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KRVA has asked GEVA teams to provide a verifiable roster to enter tournaments in their region.

If a team wishes to enter a tournament in the KRVA region, you must print a blank "Tournament Entry Form" from the "Team Reports" item on the "Team Mgt" menu in the registration system.  Note that, by default, only the Club Director has access to this; but, they may grant access rights to any adult on the team roster.

To print the correct form, do the following:

1. Login to the "Clubs and Teams" area of the registration system.
2. If you have access to more than one club, "Add or Select Current Club" under the "Club Mgt" heading.
3. If you have access to more than one team, "Add or Select Current Team" under the "Team Mgt" heading.
4. Click on "Team Reports" under the "Team Mgt" heading.
5. Select "Tournament Entry Form".
6. Print the PDF that is displayed (Note, this required Adobe Acrobat Reader).

Our tournament system calculates rankings based on wins and losses, and the strength of the opponents played. Just like a real human would be better with more results, the mathematical formula used to calculate the rankings is more accurate with more results. Please note that the results are only valid after a team has played in at least two tournaments. For Juniors, all results between GEVA teams in USAV sanctioned competition are counted, including matches at events held outside of GEVA. Match results with non-region teams that will be entering multiple GEVA tournaments will also be counted.

For the technical at heart, here's a brief overview of the algorithm used for the ranking

Set everyone to a starting RANK of 100.
  Do {
     For each team
        Average this value for each set played:
            opponent's ranking from last cycle +/- a win value of 25
            (win value is 35 for a playoff match)
  } Until all values change by less than 0.01  for a cycle