Chennai Sepak Takraw League

Chennai Sepak Takraw League is the next big thing as far as Sepak Takraw in chennai is concerned. Four strong teams compete in the each edition of the league in 2008 for the Team and Regu events of the game. Players from all over Tamil Nadu are drafted to clubs in which they represent and participate over the entire edition of the year.

Introduction

The Chennai Sepak Takraw League is a year long tournament that will be kicked off from 2008 May/June and will be a regular fixture every year. A total of 12 Match Days are aimed at for the first year of the league. A weekend every 3 months and some of the holidays in the year will the match days for the League. This will satisfy the needs of both full-time and part-time players since the schedule happens to be on weekends.

Tournaments

Chennai Sepak Takraw League

Will be held throughout the year on selected dates which are weekends and holidays.

Chennai Sepak Takraw Knockout Cup

A knockout Tournament that will be held during the last weekend of the year.

The League will be conducted for the Team and Regu Events. The Knockout Cup will be held for Regu and Doubles events. The Knockout Cup is a 2 day event and will be held during the last weekend of the year.

Chennai Sepak Takraw League Structure

4 Strong well balanced Teams will participate in the first year’s League.Each Team will have a minimum of 12 players.CSTL Looks to increase the number of teams to 6 by 2009.The Executive board for the league will consist of top officials who are Mentors, Well-Wishers for the League.The Operations Board for the League will consist of key innovators, officials and the captains from the respective teams.The Captains of the teams shall be decided by the Executive Board.

The Player Pool

All the players who wish to play the League shall first register to the Event.

All the Registered players will form the Centralized Player Pool.

Each Player shall indicate his position of play while registering to the event.

The Positions the players choose should one of the three broadly classified positions: Tekong(Center Back), Striker(Attacker), Supplier (Feeder)

Basically, the Centralized pool for the players shall have 3 sub pools, one for each position.

Ratings

Each player in the Centralized pool of players will have a Rating associated with him.

The Rating for the player will be decided at the Ratings meeting by the Operations Board.

Each member of the Operations Board shall rate each and every player in the Player Pool.

The Final Rating for the player will be the average of all the ratings by the members of the Operations Board.

Each Player thereby will have a rating associated with him.

The Rating of a player shall be between 1 and 100 and will not have decimal values.

Draft and Cut-Off

The Draft is a process in which the players from the player pool are moved to one of the teams.

It is carried out by the captains of the respective teams supervised by the other members of the board.

In the Draft one captain at a time gets to draft a player from the player pool to his Team.

Cut-Off is the limit that will be enforced on the captains when he is drafting players into his side.

The cumulative rating of all the players in a team shall not exceed the cut-off that is enforced on the team.

The Ratings and the cut-off shall be announced at the same time.

Draft

As mentioned earlier, The players are divided into Groups viz, Striker, Supplier, Tekong. There will be a special group of Tier 1 players where all the top players of the league will feature.

There shall be separate drafts for Tier 1 Players, Strikers, Tekongs and Suppliers.

The maximum players drafted from a particular group shall not exceed: [ (Total Players for that Group) /4 ] for a particular team.

The first draft will be held for the Tier 1 group.

The Order in which the Captains draft players from the Tier 1 Group will be decided on lots.

After the Tier 1 Group Draft, the Draft for other groups will be held.

The Order in which the Captains draft players for the remaining groups will be in the reverse order of the Tier 1 draft.

The cumulative ratings of all the players (including the captain) shall not exceed the cut-off cap enforced on the teams.

A drafted player cannot be released from the team until a Transfer Window opens.

The Lock-in Period is the time for which the player is part of the team roster.

The first draft has a lock-in period of one year.

A player cannot be drafted unless he is a part of the Centralized player pool.

Any New player must first register to the Tamilnadu Sepak Takraw Association before being drafted.

Similarly an undrafted player cannot play in the league even though he is registered to the Player pool.

Teams

Each team shall announce the Supervisor/ Manager for their team.

Each Team shall choose a Name for their Team which will be reviewed by the Operations board.

Each Team shall Choose a Color Combination for their HOME/ AWAY jerseys.

They shall also choose a LOGO that will be reviewed by the Operations Board.

Referees

Panel of referees for the tournament

Each team shall nominate 2 referees who will attend a training session.

A referee review meeting shall be held at the end of the game weekend.

The same panel shall act as a jury in case of any controversies/ Conflicts.

A head shall be named among the panel of referees whose decision shall be final in the event of any disputes/conflicts.

Awards and Accolades

Team Event League Champions Regu Event League Champions Regu Event Cup Winners Doubles Event Cup Winners Player of the Tournament (For each League Category) ‘CSTL’ Player of the year shall be the owner of a ‘PLAYER OF THE YEAR JERSEY’ for that year.

Player Performance Tracking

The Rating associated with the player is bound to change depending on the player performances in the League matches.

It increases if the player performs well and vice versa.

The statistics of each player shall be recorded and documented.

The results shall be published on the website for the league.

The news, Player profiles, pictures and video gallery from the league shall also be posted on the website regularly.

Transfer Window

Transfer Window is a one month period where the following things happen:

A player can be released from a team. A released player always moves to the player pool. A player from a team cannot be released when the total player count for a team reaches 10.

An ‘available’ player can be drafted from the Player Pool. A player cannot be drafted if he is not part of the player pool.

If more than one team tries to draft a player from the player pool, the decision lies with the player himself.

References

Rules: http://www.sepaktakraw.org/pdf/lawofthegame.pdf

External Links

Home Page: http://www.thecstl.co.cc/
* [http://tntakraw.bravehost.com/ Tamil Nadu Sepak Takraw]
* [http://www.sepak-takraw.co.uk/ English Sepak Takraw Association]
* [http://takrawusa.com/ USA Takraw Association]
* [http://www.gajahmas.com/ Gajah Emas]