no more necro/spam discussion in this thread. It is open as long as Monkey Island goes on. topic closed.
you dont work as a team. Its a deathmatch and everyone duels alone for his own score vs everyone. only teammate you have is your own mind that helps you creating a good strategy to top because going at everyone would always finish up in you, losing at least one match which means you lost everything. So think how to win, but in the same time not to lose.
as for Episode 1 2nd time, the sign ups will be closed very soon and the duels will start.
If your question is when will Episode 2 start, its not sure still, most probably when the Episode 1 2nd time ends successfully. If the response is like the first time, I'll stop Monkey Island temporarily again.