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Your Game Compliance and fair selection notes

Team selection - A five step process.

Stage One

1. All organisations must work with young people aged between 16 and 25 years old.

2. All organisations must work with underserved communities as defined by the Indices of Mass Deprivation

3. All organisations must operate within the respective Your Game Festival region.

If fewer than 44 teams have satisfied Stage One we then move to:

Stage Two

1. Applications received from organisations based out side the Your Game Festival region.

If more than 44 teams have satisfied Stage One and Two we then move to:

Stage Three

1. RSVP notifications received by the deadline.

If more than 44 teams have satisfied Stage Three then:

Stage Four

1. Limit all organisations to 1 male and female team per event

If there are still more than 44 teams then:

Stage Five

Consultation process between YG team and the Community Network to decide which groups would benefit most from YG.

Fairplay Award

1. After each match the referee awards a fairplay score to each team on the official score sheet with 5 being the highest score and 1 the lowest.*

2. The Community Network awards a score for each team based on his observations of other activity areas ( the sidelines, interactive areas, registration etc ) with 5 being the highest score and 1 the lowest.

3. Each organisation will have a fairplay passport. The more areas they participate in, the more stamps they will collect. This will be added to their score with 5 points for each stamp.

2. Scores are then collated. In the event of a tie, the final decision will be made by the Community Network

* Marks are collated after the group stages to ensure all teams have a chance of winning. Teams cannot be 'marked up' for better performances in the knockout stages but they can be 'marked down'.

All Stars Programme

Stage One

Nomination form circulated to all organisations in the YG network.

Individuals have to be nominated by the organisation Key Worker.

Stage Two

Meet deadline for returning forms.

Stage Three

Consultation between Your Game Community Network and YG team member to create a shortlist.

All shortlisted nominees and nominators will be contacted by a member of the YG team for a telephone panel interview including a representative from on of our partner organisations.

8 individuals then selected to become All Stars.

Your Game v Match of the Day

Stage One

Nomination forms circulated to all organisations in the YG network.

Stage Two

Meet deadline for returning forms.

Stage Three

Consultation between Your Game team and Match of the Day team to create a shortlist.

All shortlisted nominees will be contacted by a member of the YG team for a telephone interview.

Nominees are selected by YG team and Match of the Day team.