You know the hardest part of trying to garner support for games? Getting the teams signed up. We have to deal with basically 6 types of people

1. People who sign-up but dont plan to actually play.
2. People who sign up, show up, and play the game for their team.
3. People who dont sign up because they dont like bots and dont have the time to play out 1200 turns.
4. People who sign up, show up, and play the game but can't get their head around the team thing.
5. New people or retreads who want to play but need help with this type of play.
6. People who don't sign up or plan to play but think they have to tell everyone else how to play.

Now we cannot do anything about types 1, 3, or 6. They have to make the changes that are needed to play with us. For type 3, that may mean learning and using bots or somehow finding the time to play out their turns. For types 1 and 6 we can only hope they leave the rest of us alone.

We can work with types 2, 4, and 5. Communicate, delegate, participate

We need to communicate. We need to express our expectations both for how we expect to play in the game and the roles that our teammates expect us to play. We need to set up lines of communication that everyone on the team can and will use outside of the game.

We need to delegate tasks to team mates who may have never attempted them. We need to support them when they screw up and praise them when they succeed. (I dont mean botting them, I mean teaching them complicated tasks, then watching them work.)

We need everyone to participate with more than just contributing their turns to the bot master. Maybe you will still only give your turns to your team but be there for it.

In the tourneys I have played with Boo in the past, many of my turns were used by someone running my bot. BUT, I was sitting right there, at keys, while it was done, 95% of the time.

Play on a team, be more than a bot, play for the team, ask questions, have fun. I would be honored to play with anyone on the type 2, 4, and 5 categories.

Also your CEO has the hardest job of all. Read the following and then see if you can give the CEO job a shot, if nothing else have a gander at the pressure your CEO is under,

http://www.tw2002.info/ls_dny_help/dny_CEO_Hints.txt

Well put Helix.

I'd like to also add that we can change CEO's from game to game to help share the load.

Hind-sight is 20/20, we all learn from every game we play. Mistakes are opportunities to learn and grow as a team. We all make'em.