The Northland Croquet Association
Level Singles Golf Croquet Invitation
Saturday February 27th and Sunday February 28th
Tournament Manager and Tournament referee Jean Tafa [email protected] 📞 027 442 4096

Venues
The tournament is to be held at two seperate venues;
Kensington Croquet Club, 41 Mill Road, Kensington, Whangarei, and Whangarei Croquet Club, 2 Third Avenue, Whangarei.
John and Wendy Schollum [email protected] 📞 021 120 8391 will attend the Whangarei CC as venue manager/referees.

Payment
Players who have not already done so are requested to ensure that payment has been made by bank transfer. The tournament entry fee is $30 and is payable to NCA by bank transfer to 12-3099-0552270-00, under Ref enter ‘Invitation’ and your own surname. Fee includes morning tea and coffee, and afternoon tea on Sunday 28th.

Order of play
There are 16 entrants, divided into two blocks of 8. Round one on Saturday is a round robin of 7 untimed 13 hoop games for both blocks, Block A will play at Kensington, Block B will play at Whangarei.

Day 1 ... The two blocks of 8 will be ranked, as per the CNZ Year Book page 309 sections 27.2 and 28.1, from those listed on the WCF database on Monday Feb 1st, including the UNITE results.

Day 2 ... The top 8 players* (not necessarily the top 4 in each block) will play at Kensington on day 2, again ranked and playing best of 3 knockout, so that first seed plays 8th seed, second plays 7th, 3rd plays 6th and 4th plays 5th. Players knocked out in round one play each other (again seeded) in order that all entrants may play at least 6 games on day 2. The 8 players in the bottom half of the day one competition will play 7 games against one another at Whangarei, these players will not receive tournament prizes.

• The selection process will be; number of games won, followed by hoop count. Following hoop count, if scores are equal, and the two equal scorers played one another, the winner of that game goes into the top 8. If scores are equal and the players were in different blocks the higher ranked player goes into the top 8.

HOOPS/BALLS
Quadway hoops will be deployed, initially set to 3 11/16” -, then narrowed or widened to ensure that all balls to be used on the lawn have as close to 1/32” clearance as can be achieved in situ.
There will be double banking. This is a ranking event, AHS cards will be used, please hand your up to date cards to the venue manager on arrival.

TIMING
Players should aim to arrive at their allotted club at 08:30 on both days. Tea and biscuits will be provided, there will be a short introduction, and play will commence promptly at 09:00, following a 5 minute hit up. There will be no formal lunch break, players should provide their own lunch, but both clubs will have a limited lunch menu which players may order before play commences on each day.

Tea and prizegiving will take place at Kensington CC on the Sunday afternoon once play has finished.

Seeding order;
CNZ YB Page 309 section 28 (any players not on the ranking list will be ranked according to their AHS card points tally)
Block A 1,16,9,8,5,12,13,4,
Block B 3,14,11,6,7,10,15,2

Block detail will be entered on Croquet Scores on Monday February 22nd.