NPC Open 2025 - Triples Competition

Date: Saturday 16th August 2025. Registration will be 09:00 - 09:15, with games commencing at 09:30.

The following rules and format for play are local rules and should be viewed as additions/allowed amendments to the Scottish Pétanque Association Rules for Play and Competition.

Competition Format:

  • There will be 4 groups of 4 teams, within which each team will play each other once only.
  • Position in the group is based on wins, then points difference, then points for. In the event of a tie, it will be based on the score between the two tied teams.
  • The group stage will consist of timed games of 45 minutes, plus one end. Games will not start until the ‘whistle’. After 45 minutes, the whistle will again sound. The end in play will finish and a further end will complete the match. An end will deem to have commenced when the final boule of the previous end has come to rest. A draw will be settled with 1 boule per player. The coche cannot go dead in the tie-break.
  • Match results must be handed in to the control room/tent.
  • The top 2 teams from each group will enter into a seeded draw for the knockout phase of the competition (i.e. quarter finals). The next 2 teams from each group will enter into a seeded draw for the knockout phase of the consolage.
  • The knockout games will be timed and will follow the local rules as applied to the group stage of the competition.

Kaye Skey will be the official measurer for the competition. Opposing team captains should primarily seek to agree between themselves, before calling upon Kaye. Do not approach a third party who is currently engaged in play in any other on-going match.

Local rules and etiquette Newtongrange Pétanque Club:

  • Matches must start within 5 minutes of the agreed start time. Tardiness on the part of a team will result in a warning, repeated offences MAY result in forfeit of the match, by a score defined by the competition committee.
  • Opposing team captains will toss a coin for the right to choose who will throw the coche.
  • Please remember to mark circles and coche.
  • After the first end, place the circle round the coche.
  • All strings are boundaries. Boules or coches fully crossing this line are dead. The normal rules for the coche apply: 6 – 10 metres etc.
  • A coche thrown under 6m or over 10m should be placed by a member of the opposing team.
  • A coche thrown over the lane strings should be lifted and replaced on the correct piste, by a member of the opposing team.
  • Teams can register a 4th player for their team, this player may substitute for another team member prior to a match. During play a substitution can only be made before an end commences - the opposing captain MUST be made aware of the substitution before play restarts.
  • Please observe the no smoking, eating, or drinking on, or around, the piste rule. This includes smoking/vaping at the ends or sides of the terrain.

Teams entered are:

  1. Boule in Hand
  2. All Points
  3. Fochabers PC
  4. Goregrangers
  5. Irritable Boule Syndrome
  6. Nitten Bulls
  7. Two Twats and a Kat
  8. WAMM
  9. Jeu de Lanceurs
  10. Spiral
  11. Guardyloo
  12. Girls on Tour
  13. MAC 3
  14. The Panthers
  15. (No Name)
  16. (No Name 2)