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The Grand National Open Teams (GNOT) is an Australia wide event selecting up to 64 teams to play in the GNOT National Qualifying, a 3-day online event
in September.
The National Qualifying event willl qualify four teams to the National Final and eight to the Non-Metropolitan Final. Both finals will be held in Sydney in November.
Gold points are awarded for Club, Regional and National Finals. PQP's are awarded in the National Final.
PHASE ONE – CLUB & REGIONAL QUALIFICATION EVENTS
During this first phase there are club and regional qualification events. There is a $10 charge per team payable to the ABF for these qualification events.
PHASE TWO – 64 TEAM KNOCKOUT EVENT
Phase two is run online (on RealBridge) over a 3 day weekend (Friday September 19th through Sunday September 21st).
Players who are not familiar with RealBridge will be offered some training.
The format of this event is a 64 team knockout with the losing teams moving into a Swiss repechage, FOUR stanzas per day with each stanza comprising 12 boards. Each knockout match will be over two stanzas. Each match in the Swiss will be 12 boards.
The TWO teams that have not been knocked out at the conclusion of the FIFTH round will not be required to play the last two stanzas, as they will progress to the phase 3 knockout event (see below).
The TWO teams that were knocked out in the FIFTH round will join the Swiss.
At the conclusion of the Swiss, the top TWO placed teams will progress to the phase 3 knockout event (see below).
The next EIGHT highest placed non-metropolitan teams will progress to the phase 3 round robin event (see below).
To accommodate all time zones the first match will commence at 11AM AEST and the fourth stanza should finish by 5:35PM AEST.
Teams may comprise 4, 5 or 6 players.
The entry fee per team is $300.
PHASE THREE – FACE TO FACE FINALS
Phase three will comprise two separate events. There will be a 4 team knockout event and an 8 team non-metropolitan final.
The 4 team knockout event will be contested by the two teams that remained undefeated in phase two after five rounds and the top two teams from the phase two Swiss repechage.
The 8 team non-metropolitan final will be contested by the 8 highest placed non-metropolitan teams from phase two that did not qualify for the 4 team knockout final.
Non-Sydney based participants in the face to face finals will receive a travel subsidy the amount of which will be determined by the ABF based on where they are travelling from. The subsidy will be a contribution towards travel costs. Players will be required to cover the difference between the subsidy and their travel and accommodation costs themselves.
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