Hi Matt,
Will the winning team get free entry to the championships next season or is it just a guaranteed place?
Currently, the Team element is a "just for fun" part of the game, so there are no added prizes, other than guaranteed (reserved, but not paid for) entry to the Team Championship in Season 8.
This is mainly an individual game, despite the name (confusing I know!). Reason for this is that it"s been bloody tricky to find time between trying to close the Boss room, to getting everyone set up on the Coral software (still a load of headaches there), and setting up this game. So probably not enough time for all the teams that played Season 7 Team Champs to assemble their squads. Though, would obviously be great if they could!
We hope teams will enter for the fun aspect/bragging rights/kudos winning will entail
And of course the guaranteed entry to S8"s Team Championship, and the indiviual prizes on offer (and gold,silver,bronze medals and entry to Champion of Champions).
If this game is successful numbers-wise this time round, then next time we"ll run it as a propler team game, complete with free entry to the following UK Team Champs. In fact, I like the idea of running a game for all teams who want to play in the next UK Team Champs, before that event. Giving guaranteed and free entry to the winning team there.
btw, a "proper" online team game starts on 9th March, with the long awaited (and overdue!) National Online League. I"ll be posting about that next week, once I have the final prizes confirmed.
edited to make more sense
