Click the following link to view the ETTA 2011-12_Laws of Table Tennis in PDF format.


Notice submitted by Chris Durrant on 25/08/11

The new season gets underway soon with the Dickie Moore Cup on September 8th at the Great Yarmouth Conservative Club.  Contact Edna Fletcher to register your entry, there is about 1 week left to do so.

The season handbooks will be distributed in the next week, in the meantime here are the fixtures for the League Cup for the week commencing 12th September.


LEAGUE CUP COMPETITION

Groups selected evenly from both divisions.  Group team winners to KO stage. All 9 games played - no deuce.  If teams are equal at the top of the group on matches won, then the group winner is decided on a count-back on total games won, and if then necessary on a count-back of total points won. Postponements of matches are not allowed past the last week shown for these fixtures.                                                               

Best of 3 games, 21up - no deuce.  ALL 9 games played.  Handicap scaling down applies.

This competition is a part of the standard League Season and participation by teams is mandatory.
 

          Winners of each group to Semi Final

                      Group Round

Notice submitted by Edna Fletcher on 12/08/11

The new season starts with the "Dickie Moore Cup" which will be played on THURSDAY - September 8th at the Yarmouth Conservative Club- starting time 7pm. ENTRIES to Tournament Officer 667440 latest Friday September 2nd.

League Cup follows week beginning September 12^th.

New teams have entered giving each division ten teams each.

News item received from League Secretary on 24/07/11

1.   ETTA Insurance Cover

Members will be aware that the ETTA registration fee includes an amount to indemnify members against third party claims. 

Attached as img003.pdf is copy of the insurance certificate. Please note that this does not provide cover against personal injury unless you are claiming, as a third party, against those covered by this insurance. Clubs/members should make their own arrangements if they require additional or specific cover over and above that provided by the ETTA. 

2.   Minutes of 2011 Annual General Meeting

Attached as img004.pdf are the minutes of the GYDTTL AGM held in May this year. These were given DRAFT approval at a committee meeting held on 18th July 2011.

Please note that a proposed rule change ie M5  add "No team may play in any one match (other than in those in which handicap scaling is applied ) more than two players with an initially allocated handicap exceeding -10 at the start of a season or at time of registration "which was NOT CARRIED at the meeting but is not recorded.

The minutes will be amended to include this omission prior to the next AGM.

News item received from League Secretary on 31/05/11

Laws of Table Tennis. 

The ITTF/ETTA Laws for the 2011/2012 season are unchanged from the 2010/2011 season.

Copy of the Laws can be downloaded by clicking on the following link approved_laws_10-11.pdf

List of Approved Rubber Coverings. 

The ITTF list published in April 2011, which comes into force from 1st June 2011 can be downloaded  by clicking on the following link LARC_32.pdf

These will apply to our League for the 2011/2012 season.


Omissions/corrections to AGM data issued to Team Secretaries/Committee 

Proposed rule change:
M.5    Add -  No team may play in any one match ( other than those in which handicap scaling is applied ) more than two players with an initially allocated handicap exceeding -10 at the start of a season or at time of registration.

Team Registration Form:
Note ---  League and ETTA registration fees have been incorrectly reversed at bottom of form under "Payment of fees "  Please refer to top left of form for the correct figures. 

Income and expenditure account:
Other income for 2009/2010 should read   - 63.50  and not 63.50. 

The above omissions /corrections will form part of the AGM.

News item received from League Secretary on 21/12/10 

   At the League committee meeting on 6th Dec 2010 it was agreed that club secretaries and members should be made aware of two new ETTA rules together with clarification of two existing rules and the dispensation offered re league match arrangements in the first half of the season These are as follows:-

 ETTA  

1      Players may not change their bats during a game (a game consists of three or five sets) unless it is so badly accidentally,  damaged as to prevent it's further use.

 2      Bat covering rules are now extended down to local league level . The authorised list of rubbers is issued twice per year and comes into force six months after issue.

From our league viewpoint this means that the September 2010 list comes into force in April 2011.  The list may be viewed on the ETTA website   Presently we await issue of hard copy to the League.

 EXISTING RULE CLARIFICATION

1  Service    It is the players responsibility to serve in such a manner so that the umpire can visually verify that the service is legal from his adopted umpiring position.

The onus is upon the player and the umpire is entitled to refuse a request to change his position during a game.

 2  Existing rules allow an umpire to declare a let if a sudden external noise is of sufficient severity so as  to interfere with the players concentration  Additionally players are not allowed to generate such noise either by shouting or the stamping of feet  whilst the ball is in play Umpires in the first instance should call a let and warn the offender about future conduct. Any reoccurrence should lead to the loss of the point and if persistent to disqualification from that game.