The Nationstates Tennis Tour welcomes all tennis athletes to the indoor hard court season. We have two new tournaments and a returning team tournament this season. The NationStates Tennis Tour, and its previous iteration, the Association of Tennis Professionals, has been running for six seasons (years).
This thread will be the thread where roleplays and results will be posted for the three indoor hard court tournaments of the season. In order, these tournaments are:
- River Cities Open (Tier 2) hosted in Shinzoba, Damukuni
- Ubung Open (Tier 1) hosted in Ubung, Pemecutan
- International Tennis Trophy (Team Event) hosted in Somer, Electrum
This thread OP will contain general information about the timeline for the three tournaments, whereas the next three posts will contain specific information for each of the tournaments, including information about the host city and draws/schedules.
Scorination Details
All NSTT tournaments will be scorinated on xkoranate with advantage sets. Grand slam singles tournaments will be best of five sets, all other tournaments, including grand slam doubles tournaments will be best of three sets. The logarithm points will be used, so that the vast inequalities in total points don't mean predictable matches. To determine the seeding and points of doubles pairings, the average of the sum of the doubles players logarithmic rankings will be used. Draws for both the singles and doubles competition will follow the normal procedures undertaken by the ITF.
All roleplays are scored, with quality over quantity emphasized. Multiple roleplays submitted on the same day will be counted as one larger whole. All players without a ranking will have a skill level equal to the lowest main draw player's logarithmic points.
Where there are more entrants than available places, a knock-out qualification round is played.
At the conclusion of each tournament, rankings are updated to reflect the new points earned by players. These points last one year/season.
Links
NSTT Indoor hard court season 6 sign-up thread
NSTT Season 6 tournament timeline and rankings
NSTT Discussion/OOC thread
NSTT Discord server
Timeline (all times in UTC)
2 Nov - sign-ups begin
0005 10 Nov - River Cities Open sign-ups close
14 Nov to 20 Nov - River Cities Open
1200 20 Nov - Ubung Open sign-ups close
23 Nov to 30 Nov Ubung Open
0900 30 Nov - International Tennis Trophy sign-ups close
3 Dec to 11 Dec International Tennis Trophy
14 Dec to 20 Dec End of season tournaments (to be held in a separate RP thread)