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Team to play classical games

#1
Hi all,

Is there a team that organizes regularly classic time control with increment tournaments (arena or swiss)?
I would like to play 20 + 10, 15 + 15, this type of games.
Standard and 960.
3-4 tournaments a week.
If there is not, are there other players with the same desire?
We could create a team and organize tournaments.

Thanks
#2
Team lichess-swiss (lichess.org/team/lichess-swiss) runs one 30+0 and one 25+3 swiss tournament every 6 hours. Unfortunately the abandon rate tends to be quite high there.

C3 - Classical Chess Club (lichess.org/team/c3--classical-chess-club) organizes swiss tournaments in various time controls (from 30+15 to 60+30), either one round per day or one round per week. The scheduling and time controls vary so that there are reasonable opportunities for any timezone. The discipline is better but the tournaments take longer to finish.

There is also 4545 League, LoneWolf and Lichess960 League on www.lichess4545.com/ if you want to take things really seriously.

Also lichess.org/team/todo-mundo which offers arena style tournaments, both individual and team battles.
#6
Well, it's fun, of course, but all the stuff like preparing for the games (sometimes also discussing the prep with the team), people watching their teammates playing and commenting on the games, even the very fact that you are playing for a team, makes it a very different experience from a random game with someone from the pool. (Also meeting the same people repeatedly.)

It's not just my experience that playing against someone with e.g. 1700 rating in 4545 is usually harder than playing someone with the same rating in a random pool game.