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USBGF Team Championship - Basics
Posted By: tem_sat In Response To: USBGF Team Championship Open for Registration! (Phil Simborg)
Date: Sunday, 14 April 2013, at 2:14 p.m.
Online Team Championship Basics
Go to Online Circuit Tournament Calendar and select from the list of available Online Team Championship Qualifiers currently in registration. Qualifying brackets of 8 will commence as soon as 8 teams are registered; up to 16 brackets will be offered. Winners of brackets will be fed into a single elimination Playoff commencing July 1.
See the About page for any of the Online Team Championship Qualifiers. That will give you full details regarding the tournament.
Format
The format consists of qualifying brackets of 8. Up to 16 qualifiers will be held commencing when the first 8 teams are registered. Entry to the tournament will close when all 16 qualifying brackets are filled or May 19, whichever occurs first. If space in qualifying brackets is still available, teams losing before May 19 may re-enter one additional time.
Winners of the 16 brackets of 8 are automatically fed into a playoff bracket which will commence July 1. Match lengths will be 11 points within the 8-team brackets, but increase to 13 points in the semi-finals and 15 in the finals of the playoff bracket.
The match ups within each contest will be determined by position. For example, player #1 from Team A plays player #1 from Team B, and so forth. The positions for each team must be indicated by the Team Captain in the Team Registration and may not be changed once the registration is entered. In addition, the qualifying brackets of 8 and Playoff draw will seed teams based upon the Online Circuit Elo rating of the player at Position #1.
Teams must complete the full set of 5-player matches for every round. Teams accumulate points toward an award for best performing team: 1 point for every match won, and zero points for every match lost. The team with the most points will also receive Medals.
Maximum of 2 Top 32 Giants of Backgammon
No more than two players on the top 32 Giants of Backgammon list in 2011 may play on a team. Players who aren’t able to form a five-player team or aren’t invited by a captain for a five-player team but want to participate in the event should enter their name in the player pool viewable on the Registration page to be selected by Captains filling out their five-person teams. Captains do not need to obtain permission of players in the player pool to add them to their team.
The format is not a round robin. Teams must complete each round within 2 weeks.
Please let me know if anyone has any questions.
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