Sandstorm Beach Club - Competition Policies

Social competition rules & conditions

The following provides a summary of the rules and conditions that apply to competitions at Sandstorm Beach Club.

General Conditions

All players compete at their own risk.
The Sandstorm Beach Club provides all necessary equipment and officials, with all matches played in accordance with the latest version of the FIVB Beach Volleyball Rule Book (with necessary amendments), Beach Soccer, Beach Touch, Beachminton and Beach Netbal Rule Regulations.
Team Captains are requested to contact Sandstorm Beach Club one week prior to the commencement of each season to confirm their first match time.
Junior teams are permitted to compete in the open-age competitions.

Competition Seasons

Sandstorm Beach Club operates three competition seasons per year, with each season running for approximately 17 weeks.
Please note that a 2-week break exists, with no matches being played over the Christmas-New Year season, and no matches played during the Easter period (Good Friday to Easter Sunday).
Games will be played on other selected Public Holidays. These will be advertised when teams receive their Team Draw for the season.

Game Fees

All Game Fees are a "Team Fee" and are to be paid, in full, prior to teams taking to the court.
Click here for Game Fees.

Team Registration Bond

The Team Registration Bond is the equivalent of one game fee paid when nominating the team.
The bond secures a place in the competition for the season.
When a team completes all its scheduled matches for the season, the bond will be refunded or alternatively transferred to the following season. Any teams not playing in the following season can collect their bond after the completion of Grand Finals for the season in which they are currently playing.
Should a team forfeit a game, the bond will be taken as payment for the game and another bond will be payable prior to the teams next scheduled game.

Team Nominations

Team Nominations can be lodged at anytime throughout the course of the season.
Where possible, teams will be entered into the competition immediately.
In the event that a competition is full, or a team does not wish to enter the competition immediately, these teams will be placed on a Waiting List.
Team Nominations will not be accepted unless accompanied by a Team Registration Bond.

Membership

All players must become Sandstorm Beach Club Members by their third game.
The Sandstorm Beach Club Membership entitles you to play at the venue, in any number of teams on any number of nights.
Any non-member players playing in their fourth game will incur a penalty against their team of 10 points, and will be unable to participate in any further games until they become Sandstorm Members.
For full details on Sandstorm Beach Club Membership, please refer to the Members page.

Game Duration

Refer to the appropriate beach sport page:

Game Times

Late Start Policy

All games will start at the advertised time.
Any teams delaying the start of a game will be penalised 1 point for every minute, or part thereof, before the game commences.
If a team is not available to commence the match before the completion of Set 1, the match will be declared a forfeit.

Team Uniforms

All teams are required to compete in uniforms, this includes all substitute and fill-in players.

Game Reschedules (policy ammended on 7.4.08)

All reschedules MUST be approved by the competition manager at least 24 hours prior to scheduled game time.
If the 24 hours lead time is not given, the game will be a forfeit and the team will lose its bond and competition points. Requests submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.
Reschedules must be played within 3 weeks of the original game.
There is a maximum of 3 reschedules per team per season.
A team cannot reschedule a semi-final or a Grand finals game.
A team cannot reschedule an already rescheduled game.
Any match needing to be rescheduled from Weeks 14 and 15 must be brought forward to an earlier date.
Any request for a reschedule made after week 13 will not be granted.
Click here to view full policy.

Rain Affected Nights

Where weather may interrupt the conducting of games for a day/night, we request that the Team Captain contact Sandstorm Beach Club, 30 minutes prior to their team's scheduled game start time, to confirm if games are to proceed.
Where possible a decision to reschedule all games on an evening will be made by 5.30pm for weeknight competitions and 30 minutes to the scheduled start time for weekend competitions.
Games from these days/nights will be rescheduled to the earliest available Friday evening or Saturday or Sunday afternoon, dates of which will be advertised.
Please be aware that due to the nature of beach volleyball being an "outdoor" sport, there will be times when games are played in some "wet" conditions - player safety will never be compromised.

Finals Eligibility

To be eligible to compete in the Finals Series, a team must have completed a minimum of five games throughout the regular season.
To be eligible to play for a team in the Final Series, a player must have completed a minimum of five games throughout the regular season.
All teams must be financial to be eligible for the Finals Series.
There will be no exceptions to the rules above.
Any team playing non-members and/or ineligible players in Finals Games will be disqualified from all subsequent Finals Games.

Finals Game Times

All finals dates & times have been set well in advance to give all players maximum time to arrange their own schedules to be available for these games.
These dates and times will not be altered.
Team Captains are requested to contact Sandstorm Beach Club the day after their final regular season game to confirm their final ranking and subsequent Finals Game times.
In the event of Finals Games being adversely affected by weather, these games will be rescheduled to the earliest possible date.
Finals Game times will be advertised a minimum of 4 weeks prior to the completion of regular season games

To nominate, click here. (You can nominate as a team or individual player).
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