TALBA Competition Rules

The rules below have been extracted from the current Constitution & Rule Book as revised at  2022

9. ASSOCIATION AND COMPETITION RULES

Alterations or additions to all or any of the foregoing rules shall be made only at the A.G.M. or at a Special General Meeting convened for that purpose and four weeks written notice of the terms of such proposed alterations or additions shall be submitted to the Secretary in writing and stated in the notice of business for such a meeting. Club delegates only vote on Rule Changes. No such proposal for alteration of addition shall be deemed passed unless at least two thirds of the votes cast are in favour. any alteration or addition so passed shall come into operation immediately.

10.COMPETITION RULES

All Competitions shall be played under the laws of the Bowls England and this Association.

1. All players in these Competitions must be bona-fide members of a club affiliated to T.A.L.B.A.

2.    No player can be entered by more than one club.

3.    Entry fees shall be decided at each A.G.M.

4.    Entry Forms and qualifications.

(a) Entry forms shall be forwarded to Club delegates no later than 31^st January.

(b) The names of all competitors must be entered on the entry forms, which when completed, copies to be returned to the Competition Secretary and to the Treasurer with the entry fees no later than 28^th February that year.

(c) No competitor is allowed to play for more than one team in the same competition.

(d) After the closing date of the above entries, no entry will be allowed to withdraw to partner another entry in the same competition.

  (e) One substitute is allowed in the Pairs and Triples.  substitute must be named as such on the scorecard, and after playing may not play for any other entry in the same competition. If the      substitute is required prior to the start of the game she may play in any position. If required during the game she may play in any position except skip.

5. PLAYING ARRANGEMENTS

   (a) The competitor(s) appearing first in the draw shall be the challenger(s) and offer 3 dates with no more than 2 dates in any one week (Sunday to Saturday).  Acceptance of a given date      being within 48 hours.  Weekend dates may be offered but League dates must be avoided and County dates avoided where possible unless mutually agreed by both teams. The                    offering of dates must be made within 5 days of the commencement of a particular round.

   (b) Should the challenger(s) fail to offer their opponents 3 dates within the first 5 days, the opponents then become the challenger(s) who, within the next 3 days, should offer 2 dates to             play the game. If the competitors fail to abide by the 5 - day initial challenge of the commencement of a particular round and the 3 - day subsequent challenge rule, the game will be                 declared void and both parties will be eliminated from the competition.

   (c) In the event of a lady not being available to mark a singles game, a gentleman marker is allowed.  The onus of providing a marker in all rounds except the Final is upon the Challenger.

   (d) Uncompleted games. In the event of it being impossible to complete a game, the game must be completed on the same green unless mutually agreed otherwise at the time of                   abandoning.

   (e) Result cards should bear the reference number or letter of the Competitors. The names of ALL competitors and substitutes (clearly marked as such) to be put on all the scorecards.          Cards to be signed by both Competitors or skips and the card sent and result notified to the Competition Secretary by the closing date of that round. Should a card be received by the            Competition Secretary that does not comply with the rule above she should inform the competitors by return that the result of game will not be accepted. In these cases, the opponent(s)         for the next round will be given the credit of winning that round.

   (f) Competitions to start at 6pm Earlier starts by mutual consent.

   (g) The withdrawal of a lady from the Fred Bromley Competition invalidates that entry.

   (h) CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS to be played on neutral greens throughout. (Challenger to organise booking of green).

   (i) Challenger to organise a neutral green for the semi-finals of the competitions.

   (j) The Secretaries and Treasurers competition to be extended to include Captains.

  (k) Two Wood Competition to be played as a singles competition playing 21 ends.

  (L) A double rink competition to be played – 2 rink triples - one rink to be played at home and one rink to be played away. If a club has entered two league teams, then they are able to             enter two teams in the competition.

 (m) White tops and regulation grey skirts/trousers must be worn for all Competitions and League games unless individual clubs have been granted permission to wear their coloured shirts.   All white to be worn for friendly matches. Regulation white tops with collars and sleeves and regulation white skirts/trousers and club flashes must be worn for Finals Day. Competitors are     allowed to wear club colours on Finals Day. Indoor games to be played in white tops and white skirts/trouser unless arranged otherwise.

 (n) Finals Day shall normally be the 2^nd weekend in September. Any entrant failing to play in a semi-final or a final on the required date (except for unavoidable circumstances) may be            banned, at the discretion of the Committee, from all T.A.L.B.A. competitions for one year.