I have a few questions, as well...
What is the time frame for these matches in the site timeline? Do they take place on one day or across several weeks? And are rival teams allowed to spectate their opponents?

Joychi: correct. The minimum posting requirement is all that applies (2 paragraphs). Try to limit any "rapid fire" back-and-forward spectator posts, though! But yes, non-players are more than welcome to participate as long as they don't try and interfere. :]

Landon: The time frame is "one day" in the regular RP per match, because there seems to be a couple of matches / day and we need to have the canon teams "play" as well. Rival teams are definitely allowed to attend matches they are not slated to play.

Also, how far removed are these matches from the current timeline? When will the timeline catch up to the match schedule?

I think I said it earlier in the thread, but at the end of several of the matches (not all) we have time-shifts scheduled, which will "catch us up" with the main RP. The biggest timeshift is schedule to be at the end of October / beginning of November which will bring us to Episodes 6 and 7.

We will announce time shifts as they come up. :]

Okay, but when it comes to the actual matches. Some of those characters are still meeting, correct? My question is, how far removed are they from the current timeline? And would my character be able to observe the match and be meeting his teammates at the same time?

The matches take place "after" your team meets up. It doesn't matter when. :] Your character would be able to do both, yes, provided that you do state somewhere in your RP that this match was "upcoming" or otherwise hasn't yet happened.

I'm curious, and have been for a couple days. Could a team member defend for someone else at, say, a subtraction to their defense score? or even at the risk of taking their own hit? I noticed in some of the few, maybe even one match, (or I'm making stuff up myself) that team members defend for one another.

I was wondering that myself; It would make for excellent posts.

I also wondered if we could possibly attack multiple people per post. We can defend multiple attacks with 1 roll, so could we launch multiple attacks with 1 roll? We've seen in the show probenders target multiple opponents. There would indeed be more action per round and I higher chance of territory control, but it may get confusing for some... then again, the announcer recaps help A LOT with clarity.

I think it would make more sense to do a different roll per attack or defense IF we were allowed to do multiples.

As an example: I've done one where everyone had 3 'action rolls' regardless of what it was. If you needed to defend, one of those rolls were for that. If you needed to defend 3 attacks, you had to chose to either take up to all 3 hits for the sake of up to 3 attack rolls, OR defend all 3 attacks and not attack yourself OR any combination in between. It makes for a deeper layer of tactics and roleplay, but again, if that's too complicated nvm.