I'd be interested but two things

1. I don't really have time to play
2. An All-American rightwing team would get its ass kicked by a global team unless it stayed up all night

Right wing players do exist outside of the USA, Chris.

Originally, when I thought of this idea, I was worried that we may not have enough people to set up more than 2 families, even though only 2 families would kind of leave some people, such as avogadro and Justinian, trying to find a place in a political framework that doesn't fit them.

If there's enough people participating, it may be beneficial to modify the family entry system to allow alternative ideologies to conventional right/left politics to join, assuming they find a sufficient number of people to join up (I could imagine a libertarian family forming quite easily).

Um... ok?

BTW Piranhas FTW!

Haha! 

Well, now that there's some discussion going... I might as well set up the signups so we know who would actually do this, and who is just thinking about it.

The "Right" family
1:
2: Biefskurtz (your name has probably been butchered)
3:
4:
5:
6:

The "Left" Family
1: You_Fool
2: Wild Flower Soul
3:
4:
5:
6:

Also, if you wish to set up an alternative ideology family, I encourage you to do so.  Keep in mind, however, that we can't really have this take place unless we have sufficient numbers for each family.  Having 20 people each set up their own 1-person family because they don't necessarily agree with 100% of another ideology kind of defeats the purpose of the game.  A "generally conservative, except I disagree with their views toward abortion" family would probably be a waste.  For pragmatic purposes, it may be necessary to condense some micro-families into larger families if needed, in order to ensure the competition progresses efficiently...

Note: Don't be worried about there being not enough people for the family, at least just yet.
1: If needed, we can always recruit outsiders, assuming they know what's going on in our family.
2: Many people may be discouraged by that same problem.  However, once one or two people step forward and say they want to play, that problem goes away... the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I knew it would be tricky placing you, as it will be for many of alternative ideologies (thank God there are no postmodern theorists on these forums).

Generally, I would suggest you go in the "Right" family, if you're interested in playing... if only because, out of the two, you would probably gain more joy from clobbering the Left family than from clobbering the Right family, although there are also at least some alignments with generally "right" theories. 

But as I said in the disclaimer, the categorization is inherently flawed (I never liked ideological categorizations anyway), but necessary to create this game without having 20 one-person families.  It would be impossible to create families that perfectly fit with each individual's ideologies... so for this to work, I'm partially asking for people to make some compromise in order to advance a group... or at least to form coalitions with what one would consider the lesser of two evils.

As I stated, if a particular ideology has enough representatives that they can form a family outside the general "right/left" framework, they are more than welcome to do so, as long as they can mobilize enough people.  I could definitely imagine a Libertarian group popping up in these forums.  If we had more members, I could imagine splinter groups within each side of the "right" or "left," just as they exist in the real world.

The major issue in all of these would be finding 6 people who are willing to sign up for your side...

EDIT: Talked with the mods again, and apparently I misunderstood what they said.  Apparently, I am allowed to play in the Politics ICC challenge.  So I'll join either the Right group (if it needs more members toward the time to file final group numbers) or some alternative right/moderate/Justinian group, provided they find more members...

That being said, if I do participate, it would probably be advantageous for somebody from the Left and other families to step forward as leader early.  There needs to be a designated leader for each individual family.  However, in addition, if I am in one family and recruiting members for the other family, it would create the perception that I would be trying to stack the other family with bad players.  Thus, if someone who does regularly play IC (you_fool, perhaps?) would step forward to lead their family, it would help ensure the credibility of this event.

I could possibly be convinced to look after the 'left' family, even possibly lead... i sort of have time... though I am not what I would of ever called active, not that I ever considered myself to be active... However stick me at the top of the 'left' fam and we will see how this goes...

Of course not, Zarf. But we're a minority in here. Or, perhaps, I don't consider a lot of people who consider themselves left not to be leftist at all..

How about a Piranhas family?  An SS family.

I find it disturbing nobody said "balsz those tactics are outrageously dishonorable"

Well, I can't be on the "Left Family" and nor can I be on the "Right Family".

There'll have to be a Piranha family.  Who do I talk to about this?