{"id":2341,"date":"2017-10-30T15:17:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T19:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2017-11-14T06:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:02:37","slug":"2017-41-pt-handicap-tournament-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/2017-41-pt-handicap-tournament-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign up for the 41-point Handicap Tournament on 11\/14\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>KTTC IS HOSTING A CLUB HANDICAP TOURNAMENT ON TUES, NOV 14, 2017!<\/h3>\n<p>KTTC will host its fourth annual&nbsp;41-point handicap tournament event on November 14th, 2017 Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a FAIR, FUN, &amp; FABULOUS Event for all!<\/p>\n<p>Please sign up in advance by emailing to Jude Lam (judelam168@yahoo.com).<\/p>\n<p><strong>HANDICAP RULES\/FORMAT<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We will have 16 players maximum. The format is single elimination.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Each player will pay only $3.00 to play.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Winner of the tournament will get 50% of the money, 2nd place will get 25%. &nbsp;So if we have 16 players, top prize will be $24 and 2nd place will be $12.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Each match will be a single 41-point match with handicap points given to a lower rating player according to USATT handicap scale. e.g. if Player A&#8217;s rating is 1650 and Player B&#8217;s rating is 1400, Player B will start the match with 14 points ahead of Player A. So every player has equal chance! &nbsp;Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/41_points_HandicapChart.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for the Handicap chart. &nbsp;Also, previous handicap tournament players will have their rating adjusted based on their last performance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The draw will be done on 11\/14 and matches will begin immediately after the draw. If we cannot finish all matches, those matches will be played on 11\/16 or based on the players&#8217; availability.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Any player who does not have a formal USATT rating will be rated by the club officers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Draw starts at 7:30 p.m. and the matches will start around 7:45 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We HIGHLY ENCOURAGE EVERYONE to sign up and have FUN with this!<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed Players and the club handicap rating:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Brian (Estimated: 500)<\/li>\n<li>Kermit (USATT: 1430)<\/li>\n<li>Geoff (USATT: 797)<\/li>\n<li>Nic (USATT: 1667)<\/li>\n<li>Olena (USATT: 714)<\/li>\n<li>Greg Hamilton (USATT: 829)<\/li>\n<li>Dwain Kitchel (USATT: 1515)<\/li>\n<li>HyunWoo Lee (USATT: 1702)<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Foulds (USATT: 1764)<\/li>\n<li>Gishelle Gish (Estimated: 950)<\/li>\n<li>Martin Del Vecchio (USATT: 2107)<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Harris (USATT: 1713)<\/li>\n<li>Victor (Estimated: 1400)<\/li>\n<li>Ely (USATT: 1870)<\/li>\n<li>Steve (USATT: 1540)<\/li>\n<li>Ali (USATT: 1968)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KTTC IS HOSTING A CLUB HANDICAP TOURNAMENT ON TUES, NOV 14, 2017! KTTC will host its fourth annual&nbsp;41-point handicap tournament event on November 14th, 2017 Tuesday. This will be a FAIR, FUN, &amp; FABULOUS Event for all! Please sign up &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/2017-41-pt-handicap-tournament-announcement\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sign up for the 41-point Handicap Tournament on 11\/14\/2017<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news","category-tournaments","tag-club-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}