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Deal me in please.
In for a spin.
While there were some difficulties in the fixtures the competitions were completed over a couple of months which seems pretty good to me. I am hoping for a bigger field, Lambert got 64 pretty quickly on the first attempt - maybe 256 is a touch ambitious.
I have been picking up some pointers from Lamberts threads and there were clearly some issues and there are bound to be again.
FIXTURE ARRANGEMENTS
I will have some clear guidelines before we start so we all know where we stand.
I think it is important that there are deadlines, as long as we give people a reasonable amount of time to sort things out.
I am thinking something like this but all open to suggestions...
1. After draw, away player contacts home player and gives dates/times when they definitely cannot play. E.g I am away all of the week commencing xxxx but generally any evening 8-11 is fine except Tuesdays and Saturdays. Sundays I am ok from 7.
2. Home player then offers 3 time windows of 2 hours when they can play and doesn't clash with away players absences
3. Away player then picks one of those options and its game on.
That might seem too rigid? But I think an open just let them sort it out themselves may cause more problems?
Obviously if both players are on the site and start a game there and then then that's clearly fine too.
I don't think we should insist all games are played on one specific day
The forum thread, PMs, findaplayer and chat can be used to make the contact.
If you have had no contact or haven't fixed a fixture confirmed within a week of the deadline - make sure you post on the forum.
If it isn't played to a deadline then both players are scratched by default unless it is clear that one player has been making the running and the other has not made contact or simply been unavailable to play, in which case the defaulting player only will be scratched and the active player awarded a walkover.
SPEED
The "home choice" seems to be popular, however I would like to get some input from those who played in previous versions.
One was Turbo and One was Hyper. Would Speed or regular be too slow? Is there enough play in a hyper to make this a worthwhile challenge?
If we go for 1st to 3 wins then that is up to 5 games which could take a while to play out over regular structure.
SITTING
Any tips to make this easy? Fish like me better not sit first or else all the bumhunting regs will insta sit.
I saw a suggestion of sitting a free table and chatting to synchronise sitting - social media could be used too if players have that available - I wouldn't insist on forcing people to join any well known social networks just for this - but if they already are then they could make that known in the initial contact via a PM.
Please don't publish any personal contact details in the forum but if you want to exchange mobile nos / facebook ids / email addresses with your opponent then that's great but do it in a PM.
I had better get used to checking PMs regularly if running this!
Obviously not quite the same thing but I used to run an online FIFA league which relied on competitors communicating with each other to arrange fixture times. My rules were just that it was up to the individual players to use our forum/PMs to get in contact with each other and sort out whatever time they could play. If the game wasn't played and one person could provide proof that they made a reasonable effort (i.e. at least three PMs/forum posts/messages on the gaming network) to get their game played then they'd get a default win, otherwise it's just a void game. In practice that seemed to work quite well, the vast majority of games were played though I took it upon myself to do a bit of chasing as the gameweek came to an end. I wouldn't recommend you chasing people though since there's potentially 10 times as many fixtures as I was organising!!
But I think I prefer the idea of giving one of the players the responsibility of opening the lines of communication. I found with the FIFA league that some people adopted the "I'll let them get in touch with me" approach, which was just lazy and unhelpful and raised the risk of unplayed fixtures. If it's agreed before the start which player does that, then everyone knows the score going forward which is a better way of working.
Happy to chip in Phantom with anything you may need help with in terms of organising/setting-up etc.
I like the idea of early rounds just one leg until the numbers dwindle , then more legs if its felt needed, sudden death maybe easier logistically.
Great idea count me in please, can you make sure no game's are played at 2.20 please.
All the best.
Rainman397