Did we used to have the lock registration in these circumstances?
This discussion about being able to lock a registration that didn't meet minimum numbers sounds very familiar to me.
Locking the registration in daily team matches
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Dec 6, 2017
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#3
This has changed several times. There was definitely a period in which locking was possible even with the number of players below the minimum. This was the period when we formulated the WCL rules:
https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/2018-wcl-rules
I have tried earlier to get this changed back to the old situation via chess.com support. But I neither succeeded nor got an explanation why the current situation is preferable.
Dec 6, 2017
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#4
Lets clearly define exactly what we need here and I will see what we can make happen.
So to summarize:
You would like to be able to lock a line up with less than min players if its past the proposed starting date?
The registration of players in daily team matches normally has an "Lock registration" button for admins to declare their team ready and preparing the start of the match. This "Lock registration" button is missing if the match has been set up with a player minimum and the number of registered players is below the minimum.
Under normal circumstances, this makes sense, of course: You don't want the teams to be locked unless the minimum is met.
Still there is a situation in which the missing "Lock registration" button is a serious drawback: If both teams come to realise that it is not realistic any more to reach the player minimum, they may want to start the match with less players nevertheless. In the present set-up this is impossible.
As an admin of a league in which this case (teams falling short of the player minimum) occurs regularly, I would prefer to have the "Lock registration" always available.
If an advanced filtering rule is an option, one might think about activating the "Lock registration" button only if the match has a fixed starting date which passes without triggering the match start because of lacking players.