TM Championships League Division C (2015) - Groups with 400 Members Max.

Spirit: The TM Championships League is a competition between teams. While every team is encouraged to motivate their teams to do their best the League also intends to help teams to grow in size and become more active drawing from players in chess.com. As teams use different criteria in terms of membership eligibility admins are asked to inform their teams about the nature of the competition and discourage members who violates the rules from joining. In case of disputes or questions, contact the admin of your opposing team first then the TM Champioships League admins rather than commenting publicly.

Rules and Regulations:

Length of Season 2015: 1 year
Format 6 Rd Swiss + 1 Rd Playoff for 1st to 3rd place. Prior to the announcement of the round pairings the admins will record the momentary results of the matches in progress and use them to generate the pairings. The results will be crosschecked to assure accuracy.
Start Date: December 8th, 2014.
Minimum number of players per team: Fifteen (15). No maximum number of players.
Rating Range: Open, Time: 3days/move, Games to be played concurrently (i.e. change default setting from "1" to "2".)
Player eligibility: All admins understand that this is a competition between players of the respective states and adhere to the common sense principles of such a competition. A player can only play for one team. Once he plays for a team he has to stay with that team throughout the season.
Teams may not remove players from their roster to obtain a more favorable matchup.
Match scores will be finalized after taking into consideration the account closures of members due to cheating. This will occur when we announce division standings, ahead of beginning of the playoffs, and when the results of the playoffs are announced to the group.
Warnings and Penalties: