[TFDA] Now taking bids for 2009 Corporate Tourney

Christian Schwoerke schwoerkec at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 5 09:24:46 EST 2009


Hello, Working People!

The Semi-Occasional-Sometimes-Annual Corporate Tourney is back and will be held Sunday, April 19, at a site to be determined.

There’s room for up to 10 teams, and the cost will be $120/team, with said money going in toto to TFDA’s ultiplex fund or towards field rentals, with the surplus going to the ultiplex fund.

Play will be mixed, with an onfield gender ratio of 5/2 (men/women).  There will be up to 4 pool play games, with the top four teams from each pool advancing to single-elimination bracket play, beginning with quarters.

Team composition: players must all work at a given business (eg, IBM).  Spouses of employees of a given business may also play (even if the employed spouse does not).  If a business can field only a handful of players, we (the tournament directors) can assist that business in finding a like business so that both may “merge” for the purpose of playing in this tourney.  As an example of this, contacts from Nortel and Cisco have spoken of merging.   

State of NC employees have put together teams in the past.  They may do so again this year.

Employees of NC State, UNC, and Duke may consider merging their players.

Orange, Wake, and Durham county employees (including teachers) may merge to form a team.

If there are other “corporate” possibilities that could occur, and they’ve not been spelled out, feel free to ask.

Ringer rule: each corporate team may bring on board two non-employee players, one of each gender.  If a corporate team does not want to bring on one or both ringer players, that team does not have to do so.  It will be necessary, however, prior to the tourney date, that all teams participating declare who their ringers are, if they have any.

Tourney bids:  While there are a number of folks who’ve responded to the “Gauging Interest” email, it is now time to make that a formality, with the first 10 bids getting berths in 2009’s Semi-Occasional-Sometimes-Annual Corporate Tourney.  Send your bids to me at schwoerkec at yahoo.com .  Teams will submit their entry-fee checks for $120 (made out to "TFDA") April 19, at the tourney.

Thank you.

btw: if you see how this tourney might be made better, or if you need further clarification on a point, please feel free to write.

--xian

Possible tourney format (all games to 11):
Pool play with one-hour rounds:  9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30
Quarters: 2:30
Semis: 3:30
Finals: 4:30







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