Originally posted by David TebbWouldn't it just be easier for everyone to compromise on a 3 day timeout with an optional 7-14 day timebank, decided by the players themselves?
Ok James, I'll try to answer your question.
Dave
The Captains would decide the teams, a "coin toss" (or rather, a program would need to be developed to randomly sellect one team) gives one captain the choice of white or black on even or odd boards.
Judging by the amount of response to this thread, and the differing views, it might be a good idea to formulate these ideas into a core "choice of 3" as it were. In other words, have a site vote on how this should work.
It occurred to me the other day that it is not essential for there to be a dedicated leagues section added to the site in order for this to work. As someone has already suggested, an addition to the current tournaments page allowing clan tourni's would probably be enouph.
All the clan leaders could be given the option to enter, once all the entrants are established they are split into even groups by random.
Each group would have a winner which is put forward to a finalists group. Depending on the number of original groups it might be necissary to have the highest performers from the original groups to make up the numbers.
Winner is the champion.
How do people feel about playing matches concurrently??
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Originally posted by PhlabibitPhal,
What ever happens, I hope the thing is set up so a team only winning 45% of their matches won't be in first place.....
Ooops, was that a goad? 😉
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No need to goad, we are only playing by the rules set up by Russ. No one ever said life was fair 😉
Andrew
I like the idea of a clan league. But there would have to be a player max. to a team. Which would make it difficult for the larger clans. So perhaps the teams for the league could not be clans but sponsored by clans. I don't know how many leagues Russ will add probably only one. But he could create them similar to the different sieges. With different time out controls.
I've spent a fair bit of time now looking at the clans and it has occurred to me that there is a massive difference in strength between the them all.
I think it will need to be essential to take this into consideration when dividing the clans into groups. The general rating of the clans would have to be used to seperate them into evenly matched groups, rather than randomly dividing them up. This way smaller clans stand a chance of competing in the final rounds (even if they're probably gonna get stuffed anyway...)