Overview

A fun team competition which is usually played over a short period of time.

 
Benefits

•             Opportunity to play lots of different people.

•             You get to compete as part of a team.

•             It can be as quick as you like so works well if you only have a short time period.

 

Organisation

o  Have two sets of coloured cones (eg. Red cones & blue cones).

o  Divide players into two teams, it does not matter if you have an odd number of players- there can be the same or different numbers in each team.

 

Activity

o   Explain to the players they will play some singles matches and when they win a match they win a cone for their team. The team with the most cones at the end is the winning team.

o    Line each team up behind their set of team cones.

o    The first player in each line goes to court 1, next two players on court 2 etc.

o    Each match is the first to four points following tie-break scoring rules.

o    At the end of each match the winning player puts one of their teams cones onto the ‘winners stack’ and they can both join the back of their team line.

o    The next two players go to the free court.

o    If the teams have different numbers the player rotation will happen naturally. If they have the same number, organise players so they have different matches.

 

At The End / Next Step

o   At the end, count up the team cones and declare the winning team.

o   Let everyone know about the next event.

 

Variations

o   Extend the length of each match.

o   Play doubles.

o   Have more teams and each team has different coloured cones.