Acol at BBO
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Acol at BBO
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On this page the challenging team is called the “Attack Team” and the challenged Team is called the “Defender Team”. | |
| 2 | An Attack Team may challenge any Defender Team within 3 places higher up the Ladder. (eg. Team 5 can challenge Team 4, 3 or 2.) | |
| 3 | An Attack Team may not challenge a Defender Team where those two teams have played a match against each other within the previous 14 days (but see rule 8 below). | |
| 4 | The challenge is sent by the Attack Team Captain to the Defender Team Captain, by email, specifying : | |
| a | The name of the Attack Team; | |
| b | The name of the Defender Team; | |
| c | Three proposed dates and time (UK time) for the match, all of them being on different days between 4 and 10 days after the day that the challenge is made (not including the day of the challenge). | |
| 5 | The Defender Team Captain may : | |
| a | Reject the challenge if the Attack Team and Defender Team have played a match against each other within the previous 14 days (but see rule 8 below). | |
| b | Postpone the challenge if : | |
| The Defender Team cannot field a team because of holidays for two or more of the proposed dates. | ||
| The Defender Team is already facing a challenge from another Attack Team which has not yet been played (but see rule 8 below). | ||
| In either of theses cases the Defender Team Captain shall offer alternative dates, so as to play challenges at the earliest date and in order that the challenges are received. | ||
| The Defending Team shall not be required to play more than one challenge in any period of 7 days (but see rule 8 below). | ||
| 6 | The Defender Team Captain shall otherwise reply to the Captain of the Attack Team before midnight on the 3rd following day after the message from the Laddermaster, selecting one of the offered dates. | |
| 7 | If the Defender Team Captain does not reply within the allowed 3 days the match shall be treated as won by the Attack Team. | |
| 8 | The team at the top of the ladder has no other team to challenge and so must accept a greater number of challenges. That team shall be required to play up to two challenges in any period of 7 days, and the requirement to wait 14 days in rule 3 and rule 5a shall be waived. | |