League Rules 1. Five players in each league. 2. Two players go up and two down in each period in accordance with points scored. If you are absent due to injury, sickness, work or holiday during a League period, your League position at the end of the period will depend on your points to that date. If you are unable to play at the beginning of the following period, you must notify the Secretary by telephone, e-mail or marking the League score sheet “Unable to play”. You will be removed from the Leagues. At the beginning of the period when you are able to resume you will be included one League below your position after the end of the period you became absent, as the sixth player. At the end of that period, three players will go down. In subsequent periods, the League below will have six players and three will go down. If you do not play any games in a period and do not notify the reason for your absence, you will go down two leagues. 3. Monthly periods. 4. Matches best of five games in a forty-minute session. Sessions can be extended by mutual agreement. 5. Points Result Points     Winner Loser 3:0 6 1 3:1 5 2 3:2 4 3 2:2 3 3 2:1 3 2 1:1 2 2 6.Recording Scores Leagues will close on the final day of each period. It is your responsibility to ensure that your score is entered accurately. Points are added horizontally. Name Player A Player B Player C Player D Total A     1     B     3     C 6 4   1 11 D     6     7. Players are responsible for arranging matches with opponents as shown below. Player Opponents 1 2 3 4 2 4 5 6 3 2 4 5 4 1 6 5 1 3 6 1 3 If your opponent does not contact you to arrange a match, you are entitled to claim four points. Please enter the four points on the score sheet in a circle. Your opponent receives no points. If you make three attempts to arrange a match with an opponent without success, you are entitled to a walkover and six points. Please enter the six points on the score sheet in a circle. Your opponent receives no points. 8. If a player is injured before playing any games, no points can be claimed. If a player is injured after playing any games, the results of these games will count. Players who cannot play an injured player who has played one or more games are entitled to claim four points. Please enter the four points on the score sheet in a circle. 9. If, at the end of a period, there is a tie, the player who has played the most games (including walkovers) in the period, will go up. If the players are still tied, the winner of the game between the tied players will go up. 10. Warm-up. Allow five minutes hitting across to each other before a match starts. Change sides after two and a half minutes. GD Oct 2006