I've just been using strat 1v1 to teach.

When a student's comfortable on that, I usually start introducing them to the realtime ladder templates; then after they're familiar with the RT ladder templates, we'd play those + strat 1v1 at random, depending on what they need the most work on.

Edited 11/28/2016 15:34:23

I want to become a student too. I don't really have a clue of my strength relative to others..

Invite you to a game, Kakuro.

To all applicants and current students, your friendly teacher Nex is recommending you read https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B024HXqzvoGCejhhajNFa1ZOVlE/edit?usp=sharing.


Further instructional material can be found from watching and studying the games of such players as:

https://www.warlight.net/LadderTeam?LadderTeamID=4090, current 1v1 ladder #1
https://www.warlight.net/LadderTeam?LadderTeamID=9054, current realtime ladder #1


and the rest of the ladder top 10s, https://www.warlight.net/LadderSeason?ID=0, https://www.warlight.net/LadderSeason?ID=3, https://www.warlight.net/Ladder?Ladder=Seasonal. The team ladders may also be of interest, but I personally am not skilled enough in team matches to teach them effectively.

Edited 11/28/2016 18:36:57

Quick update regarding new applicants. I didn't have much time this weekend and today, but from tomorrow I'll start inviting you to new games. At the moment new teachers are still getting used to students, but after they'll have games with every one of them, they will form their own student groups. I personally don't want to have more than 10 students all by myself, because overall quality of games and teaching suffer then.

At the moment there are 8 students, 6 applicants, 4 students on vacation. That would make 18 players. Nex and DanWL should take 3-6 students each, so there's potential for 4 more applicants, maybe more if some of students on vacations leave permanently. I won't be judging how suitable applicants are for now, but during the course of your games I will be looking for these things:

• Activity, players who will constantly get booted in games will get removed. We allow vacations for as long as you want and our games honor vacations mode. You should declare your plans in advance if your vacations are longer than 10 days and we would prefer you to finish the games you are already invited to. By joining you should be able to commit to 5-10 3 days boot games at same time.
  
• Joining our games. You can decline some games if you don't like their settings, but if you decline significant amount of them (~50%), you'll get removed.
  
• Respect towards each other. Please solve your conflicts as civilly as possible. Rude players will get removed.
  
• Following our teachings. You can make your own moves, but if you don't plan to follow any of our advices, I don't think you should be joining.
  
• Communication skills. We expect you to understand basic English and communicate without need to translate every single word. Quiet players are likely to be removed, as it's common for our teachers including myself to ask students questions on their moves.
  
• If students intentionally try to ruin our team games they will get removed instantly.
  
• We expect new students to be capable to defeat AI in 1v1. If player can't do it initially, it is expected that he learns it in first 5-10 games. Constant very weak performance and no sign of improving might result in removal. If you have trouble with AI, let me know and I'll try to have some extra games with you versus AIs

As for now expectations are low, but if applicant amount increases significantly, we may increase them to remove the least motivated students. I am not going to turn down anyone who wants to join, but if there are more students than we can handle, entrance exams might get included as well.

We judge our students by their actions in our games and ignore their profiles. I believe that people can change, I have seen players with 60+% boot rate start treat their games very seriously and people who have acted dishonorable become respectful and kind. If you are afraid of your past behavior or your statistic page, don't worry and apply, if you're dedicated to changing for the better you'll be fine.

Thanks to everyone who applied, it's a great honor for me and whole crew of Warlight Training School to be able to help you. We wish you best of luck in upcoming games. We plan 1 student exclusive tournament in near future so keep your eye for invites. In next couple days I'll mail every new applicant and will continue communication from there.

I would like to be a student

I would also like to join as a student

I would as well be interested in joining as a student.

I'm interested in joining as a student as well.

At this rate we may need a fourth teacher; I can only do so many games at a time xD

i would like to join as a student

Edited 11/29/2016 04:20:07

I would also like to join as a student. If that doesn't work right now I can be a guest player.

i would like to join as a student as well :)

@Wally Balls, I'm not sure I can give you much advice that you don't already know regarding the 1v1 ladder template, but if you want a sparring partner for the RT ladder templates I'd be happy to.

I'll set up a game with new applicants, but as always, Pakh will control official acceptance. :)

I am intersted in joining as a student.

If you don't already have to many, I would be very interested in being a student.

i'm also interested in joining this school as a student.

I would really much appreciate coming into this program, i've got tons of time to commit to it.

I can see a lot of players have signed up, what's the status on availability?

Kind Regards
Frederik

Another quick update. All already applied players have been invited to their first games. I updated this page https://warlightgamereviews.wordpress.com/about/ to include all the names of current students, check it and let me know if I forgot to include you.

At the moment we have 25 active students, 13 guest players, 3 teachers, 1 game reviewer. I discussed with other teachers on what we should do regarding new applicants. We decided that we're capable of accepting more applications, so if you're interested to become our student, you're welcome.

We are actively looking for 2 more teachers. Although we can handle current student amount, I want that each of our teachers would have less students assigned for him so that he would have more time to focus on individual students.

All of our guest players are already invited to 1-2 games each and the amount of those games might rise to 3-4. I don't want to overflow them with games. All that guest players do is to join some of students's games and play like any other of their games. They don't need to teach students or follow any of teacher's advices. Guest players mostly serve as example of good play or as a stepping stone for students to overcome.

We are still looking for 2 additional game reviewers.

At the moment our new students have been grouped randomly, but in upcoming days groups might be switched around depending on overall performance of students.

We intend to start student exclusive tournament this weekend. We don't know if all students will participate, but if they all want to do so we won't be able to fit them to one tournament. At the moment we have 29 students and round robin tournaments support 20 players at most.

Warlight Training School crew has been working hard on last few days. We may face some delays regarding game/event creation as applicants' amount greatly exceeded our expectations. Thank you for your patience.

If you want to be student/guest player/teacher/game reviewer leave a reply in this thread or contact me directly via private message. If we don't respond within 2-3 days, let us know. With so many applications it's easy to miss some players.

Id like to join as a student

I'd like to join as a student

Edited 12/1/2016 00:14:15