The tournament follows the general outline of the Tournament Common Procedures (included at the bottom) with the following notes:

Background

• General format is that groups of players are assigned to teams, with an equal number of players on each team
• Teams play in a knockout tournament to determine all positions
  • It is preferable to have 4 or 8 teams so that the brackets are balanced
  • See details below

Sign Up Participants

• Participation is practically UNLIMITED so everyone is welcome, the more the better
• Given 8 teams, it's preferable to have 24-40 players

Confirm and Notify Players [Tournament Week]

• Remind everyone of the details and the need to arrive by 8:45 to get team assignments

Day(s) Before

• Buy some prizes ... nothing at all serious! Maybe a booby prize also.
• Buy food, drinks etc: the average supermarket expenditure is $40 to $50 
  • Pint of Half and half / milk for Coffee/ tea
  • Danish and/or muffins to be sliced up for serving
  • Fresh fruit bowl to be sliced up
  • Orange Juice
• Assign player to team and print tags 
  • Assign each player randomly to a team by picking from a hat
  • Reassign some players if one team is obviously stacked with too many known strong players
    • [Use the Team Tournament Excel spreadsheet]
  • Print player tags, team handouts
• Draw a competition scoreboard with brackets using the club whiteboard. Remember all teams play 3 matches
  • 8 team tournament, 32+ players
    • First team to seven games wins the set; 7-6 wins a set; there is no tie break
    • Front bracket and consolation round with each team playing three matches
    • Match [1a] A vs. B; [ab] C vs. D; [1c] vs. E vs. F; [1d] G vs. H
      • Front draw winner round [2a] 1a vs. 1b,  [2b] 1c vs. 1d
        • Winner 2a vs. 2b for 1st and 2nd, loser 2a vs. 2b for 3rd and 4th
    • Back draw features losers from first round matches in a similar elimination for places 5 thru 8
  • 4 team tournament 24 or less players
    • A round robin competition where each team plays against every other team
    • i.e. A vs B, C vs. D; A vs. C, B vs. D; A vs. D, B vs. C
    • Play to 6-6 all, no tie break, so it's possible to tie a set
    • Winner: most sets one
    • Tie break: least games lost
• Print enough copies of the playing rules, 1 for each team + 2 extras to be held at the desk

Morning Of, Before Starting [Plan on arriving at 8 a.m.]

• Check in Players: each player is randomly assigned to a team by picking team colors out of a hat
• Each team, when complete, must document their playing rotation

During The Tournament

• Team Tournament Rules

At the End: Announcing the Winners

• Take photographs to submit to the Publicity officer for publication on the web site and Rossmoor News

Team Tournament Play Format

In each round a team plays a "set" against another team, with the players rotating in and out to represent the team

• Players 1 and 2 start, and after each game one player from each team rotates out to be replaced
  • Player 1 rotates out after game 1 to be replaced by team member 3
  • Player 2 rotates out after game 2 to be replaced by team member 4,
  • Player 3 rotates out after game 3 etc. 
• and so on until all members of the team have played and the rotation starts again with player 1
• Please note: this guarantees that every player gets to play at least 2 games in a set but it does not guarantee that everyone gets to serve.

Games are no-ad with men serving to men and women serving to women; otherwise it's receiver's choice.

If the sun rule is in effect, all games are served from the same end, with one team serving one game, then changing ends and the other team serving two games in a row before the next changeover. The player about to rotate out should serve first after a changeover.

Rotation ... Prior to starting play, write down the player rotation

• As far as reasonable, players should be in order man, woman, man, woman ...
• A team keeps the same rotation for a set, but can change between sets.

Note: the old approach, which used less rotation, has been abandoned because it is more biased to key players and some players on a team might never get to play!?!

• The server goes out each game and the next number comes on court.
• Note: Players 2 and 3 dominate and will play 4 games with this approach