Can I create a team without a captain?

Let me check on this but if this update is like others then it can only take effect on events created after an update. Let me dig around for you.

Kent

Hey there... I didn't even put the name together with the org. It was great meeting you too!!!

So I confirmed that you cannot have teams without a team captain unless it is a reclaimed team from a previous event where that team captain and no one else wants to take on that role. This is the only process where no team captain has to be claimed or assigned.

Is there any specific reason why you wouldn't want a team captain? Is it that the term "captain" puts too much pressure on someone to make that team raise money? If so it may just be a need to explain what a team captain could be such as: team spokesperson, team primary contact, team organizer. I know that I never wanted to be "captain" because it just seemed like a huge responsibility when really it can be something as simple as being someone who the organization communicates through to the team. 

Hope this helps,

Kent

PS. Like I mentioned at BBCon, reachout to me if you ever need any help!

Tracy Brothers:
It's not the term "captain." It's a process thing. We have some businesses that sponsor the 5Ks and we comp them some registrations. Let's say Chick-fil-a gave us $10,000 and we comp them 20 free registrations and give them a discount code to share with their employees or clients or whatever. With the way it is currently set up, one person has to register first and set up the team BEFORE everyone else can register. Some of our sponsors would prefer we set up the team for them and then they can just send a message out to all their employees to join the team using their own lines of communication. Lots of our teams are led by a very enthusiastic captain who signs up, creates a team and then invites everyone to join. But in the case of businesses and sponsors with comp registrations, they like more of a "team" approach with no one singled out as captain and to not have the process slowed down by having to register one, and THEN asking everyone else register. It's not a big deal but it would be great if when we make a connection with a big sponsor we could do some of the setup for them ahead of time. Does that make sense? Tracy Brothers Communications Specialist, Web Mercy Ministries of America [cid:image001.png@01CDA228.21D178A0] P.O. Box 111060, Nashville, TN 37222 phone: 615.831.6987 fax: 615.760.1113 www.mercyministries.comThe information (and any attachments) transmitted is confidential and is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed. This information may contain confidential, proprietary, and/or material that is protected by one or more legally recognized privileges. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, disclosure, or other use of, or taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete this message from all computers and network without saving it in any manner.

I definitely understand your usage obstacle. Obviously for returning teams this is easy but for new ones someone currently has to be named the captain. Something that might work... hope it doesn't sound too cheesy.... but if it would help relations something you could do is have someone at your org setup the team first and you could create a "mascot" for these teams and have that "mascot" be the team captain. I hope you didn't just fall in the floor laughing but it's about the only thing I could really think of. This way a real person wouldn't be the "captain" and someone from your staff could simply go in and create the team under a mascot's name. You could just create an email alias for your organization so any email going to that whole team could be received and forwarded to an actual contact at the company.

Please tell me if this was just the most insane idea or not. lol

Kent