EL2010 - Division 1

Cut-off results as of 2010-01-01:

Why Team England here?? In previuous season England declined and as follow must leave Division 1 and play in Division 2.

The divisions has been populated according to the published tournament rules.

And?? Where is rule's item which describe this situatuion? There are not this item. Team England declide = Team England lose all matches (technical loses) = Team England have 0 points in EL2009 Division1 = Team England LEAVE division (BY RULES). Team England (not Turkey) and Team Holland must leave Division 1 (By rules). Its fair. You decision is very unfair for Turkey.

The rules for European League 2009 (previous season) stated:
"8/ The two winners of Division 2-5 are guaranteed places in higher divisions next time. The two winners of Division 1 are guaranteed to stay in Division 1 next time. The other teams will be divided into divisions according to their current EuroRanking at that time" (Source: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/tournament-rules)

The rules for European League 2010 (that was published in January) stated following: "Besides this will the best ranked teams on TM Leaderboard be divided into Divisions according to their ranking. Promoted teams could get a place in an even higher division due to their ranking instead of current standings in EL2009." (Source: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/tournament-rules3)

So the the rules how to populate the divisions for European League 2010 has been unchanged since the the previous season started. The only major change that was made during the final preparations is that we've extended the number of teams in Division 1 to 3 from 10 to 12. Team Turkey wouldn't have get a place in Division 1 if there had been only 10 teams in Division 1 as originally was proposed.

So, the divisions are populated according to rules (both EL2009 and EL2010) that have been published for a while. The deadline for changing the rules (at least how to populate the divisions) to be able populate the divisions was stated to 12th of February when the rules for EL2010 originally was published in January.

ok. its very strange rules) but ok )

EL2010 R1: Team Italia vs Team Spain

Started.

We are ready to play the 2nd challenge for March. As soon as team Slovenija wants to send us the challenge we will accepted.

CURRENT MATCHLIST AND RESULTS UPDATED.
Quit good progress starting up the games in Round 1.
3 games started. 5 games open for registration.
4 games not started/missing challanges.

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Seem like Team Greece and Team Slovenija has not started any matches yet ?

Don't forgett that 31st of March is the deadline for locking the rosters in any unstarted/open team matches!

EL 2010

Round 1a: Team Portugal vs. Chess Club Finland (started)

Round 1b: Team Bosnia-Herzegovina vs. Chess Club Finland (started)

[status updated on 16th March 2010]

We haven't received the challenge from Team Slovenija... so according to the rules, we have proceed to issue it ourselves.

Round 1 b: Romania vs Sweden started

http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=29428

CURRENT MATCHLIST AND RESULTS UPDATED IN DIVISION 1.
Quit good progress starting up the games in Round 1.
7 games started. 2 games open for registration.
3 games not started/missing challanges.
Team Greece haven't sent/accepted any challange yet.

Team Germany didnt receive a challenge from Team Greece until now , so Team Germany send one today (Round1b) to Team Greece.

CURRENT MATCHLIST AND RESULTS UPDATED IN DIVISION 1.
Good progress starting up the games in Round 1.
9 games started. 2 games open for registration.
1 games not started/missing challanges (Team Romania vs Team Greece)
31st of March is deadline for starting the games in Round 1.

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Romania sent the challenge to Greece , on 1 mars 2010, according the rules, for Round 1 a. Team Greece didn't accept it yet...

http://www.chess.com/groups/view_team_match_challenge.html?id=41724

Notified.