Needing community feedback regarding a website feature I'm making

Hi all,

I've been working on a League-related website for a few months. It's an amateur league website, similar to CAL. I really do want to create a great amateur league experience for the League community to enjoy, just as I enjoyed CAL back with Counter-Strike.

While the site is not ready to be made public, yet, I do have the entirety of the league related code finished.

With that said, I've been flip flopping on a feature that has held me up for the past few weeks. I've coded it several different ways but I'm not getting the feeling that it feels like a necessary piece of the initial release. That feature is some sort of team-to-team chat.

The way I've currently implemented it is basically a clone of Facebook's chat system, or most other IM services. Members of a team can communicate with members of another team in a chat room, essentially. That chat history persists.

My reasoning for thinking something like this would be nice, or be needed, is so that teams can coordinate scrims or matches more fluidly and not need to rely on out-of-website services - it's all just central and on the site itself.

But, I also think that this feature isn't any better than the alternatives, which include: League's built in chat, Skype, basically anything else that exists already.

I figured instead of sitting here debating this with myself, I would ask you all and ask what you think you'd use? If this site had some sort of chat, would you use it you think, or would you likely just go to something else anyway?

Thanks for any feedback! I'm hoping I can put in the effort to really make a fun amateur league experience.