League Points Reported on Tournament Software

We recently came up against a limitation of the League Planner software that we adopted this season.

Our rules allow for half points to be awarded in situations where the final rubber is shared due to lack of court time. League Planner can't handle half points but we have implemented a simple solution, which is to double the number of points awarded so Rule 9 will need to be modified to say;

6 points are awarded for a 6-3 win or better
5-1 points for 5.5-3.5
4-2 points for 5-4
and 3-3 points for a 4.5-4.5 draw

This has also highlighted that fact that our League Rules need a fairly serious overhaul, not least to take into account the new format of the Women's Doubles competition. This will be dealt with at our AGM.

Colchester Junior Level 1 - Start Times

The start times for the junior tournament next weekend will be as follows;

Saturday 22nd

• Boys Singles Y8/9 - 9:30am followed by doubles
• Boys Singles Y4/5 - 1pm followed by doubles
• Boys Singles Y6/7 - 1pm followed by doubles - UPDATE a few matches will start from 12:30pm - individual start times will be sent out later today

Sunday 23rd

• Girls events - 9:30am
• Boys Y10/11 - midday
• Boys U19 - midday

Play should finish before 5:30pm each day.

Sadly, there were no entries for the Girls U19 events. The Boys Y10/11 and U19 events have been merged.

Details of the event including the draws will be available from the BADMINTON England Compete website.