The Three Shires Pétanque League The 321 KO Competition Rules 2007 (Annexe C to Match Rules)

1.		The THREE SHIRES PETANQUE LEAGUE Triples, Doubles & Singles (321) KO competition will be played during the summer season and will now be combined in to a team event consisting of three constituent parts, Triples, Doubles and Singles, to be played at the same venue on the same evening.
2.		A club can enter one or more teams of three people and will play a TRIPLES game followed by DOUBLES & SINGLES games played concurrently. Reserves may be used in the event of team members being unavailable because of holidays etc.
3.		All matches will be played during the summer season within the period announced on the draw sheet issued by the Competition Secretary.
4.		The format will comprise of teams drawn from the hat. The first name in each pairing will be the HOME team.
5.		The HOME team will be reponsible for contacting the AWAY team to confirm that they are available to play on the week published on the draw sheet, within one week of receipt of notification of each round of the competition. It is imperative that both teams arrange to play within the deadline date indicated in the draw. Assuming the draw is received in time, it is permissable to play the match before the published week, for convenience, but not afterwards. It is the responsibilty of both teams to notify the Competition Secretary if they are unable to play on or before the specified date whereupon the Competition Committee will decide the date on which it must be played. Failure to play it on this date by either team will result in the match being awarded to the team not at fault for this failure.
6.		On arrival at The Home Teams venue and before any play commences, the Captains of the teams will do a draw to see who is going to play in the Singles games. The Triples match must be played first for obvious reasons and then the doubles & singles can commence to be played concurrently.
7.		All three games are to be played to thirteen points and the Club that wins two or more games in the Match will be deemed the Winners of the Match and will go through to the next round.
8.		Results are to be notified to the Competition Secretary by phone or fax or e-mail the next day.
9.		Rules 3 (Boules), 4 (Start of Play) and 8 (Penalties for Late Start) of the THREE SHIRES PETANQUE LEAGUE Match Rules shall apply to the 321 KO Competitions.
10.		Any Semi Finalist team unable to turn up on Finals Day having given prior notification to the Competition Secretary will forfeit that position and their place in the final will be awarded to the team that they knocked out, or the team that may have conceded the Final to them. Any team just not turning up on finals day, will forfeit their right to enter next years competition. The finals day date is known a year in advance and teams must bear this in mind. The date always being the second or third Sunday in October or as published on the Chiltern Region Calendar.

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League Name Changed and Rules Amended
Febuary 5th 2003

a) Rule 5 amended to include date on which it must be played/failure to play
2nd March 2005

John Deaville - Competition Secretary / Three Shires Petanque League.