertag, role, availability, previous teams and why they want to join. Officers discuss each application in a private thread, and the applicant gets an answer within a set time. A trial period of a few weeks lets both sides find out if it fits.

Welcome new players properly. Pin a first-week checklist: set up the profile, join the right spaces, attend one practice and introduce yourself. Pair each newcomer with a buddy, since the first week decides whether they stay.

Keep an honest view of the roster. Review it each month, note who has not been active, and ask them directly whether they want to stay. Moving inactive players to an alumni list keeps the active roster accurate and avoids hurt feelings, and it keeps the sponsor numbers true.

If your group meets in person around board games, see the board game enthusiasts page. If you run tabletop campaigns, see the tabletop RPG page.

If your main aim is a live-streamed esports organisation with merchandise and sponsors, you may need a store and media tools beyond a community site.