There have been a couple of changes made for Season 3.
First of all, as most of you know, we are now on a monthly schedule which means that each team will only need to play one game per month rather than one game every 2 weeks.
EVERY GAME MUST BE PLAYED WITHIN THE MONTH THAT IT IS SCHEDULED!!! You may NOT play your games ahead of schedule if you wish for that game to count!!!
Secondly, there are no more divisions. The 5 teams you face will not be the same 5 your opponents face. This should produce more separation between teams with similar records (instead of each division mirroring each other).
Standings will be based first on Total Score (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 for a loss), then on Opponent's Strength (Chess.com's tournament tie-breaker system), and only if two teams are still tied will the First Blood rule take effect.
I hope this makes everybody happy. I worked real hard on trying to address each of your concerns. We are constantly trying to improve the league so that everyone can have as much fun as possible.
When I was making up the schedule, I did not pay any attention to group size, overall vote chess winning percentage, or leaderboard points. The stats I used were exclusively speed vote games. Groups were ordered by experience (# of games and length of games) and playing strength (win/loss record). I tried to make sure no one played a team that they played in a previous season, but in one case (Animal Lovers vs Chess Empire) it was unavoidable.
I also tried to avoid any conflicts of interest by not scheduling 2 teams against each other who had a common administrator. But in a few cases, I couldn't help it. Sorry to Atudor (Chess Nuts vs Chess Unlimited) and Olympiakaras (Chess Unlimited vs Light Force). So many teams have made me an administrator, that it happened to me twice (Team Antarctica vs Burning Pawns; The Dark Knights vs Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz).
And finally, knowing everyone's time zone really did help a lot. I can't guarantee that everyone is playing against someone in the exact same time zone, but I did the best I could at grouping everyone together so that scheduling conflicts should be at a minimum.
So here is your schedule for Season 3: (because I was late in posting this, any games scheduled for June 2010 will have until July 10th to be played - July games must still be played between July 1st and July 31st regardless of when the June game is played)
June 2010
Animal Lovers vs The Power of Chess Chess Nuts vs Chess Unlimited Fast Players Group vs The Dark Knights Team Antarctica vs Burning Pawns Super Troopers vs Checkmate Red Army vs Light Force Chess Empire vs We Chat Global Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz vs The Winning Team Glorius Chess vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group Chess Destination vs Lovers of Chess The Learning Group vs Night Owls Insanity Club Electronic Team vs Turk Chess Players
July 2010
Animal Lovers vs Chess Empire Chess Nuts vs Super Troopers Fast Players Group vs Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz Team Antarctica vs Red Army The Power of Chess vs Chess Destination The Dark Knights vs Glorius Chess Chess Unlimited vs Electronic Team Burning Pawns vs The Learning Group Light Force vs Lovers of Chess We Chat Global vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group Checkmate vs Turk Chess Players The Winning Team vs Night Owls Insanity Club
August 2010
Animal Lovers vs The Winning Team Chess Nuts vs We Chat Global Fast Players Group vs Light Force Team Antarctica vs Checkmate The Power of Chess vs Turk Chess Players The Dark Knights vs Night Owls Insanity Club Chess Unlimited vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group Burning Pawns vs Lovers of Chess Super Troopers vs Glorius Chess Red Army vs The Learning Group Chess Empire vs Electronic Team Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz vs Chess Destination
September 2010
Animal Lovers vs The Learning Group Chess Nuts vs Electronic Team Fast Players Group vs Chess Destination Team Antarctica vs Glorius Chess The Power of Chess vs Checkmate The Dark Knights vs We Chat Global Chess Unlimited vs Light Force Burning Pawns vs The Winning Team Super Troopers vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group Red Army vs Night Owls Insanity Club Chess Empire vs Turk Chess Players Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz vs Lovers of Chess
October 2010
Animal Lovers vs Lovers of Chess Chess Nuts vs Turk Chess Players Fast Players Group vs Night Owls Insanity Club Team Antarctica vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group The Power of Chess vs Chess Empire The Dark Knights vs Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz Chess Unlimited vs Super Troopers Burning Pawns vs Red Army Light Force vs The Learning Group We Chat Global vs Chess Destination Checkmate vs Electronic Team The Winning Team vs Glorius Chess
November 2010
Quarter-Finals (teams to be determined)
December 2010
Semi-Finals (teams to be determined)
January 2011
Finals (teams to be determined)
Here are the links to each group's home page (listed alphabetically):
Happy 69 Day Everyone!!!
Welcome to Season 3 of the Fortnight Speed Vote League!!!
The Alien vs. Predator Season
There have been a couple of changes made for Season 3.
First of all, as most of you know, we are now on a monthly schedule which means that each team will only need to play one game per month rather than one game every 2 weeks.
EVERY GAME MUST BE PLAYED WITHIN THE MONTH THAT IT IS SCHEDULED!!!
You may NOT play your games ahead of schedule if you wish for that game to count!!!
Secondly, there are no more divisions. The 5 teams you face will not be the same 5 your opponents face. This should produce more separation between teams with similar records (instead of each division mirroring each other).
Standings will be based first on Total Score (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 for a loss), then on Opponent's Strength (Chess.com's tournament tie-breaker system), and only if two teams are still tied will the First Blood rule take effect.
I hope this makes everybody happy. I worked real hard on trying to address each of your concerns. We are constantly trying to improve the league so that everyone can have as much fun as possible.
When I was making up the schedule, I did not pay any attention to group size, overall vote chess winning percentage, or leaderboard points. The stats I used were exclusively speed vote games. Groups were ordered by experience (# of games and length of games) and playing strength (win/loss record). I tried to make sure no one played a team that they played in a previous season, but in one case (Animal Lovers vs Chess Empire) it was unavoidable.
I also tried to avoid any conflicts of interest by not scheduling 2 teams against each other who had a common administrator. But in a few cases, I couldn't help it. Sorry to Atudor (Chess Nuts vs Chess Unlimited) and Olympiakaras (Chess Unlimited vs Light Force). So many teams have made me an administrator, that it happened to me twice (Team Antarctica vs Burning Pawns; The Dark Knights vs Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz).
And finally, knowing everyone's time zone really did help a lot. I can't guarantee that everyone is playing against someone in the exact same time zone, but I did the best I could at grouping everyone together so that scheduling conflicts should be at a minimum.
So here is your schedule for Season 3:
(because I was late in posting this, any games scheduled for June 2010 will have until July 10th to be played - July games must still be played between July 1st and July 31st regardless of when the June game is played)
June 2010
Animal Lovers vs The Power of Chess
Chess Nuts vs Chess Unlimited
Fast Players Group vs The Dark Knights
Team Antarctica vs Burning Pawns
Super Troopers vs Checkmate
Red Army vs Light Force
Chess Empire vs We Chat Global
Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz vs The Winning Team
Glorius Chess vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group
Chess Destination vs Lovers of Chess
The Learning Group vs Night Owls Insanity Club
Electronic Team vs Turk Chess Players
July 2010
Animal Lovers vs Chess Empire
Chess Nuts vs Super Troopers
Fast Players Group vs Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz
Team Antarctica vs Red Army
The Power of Chess vs Chess Destination
The Dark Knights vs Glorius Chess
Chess Unlimited vs Electronic Team
Burning Pawns vs The Learning Group
Light Force vs Lovers of Chess
We Chat Global vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group
Checkmate vs Turk Chess Players
The Winning Team vs Night Owls Insanity Club
August 2010
Animal Lovers vs The Winning Team
Chess Nuts vs We Chat Global
Fast Players Group vs Light Force
Team Antarctica vs Checkmate
The Power of Chess vs Turk Chess Players
The Dark Knights vs Night Owls Insanity Club
Chess Unlimited vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group
Burning Pawns vs Lovers of Chess
Super Troopers vs Glorius Chess
Red Army vs The Learning Group
Chess Empire vs Electronic Team
Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz vs Chess Destination
September 2010
Animal Lovers vs The Learning Group
Chess Nuts vs Electronic Team
Fast Players Group vs Chess Destination
Team Antarctica vs Glorius Chess
The Power of Chess vs Checkmate
The Dark Knights vs We Chat Global
Chess Unlimited vs Light Force
Burning Pawns vs The Winning Team
Super Troopers vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group
Red Army vs Night Owls Insanity Club
Chess Empire vs Turk Chess Players
Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz vs Lovers of Chess
October 2010
Animal Lovers vs Lovers of Chess
Chess Nuts vs Turk Chess Players
Fast Players Group vs Night Owls Insanity Club
Team Antarctica vs Wallyjack's Premium Members Group
The Power of Chess vs Chess Empire
The Dark Knights vs Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz
Chess Unlimited vs Super Troopers
Burning Pawns vs Red Army
Light Force vs The Learning Group
We Chat Global vs Chess Destination
Checkmate vs Electronic Team
The Winning Team vs Glorius Chess
November 2010
Quarter-Finals (teams to be determined)
December 2010
Semi-Finals (teams to be determined)
January 2011
Finals (teams to be determined)
Here are the links to each group's home page (listed alphabetically):
Animal Lovers
Burning Pawns (SVC)
Checkmate!
Chess Destination
Chess Empire
Chess Nuts
Chess Unlimited
Electronic Team
Fast Players Group
Glorius Chess
Light Force
Lovers of Chess
Red Army
Super Troopers (SVC)
Team Antarctica
The Dark Knights
The Learning Group
The Night Owls Insanity Club
The Power of Chess
The Winning Team
Turk Chess Players
Wallyjack's Premium Members Group
Wallyjack's Wonderful Wizards of Oz
We Chat Global
Good Luck Everybody!!! Have Fun and Don't Time Out!!!