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Not exactly sure what to call this, but I had an idea for organizing classical time control games to create more of a long time control community. Definitely needs some polish but:

Players at the beginning of the month can commit to 4 classical time control games on Saturdays that month. The site randomly assigns players who commit to teams of 4 (different teams every month, and attempts to keep average rating/team roughly equal). Teams have an ongoing chat and can discuss team/tournament strategy leading up to and between games (but not during), can arrange practice sessions, etc. On Game-day boards 1-4 of matched teams pair off and play their game. Players who did not commit at the beginning of the month (lets call them freelancers), can fill in for no-shows of similar ratings (since this is inevitable). If a game cannot be played both teams receive half a point for the game. At the end of the month scores for teams are compared and a winning team is announced, players on said team get feel-good points, and have the option to commit or not to the next month.

Obviously there a lot of potential issues with something like this, but there are a lot of potential benefits as well. An account age restriction to ensure at least some trust that commitments will be honoured would be pragmatic (this goes for freelancers as well).

Any multiple of 8 would have to commit in order for the planned pairing to work, (so this would work even with minimal participation from the entire lichess population), different size teams could be used if necessary to minimize the number of players left out who wish to participate.

Tournaments could also have their own page on the watch tab for exposure to the event and discussion. That's all I've got for the moment, even if this can't be done hopefully it gets the wheels turning for other ideas.
A great idea, but a classical community would need to be formed. I guess this event could be added to the tournaments page if it does work, maybe an 8 player test for starters. 2 weeks to schedule each team match would work (time controls I would recommend 45+45 , 90+30 may be a bit too long)) I don't really like the idea of random teams, but rather own teams with ratings like: Maximum 1 person rated above 2000, maximum two (inclusive of the 2000+) above 1700 or something like that. Also, if enough members are formed there could even be divisions (Open, U1800, U1500) and finals :) But the main barrier is participation.

Thanks
Also, I don't think games be specifically limited to Saturday, rather each game players get to negotiate a suitable time to play.
This sounds great! Maybe Lichess can do something flashy to help attract some players (if it only gets published in the tournament section we may not get enough players). I don't know what that flashy thing may be. Perhaps try to get some 2000+ members of the community to make a video analyzing each of the games in the tournament? It doesn't have to be a long video, just a short one trying give tips, suggestions, and ideas to lower rated players. I can imagine a bunch of players would like to join knowing they will get some good tips from an expert at the end of it. Of course, if the tournament really takes off and we get many players, eventually it would be hard to get people to comment on every single game---however, if the tournament gets to that point, it would be a success already!

Although I love classical, many people are less willing to invest that much time into a single game (specially if it isn't FIDE rated). It may be worth considering starting with slow time controls, but not exactly classical. Perhaps something like 45/45.

Another logistical thought is that ICC already has slow time control tournaments. It may be good to try to avoid overlap, that way we may get a few players from that community.

I agree with Tournaments that negotiation is important, specially because people from many different time zones may join the tournament.

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