No real experience in scheduling multiple team
formats, but from playing in one (Panasonic) I'd beg you
to skip it and use a more conventional
format.
Panasonic is a wonderful experience - well run and in a
tremendous setting - but the multiple-team format produces
odd games.
When there are two teams clearly
better than the rest of the room (be it 1 more team or
several), the lesser teams' only purpose seems to be to
skew the competition between teams 1-2 by hitting
subjects that they know very well (ie, a mediocre team has
a guy who is great at math or art history or what
have you) and thus take away a normal advantage for
one of the two top teams in that subject.
Many
of you have played Panasonic or other multiple-team
at once formats - what have your impressions
been?
Matt