Competition Format for the next year

Dale, I can put your proposal for voting, but I like the current recount more. Because some teams are clearly more cheater-friendly than others and cheaters should not win. 

still stands, high rated cheater or multiplayer move down other players in the roster giving next mates easier opponent.... that's why it's fair enough to count such matches 2-0 against them

I agree with marignon and adriano.

Team Minsk is for option 3.

DC,

On Friday I updated the tournament standings and here are 12 currently leading teams:

This does not mean that these standings are final. No. The final cut-off will be done on 20.02.2016 or even delayed (if we decide to not create the superleague and there will be some undecided matches by that date).

However, the currently leading teams are selected to form the Tournament Committee and to take the decisions about the future of the competition. Their selection is done by the objective criteria.

The admins are asked to express their opinions on the suggested topics within a week. It is not good to have "mute" TC members. So any team admin who does not express his opinion now forfeits his place in the TC for the rest of the year.

Let us sum up the previous discussion by making a list of topics:

Question 1. Competition Format:

Option 1. Original written in the rules. 12 top teams  form the Superleague, which will play a round robin. All other participants play in a Swss competition.

Option 2. Stocker68: Divide all teams hierarchically into 4 groups of 10.

Option 3. Dale00007: Keep 1 group playing Swiss as this year.

Votes so far:

Option 1: 1 vote (Kyiv)

Option 2: 0 vote

Option 3: 2 votes (Babylon, Bucharest)

Question 2. Closed accs recount

Option 1: (current) - consider all games lost - the opponent of a closed account is counted as getting 2 points

Option 2: Dale00007: (make the penalty easier) - do not count points - closed account does not get points, but the opponent does not get his points either.

Option 3: (make the penalty harder) - consider all games lost AND apply additional -2 penalty to the team's score for each closed account (as in TMCL now).

Question 3. Team eligibility

Option 1: (current) - To participate a team name or Location field in the Settings should clearly state which city it represents.

Option 2: bobi184: (restrict the selection) Ban a) fictionary or historical cities that have no actual dwellers; b) ban regional teams c) ban teams where many players do not have that city's name in their profile

Option 3: (broaden the selection) To accept regional teams as well (if they maintain internal standards of player eligibility and really invite only players from a specific region, not from anywhere and that region is not represented by an active and participating city team).

Question 4 Flag rule

Basing on this year's experience, this rule  a) gives unnecessary troubles to admins b) limits some true city supporters from participation c) can be abused by a malvolent admin, namely team Rasht admin caster68. 

Thhis banned cheat followed the letter, not the spirit of the competition methodically inviting to his team from a small obscure city the most active players from the whole world on this site.

Option 1 (current) - In any league match it is not allowed to have more than no more than 1 foreign flag (mercenary) in the first 10 tables and 2 mercenaries for every following 10 tables in the match. 

Option 2 - the flag rule is removed. Instead, it is said that a team that does not maintain internal fairplay standards:  purposedly invites players from other teams participating in the tournament, selectively invites high-rated players, mass-invites players from outside its city/region; sets rating level to enter the team or participate in its matches, can be not allowed in the tournament or removed from the tournament at any stage.

Option 3 - the flag cap is set progressively not per board, but per rating range, i.e. no more than 1 mercenary rated above 2000; 2 mercenaries >1800, <2000; 3 >1600 <1800, etc.

Question 5 Direction.

Are you willing to manage for the next year

a) The round-robin Superleague competition. (if it will be played)

b) The Open Swiss competition.

Any experience admin can present his candidature.

I feel that I'll have to leave this topic for chat with you and open another topic for the voting.

By the way, you are free to present your candidatire to run the competition next year and decied which steps need to be taken by yourself.

Please, do it.