teams adjustment

I couldnt help but notice that the teams area needs an adjustment. There isnt much happening in many games. Maybe smaller teams or smaller number of teams.

The only team tournaments are the ones in games that have at least five teams. There would be more team play if, for instance, one team could challenge another to a one-one-one match like those in SSTT.

Marleys Ghost proposed:

> There would be more team play if, for instance, one team could

> challenge another to a one-one-one match like those in SSTT.

I like this idea very much.

IngoA alias Ma Waldorf

I meant to type "one-on-one", of course.

I would also like to see team statistics similar to the Player statistics page.

Maybe even a team rating? Now it seems to be the average of the players' rating in a team.

In my opinion, a team should only be able to compete if they have a min. of 4 players. In the current einstein tournament, one team (Ma Waldorf and her naive child )has only 2 players (they have clinched first place). What do others think?

A second "adjustment" would be to get some more team events started! Go9, chess and connect6 all have at least five teams, yet they have not started. Go9 has had at least five teams for a very long time... (I think even four teams should be enough to start a tournament)

I also like MarleysGhost idea to allow team vs. team invitation matches.

I would also like to see the possibility for team events for variations, for example, I think mini shogi would be a good team tournament, or maybe black hole einstein, etc.

I agree with Ray; 4 players should be the minimum for a Team.

And I like the idea of Team Tournaments for Variations (yes, I love EinStein black hole. And chess 960 could be funny, too).

I agree there should a minimum team size. Whether the minimum is 2,3,4,5,6,7, or 8 I will leave to others.

Would the captain of a team get to accept/refuse an invitation as an autocrat? Or would we want some kind of democratic reform voting? (Autocracy in this case is fine with me. The captain can conduct a poll if he or she wants to.)

Game variation could easily be a parameter of an invitation. What would the constraints be? Would someone who signed up for a Chess team want to get committed to Mini-Shogi by an autocrat?

or maybe, add some Admin rights to other members of the team,

in case that the Captain its being away for a long time.

Ray Garrison wrote:

> In my opinion, a team should only be able to compete if they have a min.

> of 4 players.

Agreed.

> In the current einstein tournament, one team (Ma Waldorf and her naive child

> )has only 2 players (they have clinched first place). What do others think?

As I had explained in another thread, this was an accident. I never intended

to start as a duo. By the way, the same thing happened in Street Soccer too:

Polska had only two players and won every match.

Ingo.

Just a question: do you think that "invitation games for Teams" should be Unrated (like it is now, for player invitations) or shall it be Rated?

The individual invitations are for unrated games to deter multiple-account cheaters from manipulating their ratings with them, right? It wouldn't be hard for a multiple-account cheater to form a team or two, although I don't think it has happened yet.