Details of the club championship, to be held at Southport College sports hall on Sunday, 4th July 2010 from 1.15pm to 5.30pm:
Competitions
Assuming 20 players will enter, we would organise matches along the following lines:
Main competition
- Group round: four groups of 5 players, each playing the other 4 players once
- Top 2 from each group go forward into the main Cup knock-out competition
- Round 1: winner of Group A plays runner-up of Group B, etc.
- Semi-Finals involving winners of Round 1
- Final
- Winner of the final receives the club trophy to keep for 12 months
- Individual memento trophies for winner and runner-up
Plate competition
- the remaining 12 people (or so) from the main competition go into a handicap “Plate” competition
- Four groups of 3, each playing the other 2 players once
- Semi-Finals involving winners of each group goes on to a semi-final knock-out round
- Final
- Winner of the final receives a club handicap plate to keep for 12 months
- Individual memento trophies for winner and runner-up
All players are guaranteed at least 5 matches, and the finalists of both the cup and plate events will have played 8 matches.
There will be an entry fee of £5 per player, with water and squash included!
Tea and coffee available for a small charge.
Other events
If enough parents and family members come, we may have some other activities, such as a “beat the goalie” competition (any volunteers to be the goalie?), badminton or basketball shoot-out, but we need to know how many people will be there.