Davis Cup Info/Rules

[SlicerITST]

Welcome to the ITST Davis Cup! The best players of each country will battle it out to see which nation is best!

Each Davis Cup team consists of max. 5 players with 1 team captain. The team selection can be changed for each encounter, the captain is fixed so he'll manage his team throughout the Cup. To sign up the captain of a country has to pm SlicerITST with his team for the 1st round encounter. If you want to be a captain you must discuss this with your fellow countrymates. SlicerITST doesn't make the decision who's captain of a country!

Format
The Davis Cup will be a knockout tournament. A maximum of 16 countries can enter. When your country loses an encounter they're out of the Cup. When the draw's made the home country can decide on what court the encounter will be played. An encounter will consist of 4 singles matches played by the best of 5 principle and 1 SIM match played by the best of 5 principle. When a country has won 3 matches the remaining rubbers will be best of 3 sets. This year you can register your country with only 2 players to compete throughout the Cup! The format of the encounter will then be:

Player 2 vs Player 1
Player 1 vs Player 2
SIM match
Player 1 vs Player 1
Player 2 vs Player 2

The captain can also let the two reserve players play the last two matches. Note that all matches should be played in this order. So the first match will be Player 2 of the home team versus Player 1 of the away team.

The middle match will be played according to the SIM principle. These are the SIM rules for the TS3 SIM matches:

- All attributes are limited to between 50 and 89(!)
- Only one attribute may be orange
- One of the following attributes must be white: Forehand, Backhand or Power

In addition, the regular tournament rules still apply regarding serving and returning:

When serving, you must stand in the default position or closer to the center.
When returning serves, you must stand behind the baseline.

[andman666]

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