Part B   Sports Meetings in Summer

The rules, game orders, and regulations for team tournaments and competitions treated in this chapter apply to the sports meetings for which all European Research Institutes have been invited. This includes tournaments of individual kinds of sports as well as the ATOMIADEs.

B 1   ATOMIADE

Every three years, starting in 1973, sports meetings of the European Research Institutes have been arranged with at least ten kinds of sports offered simultaneously.
Such a sports meeting is named ATOMIADE.
The ATOMIADEs are numbered consecutively and are identified by the year of their competition.

B 1.1  List of Events within the Area of Vadility of an ATOMIADE

At least ten of the following kinds of sports are to be offered at the ATOMIADEs following the decisions agreed upon at the working conference of the delegates on October 13, 1978 at Cadarache, and the amendments passed on May 22, 1988 at Jülich and on April 23, 1992 at Pierrelatte:
  1. Football
  2. Volleyball
  3. Handball
  4. Athletics (Track and Field)
  5. Tennis
  6. Table Tennis
  7. Chess
  8. Badminton
  9. Marathon or Semi Marathon or 25km race
  10. Shooting
  11. Swimming
  12. Archery
  13. Cycling
  14. Basketball
  15. Surfing
  16. Sailing
  17. Golf
  18. Inline Skating
  19. Triathlon or Duathlon

The rules and game regulations for the different kinds of sports within this Vademecum are mandatory for ATOMIADE's as well.

B 1.2  Participants

For participation at an ATOMIADE see chapter A 3.1 of this Vademecum.
Exceptions of these regulations are to be listed at the individual chapters of the different kinds of sports.

B 1.3  Age Categories

  1. In single competitions (athletics, swimming etc.) male and female athletes are divided into age categories. This is equally effective for women and for men:
        Age category A:    
    Age category B:
    Age category C:
    Age category D:
    Age category E:    		 16 to 34 years
    35 to 44 years
    45 to 54 years
    55 to 64 years
    65 years and older
    An age category starts with the beginning of the calendar year of the date of birth.
  2. If less than 4 participants (male or female) are entered for one age category, age categories are put together and are also evaluated together. No more than two adjoining age categories should, however, be combined.
    Should further athletes be registered after the closing date fixed by the organiser, the combined evaluation of age categories is still effective, except the sports programme can easily be adjusted by the organiser.
  3. In case of putting two age categories together, the next younger age category should be taken.
  4. If the number of 4 male or female athletes is still not obtained although two age categories were put together, this group will nevertheless be honoured with medals.
  5. The grouping is made for each discipline for a kind of sport.
  6. Examples:
    The following examples will explain, how the age categories can be combined:
        Capital letter means:  
    small letter means:    		 minimum number of athletes reached
    minimum number of athletes not reached

    Applications

     

    Grouping

    A

    b

    C

    D

    A/b

    C

    D

    A

    b

    c

    D

    A

    b/c

    D

    a

    B

    c

    D

    a/B

    c/D

    A

    b

    c

    d

    A/b

    c/d

    a

    b

    c

    D

    a/b

    c/D

    a

    B

    		 C

    d

    a/B

    C/d

B 1.4  Award Presentation to the Winners

If more than three teams or individual competitors participate in an event of an ATOMIADE the first three are honored with gold, silver and bronze medals. The head of these medals show the emblem of the ATOMIADE, and the reverse side should specify the event for which this medal is awarded.
Within the team competitions every participant of the team honored receives a medal. In addition, cups may be awarded.
At the football tournament within the ATOMIADE, additional cups for the winner as well as the Fair-Play Cup are to be presented.

B 1.5 Medal Table

If possible, a medal table should be made for the entire meeting.
At team events (e.g. football) a place among the first three is counted as a corresponding medal.
The ranking of the Research Institutes is defined as followes:
  a) The Research Institute with the most gold medals is placed first.
b) If two or more Research Institutes have the same number of gold medals, the number of silver medals is decisive.
c) If two or more Research Institutes have the same number of gold and silver medals, the number of bronze medals is decisive.
d) If there is still no clear ranking, the Research Institutes with the same number of gold, silver, and bronze medals are equally placed in alphabetical order of the abbreviations of the Research Institutes.

B 1.6 Team Evaluation

In each event cups may be handed out for a team evaluation, if more than 3 Research Institutes participated in this event. With events in which the contests consist of individual disciplines, e.g. athletics or swimming, the team evaluation is effected in the medal table.

B 1.7 Institute Evaluation

1.   At each ATOMIADE an overall classification is carried out to determine the best Research Institute. Only those kinds of sports are to be classified in which 6 or more Research Institutes have participated. For each event a score is given: the winning team of an event receives a score of 6, the second team a score of 5 and so on.
2. If there are several team tournaments in one type of sport (e.g. volleyball: men / mixed, table tennis: hobby / club players) or if a Research Institute participates with more than one team in a type of sport (e.g. cycling) the evaluation of the Research Institutes for this type of sport will be as follows.
If there is a Research Institute participating out of competition, e.g. it is not a member of ASCERI, this Research Institute is cancelled and all following teams are placed one step higher.
For every tournament / competition in one type of sport, points will be awarded according to the number of teams in this tournament / competition. This number shall be N. Points will then be distributed as follows:
      N+2
N
N-1,7  
N-3
N-4
   •
   •
   1		 points for the 1. team
points for the 2. team
points for the 3. team
points for the 4. team
points for the 5. team


point for the last team
The scores of all the teams of one Research Institute will be added for one type of sport.
The ranking of Research Institutes for this sport is regulated as below:
a)   The Research Institute with the highest score will be placed on top of the ranking list. The remaining places in the list will be allocated according to the descending order of total institute scores.
b) In the event of a tie, the Research Institute whose highest-ranked team achieved the highest score will be awarded the better place in the ranking list.
c) If still tied (e.g. possible if there are several tournaments in one type of sport) the Research Institute whose highest-ranked team achieved the highest score in the tournament with the fewest teams will be awarded the better place in the ranking list.
d) If still tied, the Research Institutes concerned will be awarded the same rank.
3. The ranking and distribution of points according to Article 1 is used for all types of sports that are rated.
4. Should there be a tie of several Research Institutes in one type of sport according to Article 2d, all these Research Institutes will be awarded equal points. The succeeding Research Institute(s) will then be awarded points in accordance with their rank. Should these measures result in a situation where Research Institutes with equal scores have not been included in the ranking, an exception can be made which will allow the ranking list to consist of more than 6 Research Institutes.
5. The scores achieved according to Article 1 will be summed up. The Research Institute with the highest score receives the price for best institute.