Hello everyone, and sorry for the late reply.
This post will better detail how you will need to proceed during phase 3, so read carefully :-)
At the end of this week, Stage 2 will close, and the top 4 teams of each group will be admitted to the third and final stage.
Due to the holidays, we will then take a break, and resume the tournament after all the hangovers and excessive food has been left behind.
The Tournament will resume January 7th, after Epiphany Day.
Well, you might not know, but this is a tradition of my Country, and we say "Epifania tutte le feste porta via" meaning that after Epiphany day (January 6th) all holidays are declared officially over :-) .. we also have a nice witch called Befana to remind us of such!
OK sorry for the OT and let's get back to the Tournament Rules for Phase 3:
You will have to chose and pick 4 players from your team, to compete in each of the 3 direct elimination rounds: Quarter Finals, Semi Finals and Finals.
You will HAVE TO CHANGE a minimum of 2 players between rounds.
This way if you want you can keep two of your players as "staples".
There is no restriction on which match you assign the players, but you will have to assign 1 player for a Match Play game, 1 player for a "CTTH" game and 2 players for the Alternate game.
The Match Play game needs to be set up as ranked, and the conditions will be automatically set by WGT.
The "CTTH" game will need to be a Blitz game "Tracked", Very Fast green and High wind.
I know this is a bit different than the straight CTTH, but we believe this won't change so much from the original concept, and you will know right after you play what the outcome has been, plus it will show on your score history.
The AS Match Play game will need to be "Scored" and the conditions will be automatically set by WGT.
Starting January 7th you will need to declare the first 4 players for the Quarter Finals and also declare on what type of game they will play, and you and your opponent team will have 10 days to play your matches.
There is no particular order in which to play: you can play the Single player MP first or the Alternate MP first, or more than one at the same time.
All is good, as long as you declare your players and play within 10 days.
If your team happen to play 2 games, and win them both, there is no need to play the third game, but you can do so if you like.
QUARTER FINALS
The pairings for the quarter finals will be the following:
A) 1st of Group 1 vs 4th of Group 2
B) 1st of Group 2 vs 4th of Group 1
C) 2nd of Group 1 vs 3rd of Group 2
D) 2nd of Group 2 vs 3rd of Group 1
The first team will need to create (host) the game.
E.G. in match A, the first of Group 1 is the team that will create the game, and 4th of Group 2 is the team that will join the game.
The venues for the quarter finals will be the following:
Match Play---------------> Oakmont full 18
Blitz------------------------> Celtic Manor Group 1
Alternate MP------------> Best of Par4 full 18
SEMI FINALS
AD) Winner of A vs Winner of D
BC) Winner of B vs Winner of C
The first team will need to create (host) the game.
The venues for the semi finals will be the following:
Match Play----------------> Merion full 18
Blitz-------------------------> Pinehurst Group 1
Alternate MP-------------> Best of Hardest Hole full 18
FINALS
Winner of AD vs winner of BC
Loser of AD vs Loser of BC
The first team will need to create (host) the game.
Both final and bronze match will use the same venues
Match Play-----------------> Pinehurst full 18
Blitz--------------------------> Edgewood Tahoe
Alternate MP--------------> Olympic full 18
Hope now all is clear and will let you sleep well tonight :-) but if you have any question, just let me know on this thread.
-abq-