Arabian league (AL) is the league of Arabian countries and nationalities playing team match tournament on Chess.com. Teams battle it out in fierce competition to determine the Arabian League Champion for each year.

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Team Matches Settings

Match Name: Ar.L 2014 R1 : Team XXX vs Team YYY
Game Type: Standard Chess
Starting Position: Standard Starting Position
Days per Move: 3
Quick Description: leave blank
Rating: Min / Max: leave blank
Minimum Games: must always be set at 10
Players per Team: Min: (5 for div.1),(3 for div.2)

Max: leave blank

Concurrent games per Opponent: 2
Start Time: the date will be announced in each round and the time is 12:00 PM (this is for US Pacific time zone)
Auto Start: leave blank, do not select
Games are RATED: Yes

For example see the below image:

PENALTIES

Team match scores will be adjusted for all closed accounts and disqualified multi-team-players.
If one player's account is closed or is a multi-team-player, s/he will lose both games by disqualification. If both players are disqualified, the points will be split 0:0 regardless of the actual result. However, a game lost by time won’t gain a point.

cheating vs honest 2/0 → 0/2

cheating vs cheating 2/0 → 0/0 = 1/1

cheating vs cheating 1.5/0.5 → 0/0 = 1/1

cheating vs honest 1.5/0.5 → 0.5/1.5

cheating vs cheating 2/0 (time out) → 2/0

cheating vs honest 2/0 (time out) → 2/0

Tie-breaks:

Based on the share of won games (in percentage) and the share of completeness. Unfinished games in the matches are counted as tied till they are finished.

GENERAL RULES

Teams and players are allowed to participate in the tourney, as long as they follow these rules:

One single team per Arabian country or nationality is invited to this tournament.
Country or nationality names and flags must be applied to the team profiles.
The teams are allowed and encouraged to insert following text into their profile description: “This team represent [country or nationality name] in the Arabian League.”, and to copy these rules into the team forums, so that all participants are aware of them.
At least one (1) team admin per team are encouraged to join the dedicated tournament forum for the season in order to receive all relevant info.
When creating team matches, should game settings be applied according to the general match settings . Warnings will be given to teams that not send or accept challenges, or not lock their rosters, or have too few participating players in the matches.
Before teams lock their rosters are team admins allowed to remove any player from their team or the match who has a 15%or greater timeout percentage, or whose account is closed, or is suspected or detected multi-team-player.
Scores and tie-breaks are given to the teams who play matches. Match results are adjusted due to closed accounts and multi-team- playing, and match results are to be accordingly adjusted.
The current scoreboards and standings will be posted in the tournament forum. Team admins are encouraged to transmit this information to their team members. All figures presented before the cutoff are only preliminaries.
Teams and players are encouraged to follow these rules. Teams could be warned and disqualified for this season if they repeatedly not starting matches or otherwise breaking these rules. Such team will be moved to the lowest division for next season.
Team admins are encouraged to report any deviations and complaints due to these rules through the tournament forum.

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