Rules

1. Introduction

In Setup you are the manager of your own volleyball team and you will play against teams spread out all over the globe.

It is totally free! You only need an internet connection…

You can log on anytime to check up on your financial status, choose your match tactic, sell or buy players or to chat on the forum.

Challenges can be found in both the regular competition as in the cup and the question is whether you can make your team the best there is!

2. Register

Click the link Registration.

We do ask you to be honest while filling in your answers and also to take notice of:
- your name: this has to be your real name
- register with a valid e-mail address
- choose the correct country of residence

Most of the time there are teams available to manage. Still, you have to be aware that it is possible that you'll have to wait a short while for us to assign you a team. If you have to wait you will be put on a waiting list and you'll receive your team when you're next in line. This is due to safety reasons where we need to be able to reject invalid requests such as invalid team names, people with multiple teams and others. When your request has been accepted or rejected you will receive an e-mail.

When you get the control of a team it is possible that a previous user has played with that particular team before. The only thing you'll inherit from the old team is their ranking in the league. All of the old players will be deleted and you will receive new ones. Existing debts will be paid by Setup and you'll get a starting fund which you can spend. The old team will also be renamed to the name you wish to give it.

Only teams in the 3 lowest leagues will be replaced by new ones. Because of this rule it might take some effort to become a top team.

Finally, whenever you want to stop playing the game, for whatever reason, please don't log in anymore. After 5 weeks you're team will be marked inactive. It isn't allowed to transfer your team to another user because that would be unfair to other new users, who may be waiting for a team on the waiting list.

3. Website

The website of Setup is fairly easy to use. On top of each page you will find a dropdown menu in your chosen language. This is the most important part of the website. The titles of the menus and submenus speak for themselves.

4. Season overview

Games:
Every season has the same basis:

Every week 2 competition matches are played. 1 match is held on Wednesday and 1 in the weekend. On Friday cup matches are held. If you are excluded for a round or already lost a cup match you can play friendly matches against other teams in the same situation. At Monday you can join and play a tournament.

JNT matches are played on Tuesday and NT matches are played on Thursday.

End of the competition:
At the end of the season, the last 2 competition matches are played on the same moment so falsification is not possible.

The last competition match will be on Wednesday and the qualifying matches will be announced the day after. On Friday there is the cup final and in the weekend the exciting qualifying matches are played.

New season:
On Monday after the qualifying weekend there are several updates:
- botteams will be deleted from the higher leagues
- teams will go to a higher or lower league depending on their final competitive result
- new leagues will be generated
- the prize money will be awarded and everybody may sing a 'happy birthday' to their players
- promoting a youth player will be possible in the course of the day
- new functions will be introduced and updates will be added to the website

There is no training on this day since there haven’t been normal competition matches. Teams which have played a qualifying match will not receive training either.

5. Competitions

The number of levels differs from country to country but the main structure is the same. The leagues can be give different names as the name in the particular country.

Competition:
In every league there are 12 teams, who'll play two times against each other every season (22 matches in total).

At the end of the season, the 11th and 12th of each league relegate, unless you're already playing in the lowest league. Their places will be taken by the champions of the lower leagues. The teams ranked 9th and 10th have to play a play-off match against a 2nd ranked team of a lower league.

Ranking:
The ranking is done by a point system. If a team wins by 3–0 or 3–1 it gets 3 points, if it wins by 3–2 it gets 2 points. When a team loses by 3–2 it still gets 1 point and when it loses by 3–1 or 3–0 it will not receive any points.

The ranking is made up by the following sequence: first the amount of points gathered by the team. In case this is equal for 2 or more teams then the team with the least played matches will be put first. When this is also the same a comparison is made between the sets you have won and lost. In case you still are in the same rank as one or more other players then we look for the team with the most sets won. Just to be sure we added the feature that when this is still the same the user with the youngest id will end up higher in the ranking.

Cup:
The cup is held following the rules of a knock-out system in which the result of the match decides whether you can advance to the next round or not.

This cup system is applicable for Belgium and Italy.

Round	Finals	Teams	Level
12	1/1	2
11	1/2	4
10	1/4	8
9	1/8	16
8	1/16	32
7	1/32	64
6	1/64	128	+ level 1
5	1/128	256	+ level 2
4	1/256	512	+ level 3
3	1/512	1028	+ level 4
2	1/1024		+ level 5, 6 and 7
1	1/2048		#11 and #12 from level 7

The first round (for the 11th and 12th from level 7) starts on the Thursday previous to the start of the competition.

In other countries, all teams will start together in the cup. Some teams may be free for the first round, however.

The team playing at home will be chosen by a random system. The matches for the next round will be generated on Friday at 22:00 Setup time.

Friendly matches:
For friendly matches you get the opportunit to test your team against friends or people you know.

To have a friendly match you need to challenge somebody. This can be done on the homepage of a team. If you want to challenge somebody, this team can't be partaking in the cup or have a different friendly that week.

If another team challenges you, you can retrieve this challenge in the submenu of your team under Challenges. The last thing that needs to be done is, to accept and confirmate or to wait until your opponent has accepted the match.

During these matches your players can't be injured. The income for these matches is fairly low.

Tournaments:
Only VIP users can create a tournament.

You can only play one tournament at the time. For some tournaments, the tournament owner needs to validate your participation before you can enter.

There are two kinds of tournaments: one with only a knock-out phase, and one with a league system before a knock-out phase. When playing in leagues, the first two teams of each league will go to the knock-out phase.

Games are generated automatically during the daily update at night when the tournament has enough participants.

6. Players

Salaris:
The highest skill is taken as foundation for the salary calculation per player. For each player playing an international match, the team receives 1/3 of this player his salary.

The players are needed to win matches. Every player has 8 basic skills which decide whether how good or bad he is. All of the basic skills can be improved by a specific training. More information can be found in the chapter Training.

Who needs which skill?
Which basic skills are important depends on which position the player will be playing.

Service	Block	Setting	Passing	Defense	Corner attack	Middle attack	Back row attack
setter	setter	setter		setter
corner attacker	corner attacker		corner attacker	corner attacker	corner attacker
middle attacker	middle attacker			middle attacker		middle attacker
back row attacker	back row attacker			back row attacker	back row attacker		back row attacker
			libero	libero

Next to this there are a number of factors which influence the performance of a player in various circumstances.

Experience:
Experiene rises when you play cup or competition matches. Friendly matches and tournaments only have a minor influence. Having lots of experience in your team is important for the performance.

Shape:
When players are in better shape they will perform better. This shape gets better by playing matches though there is a chance that it will not go up or even that it decreases.

Injuries:
Players can get an injury of maximum 14 days in competition games, cup games or international games. You can read the Fitness section to know how to prevent or to cure them.

7. Youth players

You get the chance to add a youth player to your team once every week by promoting him from the youth squad.

Don’t count on it that you will pull a top player every week. It costs 2000 EUR to do this and it can be done every Monday from 01:00 Setup time.

8. Training

The results of training are always noticeable from 09:40 Setup time on Tuesday and Thursday. Changes of shape and experience also take place at this moment. Only competition matches have an influence for training.

Who trains what?
There are 10 types of training of which you can choose. Each of these will make your players better. Young players normally train faster than older players.

Training	Skill	Full training	Partial training	Minimal training
general	everything except shape and experience		everyone
physical	= general
setting	setting	setters		others
corner attack	corner attack	corner attackers	back row attackers	others
block	block	middle attackers	corner attackers, setters and back row attackers	others
defense	defense	libero	corner attackers, setters and back row attackers	others
passing	passing	libero	corner attackers	others
service	service	setters, corner attackers, middle attackers and back row attackers		others
middle attack	middle attack	middle attackers		others
back row attack	back row attack	back row attackers	corner attackers	others

If more than 3 players with the same role are on the field (for example: 4 setters), none of them will receive training. If a player plays both the main match and the reserve match, he will only receive training for the position in which he played in the main match.

9. Injuries

To heal and prevent injuries you can hire a doctor and/or a physical coach.

Physical coach:
A physical coach works preventive against injuries and helps in a minor way to heal a player. The higher the level of your physical coach, the shorter an injury will last.

Doctor:
A doctor will only heal an injured player. The higher the level of your doctor the faster your injured player will heal.

10. Economy

Every Monday at 1 a.m. Setup Time, the weekly salary and the maintenance costs of the sports hall are being paid. Then, you also receive your weekly money from sponsors and new season tickets.

Under the menu Economy, you can see an extensive list of all your revenues and all your expenses. Also, you’ll see here your total number of fans that support your team, your current balance and the image of your club.

Fanclub:
The easiest way to get new fans, is to win! Per fan that becomes a member of your team, you get 30 EUR.

Bankruptcy:
If you get below -500 000 EUR, then you have seven days to work on this. If you don’t manage to get higher than this, you’ll be bankrupt, and you will be fired as manager of your team.

Prize money competition:

Positie	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6	Level 7
1	1 000 000 EUR	600 000 EUR	360 000 EUR	216 000 EUR	129 600 EUR	77 760 EUR	46 656 EUR
2	900 000 EUR	540 000 EUR	324 000 EUR	194 400 EUR	116 640 EUR	69 984 EUR	41 991 EUR
3	850 000 EUR	510 000 EUR	306 000 EUR	183 600 EUR	110 160 EUR	66 096 EUR	39 658 EUR
4	800 000 EUR	480 000 EUR	288 000 EUR	172 800 EUR	103 680 EUR	62 208 EUR	37 325 EUR
5	750 000 EUR	450 000 EUR	270 000 EUR	162 000 EUR	97 200 EUR	58 320 EUR	34 992 EUR
6	700 000 EUR	420 000 EUR	252 000 EUR	151 200 EUR	90 720 EUR	54 432 EUR	32 659 EUR
7	650 000 EUR	390 000 EUR	234 000 EUR	140 400 EUR	84 240 EUR	50 544 EUR	30 327 EUR
8	600 000 EUR	360 000 EUR	216 000 EUR	129 600 EUR	77 760 EUR	46 656 EUR	27 994 EUR
9	550 000 EUR	330 000 EUR	198 000 EUR	118 800 EUR	71 280 EUR	42 768 EUR	25 661 EUR
10	500 000 EUR	300 000 EUR	180 000 EUR	108 000 EUR	64 800 EUR	38 880 EUR	23 328 EUR
11	450 000 EUR	270 000 EUR	162 000 EUR	97 200 EUR	58 320 EUR	34 992 EUR	20 995 EUR
12	400 000 EUR	240 000 EUR	144 000 EUR	86 400 EUR	51 840 EUR	31 104 EUR	18 662 EUR

Prize money cup:

1/x Final	Prize money
cup winner	1 000 000 EUR
runner up	740 740 EUR
1/2 final	548 696 EUR
1/4 final	406 442 EUR
1/8 final	301 068 EUR
1/16 final	223 013 EUR
1/32 final	165 195 EUR
1/64 final	122 366 EUR
1/128 final	90 642 EUR
1/256 final	67 142 EUR
1/512 final	49 735 EUR
1/1028 final	36 840 EUR
1/2048 final	27 289 EUR

The formula being used here is: money(round-x) = money(round-x+1) / 1.35

11. Sponsors

Sponsoring consists of a few sponsor contracts that are being presented by some companies to your club. The frequency and the amount of the contract is dependent of your results in the competition.

A contract has an amount per week and a duration (a certain number of weeks). The total amount of the contract is depending on your results in competition and the series you’re playing in. When you receive a contract proposal, you (as a manager) need to decide if you want to accept or decline the proposal. You can have at maximum five contracts simultaneously. When you already have five contracts, you can maybe miss that one big contract… It’s up to you to decide which contract you’ll accept.

Contract proposals are being generated on Thursday. When you receive a proposal, you’ll receive an event asking if you want to accept or to decline a proposal. A proposal is valid for one week. On Wednesday, all proposals that are not dealt with will be deleted.

The payment of your contract takes place at the same time of the payments of your salaries. At the economy-page, you’ll see your club image level. This level has influence on the amount that sponsors want to invest in your club. Sponsors will be looking at your club image to decide if they want to invest in your club. Your club image is dependent of your results in competition.

12. Sports hall

Your club starts with a small sports hall, and you’ll have to expand it slowly. By default, you’ll start with 500 normal places and 0 VIP places.

Renovation:
When building extra places, you can choose between two kinds of places, each having a different price:

	Building costs
Nornal	100 EUR
VIP	500 EUR

Besides these costs, you’ll have to pay an extra fixed price of 10 000 EUR, to pay the contractors.

Rename:
The costs for renaming your sports hall are 10 000 EUR.

13. Games

The game starts at the given time, substitutes are playing one and a half hours before the main game. You can follow a game life: when an event happens, you can see it in the game report, together with the score. After the game, you can have a look at the game ratings.

Game ratings:
To win a game, you need to have better ratings than your opponent. To have better ratings, you have to put your players with the right skills on the right place.

A rating is being calculated based on some characteristics of a player. In the table that you can see after the game, you can see the ratings. You can see that for each rotation the rating can be different. Logical, because your block rating is only depending on the players on the net. Because you have different players on the net in each rotation, you will have a different block rating for each rotation. In the table you see six lines; one line for each rotation. The rotation is being indicated with the character R. In the last column, you see the number of points that the team scored in this rotation.

Rating	Based on	Used
setup	setup of your setupper	always
defense	defense of all your back-players	always
passing	passing of all your back-player, except setupper and opposite	service opponent
service	service of the player that serves	own service
attack	corner attack of your opposite if he’s at the net, corner attack of your corner attackers when they are at the net, middle attack or your middle blocker if he’s at the net, backrow attacking of your opposite when he’s not at the nettd>	always
block	block of the middle blocker when he’s at the net, and a little bit less block from your other net players	always

All ratings are being influenced by the form and the experience of your players.

14. Line-up

A lineup should be given at least two hours before the main game starts, half an hour before the beginning of the substitutes game.

The most popular line up consists of one setupper, 2 middle blockers (replaced by a libero), 2 corner attackers and 1 opposite. When no lineup is being given (and when no default lineup is available), a walk over is done. This means that the other team will win the game with 3-0. If both teams do a walk-over, then the home team will win with 3-0.

15. Tactics

You can determine a tactic when giving your lineup.

Each team starts with a solid team spirit at the beginning of the season. The team spirit has influence on the attack and defense ratings. With a higher team spirit, you can achieve better ratings, while a lower team spirit will give you lower ratings.

Go for it:
Go for it increases your ratings during the game, but after the game your team spirit will be decreased.

Play as normal:
Play as normal has no influence on your team spirit.

Take it easy:
Take it easy decreases your ratings during the game, but it increases your team spirit after the game.

Each daily update, your team spirit evolves a bit to a solid team spirit.

16. Transfers

To sell a player:
You can put a player on the transfer list by clicking on his player name, giving an amount and a deadline (between 24 hours and 14 days in the future), and clicking on sell.

If someone wants to buy the player, he can make a bid on him. The player will move to the other club when the deadline has passed. If no-one bids on the player, then the player will be back in your team.

To buy a player:
When you search for a specific player, you can search for some criteria on the transfer list. Only the players that match your criteria will be listed.

If you want to bid on a player, you can click on his name, and you can enter the amount that you want to bid. For amounts lower than 10 000 EUR, you have to add at least 1000 EUR, by default 10% of the previous bid is being added to the amount. You can change this amount.

Attention: if you bid just before the deadline, three minutes will be added to the transfer deadline of the player. This way, other players have the time to make a new bid for the same player. The highest bid within the deadline will get the player in his team.

17. (J)NT

Teams from which players are playing in a national team will receive one third of the salary of the player, but only when he plays in an international game.

The games of the national teams don’t give any extra training, but they’ll gain extra experience. Unfortunately, there is always a small risk that the player catches an injury during these games.

Elections:
A national coach is elected for two seasons. After the world championship, the contract of the national coach is over and new elections are organized. These elections are being held in the first two weeks of a new season.

Junior National Team:
The players of the JNT are being coached by a user that is (just as a national coach of the NT) being elected by the other users.

This national coach can only select players that are younger than 20 years. This way, he can choose a group of 14 players.

The selection is semi-permanent, because the national coach can fire and call at any the time player. Players have to stay 14 days in the national team.

National Team:
The players of the NT are being coached by a user that is (just as a national coach of the JNT) being elected by the other users.

This national coach can select any player with the right nationality. This way, he can choose a group of 14 players.

The selection is semi-permanent, because the national coach can fire and call at any the time player. Players have to stay 14 days in the national team.

When there are no games for the world championship, the national teams can play friendly games.

18. Events

Events is a functionality that gives you a fast overview about some recent occurrences within your team. This can be for example a player that wasn’t sold, payment of salaries, a post in your guest book (VIP only), etc...

19. Forum

Setup has an own forum for every league, every language and every country. It’s a suitable place for discussions.

League forum
Here you can communicate with your league colleagues about the current season. To add a league forum, go to your league page and click the icon.

20. Behaviour

No discussions on the forum are allowed about violations of these rules. Reports can be done via contact, where the administrators will investigate the incident. They see more than a regular user, decisions are not taken only based on transfers.

Cheaters:
Everyone is only allowed to have on team. If not, your teams will be deleted.

Deals:
Multiple mutual transfers on a short period are being seen as deals and these are not allowed. The administrators have the right to delete these teams or to give a sanction based on unfair practices.

Advertising players:
Advertising players via private messages is not tolerated.

Mutual transfers:
Transfers between players that login via the same IP-address is forbidden.

VIP:
Team that are closed due to violation of these rules and that have a VIP membership at their disposal will not be paid back.

21. Crew

All people that joined a team are doing this completely for free. If you want to know who they are, check About Setup.

SD:
This is a limited team of people who are responsible for the development and the follow up of new functions. They are also responsible for the technical follow up of Setup and the CSA applications.

GA:
The Global Administrators are giving support to the Local Administrators. They check suspected transfers and decide upon all kinds of violations.

LA:
Local Administrators are responsible for one country. They communicate with users from their country about complaints and report them. They are also searching for cheaters, and they assign new users.

TR:
Translators take care about the translations in Setup, they keep them up to date. Each translator is responsible for one language.

22. Fitness

Fitness skill
How fit is a player? how tired is he? This skill decreases during a game and during a training. Fitness will be higher in the beginning of the game, and lower at the end of the game. Fitness will have an influence on the players" performance in the game, but not on the training results.Fitness will increase each day a bit. This increase will depend on the stamina level.

Stamina skill
How fast will the fitness decrease during the game? The better the stamina, the slower it will decrease. Stamina can be trained. Stamina decreases each day a very little bit, and increases when playing games.
Stamina influences player form too: a player with a decent level of stamina has at better form.

A1. Appendix 1

Skills of the players

Index
Form
Experience
Wage
Transfer
Service
Block
Passing
Defense
Setup
Corner attack
Middle attack
Back row attack

Levels of skills

Disastrous
Poor
Weak
Inadequate
Passable
Solid
Excellent
Splendid
Outstanding
Brilliant
Fantastic
Peculiar
Extraordinarily
Masterly
Unbelievable
World Class
Sensational
Insane
Phenomenal
Miraculous
Nuts

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