Big Dumb Guild Announces Retirement from Competitive Raiding

wowhead.com:

In surprise news shared by GM/founder Lozy, longtime Race to World First contender Big Dumb Guild has announced their disbanding and retirement from competitive raiding, citing a decline in leadership, alongside the loss of core players and sponsorship.

Beginning their raid history in 2014, BDG gained recognition for their World 9th finish in Ny'alotha, beginning a streak of top 10 finishes which include World 4th in Sanctum of Domination, Vault of the Incarnates, and Aberrus. Despite ups and downs throughout their illustrious career, BDG will be remembered for bringing humor and levity to their productions, proving themselves equally entertaining and competitive throughout the world race.

Some of this time has been for a break, some for considering which direction to go in the future, and some of it has just been me dragging my feet. After a putting a little over 9 years of my life into running this guild (first raid Oct 28, 2014), I'm announcing the disbanding of BDG as a hardcore/RWF guild.

A couple of the bigger reasons for this that all kinda work together:

• Decline in leadership, both in quality and quantity. This has mostly been a recent problem, but I definitely don't feel the same level of desire I did back in the Castle/Sanctum days when I was excited to do work. It’s not fair to say raiding became an obligation for me, but the passion and desire was gone. I could have done better. Couple that with having to change out basically my entire officer team twice in the past year, business partners stepping away, and high amounts of stress/anxiety I've been feeling since Castle, I'm left with little motivation to continue this other than inertia. It doesn't feel right for me to give my guys anything short of my best.

• Losing core players each tier either to retirement/burnout or taking offers from the top 3 (as they should). Regardless of the quality of their