Rules of the European Challenge Cup

Rules of the European Challenge Cup (ECC) :

The ECC supervised by the Event Organising Committee of the JJEU.

The cup can be won by a JJEU member federation (not by individuals). The winner is the member federation with the more points at the end of a competition period.

A competition period starts after the European Championship and finishes at the next European Championship ( 2 years ). Within these two years each member federation will earn points at three Open tournaments each year, at the JJEU European Cup and finally at the European Championship.

The six open tournaments over the two years are proposed by the Event Organising Committee to the JJEU Board. The selection is made with the view to guaranty a fair location of the events all over Europe ( North, South, East) and timing spread over the year.

The official JJIF competition rules should apply at these tournaments. Competitors should be presented by their National federation. In principle all referees should be at continental level but the organising Federation can complement with its best referees in order to achieve the required number for the competition.

The member federation organising one of the tournaments is responsible for collecting the JJEU registration fees which are fixed at 5 Euro per individual participant.

At least one official JJEU representative (Board, Referee Committee or Event Organising Committee) will attend each of these tournaments.

How to earn points:

Competitors earn points for their country in each official weight classes and Duo categories (adults, juniors or veterans are not included). Only the best result in one particular category is counted for a particular Federation.

The number of points earned depends on (attached table):

- the place obtained

- the number of competitors in the category

- the points earned at the European Championship count twice and those earned at the European Cup are multiplied by 1,5

- For the particular event, the addition of points for the thirteen categories make the total score for the country

- At the end of the two year period, the winning country is the one with the more points

- The Event Organising Committee is responsible for collecting the scores after each event, calculating the points earned and making the updated score visible to everyone.

The European Challenge Cup is given to the coach of the winning country at the gala dinner of the European Championship.

When a federation has won the three times in a row or five times with some interruption, it can keep the Cup for ever and should donate a new Cup.

Place / Number of participants
xxx	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
1	xxx	500	666	750	800	833	857	875	888	900	909	916	923	928	933	937	941	944	947	950
2		xxx	333	500	600	666	714	750	777	800	818	833	846	857	866	875	882	888	894	900
3			xxx	250	400	500	571	625	666	700	727	750	769	785	800	812	823	833	842	850
4				xxx	200	333	428	500	555	600	636	666	692	714	733	750	764	777	789	800
5					xxx	166	285	375	444	500	545	583	615	642	666	687	705	722	736	750
6						xxx	142	250	333	400	454	500	538	571	600	625	647	666	684	700
7							xxx	125	222	300	363	416	461	500	533	562	588	611	631	650
8								xxx	111	200	272	333	384	428	466	500	529	555	578	600
9									xxx	100	181	250	307	357	400	437	470	500	526	550
10										xxx	90	166	230	285	333	375	411	444	473	500
11											xxx	83	153	214	266	312	352	388	421	450
12												xxx	76	142	200	250	294	333	368	400
13													xxx	71	133	187	235	277	315	350
14														xxx	66	125	176	222	263	300
15															xxx	62	117	166	210	250
16																xxx	58	111	157	200
17																	xxx	55	105	150
18																		xxx	52	100
19																			xxx	50
20																				xxx

The formula is: ("Number of participants" minus "place") devided by "Number of participants" x 1000