[stuc]

There is a need for BBO to provide a means for a team of 4 (or 5 or 6) to organize and to be able to challenge other teams to a match.
A team needs to be able to communicate with all its members at one stroke.
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[onoway]

There already is. The team matches do not need to be organized by BBO, anyone can do it as far as I know. Get your team together, find four opps and away you go. This spring (and probably again this fall) IAC club was running Team matches for its members. Ray's Bridge Club functions through BBO and has both pair and team matches going, but people have to arrange them themselves.

As far as being able to comunicate with all your team members at one stroke, I think you will have to count on having a regular team meeting time and or use something like skype. With the number of people visiting BBO, the sub groups and crossovers that there would be at any one time boggles the mind. If people are truly interested, they will find a way to organize themselves.

After hosting the IAC team matches I can think of nothing less likely to be a good use of BBO staff than trying to organize this. People need to put some effort into these things themselves. They are not as easilly arranged as tournaments and require a good deal more involvement from whoever is running the things than a regular tourney does.

So..either join one of the groups such as Ray's or(and) organize them yourself, with your team and asking people you and your teammates know to be opps.
If you don't know how to set them up, I will be happy to help get you started if you catch me online.

[TylerE]

I think OP means something to streamline the "fine 4 opps" part.