Team problem

on Monday some new team Championships started.

I looked through the teams and found some cases where

a single player makes up the whole team.

Extreme is the situation in Connect6:

six teams; two of them consisting of single players,

one more consisting of two players.

That can not be the intention of a team championship.

Ingo.

I am in such a situation. I overlooked the fact that soccer could restart and I didn't campaign for team mates. I will play my games but I won't re-enter the next championship solo.

The chess tournament is similar: two teams with one player and one team with two players.

Some of the chess ones more like simuls :)

I just started the first and only team (so far) for the great new game Slither.

I am calling it "Slithering Beasts" and my intent is to eventually have a N. America vs. Europe team competition going at some point. I don't have much experience on LittleGolem (having only played two different games so far) and zero experience with team play. Slithering Beasts currently includes 3 members from Canada and the United States and I'm actively recruiting (and awaiting invitation acceptance for) a few more players. Does anyone from Europe who has an interest in Slither care to start a European counterpart team? I hope we can make this a success. :-)

I think it would be much better if teams were not qualified to start a tournament unless they had at least four members at the time the tournament started.

Four because that's half the number of boards, so that nobody plays on more than two boards per match. If the match size changes, the minimum should still be half (rounded up) of the number of boards.

Agree with dvd

Dvd Avins said:

> I think it would be much better if teams were not qualified to start a

> tournament unless they had at least four members at the time the tournament

> started.

Amen!

I agree. The number of members should be no less than half the number of games the team plays, or no less than half the number of playing team members of the largest team in the tournament, or something. And in any case the minimum should be at least two.

Zugzwang - I've created a slither team called "Round the Bend". Europeans interested in signing up, just shout. There are several continents not accounted for - perhaps we need at least a southern hemisphere team to apply their mythical magical Coriolis force to the game?

I'd like to join the "Round the Bend", if there's still room.

I suggest SlitheringBeasts include South America as well North America.

All of the team play suggestions so far sound good to me!

I strongly agree with dvd.

"Slithering Beasts" currently has 5 team members. Any other North (or I guess now South) Americans care to join?

The new European counterpart team "Round the Bend" currently only has one team member -- FatPhil. C'mon guys, get some more players so we can duke it out! :-)

great to be on the team. Zug where's that crazy picture from?

Where's that crazy picture from? Dunno. Don't remember. I just did a Google image search for the required file type and dimensions along with the term "slither" and then grabbed the most interesting looking pic.

I've invited 4 people, each from a different European country, so hopefully we can get a full team.

Great. I see your team is currently up to three players. But I think we should at least try to get the full complement of 8 players each. Slithering Beasts just needs two more.

Richard, there is some possibility of canceling the recently started tournaments with dysfunctional teams?

I don't consider my team 'dysfunctional'.

no offense

the match between Holland and Robots, in the Chess tournament its gonna be very interesting

The "Slithering Beasts" team now has 7 members from N. America. We have room for one more if anyone is interested.

I was skeptical at first but wow 5 vs 7, these are some of the biggest teams on the site. NEATO!

So, where's the APAC team?

I was quite surprised to see on the TEAMS page that the winner of the first StreetSoccer team championship is listed as "Looser". I would have expected "Polska", the name of the winning team.

Looser got more points (161) than any other player, but his point total is from 40 games, twice as many games as any other player except p_a_k_o.

JeanHebert got the most points per game played, 4.40.

That is clearly just a mistake in the code. It's a remnant of a larger mistake that was fixed part way through the last tournament.

Looser is the owner of the winning team. I guess he is the real winner :-)

For a game where there wasn't any team tournament before, does the tournament start as soon as there are enough teams? That would mean that 1 team always has just 1 player in the first tournament of a game.

I think, Richard Malaschitz is starting every

team tournament manually.

I would like to see two things happen for team tournamnets

2 weeks between the tournament and the next

A 2 week advance announcement of the start of the tournament to every owner of a team.

That would leave some team to recruit or even decruit.

Yes.

Hi Hjallti, good proposal.

By the way: Ma Waldorf has stepped to retirement.

So, the Ewn team scene is botfree now.

Ingo.