India Association Summer Sports

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2010

This year we have thought of implementing a new method in which summer sports can be held.The whole system is explained below

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A survey was taken to see how many people are interested in playing what all differentsports. We have got an excellent response i.e. to be exact; we have got around 90feedbacks.

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There was another survey in which each person has to rate himself in each sport from ascale of 0-10.

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Now these 90 people have been divided into 3 groups each having 30 odd people.

System in detail

A computerized system has been devised which will decide which person will go intowhat group and the system will take into consideration the following points:

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Equal no. of players in each group.

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Players who have rated themselves in the high end (7, 8, 9 and 10) will be dividedequally among the 3 groups considering all 10 sports

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Hence each group is equally strong in all sports

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Remaining players are divided in such a way that the cumulative ratings of all thegroups are almost equal

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Selection is done on the basis of individual preferences from the survey.

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Members can be added, swapped or removed from a team representing a group in asport at any point of time from within the group only, and the schedule planned forthe summer sports will not be changed. For e.g. Ina cricket match if one player is notavailable then another player from amongst the group can be selected provided he isnot playing for another team representing that group in that sport.

Now once the 3 groups are formed, let’s say we have the following 3 groups

red, white and black.

Individual Sports

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Now just consider one single red group. We have 30 players in red group. Insingles sports like badminton, squash etc. each person in the group can participatein any sport.

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There are 2 choices for doubles and mixed-doubles (Depends upon theparticipation from girls) that each individual can make.

Either he/she can have a partner from his/her own red group, in which case if they win say, badminton finals, then 10 points will be given to red group.

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Else he/she can select a partner from white or black group, in which case if theywin the badminton finals, then red group will get 5 points and the other group willget 5 points. This decision can be solely taken by the individual player.

Team Sports

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Now for team sports like cricket, 30 Playersof each group can decide how manyteams they want to field in the tournament

. Let’s say one cricket team will behaving 9 players. Then it’s the decision of 30 people from one red

group to decidehow many teams from red group will take the field in cricket tournament. It canbe 1, 2 or even 3 teams (where in 27 people out of 30 are ready to play cricket)from each red, white and blackgroup.

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Now since people may go to India in the middle of summer sports, it is better tokeep say 12 people in a cricket team even though say only 9 people will be

playing in a match. So, it’s better to keep substitutes for each team sport. The

substitutes can also be used for rotation of players as each player might not beavailable for each game.

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One more important thing is that: Consider Red group has 2 cricket teams whichareparticipating in the cricket

tournament. Let’s say one of the cricket team

fromthe Red group crashes out in the knockout stages and the other team from the Redgroup qualifies for the next round, then, players from the team which has lost(which is not qualified to play in the next stage i.e. it has been knocked outcompletely)

and has played all its matches (Even though the match may not haveany importance on the future scheduled matches)

can be incorporated into theteam which has qualified for the next stage.

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As we all know, LAN games can be enjoyed only if played with a particular teamwith whom we have practiced a lot and hence LAN games will be played with the

team of each person’s choice and there

will be no points for LAN games. It’s just

for fun.

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Number of players in Team sports are as follows:1.

Cricket

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9 Players on each team2.

Football

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9 Players on each team3.

Volleyball