Tournament Format

GENERAL RULES:

• Mouth guards, must be worn at all times
• Players may only compete for one team during the event
• Technical Fouls will be 45 seconds and Personal Fouls are 1:30 minutes, as games are in “running-time”.  Officials can extend penalties beyond 1:30 minutes if warranted.
• Penalties begin on the referee’s re-start.
• Any fighting or flagrant disrespect towards an official will result in expulsion for the remainder of the tournament.  No exceptions, no refunds.
• Teams must be available for all games.  Please remember that many teams travel great distances for this event expecting to play a minimum of 5 games, and we rely on your professionalism to hold that commitment.

GAME PLAY:

• Games consist of two 24-minute halves, and a three minute halftime.
• There are NO timeouts!
• Game times start at the top of the hour and are kept by a central horn.  One horn will end and begin each half.
• All games if tied at end of regulation will play one 10v10 overtime period of 4 minutes.   First goal wins.  After the overtime period expires with no goal scored, both teams will receive a tie.  There are no ties in Friday's championship Bracket play.  Ties will only be accepted in Thursday's pool play and Friday's consolation games.

 

SCORING:

Seeding for Friday's bracket will be determined by points after the last pool game Thursday evening. Friday will begin the championship bracket play.  Top 8 teams will advance to Championship bracket.  All other teams will play two round robin games on Friday, giving them a total of (at least) five games played for the event.

WIN = 3pts TIE = 1pt LOSS = 0pts

TIE BREAK PROCEDURE:

(1) Head to Head (2) Goals Against (3) Goal Differential (4) Goals Scored (5) Coin Flip

***all seeding will be determined using the above method***

INCLEMENT WEATHER RULES:

• There are no rain dates for this event.  Assume that games will be played on their scheduled dates.
• If inclement weather causes a game stoppage (i.e. lightning), the following rules apply:
o Play will stop until the head official deems conditions are safe to resume play
o If play stops in the first half of a game, the game resumes with the beginning of the 2nd half.
o If play stops in the 2nd half of a game, the game ends immediately.  The team in the lead gets the win.  If tied, a 3 minute sudden death takes place when play resumes.  First goal wins, unless it’s a playoff or championship game.
o If the delay is substantial, Tournament HQ may decide to shorten some games until the event is back on-time.