Hi Flapjack,
What we do have in terms of standby lists, is the Light Brigade - this is managed by Trout (former.trout(at)gmail.com) - if interested, ping him... it's basically a committed group of ppl ready to step up and fill replacement spots should one come up and a game suddenly need a player - usually for rather poor positions (the good positions dont seem to have a problem getting replacements - wonder why... ) Mainly just doing the club a favor by filling in for them.

As for the other variants, we dont keep a list of ppl that want to play them, cuz games are based on GM... generally a GM will step up and say "I want to run one of these" and so it goes on the Open Games list where players can join. If you are interested in drumming up support for any variant in particular, you should just post such in the variants forum... being sure to make the subject line good, cuz that's what shows on the site home page. Then if there's a few ppl interested, likely a GM will step up and open a game for it, and then players can join. Like I've opened up the Pericles game, to see what interest there is in it, but if something else seems better, I'm flexible! Also if there's any game you want to RUN, then by all means we can set up an opening for it, just let someone know.

As for the "Once every day or once every 2 days"... that would be considered "extremely insane blitz" play... Even the Winter Blitz tournament allows 3 days per turn! Typical games run 1 week per turn. Some GM's tho have, on occasion, been crazy enough to take on such fast games... <ahem... Felix>

-mike

I am willing to be a standby but I didn't know if there was a standby list I could sign up for.

If you don't have one maybe you could have one? Some place a person can put there name, perhaps with deadlines or varients they are willing to sign up for?

Like this:

Player: Flapjack

Varients: Any except for economic ones like Payola

Deadlies: At least once day for Dip and once every 2 days for varients.

Just a thought.

FlapJack