******Information for upcoming TEAM tournament******

[esquire]

After long discussions with many players, we determined to have teams based on average ratings and not countries. Teams can still be made up wholly of players from a single country, but there will be limitations to this.

Each team will consist of four (4) players.

Each team will have a combined TOTAL rating of 6,200 points or less (based on the current 2005 Klier classic rating as of this moment; so, any changes in rating points from this day forward will not matter). If you do not have a 2005 rating or an overall rating, you will have a default rating of 1500. If you have no 2005 but do have an overall rating, the overall will be used. But check the the following link because you may have a 2005 rating even though you have not played the full 20 games yet. http://www.gravon.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=811 For instance: A team consisting of Esquire [1706], WSC_Junior [1701], Art [1266], and Tableplay [1513] would be acceptable because the combined rating adds ups to 6,186 points. In addition, we figured any team that is below the 6,200 limit by at least 200 points might be awarded handicap points for each round.

****We will allow teams made up of a single country to have 6300. But this must be verified.

Players on each team will pick a number 1-4 and that will be their number throughout the tournament. The individual numbers will not be posted until every team has picked their numbers (so that teams will not cherry-pick easy matchups). When teams are playing each other, the same numbers will play each other from both teams. These numbers can be based on anything. Your highest seeded player does not need to be #1, any number can be assigned to any player on your team. For instance, your best player could end up playing the lowest rated player on another team.

The tournament will be double elimination.

We hope to get twelve (12) total teams. We will still do it with more or less. The Tournament will start the beginning of September.

Any questions, comments, or suggested changes will be responded by this topic heading.

Good luck everyone and happy hunting for team members. I will start a new heading where players can recruit team members.[/b]


Please put teams at this link.http://www.gravon.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=813

[darthremark]

I made a reply on the other thread before I saw this one. What is up with the point cap rule? That isn't what was discussed last night. It will be impossible to assemble a quality team using these rules. I suppose it's an attempt to level the field, and it might make it more of a horse race, but really, we are not playing to entertain spectators, we are playing to win.

Klier 2005 is not a good benchmark anyway. I suppose someone could pick up Lion for 1400 points and slide under the cap... Really... do away with that rule.

[esquire]

We intend to keep this rule. It will make the teams evenly matched. Your team will just have to make adjustments like everyone has. This is the fairest way to keep the competition even.