Tournament Regulations for 2013 published

[<<] [>>] by Samir Patel
23rd February 2013 (CqE Official News)

The AC Tournaments Committee, in conjunction with the GC Tournaments Committee, announces publication of the Croquet Association Regulations for Tournaments 2013.

The major changes are as follows:

1. For handicap-restricted events, players' handicaps on the allocation date (rather than the closing date) are now relevant for determining eligibility. This change will provide reduced uncertainty for those players near a cut-off point.
2. Best-of-N matches now have a minimum time limit of 1.5 hours for each game. This avoids the potential for games extending beyond the bell making a nonsense of subsequent games. International players may wish to note that this is not the same as the new WCF regulation which covers this subject.
3. Dynamic Grade is now explicitly referenced throughout the regulations, thus adopting the new ranking system that has been adopted world-wide for AC. CGS Grade is still to be used for GC.
4. Any member of a CA member club is now eligible to participate in inter-club events.
5. The Approved Super-Advanced Variations to laws have been merged. In terminology that will be familiar to those who have played or watched events using this variation, TV3 is now the only permitted variation. TV1 and TV2 have been withdrawn.

A number of other changes have been made to correct typos, to increase consistency with WCF regulations and where clarification or simplifcation was felt necessary. A full list of changes and the full regulations can be found in the Regulations for Tournaments 2013.