Introduction and History
In accordance with the schedule provided here, Season 6 of the NationStates Tennis Tour will continue with the grass court season. This thread serves as the sign-up thread for four tournaments: Salvador Hills Open** (Tier 2), Mercedinian Open (Tier 1), Ethanian Open (Tier 1) and the AOpen (Grand Slam).
Below is some tournament specific information for the four tournaments:
Sign-up procedure
To sign up, fill the sign-up sheet with your list of players - all nations, new and old are welcome. You will also need to nominate a three letter trigram to represent your nation (e.g. Electrum - ETM). You do not need to fill out the entire list. Wild cards will be awarded to a quarter of your entrants, rounded up, should your nation not have any eligible players in the main draw and you have roleplayed at least once this year, so ensure the person you want to see playing is listed in the top one or two slots of your sign-up (note: rankings points supersede sign-up listings). Puppets must be declared - each person may control up to two nations in any tournament.
You may mix and match which athletes compete in which tournament -- that choice is up to your nation's tennis federation. We note that Tier 2 events are intended for lower ranked athletes. Sign-ups for each event will close 72 hours before an event is scheduled to start. Feel free to edit your entries in a new post up to that deadline. As always, good luck, and may the balls be in your court.
Doubles sign-ups
Nations can submit pairs of players from their own nation, or submit pairs comprised of players from two different nations. There are no limits as to how many athletes from a particular nation is submitted into a tournament. It is up to nations to negotiate which players they will send, and under which nation's name. Any entries submitting mixed pairs without permission will be deleted from the draw. On the sign-up sheet, please indicate what nation the non-native player is from, e.g. Electrum would submit Sonya Gredello/Ricardo Toli (BRI).
In the tournament proper, the pair would be denoted as having a double trigram: Sonya Gredello/Ricardo Toli (ETM/BRI). Both nation's roleplay contribution will contribute to the skill level of the pair, however, if both nations roleplay, then the higher scored roleplay will be added onto the skill of the mixed pair.
Sign-up sheet
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Links
Grass Court season 6 Everything/RP thread
NSTT Season 6 tournament timeline and rankings
NSTT Discussion/OOC thread
NSTT Discord server
Timeline (all times in UTC)
31 Aug - Sign-ups open for all tournaments
1930 7 Sep - Sign-ups close for Salvador Hills Open
10 Sep - 17 Sep - Salvador Hills Open
2000 17 Sep - Sign-ups close for Mercedinian Open
20 Sep to 27 Sep - Mercedinian Open
Mid season break
7 Oct - Sign-ups close for AOpen
12 Oct to 25 Oct - AOpen
2000 24 Oct - Sign-ups close for Ethanian Open
28 Oct to 4 Nov - Ethanian Open