National Team Selection

Each federation registers a selection committee with named members (typically the national coach, federation officials, and external selectors), assigning roles and voting weight. The committee defines selection criteria upfront — combination of ranking position, recent results, head-to-head form, fitness/availability declarations, and discretionary slots. The candidate pool tracker then ingests all eligible players: it pulls live data on national ranking, ELO trend, last-N results, declared availability for the championship dates, and any disciplinary or anti-doping flags from F12.

Selectors filter the pool, mark candidates for shortlisting, and add notes that stay private to the committee. The team composition builder is interactive: drag players into team slots respecting championship format (e.g., FIPJP triplette = 3 players + reserves), validate that the squad satisfies all criteria, see the squad's combined ELO and recent form, and check for conflicts (overlapping injury, conflicting club commitments). Once the committee agrees, the selection announcement workflow takes over: a draft announcement is composed, players receive a private offer requiring acceptance/decline within a deadline, accepted selections trigger public announcement (CMS post, push notifications, email), and declined slots cascade to the next-ranked candidate.

Every decision is logged: who voted, who was considered, who was selected, who declined, and the criteria evaluated. National team history and records persist every selection forever, so the federation can show a player's career as a national team member and compute all-time rosters for milestone celebrations.