Team Birmingham
https://www.chess.com/club/team-birmingham
Sir_Chjaka & DBowcott
Chess960 WCL 2017 - Groups and Registration
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Nov 26, 2016
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Metz The Chess TT Team
Team captain : Blastingchess and menthe
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Please confirm Team Buenos Aires for this 2017 960 chess season, thanks and have a nice year all of you!
Team Vancouver!
https://www.chess.com/groups/home/the-vancouverites
Admins: mattDearle and EndlessWater
This forum is created to show teams which will play Chess960 WCL in Season 2017.
New teams can register in this forum. Please write your team name, team link, primary and secondary captain.
Deadline is 28.2.2017 League will start in March.
Webpage of the tournament is: http://wcl.tode.cz
Current season progress can be followed at: http://wcl.tode.cz/wcl2016
Rules were updated for Season 2017: https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/chess960-wcl-2016---rules-and-schedule
As per rules - teams from Season 2016 are automatically registered unless:
1) team officaly unregister themselves,
2) team has two or more losts by unaccepting challenge
3) team has lower average boards from last season than minimum requirements.
Teams falling under criteria 2 and 3 can still play next season, but they need to register again (promotions/demotions from previous season wont be affected)
Minimum players:
Division 1 (10 teams) - 15 boards
Division 2 (2x10 teams) - 8 boards
Division 3 (based on number of registereted teams) - 5 boards
New teams registered:
Birmingham, Shymkent, Bordeaux, Bristol, Gdansk, Odesa, Buenos Aires, Yekaterinburg, Vancouver, Plovdiv
Teams not fullfilling criteria for automated registration at this moment and requested to confirm their participation in Season 2017:
Teams have to register again: Prishtina
Confirmed participation: Thessaloniki, London, Izmir, Bangkok
Teams unregistered from Season 2017:
-
Schedule:
19/3, 23/4, 21/5, 18/6, 16/7, 20/8, 10/9, 01/10, 21/10,
Divisions:
can be found on the tournament webpage http://wcl.tode.cz
2 or 4 teams will be prior tournament start moved from Div 3 to Div 2 - subject to TD decision based on team strength