Dress Code for the WIBCA tournaments. Collared Shirts!!!
Dress Code:
Dress code requirements are
established to add to the prestige and respect
associated with the world’s most prominent amateur pool
tournament. Your cooperation in wearing neat, clean
apparel at all times during competition for the
betterment of the sport is appreciated.
Singles Competition:
• Men must wear sleeved shirts
of polo/golf style or button-down style with a
conventional fold-over collar. Sweaters and turtlenecks
are acceptable. Women must wear sleeved shirts or
blouses of polo/golf style or button-down style with a
conventional fold-over collar. Absolutely no T-shirts,
sweats, warm-up suits, or jogging suits are allowed.
Absolutely no headgear allowed with one exception:
Billed or brimmed hats or caps that are clean, neat and
worn with the bill straight forward.
• Men must wear long pants or
shorts, either dress pants or neat, clean, un-torn jeans
or shorts. Women may wear dress pants, Capri-style pants
or neat, clean, un-torn jeans or shorts. Women may also
wear culottes, skirts or sleeved dresses of conservative
length.
• Men and women must wear clean,
neat, close-toed shoes at all times. Should a player
require a footwear exception for medical reasons, the
player must provide a letter on official letterhead from
the player’s health care provider before the tournament
and keep a copy of this letter in his/her possession at
all times, available for review by a referee, if
requested.
Scotch Doubles Competition:
Same requirement as Singles
competition.
Matching shirts worn by Scotch
Doubles
teams are preferred, but not
mandatory.
Teams Competition:
• Team shirts are required for
all teams during Teams competition.
• Dress code must meet the
Singles competition requirements.
• Color and style of team shirts
must be matching (except for the players’ names) for all
team members. This includes front and back of shirts, if
they have a logo or
monogram.
• Each member of a team must
have their own team shirt/blouse. “Borrowing” the shirt
of a teammate is not permitted.
• Teams competing in the Second
Chance Tournament are required to meet the
“matching shirts” criteria.
General:
• Any player found in violation
of the dress code during match play will be given 15
minutes to correct the violation and return to the match
site. If not back in 15 minutes, the player will lose
one game of the match and will lose one additional game
for each additional 5 minutes until he/she returns. A
Team Captain may not substitute another player for a
player found in violation of the
dress code until after the
player returns in proper attire.
• Players or teams may protest
an opponent’s dress code ONLY before the match begins.
• Referees or the tournament
director are the final authority on dress code.
• Relaxed dress code for mini
tournaments and practice. Clean and neat apparel is
required at all times.
