Northern Region League - 2003 Event Notice
ORGANISING
AUTHORITY The organising authority for
the 2003 Northern Region Championships is the
Northern
Region committee.
RULES The 2003 Northern Region
Championships will be conducted under sanction of the NZIHA and it’s
by-laws, the NZIHA
Rules 2002 Edition, the Northern Region Championship Tournament Rules and
this Event Notice.
GRADES
THAT CAN BE CONTESTED U/10, U/12, U/14, U/16, U/18, Women and
Senior.
ELIGIBILITY
Clubs & Teams
The 2003 Northern
Region Championships are open to:
- All NZIHA affiliated clubs contained
within the boundaries of the Northern Region.
- All teams entered by such affiliated
clubs.
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Each club is entitled to enter one team
per grade per division. Additional entries will be at the discretion of
the
Northern Region management committee, who may elect to delegate this
responsibility to the
Championship
co-ordinators.
Players
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Players must be registered with the NZIHA for the club
they are playing for.
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Players must be registered with the NZIHA prior to
playing their first game.
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Players shall be entered as playing for one club and
one team only, except for Women who may play for
both Women’s grade
and an age grade, provided that they comply with age eligibility at all times.
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Players must always comply with age eligibility and
division eligibility (if applicable).
ie/. can not play down an Age Grade or down a division within their own
Age Grade, within their club.
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Players may play up an Age Grade or a division within
own Age Grade, within their club, a maximum of three times, where a player has
played 3 games up whichever team they next play for is the team in which they
must remain for the rest of the competition.
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Players can not play across a division within a Grade
unless playing up. ie/. a club may have 3 x U/12 teams, 2 x teams
being designated (a 1 & a 2) with 1 being designated (b) or vice versa. A
player in (a 1) can not play for team (a 2) nor for the (b) team. However a
player from the (b) team can play up in any of the (a) teams a maximum of 3
times.
Note: At
National Championships, or a Regional Play-Off Competition where the results
determine which
teams may enter a
National Championships, players can be entered as playing for one team only.
FORMAT
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The format of the Northern Region Championships will
be that of a Round Robin culminating in a Regional Play-Off between the top
five teams within each Age Grade from which the two top teams in each Age Grade
will be eligible for entry to the National Championships.
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If due to unforeseen circumstances and/or if there are
insufficient teams in any grade there may not be the necessity of a grade
competing in the Regional Play-Off competition, this circumstance will be
decided upon by the Northern Region Committee.
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Depending upon the number of teams entered in each
grade will be the number of times teams play each other, however the minimum
will be a double Round Robin. ie/. home & away basis.
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For all grades other than senior grade, where the number of
entries within a grade is such that it is impractical to run a single
competition the Grade will be split into two divisions. Clubs will have the
choice of nominating the status of their teams, either an (a) or a (b). Only
teams competing in an (a) division within an Age Grade will be eligible for
qualification towards the National Championships.
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The senior grade will be split into three
divisions A1, A2 & A3. The top two (2) teams in A1 will be eligible for
entry into the Premier competition at the National Championships. The next 5
teams (3rd-7th) will compete in a Regional Play-Off
competition with the top two (2) teams from this play-off competition being
eligible for entry into the Senior competition at the National championships.
VENUES The venues to be used are Mt
Wellington, Nutra-Life and Whangarei. The use
of each rink will depend
upon the number of
teams entered into the Northern Region Championships and the individual rinks
availability. Any Club proposing to use
a rink under the minimum size as dictated by the NZIHA Rules 2002 Edition must
apply to the Northern Region Committee for dispensation to use. (Application
forms available from the NZIHA secretary)
ENTRIES
& FEES All entries are to
be made on the official Northern Region Entry Form.
- Closing date for entry into the Northern
Region Championships is
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Late entries will not be accepted.
- Entry fees and referee levies per team are to
be decided mid February and clubs will be notified.
OFFICIALS
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Teams are to provide two off-floor
officials ie/. a scorer/timekeeper and a goal judge.
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All Team Officials must be registered with
the NZIHA.
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Referees are to be admitted free.
DRAW A draw
will be produced and issued to all clubs for any comments. The final draw will
be published when completed.. Games will be played as per the “Final” draw,
only exceptional circumstances or unsafe rink conditions will allow a game to
be postponed and replayed. The Regional Chairperson,
plus two others to be appointed at beginning of each season, will be the sole
judges of exceptional circumstances, their decision will be binding and not
subject to appeal.
All applications for a postponement must be made
directly to the Regional Chairperson.
COMPETITION
DATES Games may be scheduled to
commence
19 & 20 April 2003, Queens Birthday weekend
Middle weekend of school holidays 19- 20 April, 12-13 July.
POINTS Points will be awarded or deducted as
follows:
- Win awarded 2 points
- Draw awarded 1 point each team
- Loss awarded 0 points
- A default or no show will result in 2
points being deducted from the offending teams overall points tally.
- A
team found to have fielded an ineligible player shall forfeit the game and the
result shall be recorded as
5-nil or the actual score whichever is
the most advantageous to the non-offending team.
FINAL PLACING In the event of a tie when
determining the top five teams for advancement into the Regional Play-Offs, the
Northern Regions “Final Placing” format will be applied to determine the team/s
that will advance to the Region’s Championships Play-Off competition.
GAME
RESULTS
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Game scores are to be recorded in an Official NZIHA
Score Book provided by the Northern Region committee to each rink.
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Each rink will nominate a person responsible for the
forwarding of the white copy of the game sheet to the Championship Coordinator
each Monday.
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The yellow copy is for the away team and the green
copy for the home team.
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Team managers are responsible for their teams copies
of the score sheet which are to be kept until after the completion of the
Regional Championships and made available to the Championship Coordinator if
requested, due to a white copy going missing.
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Game results and competition progress information will
be posted on the NZIHA homepage
(www.nziha.com) as they become available.
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Progress results will be sent to club secretaries
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The frequency of postings on the NZIHA home page and
to clubs will depend upon the regularity of score sheets being forwarded to the
Championship Coordinator.
- Each club is to
advise an email contact address for the receiving of updated Regional
Championship
information.
PRIZES A prize giving will be held at
the end of the 2nd week of the Regional
Play-off competition. The venue
and
time will be announced once decided.
Prizes will be
awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed teams
in each Grade and each Division as at the
conclusion
of the Northern Region Championships. (not Regional Play-Offs)
LEAGUE COORDINATOR