To integrate to the point where there's no burden of work on any single individual or group of individuals.

To keep the same fun, exciting, and driving forces in play that made Seasons 1-4 such a success while considering all potential improvements.

Urge participants to work together to get advice on composing and post processing their photographs before the challenge. Strictly forbidden users to edit other's photographs for entry.

2 leagues (names?)

2 conferences per league (Northern + Southern; Eastern + Western)

3 divisions per conference (A, B, C)

6 teams per division (for a total of 72 teams)

5 players per team minimum (requiring a minimm of 360 participants)

19 players per team maximum (allowing for a maximum of 720 participants)

Team Captains must be SC or Members.

There is an enrollment period that lasts 5 days. Enrollment opens on Wednesday at midnight EST. When the number of teams hits the limit, enrollment closes.

There is an invitational period that lasts 2 days prior to open enrollment (Monday at midnight EST). All teams in the previous season from Divisions A and B, and the top 4 teams from Division C will be invited to join the new season first.

Team voting will be prohibited. Users will see their team's submissions beside their own on the voting pages.

Teams will be given one private forum thread per season. These threads would be accessible to SC, but not constantly monitored.

Integrate Teams into the [update] button or include an overview of how your team is doing in the current challenges.

How do the divisions work? Manic's Idea. Bear_Music's Idea. GeneralE's Idea #1, #2, #3.

Fantasy teams (like Fantasy Football) for fun?

Number of teams? The public poll results suggest 412 Members are definitely interested in joining a team and 170 Members might be. The poll was limited to Members only, but there are only 5 Registered Users participating in Season 4. We'd need 59 teams to support all “definite” Members and 84 teams to support all “Definite” and “Maybe” members.

Team profiles (like user profiles) with information and history.

Substitutions: (Scott): All teams will be allowed one hardship substitution during a regular season. The captain must submit a ticket to the SC and there reason for the substitution must comply with all the substitute photographer rules. SC will validate, by majority, if the teams request is validated or not. If the SC finds that the teams request is valid the photographer will be replace by a standby photographer, randomly picked (automated).

Should we put an average vote cap on team creation? This includes averages too high OR too low. Or do we care about averages being too low?

Process Idea: (Langdon) What I had in mind: (1) Someone wants to lead a team, so they post to the forums and get a minimum number of other people interested (let's say 4). (2) The team leader uses a “Create Team” interface that asks for all necessary details (team name, logo, list of members. (3) An invitiation is sent to all other members who must accept the request before the team is created officially. (4) Upon acceptance from all invited members, the team is officially created and added to the season. (5) We announce that team creation will open on say March 1st at midnight… everyone who wants to participate should be around to create their teams as spots could fill up quickly. (6) Once the team limit is hit, access to the team creation interface let's everyone know that this season is full and offers users a way to sign up to the free agent list.

Since we only require 5 members to create and run a team, should a team with only 5 players have the option mid-season to add up to 5 more members? Or perhaps just 1 player to coincide with the substitution rule? Or is this generally unfair?

How does a team get placed into a league, conference, and initially a division?

People who are interested in joining a team, but don't know anyone creating a team and don't want to create one themselves can join the Free Agent pool. Team creators can pick free agents from the pool. A free agent can be invited by multiple teams, but once he/she chooses a team, he/she is no longer in the pool.

This might suck with the time limit thing, or it might just be more interesting. If a free agent gets one invite, they have to either decide quickly if they want to join this team, or hold out for perhaps another offer.

Free agents who were not picked automatically get placed on the Standby Photographer list after the team selection period is over. These free agents can be used for substitutions.

Awards? ribbons/trophies given weekly, or just for the whole season? MVP per team? Most improved?

Scores are calculated weekly.

Only regularly scheduled challenges count (is this necessary? was it designed only to cut down on work load? or was it designed because of invitiational challenges not being fair to some teams?).

Top scoring image per user for the week is used.

Top 4 (out of potentially 7) scores are used for the total team average for the week.

Playoffs?

Period of downtime in between seasons?