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@danwentskiing
London's fourth league is about to start (format here) and I was thinking maybe we could do something similar, albeit much smaller, as in, two teams.
I know my previous league suggestion failed (although Romanian Mountain Goats were de facto winners with one win and no losses) but that's no reason not to keep trying different things. And this wouldn't be a league anyway.
Could split everyone who plays with any degree of frequency into two teams, with maybe myself and Fin as captains, based on ability and attendance, and play a team game every week. 30 min/1 hour games and every player has to play a minimum of 10-20 minutes or something (details can be sorted later). That may require everyone to have an ironic Casio digital watch, but as 90% of players already have one that shouldn't be a problem.
Teams might look like this
Highgate Taliban
danwentskiing
dan_lj
Gunja
Malletesta
Claudbutler
Asim
Ken
Calthorpe Caliphate
Hyperallah
N3il
EMM
RazP
LucasR
Joe
Kat
If one team has more players one week then too bad, it should all even out from one week to the next. If newbies start they join one of the teams based on coin flips/even numbers. If we have an esteemed guest for one game, they flip to see which team they're playing on, or something like that.
We can play it as a winter mega-series; first to ten victories. Losing team has to do something unpleasant...