gg wrote:The Neighbouring Clubs Alliance should help this, but in practice it doesn't seem to be used, probably because of the additional organisation required (your second point) or that its quite challenging to find the rule. Maybe the Sheffield team (SYO/SPOOK/ShUOC) was using this?
Yes
So what is the rule? I can't find it on the BO site. My memory is that you couldn't form an alliance if you were in the top X in the last Y years, and you had to announce it early and for the whole year. Which would multiply rule out an SYO/ShUOC alliance.