NYC Qualifiers for the Cog Tournament
This is from the NewYorkHardcourt.com site and written by Adam Staudt. It only pertains to NYC players. I’m posting it here for anyone from NY who does not yet know about it.
As some of you know, and others of you don’t know, we decided to hold a qualifier within our club to determine the team which will be given the outstanding invite we have to the Milwaukee COG Tournament, which is happening June 6th & 7th.
The first thing we need is to determine who is going to contend for this and participate in the qualifier. The format will be double round-robin, with each team playing two matches against every other team. Match format is 15 minutes, -no- score limit (so run it up, don’t be shy). 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 for a loss. The first place team gets the invite. If two or more teams are even on points at the end, goal differential (NOT head-to-head points earned) is the first tiebreaker… so use those 15 minutes and score a lot of goals.
Teams which intend on contending for this thing need to announce their intention to Ken Stanek or to Adam Staudt by Friday, March 27. That’s one week from now, so you have one Sunday, one Tuesday, and one Thursday practice session to sort yourselves out.
The date for the qualifier is Sunday, April 5 during the normal Sunday pickup sessions. Time is still a little bit TBD as a result of the Trackstar 24-hour race the previous day, but will likely be 3:00pm at the earliest and 5:00pm at the latest. If you have a team and you absolutely can’t play that day, we -may- be able to shift days and get all your games in against all the other teams. Every effort will be made, so if you have a solid team but can’t make it that day, let us know anyway and we’ll get it sorted.
p.s. if you’re going to try to qualify for this thing, please make sure all your teammates can actually travel and play at the tournament. Our club wants to make a good showing at this thing, so let’s be as professional as we can (I know, that’s not much, but let’s try not to half-ass it -that- much, okay?) about it.
That’s it. Stop reading and start practicing.
about 4 years ago
HEY NYC- ok so after carefully looking at the teams we have invited and who has confirmed and such. There will be allowance of the following NYC participants.
doug,zach paul have been invited due to their past performance in tourneys. johnny midwest and zack L mke have been invited to form a team beacue we want zack to see his baby and johnny has done much to keep us all safe. that leaves 2 teams left. so good luck to those vying for the spots.
obviously NYC has a deep talent pool and lots of players in that deep talent willing to travel often and far. thats what makes this a difficult decision for us here in mke on how many to allow from certain cities. the whole point to this tourny is to have the “best play the best all weekend” we wanted to have teams play tough games all weekend against the best teams across NA and europe but it doesnt seem as if any euros have expressed interest to travel to poor little mke.
here is an update because it seems like you guys really want to come to this.
so after looking at the RSVP’d cities and attendance for this, unless something goes horribly awry we will have room for in total 4 NYC teams in the invite bracket. any other teams from NYC who want to come are more than welcome to participate in the open division for a wild card shot. i hope this helps.
i feel bad that this whole thing has gotten kinda awkward due to the invite situation but it seems to have only been an issue in NYC where like i said the talent pool is deep and travel well. and i do apologize to those who are upset by this and for the confusion it seems to have caused.
so hope to see NYC’s best in MKE…cheers
-Jake
about 4 years ago
Jake you are so awesome and there is NO reason for you to feel bad. I feel bad that NY is the only place that’s made such an issue out of it and put you in an awkward situation. You are too generous, If it were me. I’d have not took the time to allow so much and I wouldnt have taken the time to write so much. me, I’d have just said “ya’ll a bunch a bitches, stay home and cry about it. and yeah, Johnny, you can come”