All who are interested to play our team match competition MUST read this:

2009 - Skandinavia Benelux Club Team Match competition

with RANKING POINTS for participating players

Team Match - Round 1 (Group Play): 1. January – 1. March 2009

It is required that all participating players KNOW and FOLLOW our club and team match rules.

Listed underneath are the RULES all teams and players MUST follow. Rules MAY be changed or extra specified if the need is there.

All players on a team are responsible that rules are followed and scheduled matches are played in time.

To not follow the rules may result in disqualification of the team and players WITHOUT further notice. This means: Team will lose it’s score, players will lose all ranking points in this round, players will not be able to join any team for a certain period.

Joining a team:

Each team must at any time have a manager, a member who is main contact for the team, and who takes decisions for the team where it is necessary. But each team member have personal responsibility so team manager is able to perform his/hers duty, regarding registering team, making agreements with other teams to play, set up a team to play at a certain time, and reporting results properly for every played match.

Who can join:

Skandinavia Benelux Club Team Match competition is open to ONLY MEMBERS of the club who are NOT suspended for any reason. Complete memberlist is found in the ‘Members’-section of this website. If any doubt, contact Gezzell ( Team Match Manager ) or KjellH ( Club Manager) ( or some other TDs/Hosts who has the overview. (list of these TDs/Hosts are listed in helpers section of the website)

In each round of the competition, players may be added to the team, but noone can be removed, and a player can only be member of ONE team. Maximum number of team members is 9 – NINE. Before new round of team match competition starts, team members may be replaced or removed. New members may be added to a team during a ‘playing round’ ( but allow time for registration). For new registration or any change of the team, ‘Team Registration’ form must be filled in COMPLETE with names of ALL players on the team. A team or change in team data is not valid until it shows at the web-site (Registered Teams). Players who want to be removed from a team, must mail this information to gezzell@bridgefriend.com AND kjellh@bridgefriend.com .

Preparations for Playing Team Matches:

The teams are placed in groups. Each team is playing 1 - ONE – team match vs. ALL other teams in that group. All teams must be available to play ca. 1 team match every week. It is necessary that all teams make direct contact with the other teams to agree on playing hour, preferably on email, so you have documentation for agreement. A copy email for agreed team match should be forwarded to Gezzell and KjellH so agreement can be added to the schedule at website. This is the most flexible ( team managers will be supported with email address for the other team managers). BUT: if a team does not reply on a request, or it is difficult to make agreement with a team, or a team does NOT show up for scheduled match, this MUST be reported (attaching documentation) to gezzell@bridgefriend.com AND kjellh@bridgefriend.com . Action will then be taken. When a match is decided to play at certain hour, the team managers notify the team members about the starting hour, and have one team member ready to step in in case one player is prevented from participating ( That should not be any problem with the possibility of having 9 players on a team ). The manager should also as far as possible rotate the team members, so as many as possible of the team members can play team matches.

Playing Team Matches:

When a team match is about to start, one player creates the match according to the competition rules, AND notifies KjellH, Gezzell, Hannie123 or mopdahl ( if online ) that team match is about to start.

IMPORTANT:

· Name of match ( the title ) MUST start with: Skandinavia Benelux (this is so we have the chance to doublecheck results if necessary, and it gives us a possibility to capture results and boardhistory directly from the server.Results are available for ca 20 hours after match is completed. We can then place it at www.bridgefriend.com -> Team Match and keep it for a longer time )

· Boards to play MUST be 16 – SIXTEEN

· Scoring MUST be IMPs

· Undos should be allowed to request

· Kibitz partner when dummy should be ‘hooked’

· ALL players MUST be registered on each team (showing in list at website: ‘Registered Teams’)

· All rules applying to members in other situation also apply in Team Matches. Behaviour, Bidding, Alerting. Explanations,

· SB does NOT support any TD for Team Matches. Both teams are responsible that any kind of problems are solved and result is reported correctly.

Failing to set up the team match correct or to use not registered players may end in cancelleation of the team match results. So all players should check these things.

While playing, both ‘functioning’ team managers should make notes of info that is needed for sending ‘Result Registration’

Finished Playing a Team Match ( IMPORTANT):

· Notify KjellH, Gezzell, Hannie123 or mopdahl that team match is played ( and name of teams )( This is so board-history/movie can be captured before it disappears from server)

· One representative for EACH team MUST send ‘Result Registration’. If any kind of problems sending ‘Result Registration’, a mail with all information should be sent to kjellh@bridgefriend.com AND gezzell@bridgefriend.com . This mail must contain: Name of team, who is sending the mail (BBO-name), Group name ( AA01… etc. ) , Match NUMBER, Name of Team A and Team B, Score Team A, Score Team B, All players on Team A, All players on team B, Any necessary notes or messages regarding the game.

· Allow some time for registering of results. When results are registered, the sections: ‘To be played’ , Results of played Matches’, ‘Standing’ and ‘Ranking Points’ will be updated at the website.

· In round 1, a WIN gives the team 3 points and each of the 4 participating players 20 ranking points. A DRAW gives each team 1 point and each participating player 5 ranking points. A LOSS gives 0 points and each participating player 1 point

· Check ‘To be played’ to start preparing next team match and make agreements for that

Finals:

When round 1 is complete, a FINAL round will be created where the best teams from each group will be placed in ‘Final group 1’ , the lower placed in each group will be placed in ‘Final group 2’ etc……, depending on number teams participating. Winner of the ‘Final group 1’ will be the Champions.

All rules listed above MUST be followed. If any problems following the rules, please contact KjellH so conciderations for later change of the rules may be considered.

We expect that you do ALL that is required from you and your team. We are putting a lot of work into making this work, so it is necessary that also you do YOUR share. If you don’t follow the above mentioned rules or the general club and tourrnament rules, or don’t show enough initiative, penalty may be given and in worst case disqualification

Good Luck

PS:

KjellH has developed new software for this purpose, but testing of the software is still going on, so delays of correct results and boardhistory may occur. If ANYTHING is incorrect, contact KjellH.

For Team Match competition it is a MUST that all involved players show INITIATIVE and positive attitude.

Contact KjellH or Gezzell for any constructive suggestions and ideas. We do this for YOU, and we put a LOT of effort into making it run. We expect ALL of YOU to do YOUR share.