1.
No
team will get a substitute in advance or by any other means than the procedure
outlined below.
2.
Assignment of substitute players to teams is handled by the substitute-selection
officer only.
3. A
signup sheet will be placed on the board located by the recreation assistant’s
office.
4. Any
team with a roster containing less than four players will be placed at the top
of the team signup list in ascending team-number sequence by the
substitute-selection officer prior to posting on the board.
5.
Teams needing a substitute will sign up on the board indicating number of
players needed and the tables on which they are scheduled to play.
6.
Players wishing to play as a substitute will sign up on the board.
7.
Substitute selection for a play period occurs immediately following the
announcements prior to the start of that play period.
8.
Players are assigned to teams by drawing pills in a series of rounds. Each
round consists of all teams that still need a substitute player.
9.
Prior to the drawing the exact number of numbered pills needed (equal to the
number of available substitute players) are placed in the pill-bottle by the
substitute-selection officer.
10. No team will receive
more than one substitute player in any round.
11. Players are assigned
to a team by the substitute-selection officer drawing a numbered pill from the
pill-bottle that corresponds to the numbered player on the player list.
12. In a selection
round, each team on the list will be assigned one player in the chronologic
order that they signed up until each team that signed up has received one player
or until the available substitute players have been exhausted.
13. If one or more teams
require more than one player then additional rounds will be conducted with those
teams. Additional players will be assigned one at a time to the teams
requiring those players in the chronologic order that each team signed up as
above.
14. If one of the
players for which a substitute has been assigned arrives late the captain shall
decide if the substitute player will continue to play or if the late-arriving
player will step in after completion of the current game. Captains should
weigh the rewarding of unwanted tardiness against any mitigating circumstance.
15. If a team obtains a
substitute player outside of the procedure listed above, that player will be
required to stop play immediately upon discovery. Any games won by the
pair with the unauthorized substitute shall be awarded to the opposing team.
Furthermore, the person on the team left playing by themselves will only be able
to win 3 games at most during the match. The remaining points are credited
to the opposing team.