Primary Schools Competition
Rationale Behind the Draw

Allocation of Teams to Grades

Teams are allocated to combined-grade divisions where there are insufficient teams for graded divisions in one or more of the grades. Other than this, teams are occasionally allocated to grades other than as requested in order to balance the numbers in each division or to reduce excessive travel.

Allocation of Teams to Divisions within a Grade

Within each grade, teams have been allocated to divisions based on one or more of the following:

•  school location (to minimise travel);

•  separation of teams from the same school into different divisions;

•  balancing into parallel divisions of approximately equal strength (assuming that most schools with multiple teams rank them with A as their strongest team, etc.);

•  other factors to help satisfy schools' requests and preferences, where possible.

Requests and Preferences

Although every attempt has been made to satisfy schools' requests and preferences they cannot always be met.