AGE LIMITS

Age limit for MAG: 18 years (born in 2000 or before)

Age limit for WAG: 16 years (born in 2002 or before)

REGISTRATION DEADLINES

Definitive and NominativeRegistrations must bemade exclusively on- line via the FIG website (http://www.fig-gymnastics.com). These on- line registrations will only be accepted from FIG Gymnastics Member Federations.

Registrations and payments made after the gymnasts’ drawing of lots will not be accepted and the Delegations members concerned will not be authorized to participate.

 

Late registrations are subject to fines as follows:
Fine for missing or late Definitive Registration	CHF 750.-
Fine for missing or late Nominative Registration	CHF 500.-

ENTRY FEES

The non-reimbursable cost for the Entry Fee (approved by the FIG) is of 35 EUR per gymnast.

The payment of the entry fee must accompany the Definitive registration on March 30th 2018 at the very latest.

ACCREDITATION

At the time of arrival, every delegation will be brought to the Accreditation centre in the Official hotel where they will receive a welcome package including all relevant information and the accreditations, which will allow access into the training and competition halls. The accreditation is personal and non-transferable andmustbeusedatalltimes.Incaseofloss,theHeadofCompetition must be contactedimmediately.

The participants which will not book their arrangements through the OC, the price for accreditation is 100 € per person and include also local transportation and farewell dinner.

COMPETITION FORMAT

The Individual Apparatus Competitions for World Challenge Cup competitions consist of:

Qualifications and Apparatus Finals Qualifications:

• Participationislimitedto2gymnastsperNFoneach
• The Organizing Member Federation is allowed to add (only for the qualifications) “hors concours” competitors. These competitors are in addition to the official competitors of the OrganizingMemberFederation,theymustbenamedatthetime of the closing of the nominative registration and they cannot qualify for the Finals. They are not eligible to receive World ChallengeCuppoints,theymustnotappearontheofficial results lists and they will have to start first at every apparatus.
• The Organizing Member Federation is allowed to name a max. of “4 hors concours” competitors in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics and a max. of “4 hors concours” competitors in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics for a total of 8 “hors concours” gymnasts(i.e.whileone“horsconcours”gymnastcancompete on more than one apparatus, not more than one “hors concours” gymnast can compete on anapparatus).
• FIG Competition III rules will be applied for
• Incaseofatieatanyplace,thetie-breakingrulesassetupfor the Olympic Games shall be applied (Technical Regulations, Section2).

 

Finals:

• The best eight gymnasts per apparatus from the qualifications qualify for theFinals
• Participation is limited to 2 gymnasts per NF and each apparatus.
• In addition, the Organizing Member Federation has the right to a limited number of Wild Cards to guarantee the participation of the Host Country gymnasts in the Finals (maximum 1 man and 1 woman gymnast only at one apparatuseach).

 ▪     These“WildCardGymnasts”musthaveparticipatedatthe

respective apparatus in the qualification.

 ▪“Wild Card Gymnasts” will receive medals, prize money and World Challenge Cup points.

• FIG Competition III rules will be applied for

Incaseofatieatanyplace,thetie-breakingrulesassetupfor the Olympic Games shall beapplied.

DRAWING OF LOTS

The gymnasts’ drawing of lots for all World Challenge Cup events will take place at the FIG Office in Lausanne (SUI) within two weeks after the closing date of the nominative registration.

PROVISIONAL SCHEDULE

May 29th, 2018	Tuesday	Arrival of the delegations / optional training
May 30th, 2018	Wednesday	Morning optional training in competition hall Afternoon official training in the competition hall Orientation meeting (21:00)
May 31st, 2018	Thursday	Qualifications MAG – WAG
June 1st, 2018	Friday	Qualifications MAG – WAG
June 2nd, 2018	Saturday	Finals MAG – WAG / Farewell Dinner
June 3rd, 2018	Sunday	Finals MAG – WAG
June 4th, 2014	Monday	Departure of the delegations

EVENT MANAGER

Mr. Dejan Jovanovic

Koprska 29, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

jovo@gimnasticna-zveza.si

MEDIA

The Press officer of the Slovenian Gymnastics Federation will be present. All the national and local media will report and advertise the event. Television broadcast will be provided as well.

Media officer:

Mr. Kristijan Erjavec (TBC) ke@sta.si

More information at:

http://challange-cup-koper.gimnasticna-zveza.si/

SOCIAL MEDIA

Event will be covered on the Host Facebook profile: https://www.facebook.com/gimnasticna.zvezaslovenije?fref=ts

MEDICAL SERVICES

A MD will be present at all the official trainings and competition and will comply with the medical assistance requirements.

OFFICIAL HOSPITAL

Splošna bolnišnica Izola

Polje 40, 6310 Izola

Phone: +386 5 660 63 99

DOPING CONTROLS

The Organizing Member Federation will provide at its own charge a minimum of 6 doping controls, 3 for Women and 3 for Men.

VISA

The local transportation for delegations will be free of charge on the following routes:

•  Ljubljana airport (Letališče Jožeta Pučnika) or Ljubljana and Koper railway station to the hotel and back on the official arrival and departure days.
• Transportation from the San Simon Hotel Resort to the competition/training venue will be provided.

Transportationfromothernearbyinternationalairports(Zagreb,Pula, Trieste,Venice)canbearrangedatadditionalcost.Pleasecontactthe LOC fordetails.

Ordered additional transportation that is not cancelled at least 3 days ahead will be charged to the delegation in full. No show situationswill

be charged to the delegation in full.

ACCOMMODATION

The accommodation costs include accommodation with breakfast, local transportation and the farewell dinner and are as follows per person and per night:

 

SAN SIMON HOTEL RESORT – 5 km from Arena Bonifica Morova 6 a, 6000 Koper, Slovenia

Tel.: +386 (0) 5 660 31 00

http://www.bernardingroup.si/en/accommodations/san-simon-resort

 

Hotel Haliaetum**** and Hotel Mirta ****Single room

135 € per person per night in single room

 

Double room

105 € per person per night in double/twin room

Triple room

95 € per person per night in triple standard room

(limited number of rooms available)

Annexes San Simon (Korala, Perla, Sirena and Palma)***

(limited number of rooms available)

 

Single room

90 € per person per night in single room

 

Double room

80 € per person per night in double/twin room

The prices charged for the hotel rooms will not exceed the usualhotel rates. While the Accommodation Form must be returned to the OC as soon as possible but no later than by April 30th 2018, the number of certain type of hotel rooms is limited, therefore they will be allocated on a “first come, first serve” basis.

The invited participating federations must pay for the accommodation expenses of their delegation members (see exception herein below).

Cancelation policy:

The full costs for the accommodation and meals must be paid to the OC by March 30th2018 as follows:

At the time of the Definitive entry – March 30th 2018 (2 months prior to the event) provisional reservations are to be placed with the LOC which must be accompanied by 50% payment of the accommodation and meals costs. Entries without the payment of the 50% of the accommodation and meals costs will be considered as invalid andwill be refused. The remaining 50% of the Accommodation costs mustbe paid by April 30th2018.

In case of room cancellations until March 30th 2018 the OC will refund the complete amount of annulled rooms and meals. In case of room cancellations until April 30th 2018 the OC will refund 50 % of the amount of annulled rooms and meals. In case of room cancellations after April 30th 2018, no claims of refunds will be accepted.

MEALS

JUDGES AND PANELS

Each Judge’s panel will be composed as follows:
• 2 D judges, minimum 4 E judges, plus 1 Supervisor
The number of judges’ panels will be decided by the organizing member federation depending on the number of participating competitors and judges. Not more than one judge per Federation per panel will be permitted (except for time and line judges).
The judges’ panels are set up by a draw from the judges present at the event. The draw must be directed by the MAG and WAG Technical Delegates. The participating member federations must send minimum one qualified judge for MAG if they participate with male gymnasts and one qualified WAG judge if they participate with female gymnasts. The Organizing Member Federation will apply a fine of CHF 2’000 per missing judge (to be paid to the LOC) should a federation fail to bring the required number of judges. This fine must be paid to the LOC by April 30th 2018.

The Organizing Member Federation is responsible that there are enough FIG brevetted judges present with the appropriate valid category of brevet for their function. Should there not be sufficient judges as per the on-line nominative registration, the Organizing Member Federation must propose to the FIG for approval the name of neutral additional judges to complete the panels (plus 2 reserves, 1 man and 1 woman). These judges, once approved, have to be invited at the cost of the Organizing Member Federation. Such invitation must be made through the respective Member Federation. Should the Organizing Member Federation fail to propose names for additional judges, the FIG Office in consultation with the TC Presidents concerned will invite these judges at the cost (in terms of international and local travel, accommodation and meals) of the Organizing Member Federation. For additional judge’s requirements see the Specific Judges’ Rules.

WINNER OF THE ANNUAL WORLD CHALLENGE CUP SERIES

The winner of the annual World Challenge Cup Series is the gymnast with the highest number of points for each apparatus after the last event of the year as follows:

• If 4 World Challenge Cup Competitions take place per year, thebest 3 arecounted
• If3WorldChallengeCupCompetitionstakeplaceperyearallpoints arecounted

A special award ceremony must be held at the last World Challenge CupcompetitionoftheyearinwhichtheWorldChallengeCupwinners shall receive aCup.

Should there be a tie after the last competition, it will be broken as follows:

The number of ranks of the counting competitions achieved by the respective gymnast will be added and the gymnast with the lowest total will prevail.

If there is still a tie, the gymnast who has participated in the greater number of Finals of the counting competitions will prevail.

If there is still a tie the total score of the counting exercises will be added and the gymnast with the highest total will prevail.

If there is still a tie, he total execution score of the three counting

exercises will be added and the gymnast with the highest total execution score will prevail.

It there is still a tie, the tie will not be broken.

BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION

Payments should be made to:

 

Beneficiary:Gimnast d.o.o. Koprska 29

1000 Ljubljana Slovenia

 

Bank details:

DEZELNA BANKA SLOVENIJE D.D. KOLODVORSKA ULICA 9

1000 LJUBLJANA SWIFT: SZKBSI2X

IBAN SI56191000010201641 (account)

 

EachparticipatingmemberFederationiskindlyrequestedtointegrate the payment’s purpose as follows: Koper 2018_name of the Federation.

 

The participating federation is responsible for covering all bank fees in connection with the bank transfers.

MARKETING

FIG advertising and publicity norms must be respected.