[mgoetze]

Teams of 4-6, at least 3 team members with post count >= 25, team's combined post count >= 500.

European evenings = North American daytime.

Who would be up for it?

Also, what's a reasonable time allotment? 6mins per board?

[Tomi2]

mgoetze, on 2010-November-17, 05:06, said:

Teams of 4-6, at least 3 team members with post count >= 25, team's combined post count >= 500.

European evenings = North American daytime.

Who would be up for it?

Also, what's a reasonable time allotment? 6mins per board?

8 boards in one hour + 30 minutes for administration, setup of new rounds, smoke break, so in 6 hours one can play 4 matches and this on two days => 8 matches total

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

I would be interested to play.

In general, the time period in days should not be too long, but also the ammount you spend
on a specific day.
I guess 3-4 hours on a day, which corresponds to a standard evening at a club, the whole
thing should be over in two days, and two consecutive days are more likely easier to manage
than two days with a week between.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[pooltuna]

I would be happy to play my most regular partner does not post. I would think length would depend on how many teams are participating. I would prefer one 16-bd segment/day with no barometer. Probably best to let each pair of teams schedule within a 2-day timeframe allowing for 32 teams to determine a winner over the whole 10 days

[mgoetze]

Hi Marlowe and pooltuna,

please do take part in the poll if you are interested in playing - I won't actually bother unless some days get a reasonable number of votes.

[mtvesuvius]

I'd love to play... Going to be travelling, leaving Christmas day I think and won't be back until the beginning of the new year, so the earlier dates are much better for me.

After a bit of thought, it seems a 16 (or 20) board match each day (or two days, allowing for scheduling problems) would be best... Not too much, but still enough to be a legitimate match.

Most of my regular partners don't post on BBF, but I could certainly arrange a team (and I put us over the post limit for the team )

[mgoetze]

I didn't really consider a format with only 1 match per day spread out over more days because a. this would require a higher commitment in some ways - I imagine many people will be spending certain days visiting relatives and b. I can't see this working out before christmas due to time zone problems. But maybe I am on the wrong track here...

[gwnn]

I'd like to play but only before Christmas. I don't momentarily have a partner or a team, though.

[kayin801]

I would play, and I voted. I assume the week before Christmas is not an option because the organizer can't make it? The dates before Christmas are best IMO.

Random semantics post: maybe "Holidays Swiss Teams" is more appropriate?

[mgoetze]

gwnn, on 2010-November-17, 13:48, said:

I don't momentarily have a partner or a team, though.

With your post count, I'm sure that won't be a problem.

[Hanoi5]

Does your partner have to be from the forum usual users?

[mgoetze]

kayin801, on 2010-November-17, 14:23, said:

I would play, and I voted. I assume the week before Christmas is not an option because the organizer can't make it? The dates before Christmas are best IMO.

Random semantics post: maybe "Holidays Swiss Teams" is more appropriate?

Well I could since I was planning on European evenings, but I figured many people would still be working then. Maybe I was wrong.

I think that, as a stout atheist, I am within my rights to call this "Christmas Swiss Teams".

[mgoetze]

Hanoi5, on 2010-November-17, 14:29, said:

Does your partner have to be from the forum usual users?

As I wrote, my idea would be to require that 3 players have at least 25 posts each. That means either your partner would need to be an occasional forum poster (25 posts is not really a high barrier), or both of your teammates. Or you could have a 6-handed team with 3 forum users and their partners (but I do expect that all members of a team play some boards, no signing up people just to fulfil the requirements and sit on the bench).

[matmat]

I wouldn't play. Neat idea, though.

[matmat]

mgoetze, on 2010-November-17, 15:18, said:

As I wrote, my idea would be to require that 3 players have at least 25 posts each. That means either your partner would need to be an occasional forum poster (25 posts is not really a high barrier), or both of your teammates. Or you could have a 6-handed team with 3 forum users and their partners (but I do expect that all members of a team play some boards, no signing up people just to fulfil the requirements and sit on the bench).

And they have a month to post 25 times... not too much to ask, is it?

[mgoetze]

matmat, on 2010-November-17, 15:41, said:

And they have a month to post 25 times... not too much to ask, is it?

No kidding.

It seems a 2-day tournament the weekend before Xmas is currently leading the polls (I'm going to keep them running for a while, though). What would people think of (Central Europe/US East Coast/US West Coast)...

Sat 19:00/13:00/10:00 Round 1
Sat 20:15/14:15/11:15 Round 2
Sat 21:30/15:30/12:30 Round 3
Sat 22:45/16:45/13:45 Round 4
Sun 19:00/13:00/10:00 Round 5
Sun 20:15/14:15/11:15 Semifinals
Sun 21:30/15:30/12:30 Finals (Brackets 2-x)
Sun 22:00/16:00/13:00 Finals (Bracket 1)

I was just thinking one could play 8-board matches, but expand to 12 boards for the top bracket in the Semifinals and Finals. That would allow people in the lower brackets to watch a good bit of the finals.

Does that sound reasonable?

[Siegmund]

Personally, I can play only the week after Christmas. It may be a peculiarity of my business - working at a university - but we're forced to take time off the week between Christmas and New Years, while we are working until the 23rd and again the monday after new years.

[RMB1]

I tried to vote but the first three days do not fit with my calender: in the sense that it has Friday 17th, Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th

[mgoetze]

RMB1, on 2010-November-18, 02:07, said:

I tried to vote but the first three days do not fit with my calender: in the sense that it has Friday 17th, Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th

Oh dear... well, I changed it, hope everyone meant what I intended.