Although i think playing a tournament is a good idea, when you think
about it though, it could take well over 6months (probably longer) to
complete. Setting the time limit for a move to 2 or 3 days would
decrease the tournament duration, but not significantly.
May i suggest an alternative battle, 'America vs the rest' or 'West vs
The East'. The format similar to the Ryder cup. Players from each
side of the Atlantic will go head to head, with say 51 matches to take
place, each player only playing once and the idea being the team to
reach 26 match wins or points first are victorious. With Europe odds on
to lose the Ryder cup, i would like to settle the score and win one back
for Europe (with a little bit of help from internationals the right side of
the Atlantic). Plus this may give people the oppurtunity to slag
eachother off on the forums for different reasons.
Or we could have Continents fighting it out against eachother in a
league table. A set number of players for each team, each match to
play under a fixed format etc.
What do u think? Why should we always play for ourselves, lets start
playing in teams.
I don't know how this would all work Tom...if you live in Britain then I
guess you would actually be part of the "rest".
Somebody would have to set the guidlines and and then pick captains
and then people (such as your self) would have to volunteer and then
it would be up to the captains to pick a person for each rating group.
So let's look at this...in a category sense.
We have 10 categories if you look at rating levels here
1900
1800
1700
1600
1500
1400
1300
1200
1100
1000 and below
If we had five players in each category then we would have 50
players..as Donadoni said. But this is tricky due to not many people
being at the top in that 1900 and 1800 deal...so some people would
have to play up. Or we could have just 3 people in the top categories
and make up the difference in lower ones.
What do ya think?
Dave
Here is who I would nominate for the top tier. Apologies for leaving
any obvious choices out, but I'm pretty sure these are on the "America
team." KnightmareNJ, Schliemann, Zumdahl, Opposition, and
Islanddoc. And since Vaknso (John) is MAP adinfinitum, he could
round out the last five choices! Kirk