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tipsyjourneyman 15-Dec-12, 01:55	Now this just bakes my noodle 14-Dec-12, 09:18 » Team Team """" accepted your challenge. Please approve or decline their player selection for this team match. 14-Dec-12, 13:10 » Team Your challenge to team "" has been automatically cancelled due to one of the participating players in their team becoming unavailable for team matches. So I've put the effort into constructing an open challenge. I check my GK ere going to bed and there's no acceptance, so I hit the hay. I wake up to find that, effectively, I need to waste my time reissuing the open challenge. >  I mean if some player becomes unavailable fine, but let the challenge go back to the pool not be "automatically cancelled". What's worse is that this all happened within four hours, I mean, fair cop if, after accepting the challenge, an opposition captain doesn't log into their account days later to confirm but gimme a break! This is wasting time I'm already short on. Not. Happy. Jan. >
chilliman64 15-Dec-12, 04:15	it annoys me too - but - this can occur for several reasons...
chilliman64 15-Dec-12, 04:26	1 - the obvious one, the opposing captain has (impatiently) reallocated one of more of his players to another challenging thus making your challenge redundant 2 - one of the offered players has changed his/her number of team games allowed under their Settings 3 - one of the offered players has reached his/her maximum number of games allowed under their membership level 4 - an offered player has been offline line for several days and is now unavailable for team games due to gk imposed limitations 5 - an offered player has set their vacation time making them unavailable I think there may be a few other reasons that cause this to occur but these are the ones that jump out at me. I use Open Challenges frequently and when a challenge is picked up only to be rejected due to opposition player availability it sure makes me use some colourful language!!! sorry I posted this response in two goes but the first one was via my xbox app and the online keyboard is terrible so I grabbed the laptop to finish the post.
chilliman64 18-Dec-12, 12:57	here's an idea... in cases where open challenges are accepted by an opposing team and then cancelled due to one of the unavailability issues above, gameknot would automatically relist the open challenge as per the original criteria. this would save a lot of time. maybe there could be a checkbox for the captain that lists the challenge to select whether they would like an automatic relist in such cases... anyone like this idea?
tipsyjourneyman 24-Dec-12, 00:19	????? Dang! I posted a reply to this I swear but it's not here! Maybe, in my tipsyness, I previewed and then didn't post? Oh well I'm not repeating myself. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everybody!

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