Soccer Tournament 2006
From GRA
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Overview
The NIST Guest Researcher Association is organizing its annual Soccer Tournament on Thursday 29th June in the NIST Main Campus. Place: Soccerfield near Bldg. 226 Time : from 11 am to 2:00 pm.
This event is free and is sponsored by COMSTAR Federal Credit Union and SEBA. Free refreshment will be served and prizes will be offered to the winner team. Anyone from NIST is welcome to participate. You are looking for a team or have one already, sign up by sending an email to GRA or jperez@nist.gov. Thus, no complete team is required to sign up: If you don't have a team we'll find one for you! An application form can be downloaded here. THE DEADLINE FOR TEAM AND INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSIONS HAS NOW PASSED Please note that we're also looking for volunteer referees for the games; contact the GRA if interested.
Pictures
| Winners of the Session 2005 | Session 2006 pictures |
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Teams
The following is a complete list of teams and individual players registered for the tournament. The rules, waiver of the tournament follows the list.
| The Serminators | The Gypsy Kings | Syzygy | Nut Crunchers | The Angry Bunnies |
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| Boonserm Kulvatunyou
Sandor Szabo Sebti Foufou Arvind Balijepalli Joey Robertson Cedric Gagnon John Wright |
Vincent Delaurent Sydney Henrard Jens Bakoczy David Benatti Johannes Geissbuehler Sylvain Barbeys Dominique Berton Laura Beasman |
Dick Gates Ali Navidi Marco Fernandez Jim Fort Igor Miletic Andrea Panara Rene Peralta |
Damien Bertot Steve Woon Cyril Clerici Eric Otema Emmanouel Hourdakis Nicolas Chevrollier Julio Perez |
Michael Newman Mark Reitsma Jereme Gilbert Eduardo Gomez Sergey Polyakov Edward Schwartz Cody Dunne Hao Xiong |
| Red Devils | Team NCNR | SURF - BFRL | Polyfires | Chris' Flatulent Boll Weevils |
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| Kang Jae Lee
Che Bong Joung Jaehwa Jeong Hyun Wook Ro Jungyub Woo Jaewook Kim Sung Chan Kim |
Bryan Greenwald Juscelino Leao Lionel Porcar Craig Brown Richard Azuah Jeff Krzywon Sam Forry |
Hillary Sackett Joshua Goldman Jeff Keslin Chad Althouse Emily Fortuna Ryan Travers Carrie Walker |
Jeff Simpson Pascal Naidon Mathurin Neillon Mauro Zammarano Sameer S Rahatekar Reto Haggenmueller Vardhan Bajpai |
Brian Fisher Michael Huber Philip Lawson Nather Meier Pieter Mumm Dmitry Pushin Liang Yang Robert Cooper |
| The Kielbasas | CSAU-ARMADA |
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| Michal Baczynski
Nicholas Andrews Rick Cox Espen Sandnes André Craens Alan Lytle Kamel Saidi Marcin Kociolek |
Jian Zheng Li Zhang Hai Xu Wen Li Feifei Li Zhigang Li Daniel Yifu Ding |
Tournament Rules
- Tournament rules are determined by the GRA board and can be changed by the GRA till the start of the tournament.
- The teams are composed of 7 Players, 6 on the field at one time, one for substitution. Teams can substitute at any time. However we may authorize up to 2 substitutes in order to accomodate the players who have no team to play with.
- The “goalie” cannot use his hands or arms to stop the ball. The goalie is allowed to block the ball with his hands of arms for self protection, but if the ball is stopped by hands or arms when it would have gone into the goal without the use of hands or arms, it shall be judged and counted as a goal by the referee.
- There are no penalty shots.
- There is no offside rule.
- If there is a handball and the player did it intentionally or gains advantage it will be called an indirect free kick for the other team. If it was unintentional and no advantage is gained, handball will not be called.
- For goal kicks, corner kicks, restarting the game after an injury timeout, restarting the game after a handball etc., the ball will be placed on the ground, the initiating player will be given a 10 meter buffer, and the initiating player will pass the ball to restart play. There are no direct free kicks.
- The qualifying games will last 15 minutes. There will be a 5 minutes rest between each game.
- The qualifying games are composed of five matches where each team competes against the other teams once.
- Following the qualifying games, the four best teams will be selected for the semi-finals.
- The selected teams will be the ones with the two highest points resulting from the qualifying games.
- Following the semi-finals, the winning two teams will be selected for the final.
- Any of this qualification rules can be modified the day of the event to accomodate the number of teams that we get on the event's day.
The points calculation will be as follows: o For each qualifying game: 3 points are given to the winner o 1 point is given to each team for a tie o 0 point is given to the defeated team
- Goal average will be used to select the qualified teams in case of a tie after the points calculation. The final game will last 20 minutes. In case of a tie at the end of the 20 minutes, the golden goal rule will be used.
- Please bring a white T-Shirt and a dark T-Shirt with you on the day of the event !
The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows:
a) greatest number of points obtained in all group matches; b) goal difference in all group matches; c) greatest number of goals scored in all group matches. If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows: d) greatest number of points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned; e) goal difference resulting from the group matches between the teams concerned; f) greater number of goals scored in all group matches between the teams concerned; g) drawing of lots by the Organizing Committee.
Game rules
The spirit of the tournament is to be friendly and fun, not overly physical or aggressive. As such, slide tackling, pushing, body checks, and “bumps off the ball” will be considered fouls. Fouls will result in either a 1 minute or 2 minute penalty (at the discretion of the referee) for the player committing the foul and the team must play with one fewer player for the length of the penalty. A rough game, as determined by the referee, may result in the disqualification of the team.
- Any body check or slide tackle will result in sending out the player for two minutes.
- offside: one defender in front required (goalie).
Sponsors & Prizes
The Tournament has been generously sponsored this year by Comstar, SEBA, Dogfish Head Ale House and Giant
- Chipotle sponsored the first price, which is a complete dinner for the winning team after the tournament!
Phone: 301-926-3875 Address: 96 Main Street, Gaithersburg, MD
- The second prize is from CiCi's and is good for a second buffet for free for the whole team!
Phone: (301) 869-1006 Address: 642 Quince Orchard Rd., Gaithersburg, MD
- The third team gets a $25 cheque that can be spend on food at the DogFish Head Alehouse!
Phone: (301) 963-4847 Address: 800 W Diamond Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20878
Waiver, Release of Liability and Tournament Rules for GRA Soccer Tournament 2006
IMPORTANT- READ BEFORE SIGNING! In consideration of being participant in the 2006 GRA soccer tournament, the undersigned agrees to the following:
1. I acknowledge and I fully understand that I will be engaging in activities that might involve physical risk and/or serious injuries.
2. I assume entire responsibility of my actions, and total coverage of my personal medical expenses and/or any kind of monetary issue related, in case of an accident during the sporting event.
3. I release of liability the association (all members of the GRA), and sponsors of any inconvenience incurred during the tournament.
4. I acknowledge that I received and read a copy of the GRA Soccer Tournament rules before participating to the GRA Soccer Tournament.
I agree to play by the following GRA Soccer Tournament Rules (See following pages).
I HAVE READ THE ABOVE WAIVER AND UNDERSTAND THAT I HAVE GIVEN UP SUBSTANTIAL RIGHTS BY SIGNING IT VOLUNTARILY.
Please, fill out clearly the personal information requested below
Participant's name: _______________________________
E-mail:_______________________________________ Extension number:__________
Date (MM/DD/YY):___________
Signature:________________
