Nations Meeting on the July 7^th 1999
21.30 ­ 22.30 Piestany

AGENDA

ITTC STATUS

* 1996 ­ 1999

1. Rules and Regulations
2. Tournaments
   • Sanctioning
   • Calendar
   • Factor 10, 20, 30, 50, 80 and 100
3. Selection
   • System made to use
     • Paralympics
     • World Championships
     • Regional Championships
4. World Ranking
5. Information
   • Website
   • Mailing
6. Increasing number of
   • Players
   • Tournaments

EPC Development program

• Sverre Bergenhold

Players representative

• Vincent Boury wants every nation to point out a player representative.

Future ITTC Structure and Challenges

1. Tournaments
2. Rules and Regulations
3. Classification
4. World Ranking
5. Education
6. Information
7. Selections
8. Economy
9. International relations
10. Organisation

Tournaments

• Calendar Planning

	Site inspection deadline	TD inspection deadline	Application deadline
100		24 month
80	30 month	18 month
50	30 month	12 month
30		8 month
20			6 month
10			4 month

• Factor System
• Protection of organisers
• Limitations in number of tournaments counting for ranking
• Playing system
  • Number of matches to be limited
• Standard forms
• Deadlines
  • TD-inspection
  • 1. Entry
  • 2. Entry
  • Results = Ranking
• Capitation Fee
  • Inclusive Bonus system
• Maximum Fee
• Maximum number of players

Rules and Regulations

• Easy and fair
• Update Rules and Regulations
• Change Flexibility factor 10 and 20

To be informed

• ITTC website
• Handbook

CLASSIFICATION

• Research and development of number of classes "Link to World Ranking"
• Increase number of classifiers "Link to education"
• Classification system
• Accepted, fair and understandable

WORLD RANKING

• Needed for selections and seeding
• ITTC Wants the players to compete, and a good system for all players
• Develop number of publications of World Ranking 4 ­ X

EDUCATION

• TDs
• Classifiers
• Referees
• Umpires
• Organisers
• Seminars
• ITTC Website
• Handbooks

INFORMATION

• How to inform?
  • Mailing
  • Fax
  • E-mail
  • Website
  • Newsletter
• What to inform?
  • Ranking
  • Rules and Regulations
  • Results
  • Calendar
  • Information for
    • Umpires
    • TDs
    • Classifiers
  • Information to IPC, EPC
  • Information to Media
  • Information from IPC, EPC to Media (from 50 ­ 100)
  • Information on website
    • List of
      • TDs
      • Classifiers
      • Referees
      • Umpires
      • Table Tennis Addresses
    • Rules and Regulations
    • Class definitions
    • Calendar
    • World Ranking
    • ITTC ex. Members
    • Standard forms
    • Applications
    • Entries
    • Results
    • Agreements
    • News
    • ITTC-forum
    • + + + + + (much more)

SELECTION

• Fair, but not easy
• Factor 50 ­ 100
• Selections criteria to be developed

Economy

• Income
  • IPC
  • Capitation fee
  • Other
• Expenses
  • Meetings
  • Education
  • Headquarter

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

• IPC
• ISMWSF
• ITTF (DEVOLOP)
• ISMPSH (DEVOLOP)
• CP-ISRA
• ISOD

ORGANISATION

• ITTC
  • Elected members
  • Co-opted members
• SYDNEY 2000 (Election)

E.C 2001

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY