DOMINOS
DOMINOES
SCHEDULE AND LOCATION
Saturday, December 7, 2019
Northwest Focal Point Senior Center
66009 NW 10th Street
Margate, Florida 33063
10 a.m. – Check-in
11:30 a.m. – Competition begins
FLORIDA SENIOR GAMES QUALIFYING RULES
OPEN – no qualification performance is necessary.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
1. Dominoes entry fee is $20 per participant and includes
an event T-shirt. T-shirts will be distributed on-site at
designated competition check-in time. A short survey will
be required to be completed at check-in. This survey can
be found online at floridaseniorgames.com, and can be
completed in advance and brought to check-in.
2. All mailed entries must be received by November
15, 2019, or register online by November 17, 2019,
at floridaseniorgames.com. Late entries may be accepted
at the discretion of the Event Director. Athletes registering
after November 17, 2019, are not guaranteed a T-shirt.
3. Entry forms, waiver of liability and entry fee should be
made payable to the Florida Sports Foundation (FSF).
Save a stamp and beat the deadline! Register online
at floridaseniorgames.com.
4. Dominoes and tables shall be provided.
FORMAT
1. This is a Multiple Partners Tournament: individual, random
partners, to be played over seven (7) rounds of one Set each
round.
2. A special system will be used whereby at all times the player
ranked first at the start of a new Round, will always partner
with the player ranked 3rd to play against the player ranked
2nd partnered with the player ranked 4th on table 1.
3. On table 2 the player ranked 5th will partner with 7th
against player ranked 6th partnered with 8th, etc., etc., etc.
This principle will apply for each Round except the first
Round where the table assignments will be drawn by a
computer program.
4. The first pair to win six (6) games, wins the Set, thereby
winning that Round.
5. Based on each player’s accumulated score at the end of a
Round, a new partner will likely qualify in the next Round
for the position of the previous partner. However, it is
possible that when the scores are very close, a player could
be assign the same partner more than once, all as a result of
the computer program.
6. Win or lose, all players will compete in each of the seven (7)
Rounds.
7. At the end of the seventh Round, the player with the
highest accumulated score wins the Tournament.
8. The accumulated scores principle will apply throughout
the tournament, such that the player with the highest
accumulated score wins 1st Prize, all alone, by him/her self,
and so on for 2nd, 3rd, etc., a single winner each place.
20 2019 FLORIDA SENIOR GAMES REGISTRATION BOOK
SPORTS RULES
1. Each Round will begin and end promptly. As For late
arrivals, penalty games will be added to each violator’s
accumulated score as follows: • 1 minute – 1 game • 5
minutes – 2 games • 6 minutes – The individual violator only
forfeits with a 0/6 loss
2. “Rotation of pose” format will at the beginning of a Round,
the dominoes will be shuffled, face down. Before sitting,
each player will blindly draw a single domino, and whoever
draws the highest card will be the 1st poser. THERE ARE NO
TIES AT THIS STAGE: 6/1 BEATS 4/3, 5/2 BEATS 4/3, 3/1 BEATS
2/2, ETC. Play will proceed anti-clockwise. “Rotation of pose”
will continue in all other games. NOTE: Make a mark on
the scorecard beside the 1st Poser’s name so as to ensure
accuracy in the rotation…..which means partners may not
exchange positions.
3. There will be no drinking, nor use of cellular phones during
the play. Violators will be warned first for time wasting, then
be penalized one game if repeated. Absolutely no smoking
allowed in the room.
4. At his/her turn to play, each player may only move his/
her hand towards, a single domino in the holder. Once
indicated, that domino must be played. No changes which
could construe many different “things.”
5. Doubles must be posed horizontally in the center of the
table, Non-doubles must be posed adjacently with the
larger side to the partner.
6. After each play is made, the space from which the domino
to played was removed must remain open. The remaining
unplayed dominoes may not be touched.
7. There are NO ONE-AWAYS in this the player who violates
loses 1 game, but his partner does not. The opponents do
not earn a game from a violation, but do have the option to
continue that game, or abandon it. If abandoned, the next
player in line will pose any domino. Not the last poser, not
double six. The rotation must continue, regardless.
8. At 1-all (that is one hand/game won by each Multiple
Partner team) the set will No restarts. • In the event of a
Blocked hand/game, the player with the lowest count wins
that game for him and his we are scoring by hands won.
Combined count is not applicable.
9. If the lowest individual score on one side is tied with that
of an opponent, the following hand/game will be played for
a 2 games win….except when one pair already has 5 games
won….then the tie-breaker must be played for 1 game.
10. The next player in the “Rotation of pose” sequence must
pose any domino, to start this and every Derby/Tiebreaker.
NOT DOUBLE Remember? 6/6 IS UNIMPORTANT!
11. If there are consecutive Derby hands/games, the team
which finally wins after these Tiebreakers will still win 2
games only, and 1 only where 5 games were already THE
JUDGES’ DECISIONS ARE FINAL!
NATIONAL SENIOR GAMES QUALIFYING RULES
Dominoes is not a program of the National Senior Games.
FSF STAFF CONTACT
OJ Hill, (850) 410-5286 or ojhill@flasports.com
STATE DIRECTOR
Mayor Hazelle Rogers, (954) 914-3667
or hazelle@hrogers08.com