2011 European Veterans Table Tennis Championships

Dates: June 20-25, 2011
Venue: Liberec, Czech Republic
Event Director: Mr. Milan Simacek
Referee: Mr. Petr Bohumsky

Rules
ITTF Laws of Table Tennis and ETTU Regulations for International Competitions (latest edition) will be applied, although the Rules and Regulations for the European Veterans Championships shall take priority.

Eligilibity
All individuals older than 40 years of age or who will be 40 years of age in the year of the EVC are eligible to participate. Upon Organizers´ request the participants are required to present their ID Cards as proof of age.

Categories

• 40 – 49 years (born 1971 or before)
• 50 – 59 years (born 1961 or before)
• 60 – 64 years (born 1951 or before)
• 65 – 69 years (born 1946 or before)
• 70 – 74 years (born 1941 or before)
• 75 – 79 years (born 1936 or before)
• 80 – 84 years (born 1931 or before)
• 85 years and over (born 1926 or before)

Each category will have the following events:

• Men’s and Women’s Singles
• Men’s and Women’s Doubles

In the event of less than four players entering any event, the EVC Committee has the right to either cancel the said event, or introduce a reasonable alternative for all concerned.

Player is allowed to participate in one singles and one doubles event. Player must participate in her/his own age category, except in doubles if the players of a pair do not belong to the same age group, when they shall be placed in the category of the younger player.

A doubles pair shall not be altered if both players are present and fit to play. However, injury, illness or the absence of one player may be accepted as justification for an alteration to take place, but only before the announced deadline, which is June 19th, 2011 at 6:00 p.m.

Organisation
The championships is an official competition supervised by the Czech Table Tennis Association and approved by the ETTU.

Accreditation
The accreditation for participants and accompanying persons in the main arena
on Saturday June 18th 2011 from 12:00 to 21:00
on Sunday June 19th 2011 from 09:00 to 22:00

Playing schedule

• Monday June 20th 2011 from 9:00
• Tuesday June 21st 2011 from 9:00
• Wednesday June 22nd 2011 day off
• Thursday June 23rd 2011 from 9:00
• Friday June 24th 2011 from 9:00
• Saturday June 25th 2011 from 10:00

Practice possibilities are on Saturday June 18th 2011 from 12:00 to 20:00 and on Sunday June 19th 2011 from 9:00 to 18:00.

The Opening Ceremony is scheduled for Sunday June 19th, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. in the Tipsport arena. All accredited players and accompanying persons will receive free entry upon presentation of their personal accreditation. All other interested spectators have to pay entry.

System of play
Each category in singles and doubles, matches will be played best of five games (until 3 games are won), and as follows:
The Qualifying Competition will be played in groups of four in which all members play with each other. The first and second placed will play in the European Championships Competition, the third and fourth placed may apply to play in the Consolation Competition by confirming the check box at the score sheet immediately after play in their group has finished. The European Championships Competition as well as the Consolation Competition will be played according to the knock-out system.

The ranking order in a group shall be decided as follows:
Two match points shall be awarded for a win, 1 for a loss in a played match, and 0 for a loss in an unplayed match. The ranking order shall be determined primarily by the number of match points gained. If two or more members of the group have gained the same number of match points, their relative positions shall be determined only by the results of the matches between them, by considering successively the numbers of match points, as far as is necessary to resolve the order.

If at any step in the calculations the position of one or more members of the group have been determined while the others are still equal, the results of the matches in which those members took part shall be excluded from any further calculations needed to resolve the equalities in accordance with the above procedure.

If it is not possible to resolve equalities by means of the above procedure the relative positions shall be decided by lots made by the referee.

Draw
The draw for the Qualifying Competition of singles will take place about 7 days before the beginning of the 2011 EVC. The draw for the Qualifying Competition of doubles will take place on Sunday, June 19 from 7:00 p.m. The draw for the European Championship Competitions and Consolation Competitions will take place immediately after completion of each age category’s qualification matches in the Qualifying Competition.

For any changes or additions to the draw, the Organizer is required to obtain the approval of the Jury.

Match officials
The Organizer will provide umpires for the European Championships Competition and the final stages of the Consolation Competition. In the Qualifying Competition members of the qualifying groups when not playing shall make themselves available as umpires. In the Consolation Competition, the loser of the match shall be umpire in the next match at the table where he or she has played.

Equipment
Donic equipment:

• Waldner Classic 25 tables,
• surrounds,
• nets,
• white balls

One side of player's racket must be bright red and the other black. Racket covering must be ITTF approved.

Playing conditions
Minimum size of the court is 10 x 5 m.

Appeals
Appeals will be dealt with by a three-member Jury, composed of an EVC Committee Member, a referee and a representative of the Organizing Committee. Protests can be lodged against the decision of the referee only, and they have to be submitted in writing to the Organising Committee immediately after the completion of the match.

Prizes
Winners, runners-up and losing semi-finalists of the European Championships Competition will be presented with medals at the Medal Ceremony. The winners will also be presented with trophies. Winners, runners-up and losing semi-finalists of the Consolation Competition will be presented medals to be handed over at the table immediately after the final match. All participants will be awarded Championship Diploma.