Team discussion

[Morzone]

TeamPeasantsTakingHomeTheGold


My question is, what would the Co-Leader be tasked with doing?

Mostly just be the leader when the actual leader isn't around I guess. I'm sure the teams will find things for their co-leader to do, especially if we have a team event.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Should we find judges before doing the interest check? Or would it be enough to just have a solidified list of all the different categories? Since we'll have to know what people are likely to participate in for the drafting and balancing.

I think once we have finalised the list of events and how judging/scoring should be done, we can open judge applications. :) Best to get them done ASAP, especially for RP which takes a lot of planning.

TeamPeasantsTakingHomeTheGold


My question is, what would the Co-Leader be tasked with doing?

I figured the co-leader could help with organising the thread and stuff. It just gives more people the opportunity to be in a leadership role if they don't get picked to be a team leader But if the teams are small we might not even need co-leaders haha.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

I thought it was better to post this sooner rather than later so we can get an idea of how much activity we may actually have for the event and then adjust sections accordingly. :)

Let me know what you guys think!

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[Soups]

The sooner the better. I like it.

[Neo Emolga]

Everything looks good. I'm guessing we'll set up the teams with the leaders first, THEN sort everyone else into them randomly? I think as long as we do that, we'll be fine. I wouldn't do EVERYONE at random first, because then you might have a team where no one really wants to be the leader and that might be a little funky.

Besides that, I'm cool with it. Hopefully we get truckloads of people. :3

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Everything looks good. I'm guessing we'll set up the teams with the leaders first, THEN sort everyone else into them randomly? I think as long as we do that, we'll be fine. I wouldn't do EVERYONE at random first, because then you might have a team where no one really wants to be the leader and that might be a little funky.

Besides that, I'm cool with it. Hopefully we get truckloads of people. :3

Yeah I figure the team leaders are the first thing we'll need to decide on and then distribute the rest. :)

[Soups]

Everything looks good. I'm guessing we'll set up the teams with the leaders first, THEN sort everyone else into them randomly? I think as long as we do that, we'll be fine. I wouldn't do EVERYONE at random first, because then you might have a team where no one really wants to be the leader and that might be a little funky.

Besides that, I'm cool with it. Hopefully we get truckloads of people. :3

You're right. We can sort out the leaders and then play the sorting game.

[Pokemon Trainer Sarah]

Alright I posted the sign up thread. Fingers crossed that we get enough interest! :)

[Neo Emolga]

I checked and we have 21 sign ups (it's almost the end of the eleventh and I'm not really expecting too many more to show up). I'd say that's pretty good! Was hoping for a bit more, but hey, we can definitely work with this.

Now here comes the kicker.

If we go with three teams, each team will have seven people.

If we go with four teams, each team will have five people (one will have six).

We also have these four people who definitely want to be leaders (and not just as a "maybe" or "only if I need to"):

Bulbasaur
LKWayvern
Shruikan
Caite-chan

If we go with four teams, easy cheesy, we can go with all four. But if we only go with three teams, we need to decide which three of the four we go with as leaders. I'd actually have a tough time deciding because I think all four of them would be great leaders and it would be cool to see what kinds of teams will get created.

So it's really a matter of deciding whether to go with three or four teams. What are your thoughts?

[Spiderc]

Personally I think four teams is a little bit better than having three and since it's an option we might want to go that route. I feel like with just three teams it feels like less of a competition between the different teams and more of one between individual people. Plus that way we don't need to single out one of the people who actually wanted to be a captain and say that they didn't get the job which would stink for them.

The one downside is that each team would just have 5 people then so a team could get in trouble if they have someone who suddenly goes inactive or if the team has too many people focused on a particular event. I guess it's partially up to the leader to make sure the second doesn't happen while they're drafting their team, but there's not too much we can do about the former.