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BIRMINGHAM 2025 WORLD POLICE & FIRE GAMES OFFICIAL GAMES ENTRY BOOK
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A competitor who has entered a sport in the
Singles/Individual competition, but who does
not have a partner/team for the Doubles or Team
event, may request to be placed in a competitors’
“pool” for draw of a partner/team. To do so,
enter the event, pay the event fees and check the
column on the Sports Entry Form or the check box
if entering on-line, which indicates that you do not
have a partner/team. WPFG will make every effort
to satisfy a “pool” request, however, it cannot be
guaranteed. Therefore, anyone entering a pool
event must be entered into another non-pool
sport/event in the Games.
In Basketball 3x3, Cross Country (Team), Dragon
Boats, Karate (Team), Half Marathon/Road Race
(Team), Triathlon and T.C.A. competitors may
enter the pool for a partner or team as long as they
are entered in another sport in the Games.
A request for a specific partner in the pool will NOT
be honored. Pooling is conducted by the WPFG
Federation only. Once formed by pooling, Doubles
and Teams will not be allowed to alter their makeup
to exclude a pooled member. If a late entry enters
a Doubles or Team event which has already been
completed by a “Pool” entry, that late entry shall
not take the place of the “Pool” entry. The late
entry may enter the “Pool” and be assigned to a
Doubles Team/Team, if possible.
After the Bracketing Committee has approved the
sports’ brackets, no further pooling requests will
be accepted. Competitors who have entered a pool,
but were not teamed during bracketing, may be
substituted on a previously entered, eligible team,
which has lost a member for legitimate reasons
before competition begins. If the previously
entered team elects to accept a substitute from
the pooled entrants’ available, selection shall be
made by “random” drawing.
BRACKETING/SCHEDULING
If only one person/team enters any event, that
person/team will be combined in the next most
reasonable category of the sport.
EXCEPTIONS:
1. Competitor Option in Changing Divisions:
Entrants have the option NOT to be combined
as stated above.
2. Single Entrant: In Individual events where an
opponent is not needed for actual competition,
if only one person enters and cannot be
combined or that person elects not to be
combined, the event will be scheduled. In all
events requiring weigh-ins, where only one
person enters, the event will be scheduled.
Push-Pull Lifting and Bench Press classes
require only one entrant to hold the event.
Top scoring events in shooting sports, which
cannot be combined, may be conducted even
though only one competitor is entered.
Any events scheduled by the Bracketing Committee
will be held and medals awarded regardless of
the number of competitors that show. If only one
competitor actually shows for an event, he/she
may participate in that event for a guaranteed First
Place medal, or the competitor may elect to give
up the guaranteed medal and move to a younger
age (or heavier weight) division to compete.
TEAM AND DOUBLES EVENTS: In sports which
allow “Pooling”, at the time of the Bracketing
Meeting if the minimum number of players to field
a team have not submitted Sports Entry Forms
and paid the fees, the Bracketing Committee may
complete the team by assigning “pool” players.
Potential team members who attempt to enter
after the Entry Deadline may be unable to join the
team.
Please note: There is no guarantee that a team will
be scheduled to compete if the minimum number
of competitors have not entered the Games by the
on-line entry system or by submitting a Sports
Entry Form and paying the Sport Entry Fees by
the entry deadline or prior to the time the sport
reaches capacity.
INDIVIDUAL MEN’S, WOMEN’S & UNISEX
EVENTS: Men and women shall compete against
each other except in sports where separate Men’s
and Women’s events are offered. EXCEPTION:
Women and men may NOT compete against each
other in contact sports.
During the Bracketing Meeting, if an age division
cannot be combined within the same gender
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