Joining Our Team
First of all, thank you for your interest in our team. The team welcomes new members all the time. All we ask you to be to join our team is an interest in chess!
First of all you need a gameknot account to take part in our team. After you have successfully registered with gameknot you will need to win 5 games to join our team (something gameknot insists on). After that all you need to do is to go on our team page http://gameknot.com/team.pl?id=632 and scroll down to the bottom and follow the links.
There are a few things to note however before joining our team, if you have a lot of timeouts before joining then this can jeopardize your chances of being accepted into the team. Our team has a strict policy on timeouts and we dont expect anyone to timeout of games without there being a good excuse. Too many timeouts in team games and you might not be playing for our team again.
Also it is important to understand how the team games work. Captains of each team on gameknot challenge each other and then they have to pick players to play against each other. This means team games will USUALLY be played against with players of your own calibre. However, if your rating is higher than it should be then you will no doubt get harder games which you will probably lose. Since the whole team wants to do well, the only way to avoid this is tell the captain (red_devil7) what you think your real rating should be and then he will do his best to pair you off against similiar rated players. But you will probably not get a lot of team games if your rating is too high as opponents wont want to send their 1200'er out against a supposed 1300'er player. This works vice versa though, if your rating is lower than what it should be then tell the captain straight away and you'll probably get more team games!
If you are still unsure about joining or if you are suitable for the team then get in contact with the captain of the team and hopefully he can help you along the way in joining our team.