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Section D — Team Racing Rules

Team races shall be sailed under The Racing Rules of Sailing as changed by this appendix.

D4.5

Scoring a Knockout Stage

  • (a) A round shall not be scored unless at least one race has been completed in each match in that round. The final and petit-final are separate rounds.
  • (b) The winner of a match shall be the first team to score the number of race wins stated in the notice of race or sailing instructions. If a match is terminated, the winner shall be the team with the higher number of race wins in that match or, if this is a tie, the team that won the last race of the match.
  • (c) (1) Teams that win in a round shall be ranked ahead of those that lose.
    (2) Teams that lose in a round and do not sail again shall be equally ranked.
    (3) In a round that is not scored, teams shall be ranked in order of their places in the previous stage of the event, with teams from different groups ranked separately.

Rule D4.4

Ties in a round-robin stage shall be broken using results from that stage only. - (a) If the tied teams have all sailed each other at least once in the stage, t...