1. Where possible, starting seeding/ranking positions
will be taken
from Nationals 2006.
2. The TOP 4 teams are not allowed to enter Tour 0. In 2007 this means
Clapham, Fire, Fusion and Chevron are not invited and not able to attend.
We will review whether to increase or decrease this number for next
year's competitions based on feedback this year.
3. There will be no written restriction in the rules regarding the 2nd
team of a club that is not allowed to enter its first team. Why? Spirit
of the game extends to how people treat eligibility and other rules.
Which means that nobody will intentionally cheat. Thus we are placing
trust in those teams that they will select an appropriate 2nd team.
(This followed discussions with representatives of Clapham and Fire
who were both very clear that they had no interest in putting their
first team out at Tour 0.)
4 . Kit rules. Tour kit rules will NOT be enforced at Tour 0 because
we have received feedback that some clubs will not have their new kit
in time.
Teams in this situation WILL still be expected to play in tops that
are all matching in colour. Anyone can find 20 white t-shirts if they
need to.
Please think it through and plan ahead.
5 . There will be NO "Tour Event" at Tour 0 for the women's
division.
If we have enough womens entries we will run a women's division alongside
Tour 0 - but this will not attract tour points, nor be used as an official
means to rank/seed teams for Women's Tour 1.