Mmmm, maybe the solution isn't to reduce the size of the bigger teams, but to increase the size of the smaller ones.

For The Prism League, I've been focusing recruitment on people outside of PXR, essentially those who have never participated in the War before. Since a large portion of the team are comic artists (including the leader, Neko), asking fans of these comics has proven to be a good way of reaching out.

In a similar vein, I think it's possible for other teams to employ this tactic, especially Team Magma. After all, ORAS just came out, so the "land-creating" team will be rather fresh and popular in people's minds. A good place to start might be DeviantArt. Could search the term "Team Magma" and then sort by Newest results. Artists who have drawn artwork of Team Magma may be inclined to join said team for the War. If you send each person listed a note (say 30 or 40 of them), you'd probably get a good number joining. (http://www.deviantart.com/browse/all...5&q=Team+Magma)

Of course, it's a little harder for JMC and Yoga Bears. The... "joke team" concept is a little more difficult to pitch to some people and tends to draw mainly from the URPG (because URPGers are all crazy). I'm not saying that recruitment is impossible for them, just that the teams might need to try different tactics. Members of these teams may know of Pokemon fans outside of PXR who participate in various Pokemon communities. It might be possible to reach out to them that way for the War event. Alternatively, I suppose JMC could check if anyone in Red Dwarf communities might be interested.


The truth is, there is still a lot of time until the War begins. Teams will change, grow, merge, or fall apart. I think that the time is a good opportunity to take the chance to build up. And I found that simply messaging random people, as silly as that sounds, works pretty well.