Guidelines for the tournament – Scandinavian Masters 2024
Overall principles: All teams will have at least 5 games during the weekend – actually most teams will have at least 6 games during the weekend. The winner of a match is found after 2 won sets – a possible third set is played till 15 (with +2 ballpoints).
Both Saturday and Sunday the games start at 9 am. Saturday the latest games are planned to start at 6 pm. Sunday the latest games are planned to start at 3 pm.
Please !! Be present and ready for playing your games on time – even also as referee, be keen on excuting the games to start on time. If needed, please reduce preparation activities (smash etc) before game start !!!
Below guides for each tournament can be seen under info in the Latourna system.
Female 15 – FKS hallerne
Female 15 is divided into 15A- and 15B-tournaments.
Female 15A – 10 teams
The 10 teams are divided into 2 pools playing preliminary matches.
Rank 1-6: No 2+3 from the prelim. pools will play quarter finals. Loosing teams from QF will play for rank 5-6. Semi finals are formed from winning teams from QF and no 1 from prelim. pools. Followed by games forming rank 1-2 and rank 3-4.
Rank 7 till 10: B-semi finals are formed from no 4+5 from the prelim. pools. Followed by games forming rank 1-2 and rank 3-4.
Female 15B – 12 teams
The 12 teams are divided into 3 pools playing preliminary matches.
Rank 1-6: The two best rankings from each pool will play qualifying games to form pool-1-3 with the winning teams and pool-4-6 with the loosing teams – both with 3 teams meeting in a triangle playing for the final rankings 1-3 and 4-6.
Rank 7-12: No 3 and 4 from the prelim. pools will be playing for rank 7-12 using same game plan as for rank 1-6.
Female 17
Female 17 is divided into 17A- and 17B-tournaments.
Female 17A – 16 teams – Hunderup skoles idrætshal
Divided into 4 pools – A, B, C and D.
After this preliminary pool-games the two best rankings from A, B, C and D will play cross-pool quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. Loosers from these games meet to form the final rankings.
Similarly the two lowest rankings from A, B, C and D will play cross-pool B quarterfinals etc. to form the final ranking from rank 9 till 16.
Female 17B – 7 teams – Saturday in Sct. Knuds gym. Idrætshal, Sunday in Dalumhallerne
1 pool – round robin tournament.
Female 20 – 13 teams – Dalum hallerne
The 13 teams are divided into 3 pools playing preliminary matches.
Rank 1-6: The two best rankings from each pool will form 2 new pools both with 3 teams meeting in a triangle. Finally the two rank 1 from the triangle pools will play for the final rank 1-2. Similarly, the rank 2’s will meet and the same goes for the rank 3’s.
Rank 7-8: Rank 3’s from the 3 preliminary pools will meet in a triangle.
Rank 10-13: The remaining 4 teams will play b-semifinals and b-finals.
Male 15 – 15 teams – Hjallese hallen
The 15 teams are divided into 3 preleminary pools.
The rank 1’s from prelim. pools form a triangle playing for the final rank 1-3.
Similarly the prelim. 2’s, 3’s, 4’s etc. form triangles playing for the final rankings.
Male 17 – 13 teams – Saturday: 2 pools in FKS hallerne, 1 pool in Sct. Knuds gym. Idrætshal. Sunday: All teams in FKS hallerne.
The 13 teams are divided into 3 pools playing preliminary matches.
Rank 1-6: The two best rankings from each pool will form 2 new pools both with 3 teams meeting in a triangle. Finally the two rank 1 from the triangle pools will play for the final rank 1-2. Similarly, the rank 2’s will meet and the same goes for the rank 3’s.
Rank 7-8: Rank 3’s from the 3 preliminary pools will meet in a triangle.
Rank 10-13: The remaining 4 teams will play b-semifinals and b-finals.
Male 20 – 16 teams – Dalum hallerne
Divided into 4 pools – A, B, C and D.
After this preliminary pool-games the two best rankings from A, B, C and D will play cross-pool quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. Loosers from these games meet to form the final rankings.
Similarly the two lowest rankings from A, B, C and D will play cross-pool B quarterfinals etc. to form the final ranking from rank 9 till 16..
Principles for scores and ranking in the pools
Winning a match will give 2 points for the winner and 0 for the looser.
Rankings in the pools is decided by:
- Number of points
- Won minus lost sets in total
- Won minus lost balls in total
- The result of the in-between match (team A vs team B)
The net:
Female: AGE 20: 2,24 m – AGE 17: 2,24 m – AGE 15: 2,15 m
Male: AGE 20: 2,43 m – AGE 17: 2,35 m – AGE 15: 2,24 m
Jump serve
When doing jump serve it will be allowed to cross the serve line if the approach is less than three meters. In the Dalum sports gym, there are markers indicating this. In the other gyms there are no markers or 3 meter approach is available. Make sure that this is communicated to both teams by the referee before the start of each match so confusions are avoided. The Danish coaches kindly assist our friends from Norway, Sweden and Germany.
Exceptions to age and sex
Kindly also note that various exceptions as to age and sex have been granted to a few teams. The exception has been given under the criteria that the player is not decisive for the result of the match. If you have players to which exceptions have been granted, please inform the coach of the other team about this before the match.
Enjoy !!