Wow, Russia and Romania, both at the top of our group, are squaring off this round. They have 178 boards playing!  Look at how evenly matched ALL the matches are with players from 2800+ to 1100 participating.

http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=20515

Our shot at Team Russia is in mid December.  I challenge all of our 230+ members to join in that match!

Check out the score on this.... currently 117.5 to 116.5.  This is absolutely amazing!

Wow, that's awesome.  I have not been in a close match yet.  Is there a tree somewhere that shows who USA-SW plays next if we win certain matches?

Is there a chance we will face Russia or Romania?

Yes, there is a link posted in our forum, but here it is again:

http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/group-b---main-forum

There are 11 rounds and our 11th round opponent is Team Russia. 

We are currently in third place behind Romania and Russia who are tied for first. 

At the end of the season we will be penalized 5 points for having a team member playing on two different World League teams.  Despite the penalty,it is likely we will finish in the top 6 of "Group B" and so will qualify to play in "Division 1" in 2010.  Those teams will be tougher and will likely always play more boards than many of our Group B matches.  This is good because more of us will play every match!