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This year's HQ annual sports day - for details
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SPA
UK Sports Day 2009
(The above link lists rules for all games)
Event : 31st SPA Sports Day
Date : 22nd august 2009
Place Hertfordshire Sports Village, Hatfield, AL10 9EU
If anyone who is interested in taking part please contact the Youth Leader
at the Center on Tuesdays between 7pm to 8.30pm.
Please note all entries to be in by 15th July to HQ. Closing date
for Local Entries is 30th June 09, to give time for play off
Cricket rules
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BADMINTON RULES
All games will be played with a Yonex 370 Blue Band
Medium shuttle will be used for all the games.
A new shuttle will be used after every 9 games or when
the referee considers the shuttle damaged.
Each player must check and sign the score card after
each game to ensure that the correct score has been
recorded.
All matches will be played best of three games. (First
to win TWO games)
a) The side winning a rally adds a
point to its score.
b) The side winning a game
serves first in the next game.
Singles
At the beginning of the game and
when the score is even, the server serves from the right
service court. When it is odd, the server serves from the
left service court.
a) If the server wins a rally, the
server scores a point and then serves again from alternate
service court.
- If the receiver wins a rally, the receiver scores a
point and becomes the new server.
Doubles
- There is only one serve in doubles; the service passes
consecutively to the players.
- At the beginning of the game and when the score is even,
the server serves from the right court. When it is odd, the
server serves from the left court.
- If the serving side wins a rally, the serving side
scores a point and the same server serve again from the
alternate service court.
- If the receiving side wins a rally, the receiving side
scores a point. The receiving side becomes the new serving
side.
- The player of the receiving side who served last stays
in the same service court from where he served last. The
reverse pattern applies to the receiver’s partner
- The players do not change their respective service
courts until they win a point when their side is serving.
- If players commit an error in the service court, the
error is corrected when the mistake is discovered
- POINTS - UP TO THE SEMI-FINALS
- Play to fifteen points for all games.
- If score is level at fourteen all, the person who scores
two clear points first wins the game. If 20 all, the side
scoring the 21st point wins that game.
- In the third game the players change ends when the
leading score reaches eight.
- POINTS – SEMI-FINALS AND FINALS
- Play to twenty-one points for all games.
- If score is level at twenty all, the person who scores
two clear points first wins the game. If 25 all, the side
scoring the 26th point wins that game.
- In the third game the players change ends when the
leading score reaches eleven.
- Before commencing play, the opposing side shall toss,
the side winning the toss shall have the option of one
of the following, with the side
losing the toss the option of any one of the remaining
alternatives.
a) Serving first;
b) Receiving first;
c) Choosing end.
- SERVICE
- The server may not serve until opponent is ready, but
the opponent shall be deemed ready if return of service is
attempted.
- The server and the player served to must stand within
the limits of their respective courts.
- Some part of both feet must remain in contact
with the court’s surface in a stationary position until the
service is delivered.
- A foot or touching the line in the case of either server
or receiver shall be deemed a fault.
- In serving the shuttle, the shuttle at the instant of
being struck, must be lower that the server’s waist and the
shaft of the racket be pointing in a downward direction to
such an extent that the whole of the racket is discernibly
below the whole of the server’s hand holding the racket.
- If the receiver is faulted for moving before the service
is delivered or for not being in the correct serving court,
and the same time the server is faulted for a service
‘Infringement’ it shall be a let.
- If the server misses the shuttle when serving, it is not
a fault, but if it touches the racket a service is thereby
delivered.
- It is a fault if in serving the shuttle does not pass
over the net, or falls in the wrong service court, or falls
short of the service line, or outside the boundary lines of
the service court.
- A shuttle falling on the line shall be deemed to have
fallen in the court.
- GENERAL – It is a fault: -
- When the shuttle is in play and player touches the net
or its supports with either racket, person or dress.
- When the shuttle is in play and it is struck before it
crosses the striker’s side of the net (the striker may,
however, follow the shuttle over the net with the racket in
the course of the (stroke).
- If the shuttle is held on the racket (i.e., caught or
slough) during the execution of a stoke, or if the shuttle
is hit twice in succession by the same player two strokes,
or if the shuttle is hit by a player and their partner
successively.
- If the player obstructs an opponent.
- If in a service, or during a rally, a shuttle after
passing over the net is caught in the net.
- SUITABLE DRESS
Players should be suitably
dressed for the tournament. No jeans or trousers (with the
exception of tracksuits) will be allowed. Shoes must be
rubber soled gym type shoes and non-marking.
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