From Monday 19th October to Friday 6th November 2009, take part in the first major basketball competition in Empire of Sports for your chance to win real Le Coq Sportif T-shirts and polo shirts!
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This event is open to any club that wishes to take part and that has a basketball team made up of at least five active members.
Each team must choose a captain to be their representative for dialogue with the organising members of the Empire of Sports Team, especially EoS Jack.
Details about the Cup
The first week of the competition is exclusively dedicated to group games.
Participating teams are grouped in fours. Each team plays once against every team of its group and at the end of this first week, the two clubs with the best scores are qualified for the next round.
Each group game allows teams to win qualification points as follows:
· Victory: 3 pts
· Draw: 1 pt
· Defeat: 0 pts
In the event of equal scores on both sides at the end of normal playing time during group games, no extra time is played and the game is called a draw.
Following group games, the competition will turn into a knock out competition, meaning that any defeated team is eliminated from the Basketball Trophy 2009.
For each game, one of the two teams is chosen to be the host and the Captain of that team is responsible for creating the game and assigning players to their respective teams.
Games must be created as follows:
· Mode: Friendly competition
· Type of match: 5 vs 5
· Length of quarter: 2 minutes (total length of match: 8 minutes)
Basketball Trophy 2009 games must be played between 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. (GMT+1 Paris, Berlin, Madrid…). Captains of teams supposed to meet must agree on a time to play their game. Should no agreement be made between the two captains, the game would automatically be set for an 8 p.m. start.
In the event of a draw at the end of normal playing time, 2 minutes of extra time are added to the clock. If after the 2 minutes of extra time none of the teams has managed to take the upper hand, 2 more minutes are added as the game goes into “sudden death”, meaning that the first team to score is declared the winner of the game.
Warning: Teams can only play matches if at least one of their players is present at the beginning of a game. Missing teammates are replaced with bots (handled by the game’s AI).
If none of the team members shows up at the time given for the game, the team is considered to have withdrawn from the competition and automatically loses the game.
If neither of the two teams shows up, they are both be disqualified and eliminated from the competition.
