Dear badminton friends! T.S.B.V. Sauron, the students badminton club in Tilburg (the Netherlands), is happy to invite you for its yearly International Students Badminton Tournament Tilburg (ISBTT'96). This year the tournament will take place during the weekend of October 5th and 6th, in the sports centre of the University of Tilburg. PLAYING SYSTEM The tournament will be played according to the Swiss ladder system. In this system, all players in a certain category are placed into a large group, and play a number of rounds. The schedule of the first round is drawn at random; the schedule of all the following rounds is made on the basis of the latest ranking, in such a way that the matches are between players who are close to each other in the ranking. However, you will never play the same opponent more than once. In this way, a fair ranking should develop over the tournament. A major advantage is that everyone will play approximately the same number of matches. DISCIPLINES You can enter for two out of three possible disciplines: singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Note that you can only indicate preferences; we may change this if the schedule requires us to do so. Since we put together the doubles combinations, everyone should enter individually. This saves you the trouble of looking for doubles partners and encourages integration. CLASSES In principle we will play in four classes, namely A: international/national level; B: low national/high regional level; C: low regional level; D: recreational level. Depending on the number of entries we may decide to join together two classes, e.g. the A and B class. SHUTTLES The A, B and C class will play with feather shuttles, the D class with nylon shuttles. The C class may also play with nylon if both sides agree on this. Feather players should bring their own shuttles, but of course it is also possible to buy feather shuttles at the tournament. Nylon shuttles will be provided by us. PROGRAM Friday, October 4th 6pm - 12pm: arrival; Saturday, October 5th 8am - 9am: breakfast; 9am - 7pm: matches; 7:30pm - 8:30pm: dinner; 9pm - ?: big party with DJ; Sunday, October 6th 8am - 9am: breakfast; 9am - 5pm: matches; 5:30pm - 6pm: prize giving; 6pm - 7pm: dinner. COST The cost of this great event are only 55 Dutch guilders per person. This includes breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday, as well a place to sleep. We require a down payment of 25 Dutch guilders, to be paid within two weeks after you receive confirmation of your participation. The remaining 30 guilders can be paid upon arrival. If you are so unlucky to have to cancel your submission, we will return the down payment (minus transfer costs) if you cancel before September 22nd, 1996. Please transfer the money to Giro account 0207171 of T.S.B.V. Sauron in Tilburg, mentioning "ISBTT'96", and the number of persons. The enclosed registration form must be returned before July 1st, 1996. Please send it to T.S.B.V. Sauron P.O. Box 10071 5000 JB Tilburg The Netherlands or fax it to +31 13 4663280, mentioning "Jorg Jansen - ISBTT'96" If you have any questions, you can always call Inge Eijssen +31 13 5433909 Jorg Jansen +31 13 4663425 (during working hours) or E-mail Henri de Groot H.L.F.deGroot@kub.nl Jorg Jansen J.B.Jansen@kub.nl We hope to see you in Tilburg! The organising committee of the ISBTT'96: Armand, Henri, Inge, Jorg and Sander. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM Club: ___________________________________________________ City: ___________________________________________________ Country: ___________________________________________________ PARTICIPATING PLAYERS: Name Male/female Class Disciplines 1.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 2.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 3.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 4.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 5.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 6.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 7.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 8.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 9.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 10.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 11.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 12.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 13.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 14.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ 15.___________________________ ______________ ______ ___________ Contact person: ___________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________ E-mail: ___________________________________________________ Date: ____________________ Signature: Send this registration form before July 1st, 1996 to T.S.B.V. Sauron, P.O. Box 10071, 5000 JB Tilburg, The Netherlands or fax it to +31 13 4663280, mentioning "Jorg Jansen - ISBTT'96".