George Davison Shield
1. This event is for teams of five players whose combined grading does not exceed 7000.
2. Players graded over 1650 are ineligible to play in this competition.
3. Defaulted boards count as 1400 in this competition.
4. Players with an official ECF live grading, or a provisional ECF grading, are eligible to play in this competition.
5. In the event of a drawn match, the team with the lowest combined grading shall be declared the winner.
6. A player is cup-tied to whichever team they play for first.
7. In the semi-final and final of the Kalmar Shield, no player is eligible to play for a team entered by a club unless the said player has already played at least one other game in the WDCL for that club in that particular season.
8. At each round of the competition, and before the match begins, it is the responsibility of the respective team captains to check and confirm that both their own and their opposing team complies with the grading requirements of this competition. It is assumed that this will be a straightforward exercise as all registered players will have an ECF grading available online.
9. If, on a match night, there is an error in a team-grading declaration, and the opposing captain does not raise any objections thereto, then that captain subsequently forfeits the right to make any objections regarding his opponent’s combined grading thereafter, and the teams will be automatically deemed legal for that one match. In summary, any grading disputes must be resolved contemporaneously on the night and cannot be resolved retrospectively.
10. In the event of a draw in a match between two teams that have exactly the same combined grading points, the winning team is decided by counting the board numbers of the winning boards. By way of explanation, 1 point is awarded to a team for a win on board 1, two points are awarded for a win on board 2, three points for a win on board 3, 4 points for a win on board 4 and 5 points for a win on board 5. Under this system, the team with the lowest number of points wins the match. If those scores remain the same, then the same calculation is done, but this time with defaulted losing boards counting as +1. If, after all the above, the scores still remain equal, then the team playing with black pieces on board 1, shall be declared the winner.