Greetings Frank!

Frankly speaking, I would do my best to help you out in this exciting endeavor and I am sure there are many other fibsroids who will be thrilled hearing that a kinda TL is back. I never experienced the great joy of TL and am extremely eager now to participate in that.

As for the format, I think a bagolympic-style league is NOT the most suitable format, because there are many fibsroids who hardly can find competent compatriots to make a team. Thus, my suggestion is to run it like TL sessions. Also I suggest each team consisting of 4 players, so we can have draws as well. This way it would be more fun I think.

Regards

Hi Franck,
               I would be interested in playing in this new team league you are thinking of starting. I do not favor the bagolympic style because that by definition means that some people who want to play would be left out.

-Myshkin

3 answers is a good start but not enough

I have worked on Team pages to manage league for another tourney and I think it would be easy to use it for a fibs Team League.

Format are as below
Team of 3 players
Matchs between all the players => 9 matches
Length = 5 Pts

We can change but I think it's quiete good...

                      The team tournament that I ran did get players to form into national teams and with a bit of re-arranging we got 16 teams, including a Rest of the World team, Team Europe and USA "A" and "B". It was very much enjoyed by all, except possibly by the late Anakin who had to be disqualified for cheating (!) and Biggles who had to be excluded for failing to embrace the sporting and friendly ethos that we sought. Teams were selected by getting all interested players to vote for the players who they wanted on the team. It took a bit of work, but was almost as much fun as the actual play. There was then a league format (four leagues of four teams each) with the top two teams from each going forward to a knock out stage. A strong team from Finland crushed Great Britain in the final.
Anyway, best of luck with whatever you decide to do.

I agree with ardian. Some fibsroids might well be unable of finding competent compatriots and playing for a "rest of the world" team is also discouraging to many, including me. Thus, let it run like the previous TL sessions and let the fibs nation choose their teammates.

And yes, Frank, we need more advertising. I suggested to mass mail the players of FLG, adrian came up with spamming in shouts. You might think of a better idea. But I do think there are MANY fibsroids, eager to join this new TL and MOST of them unaware of this topic, yet.

Regards

hi TL was good and our team would i think play again, if you can all put up with administrative hiccups. I thought souptree's site was great and the format was nearly right last time. If there was a good takeup - there could be eventually 2 leagues, and like tom's league if each team got a point for playing then there would be an incentive to play all matches
 
I'm not too bothered about the country thing; i certainly had no problems rooting for my team mates who weren't from my country! Some of us have reservations about "flags"(except the jolly roger) and the usual nonsense they encourage. Towns & counties -- ok

 c'mon Liverpool c'mon Lancashire!

I think that I am ready now 

http://www.fibsboard.com/fibsleagammon/first-flg-team-league-t2082.0.html;msg15776;topicseen#new

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i'm not sure about the new 3x3x5 format .. in the last Team League we had seventeen (17) teams with 9/7/5 point match positions resulting in 16 matches for each player by position .. if we had a similar number of teams with a 3x3x5 format the result would be 48 matches to complete the season for each player .. that just seems like way too many as it was a challenge completing only 16 .. of course, 17 teams could argueably be divided into two divisions reducing the total match count to 21 and 24 which is more reasonable, but changes the nature of the race .. in short, i really liked the old 9/7/5 match format, but i am open to an experiment with a different format and excited about the prospects of another FIBS Team League

on the subject of team names, spiel, while i find your team name humorous because i know you guys, i also find it somewhat offensive and outside the small circle of friends at FIBS even embarrassing .. i mean, drop the "s" and ask yourself how long it would take Patti to nuke a new nickname like that at FIBS? not long, imo, and Patti is no prude nor am i .. but i come from the perspective of having a grandson i'd like to introduce to FIBS someday .. so, i am torn between a desire for a PG-13 filter and the already XXX and uncontrollable content of shouts .. adding team names easily misconstrued as racist slurs, no matter how humorous, is treacherous ground, imo

Not for the first session but for the others we can think about a master Division and a Gold division in the same spirit of the individual league.
I run the 3*3*5pts Matche for a competition of the French federation of backgammon that I held on my site and this format is very interesting I think.