Teams

Where: Teams

Team configuration, and the management of teams once they exist.

Team size

Minimum Members and Maximum Members bound a team.

Set the minimum low. A high minimum strands people in half-formed teams that never reach it, and those participants end up in neither a working team nor an individual ranking. Two is usually enough.

The maximum matters where team totals are ranked, since a larger team accumulates more of most things. If you are ranking teams on a cumulative measure, either cap size or rank on an average — otherwise the ranking measures recruitment.

Name changes

Team Name Changes and a Name Change Deadline control renaming.

Close it before anything is printed and before results are final. A team renaming itself after certificates are generated creates a mismatch you cannot fix retrospectively.

Switching teams

Switch Teams and a Switch Deadline control movement between teams.

Allow it early, close it well before the end. Late switching distorts team standings, and — more practically — it lets someone join whichever team is winning in the final week.

Member removal

Member Removal decides whether captains can remove members.

Enabling it is convenient and occasionally unpleasant. On a public event, consider whether you want removals happening without your involvement.

Managing teams

Teams can be edited and, where necessary, deleted.

Renaming a team has to reach the leaderboard too

Team standings hold their own copy of the team name. Rename through this screen so both are updated together — otherwise the leaderboard keeps showing the old name and the two records disagree.

The same applies to membership changes: make them here so team totals refresh.

Donations to teams

A team can receive donations, and those totals roll into the team's fundraising figure.

Take care when correcting donation records: a donation to a team is recorded against the team, not against a person, and treating one as the other removes the wrong record.

→ Fundraising

Before the event starts

• Team size bounds set, minimum low.
• Switch deadline set, comfortably before the end.
• Name change deadline set, before anything is printed.
• A leaderboard tab that ranks teams the way you intend.