Rules of table tennis men's team competition

The rules of table tennis men's team competition are two wins in five sets and two wins in five sets. The first set is doubles, and the second, third, fourth and fifth sets are singles.

Men's team competition usually adopts the way of World Table Tennis Men's Team Championship (Swislin Cup). Choose three players and a team leader from a team (contestants or other full-time staff). Each athlete has two chances to play.

Before the game, the captains of both sides should draw lots to decide the choice of A, B, C and X, Y and Z, and submit a team list to the referee, and each player should be assigned a letter.

The current competition order: the first game is doubles A: X; The second game is singles B: Y; The third game is singles C: Z; The fourth game is singles a: y; The fifth game is singles B: X, with two wins out of three. When a team wins three individual games, the game should be over.

Seed player:

The number of "seed players" is mainly determined according to the number of teams or participants. Generally, a seed is set for 1/6 to 1/2 of the number of participants, that is, 6 to 12 players on average; At the same time, the number of "seeds" should be a power of 2, such as 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.

The position of "seeds" should be arranged as follows: the first seed is arranged at the top of the upper half; The second seed should be arranged at the bottom of the lower half; The third and fourth seeds should be inserted at the bottom of the upper half and the top of the lower half respectively; The fifth to eighth seeds should enter the bottom of odd quarters and the top of even quarters respectively.

If there are many seeds (9- 16), and so on (the seed position number can be found in the seed position table). In fact, the "seeds" of the knockout stage are evenly distributed in various "zones".