As the opening of our League, We encourage everyone to participate in the SEAL Tournament. Today, we are proud to announce to you the Tournament's Regulations, Team Pairings, and Schedules.

First of all we will start to Tournament Regulations. Unfortunately, we will only show the partial rules to our tournament, we will compile all the rules as soon as possible. But for now, we will just move on to simple rules:

The SEA League is conducted fully in line with the Chess.com Basic Site Rules, and these are applicable in the same way and to the same extent to all teams and players.
When the dates and pairings for each round are announced, the respective teams must send the challenge to the other teams, and the other teams must promptly accept it.
The following provisions also apply:
(a) where no challenge is issued by either side then the match will be scored as a loss for both teams;

(b) where a challenge has been issued but is not accepted before the Start Date, then the team issuing the challenge will be declared the winner of that match;

(c) where a challenge has been accepted and one or both teams do not enter the required minimum number of players, then the matter will be dealt with as the SEAL Management decides.
As soon as a challenge is accepted, a contact representative for the accepting side must immediately send the match link in a message to the SEAL Management at the following address: SEAL Standard Tournament 2014 (LINKS), SEAL Chess 960 Tournament 2014 (LINKS) and SEAL Vote Chess Tournament 2014 (LINKS)
All teams must lock their rosters by UTC 24:00 on the Start Date, after which play will begin. If a team has not yet locked, it is still strictly forbidden to add more players after the time for locking has passed, except where this is necessary to make up the required minimum number of players for any match. Any team breaking this rule will incur whatever penalties the SEAL Management decides upon, including loss of match points or forfeiture. Any team seeking the benefit of this rule must immediately inform the SEAL Management by contacting one of the persons, and must provide proper evidence to support their claim.
Once a match is completed, the winning team should send in the result as soon as possible to the following address:Chess Leagues
Any points received by a team from a player banned by Chess.com during the match will be cancelled, and the opposing team will receive one additional point for each such player, in accordance with the following table:

Original result

Adjusted result

Banned player

Opponent

Banned player

Opponent

2

0

0

2

1.5

0.5

0

1.5

1

1

0

2

0.5

1.5

0

2

0

2

0

2

In case both players have been banned the games will be scored as zero for both teams.
In case two teams in a division have the same final points score in the standings table, then the Neustadtl Score System is used to resolve this tie. If the teams are still tied then their individual match point totals are used to determine the result.

15. All groups and teams participating in theSouth East Asian League agree to comply with these Rules and Regulations. Country administrators are responsible for informing their players and implementing these Rules and Regulations within their respective groups.

16. All claims in relation to these Rules should be addressed to one of the SEA League’s SAs, either RayDuqueIII or Jarb_Rafel.

Tournament Overview
- The winner of the Tournament is the South East Asian League CHAMPION for that year.
- For each match won, the winning team receives 1 point.
- For each match lost, the losing team receives 0 points.
- For each match drawn, the teams receive 0.5 points each.
- No points are received by any team for a bye.
- The round robin tournament system is used in all tournament.
- Vacation time is allowed in all matches.
Settings:
- Match names should be: SEAL 2014 Round (#...) Team ... vs. Team .... .Example: SEAL 2014 Round 1: Team Philippines United vs. Team Indonesia
- Days per move: 3 days/move.
- There is no minimum or maximum rating.
- Minimum games must always be set at ten (10).
- Maximum players in a team: no restriction.
- Minimum players in a team:
- Concurrent games: 2
- No Auto Start.
- Games are rated.

Then, we will proceed to Team Pairings. So far, these are the teams who are now signing up to the tournament:

1.Team Indonesia

2.Team Philippines United

3.Cambodia

4.Việt Nam

and this is the partial pairings:

ROUND 1

Team Indonesia	0=0	Team Philippines United
Cambodia	0=0	Việt Nam

ROUND 2
Team Indonesia	0=0	Cambodia
Việt Nam	0=0	Team Philippines United

ROUND 3
Team Indonesia	0=0	Việt Nam
Team Philippines United	0=0	Cambodia

This are the given sets of partial schedules for this year:

Standard chess: matches begin on May 24, August 04 and October 15.

Chess 960: matches begin on June 17, August 28 and November 08.

Vote Chess: matches begin on July 11, September 21 and December 02.

Goodluck Everyone!

South East Asian League HQ

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