<I understand I perhaps have myself spread further than others... but I participate and visit all the fellowships I am a member of everyday... I think what is worse for teams and captains will be having team members who have no intention of joining tournaments but joined only to be part of a fellowship.. ( how is that quality?.. ) It is up to each team member to check on the goings on of their teams.. that should be ones responsiblity if they want to participate in team play.. ...

I also think what will be a big problem will be a team with 30 players challenges one with 6 ... who decides which ones get left out.. and why join a team if you never get a chance to play??>..

I thought the whole idea of fellowships was to create friendships and comaraderie among members and that team play was just a sideline to that...

I hope you do understand that I am not arguing with you on this .. just trying to keep a discussion going and trying to understand it all.. .... :)

one hell of a lot of teams to join... and whats the sense in joining a team unless you are going to play.... dream said she wouldn't force people to play in a tournament.. but they would be forced to join a team....... doesn't make sense to me... .. personally .. I would like to join teams in one or two fellowships and still be able to join internal tournaments at the others of which I am a member...

well all this is just adding to the confusion..I think I will wait until it sorts out before joining anymore fellowship tournaments .... don't want to get started and then told I can't play because I am not on a team..

am I the only one confused by all this???.

well that is the impression I am getting .. that in order to be a member of a certain fellowship.. I have to be on a team there... .... the "either join a team or leave"... that that the "Big Bosses should maybe get tough about that".. can youi clarify these statements??.

I enjoy all my games as you can see I carry many... and I join in all the internal fellowship tournaments... but to be forced to join teams in all the fellowships in which I am a member would in my mind be more confusing than fun ... If this will be the case please tell me now... so I can finish whatever tournaments I am now playing and leave whatever fellowships that I will not be playing on their selective teams..

Am I to understand now that the sole purpose of fellowships is strictly team play??..( either join a team or leave ) ... silly me... I thought it was a means of meeting new friends and some friendly competition ....

I too have never played at gold token... It just seemed to me that when i forst joined this site I was playing the same people in all my tournaments so I thought if I joined a few fellowships that would give me different opponents... not that the few I was playing weren't competition enough....

It seems to me dream.. that your idea is more seperatism and segregation rather than fellowship...

I still fail to see a problem with joining a number of fellowships.... right now I am a member of 7 ... more so to get a wider range of competition in the games I love... I don't think joining teams will be very confusing for me.. perhaps for others .. ... I joined teams in only two of them... .. BBW the restriction of joining more than one team in any one game is in place... I joined teams in all my backgammon and variants on the Gammon Geeks ... and the rest of my games for the The Challengers.. what i do see as a future problem .. is restrictions in the number of members playing for a team... recently there was a posting for a fellowships tournament using only 4 team members... what happens when there there is a fellowship with 80 members and 20 want to join that particular team... who chooses who plays??...