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Last week, 15 Minutes of Fame brought you Part I of our exclusive chat with the Leftovers raiding community. The Leftovers are neither a guild nor an alliance. Instead, they're an open-ended uber-community of players on Silver Hand -- both guilded and unguilded -- raiding everything from Old World content and Karazhan all the way up through 7/9 BT.

Check out their phat stats:

• The Leftovers run some 70 to 80 raids per week.
• Ninety percent of players who sign up get into raids.
• Over the past 3 weeks, 661 players (on 1,094 characters) have attended a Leftovers raid.
• More than 1,700 players have attended or signed up with Leftovers raids since the Burning Crusade launched.
• The Leftovers marked their three-year anniversary in May of this year with eight Magtheridon/Gruul runs, including seven kills, plus four Molten Core fun runs.
  

This week, we're back with Part II of our interview with the Leftovers. We chat about the advantages and disadvantages of "open" vs. "closed" raiding groups and the custom tools that make such an immense raiding community practically run itself.

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Think you've got a hawt PuG raiding group on your server? You ain't seen nothin' until you've seen what's going on with the Leftovers of US Silver Hand-A -- and they're not a guild but rather a collection of pickup raiders! Check out these phat stats:

• The Leftovers run some 70 to 80 raids per week.
• Ninety percent of players who sign up get into raids.
• Over the past 3 weeks, 661 players (on 1,094 characters) have attended a Leftovers raid.
• More than 1,700 players have attended or signed up with Leftovers raids since the Burning Crusade launched.
• The Leftovers marked their three-year anniversary in May of this year with eight Magtheridon/Gruul runs, including seven kills, plus four Molten Core fun runs.
  

With numbers like these, the Leftovers raiding community is anything but leftover players. They have raiding groups of all shapes and sizes hitting content both high and low, hard and soft, casually and on a tight progression curve. We visited with a hive-mind group of their leaders to find out why the Leftovers' pickup raid system has become such a resounding success. Read on for Part I of our exclusive interview with the Leftovers.