Here's the message that Daws74 was suggesting:

"Hi Erik,

Thanks for reaching out to us. Here are my thoughts, I'm sure riga and ilmago will have more to add.

1. Overall, I view the World League as being very successful. We currently have 112 participating countries and over 12,000 players participating. We have also successfully established a Chess960 World League. One of the most important things that had been missing was an automated way to score the matches. We have recently had a member (Yuri Neves - yneves) donate his time and effort to develop a website that does this. I'm not sure if you have seen this, but here is the link: http://yneves.com/chess/#wl2013/A. This is a very excellent addition for all the members following the world league and greatly reduces the manual effort that was previously required for tracking the results.

Of course we always have the ongoing challenge of dealing with cheating and how to fairly score the World League matches. We are currently adjusting the team match scores for all closed accounts. We still face ongoing challenges with teams attempting to manipulate their team match rosters by removing lower rated players. I think chess_kababs has submitted a number of suggestions to try and address this issue. In short I'd like to see a feature that prevents admins from removing players from a team match if the players timeout % is below a user defined threshold. It would also be good to see a list of players removed from a match, perhaps just listed at the bottom of the team match along with who removed the player.

We are excited about the start time feature for team matches and plan on using this in the World League next season.

Another challenge that we face is the use of multiple accounts and the apparent "selective" cheating that we suspect is occurring with some teams. In particular, Team Armenia overcame some seemingly insurmountable odds to win the World League last season. While we could not prove cheating, their expected win % using their collective glicko ratings showed them repeatedly overcoming all reasonable odds. I'm not sure what can be done to prevent this from occurring in the future.

2. The list that was submitted by chess_kababs captures most of the features that would make things easier for us and the other team admins. If you'd like any further clarification, or would like to discuss alternatives, please let me know. Here's the original list (I know some features have already been started):

3. We have a group set up for just the participating team admins. In that group there is a WL2013 Match Problems thread where teams post any issues. Most are usually fairly easy to resolve and are handled directly in that forum. For more serious issues, we have another group for the World League Directors and we discuss the issue as a group before making our rulings. We attempt to handle the disputes as discretely as possible and minimize any attention given to cheating, etc.

For specific team disputes, we normally allow the existing team to continue representing a country unless they become unresponsive or uncooperative. If another team comes along and wants to “take over” representation for that country we usually direct them to work it out with the other team.

For some of the smaller countries, one of the World League directors will sit on the team as an admin to take care of the setup of the WL team matches for that country. We usually attempt to transition these duties over to someone from that country as soon as possible.

4. I’ve probably typed enough for now… any more questions, feel free to ask.

Regards,

Sean"

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