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To all team captains participating in this season’s Knockout cup.
Firstly, the draw for the first round of the Tom Wise Knockout cup is now displayed on this website. I would like to urge all home team captains to get in touch with
their respective counterparts at the earliest opportunity. The deadline date for the first round is 9/1/09, but remember that we lose
approximately two weeks at Christmas time, when most of our venues will be closed.
It is especially important for teams involved in the preliminary round to get their match played promptly, as the winner of that match
will have a second one to play before 9/1/09.
The winner of the preliminary round will play Guisborough in the first round of the Tom Wise cup ‘proper’. The loser will go through to the first round of the Jeremy
Burnett Plate, along with other losing teams from the first round of the Tom Wise. This will put nine teams in the first round of The Plate, so another preliminary
round will be played here. The loser of that preliminary round will be eliminated from the competition.
I would also like to bring to captains’ attention the procedure for resolving a drawn match in the Knockout Cup. As we are still using the old rules for this event,
please pay heed to rule 10, which states…
In the event of a drawn match then:
Board count will decide the result; if the result is still a draw then:
The bottom board shall be eliminated. If still undecided then 4th board, then 3rd etc.
If all 5 boards are drawn then the match must be replayed at the away team’s venue within 2 weeks of the original date.
So there are two distinct methods here to resolve the draw,
Board Count and Bottom Board Elimination.
Board Count is applied in the following way:-
Board Count
1. Assign a point value to each board, which equals the number of the board. I.E. Board 1 has a value of 1, board 2 has a value of 2, etc.
2. For each team, add together the points for each board where that team won, to form a Board Count total for that team. Draws and losses score as 0 for this purpose.
3. The team with the lowest Board Count total is declared the winner (i.e. the method is designed to give a bias to the higher boards)
Board Count will not always resolve a draw so, in those cases where the Board Count totals are the same for each team, then we use Bottom Board Elimination. I.E. The
result of the bottom board is taken out of the equation and the match assessed over the top 4 boards. If board 5 was a draw, then we remove board 4 also and assess the
match over the top 3 boards, etc.
Bottom Board Elimination will always resolve a drawn match except in those cases where every board is a draw. In this case the match is replayed.
I think that rule 10 is a rule which has long been misunderstood in CCA, with most teams by-passing Board Count and going straight into Bottom Board Elimination. I
hope this has clarified the situation. Any queries, please get in touch.
Finally, the venues for the semi-finals and finals are yet to be decided. CCA executive officers will be discussing this later in the season.
Well, that’s all from me for now. Hope you all have an enjoyable tournament and remember to get your matches arranged and played as soon as possible.
Brian Whitaker CCA, Match Organiser
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