2018 USTCL Division 2
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Greetings everyone! Welcome to the start of the new 2018 season of the USTCL (US Team Chess League)! My name is Pat Kinnicutt, and I will be overseeing Division 2 this season. I will be posting the schedule and pairings for each round shortly. Please welcome Team Minnesota and Alabama Chess to the Division 2 lineup! Team Ohio and Team Illinois have moved to Division 1 and 3, respectively. I look forward to working with everyone, and please do not hesitate to contact me with issues. Have fun!
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US Chess League State Competition Season 2018 Division 2
Spirit: The US Chess League is an interstate competition between teams representing the 50 States of the US. 29 States are entering the competition this year. While every team is encouraged to motivate their teams to do their best, the League also intends to help teams to grow in size and become more active drawing from players in their state. As teams use different criteria in terms of membership eligibility, admins are asked to inform their teams about the nature of the competition and discourage members with no-state ties from joining matches for this competition. We have never had issues in the past so we are confident that this won't be any different this year. In case of disputes or questions, contact the admin of your opposing team first then the Chess League admins rather than commenting publicly.
Rules and Regulations
- Length of Season 8 (2018): 1 year
- Format 9 Rd Round Robin.
- Start Date: July 17th
- Minimum number of players per team: six (6). No maximum number of players.
- Rating Range: Open
- Time: 3 days/move, Games to be played concurrently (i.e. change default setting from "1" to "2", see here how to do it.)
- Prizes: Trophies for places 1 thru 3.
- Player eligibility: All admins understand that this is a competition between players of the respective states and adhere to the common sense principles of such a competition. A player can only play for one team throughout a season regardless of division. Once he plays for a team he has to stay with that team throughout the season.
- Last place team will be relegated to Division 3. First place team will be promoted to Division 1.
- Tiebreaker will be head-to-head results, and then aggregate match points.
- Teams may not remove players from their roster to obtain a more favorable matchup. Team admins may remove players from their roster who exceed a timeout ratio of 25%. Removed players need to be published in the team match thread prior to commencement of match. Example: Player A was removed in accordance with timeout rule: Timeout ratio 55%.
- Match scores will be finalized after taking into consideration the account closures of members due to cheating. This will occur prior to announcing the final standings.
- Teams are encouraged to use the AutoStart features when issuing the challenge. When using the feature, set the start time to 7PM PT of the day shown on the schedule.
- Warnings and Penalties: see here
