World League 2010 Pre-Tournament

Since we are a new team, we have to participate in a pre-tournament for new teams before the WL. Below are some pieces of information concerning this pre-tournament. We are in Group F along with Ukraine, Malta and Colombia and we play Malta in our first match. They will be challenging us since they play HOME in our first match. Please have a read of the following:

Pre-tournament

Dear leaders of New Teams,

First of all, welcome to the World League, the largest team tournament of Chess.com

You all have applied to participate in the World League 2010 starting next January 2010, however, before you are allowed to participate you must fulfill all the World League requirements in terms of rules and procedures and qualify in a preclassification tournament.

Please check all of the rules and procedures here:

 WL - CONTROL PANEL

• WL - GENERAL RULES 
• TEAM LEADER GUIDELINES

As urgent actions that most of you need to implement:

• To invite Baseballfan(staff) into your teams and promote him as SAdmin.
• To change your group description according to the Team Leader Guidelines.
• To inform internally your members about the World League rules. Special mention to those teams with players participating in other World League Teams. (Team Palestine, Team Sri Lanka, Team Cyprus, Team Mauritius...etc.) Failing to this rule, might cause a number of penalties to your teams reducing your chances to classify to the WL 2010.

You have only a few days to work on that as you will have to start playing in tournament basis in just 5 days!

Finally, as there are 24 teams registered and only 20 spots, we have arranged a classification tournament.

Please see all the info here:

WL 2010 Pre-Tournament (NEW TEAMS)

INSTRUCTIONS ROUND 1

Pairings:

Teams listed on the LEFT-hand side of the schedule must challenge their opponent to ONE team match as soon as possible, and the matches must be opened for sign-ups by Sunday, November 01. If not, the team at fault will automatically forfeit. However, the matches should still be played to determine tiebreak points. The rosters of each team must be locked and the matches begun on Thursday, November 05. Obviously, different parts of the world are in different time zones, so there is no exact deadline for the matches to begin, just so long as it is around November 05. 

The challenge should follow these guidelines:

Match Name: PreWL2010 Round 1: Country vs. Country

                      (ex: PreWL2010 Round 1: Moldova vs. Nepal)

Starting Position: Standard

Days per move: 3

Rating: No minimum or maximum rating.

Minimum Players: - 1

Maximum Players: No max.

Concurrent games per opponent: 2 <- please ensure you set this up correctly!

AUTO-START: OFF

RATED: YES

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Please make sure you are challenging the official chess.com World League team for the opposing country. There are some teams which claim to be 'Team _____', but which aren't actually part of the World League. You can find links to all teams participating and their respective contacts here: WL - TEAM CONTACTS.

IMPORTANT WARNING!

All team leaders must be aware that they are not allowed to remove players from their rosters, specially from the bottom of the list. This is strictly forbidden by the World League rules, which promote the free and open participation of all Chess.com members. Any team doing so will face severe penalties. Besides, there will be specific surveillance for this subject.

(please read the TEAM LEADER GUIDELINES for futher info)

Good luck to all participants, and above all, have fun!

Remember that in the end this is still Chess.com, not FIDE.

Best Regards,

Manuel F (kokino)

WL - Admin