Hi all, welcome to the 2018 Spring Season for the Mountain Districts Badminton Association – Class 1 Doubles Competition. Gill is away for the next few weeks, so if you have any issues or questions, please contact me (contact details at the bottom of this document).

Teams

The following are the provisional teams for the upcoming season:

1. Andrew Turpin, Bruce Paterson, Ken Hoppen, Debbie Bollom (Bruce & Ken switching each week).
2. Andreas Faulwetter, Agus Maryanto, Gillian Patmore, Katie Williams
3. Guy Eitzen, Mark Connolly, Patsy Lai, Kellie Rayment.
4. Alex Bollom, Pierce Lucas, Chung Hoang, Carol Nesbitt
5. Andrew Phillips, Tegan Berry, Robin Browning, Alisha Ford

We have called these teams provisional at the moment, because we have a number of new players and we want to ensure that the teams are as even as possible. Could Patsy and Chung please come to warm-up this Wednesday so that we can confirm skill level, and finalise teams.

Final Warm-Up Night

This Wednesday is the last warm-up week before the season starts on Wednesday 1 August 2018. Last week we had some great games with 8 players turning up. Let’s try to get 12 this week. Entry and games are free, and you can even bring a friend if you like.

Season Details

The season starts on Wednesday 1 August 2018 with 15 minor rounds, a preliminary final on Wednesday 28 November 2018 and Grand Final on Wednesday 5 December 2018. Please put these dates in your diary. There will be no play on Wednesday 26 September 2018 or Wednesday 3 October 2018, due to school holidays.

Format

There will not be any singles this season (sorry Andreas). Instead, we will return to cross-over matches for each team position 1 to 4, followed by certain combinations within the team. For weeks 1-5, these will be 1&2, 3&4, 1&4, 2&3. Hence each person will get 3 matches each night (and each match will continue to be best of 3 sets to 21 points).

Unavailability and Fill-ins

We again have 5 teams, which means each night one team will be on a bye. If you need a fill-in, the first person you should contact is the person in the team on the bye. At this point, team 5 will be on a bye on 1 August 2018 and team 2 will be on a bye on 8 August 2018. (Robin, can you please fill in for Gill in week 1, and Andreas, can you please fill in for Andrew in week 2?)

If you know you are unavailable for any particular weeks during the season, you can let me know, and if possible, I will arrange for your team to have a bye that week. Please do so before or at next Wednesday’s practice).

If you need a fill-in, please use the contact list under the Teams section in this app, and let me know when you have arranged a fill-in in the first couple of weeks (and notify Gill after that).

Again, if you have any issues or questions, do not hesitate in contacting me.

Guy.
Phone: 0417 348 936
Email: Guy.Eitzen@outlook.com