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1 Introduction At Coachbet you compete against other participants in tournaments selecting a team consisting of eleven football players to make up a team of your predicted top performing football players in the matches that the tournament you are playing are based on. You are given 1.000.000 units of the fictive currency CBC (Coachbet Credits) to spend on building your team. All football players have fictive CBC prices and you must not spend more CBC than you have. Your team is then awarded points according to a scoring matrix based on how your selected football players have performed in the matches the tournament is based on. The object of the game is to receive as many points as possible and beat the other participants in the tournament. To enter a tournament all participants must bet the same stake. After the tournament is over, the pot made up of all stakes is paid out to the winner or winners according to a predetermined set of pot distribution rules. At Coachbet.com you have the possibility to participate in to two types of tournaments, public and invitational tournaments. Public tournaments are created by Coachbet staff and open to all users, whereas invitational tournaments are created by users and requires an invitation to be able to enter. 2 Public tournaments Public tournaments are created by Coachbet and open to anyone to enter. All details, such as league, rounds, matches, stake and tournament parameters of a tournament are determined by Coachbet when the tournament is created. 2.1 Tournament name All tournaments have a unique name. 2.2 League, rounds and matches Each tournament is based on a league, for example Swedish Allsvenskan. A tournament can consist of one or multiple rounds from the league it is based on. The main difference between public and invitational tournaments in terms of rounds and matches is that public tournaments can consist of rounds where one or more matches have been deselected beforehhand. Invitational tournaments can only be based on full rounds, i.e. all matches will count. 2.3 Deadline Public tournaments can be entered up until the deadline for the tournament is reached. The deadline is always the start date and time of the first match in the first round of the tournament. 2.4 Stake The stake is the amount of money a user has to bet in order to enter the tournament. 2.5 Pot Each tournament has an individual pot where all bets are pooled. The pot is distributed to the winner(s) after the tournament has been settled in accordance with the tournament's predefined pot distribution rules. 2.6 Pot distribution rules Every tournament has its own pot distribution rules, which determine how the pot will be split between the users with the highest points for their teams. 2.7 Formation In order to enter a team into a tournament the user has to select a formation for his or her team. Depending of how the tournament has been set up the user can choose between one or several of the formations below: 3-5-2 4-3-3 4-4-2 4-5-1 5-3-2 5-4-1 The numbers in the formations above determine how many defenders, midfielders and attackers that should be in team. For example, if a user chooses 4-4-2, he or she must select 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and 2 attackers in addition to 1 goalkeeper. All formations consist of 1 goalkeeper in addition to a combination of outfield players. 2.8 Tactics A tournament can be set up to allow tactics or to not allow tactics. If tactics are allowed a user who enters the tournament has to make a choice of tactics for his or her team. If tactics are not allowed all teams in the tournament will by default use the neutral tactics. The choice of tactics decides which scoring matrix will be used to score the team a user has entered. If a user chooses the defend tactics, the defend scoring matrix will be used, and so on. If the tournament is based on more than one round and it allows changes between rounds, users can change tactics between rounds. The scoring matrixes corresponding to the three different tactics are displayed below: 
2.9 Players The league, rounds and matches the tournament is based on determines what players are available for selection. For example, in a tournament based on the English Premier League users will only be able to select players who plays for clubs in English Premier League. Maximum number of players from the same club Every tournament has a value between X and 11 that determines how many players from the same club a user can select for his or her team. 2.10 Budget boost If the tournament allows it, a user can use this feauture to increase the amount of fictive money (CBC) available. The extra money that a user bets to use the budget boost functions is pooled in the tournament pot the same way as the stake the user bets in order to enter the tournament. In tournaments that does not allow budget boost, is greyed out and is not clickable. In tournaments that allow budget boost, the relation between cost and extra CBC received is always the same: 1st budget boost gives the user an extra 100.000 CBC and costs 10% of tournament stake. 2st budget boost gives the user an extra 100.000 CBC and costs 20% of tournament stake. 3st budget boost gives the user an extra 100.000 CBC and costs 30% of tournament stake. 2.11 Team name When a user enters a team into a tournament he or she has to give the team a name. 3 Invitational tournaments Invitational tournaments are created by users and requires an invitation to enter. All details, such as league, rounds, matches, stake and tournament parameters of an invitational tournament are determined by the user who creates the tournament. 3.1 Tournament name All tournaments have a unique name. 3.2 Rounds and matches Each tournament is based on a league, for example Swedish Allsvenskan. A tournament can consist of one or multiple rounds from the league it is based on. The main difference between public and invitational tournaments in terms of rounds and matches is that public tournaments can consist of rounds where one or more matches have been deselected beforehhand. Invitational tournaments can only be based on full rounds, i.e. all matches will count. 3.3 Deadline Invitational tournaments can be entered up until the deadline for the tournament is reached. The deadline is always the start date and time of the first match in the first round of the tournament. 3.4 Stake The stake is the amount of money a user has to bet in order to enter the tournament. 3.5 Pot Each tournament has an individual pot where all bets are pooled. The pot is distributed to the winner(s) after the tournament has been settled in accordance with the tournament's predefined pot distribution rules. 3.6 Pot distribution rules Every tournament has its own pot distribution rules, which determine how the pot will be split between the users with the highest points for their teams. For invitational tournaments, the pot distribution rules are set up by the creator of the tournament and are expressed in percentages of the pot awarded to the top 10 best placed users in the tournament. The tournament creator can choose to allocate 100% of the pot when setting up the pot distribution rules to a single winner or spread out portions of the 100% to the two to ten best placed participants. 3.7 Formation In order to enter a team into a tournament the user has to select a formation for his or her team. Depending of how the tournament has been set up the user can choose between one or several of the formations below: 3-5-2 4-3-3 4-4-2 4-5-1 5-3-2 5-4-1 The numbers in the formations above determine how many defenders, midfielders and attackers that should be in team. For example, if a user chooses 4-4-2, he or she must select 4 defenders, 4 midfielders and 2 attackers in addition to 1 goalkeeper. All formations consist of 1 goalkeeper in addition to a combination of outfield players. 3.8 Tactics A tournament can be set up to allow tactics or to not allow tactics. If tactics are allowed a user who enters the tournament has to make a choice of tactics for his or her team. If tactics are not allowed all teams in the tournament will by default use the neutral tactics. The choice of tactics decides which scoring matrix will be used to score the team a user has entered. If a user chooses the defend tactics, the defend scoring matrix will be used, and so on. If the tournament is based on more than one round and it allows changes between rounds, users can change tactics between rounds. The scoring matrixes corresponding to the three different tactics are displayed below:
3.9 Players The league, rounds and matches the tournament is based on determines what players are available for selection. For example, in a tournament based on the English Premier League users will only be able to select players who plays for clubs in English Premier League. 3.10 Maximum number of players from the same club Every tournament has a value between X and 11 that determines how many players from the same club a user can select for his or her team. 3.11 Budget boost If the tournament allows it, a user can use this feauture to increase the amount of fictive money (CBC) available. The extra money that a user bets to use the budget boost functions is pooled in the tournament pot the same way as the stake the user bets in order to enter the tournament. In tournaments that does not allow budget boost, is greyed out and is not clickable. In tournaments that allow budget boost, the relation between cost and extra CBC received is always the same: 1st budget boost gives the user an extra 100.000 CBC and costs 10% of tournament stake. 2st budget boost gives the user an extra 100.000 CBC and costs 15% of tournament stake. 3st budget boost gives the user an extra 100.000 CBC and costs 20% of tournament stake. 3.12 Team name When a user enters a team into a tournament he or she has to give the team a name. Every tournament has its own pot distribution rules, which determine how the pot will be split between the participants with the highest points. The pot distribution rules are set up by the creator with the rest of the tournament parameters and are expressed in percentages of the pot awarded to the top 10 best placed participants in the tournament. The tournament creator can choose to allocate 100% of the pot when setting up the pot distribution rules to a single winner or spread out portions of the 100% to the two to ten best placed participants. 4 Scoring As matches are played, the results are entered into the system by Coachbet and consequently the teams participating in tournaments are scored. Results are normally entered into the system the same day as a match is played. 4.1 Sources for results Coachbet does not award points for any subjective performances and uses only official sources for match and player results. Coachbet is not responsible for any errors published in these sources. 4.2 Abandoned and postponed matches A match which is abandoned or postponed from its original date and kick-off time with more than 24 hours will be removed from any tournaments it is included in, which means that users who have selected players from a club involved in an abonded or postponed match will not receive any points for these players' performances. 4.3 How teams are scored Depending on a user team's tactics, one of the following matrixes will be used for scoring each team.
A player can receive points in two categories, individual performance and club performance. Below is an explanation of all performances that are awarded with points. Individual performances
Club performances
5 Changes If a tournament is based on more than one round and allows changes, users will be able to change their teams when the tournament he or she is playing in is open for changes. Tournaments are opened for changes as soon as the results of a round have been entered into the system and all user teams have been scored. A user can change the following aspects of his or her team:
If allowed in the tournament, the budget boost can also be used by users to increase the CBC budget. Tournaments are closed for changes when the first match in the next round starts. 5.1 Player value changes All players have fictive CBC prices which are updated by Coachbet continously and subjectively according to the player's performances relative to other players' performances. When a player's value is changed it will immediately be updated throughot the system, with one exception: The player will remain with his old value in any user team's where he is already selected with the old value. That old value will remain constant until the user removes the player and the tournament the user plays in is closed for changes. 6 Settling of tournaments When all matches of all rounds in a tournament have been played, results entered and participating teams scored, the tournament is settled which means that the net pot is paid out to the winner(s) according to the pot distribution rules that were set up the tournament was created. |
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