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RULES

Central European Championship is an annual event. The best disc golf players from the region can earn their spot in the tournament either by their end-of-the-year PDGA rating or they can be nominated by their national disc golf governing body.

Overview of the spot distribution rules

Division Size

MPO (OPEN) 48 players

FPO (WOMEN) 16 players

MJ1 (OPEN JUNIOR) 8 players

Total 72 players

MPO (48 spots)

at least 25 best players in the regional PDGA rating at the end of the previous year are awarded automatic spots
at most 21 spots are distributed to the national disc golf federations, each can nominate up to 3 players (7 x 3)
2 wildcards - awarded by the tournament organizer
Waiting list - players below the 25th place of the PDGA rating at the end of the previous year that are not nominated by the national disc golf associations are placed sequentially on the waiting list according to their latest PDGA rating and are offered remaining spots until the quota 48 players is reached, in the case of a tie in the PDGA rating a random draw decides the order.

FPO (16 spots)

at least 8 best players in the PDGA rating at the end of the previous year are awarded automatic spots
at most 7 spots are distributed to the national discgolf federations, each can nominate 1 player
1 wildcard - awarded by the tournament organizer
Waiting list - players below the 8th place in the regional PDGA rating at the end of the previous year that are not nominated by the national discgolf associations are placed sequentially on the waiting list according to their latest PDGA rating and are offered remaining spots until the quota 16 players is reached, in the case of a tie in the PDGA rating a random draw decides the order.

MJ1 (8 spots)

8 best players in the PDGA rating at the end of the previous year are awarded automatic spots
Waiting list - players below the 8th place of the PDGA rating at the end of the previous year are placed sequentially on the waiting list according to their latest PDGA rating and are offered remaining spots until the quota 8 players is reached, in the case of a tie in the PDGA rating a random draw decides the order

Full competition and spot distribution rules (Version 1.0, 2015)

Competition Rules Central European Disc Golf Championships is an individual competition for disc golf players from the 7 participating countries from the Central European region: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia.
Each player eligible to participate in the competition (eligible player) must be either a legal citizen or permanent resident of one of the participating country or must temporary live within one of the participating countries for at least 18 months preceding the date of the tournament.
The registration for the tournament is handled by the tournament organizers in a cooperation with the Rules Committee that oversees the spot distribution system and maintains the List of Tournament Players and Waiting List.
All eligible players are automatically placed on the tournament’s Waiting List.
Each player has 7 calendar days to officially accept his spot. If the player does not confirm its acceptance he/she is considered declining the spot.
All players who accept the spot and who pay the tournament fee by the appropriate deadline will be placed on the List of Tournament Players and will be removed from the Waiting List.
All players who accept the spot but do not pay the tournament fee by the appropriate deadline will be removed from the Waiting List.
All player who decline the spot will be removed from the Waiting List.
All players on the List of Tournament Players who cancel their registration for the tournament will be removed from the List of Tournament Players. The rules for a return of the tournament fee will be determined by the tournament organizers and will be publicly available before the start of the registration.
Any player can be reinstated on the Waiting List only individually upon a request to the Rules Committee.
The championships tournament will be sanctioned by PDGA in the category X with limited registration and it must fulfil the conditions of at least PDGA C category.
Spot Distribution Rules There are three types of spots: (a) automatic spots awarded by the Rules Committee primarily based on the previous end-of-the-year PDGA ratings; (b) waiting list spots awarded by the Rules Committee primarily based on the current PDGA ratings; (c) wild card spots awarded by the tournament organizers; (d) national spots awarded by the National Federations.
Each division has its own division automatic spots quota that is initially set to: 25 players in MPO; 8 players in FPO; 8 players in MJ1.
Each division has its own division national spots quota that is initially set for each participating country: 3 players in MPO (in total 7 x 3 = 21 spots); 1 player is FPO (in total 7 x 1 = 7 spots); 0 players in MJ1.
The number of wildcard spots in each division is: 2 players in MPO; 1 players in FPO; 0 players in MJ1.
If during Phase 4 one of the divisions cannot fill its division automatic spots quota (there are no more regional players on the Waiting List in the particular division), its division automatic spots quota is decreased by the number of unfilled spots and its remaining spots are redistributed increasing the respective division automatic spots quota: from MJ1 to alternatively MPO and FPO, with MPO starting; from FPO to MPO; from MPO to FPO.
Phase One (Automatic Spots) When the previous end-of-the-year PDGA rankings are published the spots within the division automatic spots quota are offered by the Rules Committee to the highest ranked players.
If any of the invited players does not officially accept the offered spot the next player/players in the end-of-the-year PDGA ratings are offered the spots by the the Rules Committee until the division automatic spots quota is filled or the final deadline for awarding automatic bids has passed.
Phase Two (National Spots) Participating national disc golf governing bodies offer the spots to the players who are not on the List of Tournament Players after the end of Phase One.
If any of the invited players does not officially accept the spot the next player/players are offered the spots by the national disc golf governing bodies until its division national spots quota is filled or the final deadline for awarding national spots has passed.
If a national disc golf governing body did not fill any of its division national spots quota by the end of Phase Two the remaining spots are added to the particular division automatic spots quota.
Phase Three (Wildcard Spots) The tournament organizer offers the wildcard spots within its quota to players who are not on the List of Tournament Players after the end of Phase Two.
If any of the invited players does not officially accept the offered spot another player is offered the wildcard spot by the organizer until the division wildcard quota is filled or the final deadline for awarding wildcard spots has passed.
If the organizer did not fill any of its division wildcard spots quota by the end of Phase Three the remaining spots are added to the particular division automatic spots quota.
Phase Four (Waiting List Spots) The players on the Waiting List (all regional players that are not on the List of Tournament Players and were not removed from the Waiting List) are always ordered according to their current PDGA ratings.
The remaining spots are awarded by the Rules Committee within the division automatic spots quota to the highest ranked players on the Waiting List until the final deadline for registration for the tournament.
Special rules If at any time a player eligible to play MJ1 who either already accepted the spot (or is offered a spot in MJ1) is also offered a spot in MPO/FPO he/she may choose whether he/she wants to compete in MJ1 or MPO/FPO. He/she needs to inform the Rules Committee about his/her decision by the deadline imposed by the Rules Committee otherwise the player is automatically considered to accept MJ1 spot.The decision on the player’s division is then final.
If during Phase Three or Phase Four one of the players that was offered a National spot withdraws from the tournament, the national disc golf governing body that nominated him/her has 7 days to offer the spot to a substitute player. If no substitute player accepts the spot within this period or he/she does not pay the registration fees within the next 7 days after the acceptance of his/her spot, the particular national spot is added to the automatic spots quota in the particular division and it is offered to the highest ranked player on the waiting list.
At any time, in the case of multiple players with the same PDGA ratings competing for the same automatic spor, the deciding factors are (in this order): (a) the current PDGA rating; (b) a random draw by Rules Committee.

Approximate Deadlines 2016

January 26 Publication of End-of-the-Year PDGA ratings

June 6 Start of Phase I

July 4 Automatic spots award final deadline

July 11 Final deadline for acceptance of Automatic spots / Start of Phase II

July 25 National spots award final deadline

August 1 Final deadline for acceptance of National spots / Start of Phase III

August 8 Wildcard spots award final deadline

August 15 Final deadline for acceptance of Wildcard spots / Start of Phase IV

September 21 Waiting List spots award & acceptance final deadline

September 23-25 Tournament Dates

Model Example

(according to the PDGA rating on July 20, 2015)

OPEN

Automatic spots (25)

Lukas Filandr 37150 976 Czech Republic
Jakub Novotny 56714 973 Czech Republic
Mike Doc Gordon 11186 972 Croatia
Otfried Derschmidt 34710 967 Austria
Günther Kaimberger 38444 967 Austria
Michal Kúdela 68577 966 Slovakia
Phillip Gould 38447 959 Austria
Daniel Hatvani 31400 955 Hungary
Michael Bischof-Horak 38442 955 Austria
Bostjan Babic 63294 954 Slovenia
Harald Neumayr 47426 950 Austria
Johannes Petz 34981 949 Austria
Johannes Hielfer 64240 948 Austria
Bernd Wender 8673 945 Austria
Jakob Gusenbauer 64254 944 Austria
Karl Seper 39451 942 Austria
Róbert Furka 63347 941 Hungary
Norbert Eder 64242 941 Austria
Peter Pichler 35231 940 Austria
Krystof Novak 55426 937 Czech Republic
Bernd Kolmanz 47425 935 Austria
Simon Ceh 47423 934 Austria
Premysl Novak 49791 932 Czech Republic
Richard Kollar 61991 932 Slovakia
Daniel Maier 53374 930 Austria / junior/declines OPEN division, if this age allows it, he may decide to play MJ1
Christian Klima 64260 930 Austria / substitute for Daniel Maier

Total number of spots: AT 15, CZ 4, SK 2, HU 2, HR 1, SL 1, PL 0

If anyone declines his spots in Phase I, the next player on the list gets the spot.

National Spots

3 spots given by the national federations (they may be awarded by the national federation using any type of preferences, this example only shows randomly chosen preferences, for the current nomination criteria, contact the respective national federTION):

AT (they nominate the three highest PDGA ranked players beyond Top 25)

Lukas Froschauer 64252 921 A M Austria

Reinhold Schachner 47427 920 P M Austria

David Wojak 37564 919 P M Austria

CZ (they nominate the two highest PDGA ranked players - except juniors - and one non-PDGA member)

Daniel Hokes 46096 921 P M Czech Republic

Radek Lomnicky 47828 919 P M Czech Republic

Lukáš Jedlička Czech Republic

SK (they nominate the highest PDGA ranked player beyond Top 25 and the two best players in the national DG league)

Stefan Dobrev 26365 921 P M Slovakia

Martin Krička Slovakia

Jozef Čierny Slovakia

HU (they nominate the three highest PDGA ranked players beyond Top 25)

József Jesztl 43991 928 A M Hungary

Dylan J. Cooper 8530 919 P M Hungary

Ákos Szabó 63348 918 A M Hungary

HR (they nominate the three highest PDGA ranked players beyond Top 25)

Nino Durak 66496 926 A M Croatia

Dinko Šimenc 52313 913 A M Croatia

Aleksandar Aki Vuckovic 62431 913 A M Croatia

SL (they nominate the highest PDGA ranked player beyond Top 25 and one additional player, they do not use their third spot)

Ryan Brooks 74343 929 A M Slovenia

Simon Arh Slovenia

PL (they nominate the three highest ranked players beyond Top 25)

Szymon Wacior 64071 900 A M Poland

Piotr Juzwa 71795 855 A M Poland

Michal Paszkowski 66145 801 P M Poland

Thus one spot was not used by the national federations (SL) and it is moved to Automatic Spots Quota.

Wildcard Spots (2)

2 wildcard spots are awarded by the tournament organizer in Phase III based on their choice

Waiting List Spots (up to the Automatic Spots Quota)

All the remaining players (current PDGA members with published PDGA rating) in OPEN division are placed on the Waiting List and are ordered by their current PDGA ranking.
There is one unfilled spot within the Automatic Spot Quota that was moved from the National Spots. That spot is awarded to the first player on the Waiting List. Assuming the end-of the-year rankings are the same as the current ratings at the time of spot awards, there are two players with the same rating:

Pavel Bruckler 46098 917 P M Czech Republic

Eric Osterwinter 63413 917 A M Austria

and the invited player will be selected by a random draw

one additional spot (that increases the OPEN division Automatic Spot Quota) is moved from MJ1 (see below) since MJ1 cannot fill its Automatic Spots Quota and does not have any more players on the Waiting List. Therefore, the unlucky out of Bruckler/Osterwinter is invited as well.

That creates the pool of 48+1 players in MPO for the competition, in the case of cancellations the next spots are awarded to the best players on the waiting list.

Waiting list (if the PDGA ranking does not change from the end of the year, the actual ranking matters for the order on the waiting list)

Gerhard Petz 5284 915 P M Austria

Michal Grepl 59727 914 A M Czech Republic

If one of the players with a National Spot withdraws, then the country association can nominate a substitute player within 7 days in any Phase. If they cannot find such a player, they will release their country spot to the general pool of automatic spots in the particular division and the next player will be taken from the waiting list.

MJ1

Automatic spots (8)

The best 8 juniors according to the end of the year ranking are invited

Daniel Maier 53374 930 A M Austria

Adam Klimes 68405 926 A M Czech Republic

Jakub Knápek 68237 921 A M Czech Republic

Matej Vojtík 64867 912 A M Czech Republic

Bálint Kazai 53822 909 A M Hungary

Jaroslav Pavlas 51389 897 A M Czech Republic

Jakub Zdráhal 73215 871 A M Czech Republic

there is no 8th junior in the end of the previous year ranking (actually, there is one, just the players only appeared on the list after the date the discussed rating was published, i.e. there will be enough qualified juniors for the 2016 tournament, althogh this example does not have enough of them), and the spot would be offered to the highest ranked uninvited junior in the current PDGA rating at the beginning of Phase IV, if there is no such player, the extra spot would be moved to the MPO division. Furthermore if any of the players withdraws, his spot is moved to FPO (and then alternatively to MPO and FPO).

FPO

Automatic spots (8)

Katka Bodová 61990 894 P F Slovakia
Katharina Gusenbauer 64253 894 P F Austria
Wiltrud Derschmidt 38449 848 P F Austria
Sonja Palmetshofer 74013 841 A F Austria - junior
Irmgard Derschmidt 47424 840 P F Austria
Birgit Lingenhel 70932 836 A F Austria
Maja Simenc 52334 828 A F Croatia
Jarmila Havirova 62762 824 P F Czech Republic

National Spots (7)

each country then can nominate one extra player:

AT Susanne Giendl 4806 815 A F Austria

CZ Daniela Filandrova 46099 815 P F Czech Republic

SK Beáta Hergelová 70915 817 P F Slovakia

HR Danica Pajtak 62432 767 A F Croatia

HU some non PDGA member Hungary

PL does not nominate a player

SL Jasmina Pištan 72357 802 A F Slovenia

One unfilled spot (Poland) is moved to the Automatic Spots Quota in FPO and it will be distributed in Phase IV.

Wildcard Spots (1)

One wildcard is awarded by the organizer

Waiting List Spots (Up to the Automatic Spots Quota)

the one extra spot (canceled player from Poland) will be awarded according to the current PDGA rating of the players on the Waiting List. Assuming the current ranking is the same as the end-of-the-year ranking, it will be awarded to

Petra Javorkova 62792 805 A F Czech Republic

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