From the discussion in the Team Washington forums, we came up with these membership criteria:
- Needs to have a Washington connection.
- Must have been on chesscom for at least two months. (This may be waived if there's good reason to believe the player is serious, like if their rating proves they're not a beginner).
- No timeout losses in daily games for the last 90 days.
These are essentially the standards I've been following, though I'm sometimes lenient with the last two criteria if the applicant writes a good note.

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Our team's "public description" reads:
We are Team Washington, everyone who lives in the State may join. We want to provide a platform for local members to communicate, improve skills and even to meet one day over the board. Conditions for joining: Minimum of three months on chess.com, 10 turn based games played.

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The US Team Chess League - which we participate in - has the following rules:

Do not remove players from matches, EXCEPT:
1. Players with timeout of 15% or higher (removal allowed)
2. multiplayers (removal requested)
Accept all players into your group who have a reasonable connection to your state or province. Players may only be denied in the following cases:
1. new players who have been on chess.com for less than 3 months (denial allowed, not required)
2. abusive players (denial recommended)
3. players who have no connection to your state or province, or are already members of another state or province's club
Do not remove players from your group, EXCEPT:
1. abusive players
2. multiplayers
3. inactive players (more than 1 year)
4. closed accounts
Do not deny players access to your group because of:
1. rating
2. timeouts (dealt with by allowing removal from matches)
3. suspected cheating (recommended to report to chess.com)
4. number of games completed (dealt with by match minimum)

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