Ladder Competition, including Handicapped Ladder, 2015/16

General

The Ladder Competition is an aggregate pairs monthly competition to be run from September 2015 to June 2016. Dates are as follows:

Thursday 17 September

Thursday 15 October

Thursday 19 November

Thursday 17 December

Thursday 21 January

Thursday 18  February

Thursday 17 March

Thursday 21 April

Thursday 19 May

Thursday 16 June

The event will be run each month as a single division and pairs will be allotted a starting position on a random basis by the director. Each session will generally be an arrow switched Mitchell but on occasions, where appropriate, a Howell movement will be used. The Handicapped Ladder uses the same results but with a handicap based on EBU NGS scores applied.

Scoring

Points awarded will be 28 to the first pair, 26 to the second pair, etc, going down in twos.

Organisation

Visitors may play on a ladder night but ladder points will not be awarded in respect of their results.

A pair may use a substitute up to twice during the competition but four points will be deducted from the score actually achieved. On the third or subsequent occasions, no points will be awarded. Substitutes must be a club member for the scores to count. Playing with a non member will not count.

Final Placings

Final placings will be based on the six highest scores from the ten rounds and ties will be split by the performance in the seventh best round. Any pair playing less than six rounds will only have the scores actually achieved taken into account.