Sign Up for 41-Point Club Team Tournament Nov 2014

KTTC WILL HOST A CLUB 41-POINT HANDICAP TEAM TOURNAMENT IN NOV 2014

In order to encourage every member to play competitively, KTTC will be hosting a 41-Point Handicap Club Team Tournament.  The following will list out the format of the tournament and details.

Team Draw Format:

Each team will have 4 players.  Ideally, we will have 16 players signed up and have 4 teams of 4 to play this tournament.  The way we draw the team is to divide the participants into four divisions based on their rating or estimated ratings.  Then you pick one player from each division randomly to form a team.  This means that each team will have one player from each division.  If there are more players, we can expand this to five teams of four.  But it has to be four players before a new team can be formed.

Then we will play a Round Robin round with all the teams.  So if there are four teams, there will be three rounds of team tie (team match) with a total of six team ties.

Team Match format:

Each team tie will have four singles and two doubles.  Each match will be one game of 41 points using the 41-points handicap system.  The double handicap will be the total handicap between the two double teams divided by 2.  So if a pair has a total rating of 3500 and the other team has 3100, the handicap difference is 200 (i.e. 400 / 2).

Team captain will decide their player’s position, i.e. who plays A, B, C, or D position before the tie.

So the pairing of matches will be the following:

A plays W (Single)

B plays X (Single)

C & D plays Y & Z (Double)

A & B plays W & X (Double)

C plays Y (Single)

D plays Z (Single)

So six matches per team tie.  All matches will be played (event though if the result is certain).  Then whichever team wins 4 matches will win the tie.  If each team wins 3 matches and results in a tie, the team that scores the most points wins, i.e every point counts!  If this is still tied, each team will pick one player to play one more single match to add to the total score for tie break.  Once the player has played in a Tie-Break match, the same player cannot play for the next tie-break match.  So choose wisely.

Also, players/double teams switch sides at 20 points.  Then 1 minute break is allow for coaching by team members at the side switching or just water break.

Each team will play each team in one round of Round Robin to determine winners.

Team tie break will follow USATT tie break rule, count the matches among the tie break teams, then total point scores and lost.

Fees and Awards:

Each player will pay $10 to participate so we will have a pool of $160 prize money (Assuming 16 players signed up).

1st place – get $80

2nd place – get $40

If there are more teams, in general, 1st place get 50%, 2nd place get 25%, the rest of the entry fees go to the club treasury.

The match schedule will be determined based on the number of players signed up and total number of teams.  Each week, we will play one team tie, e.g. Team A vs Team B or Team C vs Team D.  So the entire tournament will be spread out over many weeks.  This will reduce the number of tables needed reserved for the team match.  In general, every week both Tuesday and Thursday, there should be one team tie play.  Also, individual matches can be played out of schedule if the players involved are not present.

Team Draw will start on 11/4/2014 and first four teams will play on that day.  The detail schedule will be posted on this web site once the team rosters are finalized.

Sign Up:

Please email Kathryn McMillin (Email: kathymcmillin@me.com).  Club officers, please email Kathy to sign up as well if you want to participate.

Due to the team format, I have to have four players to form a new team.  So please sign up soon so that we can make proper preparation.  Thanks and hope every one will have fun with this.  More details will follow once we have the teams defined.

Jude