HOW TO LAUNCH A CHALLENGE - A Tutorial

How to launch a challenge

• Go to the Live section of the chess.com site: https://www.chess.com/live
• Click on Tournaments at the top right of the window

• Click on Club Match at the bottom of the window

• Set the parameters of the match; Attention! There is a bug in the chess.com software: when you click on Find Club to find out the name of your opponent team, the edit box disappears; nonetheless, you shall write the first 5 letters of your opponent team’s name and a list of teams should appear; you may then scroll this list and choose the right name.

• NOTE 1 Be sure that the time control is set properly; there is a long list of time settings, you can even define your own special time setting, for instance 15+3 (it means games will last 15 minutes, after which players are given an extra time of 3 seconds per move). 
• NOTE 2 When you set the start time of the match, the hour shown is your local hour, no matter where your opponent comes from; you should know in advance the time zone difference with your opponent; to avoid misunderstandings, always refer to well defined time zones, as CET (Central European Time). 
• NOTE 3  You cannot set up a challenge if it is planned more than 1 week later; you have to wait until the system allows you to launch the challenge.
• NOTE 4  In the LCML there are no limitations related to players’ rating, nor to the number of players per club, so you may leave empty the 4 boxes of the last 2 lines.

• Once you have set the date and time of your match, the Create button will become active; click on it to launch the challenge; from that moment, the challenge will become visible to your opponent team, that may ACCEPT or DECLINE your challenge.

Yes, as a seasoned admin @iksnicamod was all right about the previous setting of our TT with Macedonia anticipating what did happen later on (btw iksnicamod is "domacinski" in reverse meaning "in the good host's way" in Serbian). 

It was really disappointing to see buggy chesscom s/w (a. Create button inaccessible when I first tried to create a match, b. the beginning time was changed from 20 to 23, c. Min and Max rating set to 0 even though I didn't populate the fields--see the snapshot below, d. the second pic below shows 1min playing time, while the players' time is 10min?!)

Anyway, I just created a test match with Macedonia using a bit different path from the Montenegro admin page using New Live Match. @stole-kosuta is to approve.

Ciao tutti

The previous attempt last week: