{"id":738,"date":"2016-02-12T20:44:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T01:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/?p=738"},"modified":"2016-02-16T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:18:11","slug":"sign-up-for-the-41-point-handicap-tournament-on-030116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/sign-up-for-the-41-point-handicap-tournament-on-030116\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign up for the 41-point Handicap Tournament on 3\/1\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>KTTC IS HOSTING A CLUB HANDICAP TOURNAMENT ON TUES, MAR\u00a001, 2016!<\/h3>\n<p>KTTC will host its third annual\u00a041-point handicap tournament event on March 1st, 2016 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 Kathy McMillin (kathymcmillin@me.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 $2.00 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%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Each match will be a single 41 point match with handicap 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. So every player has equal chance! \u00a0Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/41_points_HandicapChart.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for the Handicap chart. \u00a0Also, 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 3\/1 and matches will begin immediately after the draw. If we cannot finish all matches, those matches will be played on 3\/3 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<p>1-Kathy McMillin<br \/>\n2-Hongchu Chen<br \/>\n3-Naveed Sheikh<br \/>\n4-Nic Avram<br \/>\n5-Ed D\u2019Azevedo<br \/>\n6-Dong Xu<br \/>\n7-Kermit Raxter<br \/>\n8-Ruth Gove<br \/>\n9-Greg Hamilton<br \/>\n10-James Caito<br \/>\n11-John Rose<br \/>\n12-Archie Jordan<br \/>\n13-Eric Manneschmidt<br \/>\n14-John Manneschmidt<br \/>\n15-Sammy Alayli<br \/>\n16-Neville Parakh<\/p>\n<p>Alternate :Jonathan Foulds<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KTTC IS HOSTING A CLUB HANDICAP TOURNAMENT ON TUES, MAR\u00a001, 2016! KTTC will host its third annual\u00a041-point handicap tournament event on March 1st, 2016 Tuesday. This will be a FAIR, FUN, &amp; FABULOUS Event for all! Please sign up in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/sign-up-for-the-41-point-handicap-tournament-on-030116\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sign up for the 41-point Handicap Tournament on 3\/1\/2016<\/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-738","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\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":743,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knoxvillettc.net\/prod1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}