Snoopy: I also don't like the idea of being able to switch out players in middle of a site team tournament. IF it were allowed, I would like to see:

1. The replacement player can not have played for another team in the same tournament (Oh, that team is out - lets grab their best player and put them on our team.)

2. The person being replaced would have to had been off the site for (lets say) at least 30 days.

3. The replacement can not be more then 300 points higher in their rating then the person they are replacing. (of course if someone leaves the site, their rating can drop as games time out - so maybe their rating at the time the tournament started.) (again, to stop a team from grabbing "ringers" / great players to help their team.

So with those rules, I think it would almost be easier to not allow replacements.

NOW having said that, I agree with I think EVERYONE that all tournaments including team tournaments should continue on the next rounds once it is known which players/teams will continue on to the next round. (THIS would also help solve many - not all - of the cases where players leave the site between the time a tournament starts and the next round.)

coan.net: A way of making it easier to implement, would be to make thing like on a sports team game, where at the beginning of a game you choose the players and the possible substitutes. Then the substitution would only be possible if a player would leave the site (something like an injury).