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Handbook 2018-19 Contents Page 3 Senior County Championships Divisions & Sections Page 5 Senior County Championships Regulations Page 15 Appendix A – County Competition Eligibility Criteria Page 18 Appendix B – Badminton England Clothing Regulations Page 19 Appendix C – 2018-19 Promotion and Relegation Page 21 Senior County Championships Match Secretaries Page 25 Past Senior County Championships Winners Page 26 Masters’ Policy Group Members & Page 27 Masters’ Key Event Dates Page 28 Masters’ County Championships Divisions & Sections Page 30 Masters’ County Championships Regulations Page 35 Masters’ County Challenge Regulations Page 39 Masters’ County Competition Coordinators Page 46 Past Masters’ County Challenge & Championships Winners 2 The Badminton England Senior County Championships 2018/19 Divisions & Sections Premiership Middlesex Avon Leicestershire Buckinghamshire Yorkshire Glasgow & NS Surrey Sussex Hertfordshire Leinster Division 1 North South Cheshire Hampshire Nottinghamshire Warwickshire Ulster Essex Yorkshire 2 Kent Lancashire Middlesex 2 Staffordshire Oxfordshire Yorkshire 3 Hertfordshire 2 Derbyshire Dorset 3 Division 2 North Central South East South West Lothian Warwickshire 2 Surrey 2 Devon Lancashire 2 Cambridgeshire Hampshire 2 Worcestershire Lanarkshire Northamptonshire Middlesex 3 Wiltshire Cheshire 2 Shropshire Suffolk Avon 2 Northumberland Nottinghamshire 2 Norfolk Gloucestershire Lancashire 3 Buckinghamshire 2 Hertfordshire 3 Devon 2 Durham Oxfordshire 2 Sussex 2 Avon 3 Cumbria Derbyshire 2 Bedfordshire Cornwall Division 3 North Central South South West Yorkshire 4 Leicestershire 2 Essex 2 Devon 3 Yorkshire 5 Berkshire Kent 2 Dorset 2 Nottinghamshire 3 Lincolnshire Surrey 3 Somerset Isle of Man Worcestershire 2 Middlesex 4 Gloucestershire 2 Cheshire 3 Leicestershire 3 Essex 3 Avon 4 Lothian 2 Oxfordshire 3 Kent 3 Cornwall 2 Lanarkshire 2 Warwickshire 3 Suffolk 2 West Glamorgan Derbyshire 3 Shropshire 2 Norfolk 2 Dorset 3 Division 4 South North Central East South West Northumberland 2 Staffordshire 2 Cambridgeshire 2 Guernsey Devon 4 Cumbria 2 Berkshire 2 Bedfordshire 2 Sussex 3 Cornwall 3 Durham 2 North-East Wales Cambridgeshire 3 Hampshire 3 Somerset 2 Lancashire 4 Worcestershire 3 Middlesex 5 Avon 6 Wiltshire 2 Northamptonshire 2 Lincolnshire 2 Avon 5 Herefordshire Norfolk 3 Isle of Wight Shropshire 3 Lincolnshire 3 Staffordshire 3 Hertfordshire 4 Competition Dates Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Premiership Premiership Premiership 10th & 11th November 2018 26th & 27th January 2019 23rd and 24th March 2019 Regional Divisions Regional Divisions Regional Divisions 10th November 2018 26th January 2019 23rd & 24th March 2019 *Division 4N and 4SW to play each team twice across 3 weekends. *Division 4S to play each team once across weekends 1 and 3. NO MATCHES weekend 2 Division 1 Play-offs: Play-Offs into the Premiership takes place on: 27th and 28th April 2019. 4 Regulations for the Badminton England Senior County Championships 2018/19 (Amendments from 2017/18 in BOLD) SENIOR COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIPS 1. They will be competed for annually in accordance with the following regulations, or such other regulations as Badminton England, may from time to time approve, and the Laws of Badminton as adopted by the Badminton World Federation [BWF]. The County Championships shall be managed by Badminton England. Subject thereto each competing county shall be responsible for all matters affecting its county’s teams. The Senior County Championships shall be governed by the following Regulations. COMPETITION STRUCTURE 2. The Championships shall comprise: The Premiership and Regional Divisions. (a) The Premiership shall comprise the top ten county first teams, 2nd teams are not permitted in the Premiership. (b) Division 1 shall comprise the next sixteen county teams, split geographically into two sections of 8 (North and South). (c) The remaining teams will be split into regional divisions of 8 teams, except Divisions 4N, and 4SW which will consist of 4 teams each, and Division 4S comprising of 6 teams. All teams will play each other once except in Div 4N and 4SW where they will play each other twice. (d) A maximum of two teams from the same county are allowed in a regional division and shall be in the same section. More than two teams may be permitted in Division 4 only with special dispensation from the SCC Management Group who shall decide in which sections the teams are entered. DEFINITIONS 3. For the purposes of these regulations the following definitions shall apply; Events - men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles are different ‘events’. Match - the best of three games is a ‘match’. Section - the combination of county teams which shall be scheduled to play each other in the Regional Divisions shall be known as sections. Tie - the competition between one county team and another is known as a ‘tie’. Weekend – the designated dates (Saturday and Sunday) over which the Premiership and Regional divisions are contested. ELIGIBILITY 4. The Championships shall be open to: (a) Every English county association affiliated to Badminton England. 5 (b) The different Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, if governed by an association recognised as a county association by and affiliated to Badminton England. (c) Any Irish, Scottish or Welsh regional association, if similarly governed and subject to the sanction of its own national organisation, which shall conform geographically to a branch of the Badminton Union of Ireland, a group of Badminton Scotland or branch of the Welsh Badminton Union, as laid down in the constitutions of those Unions, and which shall be acceptable to Badminton England. (d) Each of those entering under (a), (b), and (c) above shall hereinafter be referred to as a ‘county’. (e) All teams entering under (b) and (c) above shall play all their ties in England unless mutually agreed otherwise with their opponents. (f) A county shall be entitled to enter a maximum of five teams. (g) Badminton England shall have the right to determine from time to time the classification of each competing team subject to the provisions of Regulations and to determine the constitution of Divisions and Sections. Such decisions shall be notified to all competing Counties not later than 31st May in any year. (h) Badminton England shall have the power to refuse the entry of any team from outside the area under its jurisdiction, which is considered to be too strong or otherwise unsuitable. Definitions under (c) above: • The Lanarkshire Group comprises clubs in the areas of Scotland served by North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire Councils, but excluding Cumbernauld and Kilsyth. • The Lothian group comprises clubs in the areas of Scotland served by East Lothian, the City of Edinburgh, Midlothian and West Lothian Councils. • The Glasgow and North Strathclyde group comprises clubs in the areas of Scotland served by West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, Glasgow City and Argyle and Bute Councils excluding the former electoral division of Dunoon, East Cowal and Bute, but including Cumbernauld and Kilsyth. • The Mid Glamorgan Group comprises Caerphilly district, Cardiff Central, Cardiff North, Cardiff South and Penarth, Cardiff West, Cynon Calley, Merthyr, Ogmore, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Merthyr Vale, Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend. • The West Glamorgan Group comprises Swansea, Lliw Valley, Neath, Port Talbot and Dyfed Powys. • The Scottish Midlands, comprising Clubs in the areas of Scotland served by Angus, City of Dundee, Perth and Kinross, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and Fife Councils. • North East Wales Badminton Association – Flintshire, Denbighshire and Wrexham. FILING OF ENTRIES AND ENTRY FEES 5. New teams entering the Championships, as well as teams wishing to withdraw from the Championships should notify the Championships Secretary not later than 31st March, immediately preceding the next season of competition. Unless notified to the contrary by the same date it will be assumed that each team which carried out its commitments in the preceding season is desirous of competing in the following season. 6. Entry fees on the following basis shall be payable 30 days net from the invoice date: 6 (a) Premiership For each team affiliated to Badminton England £700 For each other team £800 (b) Regional Division For each team affiliated to Badminton England £650 TROPHIES 7. (a) The county winning the Premiership shall be regarded as the champion county and shall have the right to hold until the following 1st March the trophy presented by the Chester, Claughton, Grosvenor and Wallasey Badminton clubs. (b) The top 2 teams in Division 1, North & South shall play-off to decide the winners of Division 1. The winners shall have the right to hold until the following 1st March the trophy presented by Brigadier R. Bruce Hay DSO. (c) The trophies shall remain the property of Badminton England, which shall be responsible for insurance and engraving. The holders shall be responsible for their care and maintenance. PROMOTION AND RELEGATION 8. (a) Between Premiership and Division 1: Division 1 Play-Offs will be held to determine promotion from Division 1, North & South to the Premiership as follows: (i) The best two play-off teams eligible under Regulation 2(a) shall be promoted to the Premiership. If there is only one eligible team then the 9th placed Premiership team will not be relegated. If there are no eligible teams then no Premiership teams will be relegated. (ii) The format of all play-offs shall