Welcome to ECL2021 and Round 1 Announcement

Welcome to ECL2021. We have again more teams than in the previous season and counter finished on number 59 at this moment. We will have 10 teams in Division 1, 10 teams in Division 2 and 39 teams in 4 Division 3 groups. There is still one free slot in group 3C for one late team, which will be accepted until Round 1 start (first team which comments this forum will be accepted).

Due to the increasing number of participtans we will move to the new setup next year with division 2 consisting of 2 groups of 10 teams. In the relation to this promotion/relegation this season are as below:

• Division 1 - 2 demoted
• Division 2 - 2 promoted, 2 demoted
• Division 3 - 3 promoted from each group

Promotions/demotions will happen as of cutoff date on 10th October 2021. Final standings will be announced as of 31st December 2021.

Below you find the pairings of Round 1 of the ECL2021 and important links. Please go through the links used in this News or find your opponent team's page.

ECL2021 - Rules - Contacts - (Registration)

Divisions - 1 - 2 - 3A - 3B - 3C - 3D

Minimum players - Division 1 (12+), Division 2 (10+), Division 3 (5+)

Promotion/demotion cutoff: 10th October 2021, Season cutoff 31th December 2021

Current results - Chessteams.info - Multiplayers

• Game Type: Standard Chess
• Starting Position: Standard Starting Position
• Days per Move: 3 days
• Players per Team: minimum: differs by division, see below; maximum: leave free
• Concurrent Games: 2
• Games are RATED
• Start Time: 22. November 2020, preferably 16:00 UTC (translate to your time zone)

Accept the challenge without delay and immediately check to make sure that the match parameters and the start time are set correctly. If they are not correct, please fix the problem immediately by cancelling the match and issuing a new challenge with the correct parameters, then contact your opponent's admin to inform them of what you have done.

If you have sent your challenge but your opponent is not accepting it, please report it in the forum thread of your division, so that everybody involved can help to find and fix the problem quickly. To contact team representatives for communication and problem fixing, find them in the thread “WCL 2021: Team Contacts”. When your match is open for registration, please check (on the following day) on https://chessteams.info/ whether the match appears. If it does, everything is fine. If it doesn't, report the problem in the thread of your division (links are in the header of the news and header of main club page). Please encourage all your players to sign up for the match by posting announcements in your group's news, notes or forums. Make sure you reach the required minimum participation in time, and build good overall participation.

Observe:

• Each player is allowed to play for one team in the ECL only (see rules). Multi-team players lead to result corrections. Please check the list of multi-team players at https://chessteams.info/multiplayers.php.
• Players with a time-out ratio of 25% or more may be removed from the roster.
• The share of foreign-flag players is restricted to 25% (see rules for details).
• By default, WCL matches are also counted as ECL matches if the pairings overlap (see Appendix F2 in the rules). Both teams must agree if a separate ECL match is to be set up and match link reported in the proper divison forum
  • Matches of teams in the same WCL and ECL group are marked with "x"

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3